From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Tue Jul 18 10:00:58 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 18 Jul 95 10:00:55 -0500; AA15387 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 10:00:53 -0500 From: Akmal B Chaudhri Message-Id: <9507181500.AA22172@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 18 Jul 95 10:00:53 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / This will probably be the first (and last) reminder for this workshop. If / / anyone has plans to submit a position paper, please contact Prof. / / Benjamin Zorn to register their interest, so Ben / / has some idea of the likely numbers for planning purposes. The deadline / / for submissions to reach Ben is August 15. As the CFP is fairly short, it / / has been attached in its entirety. / ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Call for Participation Announcing the OOPSLA'95 Workshop on Object Database Behavior, Benchmarks, and Performance Austin, Texas---Sunday, October 15, 1995 Objectives: Object database performance research requires an understanding of how real OODBMS applications behave. Such information is invaluable in building more efficient object database systems. In this workshop, we will discuss characterizations of object database behavior in the form of measurements and benchmarks. Topics relevant to the workshop include, but are not limited to: --- Empirical and/or analytic models of OODBMS performance --- Performance metrics for object databases --- Object database benchmarks --- Relationship between relational and OODBMS benchmarks --- Object database tracing and profiling --- Trace-driven simulation and performance evaluation of object databases --- Classification and/or characterization of object database application areas --- Performance tradeoffs of workstation/server OODB architectures --- Experience papers describing the static and/or time-varying structure of object database applications --- Performance requirements in various application domains. Goals and Focus: The goal of this workshop is to develop a stronger understanding of the issues related to object database behavior characterization and performance evaluation based on that characterization. Because understanding the behavior of actual object database applications is critical to achieving our goals, we strongly encourage database users to participate. By bringing together a community interested in these issues, our hope is that better measurements, better benchmarks, and ultimately better performance characterizations will be developed. To this end, we are strongly encouraging diverse participation from anyone with interest in object database performance and/or performance characterization, including OODBMS vendors, OODBMS users, and academics researching the performance of object databases. Requirements for attendance: Attendance will be by invitation only. Based on position papers received, we will organize sessions on related topics. Interested parties should submit a 2 to 5 page position paper and indicate whether they desire to make a presentation, and if so, whether they prefer to make a short (10 minute) or long (20 minute) presentation. We will make final versions of position papers of attendees available to the other attendees and publicly on the Internet. We would like to limit attendance to about 40 persons and we reserve the right to limit the number of authors attending in conjunction with each invitation. To participate, please submit 6 copies of your position paper by August 15, 1995. You should be notified of acceptance by September 1, 1995. Send your submissions to: Prof. Benjamin Zorn Department of Computer Science Campus Box 430 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 Telephone: (303) 492-4398 Fax: (303) 492-2844 Email: zorn@cs.colorado.edu Organizers: Rick Cattell, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Akmal Chaudhri, The City University, London, UK Michael Franklin, University of Maryland Eliot Moss, University of Massachusetts Allen Otis, Servio Corporation Benjamin Zorn (chair), University of Colorado See also: URL: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~zorn/OOPSLA95-Workshop.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Wed Jul 19 11:02:15 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:02:11 -0500; AA28028 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:02:09 -0500 From: Roland YAP Message-Id: <9507191602.AA24465@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:02:09 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON CONSTRAINTS, DATABASES AND LOGIC PROGRAMMING International Logic Programming Symposium Portland, Oregon, USA December 8, 1995 Sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming The notion of constraints -- the relationships among objects and the limitations they impose on one another -- is a natural framework for modelling and problem-solving. Thus it is not surprising that constraint-based problem representations have evolved into generalized methods of problem-solving, as exemplified in constraint logic programming (CLP), constraint databases (CDB's), and constraint-intensive queries (CIQ's). CLP is a powerful and expressive programming paradigm, combining the ability to manipulate partial information using constraints, the elegance of executable specifications inherent in logic programming, and the incorporation of search heuristics and efficient constraint solvers in specialized domains. CDB's are useful for storing and efficiently querying large numbers of constraints representing, for example, complex modelling requirements as well as spatial and temporal data. CIQ's are important in applications such as decision support, in which constraints are used to create views on data and to facilitate query optimization. The purpose of this workshop is to advance the state of the art in CLP, CDB's and CIQ's, and to discuss the interplay among these areas. Topics include (but are not restricted to) the following: * Applications of CLP, CDB's and CIQ's * Using constraint languages for modelling and knowledge representation * Execution strategies for CLP (e.g. abstract machines, memoing techniques) * Global optimization/query optimization for CLP, CDB's and CIQ's * New constraint domains (especially those useful for databases or knowledge representation) * Constraint solving algorithms * Object databases and constraints * Storing and accessing large constraint sets * Spatial and temporal databases and constraints * Implementation and evaluation of constraint systems Authors are invited to submit papers written in English and not exceeding 15 pages (5000 words) to the contact address listed below. We encourage authors to submit by electronic mail in self-contained Postscript or LaTeX/TeX format. Alternatively six paper copies may be submitted. Submissions should contain return mail and email addresses. We encourage prospective authors to first send an expression of interest together with a paper title to the organizers. The DEADLINE for submission of papers is Sept 25, 1995. (Note: Authors submitting by electronic mail should contact the organizers if they have not received an electronic acknowledgement within 2-3 days). Organizing Committee Alex Brodsky, George Mason University, U.S.A. brodsky@isse.gmu.edu Jennifer Burg, Wake Forest University, U.S.A. burg@mthcsc.wfu.edu Alon Y. Levy, AT&T Bell Laboratories, U.S.A. levy@research.att.com Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Bell Laboratories, U.S.A. divesh@research.att.com Peter J. Stuckey, University of Melbourne, Australia pjs@cs.mu.oz.au Roland H.C. Yap, University of Melbourne, Australia roland@cs.mu.oz.au Contact Details: ---------------- Jennifer Burg Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 27109, U.S.A. Email: burg@mthcsc.wfu.edu Phone: +1 (910) 759-4465 Fax: +1 (910) 759-6133 Important Dates: ---------------- Intention to submit: August 28 Submission deadline: September 25 Notification of authors: October 30 Camera-ready version: November 20 Workshop date: December 8 ---------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%% %%%%%%% LaTeX Source %%%%%%% \documentstyle{article} \evensidemargin=0cm \oddsidemargin=-0.8cm \topmargin=-1.0cm \headsep=0cm \textheight=27cm \textwidth=17.8cm \columnwidth=\textwidth \parskip=2pt plus 1pt \parindent=3.25ex \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} \sloppy \begin{center} CALL FOR PAPERS \\ {\bf POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON CONSTRAINTS, DATABASES AND LOGIC PROGRAMMING} \\ {\bf International Logic Programming Symposium} \\[1.0ex] Portland, Oregon, USA \\ December 8, 1995 \\[0.1ex] Sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming \vspace{0.1ex} \end{center} \noindent The notion of constraints -- the relationships among objects and the limitations they impose on one another -- is a natural framework for modelling and problem-solving. Thus it is not surprising that constraint-based problem representations have evolved into generalized methods of problem-solving, as exemplified in constraint logic programming (CLP), constraint databases (CDB's), and constraint-intensive queries (CIQ's). CLP is a powerful and expressive programming paradigm, combining the ability to manipulate partial information using constraints, the elegance of executable specifications inherent in logic programming, and the incorporation of search heuristics and efficient constraint solvers in specialized domains. CDB's are useful for storing and efficiently querying large numbers of constraints representing, for example, complex modelling requirements as well as spatial and temporal data. CIQ's are important in applications such as decision support, in which constraints are used to create views on data and to facilitate query optimization. The purpose of this workshop is to advance the state of the art in CLP, CDB's and CIQ's, and to discuss the interplay among these areas. Topics include (but are not restricted to) the following: \begin{itemize} \vspace*{-2mm} \setlength{\parsep}{0pt} \setlength{\itemsep}{-1mm} \item Applications of CLP, CDB's and CIQ's \item Using constraint languages for modelling and knowledge