Mathematical Aspects -- Theory and Applications of Fractal Tops -- Splines, Fractal Functions, and Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin Spaces -- Hölderian random functions -- Fractal Stationary Density in Coupled Maps -- Physics -- A Network of Fractal Force Chains and Their Effect in Granular Materials under Compression -- Percolation and permeability of three dimensional fracture networks with a power law size distribution -- Acoustic diffraction patterns from fractal to urban structures: applications to the Sierpinski triangle and to a neoclassical urban facade -- Turbulent ? — ? model of flute-like musical instrument sound production -- Chemical Engineering -- A simple discrete stochastic model for laser-induced jet-chemical etching -- Invariant structures and multifractal measures in 2d mixing systems -- Finance -- Long range dependence in financial markets -- Financial Modelling by Multiscale Fractional Brownian Motion -- Internet Traffic -- Limiting Fractal Random Processes in Heavy-Tailed Systems -- A non-parametric test for self-similarity and stationarity in network traffic -- Image Processing -- Continuous evolution of functions and measures toward fixed points of contraction mappings -- Various Mathematical Approaches to Extract Information from Textures of Increasing Complexities -- Fractal Inverse Problem: Approximation Formulation and Differential Methods.