From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sun Oct 27 18:39:49 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA15002 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 18:39:41 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA20338 for dbworld; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 18:39:40 -0600 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 18:39:40 -0600 From: Liliana Purawinata Message-Id: <199610280039.SAA20338@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Call For Minitrack Proposals ========================================================================= D E A D L I N E *** November 26, 1996 *** (Please e-mail your proposal in *plain ASCII* to rewini@cs.unomaha.edu) ========================================================================= Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice The Software Technology Track of HICSS-31 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences The Big Island of Hawaii - JANUARY 6-9, 1998 ========================================================================= You are invited to submit a proposal for a minitrack for the Software Technology Track of HICSS-31. The HICSS series of conferences has become a unique and respected forum in computer and information systems and technology for the exchange of ideas among the researchers and development communities in North America, the Asian and Pacific Basin Nations, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition to the Software Technology Track, HICSS-31 will have Tracks in Computer Architecture, Digital Documents and Information Systems. A TRACK consists of three full days of parallel technical sessions, coupled with a set of advanced seminars and tutorials. A MINITRACK is either a half day or a full day of technical sessions. All sessions are conducted in a workshop-like setting and participants often participate in several different tracks. HICSS is sponsored by the University of Hawaii. ========================================================================= Proposal Topics *************** This particular solicitation is for the Software Technology Track which will focus on "Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice." The topics include but not limited to the following: - - Client/Servers systems - - Coordination Languages, models, and systems - - Collaboration over the web - - Debugging and performance analysis environments - - Distributed complex systems - - Distributed objects & emerging standards (CORBA, DSOM, etc.) - - Distributed operating systems - - Distributed real time systems - - Distributed simulation - - Heterogeneous Processing - - High speed networks - - Migration to distributed systems - - Mobile computing - - Multimedia communication and systems - - Multi-threaded systems - - Networked computing (PVM, MPI, etc.) - - New and innovative programming paradigms: languages & constructs - - Parallel & distributed algorithms (design and analysis) - - Parallel & distributed database systems - - Parallel & distributed software tools - - Parallelizing compilers and optimization - - Reliability and fault tolerance issues - - Scalability issues - - Scheduling and load balancing - - Software engineering of parallel & distributed systems - - Software frameworks and design patterns - - Visualization ========================================================================= Proposal Contents ***************** The proposals should be on timely and important topics in the field. Your proposal should be about five pages long and should: 1) define the proposed technical area, discuss the topics the minitrack will address, and describe how they fit into the area; 2) discuss how these topics have recently been covered in other conferences and publications to substantiate that HICSS is not only an appropriate and timely forum for the topics but also that there is a body of unpublished good work to draw from; and, 3) contain: a) a short paragraph (50 words) describing the topics of your minitrack for inclusion in final call for papers, if your proposal is approved by the advisory committee. b) a short bio-sketch c) an explicit statement that your organization endorses your involvement and attendance and has the infrastructure to support that involvement as described in enclosed list giving the responsibilities of minitrack coordinators. ========================================================================= Submission Instructions *********************** - All proposals in **plain ASCII** should be e-mailed to the chairman of the track (e-mail: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu) no later than November 26, 1996. (** Please DON'T submit latex or postscript files **) - Include a phone number that we can use if we need to reach you during the Christmas break. - Each proposal will be evaluated by the track advisory committee whose decision will be based on the overall technical merit of the proposal. Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by e-mail no later than December 31, 1996. ========================================================================= Track Chairman ************** Hesham El-Rewini Department of Computer Science University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, NE 68182-0500 e-mail: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu Voice: (402) 554-2852 FAX: (402) 554-2975 ========================================================================= International Track Advisory Committee ************************************** - Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA - Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey - Wolfgang A. Halang, Fernuniversitaet, GERMANY - Abdelsalam Helal, MCC, USA - Innes Jelly, Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, USA - Alexey Lastovetsky, Russian Academy of Science, RUSSIA - Keqin Li, State University of New York, USA - Gregory A. Riccardi, Florida State University, USA - John Rosenberg, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA - Diane T. Rover, Michigan State University, USA - Alok Sinha, Microsoft, USA - Anthony Skjellum, Mississippi State University, USA - Alexander D. Stoyenko, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA - Caetano Traina Junior, University of Sao Paulo, BRAZIL - Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE - Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA ------------------------------Enclosures-------------------------------- The Responsibilities of Minitrack Coordinators ============================================= Interacting with authors and referees in a fair and professional manner and employing control mechanisms that increase the overall quality of the meeting are among the major responsibilities. The detailed responsibilities are summarized as follows: 1. Workshop-like Setting ------------------------ A HICSS minitrack consists of two or four 90-minute sessions conducted in a workshop-like setting. Each session consists of three papers; the papers are allotted thirty minutes for presentation and questions. The last session should include a forum which typically is a lively, open dialogue on the issues raised in the presentations. You are to solicit manuscripts, have them refereed, collaborate with the Track Coordinator in determining which manuscripts are to be accepted, structure the sessions, introduce the speakers in your sessions, and act as the moderator of the forum. 2. Solicit Manuscripts for the Minitrack ---------------------------------------- After your minitrack has been approved by your Track Coordinator, you are encouraged to distribute the Unified Call for Papers and Referees and place it on appropriate electronic bulletin boards. This call will be prepared by your track chairman and cover all minitracks in the Software Technology Track. You should solicit high-quality manuscripts from people who are known to do excellent work in the field. We recommend you contact potential authors and referees to describe the overall objectives of the conference and the minitrack and solicit their ideas, a manuscript, or a commitment to referee. Each manuscript should be 22-25 type written, double-spaced pages in length. Do not accept submissions that are significantly shorter or longer than this. The material must contain original results and not have been submitted elsewhere while it is being evaluated for acceptance to HICSS. Manuscripts that have already appeared in publication are not to be con- sidered for this conference. 3. Acquire Referees Who Will Critically Review the Submitted Manuscripts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quality refereeing is essential to ensure the technical credibility of HICSS. Each manuscript should be stringently reviewed by a number of qualified people who are actively working in the topics dealt with in the paper. You are responsible for having each manuscript submitted to you reviewed by at least five people in addition to yourself. The author should only be given reviews that are technically substantive. If you wish to submit a paper to your own minitrack, six copies should be sent to the Track Chairman who will administer the refereeing process. Do not use authors of manuscripts as referees as this potentially places them in a conflict of interest situation. HICSS does not have "invited" manuscripts; all submissions go through a rigorous peer refereeing process. 4. Accept Manuscripts for the Minitrack --------------------------------------- A full-day minitrack should accept nine papers. A half-day minitrack should accept five. To ensure excellent accepted papers, typically more than two to three times the number of papers needed must actually be solicited. Many papers will not meet our quality standards (i.e., will not make it through the refereeing process) and some authors may not be able to fulfill their initial commitment and complete the paper for you. If nine technically solid papers do not survive the refereeing process, the full-day minitrack can be changed to a half-day minitrack. 5. Re-publication of the Manuscripts ------------------------------------ We encourage you to work with an Editor-in-Chief of a professional society periodical to use your accepted papers as the basis of a special issue of the publication. Such an arrangement encourages quality submission and requires good refereeing standards. Enter into such an agreement as soon as possible. 6. Write an Introduction to the Minitrack for the Proceedings ------------------------------------------------------------- After the authors have been notified of the acceptance of the final version of their manuscript, you are to write a three to four-page introduction to the minitrack for inclusion in the conference proceedings. It should not be an overview of abstracts of the papers, but should introduce the reader to the important problems that exist in the area. 7. Select the Best Paper Candidate from the Manuscripts ------------------------------------------------------- Within ten days after you have selected the manuscripts for inclusion in your minitrack, your candidate best paper selections must be forwarded to the Track Coordinator. If you have your own manuscript accepted in your minitrack, make your selection excluding your own work. An external committee will make the selection for the minitrack, considering your manuscript along with the candidates you have provided. ----------------------------------End------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________________________ Professor Asuman Dogac Director Software R&D Center Internet: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr Department of Computer Eng. 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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ............... 2ND ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES Philadelphia, Pa July 23 - 26, 1997 http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~diglib97/ diglib97@sis.pitt.edu ACM Digital Libraries is an international conference which is building a community of individuals from diverse fields to study research and development in digital libraries. The collection, access and use of electronic information in a variety of formats requires solutions to problems ranging from the technical to the social, incorporating knowledge and experience from many fields. Individuals with an interest in library and information science, digital information technology, education, information policy and economics, information behavior and other fields contributing to digital library development are invited to participate. =20 ACM DL '97 will immediately precede ACM SIGIR '97 in Philadelphia. 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RTSS96 ADVANCE PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION technical sessions workshop and exhibition work-in-progress session B. CHAIRMEN'S MESSAGES C. REGISTRATION FORM D. HOTEL INFORMATION A. ADVANCE PROGRAM & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium December 3-6, 1996 Washington, DC Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems IEEE RTSS'96 Home Page http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtss96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, December 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Resource Allocation in Multimedia Systems contact Kevin Jeffay (jeffay@cs.unc.edu) for details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, December 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:30 - 9:00am Registration and continental breakfast 9:00 - 9:15am Opening Address and Welcome General Chairs: Alan Burns and Yann-Hang Lee Program Chair: Sang H. Son 9:15 - 10:45am Session 1: Scheduling I Bounding Completion Times of Jobs with Arbitrary Release Times and Variable Execution Times Jun Sun and Jane W.S. Liu On Task Schedulability in Real-Time Control System D. Seto, J. P. Lehoczky, L. Sha, and K. G. Shin A Multiframe Model for Real-Time Tasks Al Mok and Deji Chen 10:45 - 11:15am Coffee break 11:15 - 12:30pm Session 2: Experimental Systems and Applications Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems on ATM Networks Ichiro Mizunuma, Chia Shen, and Morikazu Takegaki Analysing APEX Applications Neil Audsley and Andy Wellings Operating System Extensions for Dynamic Real-Time Applications Steven Sommer and John Potter 12:30 - 2:00pm Lunch 2:00 - 4:00pm Session 3: Formal Methods Approximate Reachability Analysis of Timed Automata Felice Balarin Correctness of Vehicle Control Systems - A Case Study H.B. Weinberg and Nancy Lynch Getting Rid of Useless Clocks, Reducing the Number of Clock Variables of Timed Automata Conrado Daws and Sergio Yovine Predictability of Real-Time Systems: A Process-Algebraic Approach V. Natrajan and Rance Cleaveland 4:00 - 4:30pm Coffee break 4:30 - 5:30pm Session 4: Synchronization A Framework for Implementing Objects and Scheduling Tasks in Lock-Free Real-Time Systems J. Anderson and S. Ramamurthy Optimizing FIFO, Scalable Spin Lock Using Consistent Memory I. Rhee 5:30 - 7:00pm Work in Progress 7:15 - 9:00pm Banquet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday , December 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:30 - 9:00am Continental breakfast 9:00 - 10:45am Session 5: Invited Talks on System Requirements 10:45 - 11:15am Coffee break 11:15am - 12:30pm Session 6: Model and Tools The MSP.RTL Real-Time Scheduler Synthesis Tool Al Mok and Duu-Chung Tsou Tool Support for the Construction of Statically Analysable Hard Real-Time Ada Systems T. Vardanega High Availability in the Real-Time Publisher/Subscriber Inter-Process Communication Model Ragunathan Rajkumar and Mike Gagliardi 12:30 - 2:00pm Lunch 2:00 - 4:00pm Session 7: Communications Structuring Communication Software for Quality-of-Service Guarantees Ashish Mehra, Atri Indiresan, and Kang G. Shin Multirate Scheduling for Guaranteed and Predictive Services in ATM Networks Debanjan Saha, Sarit Mukherjee, and Satish K. Tripathi Message Transmission with Timing Constraints in Ring Networks Ching-Chih Han and Kang G. Shin On Supporting Time-Constrained Communications in WDMA-based Star-Coupled Optical Networks H. Tyan, J. Hou, B. Wang, and C. Han 4:00 - 4:30pm Coffee break 4:30 - 6:00pm Session 8: Scheduling II Real-Time Queueing Theory John P. Lehoczky Optimal Pinwheel Schedulers using The Single Number Reduction Technique C. Hsueh and K-J. Lin Integrated Scheduling of Multimedia and Hard Real-Time Tasks H. Kaneko, J. Stankovic, S. Sen and K. Ramamritham 6:00 - 7:00pm IEEE Real-Time Systems TC meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, December 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:30 - 9:00am Continental breakfast 9:00 - 10:30am Session 9: Databases Commit Processing in Distributed Real-Time Database Systems R. Gupta, J. Haritsa, K. Ramamritham, and S. Seshadri Value-cognizant Admission Control for RTDBS Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy Scheduling Transactions with Temporal Constraints: Exploiting Data Semantics M. Xiong, R. Sivasankaran, J. Stankovic, K. Ramamritham, D. Towsley 10:30 - 11:00am Coffee break 11:00 - 12:30pm Session 10: Timing Analysis Cache Modeling for Real-Time Software: Beyond Direct Mapped Instruction Caches Yau-Tsun Steven Li, Sharad Malik, and Andrew Wolfe Analysis of Cache-related Preemption Delay in Fixed-priority Preemptive Scheduling C. Lee, J. Hahn, Y. Seo, S. Min, R. Ha, S. Hong, C. Park, M. Lee, and C. Kim A Method for Bounding the Effect of DMA I/O Interference on Program Execution Time Tai-Yi Huang, Jane W.