The First International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM04), organized by the department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, was held in Singapore, December 15-17, 2004, with great success.

This conference proceedings contains some 290 papers from more than 30 countries/regions. The papers cover a broad range of topics such as meshfree particle methods, Generalized FE and Extended FE methods, inverse analysis and optimization methods. Computational methods for geomechanics, machine learning, vibration, shock, impact, health monitoring, material modeling, fracture and damage mechanics, multi-physics and multi-scales simulation, sports and environments are also included. All the papers are pre-reviewed before they are accepted for publication in this proceedings. The proceedings will provide an informative, timely and invaluable resource for engineers and scientists working in the important areas of computational methods.

TOPOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION OF CONTINUUM STRUCTURE WITH GLOBAL STRESS CONSTRAINTS BASED ON ICM METHOD.- TOPOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION OF FRAME STRUCTURES UNDER MULTIPLE LOADING CASES$^*$.- OPTIMAL DISPLACEMENT CONTROL SIMULATION OF ELECTRIC-MECHANICAL COUPLED TRUSSES.- PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION METHODS BASED ONRBF NEURAL NETWORKS.- A HYBRID META-HEURISTIC FOR A ROUTING PROBLEM.- IDENTIFICATION OF GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS OF DRAWBEAD USING NEURAL NETWORKS.- IMPROVED IMMUNE GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING FLOW SHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM.- A DISCRETE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR TRAVELLING SALESMAN PROBLEM.- A SEARCH METHOD FOR FINDING A SIMPLE NASH EQUILIBRIUM.- A HERO EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM HYBRIDIZING FROM PSO AND GA.- A DATA COLLECTION MODEL FOR INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING.- DESTRUCTIVE EXTENSION RULE IN PROPOSITION MODAL LOGIC K.- A NOVEL PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED APPROACH FOR JOB-SHOP SCHEDULING.- UNCALIBRATED ROBOTIC ARM VISUAL SERVO CONTROL.- INTERLINEATION AND INTERFLATION FUNCTIONS OF MANY VARIABLES (BLENDING FUNCTION INTERPOLATION) AND ECONOMICAL ALGORITHMS IN THE APPROXIMATION THEORY.- INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGES: THE NUMBER OF COMPONENTS.- THE GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT SOLVING BASED ON HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM OF CONJUGATE GRADIENT.- FAST IMAGE MOSAICS ALGORITHM USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION.- CHECKING CONSISTENCY IN HYBRID QUALITATIVE SPATIAL REASONING.- ICA-SCS DENOISING METHOD FOR WATERMARKING SCHEME.- STUDY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SIMPLIFIED WWW DATA MODEL IN USE FOR WEB MINING.- AN EXTENSION OF EARLEY'S ALGORITHM FOR EXTENDED GRAMMARS.- THE RESEARCH ON POLICY-BASED REGISTRATION MECHANISM OF MOBILE TERMINALS IN MOBILE IP NETWORK.- OPERATIONAL SEMANTIC TO THE EXECUTION OF THE PROCESS MODEL.- FUZZY CLUSTERING ON THE WEB IMPLEMENTED BY JSP TECHNOLOGY.- TEXT CLASSIFICATION FOR CHINESE WEB DOCUMENTS.- LOGIC-BASED CONSTRAINT HANDLING IN RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED SCHEDULING PROBLEMS.- PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION METHOD USED IN PIXEL-BASED TEXTURE SYNTHESIS.- FORMAL METHOD IN IMPLEMENTATION OF ATLAS LANGUAGE*.- GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR EVALUATION METRICS IN TOPICAL WEB CRAWLING.- A BOUNDARY METHOD TO SPEED UP TRAINING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES.- A FAST ALGORITHM FOR GENERATING CONCEPTS USING AN ATTRIBUTE TABLE.- ALGORITHM OF MEASUREMENT-BASED ADMISSION CONTROL FOR GPRS.- SURFACE RECOGNITION OF AUTOMOBILE PANEL BASED ON SECTION CURVE IDENTIFICATION.- DYNAMIC CLUSTERING ALGORITHM BASED ON ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY.- ONTOLOGY LEARNING USING WORDNET LEXICON.- GENETIC PROGRAMMING FOR MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD PHYLOGENY INFERENCE.- MINING DOMINANCE ASSOCIATION RULES IN PREFERENCE-ORDERED DATA.- Mining Ordinal Patterns For Data Cleaning.- USER ASSOCIATION MINING BASED ON CONCEPT LATTICE.- A PLM-ORIENTED WORKFLOW MODEL.- A LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFYING CONSTRAINTS IN WFMSs.- ONTOLOGY BASED WORKFLOW MODEL.- CONSTRAINED MULTI-SAMPLE TEXTURE SYNTHESIS.- A GENERAL INCREMENTAL HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING METHOD.- ACTIVATING IRREGULAR DIMENSIONS IN OLAP.- A NEW COMPUTATIONAL METHOD OF INTERSECTION FOR RAY TRACING.- STUDY ON PARTNERS SELECTION OF AGILE VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE BASED ON PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION.- ADAPTIVE DIRECTIONAL WEIGHTED MEDIAN FILTERING.- AN INTERACTIVE WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT FUNCTION MODEL.- PACKET FAIR SCHEDULING ALGORITHM BASED ON WEIGHTS DYNAMIC COMPENSATION.- EXTENDED ADAPTIVE WEIGHTED AVERAGING FILTER MODEL.- AN IMPROVED QUANTUM-INSPIRED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR CLUSTERING GENE EXPRESSION DATA.- AUTOMATIC BUFFER OVERFLOW DETECTION BASED ON OPERATION SEMANTIC.- QUANTUM-INSPIRED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR TRAVELLING SALESMAN PROBLEM.- AN IMPROVED COEVOLUTION ALGORITHM FOR FUZZY MODELLING.- A COMPUTATIONAL METHOD FOR SOLVING CAUCHY PROBLEMS OF ELLIPTIC OPERATORS.- NUMERICAL DETERMINATION OF THE RESONANCE FREQUENCIES AND EIGENMODES USING THE MFS.- SCATTERED NODE COMPACT FINITE DIFFERENCE-TYPE FORMULAS GENERATED FROM RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS.- EXPLOSION SIMULATI