ERCIM: the Challenge of the Next Century,
by Gerard van Oortmerssen, President of ERCIM

• ERCIM - History, Overview and Outlook, by Eckart Bierdümpel

ERCIM Working Groups

Introduction

• The ERCIM Digital Library Initiative, by Carol Peters and Costantino Thanos
• User Interfaces for All, by Constantine Stephanidis
• Environmental Modelling, by Achim Sydow
• Constraint Programming, by Krzysztof R. Apt
• Research in Control and System Theory, by Jan H. van Schuppen
• Fluid Mechanics, by Ullrich Becker-Lemgau
• Towards Reliable Computer Systems? by Diego Latella, Stefania Gnesi and Hubert Garavel
• What’s Next in Database? by Keith G Jeffery
• Health and Information Technology, by Vesa Pakarinen
• The World Wide Web Working Group - W4G, by Stuart K Robinson 28

Projects

Introduction

• THETIS - A Data Management and Visualization System for the Support of Coastal Zone Management in the Mediterranean Sea, by Catherine Houstis
• ESIMEAU - Information Technologies for Water Resources Management and Modeling in Semi-Arid Areas, by Fadi El Dabaghi
• SIMES - Environmental Multimedia Information System
  for Sub-Saharan Africa, by Olivier Monga
• MtoM3D - Made-to-Measure Garments by André Gagalowicz
• DECAIR - Development of an Earth Observation Data Converter with Application to Air Quality Forecast, by Jean-Paul Berroir and Francois Llirbat

REPORT

• Security of E-commerce threatened by 512-bit Number Factorization, by Henk Nieland
  
• RECOMB’99: Research in Computational Biology by Mireille Régnier

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• ERCIM 10th anniversary events, Amsterdam 4-5 November 1999
• 12th ERCIM Workshop on Database Research, Amsterdam, 2-3 November 1999
• 9th WWW Conference: The Web - the Next Generation, Amsterdam, 15-19 May 2000