From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Mon Jan 15 12:44:05 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 Jan 96 12:44:02 -0600; AA25506 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 96 12:44:01 -0600 From: "Ming-Syan Chen (914) 784-7517" Message-Id: <9601151844.AA10658@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 Jan 96 12:44:01 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Papers: Special Issue on Database Mining in IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering Mining information and knowledge from large databases has been recognized by many researchers as a key research topic in database systems and machine learning, and by many industrial companies as an important area with an opportunity of major revenues. Researchers in many different fields, including database systems, knowledge-base systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, knowledge acquisition, statistics, spatial databases, and data visualization, have shown great interest in database mining. Furthermore, several emerging applications in information providing services, such as on-line services and World Wide Web, also call for various data mining techniques to better understand user behavior, to meliorate the service provided, and to increase the business opportunities. A special issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering will be devoted to this topic. Areas of interest include, but not limited to, the following: Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Tools, Techniques, and Performance Improvements for Database Mining Data Representation, Knowledge Visualization and Interactive Database Mining Parallel and Distributed Algorithms for Database Mining Integration of Different Database Mining Capabilities and Methods Knowledge Discovery in Spatial, Temporal, and Heterogeneous Databases Knowledge Discovery Systems and Implementations Database Mining Applications Instructions for Submitting Papers Manuscript should be no more than 25 typewritten pages with a 12-point font and double spacing, including figures and references. Papers must not have been published previously or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Each manuscript should have a title page with the title of the paper, full name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s), complete postal and electronic addresses, telephone number(s), a FAX number, an informative 150-200 words abstract, and a list of identifying keywords. Send six copies of each submission to one of the guest editors. For further information, contact the guest editors. Important Dates Manuscript due: February 1, 1996 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 1996 Final manuscript due: July 1, 1996 Publication date of issue: December 1996 Guest Editors Philip S. Yu, Ming-Syan Chen, and Jiawei Han Dr. Philip S. Yu IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Tel: (914) 784-7141 email: psyu@watson.ibm.com Dr. Ming-Syan Chen IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Tel: (914) 784-7517 email: mschen@watson.ibm.com Prof. Jiawei Han School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 Tel: (604) 291-4411 email: han@cs.sfu.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Mon Jan 15 13:05:49 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 Jan 96 13:05:46 -0600; AA25801 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 96 13:05:46 -0600 From: Russell Greiner Message-Id: <9601151905.AA10733@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 Jan 96 13:05:46 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------- KR'96 Pre-Conference Workshop on Relevance in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 3-4 November, 1996 Boston, Massachusetts ------------------------------------------------------ C A L L F O R P A P E R S ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.research.att.com/orgs/ssr/people/levy/rrr-cfp.html ------------------------------------------------------ Essentially all reasoning systems use a corpus of information to reach appropriate conclusions. For example, deductive systems use initial theories (possibly encoded as predicate calculus statements) from which they draw conclusions, probabilistic systems use prior distributions (possibly encoded as a Bayesian network) to compute event probabilities, and abductive processes produce explanations based on both background theories and observations. With too little information, these systems clearly cannot work correctly. Surprisingly, too *much* information is also problematic, as it too can cause significant degradation in system performance. It is therefore critical to determine what information is irrelevant, to know what can be ignored or downplayed when considering a specific task (e.g., a specific query, or distribution of queries, to the system, or a specific observation to be explained). In some cases, ignoring irrelevant