Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; The Design and Implementation of Video Servers in Video-On-Demand Systems; A VLSI-Based Parallel Architecture for Block-Matching Motion Estimation in Video Coding Applications; Three Parallel Programming Paradigms: Comparisons on an Archetypal PDE Computation; Will SLMD make a Comeback?; A Framework for the Development of Globally Convergent Adaptive Learning Rate Algorithms; A Finite State Machine Based Format Model of Software Pipelined Loops with Conditions; Vector-Based Approach to Analysis of File Space Properties; Automatic Reverse Engineering Approach for the Extraction of ERC+ From Databases; A New Approach for the Decoupling with Simultaneous Disturbance Rejection (DDR) Problem for Non-linear Systems with Application in Induction Motor Control; Load Balancing For Unstructured Mesh Applications; A Scalable Parallel Algorithm For Periodic Symmetric Toeplitz Tridiagonal Systems; Musical Composition based on Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Transformations of Traditional Greek Music Patterns; The Group Approach in Co-operative Work and in Load Balancing; Experiences with Distributed Computation of Twin Primes Distribution; Multicast in Large WDM Networks; A Language Approach to High Performance Computing on Heterogeneous Networks; Frequency-Adaptive Join for Shared Nothing Machines; Index.

About the Author

Frank Columbus, Editor