Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006 / 1

Development of Personalised Software Applications.- 3D Panoramic Mosaicking to Suppress the Ghost Effect at Far-Range Scene for Urban Area Visualization.- VR Based Knowledge Transfer in Medical Technology and Techniques.- A Diagnostic Model Using a Clustering Scheme.- Ontology-Based Edutainment System.- Workshop on Visual Computing and Multimedia (VCM 2006).- A Fast Video Encoding Algorithm by Skipping the Operations on Zero-Valued DCT Coefficients.- Efficient Block Matching for Ray-Space Predictive Coding in Free-Viewpoint Television Systems.- New Approach to Complexity Reduction of Intra Prediction in Advanced Multimedia Compression.- Reduction of Mode Decision Complexity in H.264/AVC Using Adaptive Selection of Reference Frame and Intra Prediction Mode.- 3D Visualization for Tele-medical Diagnosis.- Content Based Image Retrieval Based on a Nonlinear Similarity Model.- Technical Session on Web Based Learning (WBL 2006).- Simple and Powerful Interactive E-Learning System Using VXML: Design and Implementation of Web and PSTN Linked Efficient Learning System.- A Web-Based Tool for Entity-Relationship Modeling.- Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) for Computer Science Students.- WebQuest Markup Language (WQML) for Sharable Inquiry-Based Learning.- Technical Session on Computer Graphics (TSCG 2006).- Practical Boolean Operations on Point-Sampled Models.- Dynamic Brush Stroke Generation for an Impressionist Effect.- Image-Based 3D Face Modeling from Stereo Images.- Perception-Guided Simplification for Real Time Navigation of Very Large-Scale Terrain Environments.- 3D Building Reconstruction from LIDAR Data.- Efficient Computation of Elliptic Gabriel Graph.- Systematic Sampling in Image-Synthesis.- History-Based Selective Boolean Operations for Feature-Based Multi-resolution Modeling.- Path Finding Method for Various Applications.- Natural-Textured Mesh Stream Modeling from Depth Image-Based Representation.- Workload Characterization in Multiplayer Online Games.- Delaunay-Based Polygon Morphing Across a Change in Topology.- Jittering Reduction in Marker-Based Augmented Reality Systems.- Workshop on Modeling Complex Systems (MCS 2006).- A Bias-Variance-Complexity Trade-Off Framework for Complex System Modeling.- A Neural Network Strategy for 3D Surface Registration.- Parallel Hierarchical Methods for Complex Systems Optimization.- Numerical Modelling of Coastal Currents.- A Novel Model for Bacterial Foraging in Varying Environments.- Stochastic Modeling of Cytoplasmic Reactions in Complex Biological Systems.- Modelling of Complex Cryptographic Systems in Terms of Simple Cellular Automata.- Modeling Supply Chain Complexity Using a Distributed Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm.- Different Responses of Two Types of Class II Neurons for Fluctuated Inputs.- Branching Method for Computation of Probability of Given Data Stream Transmission.- An Agent-Based Approach to Immune Modelling.- Comparison of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Motorised Traffic at Signalised and Two-Way Stop Control Single Lane Intersection.- A New Algorithm for Complex Stochastic Boolean Systems.- Theoretical Steps Towards Modelling Resilience in Complex Systems.- Collaborative Multidiscipline/Multiscale Analysis, Modeling, Simulation and Integration in Complex Systems: System Biology.- Workshop on Structures and Molecular Processes (SMP 2006).- On the Structuring of the Computational Chemistry Virtual Organization COMPCHEM.- Computing Molecular Energy Surfaces on a Grid.- Electronic States in Three Dimensional Quantum Dot/Wetting Layer Structures.- A Web Based Application to Fit Potential Energy Functionals to ab Initio Values.- Dynamic Load-Balancing for the STEM-II Air Quality Model.- New Molecular Mechanism of Dextran Extension in Single Molecule AFM.- Atom-Bond Additive Potentials for Benzene-Rare Gas Clusters.- A Simplified Myoglobin Model for Molecular Dynamics Calculations.- Parallel Calculation of Propane Bulk Properties.- Ab-Initio Multi-reference Study of a Bistable Spiro Molecule.- On the Algorithm of Calculation of the Equilibrium Gas-Phase Concentration at the Particle Surface in the Kinetic Models of Aerosol Dynamics.- Study of the Passage of an H?