ERCIM News No.52, January 2003, Contents

	ERCIM News No. 52, January 2003 - Contents
	JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS
	ERCIM New European Host of W3C
	About the World Wide Web Consortium
	W3C Activities
	Recommendations published by W3C in 2002
	World Wide Web Consortium launched Hungarian Office at SZTAKI by László Kovács and Éva Megyaszai, SZTAKI
	Human Resources Managers Task Force by José Koster, CWI and Heather Weaver, CLRC
	Euro-Legal by Heather Weaver, CLRC
	Andreas Rauber Winner of the 2002 Cor Baayen Award
	Special Theme: EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
	Embedded Systems - Introduction by Erwin Schoitsch, ARC Seibersdorf (AARIT)
	ERCIM Working Group Dependable Software-Intensive Embedded Systems by Erwin Schoitsch, ARC Seibersdorf (AARIT)
	An Approach to Dependable Architectures and Components for Railways by Andrea Bondavalli, Felicita Di Giandomenico and Luca Simoncini, ISTI-CNR
	Monitoring and Controlling Scientific Experiments: Anywhere - Anytime by Christian Wattinger, Peter Fornaro, Martin Guggisberg, Tibor Gyalog, and Helmar Burkhart, University of Basel (SARIT)
	Emerging Frontiers in Miniature Computer and Embedded Systems by Angelos Bilas and Evangelos Markatos, ICS-FORTH
	Wearable Systems for Everyday Use by Spyros Lalis, Anthony Savidis and Constantine Stephanidis, ICS-FORTH
	New Solutions for In-Vehicle Embedded System Development by Françoise Simonot-Lion, Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, France and Yvon Trinquet, Institut de Recherche en Cybernetique de Nantes, France
	Remote Control and Monitoring over the Internet - Wireless Construction Site by Leila Rannanjärvi, VTT
	Creating a Network for Those working with Embedded and Real-Time Systems by Barrie Ross-Dow, Institute of Electrical Engineers, UK
	DECOS - Dependable Embedded Components and Systems by Dieter Donhoffer and Erwin Schoitsch, ARC Seibersdorf Research (AARIT)
	Time Triggered Architecture by Hermann Kopetz, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
	Automatic Distribution of Synchronous Programs by Alain Girault, INRIA
	synERJY: a High-Level Language for Embedded Controllers by Reinhard Budde, Axel Poigné and Karl-Heinz Sylla, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
	STOREQ: Storage Requirement Estimation and Optimisation Tool for Data-Intensive Embedded Applications by Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, NTNU
	Composing Embedded Real-Time Software Components: the PECOS Data-Centric Approach by Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz and Roel Wuyts, University of Berne (SARIT)
	Time Machines and Black Box Recorders for Embedded Systems Software by Henrik Thane, Malardalen University, Sweden
	Design of Embedded Systems: New Challenges by Gilbert Cabillic and Isabelle Puaut, INRIA
	Transforming Specifications to verify Embedded Systems by María del Mar Gallardo, Jesús Martínez, Pedro Merino and Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain
	EUDEMES: Component-Based Development Methods for Small-Size Embedded Systems by Nicolas Guelfi, Luxembourg University of Applied Sciences (FNR), Aloyse Schoos, IEE S.A, Luxembourg, Gérard Sébastien and François Terrier, National Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Techniques (CEA), France
	Model Checking of Embedded Systems by Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR
	Systems Validation Centre shows Benefits of Formal Methods by Henk Eertink, Telematica Instituut, Wan Fokkink, CWI, Holger Hermanns, University of Twente, and Izak van Langevelde, CWI
	REDEST - Sharing Experiences in the Field of Embedded Software Requirement Gathering by János Nacsa, SZTAKI
	EmbLab - A Laboratory for Teaching Embedded Systems by Amund Skavhaug, Trygve Lunheim and H. Skinnemoen, NTNU
	Master Course Embedded Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology by Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
	R&D AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
	SOMLib - New Approaches for Information Presentation and Handling by Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
	Hybrid Caching of Search Engine Results by Tiziano Fagni and Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR
	Personal Space Station handles Virtual 3D Objects by Jurriaan Mulder, CWI
	Augmented Virtual Table Tennis with Real Racquets by Charles Woodward and Petri Honkamaa, VTT
	Scene Understanding using Hierarchical Neural Networks by Gabriele Pieri and Ovidio Salvetti, ISTI-CNR
	A Digital Film-Saver for Archives by George L. Kovács and Iván Kas, SZTAKI
	Knowledge Technologies in Support of e-Government and e-Democracy by Jan Paralic and Tomas Sabol, Technical University of Kosice (SRCIM)
	Rapid Prototyping for Embedded Parallelism by David Johnston, Martin Fleury and Andy Downton, University of Essex, UK
	Discretizing Continuous Attributes in AdaBoost for Text Categorization by Pio Nardiello, Fabrizio Sebastiani, and Alessandro Sperduti, ISTI-CNR
	EVENTS
	Reports
	The 7th ERCIM Workshop on 'User Interfaces for All' by Noelle Carbonell, INRIA and Constantine Stephanidis, ICS-FORTH
	For conference announcements, see:
	Calendar of Events and Conferences related to IT and Applied Mathematics
	IN BRIEF
	INRIA has published a report summarising the institute’s activities in the fields of Grids A German-Chinese research institute to be founded

ERCIM News No. 52, January 2003 - Contents