String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium & International Workshop on Groupware, SPIRE/CRIWG 1999, 21-24 September, 1999, Cancun, Mexico. IEEE Computer Society

SPIRE'99

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  Rocío Abascal, J. Alfredo Sánchez: X-tract: Structure Extraction from Botanical Textual Descriptions. 2-7
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  Abdullah N. Arslan, Ömer Egecioglu: An Efficient Uniform-Cost Normalized Edit Distance Algorithm. 8-15
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  Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Gaston H. Gonnet: A Fast Algorithm on Average for All-Against-All Sequence Matching. 16-23
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  Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Walter Cunto: The ADT Proximity and Text Proximity Problems. 24-30
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  Alejandro Bassi: An Associative Semantic Model for Text Processing. 31-37
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  Edgar Chávez, José L. Marroquín, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates: Spaghettis: An Array Based Algorithm for Similarity Queries in Metric Spaces. 38-46
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  Mark Daley, Lila Kari, Greg Gloor, Rani Siromoney: Circular Contextual Insertions/Deletions with Applications to Biomolecular Computation. 47-54
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  David Fernández-Baca, Timo Seppäläinen, Giora Slutzki: Bounds for Parametric Sequence Comparison. 55-62
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  Yuan Gao, Kalai Mathee, Giri Narasimhan, Xuning Wang: Motif Detection in Protein Sequences. 63-72
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  Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas: A Method of Describing Document Contents through Topic Selection. 73-80
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  Hideo Itoh, Hozumi Tanaka: An Efficient Method for in Memory Construction of Suffix Arrays. 81-88
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  Takuya Kida, Yusuke Shibata, Masayuki Takeda, Ayumi Shinohara, Setsuo Arikawa: A Unifying Framework for Compressed Pattern Matching. 89-96
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  Joao Paulo Kitajima, Gonzalo Navarro: A Fast Distributed Suffix Array Generation Algorithm. 97-105
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  Chantal Korostensky, Gaston H. Gonnet: Near Optimal Multiple Sequence Alignments Using a Traveling Salesman Problem Approach. 105-114
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  Eduardo Sany Laber, Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Artur Alves Pessoa: Practical Constructions of L-restricted Alphabetic Prefix Codes. 115-119
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  Daniel P. Lopresti, Gordon T. Wilfong: Cross-Domain Approximate String Matching. 120-127
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  Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Artur Alves Pessoa, Eduardo Sany Laber: A Fast and Space-Economical Algorithm for Calculating Minimum Redundancy Prefix Codes. 128-134
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  Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Nivio Ziviani: Linear Time Sorting of Skewed Distributions. 135-140
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  Gonzalo Navarro: Searching in Metric Spaces by Spatial Approximation. 141-148
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  Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang: Effects of Term Segmentation on Chinese/English Cross-Language Information Retrieval. 149-157
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  Arcot Rajasekar: String-Oriented Databases. 158-167
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  Raghavan Rama, Shankara Narayanan Krishna: Contextual Array Splicing Systems. 168-175
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  Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Alberto H. F. Laender, Altigran Soares da Silva: Top-down Extraction of Semi-Structured Data. 176-183
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  Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo Braz Golgher, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Alberto H. F. Laender, Nivio Ziviani: CoBWeb - A Crawler for the Brazilian Web. 184-191
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  Eljas Soisalon-Soininen, Peter Widmayer: Concurrency and Recovery in Full-Text Indexing. 192-198
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  Zdenek Tronícek: Problems Related to Subsequences and Supersequences. 199-205
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  Jesús Vegas, Pablo de la Fuente, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates: The EC Query Language Applied to Old Manuscripts. 206-214
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  Ana Lelescu, Ouri Wolfson, Bo Xu: Approximate Retrieval from Multimedia Databases Using Relevance Feedback. 215-223
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  Justin Zobel, Hugh E. Williams: Compact In-Memory Models for Compression of Large Text Databases. 224-231

CRIWG'99

Group Decision and Negotiation Support

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  Colin Eden, Fran Ackermann: The Role of GDSS in Scenario Development and Strategy Making. 234-242
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  Tania Ho, Pedro Antunes: Developing a Tool to Assist Electronic Facilitation of Decision-Making Groups. 243-252

CSCW Design

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  César A. Osuna, Yannis A. Dimitriadis: A Framework for the Development of Educational-Collaborative Applications Based on Social Constructivism. 254-261
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  Marcos R. S. Borges, José A. Pino: PAWS: Towards a Participatory Approach to Business Process Reengineering. 262-269
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  Mikko Kovalainen, Mike Robinson: Experiences of Different Methods in the Research and Design of an ``Organizational Memory'' for Process Control. 353-352

Groupware Development

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  Luis A. Guerrero, David A. Fuller: Design Patterns for Collaborative Systems. 270-277
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  Márcio de Sousa Dias, Marcos R. S. Borges: Development of Groupware Systems with the COPSE Infrastructure. 278-285
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  Dominique Decouchant, Ana María Martínez Enríquez, Esther Martínez González: Alliance Web: Cooperative Authoring on the WWW. 286-295
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  Octavio García, Jesús Favela, Roberto Machorro: Emotional Awareness in Collaborative Systems. 296-303

Work Modeling

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  Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Jacques Wainer, Dalcykelem B. Santos, Klissiomara L. Dias: A Model and Tool for Semi-Automatic Recording of Design Rationale in Software Diagrams. 306-313
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  Eduardo Zapico Mouro, Marcos R. S. Borges, Cícero Roberto Garcez: A Groupware Tool to Support Participatory Business Process Reengineering. 314-321
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  Ricardo Choren, Carlos Laufer, Marcelo Blois, Viviane Torres da Silva, Fabio Ferraz, Gustavo Robichez, Leandro Daflon, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena, Hugo Fuks: Using AulaNet for Web-based Course Development. 322-327
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  Roberto C. Portugal, Luis A. Guerrero, David A. Fuller: A Customizable Collaborative Virtual Environment on the Web. 328-335

Work in Progress

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  Hugo Miranda, Luís Rodrigues: Flexible Communication Support for CSCW Applications. 338-342
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  Renata Mendes de Araujo, Marcos R. S. Borges: The Role of Awareness Support in Collaborative Improvement of Software Processes. 343-347
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  Freimut Bodendorf, Robert Grebner: Actor-Oriented Management of Cooperative Work. 348-352