INFORMATION SCIENCES AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL Volume 88, Numbers 1-4, 1996 Informatics and Computer Science LAXMI P. GEWALI (Las Vegas, Nevada) Placing Guards Inside Orthogonal Polygons.................:.ssccesseesseeeeeeeeees 1 CHIH-SHYANG CHANG AND ARBEE L. P. CHEN (Hsinchu, Taiwan) Aggregate Functions over Probabilistic Data..................cccsseeeseeeeeeeeeees 15 RONALD P. S. MAHLER (Eagan, Minnesota) Representing Rules as Random Sets, I: Statistical rE Ti enicesniiceteinticisesensennivenelieninheliaentitilaniiikin Y. F HUANG (Yunlin, Taiwan) AND Y. H. CHIN (Hsinchu, Taiwan) A Mathematical Analysis on 2PL and Tree Protocol ..............:.cccceeeeee 69 A. A. VEGLIS AND A. S. PomBortsis (Thessaloniki, Greece) Performability Analysis of Clos Multiprocessor SystemS.................00+ 95 RAJEEV JAYARAM, RAJIB MALL, L. M. 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VITA (Catania, Italy) A Reconfigurable Parallel Architecture for a Fuzzy Processor Volume 89, Numbers 1 and 2, 1996 Informatics and Computer Science EE-PENG LIM (Singapore), JAIDEEP SRIVASTAVA, SATYA PRABHAKAR, AND JAMES RICHARDSON (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Entity Identification in Database Integration ABDELSALAM HELAL (Lafayette, Indiana) AND JUDSON FORTNER (Arlington, Texas) Achieving Scalability in Highly Contentious Database Systems JYHI-KONG WEY, LIR-FANG SUN, AND WEI-PANG YANG (Taiwan, Republic of China) Using Multilevel Hierarchical Registration Strategy for Mobility BND sn ciehisinniniatcicncuevesiigsiecniiigianinciiiaeniinnteidenniniitesneenesiinaiatenanediinmmennens 63 Intelligent Systems ANDREJA TEPAVCEVIC AND ANTE VuJIC (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) On an Application of Fuzzy Relations in Biogeography....................0 77 RODOLFO HABER (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba), JosE R. ALIQUE, SALVADOR ROs (Madrid, Spain), AND CLODEINIR R. PERES (Florianépolis, Brazil) Fuzzy Supervisory Control of End Milling Process ...............scssseseeees 95 KIM LE (Belconnen, Australia) Fuzzy Relation Compositions and Pattern Recognition ................s0+++ 107 Applications CHI-MING CHUNG, TIMOTHY K. SHIH, CHIN-HWA Kuo, AND YING-HONG WANG (Taiwan, Republic of China) On the Construction of Intelligent Multimedia Presentation.............. 131 Volume 89, Numbers 3 and 4, 1996 Informatics and Computer Science T. L. Yu (San Bernardino, California) AND K. W. Yu (Shatin, Hong Kong) Study of Long-Range Correlations in PC Binary Files .................:.000+8 157 SOON M. CHUNG (Dayton, Ohio) Block Concatenated Signatures for Partial Match Retrieval................ 165 SIsIR Roy, MALAY K. KUNDU (Calcutta, India), AND GOESTA H. 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