information is needed in order to draw the correct conclusions. There are many forms of irrelevance. In some contexts, the initial theory may include more information than the task requires, or information at a level of granularity that is more detailed than necessary. Here, the system may perform more effectively if it ignores or deletes certain irrelevant facts or if it ignores certain distinctions made in the representation. Another flavor of irrelevance arises during the course of reasoning: A reasoning process can ignore certain intermediate results, once it has established that they will not contribute to the eventual answer. This workshop follows the very eclectic 1994 Relevance Symposium, which investigated the notion of relevance across various fields of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. The current workshop, however, will focus on the use of relevance in knowledge representation and reasoning, specifically, on understanding different forms of irrelevance, and exploiting this "relevance information" to improve the performance of reasoning systems. Submissions are requested in areas relating to relevance in KR&R, including, but not limited to, the following: o Speeding up inference using relevance reasoning. o Relevance in probabilistic reasoning. o Relevance in explanation. o Relationships between relevance and belief revision and updates. o Relevance reasoning as a basis for abstraction and reformulation. o Using relevance of information to enable drawing appropriate conclusions. o Applications of relevance reasoning. o Reasoning about relevance of information, and foundations of relevance reasoning. Submission Information ====================== Authors wishing to present a paper should submit an extended abstract of at most 5000 words. Accepted participants will be invited to submit full papers for the workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the workshop participants. Persons wishing to attend the workshop and not to present papers should submit a 1--2 page research summary that includes a list of relevant publications. Authors are encouraged to submit PostScript versions of their paper by email to either Russ Greiner (greiner@scr.siemens.com) or Alon Levy (levy@research.att.com). Authors unable to submit by email should send 4 copies of their paper to the address below. All submissions should be received by July 8, 1996. Please be sure to include e-mail address, telephone number and mailing address of the principal author. In case of multiple authors, please indicate which authors wish to participate. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the principal author by August 16, 1996. Camera-ready copies of papers accepted for inclusion in the proceedings will be due September 17, 1996. Address for hardcopy submissions: Russell Greiner Siemens Corporate Research, Inc 755 College Road East Princeton, NJ 08540-6632 Important Dates =============== - Submissions due: July 8, 1996. - Notification of acceptance August 16, 1996. - Final version due September 17, 1996. - Workshop dates November 3-4, 1996. Program Chairs: =============== Russ Greiner (Siemens Corporate Research, greiner@scr.siemens.com) Alon Levy (AT&T Bell Laboratories, levy@research.att.com) Program Committee: ================== Adnan Darwiche (Rockwell) Jim Delgrande (Simon Frasier University) Daphne Koller (Stanford University) Gerhard Lakemeyer (University of Bonn) Alberto Mendelzon (University of Toronto) Devika Subramanian (Rice University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Chrysanthis Co-published by The British Computer Society, The Institution of Electrical Engineers and The Institute of Physics Publishing The Distributed Systems Engineering Journal (DSEJ) is planning a special issue on workflow management systems for September 1996. Workflows is an emerging computational paradigm for effective structuring of cooperative applications often involving access to diverse datatypes not necessarily maintained by traditional database management systems. Broadly speaking workflows are potentially long-lived activities with transaction-like components having inter-related dependencies capturing both data and control flow requirements and constraints. This special issue will concentrate on both theoretical and practical problems of workflows and in particular on the aspects of the architecture and realization of workflow management systems. Important Dates Jan. 29, 1996: Submission Deadline Apr. 29, 1996: Acceptance notification July 15, 1996: Final Manuscript Deadline Prospective authors may access instructions for submissions and an html version of this Call for Papers at: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/dsej/dsej.html Scope of the Distributed Systems Engineering Journal The area of interest of this journal centres on the integration of processing, storage and communication subsystems within a distributed or networked