Calendar 2000–01

6. Constraint Satisfaction 7. Genetic Computation (C) Chinese Computing Systems 1. Intelligent Processing and Retrieval of Chinese Text 2. Chinese and Multilingual Databases 3. Computational Chinese Linguistics 4. Chinese Input/Output Systems 5. Open Systems for Chinese Computing (D) Information Systems 1. Database Theory and Design 2. Multimedia Databases (E) Software Methodology 1. Software Engineering 2. Logic/Functional Programming 3. Software Tools for Database Systems (F) Theory 1. Complexity Theory 2. Algorithms 3. Concurrent Computation 4. Graph Theory and Graph Algorithms (G) Graphics 1. Virtual Reality 2. Interactive Computer Animation 3. Medical/Scientific Visualization 4. Time-critical Rendering 5. Virtual Robotics Simulation (H) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) 1. Learning Theory and Algorithm 2. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 3. Machine Perception 4. Computational Finance 5. Distributed Intelligent Decision-making and Control (I) Digital Library and Internet 1. E-commerce and E-business 2. WWW Data Mining 3. Multimedia Digital Library 4. Internet Applications Same as those for the PhD degree programme. Same as those for the PhD degree programme.