Best-of book 2002

Papers selected in Kuwait-City (March 18-20, 2002)

-"The Monday effect on exchange rates when working days are different from those on international market: the case of Kuwait"
A. Al Refai (Kuwait)..........................................................................................................1

-"Scheduling on multi-stage parallel processor internet service architecture"
Fawaz S. Al-Anzi; Ali Allahverdi (Kuwait).....................................................................19

-"Better heuristic to minimize makespan in no-wait flowshops"
Ali Allahverdi; Tariq Aldowaisan (Kuwait)......................................................................39

-"The characteristic of the equally weighted market index and the value weighted market index and their implication for market based research: the case of Amman stock exchange"
Mahmoud A. Al-Khalialeh (Kuwait)..................................................................................43

-"E-Government plan and implementation in Jordan"
Hussein Al-Omari; Ahmad Sharied; Ahlam Shalid; Ahlam Jadallah (Jordan)...................57

-"A new convex functional form of the Lorenz curve and its Gini index"
Fays A. Abdulsalam; Adel A. Al-Hussainan; Basel M. Al-Eideh (Kuwait)........................75

-"Applying data mining in educational decision support systems case study: college of engineering student academic probation problem"
Ayed Salman; Abdullah Al-Mutawa; Aisha Abu-Bakr Al-Sayed (Kuwait).........................81

-"Simulation and neural network modelling of JIT production control systems"
Mehmet Savsar (Kuwait); Hisham M. Chouenki (USA).....................................................101

Papers selected in Girona/Spain (June 25-27, 2002)

-"A loose study upon the model for detection of forgotten effects in promoters-builders business area"
Joan-Carles Ferrer; Elvira Cassù; Josep Boadas; Joan Bonnet (Spain)...................................1

-"Adquiring players who adapt to different systems of Play"
Jaime Gil Lafuente (Spain).......................................................................................................9

-"Financial analysis as an uncertain systems"
Anna Maria Gil Lafuente (Spain)............................................................................................19

-"Project rejection with idle resources in Promethee V"
F.R. Doldan Tié; A.S. Fernàndez Castro (Spain).....................................................................29

-"Fuzzy standard zeros"
Xavier Bertran; Narcis Clara; Dolors Corominas; Joan Carles Ferrer (Spain).........................37

-"Modelling of the ring microstrip resonator in X-band and their application to to the measure of dielectric constant "
A. Oulad Saïd (Morocco).......................................................................................................45

-"Another idea of safety"
Xaxier Tarres; Dolor Corominas; Joan Bonnet; Josep Boadas (Spain)....................................55

-"Pspice stimulation of BAW transducer using a new equivalent circuit"
W. Swelam 'Egypt)...................................................................................................................63

-"Combined neural network, neocognition-like model for characer recognition"
Hamed A. Ali (Jordan); Majid A.B. mahmmod (Iraq).............................................................71

-"QDc application in a service environment: a new approach in risk management in a university"
M. Dolores Minambres ; Angel M. Gento ; Alfonso Redondo ; M. Elena Pérez (Spain)........83

-"Multimodelling of large scale systems in pre-implantation stage"
Jiri Bila; Willy Weiglhofer (Czech Republic)..........................................................................91

-"Capital requirements for default risk in banks"
J. David Cabedo Semper; José Miguel Tirado Beltran (Spain)...............................................99

-"Expertons and diagnosis of the evolution of performances of companies"
Alain Couturier; Bernard Fioleau (France).............................................................................107

-" Challenges of modelling non-linear economic processes and soft computing based solutions"
Vasile Georgescu (Romania)..................................................................................................115

-"Numerical experience to free boundary problem"
Olef L. Konovalov; Mihail A. Zhuravkov; Alexandr N. Kovalenko; Vasyl V. Radintef (Belarus)..................................................................................................................................123

-"A proposed artificial neural network model for remote sensed image classification"
Nashaat El-Khameesy; Margo Fouad Fawsy; Ahmed Esmat Sabry (Egypt).........................129

-"Food quality control through modelling and optimization of the manufacturing processes using 3k factorial design procedures"
Abdelkrim Azzouz; Dan Rotar; Anita Zvolinschi; Anca Miron (Romania)...........................143

-"Machine learning and financial options"
Juan Hineiro Chousa; Arthur Tamazian (Spain).....................................................................153

-"Fuzzy models of stock management"
Toado T. Buhanescu (Romania).............................................................................................167

-"Solving a possibilistic linear programming problem through the canonical representation of fuzzy numbers"
Mariano Jiménez Lopez (Spain).............................................................................................173

-" Designing a simulation ADD-IN for describing the strategic change in a call center "
Javier Jaulin; Angel A. Juan (Spain).......................................................................................183

Papers selected in Melbourne/Australia (November 11-13, 2002)

-"Automatic cluster detection and classification problem in complex databases"
P.Y. Tabakov (South Africa)......................................................................................................1

-"Nonlinear modelling and stabilization of a tailless fighter"
Rin Akmeliawati; Isabella Panella; Robin Hill; Cees Bil (Australia).......................................15

-"An approximation for the Fourier transform of absolutly continuous mapping"
N.S. Barnett; S.S. Dragonir (Australia)....................................................................................31

-"Low power high speed 4-stage pipeline analog-to-digital converter"
Alexandar Stojcevski; Jugdutt Singh; Aladin Zayegh (Australia)............................................39

-"Hamiltonian path paradigms mirrored at the Fermat's principle"
B.I. Niel (Argentina).................................................................................................................49

-"Simulation of a cancellation unit in an adaptive duplexer for software radio"
Shynma Kannagara; Michael Faulkner (Australia)...................................................................63

-"Effects of soft limiting in the transmit diversity schemes employing space time block coding"
Leot Gor; Mike Faulkner; Jugdutt Singh (Australia)................................................................73

-"Role of process and product models in development of expert systems interrelated industrial energy systems"
Majid Al-Dabbagh; Zahir Fikri; Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan (Australia)....................................85

-"Modelling and simulation of of renewable energy systems"
Jamal Rizk; Keith Mitchell; Mahmood Nagrial (Australia).....................................................97

-"Modelling of substation communication system using OPNET"
C.R. Ozansoy; A. Zayegh; A. Kalam (Australia)..................................................................109

-"Approach to the integration and motivation of employees in production networks of small and medium-sized e,terprises (SME)
Jeno Mehnert; Monique Brucke (Germany)..........................................................................121

-"A numerical solution for determinantal polynomials with application to robot kinematics"
Ibrahim A. Sultan (Australia)................................................................................................133

-"3D modelling for the recognition of remote objects"
Mike Wingate (Australia).......................................................................................................145

-"Distances based on the perimeter of a testing problem"
Ferdinand Österreicker (Austria) ...........................................................................................159