system. The emphasis is on distributed rather than parallel processing and on practical engineering papers rather than theoretical approaches. Hence it particularly welcomes papers from industry and those which are based on implementation experience. Distributed Processing Distributed processing architecture Distributed operating systems and environments Standards and open distributed processing (ODP) Configuration and management of distributed systems Computer architecture support for distributed processing Language support for distributed processing Algorithms and protocols to support distributed processing Computer Networks Local, metropolitan and wide area networks Network architectures and protocols Network management Communications and network standards Open networking and open systems interconnection (OSI) Multiservice networks Storage and Databases Data modelling Distributed data bases Distributed transaction processing Information retrieval and transformation Object stores Information and file servers Hypermedia systems Information Systems & Applications Distributed multimedia systems Advanced home, business and industrial systems Computer support for cooperative work Distributed programming support environments User Interface design These four main areas would be linked by consideration of system dependability, fault tolerance, security, performance engineering, timeliness or other architectural issues. Brief guide for authors Contributions must be in English and should not exceed 25 printed pages in length, including figures. Text should have 12-point font and 18-point spacing and should not normally exceed 5000 words. Manuscripts will be considered for publication if they have not been published previously and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Title page must include (i) the title of article, (ii) the name(s) and affiliations of author(s), and (iii) abstract of not more than 200 words. On a separate cover page specify the title and the contact author for correspondence (giving postal address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address). Details of format for final submission will be provided for accepted papers. Instructions for Submitting Papers for the Special Issue Authors should email an electronic Postscript copy of their paper to panos@cs.pitt.edu by January 29, 1996. If email submission is inconvenient, then four (4) copies of their paper (double-sided if possible) and a single copy of the cover page should be sent to the guest editor by the due date. Paper submissions will be acknowledged by email. Panos K. Chrysanthis Email: panos@cs.pitt.edu 220 Alumni Hall Voice: +1-412-624-8924 Dept. of Computer Science Fax: +1-412-624-8854 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 U.S.A. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Jan 15 19:04:12 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 Jan 96 19:04:10 -0600; AA29991 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 96 19:04:09 -0600 From: Randal Peters Message-Id: <9601160104.AA11624@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 Jan 96 19:04:09 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu C I K M ' 9 6 P R E L I M I N A R Y C A L L F O R P A P E R S FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT November 12 - 16, 1996, Doubletree Hotel Rockville, Maryland, USA Sponsored* by ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR in cooperation* with NASA, Bellcore, NSF, AAAI, IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGMOD, CACS/USL, and UMBC. URL: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/ CIKM series provide an effective and established forum for the discussion and dissemination of original and fundamental recent advances in the area, and to foster close international collaboration between the database, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence communities. CIKM'96 will focus on next generation information systems and bring together leading researchers and developers in a wide variety of scientific areas, with a common interest in these applications and their enabling technologies. SCOPE The primary focus of the conference is on next generation information systems including their theoretical foundations, infrastructure and enabling technologies. We solicit submission of original research, experience and vision papers that address this theme. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Mobile & wireless computing Digital libraries Knowledge & resource discovery Multimedia information systems Information Structures & Interaction Hypertext & Hypermedia Distributed Object Management Transaction & Workflow Management Temporal/Spatial Databases Active & Extensible Databases Engineering, Scientific & Design Databases Software databases User & Application Interfaces Intelligent Search & Data Mining Cooperating & Interoperable Federated Systems Imprecise & Uncertain Information SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers, which are not currently under submission to another conference or journal. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. The program committee reserves the right to accept a submission as long, short or poster presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers and postal address. In the case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper. FIVE COPIES of the manuscript should be submitted (with the envelope clearly marked "CIKM'96") by APRIL 5, 1996 to: M. Tamer Ozsu c/o CIKM'96 Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1 E-mail: cikm96@cs.ualberta.ca Tel: (403) 492-2860, Fax: (403) 492-1071 CIKM'96 will have tutorials and panels organized as part of the technical program. Proposals for these should be submitted to the respective chairs: PANEL PROPOSALS: Amit Sheth Department of Computer Science University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA 30602-7404 E-mail: amit@cs.uga.edu TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: V.S. Subrahmanian Department of Computer Science University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA 20742 E-mail: vs@cs.umd.edu WORKSHOPS As always, there will be a number of workshops organized in conjunction with CIKM'96. These workshops, which focus on timely research challenges and initiatives, are an important part of the conference. Proposals for workshops should be submitted to the the Workshops Chair: Gultekin Ozsoyoglu Department of Computer Science and Engineering Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, USA 44106 E-mail: tekin@cs.cwru.edu IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial, panel, and workshop submission deadline: March 15, 1996 Paper submission deadline : April 5, 1996 Notification of acceptance : June 15, 1996 Camera ready papers due : July 31, 1996 --- * pending approval CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Chairs: N. Pissinou, USL, USA C. Nicholas, UMBC, USA Program Chair: M.T. Ozsu, U. Alberta, Canada Panels Chair: A. Sheth, U. Georgia, USA Tutorials Chair: V.S. Subrahmanian, U. Maryland, USA Workshops Chair: G. Ozsoyoglu, CWRU, USA Publicity Chair: R.J. Peters, U. Manitoba, Canada Proceedings Chair: K. Barker, U. Manitoba, Canada Registration Chair and Treasurer: E.K. Park, USNA, USA Local Arrangement Chair: J. Chen, GMU, USA CIKM Steering Committee: T. Finin, UMBC, USA K. Humenik, Indiana U., USA K. Makki, UNLV, USA C. Nicholas, UMBC, USA E.K. Park, USNA, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE R. Alonso, MITL, USA P. Apers, U. Twente, Netherlands E. Bertino, U. Milano, Italy A. Biliris, AT&T Bell Labs., USA J. Blakeley, Microsoft, USA M. Boehlen, Aalborg U., Denmark A. Bonner, U. Toronto, Canada A.L.P. Chen, Nat. Tsing Hua U., Taiwan S. Christodoulakis, TUC, Greece S. Cluet, INRIA, France U. Dayal, HP Labs., USA K. Dittrich, Univ. Zurich, Switzerland A. Dogac, METU, Turkey F. Eliassen, U. Tromso, Norway O. Etzion, Technion, Israel M. Franklin, U. Maryland, USA O. Friesen, Bull Info. Sys., USA S. Gadia, Iowa State U., USA G. Gardarin, U. Versailles, France D. Georkopoulos, GTE Labs, USA F. Ghoshani, Arizona State U., USA P.M.D. Gray, U. Aberdeen, Scotland J. Han, Simon Fraser U., Canada J. Icaza, ITESM, Mexico R. Jain UCSD, USA G. Kaiser, Columbia U., USA Y. Kambayashi, Kyoto U., USA A. Keller, Stanford U., USA L. Kerschberg, GMU, USA R. King, U. Colorado, USA W. Klas, GMD-IPSI, Germany L. Liu, U. Alberta, Canada W. Litwin, U. Dauphine, France F. Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong K. Makki, UNLV, USA R. Meersman, Vrije U., Belgium J. Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada R. Ng, UBC, Canada S. Osborn, U. Western Ontario, Canada M. Ozsoyoglu, CWRU, USA M. Papazouglou, QUT, Australia R.J. Peters, U. Manitoba, Canada C. Pu, Oregon Graduate Inst., USA B. Reinwald, IBM Almaden Res. Lab, USA T. Risch, U. Linkoping, Sweden M. Rusinkiewics, U. Houston, USA R. Sacks-Davis, CITRI, Australia F. Saltor, U. Pol. de Catalunya, Spain P. Schwarz, IBM Almaden, USA T. Sellis, Nat. Tech. U., Greece A. Shoshani, LBL, USA S. Son, U. Virginia, USA J. Srivastava, U. Minnesota, USA L. Tanca, U. Verona, Italy A.U. Tansel, CUNY, USA M. Templeton, Data Integration, USA A. Thomasian, IBM T.J. Watson, USA F. Tompa, U. Waterloo, Canada M. Tresch, ETH, Switzerland V. Tsotras, Brooklyn Polytechnic U., USA S. Urban, Arizona State U., USA K.Y. Whang, KAIST, Korea O. Wolfson, U. Illinois, USA M. Zemankova, NSF, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Wed Jan 17 13:04:20 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 Jan 96 13:04:05 -0600; AA24440 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 13:04:03 -0600 From: gaasterland@mcs.anl.gov (Terry Gaasterland) Message-Id: <9601171904.AA16062@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 Jan 96 13:04:03 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The