+? Ion Along a Carbon Nanotube Using Quantum Wavepacket Dynamics.- Workshop on Specific Aspects of Computational Physics and Wavelet Analysis for Modelling Suddenly-Emerging Phenomena in Nonlinear Physics, and Nonlinear Applied Mathematics (PULSES 2006).- Invariance Properties of Practical Test-Functions Used for Generating Asymmetrical Pulses.- Simulating Superradiant Laser Pulses Using Partial Fraction Decomposition and Derivative Procedures.- Simulating Delayed Pulses in Organic Materials.- Wave Propagation of Shannon Wavelets.- Finite Element Analysis of the Thermoforming Manufacturing Process Using the Hyperelastic Mooney-Rivlin Model.- Analysis of Compatibility with Experimental Data of Fractal Descriptions of the Fracture Parameters.- Inner Potential of Generating Pulses as a Consequence of Recurrent Principles and Specific Computing Architecture.- Phenomenological and State Coefficients in Viscoanelastic Medium of Order One (with Memory).- Analysis of Singularities by Short Haar Wavelet Transform.- Spatial Aspects of Interaction Between High-Energy Pulses and Waves Considered as Suddenly Emerging Phenomena.- Noise Level Estimation Using Haar Wavelet Packet Trees for Sensor Robust Outlier Detection.- A Theoretical Multiscale Analysis of Electrical Field for Fuel Cells Stack Structures.- Workshop on Geocomputation (GC 2006).- Tangent-Linear Models by Augmented LL-Parsers.- GIS-T Web Services: A New Design Model for Developing GIS Customized ITS Application Systems.- An Algorithm on Extraction of Saline-Alkalized Land by Image Segmentation Based on ETM?+?Image.- GIS Web Service Using Context Information in Mobile Environments.- The System for Predicting the Traffic Flow with the Real-Time Traffic Information.- Versioning Based Spatial Record Management Technique for Non-blocking Search Operations of Moving Objects.- A Wavelet Packets Watermarking Algorithm Based on Chaos Encryption.- Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Ubiquitous Computing (PRUC 2006).- On a Face Recognition by the Modified Nonsingular Discriminant Analysis for a Ubiquitous Computing.- Rapid Determination of Compound Rifampicin Tablets Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy with Artificial Neural Network.- An Efficient Search Algorithm for High-Dimensional Indexing Using Cell Based MBR.- Bimanual Hand Tracking.- On a Feature Extraction by LMCUH Algorithm for a Ubiquitous Computing.- Autoregressive Models of Speech Signal Variability in the Speech Commands Statistical Distinction.- u-Table: A Tabletop Interface for Multiple Users.- Implementation of Embedded System for Intelligent Image Recognition and Processing.- Workshop on Data Storage Devices and Systems (DSDS 2006).- A Software Reproduction of Virtual Memory for Deeply Embedded Systems.- Block-Level Storage Security Architectures.- An Intelligent Garbage Collection Algorithm for Flash Memory Storages.- Design and Implementation of a Security Framework Based on the Object-Based Storage Device Standard.- A Snappy B+-Trees Index Reconstruction for Main-Memory Storage Systems.- An Approximate Analytic Performance Model of Object-Based Storage.- OASIS: Implementation of a Cluster File System Using Object-Based Storage Devices.- G-SCAN: A Novel Real-Time Disk Scheduling Using Grouping and Branch-and-Bound Strategy.- A New Key Management Scheme for Distributed Encrypted Storage Systems.- Technical Session on Technologies and Techniques for Distributed Data Mining (TTDM 2006).- WSRF Services for Composing Distributed Data Mining Applications on Grids: Functionality and Performance.- On Mining 2 Step Walking Pattern from Mobile Users.- Effect of Similar Behaving Attributes in Mining of Fuzzy Association Rules in the Large Databases.- General Tracks.- The Study on Three Stages in Retinal Mechanism.- Curvature Monotony Condition for Rational Quadratic B-spline Curves.- Estimation of Input Ranking Using Input Sensitivity Approach.- A Collaborative Design Environment.- Towards a High Integrity XML Link Update in Object-Relational Database.- Various Types of Attacks and Solutions Regarding Secure Remote User Access over Insecure Networks.- Revealing Statistical Independence of Two Experimental Data Sets: An Improvement on Spearman's Algorithm.- Parallelizable Computational Technique for Singularly Perturbed Boundary Value Problems Using Spline.