New Results and New Trends in Computer Science

This volume contains selected papers from the symposium "New§Results and NewTrends in Computer Science" held in Graz,§Austria, June 20-21, 1991. The symposium was organized to§give a wide-ranging overview of new work in the field on the§occasion of the fiftieth birthday of the editor of the§volume.§Topics covered include: information on neural nets, ideas on§a new paradigm for informatics, hypermedia systems and§applications, axioms for concurrent processes, techniques§for image generation and compression, the role of data§visualization, object-oriented programming andgraphics,§algorithms for layout compaction, new methods in database§systems, the future of data networks, object-oriented§artificial intelligence, problems in data structures and§sorting, aspects of user interfaces, a theory of structures,§applications of cryptography, evaluation of Ada, results in§algorithmic geometry, remarks on the history of computers,§and a novel interpretation of machine learning.§In total, the 26 high-level contributions authored by§prominent experts from all over the world give an§up-to-date survey of almost all subfields of computer§science. The book is written in a style which is easy to§follow, and it is of interest for any computer scientist, be§it in research, teaching or practice.