Fourth International Conference on Computational Biology: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology '96 June 12 to 15, 1996 Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri USA The Fourth International Conference on Computational Biology: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology '96 (ISMB '96) will take place at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA from June 12 to 16, 1996. Papers due February 1, 1996. URL http://ibc.wustl.edu/ismb96 Purpose The purpose of the ISMB conference is to disseminate the latest developments in computational molecular biology and biophysics and to stimulate new research on the application of intelligent computational systems to problems in molecular biology. ISMB is a multidisciplinary conference bringing together scientists from computer science, mathematics, statistics, and molecular biology. The scope extends to any computational method or system supporting a biological task that is algorithmically, cognitively or conceptually challenging, involves a synthesis of heterogeneous information, or exhibits the emergent properties of an "intelligent system." From a computational perspective, areas of interest include adaptive systems, intelligent experimental control, data modeling, machine learning, artificial intelligence, combinatorics, stochastic optimization, string & graph algorithms, linguistic methods, and parallel computer technologies. Biological areas of interest include molecular structure, genomics, molecular sequence analysis, evolution and phylogenetics, adaptive experimental systems, and molecular biology generally. Emphasis is placed on the validation of methods using real data sets and on practical application in the biological sciences. The ISMB conference has attracted large and enthusiastic audiences of scientists involved in application areas including artificial intelligence, structural biology, DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis and structure prediction, genome mapping, gene identification, molecular biology data and knowledge bases, and modeling of biochemical processes. We are continuing the tradition of soliciting original papers which will be rigorously refereed and published (by AAAI Press and the MIT Press) in proceedings available at the conference. The conference proceedings are indexed in the Medline database. The four-day conference will feature introductory and advanced tutorials (on June 12th), and presentations of original refereed papers, posters and invited talks (on June 13-15). Special Genomics Session for '96 Whole Genomes: Challenges and Implications As a special feature, a session for computing on the genome is being introduced for ISMB-96. This session is meant to stimulate new and interesting ideas and to bring new participants into the meeting. There will be ample opportunity in the remainder of the conference for papers from all areas including structural biology, molecular design, and molecular modeling, knowledge representation, machine learning and computational theory. Tremendous advances have been made in the Human Genome Project, and we are now entering an era of whole genome sequencing. With the great progress that has been made, new challenges lie ahead. Higher levels of automation are needed to perform experiments, vastly more data must be analyzed, and new questions should be asked. Considering the role of Washington University in genome mapping and sequencing, computational genome analysis will be the theme of a special session in the ISMB-96 meeting. We interpret this theme to include a broad range of topics: Algorithms in experimental science + Computational and experimentally efficient strategies + Integrated data interpretation and acquisition Intelligent data acquistion + Automating experimental systems + Adaptive and robust basecalling + Targetted accuracy analysis + Automated imaging in cytogenetics and mapping + From wet lab to "soft lab" Repeats, patterns and non-random structure in genomes Genes + Identification + Transcript structure and splicing + Gene modeling Functional inference about genes and gene systems + Control in mass action networks + Why so many paralogs? From sequence to structure and structure to function + The limits of homology based modeling + Hidden Markov models and threading + Beyond cDNAs - posttranslation modification and control Accuracy and interpretability: + Rough sequence vs. perfect sequence -- reasoning with incomplete information -- reasoning about changing information -- non-monotonic reasoning -- belief revision + Strategic sequencing -- is there room for heuristic guidance? -- heterogeneous knowledge sources + The role of ESTs -- case based reasoning Genome information systems + Information retrieval and presentation + Data integration and database linking + Network information systems + Ethics of genetic information Whole genomes + Closure and complete knowledge, what