representation \item Execution strategies for CLP (e.g. abstract machines, memoing techniques) \item Global optimization/query optimization for CLP, CDB's and CIQ's \item New constraint domains (especially those useful for databases or knowledge representation) \item Constraint solving algorithms \item Object databases and constraints \item Storing and accessing large constraint sets \item Spatial and temporal databases and constraints \item Implementation and evaluation of constraint systems \end{itemize} Authors are invited to submit papers written in English and not exceeding 15 pages (5000 words) to the contact address listed below. We encourage authors to submit by electronic mail in {\bf self-contained} Postscript or \LaTeX/\TeX{} format. Alternatively six paper copies may be submitted. Submissions should contain return mail and email addresses. We encourage prospective authors to first send an expression of interest together with a paper title to the organizers. \underline{The {\bf DEADLINE} for submission of papers is Sept 25, 1995}. (Note: Authors submitting by electronic mail should contact the organizers if they have not received an electronic acknowledgement within 2-3 days). \begin{center} \underline{Organizing Committee} \medskip \begin{minipage}{15cm} \begin{tabular}{ll} Alex Brodsky, George Mason University, U.S.A. & {\tt brodsky@isse.gmu.edu} \\ Jennifer Burg, Wake Forest University, U.S.A. & {\tt burg@mthcsc.wfu.edu} \\ Alon Y. Levy, AT\&T Bell Laboratories, U.S.A. & {\tt levy@research.att.com} \\ Divesh Srivastava, AT\&T Bell Laboratories, U.S.A. & {\tt divesh@research.att.com} \\ Peter J. Stuckey, University of Melbourne, Australia & {\tt pjs@cs.mu.oz.au} \\ Roland H.C. Yap, University of Melbourne, Australia & {\tt roland@cs.mu.oz.au} \\ \end{tabular} \end{minipage} \end{center} \medskip \hrule \smallskip \begin{tabular}{l|@{\hspace{8mm}}ll} \underline{\bf Contact Details:} & \underline{\bf Important Dates:} \\ \\ Jennifer Burg & Intention to submit: & August 28 \\ Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science~~ & Submission deadline: & September 25 \\ Wake Forest University & Notification of authors: & October 30 \\ Winston-Salem, NC 27109, U.S.A. & Camera-ready version: & November 20 \\ & Workshop date: & December 8 \\ Email: burg@mthcsc.wfu.edu \\ Phone: +1 (910) 759-4465 \\ Fax: +1 (910) 759-6133 \end{tabular} \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@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Wed Jul 19 11:05:35 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:05:32 -0500; AA28075 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:05:31 -0500 From: gudivada@dragon.jsums.edu (Dr. V. N. Gudivada) Message-Id: <9507191605.AA24472@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:05:31 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ---------- X-Sun-Data-Type: text X-Sun-Data-Description: text X-Sun-Data-Name: text X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii X-Sun-Content-Lines: 17 Dear Colleagues, Peter Wegner, Rick Furuta, and I invite you to submit a short article on Multimedia Systems topics to a Symposium on Multimedia Systems to appear in ACM Computing Surveys journal (likely in December '95) issue. Please find enclosed details of the symposium. All submissions will be quickly refereed and selection of articles will be based on referee reports and suitability of the topic to the symposium. We hope you seriously consider making a submission to the symposium. Regards, Venkat Gudivada ---------- X-Sun-Data-Type: default X-Sun-Data-Description: default X-Sun-Data-Name: sympo.txt X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii X-Sun-Content-Lines: 100 SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS to appear in ACM Computing Surveys We invite you to submit a 1000-word article illuminating some technical aspect of multimedia systems to ACM Computing Surveys for possible publication in a Symposium issue (December 1995 likely). Contributed articles will be quickly reviewed. This symposium forms part of a new initiative to broaden the scope and vary the format of Computing Surveys. The goal of the symposium on multimedia systems is to provide a substantive overview of the technical scope of and research directions in multimedia systems and applications by means of provocative position statements or descriptions of technical research areas by leading researchers. The first symposium, appearing in the March 1995 issue and containing short 12 articles, centers on issues of computational complexity and the nature of computer science raised by the Hartmanis 1994 Turing lecture. The second symposium, focuses on select areas of Artificial Intelligence, will appear in September 1995 issue. The following questions illustrate the kinds of issues with which articles in multimedia systems symposium might deal: o How have multimedia systems evolved in the last few years? What are the leading research issues? o Multimedia technology has been perceived as hardware and applications driven technology. Is there a conceptual core, a set of fundamental components, and