ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

A New Efficient Encoding Mode of Genetic Algorithms for the Generalized Plant

Allocation Problem

Young-Chang Hou and Ying-Hua Chang………………......……..      Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 1019-1034

Case Instance Generation and Refinement for Case-Based Criminal Summary

Judgments in Chinese

Chao-Lin Liu, Cheng-Tsung Chang and Jim-How Ho……....……..      Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 783-800

BIOINFORMATICS

A Computational Approach to Discover Differential Cooperation of

 Regulatory Sites in Functionally Related Genes in Yeast Genome

Jorng-Tzong Horng, Hsien-Da Huang, Tsung-Shan Tsou,

Jing-Yue Hong and Baw-Jhiune Liu………………………………...     Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1141-1159

An Efficient Approach to Identifying and Validating Clusters in

Multivariate Datasets with Applications in Gene Expression Analysis

Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng and Ching-Ping Kao………….…...….......       Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 665-677

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES

Effective Branch Prediction through Caching of Aliasing Branches

Wei-Ming Lin and An-Yi Yang………………………………............      Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 557-574

COMPUTER GRAPHIC AND VIRTUAL REALITY

Non-Photorealistic Rendering for Aesthetic Virtual Environments

Chung-Ming Wang and Jiunn-Shyan Lee………………….………    Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 923-948

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN

Logic Rewiring for Delay and Power Minimization

Andreas Veneris……………………………………....……....……..       Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1231-1238

COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

A Lazy Caching Location Strategy with Bypass Pointers in PCS

SinLing Lee, Hwa-Chuan Lin and Pei-Xian Kou…………………….     Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 617-641

Ad Hoc On-Demand Backup Node Setup Routing Protocol

Ying-Hong Wang and Chih-Chieh Chuang…………….....…….…Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 821-843

Adaptive Slot Allocation to Control Queueing Delaying in TDMA

Wireless Base Station

Mong-Fong Horng, Yau-Hwang Kuo, Jang-Pong Hsu and

Ren-Hao Cheng……....……………………………………..........…      Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 845-868

Optimal Bandwidth Allocations for VoIP Latency Guarantees

Reu-Ching Chen, Wei-Tsong Lee and Jim-Min Lin……….....……..      Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 869-884

Window Adaptive TCP for EGPRS Networks

Duan-Shin Lee and Chia-Chun Lin……………………………….…    Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 805-820

DATABASE MANAGEMENT

A Sliding Window Method for Finding Recently Frequent Itemsets

over Online Data Steams

Joong Hyuk Chang and Won Suk Lee…...………………..........…      Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 753-762

Building Signature Trees into OODBs

Yangjun Chen………………………………………………......……     Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 275-304

DATA ENCRYPTION AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

Efficient Key-Envolving Protocol for the GQ Signature

Cheng-Fen Lu and Shiuhpyng Shieh…..…………………......…….     Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 763-769

On Nonlinearity and Autocorrelation Properties of Correlation I

mmune Boolean Functions

Subhamoy Maitra………………………………………......…….…      Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 305-323

Secure Key-Evolving for Public Key Cryptosystems Based on the

Discrete Logarithm Problem

Cheng-Fen Lu and Shiuhpyng Shieh……………..………......…….     Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 391-400

DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL COMPUTING

A Rotate-Tiling Image Compositing Method for Sort-Last parallel Volume Rendering

Systems on Distributed memory Multicomputers

Chin-Feng Lin, Shih-Kuan Liao, Yeh-Ching Chung and

Don-Lin Yang……………..……........................................……….          Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 643-664

Adaptive Communication-Induced Checkpointing Protocols with

Domino-Effect Freedom

Jichiang Tsai, Chi-Yi Lin and Sy-Yen Kuo…………….........……….       Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 885-901

Distributed Fault-Tolerant Embedding of Several Topologies in Hypercubes

Shih-Chang Wang, Yuh-Rong Leu and Sy-Yen Kuo…........………      Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 707-732

