1. Methods of Artificial Intelligence.
2. Intelligent Agents and Distributed Activities.
3. Distributed Production Networks and Modelling Complex Systems.
4. Computer Graphics and Pattern Recognition.
5. Computer Security and Safety.
6. Logic Synthesis and Simulation.
Author Index.
Advanced Computer Systems is a collection of forty selected papers presented to the Eighth International Conference on Computer Systems, October 2001 in Mielno, Poland. These papers provide a comprehensive summary of practice and research progress in information technologies: