Preface

The Design and Implementation of Video Servers in Video-On-Demand Systems

Joseph Kee-Yin Ng

Shuhua Xiong

A VLSI-Based Parallel Architecture for Block-Matching Motion Estimation in Video Coding Applications

Donglai Xu

James M. Noras

William Booth

Three Parallel Programming Paradigms: Comparisons on an Archetypal PDE Computation

M. Ehtesham Hayder

Constantinos S. Ierotheou

David E. Keyes

Will SIMD make a Comeback?

Stuart Reddaway

A Framework for the Development of Globally Convergent Adaptive Learning Rate Algorithms

G. D. Magoulas

V. P. Plagianakos

G. S. Androulakis

M. N. Vrahatis

A Finite State Machine Based Format Model of Software Pipelined Loops with Conditions

Dragan Milicev

Zoran Jovanovic

Vector-Based Approach to Analysis of File Space Properties

I.A.R. Moghrabi

R. Makholian

Automatic Reverse Engineering Approach for the Extraction of ERC+ From Databases

Issam A.R. Moghrabi

Raji F. Abou Rakabeh

A New Approach for the Decoupling with Simultaneous Disturbance Rejection (DDR) Problem for Nonlinear Systems with Application in Induction Motor Control

A.S. Tsirikos

N.E. Mastorakis

Meng J. Er

Load Balancing For Unstructured Mesh Applications

Y. F. Hu

R. J. Blake

A Scalable Parallel Algorithm For Periodic Symmetric Toeplitz Tridiagonal Systems

Xian-He Sun

Musical Composition based on Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Transformations of Traditional Greek Music Patterns

Dionysios Politis

Panagiotis Linardis

Michael Dimopoulos

The Group Approach in Cooperative Work and in Load Balancing

Herve Guyennet

Jean-Christophe Lapayre

Experiences with Distributed Computation of Twin Primes Distribution

Patrick H. Fry

Jeffrey Nesheiwat

Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Multicast in Large WDM Networks

Weifa Liang

Hong Shen

A Language Approach to High Performance Computing on Heterogeneous Networks

D. Arapov

A. Kalinov

A. Lastovetsky

I. Ledovskih

Frequency-Adaptive Join for Shared Nothing Machines

Mostafa Bamha

Gaetan Hains

Index