Management of Fault Tolerance Information for Coordinated

Checkpointing Protocol without Sympathetic Rollbacks

Kwang Sik Chung, Young Jun lee, HeoChang Yu and

WonGyu Lee…………………………………...…..…….....………..     Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 379-390

Novel Hierarchical Interconnection Networks for High-Performance Multicomputer

Systems

Gene Eu Jan, Yuan-Shin Hwang, Ming-Bo Lin and

Deron Liang……………………………………………..…...…...….      Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1213-1229

Path Selection on VC-Networks within a Distributed Media Server

for Concurrent Stream Retrieval

Chun-Chao Yeh and Jie-Yong Juang…...……………......…….…      Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 305-323

IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION

Detection and Concealment of Transmission Errors in MMPEG-4

Images

Chien-Ming Lee and Jin-Jang Leou.................................…….…         Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 679-706

Learning Visual Concepts from Image Instance

Jun-Wei Hsieh, Cheng-Chin Chiang, Yea-Shuan Huang and

W. E. Grimson………………………………………...….…...…...….     Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1197-1212

Real-Time Software Method for Preserving Eye Contact in Video

Conferencing

Yu-Pao Tsai, Ching-Che Kao, Yi-Ping Hung and

Zen-Chung Shih………………………………………………………    Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 1001-1017

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

The Exclusive-or Disjunctive Information in Relational Databases

Chien-Chou Shih, Ding-An Chiang and Wen-Hsing Kao...…….….     Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 981-999

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

Integrated Business Agents for Processing Free Text Information

I-Heng meng, Shin-Mu Tseng and Wei-Pang Yang……....…….…      Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 325-347

MOBILE COMPUTING

Path Pruning in Mailbox-based Mobile Agent Communications

Jiannong Cao, Liang Zhang, Xinyu Feng and Sajal K. Das…….…     Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 405-424

Extending the Lifetime of Multicast Trees in WANETs

Bin Wang and Sandeep K. S. Gupta ……………………….……...    Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 425-447

Integrating Sensing Perspectives for Better Self Organization of

Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor

Manish Kochhal, loren Schwiebert and Sandeep Gupta…..….…     Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 449-475

Maximizing Sensor Reuse Based on new Geometric Concepts

Guangbin Fan and Jingyuang Zhang………………………..….…    Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 477-489

On Power Managed Multiple Access Control in an IEEE 802.11

Based Ad Hoc Wireless Network

Xia-Hui Lin, Yu-Kwong Kwok and Vincent K. N. Lau…………….…      Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 491-515

Modeling and Tracking Complexly Moving Objects in Location-Based Services

MoonBae Song, KwangJin Park, Jehyok Ryu and

Chong-Sung Hwang………………………………………………....     Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 517-534

MZRP: An Extension of the Zone Routing Protocol for Multicasting

in MANETs

Xiaofeng Zhang and Lillykutty Jacob………...…………....………     Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 535-551

MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS

A Fast Finite-State Algorithm for Generating RGB Palettes of

Color Quantized Images

Yu-Len Huang and Ruey-Feng Chang…………………………..….    Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 771-782

A Domain-Independent and Personalized Video Abstraction Algorithm

Jinguk Jeong, Jongho Nang and Hojung Cha…..………...…...…     Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1183-1196

NEURAL NETWORKS AND FUZZY SETS

Target Components Discrimination using Adaptive Time-Delay

Neural Network

Daw-Tung Lin…………….....………………………………….….….     Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 959-980

Modeling and Analysis of Acoustic Musical Strings by Using

Kelly-Lochbaum Lattice Networks

Sheng-Fu Liang and Alvin W. Y. Su………………................…...….Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1161-1182

PATTERN RECOGNITION

Classification of Chinese Characters Using Pseudo Skeleton Features

Ming-Gang Wen, Kuo-Chin Fan and Chin-Chuan Han.....…….….Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 903-922

SIGNAL AND SPEECH PROCESSING

Optimization of HMM by the Tabu Search Algorithm

Tsong-Yi Chen, Xiao-Dan Mei, Jeng-Shyang Pan and

Sheng-He Sun…………….........................................................….Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 949-957

