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An object pattern for computer user interface systems / Stanley Y.P. Chien -- A new formal approach for the specification and the verification of multi-agent reactive systems operating modes / Bouchaib Bounabat -- Feature-based classification of time-series data / Alex Nanopoulos, Rob Alcock and Yannis Manolopoulos -- Software radio system design for accessing wireless multimedia services / Ming-Chung Tang, R.C. Chang and Wei-Kuan Shih -- Caching across heterogeneous information sources: an object-based approach -- Athena Vakali and Yannis Manolopoulos -- A language for implementing parallel and distributed systems using asynchronous point-to-point communication / A.S. Bavan and E. Illingworth -- Fault tolerant supercomputing: a software approach / E. Verentziotis ... [et al.] -- MEQA3: a multi-end QoS application adaptation architecture / Athanasios G. Malamos ... [et al.].