Welcome Letter from the VACETS President

VACETS Administrative Committee

Welcome Letter from the General Chairman of VTIC '97

VTIC '97 Organization Committee

VTIC '97 Technical Committee

Acknowledgements

Copyright © 1997 by VACETS

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