Future Tendencies in Computer Science

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Computer Science and Control, held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of INRIA in December 1992. The objective of this conference was to bring together a large number of the worlds leading specialists in information technology who are particularly active in the fields covered by INRIA research programmes, to present the state of the art and a prospective view of future research. The contributions in the volume are organized into the following areas: Parallel processing, databases, networks, and distributed systems; Symbolic computation, programming, and software engineering; Artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, and man-machine interaction; Robotics, image processing, and computer vision; Signal processing, control and manufacturing automation; Scientific computing, numerical software, and computer aided engineering.