theory underlying the core and components? o How will the advances in high performance computing and communications affect multimedia systems and applications? o What data compression schemes are relevant for multimedia applications? o What are the issues involved in multimedia storage servers? o What challenges face work on networked multimedia systems? o What role does multimedia database systems play in developing multimedia systems and applications? o Where do we stand in data models, query languages/interfaces, and system architectures for multimedia database systems? o What are the leading problems and paradigms for multimedia interface design? o What is the status of research on teleconferencing and computer supported collaborative environments? o What are the technical challenges in developing interactive multimedia applications? o How can semantic content of multimedia data be extracted automatically? semi-automatically? o How can multimedia information retrieval systems deal with subjectivity in the interpretation of multimedia data by the system users? o What are the issues in distributed multimedia information retrieval? o Can hypermedia instructional technologies help people learn faster and more effectively? o What are the learning theories and design paradigms for multimedia/hypermedia instructional authoring and presentation? o What role does Artificial Intelligence (AI) play in developing ``intelligent" multimedia systems? o How will future multimedia systems affect our work, home, and the society? The above questions are merely illustrative. We hope that you respond to our invitation by picking an area of personal interest and writing a substantive, provocative, and informative 1000-word article. 1000-word articles are both easier to write and easier to read than longer contributions, and we believe short articles can often make a point better than longer ones. (Our motto is: ``a thousand words is worth a picture.") Please send a copy of your contribution to each of the following: Venkat Gudivada (School of Electrical Engg. and Computer Science, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, vng@gudivada.cs.ohiou.edu), Rick Furuta (Department of Computer Science, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112, furuta@bush.cs.tamu.edu), and Peter Wegner (Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, pw@cs.brown.edu) by October 15th and inform us of your intention to submit a piece with provisional title by September 30, 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Thu Jul 20 10:51:36 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 20 Jul 95 10:51:33 -0500; AA12695 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 10:51:31 -0500 From: "Babis Theodoulidis" Message-Id: <9507201551.AA25745@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 20 Jul 95 10:51:31 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu CHAIR in REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Chair in Real-Time Systems University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, United Kingdom Applications are invited for an established Chair in Real-Time Systems in the Department of Computation, UMIST. The new Professor will be expected to undertake teaching and lead a research team towards international excellence in the field of real-time systems. The successful candidate will have an outstanding academic research record and/or evidence of substantial achievements in industry in a recognised area of real-time systems. Applicants whose research is related to current departmental interests are particularly welcome. Commencing salary will be within the Professorial range, current minimum: #163#31,999 per annum. Requests for applications forms and further details, quoting reference COM/A/95, should be sent to: The Personnel Office, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD. The closing date is 18 August 1995. An equal opportunity employer and a Centre of Excellence in education and research. UMIST Department of Computation Chair in Real-Time Systems: Further particulars 1. Introduction The primary focus of the Department of Computation lies in the specification, design, analysis and modelling of complex information processing systems. The term information processing systems is used in its widest sense to include the design of VLSI circuits, software, decision support systems, information and data base systems, embedded computer systems and so on. The more formal aspects of computer science, which provide the mathematical foundations for the discipline are also considered as the essential basis upon which the development of complex information processing systems is taught and researched. The Department of Computation is seeking to appoint a Professor of Real-Time Systems to complement its existing strengths in the key area of "Systems Engineering". The holder of this established chair will be expected to promote research in at least one of the following areas of real-time systems: specification; design; validation and verification; implementation. The following fields are of