CONTENTS -- Preface -- INTERNET APPLICATIONS -- Analyzing search engine bias -- Autonomous agents for web pages filtering -- Public key encryption and transparency in internet casinos -- A review of evaluation tools for web content accessibility -- A sharable instructable agent for information filtering -- COMPUTING IN BIOLOGY -- Entropy versus information: Is a living cell a machine or a computer ? -- Coupling a tubuloglomerular feedback nephron model with a myogenic afferent arteriole model -- A mathematical model of the inner and outer renal medulla -- A natural codon space and metric -- HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE -- A case study of a disabled man using a mouthstick and accessibility options in windows to do E-commerce -- Usability issues concerning the cyberlink mental interface and persons with a disability -- Robotics for the brain injured: An interface for the brain injured person to operate a robotic arm -- A computer interface for the "blind" using dynamic patterns -- Designing for dyslexia - The development of mathematics software for students with specific learning difficulties -- Using hands-free technology in programs for profoundly disabled children -- PARALLEL COMPUTING/TECHNIQUES -- Dynamic load balancing in the parallel continuous global optimization problem by using interval arithmetic -- Investigation of a low-cost high-performance shared-memory multiprocessor system for real-time applications -- A linear algorithm to find path among obstacles using reconfigurable mesh -- Dense wavelength division multiplexing for optically interconnected linear array processors -- A two-level optimal distributed monitoring scheme for mesh -- Non-linear clustering scheduling with two clusters, one being linear, is NP-hard -- Formal verification of microinstruction sequencing.

Dynamic block data distribution for parallel sparse Gaussian elimination -- All pairs shortest paths computation using Java on PCs connected on local area network -- COMPUTING EDUCATION -- Enhancing student learning in e-classrooms -- Building up a minimal subset of Java for a first programming course -- Completing a minimal subset of Java for a first programming course -- DEWDROP: Educating students for the future of web development -- Boolean function simplification on a palm-based environment -- Internet-based Boolean function simplification using a modified Quine-McCluskey method -- LEARNING ALGORITHMS -- Autoassociative neural networks and time series filtering -- Neural network architectures: New strategies for real time problems -- Evolving scoring functions which satisfy predetermined user constraints -- Genetic algorithms for mining multiple-level association rules -- A clustering algorithm for selecting starting centers for iterative clustering -- Dimension reduction in datamining -- Process control of a laboratory combustor using neural networks -- COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS/NETWORKS -- Investigation of self-similarity of Internet round trip delay -- Modified high-efficiency carrier estimator for OFDM communications with antenna diversity -- A comparison between two error detection techniques using arithmetic coding -- An optimal invalidation method for mobile databases -- Comparison of wavelet compression algorithms in network intrusion detection -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/LINGUISTICS -- The emerging challenge of retaining information technology human resources -- Hard-science linguistics as a formalism to computerize models of commnication behavior -- B-Nodes: A proposed new method for modeling information systems technology -- The Montclair electronic language learner database.

COMPUTING FORMALISM/ALGORITHMS -- Improvement of synthesis of conversion rules by expanding knowledge representation -- A blocks-world planning system -- Multi-computation mechanism for set expressions -- Proving termination of w rewriting systems -- Semantics for declarative descriptions with referential constraints -- Solving logical problems by equivalent transformation -- Deciding the halting problem and preliminary applications to evolutionary hardware and hybrid technology -- A new algorithm for the computation of invariant curves using arc-length parameterization -- AI/FUZZY SETS APPLICATION AND THEORY -- Comparison of interval-valued fuzzy sets, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, and bipolar-valued fuzzy sets -- Introducing user centered design into a hybrid intelligent information system methodology -- Towards hybrid knowledge and software engineering -- Dynamical computing, communication, development and hierarchical inference -- IMAGING APPLICATIONS -- Catadioptric sensors for panoramic viewing -- High-performance computing for the study of earth and environmental science materials using synchrotron X-ray computed microtomography -- Author Index.