ENC 2003: Apizaco, Mexico

4th Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC 2003), 8-12 September 2003, Apizaco, Mexico. IEEE Computer Society 2003, ISBN 0-7695-1915-6

Foreword.
Organizing Committee.
Preface.
Program Committee.
List of Reviewers.

Invited Talks

Gregory D. Abowd:
Building and Evaluating Living Laboratories: The Grand Challenge for Ubiquitous Computing. 2
Martin Farach-Colton:
Adventures at Google. 3
Mario Gerla:
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Protocols and Applications. 4
Gonzalo Navarro:
Current Challenges in Textual Databases. 5
Jorge Nocedal:
Solving Optimization Problems Using Parallel and Grid Computing. 6
Alan Watt:
Synthetic Images: Past, Present and Future. 7

Computational Linguistics

Karen Ward, Tasha Hollingsed, Javier A. Aldaz Salmon:
Toward Building Conversational Spoken-Language Interfaces: Acknowledgment Use in American English and Mexican Spanish. 10-17
Raúl Morales Carrasco, Alexander F. Gelbukh:
Evaluation of TnT Tagger for Spanish. 18-25
Sofía N. Galicia-Haro:
Using Electronic Texts for an Annotated Corpus Building. 26-32
Rogelio Davila Perez:
Constructive Semantics for Extensional PTQ. 33-

Internet Computing/Web Technology

Gabriel González, Rodolfo A. Pazos, Víctor Jesús Sosa Sosa, Felipe Menchaca:
Tool for Generating Access Patterns to Replicate Web Sites in Mobile Clients. 42-48
Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, Jorge R. Manjarrez Sanchez:
Design of a VoiceXML Gateway. 49-53
Mario Guillen, Ma. del Rosario Vazquez, Víctor Jesús Sosa Sosa, Humberto Hernandez:
GARP: A Tool for Creating Dynamic Web Reports Using XSL and XML Technologies. 54-59
Víctor Jesús Sosa Sosa, Juan Gabriel González Serna, Leandro Navarro:
Building a Flexible Web Caching System. 60-

Software Engineering and Quality

G. Ibarguengoitia G., J. A. Salazar C., M. G. Sanchez M., A. Y. Ramirez M.:
A Procedure for Customizing a Software Process. 68-72
Francisco Macias, Mike Holcombe, Marian Gheorghe:
A Formal Experiment Comparing Extreme Programming with Traditional Software Construction. 73-80
Hiroshi Natsu, Jesús Favela, Alberto L. Morán, Dominique Decouchant, Ana María Martínez Enríquez:
Distributed Pair Programming on the Web. 81-88
Guillermo Rodríguez-Ortiz:
Knowledge Management and Quality Certification in a Research and Development Environment. 89-

Information Retrieval and Databases

Humberto Sossa, Antonio Villasenor, Juan L. Olguin, Francisco A. Toscano:
SISREC: A System for Image Retrieval. 96-100
M. Fernanda Maldonado-Naude, J. Alfredo Sánchez:
Using Hermes-F: Experiences with a Framework for Developing Information Retrieval Applications. 101-108
J. Aníbal Arias, J. Alfredo Sánchez:
Content-Based Search and Annotations in Multimedia Digital Libraries. 109-116
Manuel Pech Palacio, David Sol, Jesus Gonzalez:
Graph-Based Knowledge Representation for GIS Data. 117-

Computer Architecture

Nazar A. Saqib, Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez, Arturo Díaz-Pérez:
AES Algorithm Implementation-An efficient approach for Sequential and Pipeline Architectures. 126-130
Mario Alberto Garcia Martinez, Guillermo Morales-Luna, Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez:
Hardware Implementation of the Binary Method for Exponentiation in GF(2m). 131-134
Claudia Feregrino Uribe:
High Performance PPMC Compression Algorithm. 135-

