The next generation of engineering and computing systems will be both complex and distributed in functionality due to a variety of information sources needed for their operation. Successful development and deployment of these systems critically depends on the mechanisms for acquisition, co-ordination, communication and integration of information from various components. This collection of papers addresses various aspects in the area of signal and image integration with a specific emphasis on parallel and distributed solutions. A wide spectrum of issues including image and signal processing, parallel architectures/algorithms, sensor integration/fusion, and neural networks/fuzzy systems are addressed in various papers.
