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.

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Book Title: New Results and New Trends in Computer Science
Book Subtitle: Graz, Austria, June 20-21, 1991 Proceedings
Editors: Hermann Maurer
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0038178
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-54869-0Published: 13 November 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-46457-0Published: 11 April 2006
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 410
Topics: Programming Techniques, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Software Engineering, Models and Principles, Database Management, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

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