Computational Science - ICCS 2001 International Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 28-30, 2001. Proceedings, Part II

LNCS volumes 2073 and 2074 contain the proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2001, held in San Francisco, California, May 27-31, 2001. The two volumes consist of more than 230 contributed and invited papers that reflect the aims of the conference to bring together researchers and scientists from mathematics and computer science as basic computing disciplines, researchers from various application areas who are pioneering advanced application of computational methods to sciences such as physics, chemistry, life sciences, and engineering, arts and humanitarian fields, along with software developers and vendors, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research, as well as to help industrial users apply various advanced computational techniques.

Digital Imaging Applications.- Densification of Digital Terrain Elevations Using Shape from Shading with Single Satellite Imagery.- PC-Based System for Calibration, Reconstruction, Processing, and Visualization of 3D Ultrasound Data Based on a Magnetic-Field Position and Orientation Sensing System.- Automatic Real-Time XRII Local Distortion Correction Method for Digital Linear Tomography.- Meeting the Computational Demands of Nuclear Medical Imaging Using Commodity Clusters.- An Image Registration Algorithm Based on Cylindrical Prototype Model.- An Area-Based Stereo Matching Using Adaptive Search Range and Window Size.- Environmental Modeling.- Methods of Sensitivity Theory and Inverse Modeling for Estimation of Source Term and Risk/Vulnerability Areas.- The Simulation of Photochemical Smog Episodes in Hungary and Central Europe Using Adaptive Gridding Models.- Numerical Solution of the Aerosol Condensation/Evaporation Equation.- Efficient Treatment of Large-Scale Air Pollution Models on Supercomputers.- High Performance Computational Tools and Environments.- Pattern Search Methods for Use-Provided Points.- In-situ Bioremediation: Advantages of Parallel Computing and Graphical Investigating Techniques.- Adaptive Load Balancing for MPI Programs.- Performance and Irregular Behavior of Adaptive Task Partitioning.- Optimizing Register Spills for Eager Functional Languages.- A Protocol for Multi-threaded Processes with Choice in ?-Calculus.- Mapping Parallel Programs onto Distributed Computer Systems with Faulty Elements.- Enabling Interoperation of High Performance, Scientific Computing Applications: Modeling Scientific Data with the Sets and Fields (SAF) Modeling System.- Intelligent Systems Design and Applications.- ALEC: An Adaptive Learning Framework for Optimizing Artificial Neural Networks.- Solving Nonlinear Differential Equations by a Neural Network Method.- Fuzzy Object Blending in 2D.- An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Approach for Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Systems.- The Match Fit Algorithm - A Testbed for Computational Motivation of Attention.- Automatic Implementation and Simulation of Qualitative Cognitive Maps.- Inclusion-Based Approximate Reasoning.- Attractor Density Models with Application to Analyzing the Stability of Biological Neural Networks.- MARS: Still an Alien Planet in Soft Computing?.- Data Reduction Based on Spatial Partitioning.- Alternate Methods in Reservoir Simulation.- Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets in Intelligent Data Analysis for Medical Diagnosis.- Design of a Fuzzy Controller Using a Genetic Algorithm for Stator Flux Estimation.- Object Based Image Ranking Using Neural Networks.- A Genetic Approach for Two Dimensional Packing with Constraints.- Task Environments for the Dynamic Development of Behavior.- Wavelet Packet Multi-layer Perceptron for Chaotic Time Series Prediction: Effects of Weight Initialization.- Genetic Line Search.- HARPIC, an Hybrid Architecture Based on Representations, Perceptions, and Intelligent Control: A Way to Provide Autonomy to Robots.- Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Stock Market Analysis.- On the Emulation of Kohonen’s Self-Organization via Single-Map Metropolis-Hastings Algorithms.- Quasi Analog Formal Neuron and Its Learning Algorithm Hardware.- Producing Non-verbal Output for an Embodied Agent in an Intelligent Tutoring System.- Co-evolving a Neural-Net Evaluation Function for Othello by Combining Genetic Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning.- Modeling the Effect of Premium Changes on Motor Insurance Customer Retention Rates Using Neural Networks.- On the Predictability of Rainfall in Kerala - An Application of ABF Neural Network.- A Job-Shop Scheduling Problem with Fuzzy Processing Times.- Speech Synthesis Using Neural Networks Trained by an Evolutionary Algorithm.- A Two-Phase Fuzzy Mining and Learning Algorithm for Adaptive Learning Environment.- Applying Genetic Algorithms and Other Heuristic Methods to Handle PC Configuration Problems.- Forecasting Stock Market Performance Using Hybrid Intelligent System.- Multimedia.- The MultiMedia Maintenance Management (M4) System.- Visualisations; Functionality and Interaction.- DMEFS Web Portal: A METOC Application.- The Validation Web Site: A Combustion Collaboratory over the Internet.- The Policy Machine for Security Policy Management.- Multi-spectral Scene Generation and Projection.- The Javelin Integrated Flight Simulation.- A Multi-spectral Test and Simulation Facility to Support Missile Development, Production, and Surveillance Programs.- Correlated, Real Time Multi-spectral Sensor Test and Evaluation (T&E) in an Installed Systems Test Facility (ISTF) Using High Performance Computing.- Infrared Scene Projector Digital Model Development.- Infrared Scene Projector Digital Model Mathematical Description.- Distributed Test Capability Using Infrared Scene Projector Technology.- Development of Infrared and Millimeter Wave Scene Generators for the P3I BAT High Fidelity Flight Simulation.- Novel Models for Parallel Computation.- A Cache Simulator for Shared Memory Systems.- On the Effectiveness of D-BSP as a Bridging Model of Parallel Computation.- Coarse Grained Parallel On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) for Data Mining.- Architecture Independent Analysis of Parallel Programs.- Strong Fault-Tolerance: Parallel Routing in Networks with Faults.- Parallel Algorithm Design with Coarse-Grained Synchronization.- Parallel Bridging Models and Their Impact on Algorithm Design.- A Coarse-Grained Parallel Algorithm for Maximal Cliques in Circle Graphs.- Parallel Models and Job Characterization for System Scheduling.- Optimization.- Heuristic Solutions for the Multiple-Choice Multi-dimension Knapsack Problem.- Tuned Annealing for Optimization.- A Hybrid Global Optimization Algorithm Involving Simplex and Inductive Search.- Applying Evolutionary Algorithms to Combinatorial Optimization Problems.- Program and Visualization.- Exploratory Study of Scientific Visualization Techniques for Program Visualization.- Immersive Visualization Using AVS/Express.- VisBench: A Framework for Remote Data Visualization and Analysis.- The Problem of Time Scales in Computer Visualization.- Making Movies: Watching Software Evolve through Visualisation.- Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Programming.- Performance Optimization for Large Scale Computing: The Scalable VAMPIR Approach.- TRaDe: Data Race Detection for Java.- Automation of Data Traffic Control on DSM Architectures.- The Monitoring and Steering Environment.- Token Finding Using Mobile Agents.- Load Balancing for the Electronic Structure Program GREMLIN in a Very Heterogenous SSH-Connected WAN-Cluster of UNIX-Type Hosts.- DeWiz - Modular Debugging for Supercomputers and Computational Grids.- Fiddle: A Flexible Distributed Debugger Architecture.- Visualization of Distributed Applications for Performance Debugging.- Achieving Performance Portability with SKaMPI for High-Performance MPI Programs.- Cyclic Debugging Using Execution Replay.- Visualizing the Memory Access Behavior of Shared Memory Applications on NUMA Architectures.- CUMULVS Viewers for the ImmersaDesk.- Simulation.- N-Body Simulation on Hybrid Architectures.- Quantum Mechanical Simulation of Vibration-Torsion-Rotation Levels of Methanol.- Simulation-Visualization Complexes as Generic Exploration Environment.- Efficient Random Process Generation for Reliable Simulation of Complex Systems.- Replicators & Complementarity: Solving the Simplest Complex System without Simulation.- Soft Computing: Systems and Applications.- More Autonomous Hybrid Models in Bang2.- Model Generation of Neural Network Ensembles Using Two-Level Cross-Validation.- A Comparison of Neural Networks and Classical Discriminant Analysis in Predicting Students’ Mathematics Placement Examination Scores.- Neural Belief Propagation without Multiplication.- Fuzzy Logic Basis in High Performance Decision Support Systems.- Scaling of Knowledge in Random Conceptual Networks.- Implement