-S. Liu, and David Hull 12:30 - 2:00pm Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 Sessions 11: Resource Allocation and System Implementation A Proportional Share Resource Allocation Algorithm for Real-Time, Time-Shared Systems Ion Stoica, Hussein Abdel-Wahab, and Kevin Jeffay Visual Assessment of a Real-Time Systems Design: A Case Study N. Kim, M. Ryu, S. Hong, M. Saksensa, C. Choi, and H. Shin Optimizing Interprocess Communication for Embedded Real-Time Systems S. Poledna ---------------------------------------------- Workshop and Exhibition ---------------------------------------------- Workshop on Resource Allocation Problems in Multimedia Systems is being organized to be held immediately before the symposium, December 3. For more information about the workshop, contact Kevin Jeffay (jeffay@cs.unc.edu). An exhibition of hardware and software products for real-time systems will be held in conjunction with the symposium. Any industrial and university groups wishing to participate in the exhibition should contact with Doug Locke at doug.locke@lmco.com. --------------------------------------------- Work-In-Progress Session --------------------------------------------- Contributions to a special Work-In-Progress (WIP) session of RTSS'96 are sought. RTSS'96 WIP will be devoted to the presentation of new and on-going projects in real-time systems and applications. The prime purpose of this session is to provide researchers an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback thereon from the real-time community at large. The RTSS'96 WIP session will be held on Wednesday, December 4, 1996, and will consist of 10-minute presentations of all accepted submissions. Also, accepted submissions will be included in a special RTSS'96 WIP proceedings which will be distributed to all RTSS'96 conference participants, and will be available electronically from the IEEE-CS TC-RTS Home Page on the WWW. Submissions to RTSS'96 WIP should describe original on-going work and should be limited to 2,000 words. Submissions dealing with real-time issues in applications such as multimedia, networking, middleware services, and process control, as well as reports describing on-going system building efforts in such applications are strongly encouraged. Please send all submissions via Email to RTSS'96 WIP Chair: Azer Bestavros Computer Science Dept Email: best@cs.bu.edu Boston University Phone: (617) 493-2823 The deadline for submissions is October 15, 1996. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on November 1, 1996. For more information, please contact RTSS'96 WIP Chair or check the RTSS'96 WIP Home Page at: http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtss96/wip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B. THE CHAIRMEN'S MESSAGE: The Real-Time Systems Symposium is a forum for exchanging information on recent technological advances and practices in real-time computing. It has always been the premier international conference in the field of real-time systems - a field that is becoming an essential discipline in the field of computer science and engineering. As the demand for the functionalities and reliabilities of real-time systems continue to grow, our intellectual and engineering abilities are being challenged to come up with practical solutions to the problems faced in design and development of complex real-time systems. The interest in this important field is confirmed by the high number of quality submissions. Following the tradition of RTSS, parallel sessions are avoided to give participants the opportunity to have full interactions with speakers and to exchange ideas with all other participants. As a consequence, many good papers had to be rejected. The technical program for this year's symposium maintains its outstanding quality. It covers the latest research and development in scheduling, operating systems, communications, timing analysis, system development, databases, formal methods, and applications. To encourage the dissemination of findings in experimental development work, we have five synopsis papers as in previous RTSSs. The symposium will be preceded by the Workshop on Resource Allocation Problems in Multimedia Systems, to be held on December 3. For more information about the workshop, contact Kevin Jeffay (jeffay@cs.unc.edu). A special Work-In-Progress (WIP) session will be organized by Azer Bestavros (best@cs.bu.edu) which is devoted to the presentation of new and on-going projects in real-time systems and applications. In addition, an exhibition of hardware and software products for real-time systems will be held in conjunction with the symposium. For the details of the exhibition, contact Doug Locke (locke@lfs.loral.com). C. REGISTRATION Advance registrations should be made by filling the registration form included in the program and mailing it to one of the following: Linda BUSS Route 1, Box 187B, Menomonie, WI 54751 USA E-mail registration can be done by sending the registration form to: rtss96@cis.ufl.edu For credit card payment, please include the name on the credit card, the number of the credit card, the type of the credit card, the expiration date on the credit card, and your signature. On site registration fees can be paid by check, major credit cards, or cash at the Symposium Secretariat. Symposium Registration Fees: --------------------------- Advance (before November 15, 1996) Late (after November 15, 1996) Member: US$ 375 US$ 450 Non-member: US$ 475 US$ 570 Full-time student: US$ 165 US$ 200 Workshop Registration Fees: ---------------------- Advance (before November 15, 1996) Late (after November 15, 1996) Member: US$ 100 US$ 120 Non-member: US$ 125 US$ 150 Full-time student: US$ 100 US$ 120 Notes: ----- 1. Symposium registration includes admission to symposium, a copy of symposium proceedings, coffee-breaks, and banquet on Wednesday night. 2. Full-time students are asked to provide a verification of their status, either during registration or at the conference. 3. Extra ticket for Wednesday's banquet can be purchased at US $65/ea. 5. Written requests for refunds must be postmarked no later than November 15, 1996. Refunds are subject to a US$ 50 processing fee. All no-show registration will be billed in full. Registration after 11/15/96 will be accepted on-site only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cut Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1996 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium Registration Form First Name:_________________________ Last Name:_____________________________ Title :_____________________________ Position:______________________________ Affiliation:_________________________________________________________________ Address:_____________________________________________________________________ City:_______________________________ State:_________________________________ Country:____________________________ Zip/Postal Code:_______________________ Phone:______________________________ Fax:___________________________________ E-Mail:_____________________________ Payment: Symposium registration fee: Category___________________ $___________ IEEE/ACM Membership no:___________________ Workshop registration fee: $___________ Extra banquet tickets: ($65/ea) $___________ Extra symposium proceedings: ($40/ea) $___________ Total amount: $___________ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cut Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. HOTEL INFORMATION CONFERENCE HOTEL ================ The JW Marriott Hotel is located at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, two blocks from the White House; next door to the National Theater; two blocks from the Mall area; within walking distance to the National Gallery, the Air and Space Museum, the Renwick, Hirschhorn and the other Smithsonian Institutions. The hotel is also one block from the Metro Center stop, and it adjoins the Shops at National Place, which includes 110 stores and 18 restaurants. DIRECTIONS TO THE JW MARRIOTT ============================= By Metro, From Amtrak Union Station or National Airport ------------------------------------------------------- The easiest, most hassle-free way to get to the JW Marriott, from either Union Station or National Airport, is by using the Metro. The Metro Center Station is located at 13th and G streets NW, and the hotel is on 14th between E and F streets. From National Airport, take the Blue line to Metro Center; from Union Station take the Red Line to Metro Center. Exit at 12th and G; walk 2 blocks West on G (away from the Capitol Building, toward the White House); turn left on 14th, and walk one block to the hotel on the left. By Car, from National Airport ----------------------------- >From National Airport follow the signs to Washington, DC (via George Washington Parkway). Take the I-395/Route 1 North exit, which goes over the 14th Street Bridge. Merge to the left lane on the 14th Street Bridge, and follow this lane to 14th Street. The hotel will be 8 blocks down 14th Street, on the right side at the corner of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. By Car, from BWI Airport ------------------------ >From BWI Airport follow the signs to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (South). Continue on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to the New York Avenue exit, which is also Route 50. Follow New York Avenue to 7th Street, NW. Turn left on 7th Street and go approximately 7 blocks to E Street, NW. Turn right on E Street. Continue on E Street to 14th Street, NW. Turn right on 14th Street. The hotel driveway is a quick right as soon as you turn onto 14th Street. By Car, from Dulles Airport --------------------------- >From Dulles International Airport follow the signs to Route 66 east toward Washington. Follow Route 66 to the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge (Route 50). Once you cross the bridge, this street becomes Constitution Avenue. Continue on Constitution Avenue NW, for approximately 14 blocks to 12th Street NW. Turn left on 12th. Go about 6 blocks on 12th Street NW, crossing Pennsylvania Avenue to E Street NW. Turn left on E street. Go one block to 14th Street, and turn right. The hotel is at the corner of 14th and E. By Car, from Points North (New York, Baltimore, Delaware) --------------------------------------------------------- Take Interstate 95 South, following the signs for Washington DC. Approximately 25 miles south of Baltimore, 95 will fork off with 495 (the Beltway). Make sure you stay in the far left lanes, following the signs for 95 South. Continue on 95 South in the direction of Washington. Signs for the Baltimore-Washington Parkway appear approximately four miles past the 95/495 fork. Take exit 22B to the Baltimore-Washington parkway, heading south. Continue on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to the New York Avenue exit, which is also Route 50. Follow New York Avenue to 7th Street, NW. Turn left on 7th Street and go approximately 7 blocks to E Street, NW. Turn right on E Street. Continue on E Street to 14th Street, NW, Turn right on 14th Street. The hotel driveway is a quick right as soon as you turn onto 14th Street. By Car, from Points South (Richmond, Raleigh) --------------------------------------------- Take Interstate 95 North, following signs for Washington DC. At Springfield, Northern Virginia, take I-395 North (495 also intersects at this point). Stay on 395N, following signs for Washington, Route 1, and the 14th Street Bridge. While crossing the bridge, merge to left lane, and follow this lane to 14th Street. The hotel will be 8 blocks down 14th Street, on the right side at the corner of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. ============================================================================= Hotel Reservation Information Deadline: November 11, 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ JW Marriott Hotel Phone: 800-228-9290 Attn: Reservations or: 202-393-2000 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20004 Fax: 202-626-6991 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please phone in your reservation, and make sure you mention "RTSS" for the conference rate of $120.00. Alternatively, complete the information below (type or print), and mail this form directly to the hotel. RTSS rates for each room for single or double occupancy are $120, plus 11% sales tax and $1.50 occupancy tax. Accommodation desired: Single $120 ____ Double $120 ____ Non Smoking Room ____ Smoking Room ____ Name: Phone: Address: Arrival Date: Departure Date: Check-in is after 4:00pm, check-out is 12:00 noon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A block of rooms has been reserved until November 11th, 1996. After this date, room reservations will be accepted on a space available basis. For attendees who plan on staying at the JW Marriott over the weekends before and/or after the conference: we suggest taking advantage of any discounted weekend rates offered by the hotel. One night's deposit is required with each reservation. A valid major credit card guarantee is acceptable in lieu of a cash deposit. Please check the form of payment: VISA ____ MASTERCARD ____ AMERICAN EXPRESS ____ DINERS CLUB ____ DISCOVER ____ Check/Money Order ____ Credit Card Number:_______________________________ Credit Card Expiration Date (Month/Year): _____________ Total Amount Enclosed:________________________ Signature:________________________________ ------------------------------------ Cut Here -------------------------------- RTSS 96 Organizing committee Members General Chairs Alan Burns, UK Yann-Hang Lee, USA Program Chair Sang H. Son, USA Treasurer Walt Heimerdinger, USA Publicity Chair Steve Liu, USA Industrial Chairs Doug Locke, USA Local Arrangements Chair Richard Gerber, USA Ex-Officio Al Mok, USA Program Committee Azer Bestavros, USA Richard Gerber, USA Ching-Chih Han, USA Hans Hansson, Sweden Jennifer Hou, USA Farnam Jahanian, USA Mathai Joseph, UK Dilip Kandlur, USA Hermann Kopetz, Austria Insup Lee, USA John Lehoczky, USA Jorg Liebeherr, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, USA Jane Liu, USA Doug Locke, USA Keith Marzullo, USA Raj Rajkumar, USA Karsten Schwan, USA Alan Shaw, USA Heonshik Shin, Korea Kang Shin, USA Jack Stankovic, USA Kenji Toda, Japan Farn Wang, Taiwan Vic Wolfe, USA Hui Zhang, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Oct 29 09:56:32 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA08857 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:56:27 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA22876 for dbworld; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:56:27 -0600 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:56:27 -0600 From: dang@csa.CS.Technion.AC.IL (Dan Geiger) Message-Id: <199610291556.JAA22876@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ====================================================== C A L L F O R P A P E R S ====================================================== ** U A I 97 ** THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE August 1-3, 1997 Providence, Rhode Island, USA ======================================= Visit the UAI-97 WWW page at http://cuai97.microsoft.com/ CALL FOR PAPERS The effective handling of uncertainty is critical in designing, understanding, and evaluating computational systems tasked with making intelligent decisions. For over a decade, the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) has served as the central meeting on advances in methods for reasoning under uncertainty in computer-based systems. The conference is the annual international forum for exchanging results on the use of principled uncertain-reasoning methods to solve difficult challenges in AI. Theoretical and empirical contributions first presented at UAI have continued to have significant influence on the direction and focus of the larger community of AI researchers. The scope of UAI covers a broad spectrum of approaches to automated reasoning and decision making under uncertainty. Contributions to the proceedings address topics that advance theoretical principles or provide insights through empirical study of applications. Interests include quantitative and qualitative approaches, and traditional as well as alternative paradigms of uncertain reasoning. Innovative applications of automated uncertain reasoning have spanned a broad spectrum of tasks and domains, including systems that make autonomous decisions and those designed to support human decision making through interactive use. We encourage submissions of papers for UAI-97 that report on advances in the core areas of representation, inference, learning, and knowledge acquisition, as well as on insights derived from building or using applications of uncertain reasoning. We also call for submissions of statements of open problems of wide interest for a discussion in a plenary session (see details below). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): >> Foundations * Theoretical foundations of uncertain belief and decision * Uncertainty and models of causality * Representation of uncertainty and preference * Generalization of semantics of belief * Conceptual relationships among alternative calculi * Models of confidence in model structure and belief >> Principles and Methods * Planning under uncertainty * Temporal reasoning * Markov processes and decisions under uncertainty * Qualitative methods and models * Automated construction of decision models * Abstraction in representation and inference * Representing intervention and persistence * Uncertainty and methods for learning and data mining * Computation and action under limited resources * Control of computational processes under uncertainty * Time-dependent utility and time-critical decisions * Uncertainty and economic models of problem solving * Integration of logical and probabilistic inference * Statistical methods for automated uncertain reasoning * Synthesis of Bayesian and neural net techniques * Algorithms for uncertain reasoning * Advances in diagnosis, troubleshooting, and test selection >> Empirical Study and Applications * Empirical validation of methods for planning, learning, and diagnosis * Enhancing the human--computer interface with uncertain reasoning * Uncertain reasoning in embedded, situated systems (e.g., softbots) * Automated explanation of results of uncertain reasoning * Nature and performance of architectures for real-time reasoning * Experimental studies of inference strategies * Experience with knowledge-acquisition methods * Comparison of repres. and inferential adequacy of different calculi * Uncertain reasoning and information retrieval For papers focused on applications in specific domains, we suggest that the following issues be addressed in the submission: - Why was it necessary to represent uncertainty in your domain? - What are the distinguishing properties of the domain and problem? - What kind of uncertainties does your application address? - Why did you decide to use your particular uncertainty formalism? - What theoretical problems, if any, did you encounter? - What practical problems did you encounter? - Did users/clients of your system find the results useful? - Did your system lead to improvements in decision making? - What approaches were effective (ineffective) in your domain? - What methods were used to validate the effectiveness of the systems? ================================= SUBMISSION AND REVIEW OF PAPERS ================================= Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work (details on policy on submission uniqueness are available at the UAI 97 www homepage). Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Papers may be accepted for presentation in plenary or poster sessions. All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. An outstanding student paper will be selected for special distinction. Submitted papers must be at most 20 pages of 12pt Latex article style or equivalent (about 4500 words). See the UAI-97 homepage for additional details about UAI submission policies. We strongly encourage the electronic submission of papers. To submit a paper electronically, send two email messages to the program chairs at uai97@cs.technion.ac.il The first message includes the following information (in this order): * Paper title (plain text) * Author names, including student status (plain text) * Surface mail and Email address for a contact author (plain text) * A short abstract including keywords or topic indicators (plain text) The second message includes an electronic version of the paper (Postscript format). The subject line of the second message should be: $.ps, where $ is an identifier created from the last name of the first author, followed by the first initial of the author's first name. Multiple submissions by the same first author should be indicated by adding a number (e.g., pearlj2.ps) to the end of the identifier. Authors will receive electronic confirmation of the successful receipt of their articles. Authors unable to submit papers electronically should send the first four items electronically to the email address above, and 5 copies of the complete paper to one of the Program Chairs at the addresses listed below. ================================= SUBMISSION OF CHALLENGING PROBLEMS ================================= This year we plan to hold an experimental plenary session entitled "Challenging Problems in Uncertain Reasoning" to discuss critical open problems. We request that interested researchers submit a description of a critical open problem of wide interest that they consider relevant to UAI (according to the guidelines for regular papers). The submission should include a clear unambiguous statement of the problem, ideas on possible solutions, and a survey of the relevant literature where applicable. The statement should be no more than four pages in length. Problems selected by the program chairs will be presented in a plenary session. For each problem selected, the author will give a concise presentation of the problem and its prospective solutions. Following the brief presentations, there will be open discussion of the problem and potential solutions with the entire audience. Although the Challenging Problems will not appear in the proceedings, proposals will be posted on the UAI '97 web pages by May 15 to allow participants to study them and to interact with the authors. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> All submissions must be received by: Feb 23, 1997 >> Notification of acceptance on or before: April 11, 1997 >> Camera-ready copy due: May 9, 1997 ========================== Program Cochairs (submissions and program inquiries): ================= Dan Geiger Computer Science Department Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel Phone: 972 4 829 4265 Fax: 972 4 8221128 Email: dang@cs.technion.ac.il Prakash P. Shenoy University of Kansas School of Business Summerfield Hall Lawrence, KS 66045-2003 USA Phone: (913) 864-7551 Fax: (913) 864-5328 Email: pshenoy@ukans.edu WWW: http://stat1.cc.ukans.edu/~pshenoy General Conference Chair (general conference inquiries): ======================== Eric Horvitz Decision Theory and Adaptive Systems Group Microsoft Research, 9S Redmond, WA 98052 USA Phone: (206) 936 2127 Fax: (206) 936 0502 Email: horvitz@microsoft.com WWW: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/dtg/horvitz/ ================================================= UAI-97 will occur right after AAAI-97 and will be held in close proximity to AAAI-97. * * * Refer to the UAI-97 WWW home page for late-breaking information: http://cuai97.microsoft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Oct 29 09:58:12 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA08862 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:58:07 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA22886 for dbworld; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:58:07 -0600 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:58:07 -0600 From: "LPNMR '97 Organizing Committee" Message-Id: <199610291558.JAA22886@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu =========================================================================== Conference Home page: Partially automated mailer: (for help, send a mail with subject `help') =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LP & NMR '97) Dagstuhl, Germany July 28--31, 1997 This is the fourth in the series of international meetings on the relationship between logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Three previous meetings were held in Washington, DC, USA, in 1991, in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1993 and in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, in 1995. The series was started in response to the growing evidence of synergy between the two areas and serves as a vehicle to facilitate interactions and interdisciplinary research. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Papers Due on: January 10, 1997 Author Notification: March 10, 1997 Final version Due on: April 11, 1997 Conference: July 28--31, 1997 ================ PAPER SUBMISSION ================ Papers are invited on all aspects of logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Papers on the relationship between Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning are especially encouraged. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest: Abduction, Circumscription Abstract consequence relations Algorithms and complexity Applications of LP and NMR Belief revision and updates Classical, explicit, and constructive negation Constraint satisfaction Epistemic, Modal, and Default logics Knowledge representation in LP and NMR Nonmonotonicity in databases Procedural query answering mechanisms Prototypes and implementations Semantics of (disjunctive) logic programs Send four (4) copies of your submission by conventional mail to the program chair by January 10, 1997 at the following address: LPNMR '97 Attention: Anil Nerode Mathematical Sciences Institute Cornell University 407 College Avenue, Ithaca NY 14850, U.S.A. E-mail: Submitted papers should not have been previously published or submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. The papers must not exceed 15 pages (including references and figures), when formatted according to Springer-Verlag guidelines (see conference home page for these guidelines and LaTeX style files). The authors must also send a text file, containing abstract, keywords, and complete address (including email, telephone & fax numbers) of the responsible author, via email to . ================== SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM ================== The scientific program will include invited talks, presentations of the accepted papers, panel discussions and system demonstrations. The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNAI series and will be available at the conference. Following is the list of invited speakers: Bruno Buchberger (Austria) Joxan Jaffar (Singapore) Martin R. Karig (U.S.A.) Miroslaw Truszczynski (U.S.A.) To stress the importance of applications and implementations in LP & NMR, there will be a separate panel headed by Juergen Dix covering this topic. Following is the list of panelists: Juergen Dix (Germany) Ronen Feldman (Israel) Ilkka Niemelae (Germany) Torsten Schaub (France) Miroslaw Truszczynski (U.S.A.) David Scott Warren (U.S.A.) =================== FURTHER INFORMATION =================== Visit in the world wide web for any information regarding this conference. Information can also be obtained by e-mail from a partially automated mailer. Send a mail to with subject `help', to get help on using this facility. ==================== Conference Co-Chairs ==================== Juergen Dix Ulrich Furbach ============= Program Chair ============= Anil Nerode ================= Program Committee ================= Howard Blair (U.S.A.) Frank de Boer (Netherlands) Piero Bonatti (Italy) Weidong Chen (U.S.A.) Juergen Dix (Germany) Ulrich Furbach (Germany) Georg Gottlob (Austria) Katsumi Inoue (Japan) Anthony Kakas (Cyprus) Robert Kowalski (U.K.) Michael Maher (Australia) Victor Marek (U.S.A.) Anil Nerode (U.S.A.) Luis Pereira (Portugal) Teodor Przymusinski (U.S.A.) V. S. Subrahmanian (U.S.A.) Jia-Huai You (Canada) ============================ LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE ============================ Chandrabose Aravindan Peter Baumgartner Frieder Stolzenburg ===== LPNMR '97 Organizing Committee http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~lpnmr97/ Attention: Chandrabose Aravindan Tel: +49 261 9119 {426,443} Universitaet Koblenz-Landau Fax: +49 261 9119 496 Fachbereich Informatik lpnmr97@informatik.uni-koblenz.de Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany. (For help: send mail with subject 'help') ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Oct 29 16:03:58 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA01205 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:03:52 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA23724 for dbworld; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:03:51 -0600 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:03:51 -0600 From: "Dr. C. W. de Silva" Message-Id: <199610292203.QAA23724@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Dear Colleague, Please consider the following call for papers for a conference and for an associated special issue of a journal. Thank you. Clarence de Silva. (Regional Editor, North America, for the EAAI Journal) ================================= Special Journal Issue on Intelligent Electronic Systems ======================================================= International Conference on Conventional and Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems will be held from 21 through 23 May, 1997, in Adelaide, Australia (Conference Chair: L.C. Jain). Several high-quality papers chosen from those accepted for the Conference will be published in a special issue of the International Journal, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation). For the special issue, only papers on "Intelligent Electronic Systems" will be considered. For example, fuzzy, neural, rule-based, knowledge-based, and expert control of practical systems in areas such as biomedical engineering, consumer electronics, communication, control, production systems, electronic security, industrial electronics, mechatronics, multimedia, optical electronics, sensor and actuator technology, robotics, and virtual reality would be appropriate. Please submit your complete paper, to be simultaneously considered for both Conference and Journal issue, no later than November 15, 1996 to: Clarence W. de Silva NSERC Professor of Industrial Automation Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of British Columbia 2324 Main Mall Vancouver, BC, CANADA V6T 1Z4 Fax: 604-822-2403 e-mail: desilva@mech.ubc.ca ======================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Oct 29 18:04:07 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA03497 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:03:58 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA24082 for dbworld; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:03:57 -0600 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:03:57 -0600 From: Richard Holowczak Message-Id: <199610300003.SAA24082@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ADL '97 Forum Call for Papers/Participation Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries May 7 - 9, 1997 Library of Congress Washington, D. C. SPONSORS: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; The National Library of Medicine; The IEEE Computer Society; and The Library of Congress. IN COOPERATION WITH: Columbia University, George Washington University, Rutgers-Center for Information Management, Integration & Connectivity, The University of Maryland-Baltimore County and The University of Texas at Austin. Digital Libraries is an emerging field that encompasses technologies for information acquisition, processing, distribution, and access, and harnesses these technologies for diverse areas of human needs including education, science, commerce, medicine, and the arts. Successful application of digital libraries will provide people with universal access to virtually all areas of human knowledge with a concomitant hope of improving their health, education, and economic well-being as well as their quality of life. The purpose of this forum is to highlight the important current issues in digital libraries through research papers, panels and invited talks by leading experts, and innovative prototypes and applications of digital library technologies in science and industry. ADL97 will feature novel applications and the associated issues in Arts and culture Environmental change Global marketplaces Health and medicine Socio-economic impacts A summary of the issues discussed will be made available to all forum participants. Papers describing technical advances are solicited in Human-computer interaction Knowledge integration Resource management Systems interoperability Searching and browsing Authoring and scripting systems Collaborative research Standards Intelligent agents User interfaces Telecommunications and networking Information representation Resource discovery Scalability Technical issues in intellectual property Computing environments for creating DL objects Billing mechanisms, accounting and payment systems Novel indexing techniques for multimedia objects Information to Authors: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts (not to exceed 10000 words) or panel proposals (not to exceed 1500 words) by November 15, 1996 in postscript format to adl@cs.columbia.edu . Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 1996. For more information about the technical program, contact the program chair: Professor Alfred Aho Department of Computer Science 500 West 120th Street, Room 450 Columbia University New York, NY 11025 aho@cs.columbia.edu 212-939-7004 Information to Exhibitors: Student Exhibition : Competitive Selection. Apply NOW. Please contact: Dr. Susan Hoban Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Science NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 susan.hoban@gsfc.nasa.gov 301-286-7980 - voice The homepage of ADL'97 Forum Call for Paper/Participation is http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/admin/adl97/adlcall.html Any additional questions can be forwarded to Georgia Flanagan georgia@cesdis.usra.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed Oct 30 12:37:59 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA17551 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:37:53 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA25026 for dbworld; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:37:52 -0600 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:37:52 -0600 From: Marek Rusinkiewicz Message-Id: <199610301837.MAA25026@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call For Papers Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) Special Issue on Workflow and Process Management A workflow is usually defined as a sequence of tasks executed by automated systems or people to carry out a (business) process. These processes (and corresponding workflows) are built by linking together diverse activities and specifying the flow of data and control among them. The success of workflow paradigm is based on its ability to support modeling, simulation, automated execution, and monitoring of processes in an environment that is distributed, heterogeneous, and only partially automated. Workflow and process management have recently gained interest in many application areas, including banking and insurance industries, manufacturing, healthcare, service order processing, and collaborative software development. A large number of software products, very diverse in their functionality and architectural approaches, has been introduced in the last several years and advertised under the "workflow automation" label. At the same time, workflow and process automation is a subject of a growing interest in the research community (computer-aided manufacturing, databases, information systems, artificial intelligence, distributed computing, operations research, and software engineering). Research projects carried out in academia and industry address a number of complementary issues such as process modeling, process analysis and simulation, and workflow enactment. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) is planning a special issue on Workflow and Process Management. We solicit research and applications papers addressing the following topics: * Workflow specification languages; process-based information systems models. * Analysis, simulation, optimization, and testing of workflows. * Transactional properties of workflows; concurrent workflows. * Workflow visualization technologies for monitoring execution of workflows. * Coordination of human activities and computerized applications. * Dynamically evolving workflows; interleaved planning and execution. * Applications of workflow technologies in information-intensive domains. Five hard copies of the paper, not exceeding 20 pages, should be submitted by April 1, 1997 to: Marek Rusinkiewicz Guest Editor, JIIS Special Issue on Workflows Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) 3500 West Balcones Center Drive, Austin, Texas 78759-5398 IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: April 1, 1997 Review to authors: July 31, 1997 Final version due: Sept. 15, 1997 This Call for Papers is available at: http://www.cs.uh.edu/~marek/cfp-wf.html Information on JIIS and instructions for authors are available at: http://www.isse.gmu.edu/JIIS/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed Oct 30 18:12:16 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA23026 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:12:11 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA25470 for dbworld; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:12:11 -0600 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:12:11 -0600 From: Martin.Kersten@cwi.nl Message-Id: <199610310012.SAA25470@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Research Positions available at the Database Research Group CWI, Amsterdam The Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, offers young scientists to work on leading edge technology and scientific frontiers using a superb infrastructure. The Database Research Group in the research division "Information Systems" is seeking for several junior researchers (AIO), post-docs, senior research visitors in the areas indicated below: * Data Mining, amongst others research and development in the area of temporal and spatial mining algorithms with a focus on financial applications. * Image Databases, aimed at incremental indexing of and retrieval from large-scale databases using web technology. * Distributed and Parallel Database Server Architectures, which involves porting and further development of database technology using facilities offered by modern computing platforms. All activities take place within the context of European and National projects aimed at development and deployment of innovative software solutions for clearly identifyable business problems. For further information see the following URLs: http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/departments/AA4.html http://www.cwi.nl/~monet http://www.cwi.nl/ Applicants for a post-doc and visiting positions must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Physics/Astronomy/Econometrics with relevant experience in computer science research. Applicants with permanent positions at the (Dutch) universities and other research institutes are explicitly invited to consider a temporal secondment to CWI. Send your application and CV in hard copy and a notice by e-mail to: Prof. Dr. Martin Kersten CWI Kruislaan 413 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands E-Mail: mk@cwi.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed Oct 30 18:13:31 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA23035 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:13:27 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA25477 for dbworld; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:13:26 -0600 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:13:26 -0600 From: Chandrabose ARAVINDAN Message-Id: <199610310013.SAA25477@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu \documentstyle[12pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \parindent 0cm \topmargin-2cm \textheight28cm \addtolength{\textwidth}{2cm} \addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-1cm} \begin{document} \begin{center} {\large \bf ONE RESEARCH POSITION}\\ \vspace{3mm} {\bf available in the Research Group\\ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE\\ Department of Computer Science\\ University of Koblenz-Landau\\ http://www.uni-koblenz.de/ag-ki/} \end{center} \vspace*{10mm} Our group consists (by now) of 7 researchers and 1 PhD student (Head: Prof.~U.~Furbach) who are engaged in basic research and application-oriented development in the areas of ``AUTOMATED REASONING'', ``NON-MONOTONIC REASONING'' and ``DEDUCTIVE DATABASES''.\\ We are looking for an outstanding scientific staff (Post-Doc) for our research project on {\em Disjunctive Logic Programming\/} (headed by Dr.~J.~Dix and Prof.~U.~Furbach, please consult our web-page http://www.uni-koblenz.de/ag-ki/DLP/). This project is funded by the DFG (German Research Council) and the research position will be available from January 1, 1997, for the rest of the year. An extension for another 2 years is very likely, but depends on the evaluation of the project in March-April 1997. Salaries are payed according to BAT IIa.\\ The main aim of the project is to develop a programming system which realizes various semantics for (extended) disjunctive logic programs with negation. The underlying idea to achieve this goal is to combine {\em classical theorem proving\/}-technology with methods from {\em non-monotonic reasoning\/} in knowledge representation. In particular we want to (1) extend PROLOG-like languages by disjunction and various sorts of negation, (2) develop efficient implementations that can be applied in practice, (3) investigate their use for nontrivial applications. The basis of the system to be developed is PROTEIN, a first-order PTTP-like theorem prover based on model-elimination calculus that does not use contrapositives of the given clauses. \\ We prefer candidates having a PhD in Computer Science or a comparable qualification. Previous experience in either {\em Automated Theorem Proving\/} or {\em Nonmonotonic Reasoning\/} is indispensable (knowledge in both fields is even better). Although knowledge of German is not presupposed, basic knowledge will be appreciated. \vspace{.4cm} Please send your application documents as soon as possible to: \\ Dr.