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.