particular interest to the Department: hardware/software codesign of embedded systems; novel architectures for high performance computing; formal approaches to concurrency, reliability and correctness; specialised techniques for real-time applications; distributed and networked systems. The Department of Computation currently has 32 academic staff comprising 4 established Chairs, 9 Senior Lecturers and 19 Lecturers. To sustain its teaching and research activities the Department has 16 Computer Officers. The quality and depth of research was recognised by a 4A rating in the last Research Assessment Exercise. It is widely believed in the Department that the quality of its research together with the enthusiasm and dedication of its staff provide an excellent basis for further successes and it remains a high priority within the Department to achieve a 5 rating in the forthcoming Research Assessment Exercise. 2. Research The research activities within the Department of Computation concern the application of an engineering discipline to the construction of complex hardware and software systems for large scale applications. The academic staff are organised into five active Research Groups, each associated with an established chair: o Computer Systems Engineering o Information Engineering o Information Systems o Medical Informatics o Software Engineering With the increasing size and expansion of activity within the Information Systems Group, an Information Systems Management sub-group has recently been established which concentrates on the management of information systems development, whilst the Information Systems Group concentrates on the engineering aspects of system development. The new Professor will be expected to lead the Computer Systems Engineering Group (which may be suitably renamed). At the present time, the group contains six academic staff whose main research interests are: hardware/software cosynthesis; neural network applications and support; concurrency modelling; image recognition techniques; parallel processing architectures. Research support has been provided by the EC, EPSRC, and industry. There are currently 8 PhD students working in these areas. Where appropriate the new Professor would need to forge links with other Research Groups both within and outside the Department. In particular, members of the Software Engineering Group also undertake research and teaching in the area of real-time systems, and colleagues in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics are active in the related areas of digital systems, digital communications, signal processing, and microelectronic circuit design. 3. Teaching 3.1 Undergraduate Courses The Department presently offers two largely independent families of undergraduate courses. Co-ordination of academic content of courses, timetabling, examination procedures etc. is carried out by the Departmental Curriculum Committee, which is also responsible for overseeing course accreditation by the British Computer Society and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Boards of Studies are responsible for the day-to-day operation of courses. The current course portfolio consists of: Computation B.Sc. Computation B.Sc. Information Engineering B.Sc. Pure Mathematics and Computation B.Sc. Linguistics and Computation B.Sc. Computation and Modern Languages Systems Engineering B.Eng./M.Eng. Microelectronic Systems Engineering B.Eng./M.Eng. Software Engineering B.Eng./M.Eng. Computer Systems Engineering B.Eng./M.Eng. Electronic Systems Engineering The new Professor would be expected to play a leading role in the future development of the Systems Engineering family of courses which are run jointly with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. These courses are composed of different mixtures of hardware and software topics - the precise blend is dependent on the actual degree course. 3.2 Postgraduate Courses The Department offers four M.Sc. taught courses: o M.Sc. in Computation o M.Sc. in Information System Engineering o M.Sc. in Software Engineering o M.Sc. in Information Engineering The M.Sc. course in Computation is a conversion course which receives EPSRC support for 20 students at present. The M.Sc. courses in Information System Engineering, Software Engineering, and Information Engineering, represent specialist courses in Computing. At present the Department recruits students to the Information System Engineering course only. The Department is currently planning to pilot an external degree in Singapore commencing in September 1995, based upon the M.Sc. in Information System Engineering. The Department also contributes to the MSc course in VLSI Systems Engineering run by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. ************************************************************************* Dr Babis Theodoulidis Department of Computation, UMIST, P.O. Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom tel: +44 161 200 3309 fax: +44 161 200 3324 email: babis@sna.co.umist.