TABLE OF CONTENTS

WELCOME TO VTIC '97 FROM THE VACETS PRESIDENT

WELCOME TO VTIC '97 FROM THE GENERAL CHAIRMAN OF VTIC '97

VACETS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE

VTIC '97 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

VTIC '97 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TECHNICAL SESSION 1: COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

• Advances in Parallel Computing for the Year 2000 and Beyond
• Finger Print Recognition: Technology and Application
• A Software-Agent Based DSS for Supporting Electronic Air Cargo Market
• Negotiation Processes, Evolutionary Systems Design And Negotiator

 TECHNICAL SESSION 2: ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

• Longshore Currents in the Swash Zone
• Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells As an Electrical Power Source: Recent Developments at the University of Kansas
• Integrating Environmental Protection into Sustainable Economic Development in Vietnam
• Making Liquid Fuels From Natural Gas: A Technological Challenge Of The Twenty First Century
• Carbon Aerogels and Their Applications in Supercapacitors and Electrosorption Processes

 TECHNICAL SESSION 3: MICROELECTRONICS

• CMOS on Silicon-on-Insulator for Low Power Applications
• Complementary Heterostructure FET Technology

 TECHNICAL SESSION 4: TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Desktop Video-conferencing: A Basic Tool for the 21st Century’s Communications Technology
• The WEB Development in the Federal World
• Hypermedia in Education
• Usability of Multimedia/Hypermedia courseware - A case study
• Electronic Commerce: The U.S. Experience and Possible Lessons for Developing Countries
• The Challenge in Managing Telecommunications Networks in the year 2000
• The Use of Adaptive Arrays for Wireless Base Station
• National Information Infrastructure In Pacific Asia
• Software Agents in Telemedicine

 TECHNICAL SESSION 5: MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES

• Advanced Technologies for Small- and Medium-sized Manufacturing Companies
• Stereo-Vision-Based Robot Control Without Calibration
• Diffusion Bonding - An Advanced Material Process for Aerospace Technology
• PC-based Control System for Modern Manufacturing
• Magnetomechanical Properties in FINEMET Type Alloy

 TECHNICAL SESSION 6: BIOMEDICAL

• Dual Chamber Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
• Non-invasive Method to Relieve Visual Fatigue of Frequent Computer Users
• An X-Ray Protein Crystallography Detector for the Year 2000 and Beyond
• The Future of Herbal Medicine in the United States
• The Relationship of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase to Stable Carbon Isotope Values in Symbioses between Marine Invertebrates and Chemoautotrophic Bacteria

  NON-TECHNICAL SESSION

• The Office Workers Of The 21st Century

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