Theory And Applications Of Fractal Tops / Michael Barnsley -- Splines, Fractal Functions, And Besov And Triebel-lizorkin Spaces / Peter Massopust -- Holderian Random Functions / Antoine Ayache, Philippe Heinrich, Laurence Marsalle And Charles Suquet -- Fractal Stationary Density In Coupled Maps / Jurgen Jost And Kiran M. Kolwankar -- A Network Of Fractal Force Chains And Their Effect In Granular Materials Under Compression / Luis E. Vallejo, Sebastian Lobo-guerrero And Zamri Chik -- Percolation And Permeability Of Three Dimensional Fracture Networks With A Power Law Size Distribution / V. V. Mourzenko, Jean-francois Thovert And Pierre M. Adler -- Acoustic Diffraction Patterns From Fractal To Urban Structures : Applications To The Sierpinski Triangle And To A Neoclassical Urban Facade / Philippe Woloszyn -- Turbulent K -- [epsilon] Model Of Flute-like Musical Instrument Sound Production / Rolf Bader -- A Simple Discrete Stochastic Model For Laser-induced Jet-chemical Etching / Alejandro Mora, Thomas Rabbow, Bernd Lehle, Peter J. Plath And Maria Haase -- Invariant Structures And Multifractal Measures In 2d Mixing Systems / Massimiliano Giona, Stefano Cerbelli And Alessandra Adrover -- Long Range Dependence In Financial Markets / Rama Cont -- Financial Modelling By Multiscale Fractional Brownian Motion / Pierre Bertrand -- Limiting Fractal Random Processes In Heavy-tailed Systems / Ingemar Kaj -- A Non-parametric Test For Self-similarity And Stationarity In Network Traffic / Owen Dafydd Jones And Yuan Shen -- Continuous Evolution Of Functions And Measures Toward Fixed Points Of Contraction Mappings / Jerry L. Bona And Edward R. Vrscay -- Various Mathematical Approaches To Extract Information From Textures Of Increasing Complexities / Fahima Nekka And Jun Li -- Fractal Inverse Problem : Approximation Formulation And Differential Methods / Eric Guerin And Eric Tosan. Evelyne Lutton And Jacques Lévy-véhel, (eds.). This Volume Is A Sequel To The Books 'fractals: Theory And Applications In Engineering' (springer-verlag, 1999) And 'fractals In Engineering. From Theory To Industrial Applications' (springer-verlag, 1997)--foreword. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.