ESPRIT '90

The 1990 ESPRIT Conferene is being held in Brussels from the 12th November to the 15th November. Well over 1700 participants from all over Europe and overseas are expected to attend the various events. The Conference will offer the opportunity to be updated on the results ofthe ESPRITprojects and Basic Research actions andto develop international contacts with colleagues, both within a specific branch of Information Technology and across different branches. The first three days of the Conference are devoted to presentations of Esprit projects and Basic Research actions structured into plenary and parallel sessions; the scope of the Conference has been broadened this year by the inclusion of several well-known international speakers. All areas of Esprit work are covered: Microelectronics, Information Processing Systems, Office and Business Systems, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Basic Research and aspects of the Information Exchange System. During the IT Forum on Thursday November 15th, major European industrial and political decision-makers will address the audience in the morning. In the afternoon, a Round Table will discuss the impact of Information Technology on society. More than 100 projects and actions will display their major innovations and achieve­ ments at the Esprit Exhibition which will be, for the first time, open to the general public.

Plenary Session.- Assessment, Methodology and Standardisation in Multilingual Speech Technology (Project 2589).- Manufacturing Systems Planning and Programming in a CIM Environment (Project 2202).- The ITHACA Technology — A Landscape for Object-Oriented Application Development (Project 2705).- Default Reasoning and Dynamic Interpretation of Natural Language (Action 3175).- Microelectronics and Peripheral Technologies.- Compact Modelling for Analoge Circuit Design (Project 2016).- Internal Gettering as a Function of the Wafer Position in the Original Crystal Rod (Project 2016).- Preamorphization Techniques for Shallow Junctions in Si (Project 2016).- Very High Speed Bipolar Technology and Circuits Tipbase Bipolar Advanced Silicon for Europe (Project 2016).- Low Temperature Ion-Assisted Epitaxy of Deposited Silicon Layers (Project 2016).- TIPBASE 2016 Bipolar Advanced Silicon for Europe Advanced Bipolar Processes for High-Performance Analog Applications (Project 2016).- Combined Analog Digital Integration: CANDI (Project 2268).- BICMOS: From Dream to Reality (Project 2268).- Information Processing Systems.- Terminological Information Management in ADKMS (Project 311).- Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving in EPSILON (Project 530).- Producing Process Plans out of CAD Files AI Techniques (Project 865).- Formal Description of Digital and Analog Systems by Means of Functional Languages (Project 881).- Parallel Associative Development Machine as a Vehicle for Artificial Intellegnce (Project 1219(967)).- ATES: An Integrated System for Software Development and Vertification (Project 1158).- SAMSON: An Expert System Devoted to the Help of Software Assessment (Project 1257).- EDS — Collaborating for a High Performance Parallel Relational Database (Project 2005).- The MERMAID Approach to Software Cost Estimation (Project 2046).- Neural Network Programming & Applications (Project 2059).- A Comparative Study of the Representation Languages Used in the Machine Learning Toolbox (Project 2154).- Computerised Simulation Tools for the Design of an Oral Dialogue System (Project 2218).- Intrusion-Tolerant Security Servers for DELTA-4 (Project 2252).- Overview of the LOTOSPHERE Design Methodology (Project 2304).- TEMPORA — Integrating Database Technology, Rule Based Systems and Temporal Reasoning for Effective Software (Project 2469).- Architecture of a Multimodal Dialogue Interface for Knowledge-Based Systems (Project 2474).- Information Pool for Knowledge Engineering Support — The Common Information Repository (Project 2576).- Two Demonstrators as a Test-Bed for the Construction of Intelligent Training Systems in Industrial Environments (Project 2615).- Computer Integrated Manufacturing.- EP 932 Final Results: CIM/AI Value Analysis (Project 932).- ACCORD: Developing Concepts Towards Integration of Analysis and Design — The Role of ASSET in the Design Assurance Process (Project 1062).- SACODY Results and Achievements (Project 1561).- Towards an Integrated Environment for the Early Stages of Process Design (Project 2090).- IMPPACT — Improvements in Integration by a Feature Approach. Product and Process Modelling Move Closer Together (Project 2165).- Modelling Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in an Industrial Glass Furnace (Project 2192).- Integrating Operational Research and Artificial Intelligence in a Distributed Approach to Dynamic Scheduling: The B.I.S. Project (Project 2434).- Neutral Interfaces for Robotics. Goals and First Results of ESPRIT Project 2614/5109: “NIRO” (Project 2614/5109).- OSI-Based Network Management for Industrial Networks (Project 2617).- Office and Business Systems.- Should We Say Goodbye to the Office? — The Role of Telework Today and in the Future.- Application Tools and End-User Applications: The Object Management Architecture.- User Centred Design, Prototyping, and Cognitive Modelling with the Sane Toolkit (Project 385).- Versioned Documents in a Technical Document Management System (Project 2001).- The Application of Morpho-Syntactic Language Processing to Effective Text Retrieval (Project 2083).- The MAX Project Approach to Multiservice Business Communications (Project 2100).- MULTIWORKS — MULTimedia Integrated Workstation (Project 2105).- The European Project for the Development of a Standard, Open Architecture for Hospital Information Systems (Project 2221).- Progress in Distributed Systems — an Overview of the ISA Project (Project 2267).- Managing Management — The TOBIAS Approach (Project 2294).- Primary Rate ISDN OSI Office Facilities (Project 2404).- The EuroWorkStation Project and Its Future Extensions (Project 2569).- Information Exchange System.- High Speed Networking in Europe and the EBIT Project.- The COSINE Project.- Provision of an International X.25 Infrastructure (IXI).- Basic Research.- Perspectives in Supramolecular Chemistry Towards Molecular Devices.- Perspectives of Local Probe Methods.- Emerging Relationship between Optics and Electronics.- Vision.- Computational Logic.- Computer Science — The Past and the Future.- Recent Development in Database Systems.- Some Reflections on Software Research.- Hardware- and Software-Fault Tolerance.- Structure and Behaviour of Concurrent Systems: Selected Results of the Esprit Basic Research Action (Action 3148).- An Algebraic Approach to Verifiable Compiling Specification and Prototyping of the Process Level 0 Programming Language (Action 3104).- Characterising Structural and Dynamic Aspects of the Interpretation of Visual Interface Objects (Action 3066).- Speech Recognition using Connectionist Approaches (Action 3228).- Performance and Physical Limits of Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors (Action 3042).- Growth and Characterization of Ultrathin SimGen Strained Layer Superlattices (Action 3174).- Indexes.- Index of Authors.- Index of Project Numbers.- Index of Acronyms.- Index of Keywords.