INVITED TALKS -- Conformance Testing Techniques for Timed Systems -- Counter-Constrained Finite State Machines: A New Model for Component Protocols with Resource-Dependencies -- Equivalence-Checking with Infinite-State Systems: Techniques and Results -- On Functions and Types: A Tutorial -- Database Support for Multisource Multiresolution Scientific Data -- Semantic Annotation and Indexing of News and Sports Videos -- Multimedia Presentations Databases (Extended Abstract) -- Interactive Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Content -- A Model-Based Approach to Semantic-Based Retrieval of Visual Information -- Bipolarity in Possibilistic Logic and Fuzzy Rules (Extended Abstract) -- PANEL SESSION -- Data Management Challenges for GRID Computing -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- Hungarian Speech Synthesis Using a Phase Exact HNM Approach -- Modelling Resource Transitions in Constraint-Based Scheduling -- A Specification Framework for Real-Time Scheduling -- String Transformation for n-Dimensional Image Compression -- Validation and Decomposition of Partially Occluded Images -- Solving Conflicts of Agent Knowledge States in Multiagent Systems -- Specification and Verification of Secure Business Transaction Systems -- Agent-Oriented Model of Simulated Evolution -- The Reconstruction of Some 3D Convex Polyominoes from Orthogonal Projections -- The Complexity of Probabilistic versus Quantum Finite Automata -- Do We Need Liveness? - Approximation of Liveness Properties by Safety Properties.