SOFSEM 2002: Theory and Practice of Informatics

INVITED TALKS.- Conformance Testing Techniques for Timed Systems.- Counter-Constrained Finite State Machines: A New Model for Component Protocols with Resource-Dependencies.- Equivalence-Checking with Infinite-State Systems: Techniques and Results.- On Functions and Types: A Tutorial.- Database Support for Multisource Multiresolution Scientific Data.- Semantic Annotation and Indexing of News and Sports Videos.- Multimedia Presentations Databases (Extended Abstract).- Interactive Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Content.- A Model-Based Approach to Semantic-Based Retrieval of Visual Information.- Bipolarity in Possibilistic Logic and Fuzzy Rules (Extended Abstract).- PANEL SESSION.- Data Management Challenges for GRID Computing.- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS.- Hungarian Speech Synthesis Using a Phase Exact HNM Approach.- Modelling Resource Transitions in Constraint-Based Scheduling.- A Specification Framework for Real-Time Scheduling.- String Transformation for n-Dimensional Image Compression.- Validation and Decomposition of Partially Occluded Images.- Solving Conflicts of Agent Knowledge States in Multiagent Systems.- Specification and Verification of Secure Business Transaction Systems.- Agent-Oriented Model of Simulated Evolution.- The Reconstruction of Some 3D Convex Polyominoes from Orthogonal Projections.- The Complexity of Probabilistic versus Quantum Finite Automata.- Do We Need Liveness? - Approximation of Liveness Properties by Safety Properties.