1 A preliminary version of this paper appeared in ‘‘Proceedings of 5th International Ž . Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel IRREGULAR’98 ,’’ Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1457, pp. 298 309, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998. 2 Supported in part by Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. 3 To whom correspondence should be addressed. ...

trum f ¨ ur K ¨ unstliche Intelligenz, DFKI) with sites in Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken is a non-profit organization which was founded in 1988. The shareholder com-search projects conducted at the DFKI are funded by the German Ministry for Research and Technology, by the shareholder companies, or by other industrial contracts. The DFKI conducts application-oriented basic research in the field...

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