~J\"{u}rgen Dix\\ Institut f\"ur Informatik\\ Universit\"at Koblenz-Landau\\ Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany\\ {\em Fax:\/} +49-261-9119-496\\ {\em E-mail:\/} dix@informatik.uni-koblenz.de\\ We would appreciate to receive from applicants --- as soon as possible --- a short notification of interest (preferably by e-mail) containing a short description of the applicant's qualification: e.g. short CV, a list of publications, summary of master thesis or of Ph.D. thesis, etc. \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed Oct 30 18:15:17 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA23055 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:15:11 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA25491 for dbworld; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:15:11 -0600 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:15:11 -0600 From: Reidar Conradi Message-Id: <199610310015.SAA25491@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Postdoctoral Position in Distributed Information Systems Department of Computer Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) The Norwegian Research Council is starting up a Norwegian basic research program in distributed systems in 1996-2000. The CAGIS proposal from NTNU was accepted from 1 July 1996: * CAGIS - Cooperating Agents in the Global Information Space. * Contact person: Reidar Conradi, NTNU (conradi@idt.unit.no), in cooperation with Kjell Bratbergsengen (kjellb@idt.unit.no) and Arne Soelvberg (asolvber@idt.unit.no). * Themes: Modelling of heterogeneous documents incl. multimedia, modelling of federated processes and of cooperating transactions, system architecture and partly implementation of cooperating agents for the above. We invite applications for a postdoctoral research position in the CAGIS project. The appointment will be for two years. Applicants should have a Ph.D in computer science. Information about our department and CAGIS can be found at: http://www.idt.ntnu.no/ http://www.idt.unit.no/IDT/f-plan/prosjekter/cagis.html The appliaction deadline is 1 Dec. 1996 and applications should be sent to: Professor Reidar Conradi Department of Computer Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) N-7034 Trondheim Phone +47 73.593444 (work), Fax +47 73.594466, conradi@idt.ntnu.no Phone +47 73.935862 (home) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed Oct 30 21:47:59 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA28770 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:47:49 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA25971 for dbworld; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:47:48 -0600 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:47:48 -0600 From: randal@cs.UManitoba.CA (Randal Peters) Message-Id: <199610310347.VAA25971@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Highlights of the tutorials, conference, and workshops, along with the registration form are given below. Complete details, including the FINAL PROGRAM, maps of the Washington Metro System, etc. are available from the Web site. http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/ C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N C I K M 9 6 Fifth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November 12 - 16, 1996, DoubleTree Hotel, Rockville, Maryland, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGART, ACM SIGIR, and ACM SIGLINK In cooperation with CAIR/KAIST and DISA http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/ KEYNOTE TALKS AND PANELS Wednesday, November 13: Educating the Next Generation of Information and Knowledge Experts, in Collaboration with Industry. Michael Mulder (NSF) Wednesday, November 13: Keynote Panel: Web, Distributed Object Management, and Component Software Moderator: Bruce Cottman (I-KINETICS/ComponentWare Consortium) Panelists: Mark Ryland (Microsoft), Richard Soley (OMG), and Annrai O'Toole (IONA Technologies) Thursday, November 14: OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences. Arie Shoshani (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) Thursday, November 14: Keynote Panel: Smart Mediators and Intelligent Agents. Moderator: V.S. Subrahmanian (U. Maryland) Panelists: Jim Hendler (U.Md.), Su-Shing Chen (UNC-Charlotte), Val-Breazu Tannen (U. Pennsylvania), and Richard Hull (U. Colorado) November 7 - 9 IFIP WG2.6 Fall Meeting will be held in conjunction with CIKM'96. TUTORIALS Tuesday, November 12, 08:30 - 12:00 T2 Middleware for Distributed Object Management Markus Tresch (ETH Zurich) Tuesday, November 12, 13:30 - 17:00 T6 Reasoning with Actions and Knowledge in Databases Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA) WORKSHOPS Friday - Saturday, November 15 - 16 W1 Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'96) General Chairs: Kia Makki, UNLV (kia@muddy.cs.unlv.edu) and Niki Pissinou, USL (pissinou@cacs.usl.edu) Program Chairs: Patrick Bergougnoux, U. Toulouse 1 (bergougn@irit.fr) and Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota (shekhar@cs.umn.edu) Friday, November 15 W2 Databases: Active & Real-Time (DART'96) (Concepts meet Practice) General Chair: Krithi Ramamritham, U. Mass. (krithi@cs.umass.edu) Program Chair: Nandit Soparkar, U. Michigan (soparkar@eecs.umich.edu) Saturday, November 16 W3 New paradigms in information visualization and manipulation General Chair: Charles Nicholas, UMBC (nicholas@cs.umbc.edu) Program Chair: David Ebert, UMBC (ebert@cs.umbc.edu) TECHNICAL PROGRAM Wednesday, November 13 08:30 - 09:00 Opening & Registration 09:00 - 10:00 SESSION 1, Keynote Address: Educating the Next Generation of Information and Knowledge Experts, in Collaboration with Industry. Presenter: Michael Mulder (NSF) Chair: M. Tamer Ozsu (Univ. of Alberta) 10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break 10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 2 (three parallel sessions) SESSION 2A: Image and Spatial Databases Chair: Farouzan Golshani (Arizona State University) Efficient Retrieval for Browsing Large Image Databases Daniel Wu (University of California, Santa Barbara), Divyakant Agrawal (University of California, Santa Barbara), Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ambuj Singh (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Terrence R. Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara) Adapting a Spatial Access Structure for Document Representations in Vector Space Andreas Henrich (Universitat Siegen) A Terrain Database Representation Based on an Extended Vector Product Format Mahdi Abdelguerfi (University of New Orleans), Edgar Cooper (University of New Orleans), Christ Wynne (University of New Orleans), Kevin Shaw (Stennis Space Center), Vincent Miller (Planning Systems Incorporated), Robert Broome (Planning Systems Incorporated), and Barbara Ray (Planning Systems Incorporated) SESSION 2B: Query Processing Chair: Maria Zemankova (NSF) Recursive query processing using graph traversal techniques Estrella Pulido (University of Bristol) Processing Queries for First Few Answers Roberto J. Bayardo Jr. (University of Texas at Austin) and Daniel P. Miranker (University of Texas at Austin) Spatial Query Processing Using Object Decomposition Method Yong-Ju Lee (Korea Environmental Technology Research Institute), Ho-Hyun Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Nam-Hee Hong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and Chin-Wan Chung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) SESSION 2C: Data Mining and Warehousing Chair: Suk-Chung Yoon (Widener University) An Object-Oriented Approach to Multi-Level Association Rule Mining Scott Fortin (University of Alberta) and Ling Liu (University of Alberta) Background for Association Rules and Cost Estimate of Selected Mining Algorithms Jia Liang Han (University of Southern Queensland) and Ashley W. Plank (University of Southern Queensland) A Data Model for Supporting On-Line Analytical Processing Chang Li (George Mason University) and X. Sean Wang (George Mason University) 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 3 (three parallel sessions) SESSION 3A: Access to Unstructured Information Chair: Kia Makki (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Notes Explorer: Entity-Based Retrieval in Shared, Semi-Structured Information Spaces Scott Huffman (Price Waterhouse Technology Centre) and Catherine Baudin (Price Waterhouse Technology Centre) Fast Retrieval of Cursive Handwriting Ibrahim Kamel (Panasonic Technologies, Inc.) Infomod: A Knowledge-Based Moderator for Electronic Mail Help Lists Robert J. Hall (AT&T Research) SESSION 3B: Object Query Processing & Optimization Chair: Tore Risch (Linkoping University) Dynamic Query Optimization on a Distributed Object Management Platform Fatma Ozcan (Middle East Technical University), Sena Nural (Middle East Technical University), Pinar Koksal (Middle East Technical University), Cem Evrendilek (Middle East Technical University), and Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University) A Model of Object Database Applications and its Use in Cost Estimation Neil Ching (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Erich Hughes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Marianne Winslett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Processing OODB Queries by O-Algebra Jie Lin (Case Western Reserve University) and Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University) SESSION 3C: Information Retrieval Chair: Peter Apers (University of Twente) Incorporating Latent Semantic Indexing into a Neural Network Model for Information Retrieval Inien Syu (Embry-Riddle University), S.D. Lang (University of Central Florida), and Narsingh Deo (University of Central Florida) Object-Oriented and Database Concepts for the Design of Networked Information Retrieval Systems Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund) Learning to Extract Information From Text Based on User-Provided Examples Scott B. Huffman (Price Waterhouse Technology Centre) 15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break 15:30 - 17:00 SESSION 4, Keynote Panel: Web, Distributed Object Management, and Component Software Moderator: Bruce Cottman (I-KINETICS/ComponentWare Consortium) Panelists: Mark Ryland (Microsoft), Richard Soley (OMG), and Annrai O'Toole (IONA Technologies) Thursday, November 14 09:00 - 10:00 SESSION 5, Keynote Address: OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences. Presenter: Arie Shoshani (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) 10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break 10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 6 (three parallel sessions) SESSION 6A: Object Databases Chair: Markus Tresch (ETH, Zurich) Modeling a Vocabulary in an Object-Oriented Database Li-min Liu (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Michael Halper (Kean College of New Jersey), Huanying Gu (New Jersey Institute of Technology), James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Yehoshua Perl (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Integrating Constraints in Complex Objects C. Oussalah (EMA-EERIE) and V. Puig (EMA-EERIE) Constructing Information Systems Based on Schema Reuse Wen-Syan Li (Rutgers University) and Richard D. Holowczak (Rutgers University) SESSION 6B: Techniques for Query Execution Chair: Randal Peters (University of Manitoba) S-signature: A New Scheme for Efficient Query Processing of Complex Objects in OODB Hakgene Shin (Chonbuk National University), KangSeuk Kim (Chonbuk National University), and Jaewoo Chang (Chonbuk National University) Effective Graph Clustering for Path Queries in Digital Map Databases Yun-Wu Huang (University of Michigan), Ning Jing (Changsha Institute of Technology), and Elke A. Rundensteiner (University of Michigan) Indexing Values of Time Sequences Ling Lin (Linkoping University), Tore Risch (Linkoping University), Martin Skold (Linkoping University), and Dushan Badal (University of Colorado) SESSION 6C: Knowledge Based & Fuzzy Systems Chair: Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University) Performance Evaluation of G-tree and Its Application in Fuzzy Databases Chengwen Liu (DePaul University), Aris Ouksel (University of Illinois at Chicago), Prasad Sistla (University of Illinois at Chicago), Jing Wu (University of Illinois at Chicago), Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Naphtali Rishe (Florida International University) The Personal Electronic Program Guide - Towards the Pre-Selection of Individual TV Programs Michael Ehrmantraut (University of Kaiserslautern), Theo Harder (University of Kaiserslautern), Hartmut Wittig (IBM European Networking Center), and Ralf Steinmentz (IBM European Networking Center) 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 7 (three parallel sessions) SESSION 7A: Non-Traditional Applications Chair: Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University) CROSS-DB A Feature-Extended Multidimensional Data Model for Statistical and Scientific Databases Wolfgang Lehner (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Thomas Ruf (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), and Michael Teschke (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Hierarchical Optimization of Optimal Path Finding for Transportation Applications Ning Jing (Changsha Institute of Technology), Yun-Wu Huang (University of Michigan), and Elke A. Rundensteiner (University of Michigan) Handling Uncertainties in Workflow Applications Jian Tang (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and San-Yih Hwang (National Sun Yat-Sen University) SESSION 7B: Unconventional Queries Chair: Keith Humenik (Indiana University South Bend) Distributed Processing of Time-Constrained Queries in CASE-DB Sungkil Lee (Case Western Reserve University) and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University) A New Conflict Relation for Concurrency Control and Recovery in object-based Databases SangKeun Lee (Korea University), SoonYoung Jung (Korea University), and Chong-Sun Hwang (Korea University) Information Agents for Automated Browsing Chanda Dharap (Philips Research Palo Alto) and Martin Freeman (Philips Research Palo Alto) SESSION 7C: Deductive & Rule Systems Chair: Senad Busovaca (Cal. State U., Sacramento) On Implementing SchemaLog - A Database Programming Language Alanoly Andrews (Concordia University), Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (Concordia University), Nematollaah Shiri (Concordia University), and Iyer N. Subramanian (Concordia University) A Case Study of Venus and a Declarative Basis for Rule Modules Lane Warshaw (University of Texas at Austin) and Daniel P. Miranker (University of Texas at Austin) Optimal Unification of Bounded Simple Set Terms Sergio Greco (Universita della Calabria) 15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break 15:30 - 17:00 SESSION 8, Keynote Panel: Smart Mediators and Intelligent Agents. Moderator: V.S. Subrahmanian (U. Maryland) Panelists: Jim Hendler (U.Md.), Su-Shing Chen (UNC-Charlotte), Val-Breazu Tannen (U. Penns.), and Richard Hull (U. Colorado) VENUE Rockville is a suburb of Washington, DC located on the northwest side of the city. Rockville is noted for fine shopping, fine dining, and easy access to Washington's major attractions via the safe and convenient Metro system. Temperatures in November will probably be cool, but snow is unlikely. A reception is planned for the evening of Wednesday, November 13, and the conference banquet is scheduled for Thursday, November 14. The Doubletree Hotel is convenient to Dulles International, Washington National, and Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) airports. Taxi fares are approximately $35 from National, $40 from Dulles, and $50 from BWI. Limo service from each airport is available at $35; please call the hotel 72 hours in advance to arrange for limo pickup. When you make your hotel reservations, please mention the CIKM'96 conference to qualify for the conference room rate. Call 1-800-222-8733, or 1-301-468-1100. The hotel front desk fax number is 1-301-468-0163. If you have any questions, or require additional information, please contact the appropriate person indicated below: On Local Arrangements: Professor Jim Chen, jchen@cs.gmu.edu On registrations: Dr. E.K. Park, ekpark@cstp.umkc.edu On technical program: Program Chair, Dr. Tamer Ozsu, ozsu@cs.ualberta.ca On other matters: General Chair, Dr. Charles Nicholas, nicholas@cs.umbc.edu ACCOMMODATIONS CIKM96 will be held at: DoubleTree Hotel, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852 USA Telephone: (301) 468-1100; Fax: (301) 468-0308 Room Rate: $105.00. All room rates are US dollars net per room, per night, single or double occupancy plus taxes. Individuals must make their own reservations by calling 1-800-222-TREE (or 301-468-1100), and use the group code "C001" to receive CIKM96 conference group rate. Individuals are on their own for payment of room, tax and any incidental charges. All reservations must be made prior to the cut-off date of October 15, 1996 at 12:01am. All reservations must be guaranteed for late arrival by a valid credit card or an advance deposit of one night room and tax. Check-in time is 3:00pm. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIKM'96 REGISTRATION FORM Please complete this form (TYPE or PRINT), and return with your payment to the address below. Please submit a separate form for each participant. First Name: _____________________ Last Name: _____________________________ Title (Dr/Mr/Ms/Mrs/Prof.): _____ Position: ______________________________ Company/University: ______________________________________________________ Department: ______________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________ City: ___________________________ State: _________________________________ Zip/Postal Code: ________________ Country: _______________________________ Phone: __________________________ Fax: ___________________________________ E-mail: __________________________________________________________________ FEE STRUCTURE Please circle your choice of fees and fill in the last column with each fee as appropriate. LATE/ON-SITE REGISTRATION after October 11, 1996 ACM Member Non-member Student Selected Fee CIKM96 Conference Fee 310 360 250 $___________ Tutorial Fee (each half day) 250 280 150 T2 T6 Please circle tutorial selections and enter total fee: $___________ Workshop Fee (each one day) 220 250 120 Workshop Fee (each two day) 280 330 180 W1 W2 W3 Please circle workshop selections and enter total fee: $___________ All-inclusive Fee (Not applicable. Advance registration only) Total Late/On-site Registration Fees: $___________ Total Registration Fees (from above): $ _______________________ Extra Conf. Reception Tickets ($40/each): $ _______________________ Extra Workshop Reception Tickets ($40/each): $ _______________________ (workshop reg. fee includes this, but NOT the conf. reg. fee) Extra Conf. Banquet Tickets ($50/each): $ _______________________ Extra copy of conf. proceedings ($50/each): $ _______________________ Total Fees Enclosed: $ _______________________ Make check/money order payable to CIKM96 Check method of payment: ___ Check/money order (payable to CIKM96) ___ Company Purchase Order number: we accept P.O only from companies in USA and late reg. fees applies Signature: _______________________________________ Date: ________________ ACM membership number (required for member rate): _______________________ Send registration form with payment in US Dollars only to the following address (please make check or money order payable to 3CIKM962): Dr. E.K. Park CIKM96 CSTP/UMKC 5100 Rockhill Road Kansas City, MO 64110 USA Phone: 816-235-1497; Fax: 816-235-5159; Email: ekpark@cstp.umkc.edu Please indicate your plans to attend any of the following events by placing an X in the appropriate places: I Will Attend I Will Not Attend Conference Reception ___ ___ Conference Banquet ___ ___ Workshop Reception ___ ___ PLEASE NOTE * The conference registration fee includes the proceedings, conference reception, refreshments during the conference, and the dinner banquet. Additional reception and banquet tickets may be purchased. * All payments must be in U.S. dollars. All checks or money orders from banks outside the United States must be cashable at a branch of that bank in the United States or at any U.S. bank. If you send a check or money order, it should have a complete "micro encoding line" (ask your bank about this). We accept American Express, Visa, and Mastercard Travellers Checks (be sure to sign each check and make it payable to "CIKM96"). We accept purchase orders from U.S. organizations only and the late registration fees apply. We DO NOT accept any other form of payments (no credit cards). You are responsible for ensuring that payment of fees is received in a timely manner. Student rate attendees must be able to produce proper identification if requested. * Acknowledgement of receipt of the registration form with payment will be sent out only to the e-mail address you provide. Conference materials including receipts and proceedings may be picked up at the registration desk on site. * REFUND POLICY: Paid registrants (non-authors) who cannot attend, and do not send a substitute, are entitled to a refund of paid fees (less a US$200.00 processing fee) if a request is received in writing on or before October 11, 1996. Registrants are liable for their full fees after that date (i.e., NO Refund will be made!). All no-show registrations will be billed in full. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Oct 31 12:10:26 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA08572 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:10:20 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA26774 for dbworld; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:10:20 -0600 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:10:20 -0600 From: "Dr. Karl Aberer" Message-Id: <199610311810.MAA26774@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu POSTDOC Position GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany The Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems at GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, in Darmstadt, Germany, is looking for POSTDOCS (2 years) who will be engaged in one of the following research areas: DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: Research topics of interest are multimedia information systems, object-oriented database systems, integration of heterogeneous information systems and applications in the areas of document and biomolecular data management. (see also http://este.darmstadt.gmd.de:5000/dimsys/home.html) COOPERATIVE HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS: Research topics of interest are hypermedia and CSCW systems, support for local and distributed cooperative work (e.g., desktop-based and meeting rooms, virtual organizations) and knowledge-based creation, processing, and access to large hypermedia information systems (see also http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/publish/home.html) CONTENT-BASED, USER-ORIENTED INFORMATION INTERFACES: Research topics of interest are Multimedia Information Retrieval, Dialogue Techniques, design of visual, including 3D graphical, user interfaces for multimedia information systems. (see also http://www-cui.darmstadt.gmd.de/) Each of the fully paid positions will have a duration of up to two years. A single extension by one additional year is possible. Funding can start early in 1997. Applications must arrive before December 15, 1996. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (or equivalent) and demonstrate research experience from projects in research institutions, universities or industry. Good knowledge of English or German is required. A statement of research qualification and interest should accompany the application. The applications should include the following: Curriculum Vitae Copies of university degrees Letters of reference Publication lists Research plan Applicants please send their material to Prof. Dr. E. J. Neuhold GMD-IPSI Dolivostr. 15 D-64293 Darmstadt GERMANY E-mail address: neuhold@darmstadt.gmd.de Tel.: 06151-869-802/3 FAX: 06151-869-818 More information on GMD's Postdoc programme is available in the WWW under http://ik.gmd.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Oct 31 13:46:48 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA10102 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:46:42 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA27144 for dbworld; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:46:41 -0600 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:46:41 -0600 From: Matthias Klusch Message-Id: <199610311946.NAA27144@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call For Papers ***************************************************************************** First International Workshop CIA-97 COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS - DAI meets Database Systems 26th (Wed) - 28th (Fri) of February 1997 University of Kiel, Computer Science Department, Kiel, Germany ***************************************************************************** The workshop CIA-97 will be held in cooperation with the research groups on - Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) FG 1.1.6, - Database Systems FG 2.5.1, and - Methods for Information Systems Development (EMISA) FG 2.5.2 of the German Society for Computer Science GI. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 17th of November &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ............................................................................ Invited Speakers Mike Wooldridge (Mitsubishi Electric Digital Library Group, UK) Misbah Deen (DRAKE Center, Keele, UK) Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena, Italy) Hans-Dieter Burkhard (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA) Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) ............................................................................ Workshop Information in the Web http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/cia97.html WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION and TOPICS: -------------------------------- This workshop will focus on issues concerning approaches for an integrated use of methodologies from both research areas, DAI and Database Systems, especially for the development of cooperative information agents. The idea of a partial synthesis of both, the DAI as well as the Database research area seems to be very promising. One attempt to capture possible benefits from such a synthesis has lead to the introduction of the paradigm of Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) in 1992. In our context a CIS is constituted by a set of intelligent agents where each of them is uniquely attached to one database system. Such information agents behave like active, intelligent database front-ends trying to satisfy their own application-specific task goals alone or in utilitarian cooperation with others. In particular the necessity to respect the database autonomy requirements hinders such cooperation e.g. for information gathering. In addition, as the Internet becomes increasingly commercialized, the information agents will receive monetary rewards for their services and may negotiate with each other to maximize their expected utility. The design of information agents inherently requires knowledge from several different research areas like DAI, Database and Expert Systems, and AI. Unfortunately, practical and theoretical work which is relevant for the development of information agents tends to be scattered across several different forums of respective computing subareas: There is an obvious need for a survey of these works, their advantages and limitations. Thus, the workshop aims for being a small but intensive forum for a presentation and exchange of ideas, work in progress, reviews as well as an engaged discussion between all attendees. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o architecture of information agents, o autonomy requirements of information systems and their impacts for the development of cooperative information agents, o decentralized construction and management of common ontologies for cooperative information agents, o knowledge discovery and data mining for information evolution in large database networks, o semantic querying in multidatabase systems, o use of object-oriented modelling within the design of information agents, o methods for utilitarian coalition formation among autonomous agents, o impacts and handling of lying agents for cooperative information search, o approaches towards a theory of organization in multi-agent systems, o adaptation and self-organization of information agents in changing environments, o planning in cooperative search for information, o user interface issues for information agents, o evaluation and development environments for information agents, o agent communication languages for information agents, o approaches towards mobile information agents in the Internet (e.g. Telescript, Java), o interconnection of autonomous and heterogeneous databases in the WWW, o security aspects for information agents. CONTRIBUTIONS: -------------- Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical work dealing with the use of methods from distributed artificial intelligence for cooperation between a set of heterogeneous, autonomous databases. Papers which describe ongoing research or provide an excellent surveying work are in particular welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the ones listed above. Format: ^^^^^^^ The paper must be formatted in A4 size using 10 point Times. The length of submitted camera-ready papers must be no more than 12 pages including all figures, tables, and bibliography. All papers must be written in English. Each submission includes the full paper (title, authors, abstract, text), and in addition a separate title page with the title, the 300-400 word abstract, a list of keywords, authors (names, addresses, email addresses, telephone and fax numbers). Papers not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review. For publication in the Springer series LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE please prepare a camera-ready version of your contribution following the guidelines and LNCS latex style file available at ftp://hugo.informatik.uni-kiel.de/pub/mkl/cia97/lnai.txt and ftp://hugo.informatik.uni-kiel.de/pub/mkl/cia97/llncs.sty or send a request by EMail to lncs@springer.de (for their 'LNAI Advice to authors for the preparation of camera-ready contributions to LNAI Proceedings') and send a request by EMail to svserv vax.ntp.springer.de containing the line 'get /tex/latex/llncs.zip' for LaTeX or 'get /tex/plain/plncs.zip' for plain TeX. Submission: ^^^^^^^^^^^ Papers can be submitted both by mail and electronic mail. Electronic submission must be in postscript format (A4 size). Send three hard-copies or the postscript file of your contribution to Matthias Klusch Institut f"ur Informatik und Praktische Mathematik Christian-Albrechts-Universit"at zu Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, 24118 Kiel EMail: mkl@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de It is recommended to send your contribution as a postscript file by email. In order to inform us about your submission, please send an email to: {ak,mkl}@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de Proceedings: ^^^^^^^^^^^^ The workshop proceedings including all accepted papers as well as the invited papers will be available for all registered participants at the workshop. The proceedings will be published in the LNAI Series (Springer Verlag). IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Camera-Ready Paper Submission Deadline : 17th of November 1996 Notification to the Authors : 22th of December 1996 PARTICIPATION: -------------- Full registration must be done before 10th of January 1997. The registration fee amounts to 80,-DM. Further informations on registration concerning the method of fee payment and the registration form are available on the CIA-97 WWW page http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/registration.html and will be given also in forthcoming call for participation. DATE AND LOCATION: ------------------ The workshop starts on Wednesday, 26th of February 1997, at 8am and ends on Friday, 28th of February 1997, afternoon. It takes place at the University of Kiel (Institut f"ur Informatik, Olshausenstr. 