Educational Computing

Cesar Vichido, Mireya Estrada, Antonio Sanchez:
A constructivist educational tool: Software architecture for web-based video games. 144-150
Magdalena Ortiz, Gerardo Ayala, Mauricio Osorio:
Formalizing the Learner Model for CSCL Environments. 151-158
Lourdes Muñoz-Gómez, Moises Alencastre-Miranda, Isaac Rudomín:
Defining and Executing Practice Sessions in a Robotics Virtual Laboratory. 159-

Distributed Systems

Risto Rangel-Kuoppa, Carlos Avilés-Cruz, David Mould:
Distributed 3D Rendering System in a Multi-agent Platform. 168-175
Ricardo Marcelín-Jiménez, Rolando Esquivel-Villafana, Sergio Rajsbaum:
A Flexible Simulator for Distributed Algorithms. 176-181
Charles Hannon, J. Richard Rinewalt:
Addressing Security Issues in Geographically Distributed Systems. 182-

Evolutionary Computing I

Efrén Mezura-Montes, Carlos A. Coello Coello:
Multiobjective-Based Concepts to Handle Constraints in Evolutionary Algorithms. 192-199
Andrés Gómez de Silva Garza, Ana Patricia Torres Campos Licastro:
A Coevolutionary Method for Automating Airport Gate Scheduling. 200-206
Felipe Padilla Diaz, Eunice Ponce de Leon, Alejandro Padilla, Marcelo Mejia:
A "Non-Model Building" Approach to Solving Hierarchical Functions. 207-

Vision and Image Processing

Juan Humberto Sossa Azuela, Giovanni Guzmán, Oleksiy B. Pogrebnyak, Francisco Cuevas de la Rosa:
Object Counting without Conglomerate Separation. 216-220
Edgar Arce Santana, José L. Marroquín:
Hidden Markov Measure Fields for Disparity Estimation. 221-

Agents

Cora B. Excelente-Toledo, Nicholas R. Jennings:
Learning When to Coordinate. 230-237
Fabiola López y López, Michael Luck:
Modelling Norms for Autonomous Agents. 238-245
Ma. Auxilio Medina, J. Alberto Chávez, Antonio Benitez:
Inclusion of Reference Agents in a Virtual Reference Environment. 246-

Mathematical Programming

Stephan Dempe, Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Hugo Terashima:
Application of Discrete Bilevel Programming to Some Applied Problems. 254-262
Maria A. Osorio, Fred Glover:
Exploiting Surrogate Constraint Analysis for Fixing Variables in both bounds for Multidimensional Knapsack Problems. 263-267
Arturo Hernández Aguirre, Carlos A. Coello Coello:
Gate-level Synthesis of Boolean Functions using Information Theory Concepts. 268-

Computer Networks

Ana Carolina Minaburo, Laurent Toutain, Loutfi Nuaymi:
Deployment of IPv6 Robust Header Compression Profiles 1 and 2. 278-283
Alejandra Flores Mosri, Martin J. Reed:
Effects of Routing Algorithms on the Transmission of Layered Streaming Media. 284-290
Juan M. Oyoqui, J. Antonio García-Macías:
Context transfer for seamless micro-mobility. 291

Robotics

Abraham Sánchez:
A deterministic sampling approach to robot motion planning. 300-307
Fernando D. Von Borstel, Brian A. Ponce, José Luis Gordillo:
Mobile Robotics Virtual Laboratory Over the Internet. 308-313
Moises Alencastre-Miranda, Lourdes Muñoz-Gómez, Isaac Rudomín:
Teleoperating Robots in Multiuser Virtual Environments. 314-

Evolutionary Computing II

Angel Fernando Kuri Morales:
Efficient Compression from Non-ergodic Sources with Genetic Algorithms. 324-329
Angel Fernando Kuri Morales, Oscar Herrera-Alcantara:
Metrics for Symbol Clustering from a Pseudoergodic Information Source. 330-337
Arturo Hernández Aguirre, Salvador Botello Rionda, Giovanni Lizárraga Lizárraga, Carlos A. Coello Coello:
IS-PAES: Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization with Constraint Handling. 338-