Calendar 2002–03

288 Part 5• Department Profiles andProgrammes of Studies 3. ComputationalChineseLinguistics 4. ChineseInput/OutputSystems 5. Open SystemsforChinese Computing (C) Computer Engineering 1. Distributed Systems 2. Re-configurableComputing 3. VLSI Design Automation (CAD) 4. FPGA DesignandRapid Prototyping 5. ComputerArchitecture 6. MobileSystems (D) Computer Network and Distributed System 1. ProtocolsDesignand Implementation 2. Computer andNetwork Security 3. DistributedAlgorithms 4. Distributed Object Oriented Systems 5. Dependability andFault Tolerance (E) Database 1. Database TheoryandDesign 2. MultimediaDatabases 3. SequenceDataIndexing 4. DataMining 5. AdvancedTransactionManagement 6. XMLDatabase and Semistructured Data 7. QueryOptimization (F) Digital Library and Internet 1. E-commerceandE-business 2. WWWData Mining 3. MultimediaDigitalLibrary 4. InternetApplications (G) Financial Engineering 1. Data Mining in Finance 2. Trading andPortfolioManagement 3. Forecasting 4. FactorModel 5. Decision SupportSystems (H) Graphics 1. VirtualReality 2. InteractiveComputerAnimation 3. Medical/ScientificVisualization 4. Time-criticalRendering 5. VirtualRobotics Simulation 6. Image-basedRendering (I) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) 1. LearningTheory and Algorithm 2. Data Mining and KnowledgeDiscovery 3. MachinePerception 4. ComputationalFinance