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

A Software Product Model Emphasizing Relationships

Shih-Chien Chou and Chun-Wei Huang…..……....………...……..Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 349-377

Towards Quality of Software in TUG

Chia-Chu Chiang………………………………………....………….Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 575-615

Special Issue for Selected Papers from International Computer Symposium

On the Crossing Distribution Problem in Two Regions

T. K. Yu and D. T. Lee…....…….……………………………………..      Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-25

Energy-Efficient Topology Control for Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks

Yu-Chee Tseng, Yen-Ning Chang and Bour-Hour Tzeng…....….....Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 27-37

Constructing Fault-Tolerant Communication Trees in Hypercubes

Po-Jen Chuang, Shih-Yuan Chen and Juei-Tang Chen…....…….      Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 39-55

Mining Control Patterns from Java Program Corpora

Deng-Jyi Chen, Chung-Chien Hwang, Shih-Kun Huang and

David T. K. Chen…....……………………………………………….......Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 57-83

Distributed Bandwidth-Constrained Routing for Data Streaming

across Multiple Routes for Improving Call Blocking Rate and

Channel Utilization in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Chun-Hung Richard Lin and Yi-Siang Huang…………….....…….......Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 85-103

Optimal Algorithms for 2´n AB Games-A Graph-Partition Approach

Shan-Tai Chen and Shun-Shii Lin…....………………………………     Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 105-126

On the Array Embeddings and Layouts of Quadtrees and Pyramids

Gene Eu Jan, Shao-Wei Leu and Cheng-Hung Li……….....……..      Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 127-141

Optimal Independent Spanning Trees on Hypercubes

Shyue-Ming Tang, Yue-Li Wang and Yung-Ho Leu………....……... . ..Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 143-156

Power-Efficient Geographic Routing for MANETs

Lan Luan, Wen-Jing Hsu and Rui Zhang………………….....……......Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 157-180

Constructing Evolutionary Trees from Rooted Triples

Bang Ye Wu……………………………………………….......……...... Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 181-190

Legion Structure for Quorum-Based Location Management in

Mobile Computing

Ming-Jeng Yang, Yao-Ming Yeh and Yao-Ming Chang…….…......….Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 191-202

Stickiness, Edge-Thickness, and Clique-Thickness in Graphs

Ton Kloks, Chuan Min Lee and Jiping Liu…....………………...…........Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 207-217

Modeling of Volcanic Clouds using CML

Ryoichi Mizuno, Yoshinori Dobashi and Tomoyuki Nishita....……........Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 219-232

ISRVT: An Interactive Spectral Rendering Visualization Tool

Jin-Ren Chern and Chung-Ming Wang…………………......……......Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 233-261

A Parallel Loop Self-Scheduling on Extremely Heterogeneous PC Clusters

Chao-Tung Yang and Shun-Chyi Chang…………………....……......Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 263-273

Special Section for Selected Papers from National Computer Symposium

A Novel Color Transfer Algorithm for Image Sequences

Chung-Ming Wang and Yao-Hsien Huang………………....……..    Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1039-1056

Adaptive Learning Environment to Meet Pedagogical Needs

Jun-Ming Su, Shian-Shyong Tseng, Ching-Tai Chen and

Wen-Nung Tsai…………………....……………………………..…...   Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1057-1077

Abnormal Event Detection for Network Flooding Attacks

Chi-Shih Chao, Yu-Xin Chen and An-Chi Liu….…………....……...…Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1079-1091

An Application-Oriented Linux Kernel Customization for Embedded Systems

Chi-Tai Lee, Jim-Min Lin, Zeng-Wei Hong and Wei-Tsong Lee….... ..  Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1093-1107

A Multicast Routing Protocol with Dynamic Tree Adjustment for Mobile IPv6

Ruay-Shiung Chang and Yun-Sheng Yen….………….…....…….......Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1109-1124

Content Delivery Network with Hot-Video Broadcasting and Peer-to-peer Approach

Julian Liu, Su-Chiu Yang, Hsiang-Fu Yu and Li-Ming Tseng...……....... Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1125-1139