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The following topics are dealt with: Adaptive fuzzy controller design; observability analysis; aerial moving target location; dual-satellite geolocation system; microparticles; vacuum switching arc; digital image application processing; trust mechanism; military information grid; spatial distributed system; simulated annealing algorithm; VRML-X3D; fuzzy neural network; microcontroller ATmega16L; power cable fault feature extraction; TD-SCDMA; C source code clones; ferromagnetic nanocontacts; water quality assessment; information hiding; embedded system; Web database course; crowd animation; atmospheric laser communication; high altitude platform system (HAPS); semantic Web service; Schottky metal-semiconductor-metal ultraviolet photodetectors; 3-DOF parallel robot; membrane computing; low voltage narrowband powerline communication; dynamical multi-agent systems; oil-field nonmetallic pipe information retrieval system; Wiki-based olympic library; e-government performance assessment; database management system; and mobile computing.