40, 24118 Kiel, Germany). Please look at the WWW-page http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/cia97.html of the workshop for more information about location, registration, travel and accomodation. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Luis Otavio Alvares (Universitade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil) Wolfgang Benn (University of Chemnitz, Germany) Sonia Bergamaschi (Universita' di Modena, Italy) Hans-Dieter Burkhard (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) Misbah Deen (University of Keele, UK) Yves Demazeau (Leibniz/Imag/CNRS, France) Frank Dignum (University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, USA) Tim Finin (University of Maryland, USA) Klaus Fischer (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany) Joachim Hammer (Stanford University, USA) Peter Kandzia (University of Kiel, Germany) Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA) Stefan Kirn (University of M"unster, Germany) Matthias Klusch (University of Kiel, Germany) Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Klaus Meyer-Wegener (University of Dresden, Germany) Joerg P. Mueller (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany) Aris Ouksel (University of Illinois, USA) Mike P. Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Israel) Tuomas Sandholm (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) Onn Shehory (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Antonio Si (Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) Gerd Wagner (University of Leipzig, Germany) Mike Wooldridge (Mitsuibishi Electric Digital Library Group, UK) General Chairs and Organization Committee: Matthias Klusch (University of Kiel, Germany) Peter Kandzia (University of Kiel, Germany) -------------------------------------------------------------------- UP-TO-DATE-INFORMATION about the workshop will be given on the WWW: http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/cia97.html For further information about the workshop please contact: Matthias Klusch Institut f"ur Informatik Christian-Albrechts-Universit"at zu Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, 24118 Kiel PHONE : +49-431-880-4474 Fax : +49-431-880-4054 EMail : mkl@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de WWW : http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Oct 31 13:48:17 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA10125 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:48:12 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA27150 for dbworld; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:48:12 -0600 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:48:12 -0600 From: Daniel Cabeza Gras Message-Id: <199610311948.NAA27150@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu We are pleased to announce the release of a new version (1.0-beta) of our public domain HTML/HTTP library for LP and CLP systems. We very much welcome additions or ports to other systems. Please send any questions to clip@dia.fi.upm.es. Enjoy! Daniel Cabeza and Manuel Hermenegildo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ----------- This package is a public domain HTML/HTTP conectivity package for Logic Programming and Constraint Logic Programming systems. It is an evolution of the previously released html.pl package (in fact it includes html.pl version 96.2.1b). The package allows generating HTML documents easily from LP/CLP systems, including HTML forms. It also provides facilities for parsing the input provided by HTML forms, as well as developing form handlers. Lastly, it includes support for the HTTP protocol as a builtin. Its overall purpose is to facilitate the development of WWW applications using LP and CLP systems. The package has been developed in the context of the &-Prolog and CIAO systems, but it has been adapted to a number of popular LP/CLP systems. In particular, the SICStus (2.1 or 3) ports support all the package functionality. Getting the package ------------------- The latest version of the PiLLow library is available via anonymous ftp from the CLIP ftp server: ftp://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/pub/software/pillow.tar.gz To install simply uncompress and untar the distribution in a convenient directory and follow the instructions in the README file. Please refer to the WWW site of PiLLow for more information: http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/miscdocs/pillow/pillow.html Manuel Hermenegildo and Daniel Cabeza CLIP group (clip@dia.fi.upm.es) Department of Artificial Intelligence School of Computer Science Technical University of Madrid ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Oct 31 15:34:39 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA12687 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:34:32 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA27547 for dbworld; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:34:32 -0600 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:34:32 -0600 From: Weiyi Meng Message-Id: <199610312134.PAA27547@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ************************************************************* * FOR MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT PDIS'96, PLEASE SEE * * Our Web page: http://panda.cs.binghamton.edu/pdis96.html * ************************************************************* ============================================================= Call for Participation Fourth International Conference on PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS December 18-20, 1996 Eden Roc Resort & Spa, Miami Beach, Florida Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering ACM SIGMOD Parallel and distributed database technology is at the heart of many mission-critical applications such as online transaction processing, data warehousing, business workflow management, interoperable information systems, and information brokering in global networks. PDIS'96 would like to invite you to join us for an exciting program on a key technology of the information superhighway age. ============================================================== Wednesday, December 18, 1996 8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00 - 10:30 Tutorial I (Half Day) Data Warehousing and Parallel Data Systems Instructor: Rick Stellwagen, CTO, Parallel Systems Division NCR Corporation 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 - 12:15 Tutorial I (continue) ------------------------------------------------------------ 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch on Your Own ------------------------------------------------------------- 1:45 - 3:15 Tutorial II (Half Day) Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems Instructor: Albert M. K. Cheng Associate Professor Real-Time Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Houston--University Park 3:15 - 3:30 Coffee break 3:30 - 5:00 Tutorial II (Continue) 6:00 - 8:00 Reception ================================================================== Thursday, December 19, 1996 8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00 - 10:30 Session 1: Keynote Speech "Parallel Object/Relational DBMS: Challenges and Opportunities" David DeWitt, University of Wisconsin -------------------------------------------------------------- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break -------------------------------------------------------------- 11:00 - 12:30 Session 2A: Data Mining - S.-J. Yen, A. Chen, "An Efficient Approach to Discovering Knowledge from Large Databases" - T. Shintani, M. Kitsuregawa, "Hash-Based Parallel Algorithms for Mining Association Rules" - D. Cheung, J. Han, V. Ng, A. Fu, Y. Fu, "A Fast Distributed Algorithm for Mining Association Rules" 11:00 - 12:00 Session 2B: Recovery - P. Bohannon, J. Parker, R. Rastogi, S. Seshadri, A. Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan, "Distributed Multi-Level Recovery in Main-Memory Databases" - J. Riegel, J. Menon, "Performance of Recovery Time Improvements for Software RAIDs" -------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on one's own) -------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00 - 3:30 Session 3A: Web-based Information Systems - H. Garcia-Molina, L. Gravano, N. Shivakumar, "dSCAM: Finding Document Copies Across Multiple Databases" - A. Mendelzon, G. Mihaila, T. Milo, "Querying the World Wide Web" - V. Almeida, A. Bestavros, M. Crovella, A. de Oliveira, "Characterizing Reference Locality in the WWW" 2:00 - 3:30 Industrial Session 3B: Practical Issues in Large-Scale Systems. - Rick Stellwagen, NCR "Production Data Warehouses with Teradata" - Jim Kleewein, IBM "Practical Issues with Commercial Use of Federated Databases" -------------------------------------------------------------- 3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break -------------------------------------------------------------- 4:00 - 5:30 Session 4A: Indexing and Storage Strategies - D. Lomet, "Replicated Indexes for Distributed Data" - W. Litwin, M.-A. Neimat, "k-RP*S: A Scalable Distributed Data Structure for High-Performance Multi-Attribute Access" - C.-I. Lee, Y.-I. Chang, W.-P. Yang, "A New Storage and Retrieval Method to Support Editing Operations in a Multi-Disk-based Video Server" 4:00 - 5:30 Industrial Session 4B: Parallelism in Commercial Systems - Gary Hallmark, Oracle "Parallel Data Warehouse Architecture" - John McPherson, IBM "DB2 Common Server Parallelism" 6:30 - 8:30 Dinner Banquet ============================================================== Friday, December 20, 1996 8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00 - 10:30 Session 5A: Data Warehousing and Mediator Systems - Y. Zhuge, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Wiener, "The Strobe Algorithms for Multi-Source Warehouse Consistency" - D. Quass, A. Gupta, I. Mumick, J. Widom, "Making Views Self-Maintainable for Data Warehousing" - Y. Papakonstantinou, A. Gupta, L. Haas, "Capabilities-Based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems". 9:00 - 10:00 Session 5B: Replication - I.-R. Chen, D.-C. Wang, "Repairman Models for Replicated Data Management: A Case Study" - T. Shiroshita, O. Takahashi, M. Yamashita, Y. Nakamura, "Reliable Data Distribution Middleware for Large-scale Massive Data Replication" -------------------------------------------------------------- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break -------------------------------------------------------------- 11:00 - 12:30 Session 6A: Query Processing - L. Amsaleg, M. Franklin, A. Tomasic, T. Urhan, "Scrambling Query Plans to Cope with Unexpected Delays" - Q. Zhu, P.-A. Larson, "Developing Regression Cost Models for Multidatabase Systems" - S. Hyun, S. Su, "Parallel Query Processing Strategies for Object-Oriented Temporal Database Systems" 11:00 - 12:30 Industrial Session 6B: Availability and Replication - Frank Symonds, Informix "OnLine XPS for Highly Available, High-Volume, Complex OLTP" - Al Demers, Oracle "Parallel Propagation of Updates for Asynchronous Replication" -------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch at Eden Roc -------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00 - 3:30 Session 7A: Transactions and Data Consistency - H. Kaufmann, H.-J. Schek, "Extending TP-Monitors for Intra-Transaction Parallelism" - T. Zhou, C. Pu, L. Liu, "Adaptable, Efficient, and Modular Coordination of Distributed Extended Transactions" - S. Gukal, E. Omiecinski, U. Ramachandran, "Transient Versioning for Consistency and Concurrency in Client-Server Systems" 2:00 - 3:30 Industrial Session 7B: Query Evaluation Technology - Prakash Sundaresan, Informix "Data Warehousing Features in OnLine XPS" - Pedro Celis, Tandem "The Query Optimizer in Tandem's New ServerWare SQL Product" - Hans Zeller, Tandem "The Query Execution Engine in Tandem's New ServerWare SQL Product" -------------------------------------------------------------- 3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break -------------------------------------------------------------- 4:00 - 6:00 Session 8: Panel Discussion World Wide What? Moderator: Marek Rusinkiewicz MCC ============================================================== Registration Form Last Name (Dr./Prof./Mr./Mrs./Ms.) _________ First Name __________ Affiliation ______________________________________________________ IEEE/ACM Membership# _____________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Country _____________________ Telephone __________________ Fax ________________ E-mail ______________________________ Check the tutorials you plan to attend: Tutorial 1 ______________ Tutorial 2 ______________ Registration fee (all in US Dollar) ----------------------------------- Delegate Type Advance Registration* Late/On-site Registration ------------------------------------------------------------------ Members (ACM, IEEE) $340.00 $410.00 Non-members $425.00 $510.00 Full-time student $170.00** $205.00** Registration fee includes one proceedings of the conference, a continental breakfast, one lunch, one reception, one dinner banquet, and coffee breaks. Add $40 for each additional dinner ticket. * The cut-off date for advance registration is November 25, 1996. ** Student rate does not include dinner banquet and lunch Tutorial fee (all in US Dollar) ------------------------------ Delegate Type Advance Registration Late/On-site Registration ------------------------------------------------------------------ Members (ACM, IEEE) $170.00* $205.00* Non-members $215.00* $260.00* * The fee is for one tutorial. Those who attend both tutorials will get a 40% discount of the second tutorial fee. The fee includes continental breakfast and coffee break. Total fee: Conference registration: _____________ Tutorial: _____________ Total: _____________ Refund Policy ------------- All requests of (full) refund must be made in writing 2 weeks prior to the date of the conference. However, a $50 processing fee will be collected. Payment ------- Check or Money Order (payable to PDIS'96): amount enclosed ____________ Credit Card (check one): Master Card ____ Visa _____ Discover _____ American Express _______ Cardholder's Name _________________________________________________ Card Number: _________________________ Expire Date ________________ Signature _____________________________ Date ______________________ Do you need help for hotel reservation? If yes, please attach the Hotel Reservation Form (see below). Please mail your registration form with your payment to (note that to qualify for advanced registration, the registration form with payment must be received by November 25, 1996): Paul Attie PDIS'96 Registration Chair School of Computer Science Florida International University Miami, Florida 33199 email: attie@cs.fiu.edu =================================================================== Hotel Reservation Form Eden Roc Resort & Spa is located on 600 feet of prime oceanfront property, overlooking world-renowned Miami Beach and the spectacular intracoastal waterway. During mid and late December, the temperatures in Miami Beach are typically in the 50-70s (Fahrenheit) (day) and 40-60s (nights). Ocean swimming