From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Mon Feb 12 17:14:28 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Feb 96 17:14:25 -0600; AA29138 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 17:14:23 -0600 From: son@bbibbi.cs.virginia.edu Message-Id: <9602122314.AA24958@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Feb 96 17:14:23 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION ON PREDICTABILITY AND SCHEDULING IN REAL-TIME DATABASE SYSTEMS University of Virginia Department of Computing Science Charlottesville, VA 22903 The Real-time Systems Research Group of the University of Virginia is looking for a research associate for a research project on predictable transaction processing. The objective of the project is to design and develop a transaction model and processing schemes for real-time database systems and extend the existing RTDB system to support predictability and temporal consistency. As such, it encompasses the fields of (a) real-time scheduling, (b) database management, and (c) operating systems. We are seeking one research associate with special expertise in real-time database systems and/or scheduling to join our team. Appointment will initially be for one year, renewable based on performance and availability of funds. We are especially interested in individuals with the following qualifications: * A Ph.D. degree (or in the last stages of obtaining it) in computer science * Preferably prior research on real-time systems with particular emphasis on real-time data management and scheduling * Ability to work in a team environment interacting with graduate students on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the position does require U.S. citizenship. For more information on the projects, please see our WWW page: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~son/. Interested candidates should send a vita, names of four references and reprints of published papers that are related to the project topic to: Prof. Sang H. Son Department of Computing Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA Fax: 804-982-2214 Email: son@cs.virginia.edu The starting date is open to discussion, however we would like to have someone in place no later than March 1, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Tue Feb 13 08:36:35 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 96 08:36:28 -0600; AA12148 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 08:36:27 -0600 From: jbishop@ist.ucf.edu (John Bishop) Message-Id: <9602131436.AA25850@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 96 08:36:27 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Event: 1996 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTI-MEDIA DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (IW-MMDBMS'96) Loc: Blue Mountain Lake, New York (Minnowbrook Conference Center) Dates: March 15, 1996 PAPERS DUE August 14-16, 1996 Workshop POC: Dr. Kingsley C. Nwosu Tel: (201)386-4211 Fax: (201)386-6235 Email: nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com WWW: http://drum.ncsc.org/~nwosuck/iwmmdbms96.html ----------------------------------------- Sponsored by - New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE) at Syracuse University in cooperation with - IEEE Computing Society - IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing - IEEE SIG Multimedia - ACM SIG Multimedia* - ACM SIGMOD* - The Data Management Specialty Group of the MITRE Corp. ----------------------------------------- The rapid advances in many facets of Computer Technology have intensified Research and Development interests in Multi-Media Information Processing(MMIP). Despite the current existence of some forms of Multi-Media Systems, the true realization of MMIP rests on the ability to access and manipulate the multi-media objects. That can only be adequately addressed and achieved via Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems (MMDBMSs). For conventional text-based information, data access and manipulation have advanced considerably; however, for multi-media systems that incorporate continuous media objects, e.g., audio and video, and other media types like images, voice, and graphics, they pose novel problems. IW-MMDBMS'96 is an international technical forum for active researchers and practitioners who are involved in various aspects of multimedia database management isues. The workshop will emphasize the issues relevant to designing, developing, and utilizing MMDBMSs. The paper presentations, panel, and working group discussions will addresss the following issues as they relate to MMDBMSs: - Multi-Media Database Modelling - Decomposition/Organization Strategies - Storage Structures and Techniques - Distributed Multimedia DBMS - Multimedia Database Applications - Data transmission - Multimedia Network Protocols and Infrastructures - Query Language Designs, Specifications, and Optimizations - Retrieval/Search Techniques/Strategies/Algorithms - Access Methods, Browsing, and Indexing Techniques - Multimedia Data Synchronization - QoS Delivery/Presentation Issues - Image Processing (Storage, Retrieval, etc.) - Conventional Database Compatibility Issues - Operating Systems Implications - System, Schema, and Functional Architectures - Metadata Management - Performance Evaluation - Access Security Issues - Object-Oriented Paradigms Information for Authors: ======================== Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of each paper not exceeding 25 double-spaced pages, including figures, pictures, etc. Each paper must include an abstract of about 200 words. Previously published papers will not be considered. Each author must clearly describe the nature of the work, significant contributions to the body of work, the novel features, and its current status. A one page cover which contains the full name, affiliation, phone numbers, e-mail address, and full mailing address of each author must accompany each paper. The cover page must also indicate a contact author in the case of multiple authors. If a paper is accepted, the author(s) will prepare the final manuscript, as requested, in time for inclusion in the Workshop proceedings. A number of papers will be selected for special issues of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) and the IEEE Multimedia. The special issues of these journals will primarily deal with multimedia database issues. Paper submissions should be sent to: Dr. Kingsley C. Nwosu email:nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com AT&T Bell Labs. Phone:(201)386-4211 67 Whippany Rd., Rm 2C-256 Fax:(201)386-6235 Whippany, NJ 07981-0903 Important Dates: =============== Papers due: March. 15, 1996. Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 1996. Camera-ready copies due: June 14, 1996. General Chair: Vice General Chair: ============== =============== Prof. P. Bruce Berra Prof. Erich Neuhold Director, CASE Center, GMD-IPSI Suite 2-212, CST, Dolivostrasse 15 Syracuse Univ., D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany Syracuse, NY 13244. Program Chairs: Dr. Kingsley C. Nwosu AT&T Bell Labs., 67 Whippany Rd., Rm. 2C-256, Whippany, NJ 07981-0903. Phone:(201)386-4211. Fax:(201)386-6235. email:nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham The Mitre Corp., K329, Burlington Rd., Bedford, MA. 01730. Phone:(617)271-8873. email:thura@mitre.org Program Co-Chairs: ================= Dr. Patrick Bobbie Dept of CIS, Florida A&M Univ. Tallahassee, FL 32307. Phone:(904)599-3022. email:bobbie@serel.cis.famu.edu Dr. Cyril Orji School of Computer Science Florida International Univ. Miami, FL. 33199 email:orji@geneva.fiu.edu Working Group Chair =================== Prof. T. D. C. Little Boston University Publications Chair: ============================ Prof. Soon M. Chung Dept. of CS and Engr Wright State Univ. Dayton, OH 45435 email:schung@cs.wright.edu Local Arrangements/Registration: =============================== Emileen Butler CASE Center Suite 2-212, CST, Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, NY 13244. Phone:(315)443-1062. Emily Yakawiak CASE Center Suite 2-212, CST Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, NY 13244. Phone:(315)443-1060. Program Committee: ================== Michel Adiba (IMAG-LGI, France) Longy Anyanwu (Montclair St. Univ.) A. Asthana (AT&T Bell Labs) John Buford (UMass Lowell) Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic Univ.) Arif Ghafoor (Purdue Univ.) S. Ghandeharizadeh (USC) F. Golshani (Arizona State Univ) William Grosky (Wayne St. Univ.) Le Gruenwald (U. OK) Arding Hsu (Siemens Corp. Res.) Ramesh Jain (UCSD) Kevin Jeffay (UNC) Wolfgang Klas (GMD-IPSI, Germany) Clement Leung(Victoria Univ. Tech.) T.D.C. Little (Boston Univ.) Kelly Lyons (IBM) Rajiv Mehrotra (U. Missouri-St. Louis) Banu Ozden (AT&T Bell Labs) Dragutin Petkovic (IBM) B. Prabhakara (India Inst. Tech.) P. Venkat Rangan (UCSD) Olivia R. Liu Sheng (Hong Kong US&T) Ralf Steinmetz (IBM) Warren Sterling (AT&T GIS) Raj Yavatkar (U. KY) Philip S. Yu (IBM) HongJiang Zhang (National Univ. of Singapore) WWW page: http://drum.ncsc.org/~nwosuck/iwmmdbms96.html ---------------------------------------- Posted 02-13-96 by IST from incoming email. IST maintains the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) Calendar of Events. For additional info on any calendar event, please contact the POC listed in the posting. A (C) in the title line means this is a continued event. The text will indicate the start date entry which will contain all the details. For further information on this calendar function, please contact John Bishop. jbishop@ist.ucf.edu Institute for Simulation and Training University of Central Florida 407-658-5041 ______________________________________________ To View the Calendar on-line Via the World Wide Web: See URL http://www.sc.ist.ucf.edu/cgi-bin/common/calendar/calendar.pl?user=DISSC _______________________________________________ Do you have an upcoming DIS event for posting?? Its easy--go to the above URL for the calendar and use the on-line posting feature. It will be posted provided its DIS related and has the who, what, where, when and how data. If you can't get to the Web send me an email with the data as text or attached. John Bishop jbishop@ist.ucf.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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Tue Feb 13 10:35:47 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 96 10:35:41 -0600; AA14753 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 10:35:39 -0600 From: Weiyi Meng Message-Id: <9602131635.AA26158@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 96 10:35:39 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Papers 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 ******************************************************************* * World Wide Web page: http://panda.cs.binghamton.edu/pdis96.html * ******************************************************************* 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. While commercial systems in this arena are gradually maturing, new challenges are posed by the growing demand for large-scale, enterprise-wide solutions and the proliferation of services on the "information superhighway". Future parallel and distributed information systems will have to support millions of clients and will face tremendous scalability challenges with regard to massive data volume, performance, availability, and also administration and long-term maintenance. The scope of this conference includes all aspects of parallelism and distribution in information systems. Submissions are solicited particularly but not exclusively on the following topics: * high-performance online transaction processing * data integration and warehousing * online analytical processing and data mining * parallel query optimization and scheduling * parallel and distributed object management * data distribution and replication * multimedia databases * parallel and distributed document management * storage system administration and tuning * tertiary storage management * data management on networks of workstations * mobile and disconnected clients * business workflow management * extended transaction models and management * distributed middleware * interoperability and heterogeneous systems * directory services and information discovery * information and resource brokering * WWW-based query processing * distributed real-time and active database systems * highly available large-scale systems * applications on parallel and distributed systems Submission Instructions: ----------------------- Original papers on the above topics are invited. These should be no longer than 25 double-spaced pages with no smaller than 11 point fonts. To promote cross-fertilization between works in progress, short synopses of substantial projects are invited as well. These should be no longer than 5 double-spaced pages with no smaller than 11 point fonts. A synopsis should contain enough information for the program committee to understand the scope of the problem being addressed and to evaluate the novelty of the proposed solution. The current status of the project should also be indicated. Time and space will be provided in the program and proceedings to discuss innovative aspects of selected projects. Please submit six copies of an original paper or a project synopsis no later than May 1, 1996 (firm ``drop-dead'' deadline) to the following address: Jeffrey Naughton Computer Science Department University of Wisconsin 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706, USA In addition, the authors should send electronic mail by March 21, 1996 to pdis@cs.wisc.edu with the title of the manuscript, authors' names, contact author and address (include email and fax information), and an abstract not to exceed 80 words. Authors will be interested to know that a special issue of the Distributed and Parallel Database Journal containing best papers from the PDIS conference is being planned. For further information, please contact the general chair, Wei Sun (weisun@fiu.edu), one of the program co-chairs, Jeffrey Naughton (naughton@cs.wisc.edu) and Gerhard Weikum (weikum@cs.uni-sb.de), or browse http://panda.cs.binghamton.edu/pdis96.html. Important Dates: ---------------- Email Submission of Abstract: March 21, 1996 Submission Deadline: May 1, 1996 (firm deadline) Notification of Authors: August 15, 1996 Tutorials and Conference: December 18-20, 1996 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 Sean Baker, IONA Technologies Chaitanya Baru, IBM Santa Teresa Labs 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 Sumit Ganguly, Rutgers University 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 Bell Labs 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, AT&T Bell Laboratories Finance: Chungmin Chen, Florida International University Registration: Paul Attie, Florida International University Publicity: Weiyi Meng, SUNY Binghampton Local Arrangements: Cyril Orji, Florida International University Industrial Program: Honesty Young, IBM Almaden Research Center Eugene Shekita, IBM Almaden Research Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Tue Feb 13 10:36:48 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 96 10:36:45 -0600; AA14782 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 10:36:44 -0600 From: Raj Bhatnagar Message-Id: <9602131636.AA26169@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 96 10:36:44 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI The ECECS department, housed in the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, invites nominations and applications for the position of department head. The University of Cincinnati was founded in 1819. Enrollment at the main campus is approximately 35,000 students. The College of Engineering, which is known as the birthplace of cooperative education, has 154 faculty spanning six departments and 11 degree programs. Enrollment in the College consists of 2700 undergraduate and 900 graduate students. Recently founded as a result of a merger between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ECECS has 44 faculty members, 15 professional/administrative staff, approximately 700 undergraduate and 350 graduate students. Sponsored research expenditures during FY94-95 were approximately $4 million. Descriptions of faculty research projects and additional information about the department are available at http://www.ece.uc.edu. We are seeking candidates who possess outstanding leadership and research/teaching records appropriate for a tenured full professorship. A doctorate in one of the fields of the department is required for this position. The main mission of the new department head will be to lead the department in enhancing its programs at all levels, from undergraduate education to graduate research. This is part of a college-wide mission to significantly enhance the quality of all engineering disciplines. As part of this endeavor, the College has recently dedicated a new Engineering Research Center with 100,000 square feet of laboratory space. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Nominations, inquiries, and applications should be directed to: Gary Slater, Chair Head Search Committee Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0070 e-mail: search@ece.uc.edu The University of Cincinnati is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minority and women candidates are especially encouraged to apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Tue Feb 13 18:21:58 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 96 18:21:54 -0600; AA04303 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 18:21:53 -0600 From: "Dr. Ben Huey" Message-Id: <9602140021.AA26817@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 96 18:21:53 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Please post the following faculty position. The search has been extended and applications will continue to be reviewed after the February 16 first closing deadline indicated. Ben M. Huey, Computer Science & Engineering Chair, Faculty Search Committee Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5406 (602) 965-3699 FAX 965-2751 huey@asu.edu Arizona State University COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING We invite outstanding candidates for tenure-track faculty positions in all areas of computer science, but especially in software engineering, networks / distributed operating systems and intelligent information systems. Rank is open. Applicants are required to have completed a Ph.D. in computer science, computer engineering, or a closely related field by the date of appointment, and must show exceptional promise in teaching and research. Arizona State University is a major research university widely recognized as one of the most rapidly emerging educational institutions in the U.S. The main campus is in the city of Tempe, in the metropolitan Phoenix area. The College of Engineering & Applied Sciences has been recognized for its innovative Engineering Excellence Program, a three-way partnership between state government, the university, and high-technology industry. Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a selection of most important publications, and the names and addresses of four references. Direct applications to: Dr. Stephen S. Yau, Chair Department of Computer Science & Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85287-5406 Internet: cs-facsearch@asu.edu Questions and inquiries may be submitted by e-mail, but applications and nominations must be received by post. The closing date is February 16, 1996. Applications received after that date will be reviewed as necessary until the positions are filled. Salary is competitive. Arizona State University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Wed Feb 14 11:07:21 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 14 Feb 96 11:07:16 -0600; AA20245 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 11:07:15 -0600 From: Tolety Siva Perraju Message-Id: <9602141707.AA27538@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 14 Feb 96 11:07:15 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu FIRST NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HYDERABAD INDIA 29-30 JULY 1996 The First National Symposium on Parallel and Distributed AI will be held at University of Hyderabad, India during July 29th-30th, 1996. This is intended to stimulate applications of Parallel and Distributed AI as well as development of tools and techniques required for their successful use. The symposium will feature not only the latest research but special invited lectures reflecting the development in the last 15 years. There will be a balance between theoretical and applied topics. The organizing committee members anticipate that this symposium will encourage papers that are based upon but not limited to multi agent systems, distributed problem solving, cooperative information systems, adaptive agent organizations and organizational learning, parallel pattern matching, parallel rule firing, asynchronous production systems, deliberative and reactive architectures, interruptible blackboard systems, anytime algorithms etc. Papers in the categories of survey/applications, case studies, and original research are invited in (but not restricted to) the following: 1. Theoretical areas - Approaches to coordination & cooperation (decision theory, game theory, dependence theory & organizational theory) - Reasoning - Interaction protocols and communication - Knowledge representation 2. Languages and paradigms 3. Hybrid approaches(combining neural networks) 4. Application and platforms - interoperability & distributed heterogeneous databases - defense and intelligent simulation - vision - decision making - resource management 5. Control and inference management synchronization, consistency, granularity, load balancing, interconnection structures Submissions: Authors should submit two (2) copies of papers with cover page indicating abstract by February 29, 1996. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee, and authors will be notified of the acceptance by March 31, 1996. Camera ready papers must be received by April 20, 1996. Registration Fees: 1. Rs 500 (Rs 300 for full time students) by June 30, 1996. Late registration beyond June 30, 1996 will be Rs 750 (Rs 500 for full time students). Application must be accompanied by Demand Drafts, in favour of PDAI-96 payable at SBI, HUC branch. 2. For Foreign participants, the registration fee will be US$50 in favour of PDAI-96 by International Demand Draft. All correspondence must be addressed to G Uma, Dept of Computer/Information Sciences University of Hyderabad Hyderabad, 500 046 Phone: +91 40 258 780 Fax: +91 40 258 120, 258 145 e-mail: gumacs@uohyd.ernet.in Patron Prof G Mehta Vice Chancellor, UOH Organizing Committee M Vidyasagar(CAIR, Bangalore) VVS Sarma (TRDDC, Pune) BL Deekshatulu (NRSA, Hyderabad) AK Pujari (UOH, Hyderabad) Rao C Kasarabada(ECIL, Hyderabad) K Ramchand (CABS, Bangalore) V Bhatkar(C-DAC, Pune) G Uma(UOH, Hyderabad) KVSS Prasada Rao(RCI, Hyderabad) Program Committee Deepak Khemani (IIT, Madras) G Nagaraja(IIT, Bombay) A Agarwal(UOH,Hyderabad) PS Rao (UOH, Hyderabad) RK Shyam Sundar (TIFR, Bombay) Vijay Chandru(IISc, Bangalore) H Venkateswaran(CAIR, ,Bangalore) TS Perraju (Wayne State University) R Srinivasan (CABS, Bangalore) O Nalini Kumari (SVUCE, Tirupathi) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Feb 15 16:48:54 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 15 Feb 96 16:48:51 -0600; AB15698 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 16:48:50 -0600 From: samarati@dsi.unimi.it (Pierangela Samarati) Message-Id: <9602152248.AA29180@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 15 Feb 96 16:48:50 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Deadline for submissions: March 15, 1996 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ===================================================================== European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS-96) Rome, Italy September 25-27, 1996 ===================================================================== Sponsored and organized by AICA (Associazione Italiana di Informatica) In cooperation with Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, AFCET, the Norwegian Computer Society, Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI) The series of European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) represents a relevant international event in the computer security area. The symposium started in 1990 in Toulouse (France) and is now held every two years in different European countries and attracts audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Previous editions of ESORICS have been in Toulouse (France) and Brighton (United Kingdom). In 1996, ESORICS will be held in Rome (Italy). TOPICS ------- We solicit papers describing original ideas and new results on the foundations and applications of the computer security area. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Theoretical Foundations of Security - security models and specifications, formal logic and information theory, formal development techniques Operating Systems Security - compartmented mode workstations, access control, security models Network Security - authentication, key management, multilevel secure networks Security in Data and Knowledge Bases - multilevel secure DBMS, transaction management, integrity Development of Secure Systems - security requirement engineering, software development environment, high assurance software Security versus other Requirements - security and costs, risk analysis, security policy design, safety, availability Security Evaluation - criteria, evaluation techniques Management of Secure Systems - liability, accountability, auditing, intrusion detection, administration tools Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property Protection - electronic cash, smart cards, fund transfer, software protection Internet Security - firewalls, secure www protocols, secure authentication, privacy, anonimity Distributed Systems - client/server security, distributed object security, security and safety The primary focus is on high-quality original unpublished research, case studies and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. INSTRUCTIONS ------------- Authors are invited to submit six copies of papers or panel proposals before March 15, 1996. The text must be submitted in English. Papers should be limited to 6000 words, full page figures being counted as 300 words. Each paper must include a short abstract and a list of keywords indicating subject classification. Panel proposals should include title, proposed chair, tentative panelists, a 2 or 3 paragraph description of the subject, format of the presentation, and rationale for the panel. Papers and panel proposals must be sent to the following address: Elisa Bertino, ESORICS'96, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione Universita' di Milano, Via Comelico 39, 20135 (Italy) e-mail: bertino@hermes.mc.dsi.unimi.it Tel: (+39)2-55006227 Fax: (+39)2-55006253 IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Deadline for submission: March 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance or rejection: May 31, 1996 Final camera-ready due: June 30, 1996 For electronic paper submission please contact Francesco Gentile at gentilef@fub.it before March 1, 1996. Selection will be based on originality and contribution to the field. The proceedings consisting of the accepted papers will be published and distributed to the participants. It is anticipated that the proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag under the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, as in the previous editions of ESORICS. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for a special issue planned for the Journal of Computer Security. ESORICS STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Yves Deswarte (LAAS-CNRS, France) --------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIR: Giancarlo Martella (University of Milano, Italy) -------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------ Chair: Elisa Bertino (University of Milano, Italy) Vice-Chair: Helmut Kurth (IABG, Germany) Vice-Chair: Emilio Montolivo (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy) Bruno d'Ausbourg (CERT-ONERA, France) Joachim Biskup (University Hildesheim, Germany) Peter Bottomley (DRA, UK) Martha Branstad (TIS, USA) Yves Deswarte (LAAS-CNRS, France) Gerard Eizenberg (CERT-ONERA, France) Ed Fernandez (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Simon Foley (University College, Cork, Ireland) Walter Fumy (Siemens ZFE, Germany) Dieter Gollmann (University of London, UK) Li Gong (SRI, USA) Franz-Peter Heider (GEI, Germany) Jeremy Jacob (University of York, UK) Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University, USA) John McLean (NRL, USA) Roger Needham (University of Cambridge, UK) Pierre Paradinas (RD2P/Gemplus, France) Andreas Pfitzmann (University of Dresden, Germany) Jean-Jacques Quisquater (UCL, Belgium) Pierangela Samarati (University of Milano, Italy) Einar Snekkenes (NDRE, Norway) Bhavani Thuraisingham (MITRE, USA) Vijay Varadharajan (University of West. Sydney, Australia) Mike Walker (Vodafone, UK) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR ------------------------ Francesco Gentile Fondazione Ugo Bordoni - Via B. Castiglione 59 00142 Roma (Italy) Tel: (+39)6-54803321 Fax: (+39)6-54804403 e-mail: gentilef@fub.it WWW --- For more information about ESORICS'96 consult the World Wide Web using URL: http://www.laas.fr/~esorics http://www.fub.it/ESORICS96/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Feb 16 12:45:27 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 16 Feb 96 12:45:22 -0600; AA01564 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 12:45:21 -0600 From: mumick@research.att.com (Inderpal Singh Mumick) Message-Id: <9602161845.AA00381@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 16 Feb 96 12:45:21 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- On the WWW at: http://www.research.att.com/home/mumick@research/views96/views96.html Workshop on Materialized Views: Techniques and Applications (In co-operation with ACM Sigmod) Friday, June 7, 1996 Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Canada. CALL FOR PAPERS and ATTENDANCE ------------------------------ Materialized views have recently seen a renewed interest in the research and commercial communitites because of their applications in warehousing, schema integration in heterogeneous databases, visualization, integrity constraints, query optimization, and decision support. Leading database vendors are currently implementing or planning to implement materialized views in some form. Several database research groups in academia are also studying materialized views. The aim of the workshop is to bring together people working in various aspects of materialized views - their storage, maintenance, implementation, and applications. What are the problems that need to be solved to efficiently implement materialized views? What are the various consistency options and performance tradeoffs in maintaining materialized views? What are the new applications for materialized views? The setting will be informal, and will encourage discussion and interaction. We especially encourage the submission of short papers dealing with specific problems, things that didn't work, desirable features, and position papers. An informal proceedings will be published. Attendance will be limited to around 40 people. There will be a $50 registration fee. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: - ------------------ We invite papers for presentation and discussion at the workshop. Send a postscript copy of the paper by email (preferable), or five hard copies on paper to the address below. The page limit on all submissions is 10 pages, double spaced, 10 pt minimum. Inderpal Singh Mumick AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2B-235 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 (908)582-2001 Fax: (908)582-5809 mumick@research.att.com or Ashish Gupta Oracle Corporation MS 659412 500 Oracle Pkwy Redwood Shores, CA 94065 (415) 506-3877 ashgupta@us.oracle.com If you would like to attend, but will not be submitting a paper, please send mail indicating your interest in attending, by April 1st. IMPORTANT DATES: - ---------------- Papers Due: April 1, 1996 Letters of Interest Due: April 1, 1996 Acceptance Decision: April 29, 1996 Final papers due: May 13, 1996 Workshop: June 7, 1996 (immediately after SIGMOD '96) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: -------------------- Timothy Griffin [AT&T Bell Labs] Ashish Gupta [Oracle] Laks Lakshamanan [Concordia University] Inderpal Mumick [AT&T Bell Labs] PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- Jose Blakeley, Microsoft Suzanne Dietrich, Arizona State University Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich Guozhong Dong, University of Melbourne Alan Downing, Oracle Timothy Griffin, Bell Labs Ashish Gupta, Oracle Rick Hull, University of Colorado Laks Lakshamanan, Concordia University Leonid Libkin, Bell Labs Bruce Lindsay, IBM Almaden Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto Inderpal Singh Mumick, Bell Labs Xiaolei Qian, SRI Robert Rizzo, AT&T Ken Ross, Columbia Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland Yehoshua Sagiv, Hebrew University V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland Laurent Vieille, Bull Jennifer Widom, Stanford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Feb 16 17:01:33 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 16 Feb 96 17:01:28 -0600; AA07499 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 17:01:27 -0600 From: rmusick@anduin.ocf.llnl.gov (Charles R Musick Jr) Message-Id: <9602162301.AA00727@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 16 Feb 96 17:01:27 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu FIRST IEEE METADATA CONFERENCE April 16-18, 1996 NOAA Auditorium, NOAA Complex Silver Spring Metro Center 1301 East-West Highway Silver Spring, Maryland Advance Program FIRST IEEE METADATA CONFERENCE Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Mass Storage Systems and Technology Technical Committee National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hughes Information Technology Corporation National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Management Staff The objectives of this conference are to (1) provide a forum to address metadata issues faced by the various communities including mass storage, data management, image and multimedia processing, and distributed computing, as well as managers of networked heterogeneous information servers, (2) bring the different communities together for technical interchange of ideas on common technologies related to metadata; (3) hear the various perspectives from the users as well as from the producers of metadata; and (4) facilitate the development and usage of metadata. We invite participants from academia, government, and industry to share ideas and experiences. The technical program for the conference consists of papers, poster presentations and panels addressing the following topics: Metadata Usage Metadata Modeling Data Mining for metadata extraction Metadata Standards Metadata for System Integration Data Stewardship Metadata issues related to the EOSDIS program Ontologies Common Metadata models for metadata The technical program and registration information can be found at: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/events/ieee-md.4-96.html Tuesday 16 April 1996 ---------------------- 7:30 am - 7:30 pm Registration 8:30 am - 10:20 am Plenary session: 8:30 am - 8:40 am Welcome: Robert Coyne, Joy Colucci, Chris Miller, Ron Musick, Bhavani Thuraisingham 8:40 am - 9:10 am Opening Remarks: Diana Josephson Deputy Under Secretary National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 9:10 am - 10:20 am Featured Address: Francis Bretherton University of Wisconsin, Madison 10:20 am - 10:40 am Break 10:40 am - 12:00 pm Paper Session - I: Data Stewardship Chair: Robert Coyne, IBM Distributed Metadata Management in the High Performance Storage System D. Fisher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory J. Sobolewski, Maui High Performance Computing Center T. Tyler, IBM Government Systems A Database Approach to Data Archive Management D. Hansen, D. Adams, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory A Strawman Proposal for a Standard Tape Format B. Kobler, National Aeronautics and Space Administration J. Williams, The MITRE Corporation Building a Metadata Manager Within a Standardized Software Environment G. Block, American Educational Research Association R. Kulkarni, University of Maryland, College Park W. Kitto, Air Force Flight Test Center 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 pm - 2:10 pm Poster Introductions 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm Panel: Is a Common Metadata Model Necessary for a Federated Data System? Chair: Sara Graves, University of Alabama, Huntsville Panelists: To be Announced 3:10 pm - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 pm - 5:10 pm Paper session - II: Standards Chair: Dan Schneider, Department of Justice Development of a Metadata Content Standard for Biological Resource Data A. Frondorf, National Biological Service A Standards-based Approach to Statistical Metadata Management D. Gillman, M. Appel, W. LaPlant, Bureau of the Census Application of Metadata Standards J. Newton, National Institute of Standards and Technology Digital Geospatial Metadata: A Brazilian Case of Federal Databases G. Ribeirio, Universidade Federal Fluminense J. Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro A. Freitas, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatmstica Metadata Myth: Misunderstanding the Implications of Federal Metadata Standards T. Foresman, D. Porter, H. Wiggins University of Maryland, Baltimore County 5:10 pm - 7:30 pm Reception and Poster Presentations Wednesday 17 April 1996 ----------------------- 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration 8:30 am - 10:10 pm Paper session - III: Metadata Usage Chair: Ron Musick, Lawrence Livermore National Lab Multiple Metadata Formats from the NOAA Environmental Services Data Directory G. Barton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration A Metadata Service for Meteorological Information P. Emanuelson, Softlab AB, Sweden Metadata Modeling for Quality of Service Management in Distributed Multimedia Systems B. Kerherve, A. Pons, G. Bochmann, A. Hafid Universite du Quebec a Montreal and Universite de Montreal, Canada Documenting Climatological Data Sets for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS): A Conceptual Model C. Miller, T. Karl, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration M. Maiden, National Aeronautics and Space Administration P. Koltermann, Bundesamt fur Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie Metadata Reference Model for Medical Documentation: A Hypermedia Proposal F. Consorti, P. Merialdo, G. Sindoni, University of Rome, Italy 10:10 am - 10:30 am Break 10:30 am - 12:10 pm Paper session - IV: Metadata and System Integration Chair: Mark Whitting, Pacific Northwest National Lab Dynamically Integrating Spatial Data and Metadata B. Bicking, R. East, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. Metadata Sharing for Balanced Performance P. Brown, R. Troy, University of California, Berkeley D. Fisher, S. Louis, J. McGraw, R. Musick, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory A Metadata Architecture for Multi-system Interoperation P. Drew, J. Ying, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology A Metadata Resource to Promote Data Integration L. Seligman, A. Rosenthal, The MITRE Corporation Metadata Independent Correlation of Information: Why? How? A. Sheth, V. Kashyap, University of Georgia 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 pm - 2:40 pm Panel: Role of Ontologies as Metadata Meta Models Chair: Anthony Sarris, Ontek Corporation Panelists: To be Announced 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Break 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm Special Session on EOS Chair: Joy Colucci, Hughes Information Technology Systems Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Context and Science Drivers T. Dopplick, Hughes Information Technology Systems Treatment of Metadata within the EOSDIS Core System Architecture R. Williamson, Hughes Research Laboratory EOSDIS Core System Metadata Design G. Bland, Earth Observation Sciences Limited Metadata Requirements for External Data Providers S. Khalsa, Applied Research Corporation Migration of Version 0 Metadata to ECS R. Suresh, Hughes STX T. Dopplick, Hughes Information Technology Systems Metadata Issues in ECS Science Data Processing Tools for Time Transformations and Geolocation P. Noerdlinger, Applied Research Corporation Future Directions for the ECS Metadata Model M. Daily, Hughes Information Technology Systems Thursday 18 April 1996 ---------------------- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Registration 8:30 am - 10:10 pm Paper session - V: Metadata Extraction and Mining Chair: Leonard Seligman, The MITRE Corporation Metadata Mining in Legacy Data Sets C. Breiteneder, GMD M. Hitz, T. Mueck, University of Vienna Metadata: The Golden Nuggets of Mining Data S. Graves, T. Hinke, University of Alabama, Huntsville Metadata for Database Mining J. Cleary, S. Cunningham, G. Holmes, I. Witten University of Waikato, New Zealand Using Statistical Properties of Text to Create Metadata S. Crowder, C. Nicholas, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Smart Metadata for Large Image Databases B. Krasner, K. Perez-Lopez, M. Berlin, Hughes Aircraft 10:10 am - 10:30 am Break 10:30 am - 12:10 pm Paper session - VI: Metadata Modeling Chair: Chris Miller, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The CERA Data Model I. Jessel, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum Gmbh, Germany Data Archival and Retrieval Enhancement (DARE) Metadata Modeling and Representation J. Hyon, R. Borgen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Key to Enduring Access: Multi-organizational Collaboration on the Development of Metadata for use in Archiving Nuclear Weapons Data B. Lownsbury, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory H. Newton, Los Alamos National Laboratory A General Framework for Constructing Conceptual Models of Metadata in Digital Libraries D. Clay, S. Geffner, J. Gottsegen, B. Gritton, T. Smith University of California, Santa Barbara Metadata to Support Data Quality Assessment and Improvement J. Rothenberg, RAND Corporation 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 pm - 3:10 pm Paper session - VII: Important Metadata Issues Chair: Bhavani Thuraisingham, The MITRE Corporation Automatic and Dynamic Identification of Metadata in Multimedia R. Adams, J. Griffin, R. Yavatkar, University of Kentucky Using Metadata to Address Problems of Semantic Interoperability in Large Object Systems S. Heiler, GTE Laboratories R. Miller, Ohio State University V. Ventrone, Private Health Care Systems A Survey of Attribute Correspondence and Heterogeneity Metadata R. Holowczak, W. Li, Rutgers University Metadata Challenges in Federating Databases M. Templeton, Data Integration Inc. Metadata for Climate Data A. Viront-Lazar, P. Steurer, National Climate Data Center 3:10 pm - 3:30 pm Closing Remarks and discussion LODGING ------- The Conference Center is the NOAA Auditorium, NOAA Complex, 1301 East-West Highway in the Silver Spring Metro Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Nearby hotels include: Silver Spring Hotels: Bethesda Hotels: 1. Quality Hotel 1. Hyatt Regency Bethesda 8727 Colesville Road One Bethesda Metro Center Silver Spring, MD Bethesda, MD (301) 589-5200 (301) 657-1234 2. Courtyard By Marriott 2. Marriott Suites Bethesda 12521 Prosperity Drive 6711 Democracy Blvd Silver Spring, MD Bethesda, MD (301) 680-8500 (301) 897-5600 3. Ramada Hotel 8400 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda, MD (301) 654-1000 MEALS ----- Beverages and snacks will be offered during the morning and afternoon breaks. During the conference, lunch is on your own. Tuesday night there is a catered reception held together with the poster session. DIRECTIONS ---------- The auditorium is connected to NOAA Building 4 at 1305 East-West Highway, which is four buildings east of the intersection of East-West Highway and Colesville Road (Route 29). The NOAA complex is immediately south of the Silver Spring Metro station. There is limited, metered parking underneath NOAA Building 3 (1315 East-West Highway). There is additional public parking on Bonifant Street, north of the NOAA complex and adjacent to the Silver Spring Metro station. REGISTRATION ------------ Registration information can be found on-line at the conference web site. For questions concerning registration, please contact: Bernard T. O'Lear Registration Chair NCAR P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 Phone: 303-497-1268 Fax: 303-497-1818 olear@ncar.ucar.edu ON-LINE INFORMATION ------------------- email: metadata-96@llnl.gov www: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/events/ieee-md.4-96.html IEEE METADATA CONFERENCE COMMITTEES ----------------------------------- Conference Committee: Robert Coyne, IBM Conference Chair Joy Colucci, Hughes Information Technology Systems Conference Vice Chair Chris Miller, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. Local Arrangements Chair Bernard T. O'Lear, National Center for Atmospheric Research Registration Chair Erin Binder, National Media Lab Merritt Jones, The MITRE Corporation Ben Kobler, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Program Committee: Bhavani Thuraisingham, The MITRE Corporation Program Chair Ron Musick, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Program Vice Chair Gerald Barton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Brian Boyle, NOVON Research Group Rosemary Dakos, Hughes Information Technology Systems Sara Graves, University of Alabama in Huntsville Tom Karl, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Robert Kluttz, US PTO Community Management Staff George Jamerson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ken McDonald, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ted Myer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lola Olsen, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland Len Seligman, The MITRE Corporation Steven Shantzis, Hughes Amit Sheth, University of Georgia Eric Simon, INRIA Paul Singley, Oakridge National Laboratory Rick Steinheiser, Central Intelligence Agency Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory If you have any questions, please feel free to contact: Bhavani Thuraisingham Ron Musick Program Chair Program Vice Chair K308, The MITRE Corporation Lawrence Livermore National Lab Burlington Road P.O. Box 808, L-419 Bedford, MA 01730 Livermore, CA 94551 thura@mitre.org rmusick@llnl.gov Phone: 617-271-8873 Phone: 510-424-5015 Fax: 617-271-2352 Fax: 510-422-8920 ========================================================================= FIRST IEEE METADATA CONFERENCE April 16-18, 1996 NOAA Auditorium, NOAA Complex Silver Spring Metro Center 1301 East-West Highway Silver Spring, Maryland ADVANCE REGISTRATION Complete this form and return it with your check (in U.S. dollars) or U.S. Government P.O. made payable to: First IEEE Metadata Conference Send to: Bernard T. O'Lear (303) 497-1268 (phone) First IEEE Metadata Conference (303) 497-1818 (fax) NCAR olear@ncar.ucar.edu P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307, USA Advance Late Conference Registration $125.00 $175.00 Additional Guest Fee* $ 25.00 $ 25.00 TOTAL ENCLOSED: $________________________ (please type or print as it will appear on your badge) Name: (Last)_________________________(First)____________________________ Organization: __________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: _______________________________________________________ City: ____________________ State: ______________________ Zip: __________ Country: _______________________________________________________________ Telephone: __________________________ Fax: _____________________________ Electronic Mail Address: _______________________________________________ *Guest Name: (Last)_________________________(First)_____________________ * A "guest" is defined as a spouse or other person not registered for the meeting who wishes to attend the catered reception, and does not include additional organizational representatives. Make checks payable to First IEEE Metadata Conference. Payment by purchase order will only be accepted from the U.S. Government. Foreign checks and foreign traveler's checks must be for the proper amount in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank. Payment for the conference must be postmarked by March 19, 1996 to qualify for advance registration rates. Late registration will be accepted during check-in at the NOAA Auditorium, Silver Spring beginning at 7:30am, Tuesday, April 16, 1996. Payment by credit card will ONLY be accepted during on-site check-in. Request for REFUNDS must be received IN WRITING before March 30, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Sat Feb 17 17:58:03 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Sat, 17 Feb 96 17:57:58 -0600; AA22185 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 96 17:57:57 -0600 From: Zbigniew W Ras Message-Id: <9602172357.AA01712@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Sat, 17 Feb 96 17:57:57 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ISMIS'96 SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM Ninth International Symposium on METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Recreation Center in The Koscieliska Valley ZAKOPANE, POLAND June 9-13, 1996 SPONSORS: * Polish Academy of Sciences * Warsaw University of Technology * UNC-Charlotte * Oak Ridge National Laboratory 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: * Approximate Reasoning * Evolutionary Computation * Intelligent Information Systems * Knowledge Representation and Integration * Learning and Knowledge Discovery * Logic for Artificial Intelligence * 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 CHAIR Piotr Dembinski (Polish Acad. Sci.) and Miroslaw Dabrowski (Polish Acad. Sci.) posthumous PROGRAM CHAIRS Zdzislaw Pawlak (Warsaw Univ. Tech., Poland) Zbigniew W. Ras (UNC-Charlotte & Polish Acad. Sci.) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hojjat Adeli (Ohio-State U.) Jacques Calmet (Karlsruhe, Germany) Jaime Carbonell (CMU) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State U.) Su-Shing Chen (UNC-Charlotte) Wesley Chu (UCLA) Misbah Deen (Keele, U.K.) Kenneth DeJong (George Mason) Robert Demolombe (Toulouse, France) Jon Doyle (MIT) Ed Fox (Virginia Tech.) Michael Georgeff (AI Inst., Australia) David Hislop (US Army) Yves Kodratoff (Paris, France) Jan Komorowski (Trondheim, Norway) Robert Kowalski (Imperial College, UK) Catherine Lassez (IBM Yorktown Heights) T.Y. Lin (San Jose State) Michael Lowry (NASA Ames) Alberto Martelli (Torino, Italy) Robert Meersman (Brussels, Belgium) Maciek Michalewicz (Polish Acad. Sci.) Ryszard Michalski (George Mason & Polish Acad. Sci.) Masao Mukaidono (Meiji U., Japan) John Mylopoulos (Toronto, Canada) Setsuo Ohsuga (Tokyo, Japan) Lin Padgham (Melbourne, Australia) Rohit Parikh (CUNY) Francois Pin (ORNL) Luc De Raedt (Leuven, Belgium) Barry Richards (Imperial College, U.K.) Colette Rolland (Paris, France) Lorenza Saitta (Torino, Italy) Erik Sandewall (Linkoping, Sweden) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw, Poland) John Sowa (SUNY Binghamton) Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA) Maria Zemankova (NSF) Jan Zytkow (Wichita State & Polish Acad. Sci.) ISMIS'96 PROGRAM SUNDAY, June 9, 1996 17:00-20:00 Symposium Registration 19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception MONDAY, June 10, 1996 8:00-17:00 Symposium Registration 8:00-8:40 Symposium Breakfast 8:45-9:00 Opening Session (Salon 1) Session Chair: Z.W. Ras (UNC-Charlotte, USA) "Opening address", P. Dembinski (Polish Acad. Sci.) 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk (Salon 1) Session Chair: Z. Pawlak (Warsaw U. Tech., Poland) "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Business Databases", G. Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Lab., USA) 10:00-10:20 Coffee Break Session 1A Knowledge Representation (Salon 1) Session Chair: J. Calmet (U. Karlsruhe, Germany) 10:20-10:45 "Learning composite concepts in description logics: a first step", P. Lambrix, J. Maleki (Linkoping Univ., Sweden) 10:45-11:10 "Comparison of Conceptual Graphs for Modelling Knowledge of Multiple Experts", Rose Dieng (INRIA, France) 11:10-11:35 "Semantical considerations for knowledge base updates" Y. Zhang (Western Sydney, Australia) 11:35-12:00 "Partial Evaluation in Constraint Logic Programming" A. Wrzos-Kaminska (Trondheim, Norway) Session 1B Learning and Discovery Systems (Salon 2) Session Chair: W. Kloesgen (GMD, Germany) 10:20-10:45 "The AQ17-DCI System for data-driven constructive induction and its application to the analysis of world economics", E. Bloedorn, R. Michalski (George Mason U., USA) 10:45-11:10 "Induction of classification rules from imperfect data", N. Shan, H. Hamilton, N. Cercone (Univ. Regina, Canada) 11:10-11:35 "Induction of expert system rules from databases based on rough set theory and resampling methods", S. Tsumoto, H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical Univ., Japan) 11:35-12:00 "Search for Patterns at Each Scale in Massive Data", J. Zytkow, R. Zembowicz (Wichita State, USA) 12:15-13:15 Symposium Lunch 13:30-14:30 Invited Talk (Salon 1) Session Chair: R. Michalski (George Mason U., USA) "Distributed information systems engineering" Matthias Jarke, Manfred Jeusfeld, Peter Peters, Peter Szczurko (RWTH Aachen, Germany) 14:30-14:50 Coffee Break Session 2A Invited Session on Evolutionary Computation (Salon 1) Session Chair: Z. Michalewicz (UNC-Charlotte, USA) 14:50-15:15 "Evolving Intelligence", K. DeJong (George Mason, USA) 15:15-15:45 "Intelligent mutation rate control in simple genetic algorithms", T. Baeck (Univ. Dortmund, Germany) 15:45-16:10 "A fine grain parallel evolutionary program for concept induction", A. Giordana, L. Saitta (Univ. Torino, Italy) 16:10-16:35 "The power of sex in evolutionary computation", A.E. Eiben and C.H.M. van Kemenade (Leiden Univ., The Netherlands) 16:35-17:00 "Evolutionary computation: one project, many directions", Z. Michalewicz, J. Xiao (UNC-Charlotte, USA), K. Trojanowski (Polish Acad. Sci.) Session 2B Logic for AI (Salon 2) Session Chair: W. Marek (U. Kentucky, USA) 14:50-15:15 "Signed formula logic programming: operational semantics and applications", J. Calmet (U. Karlsruhe, Germany), J. Lu, M. Rodriguez (Bucknell Univ., USA), J. Schu (U. Karlsruhe, Germany) 15:15-15:45 "Automating Proofs of Integrity Constraints in Situation Calculus", L. Bertossi, J. Pinto, P. Saez (Santiago, Chile), D. Kapur, M. Subramaniam (SUNY at Albany, USA) 15:45-16:10 "Towards programming in default logic", P. Cholewinski (U. Kentucky, USA) 16:10-16:35 "A sound and complete fuzzy logic system using Zadeh's implication operator", J. Chen, S. Kundu (LSU, USA) 16:35-17:00 "Meeting the deadline: on the formal specification of temporal deontic constraints", F. Dignum (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), H. Weigand, E. Verharen (Tilburg, The Netherlands) 17:30-18:30 Symposium Dinner 19:00-21:00 POSTER SESSION Session Chairs: A. Skowron (U. Warsaw, Poland) and J.M. Zytkow (Wichita State U., USA) (see Poster Session Program below) TUESDAY, June 11, 1996 8:15-16:30 Symposium Registration 8:30-9:00 Symposium Breakfast 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk (Salon 1) Session Chair: R. Demolombe (Toulouse, France) "Putting objects to work on a massive scale", M. Brodie (GTE Lab., USA) 10:00-10:20 Coffee Break Session 3A Intelligent Information Systems (Salon 1) Session Chair: M. Jarke (RWTH Aachen, Germany) 10:20-10:45 "Validity queries and completeness queries", R. Demolombe (Toulouse, France) 10:45-11:10 "Explanation for Cooperative Information Systems", M.J. Minock, W.W. Chu (UCLA, USA) 11:10-11:35 "Toward intelligent representation of database content", J. Oldham, V. Marek (Univ. Kentucky, USA) 11:35-12:00 "Reducing Information Systems with Uncertain Attributes", M. Kryszkiewicz, H. Rybinski (Warsaw Tech., Poland) Session 3B Knowledge Representation (Salon 2) Session Chair: J. Komorowski (Trondheim, Norway) 10:20-10:45 "Object and dependency oriented programming in FLO", M. Blay-Fornarino, S. Ducasse, A.M. Pinna-Dery (Univ. Nice, France) 10:45-11:10 "Knowledge simplification", J. Debenham (Sydney, Australia) 11:10-11:35 "A model-based approach to consistency-checking in default theorem proving", S. Bruning (Darmstadt, Germany), T. Schaub (Angers, France) 11:35-12:00 "Resource-based vs task-based approaches for scheduling problems", V. Brusoni, L. Console (Torino, Italy), E. Lamma (Bologna, Italy), P. Mello (Bari, Italy) , M. Milano (Bologna, Italy), P. Terenziani (Torino, Italy) 12:30-13:30 Symposium Lunch Session 4A Approximate Reasoning (Salon 1) Session Chair: M. Michalewicz (Polish Acad. Sci.) 14:00-14:25 "A fuzzy behaviorist approach to sensor-based robot control", F.G. Pin (ORNL, USA) 14:25-14:50 "Knowledge-based fuzzy neural networks", L. Sztandera (Philadelphia College, USA) Session 4B Evolutionary Computation (Salon 2) Session Chair: A. Giordana (U. Torino, Italy) 14:00-14:25 "Coevolutionary game-theoretic multi-agent systems", F. Seredynski (Polish Acad. Sci., Poland) 14:25-14:50 "Searching for features defined by hyperplanes", N. Son, N. Hoa, A. Skowron (U. Warsaw, Poland) 14:50-15:10 Coffee Break Session 5A Intelligent Information Systems (Salon 1) Session Chair: D. Hislop (US Army Res. Office, USA) 15:10-15:35 "Inductive Database Design", H. Blockeel, L. De Raedt (Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium) 15:35-16:00 "Enhancing query processing of information systems", G.S. Loo (Auckland, New Zealand), T. Dillon, J. Zeleznikow (Melbourne, Australia), K. Lee (Auckland, New Zealand) 16:00-16:25 "Structuring and Retrieval of the Complex Predicate Arguments Proper to the NKRL Conceptual Language", L. Gilardoni (Milano, Italy), G.P. Zarri (CNRS, France) 16:25-16:50 "On the handling of imperfect data in relational database systems - from null values to possibility distributions", P. Bosc, O. Pivert (ENSSAT, France) 16:50- 17:15 "Modified component valuations in valuation based systems as a way to optimize query processing", S. Wierzchon, M. Klopotek (Polish Acad. Sci., Poland) Session 5B Learning and Discovery Systems (Salon 2) Session Chair: L. Saitta (Torino, Italy) 15:10-15:35 "Learning for Decision Making: the FRD Approach and a Comparative Study", I.F. Imam, R.S. Michalski (George Mason U., USA) 15:35-16:00 "The application of rough sets-based data mining technique to differential diagnosis of meningoenchepahlitis", S. Tsumoto (U. Tokyo, Japan), W. Ziarko (U. Regina, Canada) 16:00-16:25 "A rough set framework for data mining of propositional default rules", T. Mollestad (U. Trondheim, Norway), A. Skowron (U. Warsaw, Poland) 16:25-16:50 "An Empirical Study on The Incompetence of Attribute Selection Criteria", I.F. Imam (George Mason U., USA) 16:50-17:15 "Locally Finite, Proper and Complete Operators for Refining Datalog Programs", F. Esposito, A. Laterza, D. Malerba, G. Semeraro (U. Bari, Italy) 18:00-19:30 Symposium Banquet WEDNESDAY, June 12, 1996 8:15-17:00 Symposium Registration/Information 8:30-9:00 Symposium Breakfast 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk (Salon 1) Session Chair: L. De Raedt (Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium) "Towards a world-wide knowledge base", E. Sandewall (Linkoping U., Sweden) 10:00-10:20 Coffee Break Session 6A Intelligent Information Systems (Salon 1) Session Chair: Henri Prade (U. Toulouse, France) 10:20-10:45 "Forest Fire Management with Negoplan", S.J. Noronha (Carleton U., Canada), S. Szpakowicz (U. Ottawa, Canada) 10:45-11:10 "An architecture for a deductive fuzzy relational database", O. Pons, J. Medina, J. Cubero, M. Vila (U. Granada, Spain) 11:10-11:35 "A process for discovering, managing and refining strong functional relations hidden in databases", N. Zhong (U. Tokyo, Japan), S. Ohsuga (Waseda U., Japan) 11:35-12:00 "An architecture and methodology for the design and development of technical information systems", R. Capobianchi, M. Mautref (Marcoussis, France), M. van Keulen, H. Balsters (U. Twente, The Netherlands) Session 6B Logic for Artificial Intelligence (Salon 2) Session Chair: J. Chen (LSU, USA) 10:20-10:45 "Explaining explanation closure", P. Doherty (Linkoping U., Sweden), W. Lukasiewicz, A. Szalas (Warsaw Univ., Poland) 10:45-11:10 "PAC-learning logic programs under closed world assumption", L. De Raedt (Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium) 11:10-11:35 "Planning, truth criteria and the systematic approach to action and change", L. Karlsson (Linkoping U., Sweden) 11:35-12:00 "Automated Inductive Reasoning as a support of deductive reasoning in a user-independent automation of Inductive Theorem Proving", M. Franova (Univ. Paris Sud., France) 12:15-13:15 Symposium Lunch 13:30-14:30 Invited Talk (Salon 1) Session Chair: E. Sandewall (Linkoping U., Sweden) "Approximate and commonsense reasoning: From theory to practice", Henri Prade (U. Toulouse, France) 14:30-14:50 Coffee Break Session 7A Intelligent Information Systems (Salon 1) Session Chair: G.P. Zarri (CNRS, France) 14:50-15:15 "Semantic query optimization for bottom-up evaluation", P. Godfrey, J. Gryz, J. Minker (Univ. Maryland, USA) 15:15-15:40 "Dynamically changing behavior: an agent-oriented view to modeling intelligent information systems", C. Turker, S. Conrad, G. Saake (U. Magdeburg, Germany) 15:40-16:05 "A multi-layer architecture for knowledge-based system synthesis", J. Eusterbrock (GMD Darmstadt, Germany) 16:05-16:30 "MuRaLi: an architecture for multiple reasoning", M. Ravindranathan, R. Leitch (Edinburgh, Scotland) 16:30-16:55 "Heterogeneous view integration via sketches and equations", Z. Diskin, B. Cadish (Riga, Latvia) Session 7B Learning and Discovery Systems (Salon 2) Session Chair: J. Zytkow (Wichita State U., USA) 14:50-15:15 "DLAB, a declarative language bias for concept learning and knowledge discovery engines", L. Dehaspe, L. De Raedt (Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium) 15:15-15:40 "Knowledge discovery in databases and data mining", W. Kloesgen (GMD, Germany) 15:40-16:05 "Learning with noise in engineering domains", J. Bala, P. Pachowicz, H. Wechsler (George Mason U., USA) 16:05-16:30 "Hierarchical conceptual clustering in a first order representation", C. Vrain (Univ. d'Orleans, France) 16:30-16:55 "Rule discovery from databases with decision matrices", X. Hu (Ottawa, Canada), N. Cercone, W. Ziarko (U. Regina, Canada) 17:30-18:30 Symposium Dinner THURSDAY, June 13, 1996 8:30-9:00 Symposium Breakfast 9:15-9:30 Closing Session (Salon 1) Session Chair: Z.W. Ras (UNC-Charlotte, USA) Closing Address: P. Dembinski (Polish Acad. Sci.) POSTER SESSION PROGRAM (June 10, 1996) Session Co-Chairs: A. Skowron (U. Warsaw, Poland) and J.M. Zytkow (Wichita State U., USA) EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION "Improving fitness function for CSP in an evolutionary algorithm", M. Riff Rojas (INRIA, France) INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS "A reactive object model for concurrent engineering platforms", G.T. Nguyen, R. Guetari (INRIA, France) "On convergence of asynchronous nonlinear fractal operators" W. Skarbek (FRP RIKEN, Japan) "MIM formalism: an approach to marketing modelling and IMS development", M. Daneva (U. Saarland, Germany) "Knowledge discovery in organelle genomes - the GOBASE system", M. Korab-Laskowska, F. Lang, G. Burger, M. Gray, T. Littlejohn (U. Montreal, Canada) "Modeling expert search of virtual/digital libraries", B. Desai, R. Shinghal (Concordia Univ., Canada) KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND INTEGRATION "Consistency-driven Approach to Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems", R. Janicki (McMaster U., Canada), W. Koczkodaj (Laurentian U., Canada) "A symbolic probability theory and its application to qualitative reasoning under the uncertain statements of the natural language", D. Pacholczyk, G. Hunault (Univ. d'Angers, France), J.-M. Pacholczyk (Univ. Paris VI, France) "Towards a transition from the crisp rough set theory to a fuzzy one", M. Quafafou (Univ. Nantes, France), C.-C. Chan (U. Akron, USA) LEARNING AND DISCOVERY SYSTEMS "Truncated temporal differences and sequential replay: comparison, integration, and experiments", P. Cichosz (Warsaw Tech., Poland) "KDD tools for mining associations in textual databases", R. Feldman, I. Dagan (Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel), W. Kloesgen (GMD, Germany) "Consistent predictions for categorical data", V. Cho, B. Wuthrich (Hong Kong U., Hong Kong) "Approximation of multivariate functions by generalized adaptive fuzzy inference network", M. Weigl, W. Kosinski (Polish Acad. Sci., Poland) "Discovery of numerical dependencies in form of rational expressions", M. Kiselev (Moscow, Russia) "Knowledge discovery with the Hong Kong Stock Market", L. Sham, A. Wu, L. Yiu (Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong) "An invariant method of the rough classifier construction", A. Lenarcik, Z. Piasta (Kielce U., Poland) "An algorithm performing incremental hierarchical conceptual clustering", J.-L. Segapeli, A. Cavarero (Univ. Nice, France) "Selection of objects and attributes, a tolerance rough set approach", M. Kretowski, J. Stepaniuk (Tech. U. Bialystok, Poland) LOGIC FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE "Mechanizing local reasoning with contexts", P. Bouquet, A. Cimatti (Trento, Italy) "Parallel inductive logic programming", L. Dehaspe, L. De Raedt (Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium) "Induction, deduction, and abduction for program design and maintenance", A. Guessoum, J. Komorowski (Trondheim, Norway) "Compositional Validation in Inductive Logic Programming", A. Lallouet, L. Martin (Univ. d'Orlians, France) "Domain-independent similarity relations for case-based reasoning in a logical framework", J. Lieber, P. Marquis (CNRS-INRIA, France) "From knowing how to knowing that", G. Ndjatou (William Paterson College of New Jersey, USA) "Polynomial representation of logical formulas", X. Nie (Wichita State Univ., USA) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ********************************************************************* >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GENERAL INFORMATION VENUE The Symposium will take place in Recreation Center in Koscielisko (about 20 minutes within walking distance from the center of Zakopane). REGISTRATION Early registration: Early fee deadline is April 15, 1996 PAYMENT: We would like to remind you that the registration fees specified below will cover: conference sessions, conference proceedings, coffee breaks, welcome reception, and banquet Before April 15, 1996 After April 15, 1996 300 US$ 350 US$ Extra welcome reception (for accomp. person) 20 US$ Extra banquet (for accomp. person) 40 US$ Registration fees can be paid either by a Banker's Cheque payable to "IPI PAN ISMIS'96" (personal cheques will not be accepted) or by a bank transfer to: BPH Krakow XIV O/W-wa, Al. Jerozolimskie 7, 00-495 Warsaw, Poland Account no. 320007-2408-151-40787 Registration fees from outside Poland are to be paid in US dollars only. At site you can pay in cash (also in Polish currency 'zloty') or by major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, EuroCard, Access or Diners Club). However, paying by card you will be charged additional 5 % of bank commission. 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