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Thu Jul 20 10:52:45 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 20 Jul 95 10:52:42 -0500; AA12708 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 10:52:41 -0500 From: ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es (Congreso IPMU96) Message-Id: <9507201552.AA25754@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 20 Jul 95 10:52:41 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Dear Sir, You can find enclosed the preliminary call for paper for IPMU'96 International Conference. As you can see in the topics, it is of primary interest for the database community, so that we hope it is an important contribution to your list. Yours Sincerely, IPMU'96 Organization Commitee --------- Mail Contribution to the List begin here -------- ***************************************************** * Preliminary Call for Paper * * * * IPMU'96 * * * * Information Processing and Management of * * Uncertainty * * in Knowledge Based Systems * * * * Granada, Spain, July 1-5, 1996 * ***************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------- Organized by Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial. Universidad de Granada. Sponsored by Junta de Andalucia. Universidad de Granada. Ayuntamiento de Granada. -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- Aims and Scope -------------------------------------------------------- Organized at a regular two-year interval, the IPMU International Conference deals with the difficulties existing in the acquisition, representation, management and transmission of data in knowledge-based and decision-making systems. It brings together researches working on various methodologies for the management of uncertain information and provides a useful exchange between theorists and practitioners using these different methodologies. -------------------------------------------------------- Topics of particular interest -------------------------------------------------------- * Uncertainty Methods: Measures of Information and Uncertainty, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Fuzzy Methods, Mathematical Theory of Evidence, Belief Networks, Chaos Theory. * Non-standard Logics: Non-monotonic Logics, Approximate Reasoning, Multivalued Logics, Modal Logics, Temporal Reasoning, Case-based Reasoning. * Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Machine Learning, Inductive Methods, Commonsense Knowledge, Intelligent Databases and Information Systems. * Intelligent Systems: Fuzzy Control, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation, Expert Systems under Uncertainty, Decision Support Systems, Multicriteria and Group Decision Making, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Classification, Belief Updating and Inconsistency Handling. -------------------------------------------------------- Address and Location -------------------------------------------------------- IPMU'96 Dpto. Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial. E.T.S.I. Informatica. Avda. Andalucia, 38 Universidad de Granada. 18071 Granada. Spain. Phone: +34.58.244019 Fax: +34.58.243317 e-mail: ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es e-mail for submissions: ipmu96-submissions@robinson.ugr.es URL: http://pirata.ugr.es/ipmu96.html Granada, a world-famous city, whose history spans over thousand years, also has outstanding features as a modern conference town. The Alhambra, the city's monuments, cultural and University traditions, as well as excellent leisure facilities, good restaurants, lively night life, the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Coast, all attract thousand of visitors to Granada every year. -------------------------------------------------------- Submission Information -------------------------------------------------------- Authors should submit three copies of each full paper by November 1st. There will be a six page (two columns) limit on the final versions of accepted papers. Papers will be carefully reviewed and authors will be notified on the acceptance/rejection by February 1st, 1996. Final camera-ready copies for publication will required by April 1st, 1996. Submissions may be sent by mail to the address included in this call. Electronic submissions are encouraged. To submit a paper electronically, send an e-mail to ipmu96-submissions@robinson.ugr.es including the following information (in this order): a) Paper title (plain text) b) Author's names, including professional status. c) Surface mail and e-mail address for a contact author (plain text) d) A short abstract, including keywords or topic indicators (plain text) e) Paper body (Postscript format) Proceedings will be available at the opening of the Conference. Relevant papers may be selected for publication in special issues of leading international journals. -------------------------------------------------------- Dates and Deadlines -------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 1 1995: Deadline for submission of papers. Feb. 1 1996: Notification of acceptance/rejection. Apr. 1 1996: Reception of final camera-ready. May 15 1996: Deadline for early registration. July 1-5 1996: CONFERENCE. Early Registration Fee: 60.000 pesetas (ptas). Late Registration Fee: 70.000 pesetas (ptas). -------------------------------------------------------- Invited sessions -------------------------------------------------------- A number of invited sessions on special topics will be included in the program of IPMU'96. Authors will be invited to contribute to these sessions, which will be chaired by recognized experts in these topics. Proposals to organize invited sessions are welcome to be considered by the committee until September 15th. -------------------------------------------------------- Honorary President -------------------------------------------------------- Lotfi A. Zadeh(University of California, Berkeley, USA) -------------------------------------------------------- General Chairpersons Committee -------------------------------------------------------- Bernardette Bouchon-Meunier (CNRS, France) Miguel Delgado (University of Granada, Spain) Jose Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, Spain) Maria Amparo Vila (University of Granada, Spain) Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, NY, USA) -------------------------------------------------------- International Program Committee -------------------------------------------------------- J. Aczel (Canada) J. Aguilar-Martin (France) J. Baldwin (UK) S. Barro (Spain) A. Blanco (Spain) H. Berenji (USA) J. Bezdek(USA) P. Bonissone (USA) P. Bosc (France) J.L. Castro(Spain) D. Dubois (France) F. Esteva (Spain) M. Fedrizzi (Italy) M.A. Gil (Spain) A. Gonzalez (Spain) S. Guiasu (Canada) J. Gutierrez (Spain) F. Herrera (Spain) K. Hirota(Japan) J. Jacas (Spain) J.Y. Jaffray (France) J. Kacprzyk (Poland) A. Kandel (USA) E.P. Klement (Austria) G. Klir (USA) R. Kruse (Germany) M.T. Lamata (Spain) H.L. Larsen (Denmark) S.L. Lauritzen (Denmark) R. Lopez de Mantaras (Spain) R. Marin (Spain) J. Montero (Spain) S. Moral (Spain) H. Nguyen (USA) S. Ovchinnikov(USA) J. Pearl (USA) H. Prade(France) I. Requena (Spain) A. Rocha (Brazil) E. Ruspini (USA) A. Sage (USA) E. Sanchez (France) G. Shafer (USA) P. Shenoy (USA) P. Smets (Belgium) M. Sugeno (Japan) S. Termini (Italy) A. Titli (France) E. Trillas (Spain) I.B. Turksen (USA) R. Valle (France) L. Valverde (Spain) T. Yamakawa (Japan) H.J. Zimmermann (Germany) -------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee: -------------------------------------------------------- S. Moral (President) A. Blanco J.L. Castro J.C. Cubero A. Gonzalez F. Herrera M.T. Lamata J.M. Medina O. Pons I. Requena J.M. Zurita -------------------------------------------------------- PRE-REGISTRATION FORM -------------------------------------------------------- If you want to be kept informed, please fill in this form and return it to the address included in this call. ........................ cut here ....................... Pre-Registration Form Surname: First Name: Mailing Address: Phone: Fax: E-Mail: _ |_| I am interested in attending the conference. _ |_| I am interested in submitting a paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Thu Jul 20 23:09:37 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 20 Jul 95 23:09:33 -0500; AA18903 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 23:09:32 -0500 From: Kia Makki Message-Id: <9507210409.AA27257@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 20 Jul 95 23:09:32 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ************************************************* ********** CALL FOR PAPERS ********** ************************************************* _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ |_| | ||| _ | _ | (_ (_| |_ | | |_ | | |_) | _) _| _) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - 3rd ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP - = ON ADVANCES IN = - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS - =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Baltimore, Maryland, USA December 1-2, 1995 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sponsored by ACM in cooperation with CACS-USL, UT1-CERISS in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'95) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= In recent years computer processing of Earth observations through geographic information systems has attracted a great deal of attention from the industrial and research world. The Third ACM International Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems will provide an effective forum for disseminating original and fundamental research and experience in the rapidly advancing area of the use of computer science for spatial studies. Since the workshop will be held in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'95), participants will be able to maximize their interchange of experiences and knowledge among researchers and practioners across the entire field of knowledge and information management. ACM-GIS'95 will bring together leading researchers and developers and will strive toward setting future research directions in this area. The primary focus of the workshop is on new and original research results in the areas of theorical foundations, design, implementation and applications of GIS as well as experience reports from application specialists. The goal is to exchange research ideas and results among participants. Therefore the topics that will be addressed include, but are not limited to: - Query processing and optimization - Spatio-temporal data models and languages - Requirements analysis for GIS applications - GIS performance modeling and evaluation - Reasoning with GIS information - Imprecise spatio-temporal information - Semantics of spatio-temporal data - Quality aspects of geographic information - Design of spatio-temporal data structures - Spatial indexing and storage - Knowledge discovery - GIS meta data - User interfaces for GIS - Multi-media GIS - Digital libraries for GIS - Virtual reality in GIS - Interoperability among heterogeneous GIS - Electronic geographic data interchange standards - Parallel/distributed GIS - GIS and internetworking - Client-server architecture for GIS - GIS and cooperative work - Multidatabase GIS - Distributed spatial objects - Time in GIS - Active spatial objects - Moving objects in GIS - Real-time GIS systems - GIS software tools and environments - Novel applications in scientific and environmental domains - Integration with existing commercial products - Reports on experience with real applications Papers submission: ------------------ Authors are invited to submit complete and original research contributions or experience reports; submissions should be written in english and should include: - Title - Author(s) informations (Name, Affiliation, Postal address E-mail address, Phone/Fax numbers) - Topic(s) - Abstract (up to 200 words) - Text (double-spaced and no longer than 5 000 words) - References In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings should also be included. Submitters should indicate in a cover letter their willingness to attend the workshop and present their paper. All submitted papers will be refereed by at least five reviewers for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM-GIS'95 proceedings. We encourage submissions from both academic and industrial spheres. Proposals for panels that examine emerging, innovative, or otherwise provocative geographic information issues are encouraged as well. Panel proposals should include a summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of the panelists who have made a commitment to participate. Seven copies of the manuscript should be submitted by August 4, 1995 to Dr Patrick Bergougnoux, the ACM-GIS'95 program Co-Chair: Dr Patrick Bergougnoux c/o Michele Cuesta The University of Toulouse 1 CERISS laboratory Place Anatole France 31042 Toulouse Cedex - FRANCE E-mail : bergougn@irit.fr Phone : (33) 61 57 47 89 Fax : (33) 61 57 94 44 ---------------------------IMPORTANT DATES-------------------------- Paper submission deadline : August 4, 1995 Notification of acceptance : September 29, 1995 Camera ready paper due : October 27, 1995 ACM-GIS'95 workshop date : December 1-2, 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------------- To receive by post-mail the color version of this call for papers or for any more information about ACM-GIS'95, please send post-mail, fax or e-mail to Dr Patrick Bergougnoux at the above address. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ACM-GIS'95 Program Committee =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= General Chair: -------------- Niki Pissinou Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, CACS Program Co-Chairs: ------------------ Patrick Bergougnoux Univ. Toulouse 1, CERISS laboratory Kia Makki Univ. of Nevada, Dpt of Computer Science Program Committee: ------------------ Z. Ahmed, Univ. of California W.G. Aref, Umatsushita Information Technologie Lab. M.P. Armstrong, Univ. of Iowa F. Bonfatti, Univ. of Modena, Italy N.G. Bourbakis, State Univ. of New York, Binghamton P. Boursier, Univ. of Paris-Sud, France S. Busovaca (local arr.), California State Univ. Sacramento W. Campbell, NASA/GSFC L. De Floriani, Univ. of Genova, Italy A. El Abbadi, UC Santa Barbara A. Frank, Technical Univ. Vienna, Austria M.F. Goodchild, Univ. of California O. Guenther, Humboldt Univ. of Berlin, Germany J. Han, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, Canada D. Helder, South Dakoda Sata Univ. J. Herring, Intergraph Corporation P. Hunter, NASA IITA R. Laurini, Claude Bernard Univ. of Lyon, France D.M. Mark, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo E.K. Park (treasurer), US Naval Academy H. Samet, Univ. of Maryland T. Sarjakoski, Finnish Geodetic Inst., Helsinki, Finland P. Scheuermann, Northwestern Univ., Evanston M. Scholl, CNAM Paris, France T. Sellis, Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece S. Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota S.Y. Shin, South Dakoda Sata Univ. Y. Song, Drexel Univ of Philadelphia J. Thormodsgard, USGS J.J.P. Tsai, Univ. of Illinois B.W. Wah, Univ. of Illinois F. Waltz, USGS M.F. Worboys, Keele Univ., UK G. Zurfluh, Univ. of Toulouse 1, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-