is possible. The resort is just 11 miles east of Miami International Airport. Address: 4525 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 33140 Telephone: (305) 531-0000, (800) 327-8337 Fax: (305) 538-4227 Reservations: (800) 327-8337 (Please mention PDIS conference when reserving a room) The reservation CUT-OFF DATE will be Tuesday, November 26, 1996 at 5:00pm Eastern time. According to the hotel, there will be a special event around the same time of the conference at the hotel. Also, mid and late December is the PEAK season in Miami Beach. As a result, the above cut-off date will be STRICTLY observed by the hotel and rooms for late reservations may not be guaranteed. Please make your reservations early whenever you can. Hotel discount rate: Room Type Single Occupancy Double Occupancy ------------------------------------------------- Bay View $109.00 $109.00 Ocean View $129.00 $129.00 The extra per person charge is $20.00 per night. The extra charge for guaranteed balcony terrace rooms is $25.00. The above special rates will apply at least three days prior to and three days after the meeting dates based on availability. If you want the conference to help you make the reservation, please fill out the following form and send it together with your registration form to Paul Attie. Last Name ______________________ First Name ___________________ Arrival time _________________ Departure Time _________________ Room Type __________________ Smoke ________ Non-Smoke _________ Credit Card (check one): Master Card ____ Visa _____ Discover _____ American Express _____ Cardholder's Name _______________________________________________ Card Number: _________________________ Expire Date ______________ Signature ____________________________ Date _____________________ ================================================================= General Chair: Wei Sun School of Computer Science Florida International University Miami, FL 33199, USA Phone: (305) 348-3751 Fax: (305) 348-3549 weisun@fiu.edu Program Co-Chairs: Jeffrey Naughton Gerhard Weikum Computer Science Department Computer Science Department University of Wisconsin University of the Saarland 1210 West Dayton Street Im Stadtwald Madison, WI 53706, USA D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany naughton@cs.wisc.edu weikum@cs.uni-sb.de Steering Committee: Sushil Jajodia (Chair), George Mason University Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology Naphtali Rishe, Florida International University Amit Sheth, University of Georgia Program Committee: Divyakant Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara Peter Apers, University of Twente Chaitanya Baru, San Diego Supercomputing Center Yuri Breitbart, University of Kentucky Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim Christos Faloutsos, University of Maryland Alan Fekete, University of Sydney Mike Franklin, University of Maryland Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USC Los Angeles Leana Golubchik, Columbia University Theo Harder, University of Kaiserslautern Jayant Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Kien Hua, University of Central Florida Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Telenor Trondheim Yannis Ioannidis, University of Wisconsin H.V. Jagadish, AT&T Research Anant Jhingran, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Martin Kersten, CWI Amsterdam Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo David Kotz, Dartmouth College David Lomet, Microsoft Hongjun Lu, National University of Singapore Tadeusz Morzy, Technical University of Poznan Eliot Moss, University of Massachussets Marie-Anne Neimat, Hewlett-Packard Labs Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Almaden Research Center Calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley Labs Marek Rusinkiewicz, MCC Hans Schek, ETH Zurich Donovan Schneider, Red Brick Systems Marc Scholl, University of Konstanz Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota Patrick Valduriez, INRIA Paris Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois Tutorials: Henry Korth, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Inc. Finance: Chungmin Chen, Florida International University Registration: Paul Attie, Florida International University Publicity: Weiyi Meng, SUNY Binghamton Local Arrangements: Cyril Orji, Florida International University Industrial Program: Honesty Young, IBM Almaden Research Center Eugene Shekita, IBM Almaden Research Center ================================================================== Tutorial 1: Data Warehousing and Parallel Data Systems Instructor: Rick Stellwagen, CTO, Parallel Systems Division NCR Corporation Data warehousing has developed into a rapidly growing business. Today, there are hundreds of production-level data-warehouse installations. Parallel database systems and decision-support systems have provided the foundation for most of these production data warehouses. Currently, thousands of data warehouses and data marts are being planned and installed. A substantial number of new products along with new methods and models have appeared on the market that claim to be data-warehousing "solutions". This has resulted in a wide variety of definitions of the data-warehousing problem. This tutorial will review the current industry definitions of data warehousing. The various components of data warehouse systems will be outlined, including inflows (transformation), administration, user-information access and database processing. More in-depth discussions will center around data warehouse architectures, the types of user access that are most prevalent in commercial data warehouses, and data models and programming models for achieving performance objectives. Also to be discussed are special techniques that are used to address performance issues based on characteristics of the workload. This tutorial will define a framework that allows the true potential for re-use and data sharing. This includes optimizations that are maximized with use of a scaleable parallel system as the hub and spokes in a two- and three- tier data warehouse implementation. Several different database and parallel database products will be studied to show how they fit into the various data-warehousing architectures. Finally, the tutorial will consider the role of the internet and multi-media data in this environment. About the speaker: Rick Stellwagen received his B.S. in Computer Science from S.U.N.Y at Brockport in 1979. He has been active in both research and development of database and information products for the past 17 years. He produced heterogeneous distributed information systems in early 1980s and was the architect and lead developer for DBSR, NCR's first relational DBMS in early and mid 1980s. He has built and designed query tools, message-oriented middleware for data and meta-data placement and integration, along with performance, simulation, and modeling tools. Rick was an architect and director of the Data Navigator and Configurator project (later to be Sybase MPP) that NCR and Sybase pioneered as the first open parallel database system designed for deployment on commodity clusters of servers. His experience includes being a member of the ANSI X3H2 and RDA committee on databases, and a founding member of the SQL Access committee. Today he is responsible for strategy and architecture of NCR's Data Warehouse Program. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 2: Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems Instructor: Albert M. K. Cheng Associate Professor Real-Time Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Houston--University Park Computer systems embedded in a real-time environment must satisfy stringent response-time constraints in addition to logical correctness constraints. Parallel and distributed computer systems research and development has produced systems capable of attaining very high performance in terms of speed and versatility at very attractive cost-to-speed ratio. Recently, parallel and distributed systems are emerging as a highly promising candidate for implementing the next generation of high-performance embedded real-time systems which are adaptive to the rapidly changing environment. However, "fast" does not necessarily mean "real-time". Therefore, parallel and distributed systems must be fine-tuned before they can be trusted to monitor and control critical real-time processes. The formal verification of real-time systems to ensure that they satisfy the specified integrity and timing requirements is thus essential if such systems are to be used in safety-critical environments. This tutorial introduces a formal framework and powerful techniques for the design and development of this class of systems, including the aspects of specification, design, analysis, implementation, verification, and validation. Programming in real-time/rule-based languages is described. Specification and verification tools such as Statechart, Modechart, and Estella are used to help design experimental parallel and distributed real-time systems. About the speaker: Albert Mo Kim Cheng received the B.A. with Highest Honors in Computer Science, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, the M.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1990, all from The University of Texas at Austin, where he also held a GTE Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. Dr. Cheng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston--University Park, where he directs the Real-Time Systems Laboratory. His research interests include real-time systems, multimedia tools, rule-based expert systems, reliable software systems, and fault-tolerant distributed and parallel systems. He is the author/co-author of over forty refereed publications, and has served or is serving on the program committees of several conferences in his areas of research. Dr. Cheng has received numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Advanced Research Program Award, and the University of Houston Research Initiation Grant. He is a member of the honor societies of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Beta Alpha Phi, and Golden Key. He has presented tutorials in several conferences, has given invited seminars at many universities, and has served as a technical consultant for several organizations, including IBM. Dr. Cheng is a senior member of the IEEE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Oct 31 20:09:28 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA15851 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:09:22 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA27800 for dbworld; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:09:22 -0600 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:09:22 -0600 From: ras@uncc.edu (Zbigniew W Ras) Message-Id: <199611010209.UAA27800@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu **** C A L L F O R P A P E R S **** TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISMIS'97) Hilton Hotel, Charlotte, North Carolina October 15-18, 1997 SPONSORS UNC-Charlotte, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Univ. of Warsaw, and others. PURPOSE OF THE SYMPOSIUM This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: * Evolutionary Computation * Intelligent Information Systems * Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining * Knowledge Representation and Integration * Logic for Artificial Intelligence * Robotics, Motion and Machine Vision * Soft Computing * Methodologies (modeling, design, validation, performance evaluation). In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change, manufacturing, health care, etc. SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Francois G. Pin (Oak Ridge National Lab.) Zbigniew W. Ras (UNCC & Polish Acad. Sci.) Andrzej Skowron (U. Warsaw, Poland) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luigia Carlucci Aiello (U. Roma, Italy) Thomas Baeck (U. Dortmund, Germany) Alan Biermann (Duke Univ.) Jacques Calmet (U. Karlsruhe, Germany) Jaime Carbonell (CMU) Wesley Chu (UCLA) Kenneth DeJong (GMU) Robert Demolombe (CERT/ONERA, France) Jon Doyle (MIT) Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya U., Japan) Attilio Giordana (U. Torino, Italy) Diana Gordon (Naval Research Lab.) Mirsad Hadzikadic (Carolinas HealthCare System) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser U., Canada) David Hislop (Army Research Office) Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen, Germany) John Y. Jiang (Pacific Bell Lab.) Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany) Yves Kodratoff (U. Paris VI, France) Jan Komorowski (U. Trondheim, Norway) Alberto Martelli (U. Torino, Italy) Robert Meersman (U. Brussels, Belgium) Zbigniew Michalewicz (UNCC & Polish Acad. Sci.) Ryszard Michalski (GMU & Polish Acad. Sci.) Jack Minker (U. Maryland) Ephraim Nissan (U. Greenwich, UK) Lin Padgham (RMIT U., Australia) Rohit Parikh (CUNY) Lynne Parker (ORNL) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Lab.) Henri Prade (U. Paul Sabatier, France) Luc De Raedt (U. Leuven, Belgium) Marek Rusinkiewicz (MCC) Lorenza Saitta (U. Torino, Italy) Erik Sandewall (Linkoping U., Sweden) Yoav Shoham (Stanford U.) Richmond Thomason (U. Pittsburgh) Jing Xiao (UNCC) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA) Gian Piero Zarri (CNRS, France) Maria Zemankova (NSF) Jan M. Zytkow (Wichita State U. & Polish Acad. Sci.) INVITED SPEAKERS Alan Biermann (Duke Univ.) Jaime Carbonell (CMU) Wesley Chu (UCLA) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Lab.) Gio Wiederhold (Stanford U.) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mirsad Hadzikadic (Carolinas HealthCare System) Karen Harber (ORNL) Mieczyslaw Klopotek (Polish Acad. Sci.) Zbigniew W. Ras (UNCC & Polish Acad. Sci.) PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit four copies of their manuscript (maximum 12 pages) to one of the addresses below: Papers from US and Canada: Papers from Europe: Francois G. Pin, ISMIS'97 Andrzej Skowron, ISMIS'97 ORNL, Bldg. 7601, M.S. 6305 Univ. of Warsaw P.O. Box 2008 Dept. of Mathematics Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6305 Banacha 2 e-mail: pin@ORNL.GOV PL-02-097 Warsaw, POLAND fax: 423-574-4624 e-mail: skowron@mimuw.edu.pl tel: 423-574-6130 tel: 48-(22)-658-3449 All other papers: Zbigniew W. Ras, ISMIS'97 Univ. of North Carolina Dept. of Comp. Science Charlotte, N.C. 28223 e-mail: ras@uncc.edu fax: 704-547-3516 tel: 704-547-4567 Submissions should include a title page (1 copy) specifying the title, all authors with their affiliations, abstract (100-200 words), up to 10 keywords (begin the keyword list with at least one of the ISMIS areas listed above); and the preferred address of the contact author, including a telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address (if available). The remainder of the paper can include up to 11 pages, attached to the title page. If possible, the title page should be ADDITIONALLY submitted via email (in plain text) to to facilitate submissions processing. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: March 1, 1997 Acceptance Notification: May 25, 1997 Final Paper: July 1, 1997 PUBLICATION Papers accepted for Regular Sessions will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI. Poster Session proceedings will be published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Both proceedings will be available at the symposium. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER-