Advances in Information Technologies

Contents

Foreword

Editorial Advisory Panel

Part I: Strategic and Policy Issues

Consumer entertainment software - industry trends
J. Montes

 

A private-sector model for consortial R&D: the MCC approach
H. Curtis

 

Development in a virtual environment
R. Nilsson

 

The DAVINCI virtual corporation: perspectives on new ways to do business
B. Dunphy

 

The G7 pilot project "Global market place for SMEs" - update of the project achievements
R. Zobel

 

EUREKA: together for the future
I. Vaas

 

Intelligent manufacturing systems
W. van Puymbroeck

 

Trading and commercialization of software and hardware IP
C. Bruin

 

Designer's world
P. Arundel

 

SPIRIT: a co-operative approach to standards and open systems
R. Sitruk

 

Web usage and direction
R. Saxby

 

Telecommunication services: evolutionary trends and a prototype proposal
M. Coronaro, A. Limongiello, M. Roccuzzo and V. Trecordi

 

Smart cards: from 8 bits microcontrollers to 32 bits virtual machines
P. Maes

 

Artificial intelligence, neural computing and fuzzy logic - key technologies in future consumer electronics
G. Wahlberg

Part II: Small and Medium Size Enterprises

User support networks
G. Horn

 

The needs of small and medium sized companies in embedded systems
K. Ronge and N. Krim

 

Demonstrator projects
R. Gook

 

CERIND: SMEs in RTD projects
L. Agostini and A. Picano

 

Support to project proposers in presenting R&D projects in ESPRIT
R. Gagliardi

 

Supporting technology transfer in SME
C. Giachetti and A. Maccari

 

A combined approach to the support of SMEs
N. Krim, B. Courtois and F. Vinci Dos Santos

 

Electronic sales and marketing for small and medium size enterprises
F. Meinköehn

 

Process innovation through internet technologies: the current situation and expectations of Portuguese SMEs
H. Nóvoa, J.F. Cunha, P.T. de Castro and A.A. Fernandes

 

The electronic commerce value chain
P. Shakeshaft

 

An introductory application on electronic commerce for SMEs
L. Gallud

 

Opportunities in the 21st century
B. Cooper

 

Electronic commerce, a big opportunity for small businesses
D. Court

 

The establishment of an electronically linked cluster in the offshore industry in North East England
J.R. Williams

 

The Y2000 date problem: when or how will it occur? How do we tackle it?
H. Bons and D. Meyerhoff

 

A CHANCE for partnerships in Europe
C. Baumhauer, S. Mingardon and X. Nicaise

Part III: Electronic Commerce

ItalyShopping project
F. Grasso

 

Home shopping of consumer goods - conceptual aspects of virtual supermarkets
R. Malkewitz and W. Schmitz

 

IHotel: an internet hotel reservations management system
Z. Cajic, E. Schaffranietz, U. Novak and M. Ojsteršek

 

Men@Work: example of a virtual WWW market place for office furniture
U.J. Timm

 

A service analysis and service design framework for the implementation a generic information brokerage service
M.A. Lambrou, G.T. Karetsos and E.N. Protonotarios

 

Support for event handling in a mobile agents environment
Y. Berbers, B. de Decker, W. Joosen, F. Matthijs and B. Robben

 

An architectural approach to brokerage in network based commerce
M. Martin, J. Dobson and R. Strens

 

MALL2000+ - A vision for a virtual marketplace for businessmen
H-J. Hoffmann

 

Developments in the practice of electronic commerce for the organized business to business market
E. Blot-Lefevre

 

A web-site application for an international business association
H.W. Bastiaan

 

How to build an efficient city information system
M. Ojsteršek and M. Leni…

 

Convergence of technologies and electronic commerce: protection of consumers in Europe and related issues
P. Gerard

 

A visual surveillance system for the prevention of vandalism in metro stations
N. Chleq, C. Regazzoni, A. Teschioni and M. Thonnat

 

Digital signatures and trusted third parties in health care telematics
R. Julia-Barcelo and T. Vinje

 

Electronic commerce support in the TESEO project
M. Mastretti and E. Paolillo

 

The potential of electronic commerce in re-engineering consumer-retailer relationships through intelligent agents
I.S. Terpsidis, A. Moukas, B. Pergioudakis, G. Doukidis and P. Maes

 

Internet-delivered interactive training course using server-side simulations
H. Schumacher, M. Birk and A. Trasser

 

The delivery of electronic mail order for distance learning
S. Armstrong and J. Sinclair

 

Applying advanced multimedia concepts in health and education
M.A.W. Houtsma and H.J. van der Lugt

 

New trends on tourism electronic marketing: towards the electronic commerce experience
F. Calvo and A. Doncel

 

Adecco's online jobshop combining WWW and kiosk personnel recruitment
B. Holtkamp, M. Lehmbach and T. Block

 

TISSUS - a market place for textile images and patterns
C. Bayart

 

The telematics in the textile/clothing/distribution chain and related transport sector: the TEX.A.T.WORK. project
A. Micucci and K. Shahin

 

Electronic commerce services for home automation
F. Baumann, B. Jean-Bart, A. Kung and P. Robin

 

The IPR debate over internet browsing
T. Longo

 

Addressing the internet challenge
J. Tyler

 

The deployment of an internet shop and its business performances
P. Montrasio and E. Pessi

 

Towards a European employment exchange
R.M. van Zoelen

 

Demand and supply of advanced telecommunications services in remote areas
A.J. Piotrowski and D. Ojrze½ska-Wójter

 

TIMES: a support for an electronic press review service
S. Bruzzo, M. Borasio, M. Corvi and L. Roncarolo

 

Electronic commerce of intangible goods: IPR issues
J-F. Boisson

 

Collaborative engineering based on the web - how far to go?
A. Pawlak, W. Cellary, A. Smirnov, X. Warzee and J. Willis

 

Part IV: Multimedia

The AMUSE project: interactive and distributive multimedia for residential users
M. di Concetto, G. Pavarani, C. Rosa and F. Rossi

 

The newspaper on-line service: from a business to consumer application perspective
W. Drakos, G. Doukidis and N. Papazafeiropoulou

 

Business-to-business digital video megastores
M. Re

 

HILDE: a generic platform for building hypermedia training applications
A. Tsalgatidou, D. Plevria, M. Anastasiou and M. Hatzopoulos

 

VIRTUS: A self paced multimedia learning experience on CD-ROM in the use of new technologies in management training
J. Digout and C. Guthrie

 

Q-LAMP: an environment for quick development of educational interactive multimedia packages
D. del Corso, F. Dell'Apa, D. di Polito, M. Gastaldi, S. Imarisio, E. Ovcin, L. Placentino and C. Scrizzi

 

3D graphics acceleration development
P.F. Lister, M.C. Bassett, J.P. Ewins, N. Ford, I. Stamoulis, S. McCann, P.L. Watten, G.J. Dunnett, M. Waller, J. Kouropalatis, D. Latimer, M. White, M.D.J. McNeill

 

Computer aided design for generating photorealistic synthetic floor
E. Meléndez, F. Rojas, F.J. Cortés, R. Castellote, F. Gómez and F. Serón

 

High speed but low cost polygon antialiasing
W. Straßer and O. Renz

 

FPGA-based 3-D graphics rasterizers
L. del Pino

 

European multimedia support networks and local networks
A. Fresa

 

Reusing multi-media components: a catalogue implementation
U. Steinmann and D. Shearer

 

Content based image retrieval in database system
R. Vaccaro, F. Fontana, D. Silva and V. Pellegrini

 

MULTIUS: an authoring tool for developing multimedia tutoring systems
X. Alaman and S. de Arechaga

 

A multimedia development model
S. Lechtenberg, G. Joubert and A. Bierwirth

 

Maintenance system based on telepresence for remote operators
P. Bisson, R. Gagliardi, O. Catoni and F. Pugeault

 

Collaborative virtual environments - telepresence using the Dovre framework
O. Ødegåd and K.A. Øygard

 

Using multimedia software agents in the light mobility industry
F. Accordino, P. Mascellani and S. Mazzanti

 

A distributed software platform for virtual reality applications
K. Demuynck, J. Broeckhove and F. Arickx

 

Usability assessment of virtual reality design for electronic commerce
I.G. McKay, C.L. Douther and M.A. Jack

 

Applying artificial intelligence and virtual reality to maintenance training of electrical equipment
A. Bertin and L. Guarrera

 

Digital film centre Europe
F. Kolvenbach

 

Optical high-speed network for distributed image processing
C. Müller, T. Voss, J. Martini and H. Kurz

 

Dynamic MHEG applications for DAVIC and WWW
K. Hofrichter and A. Kraft

 

From narrowband to wideband multimedia services in GSM networks
H. Halminen

 

A watermarking technique for the protection of digital images IPR
A. Piva, M. Barni, F. Bartolini and V. Cappellini

 

Identification of works distributed by digital channels
P. Florenson and J.M. Borde

 

The IMPRIMATUR multimedia IPR management system
J. Koblin and M. Kockelkorn

 

System requirements of wireless terminals for future multimedia applications
J. Knuutila and T. Leskinen

 

Mobile multi media for the mobile business user
G. Havermans

 

Usability of low-bandwidth multimedia service systems
M. Tamski

 

Support of personal mobility by open service architectures
E.C. Tzifa, M.A. Lambrou, M.E. Anagnostou and E.N. Protonotarios

 

Architecture for multimedia-based telematic public information points
L. Ardao, A. Pan, F. Cacheda, A. Molano and A. Vina

Part V: Embedded Systems

Reuse of a VHDL library for a PCI bus controller
P.M. Gonzáles, F.J.P. Somoza and J.C.L. López

 

Vehicle alarm positioning based upon pager/UHF communications and GPS systems
K.W. Tam and P.R.B. Vitor

 

CASCADE: A smarter chip for smart cards
P. Biget, P. Paradinas, and J-F. Dhem

 

Generating new business in optoelectronics technology
I. Ross and A. Wilson

 

Virtual Socket Interface Alliance
S. Baker

 

The SURGE-Transport user support group: key factors in ensuring relevance to industry
G. Duncan and B. Cucinelli

 

Prototyping car-embedded applications
F. Mosnier

 

Investment in space
G. Brussaard

 

Time-triggered architecture (TTA)
C. Scheidler, G. Heiner, R. Sasse, E. Fuchs, H. Kopetz and C. Temple

 

Business orientated embedded systems research in a virtual enterprise
H. Heusala

 

Relations between universities and companies and the intellectual property problem in OMI
M. Castro, J.M. Cigarrán, C. de Mora, J. Peire and A. Molina

 

IP - What it is and how to value, protect and exploit it
T. Dent

 

Reusing intellectual property with parameterised hardware libraries
W. Luk, J. Gray, D. Grant, S. Guo, S. McKeever, N. Shirazi, M. Dean, S.S. Ping and K. Teo

 

Objective VHDL: the object-oriented approach to hardware reuse
M. Radetzki, W. Putzke-Röming and W. Nebel

 

Solid-state systems are not just bigger chips!
I. Phillips

 

A portable open software architecture for industry
S. Pelc

 

Scalable multi-channel communication subsystem (SMCS)
G.J. Christen, T. Helfers, U. Liebstückel, T.K. Pike, and P. Rastetter

 

Switched multimedia networks for the home - the teradevice opportunity
B.M. Cook and C.P.H. Walker

 

A low-cost high-performance multicast routing switch chip for communication networks
B.C. O'Neill, K.L. Wong, G. Coulson, S. Clark and P.D. Thomas

 

An integrated PCI component for IEEE 1355 networks
F. Wajsbürt, J.L. Desbarbieux, C. Spasevski, S. Penain and A. Greiner

 

The SOOM project: embedded objects with "componentised OS", CORBA and JAVA
D. Irlande and M. Gien

 

Software portability assessment methodology - an OMI Project
P. Arundel, F. Primatesta, A. Montini and E. Pessi

 

Retargetable compilers for embedded DSPs
R. Leupers and P. Mardwedel

 

Improving software products quality through the use of metrics
A. Ayerbe, M.A. Melchor and M. Alvarez

 

Large valency serial wormhole routing networks as a scalable multimedia switching infrastructure
N. Davies and P. Thompson

 

Results from the Macramé 1024 node IEEE 1355 switching network
S. Haas, D.A. Thornley, M. Zhu, R.W. Dobinson, R. Heeley and B. Martin

 

SmartHSL: an evaluation board for the IEEE 1355 technology
J.J. Lecler, A. Fenyo, A. Greiner and F. Potter

 

Multi-queue management and scheduling for improved QoS in communication networks
M. Katevenis, D. Serpanos and E. Markatos

 

An advanced card operating system on the cascade platform
J-M. Place and B. Noclercq

 

Scalability concepts in cryptographic co-processing
H. Bock, W. Mayerwieser, K.C. Posch, R. Posch and V. Schindler

Author Index