SOFSEM 2000 - Invited Talks

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dines Bjorner, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DK Domain Engineering -- A Software Engineering Discipline in Need of Research

TRENDS IN ALGORITHMICS

Jürg Nievergelt (ETH Zurich, CH)
Exhaustive search, combinatorial optimization and enumeration: Exploring the potential of raw computing power

Paul Vitanyi (CWI, Amsterdam, NL)
Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications

Arno Siebes (CWI, Amsterdam, NL)
Bio-Informatics, Databases and Data Mining

Amir Ronen, Hebrew university of Jerusalem, IL
Algorithms for Rational Agents

Angelika Steger (TU München, DE)
On the Power of Two Choices

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN PRACTICE

Vladimir Marik (CTU Prague, CZ)
Software Testing & Diagnostics: Theory & Practice

Sidney Benda (Intel Corp., US)
Physical Design of a CMOS Semiconductor Chip in Six Easy Steps

Lubor Sesera (SOFTEC Bratislava, SK)
Analysis Patterns

Stelios Orphanoudakis (FORTH, GR)
Information Society Technologies in Healthcare

Pieter Adriaans (Univ. of Amsterdam, NL)
Grammar Induction on large corpora and it's aplications

Akihiko Takano, Hitachi (Central Research Lab, Tokyo, JP)
Information Access based on Associative Calculation

COMPUTATIONAL PERCEPTION

Rolf Pfeifer (Univ. of Zurich, CH)
Cheap Vision - Exploiting Ecological Niche and Morphology

Jana Kosecka (George Mason Univ., US)
Hierarchies of Sensing and Control for Visually Guided Agents

Horst Bischof (TU Wien, AT)
Recognizing Objects by their Appearance using Eigenimages

SOFT COMPUTING (Workshop Plenary Talk)

Rudolf Kruse (University of Magdeburg, DE)
Information Mining with Fuzzy Methods