does it mean? + What have we learned from H. influenzae and S. cereviseae + Genomes in the context of all the other relevant data in the world? Molecular computing + Algorithms and approaches + Mapping problems to hyperparallel computers Two areas for software demonstration/evaluation are particularly relevant to computational genome analysis. The Basecalling Bakeoff - Inferring nucleotide sequence from the raw fluoresence data remains at the core of all large scale genome sequencing projects. The accuracy and reliability of basecalling algorithms can greatly affect the cost and accuracy of finished data. Many programs have been developed using a variety of approaches. We are setting aside a test suite of raw data from on-going genome sequencing projects at Washington University and elsewhere for use in a comparative evaluation of basecallers. Gene Quest - Do all the gene identification programs recognize the same genes? Do they work equally well on different genomes and regions of the genome? By the time of the meeting, we anticipate that several whole genomes and several extended regions of human genome sequence will be available for analysis. A test set will be set aside and developers of gene identification and gene modeling software will be asked to prepare summaries of their findings in advance of the workshop, and a detailed comparison of results will be made. Meeting on Interconnection of Molecular Biology Databases The premise behind the MIMBD session is that the roughly 100 existing molecular biology databases will be of much greater value to molecular biologists when interconnected than in their current isolated states. There is tremendous synergy between electronic data repositories in molecular biology; once they are interconnected, scientists will be able to integrate diverse sources of information to answer biological questions that are laborious or impossible to tackle today. Interoperation of heterogeneous databases is also hot a research topic in computer science. Submissions for this session should describe advances in biological database interoperation on topics such as multidatabase query languages, schema integration, tools for data transformation, generation and validation of database links, WWW-based approaches to interoperation, and biological results obtained through multidatabase queries. The MIMBD meeting has been organized by Peter Karp and held in conjunction with the ISMB meeting for the past two years. For ISMB '96, MIMBD will be incorporated into the full ISMB meeting as a special session. There will also be a one-day MIMBD workshop after ISMB. All formal papers should be submitted to ISMB. Previous ISMB Meetings * 1993: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA * 1994: Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA * 1995: Robinson College, Cambridge, UK ISMB-96 Organizing Committee * David States, Washington University, St. Louis, MO * Terry Gaasterland, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL * Randall Smith, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX * Lawrence Hunter, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD ISMB-95 Program Committee Yutaka Akiyama Kyoto University, Japan Stephen Altschul NCBI, USA Kiyoshi Asai Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan Hans-Joachim Boehm BASF, Germany Soren Brunak Centre for Biological Sequence Analysis, Denmark Bruce Buchanan University of Pittsburgh, USA Christian Burks Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Trevor Dix Monash University, Australia Andreas Dress University of Bielefeld, Germany Jacquelyn Fetrow University at Albany, USA John Fox Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK Bob Futrelle Northeastern University, USA Janice Glasgow Queens University, Canada Michael Gribskov San Diego Supercomputer Centre, USA David Haussler University of California Santa Cruz, USA Peter Karp SRI International, USA Toni Kazic Washington University, St Louis, USA Alan Lapedes Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Rick Lathrop Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Michael Mavrovouniotis Northwestern University, USA Marcie McClure University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Satoru Miyano Kyushu University, Japan Richard Mott Imperial Cancer Research Fund Art Olson Scripps Institute, USA Rebecca Parsons University of Central Florida, USA Francois Rechenmann INRIA, France Otto Ritter German Cancer Centre, Germany Burkhard Rost EMBL, Germany Jean Sallantin CNRS, France Chris Sander EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany David Searls University of Pennysylvania, USA Jude Shavlik University of Wisconsin, USA Mike Sternberg Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK Gary Stormo University of Colorado, USA Willie Taylor National Institute for Medical Research, UK Ed Uberbacher Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Teresa Webster Stanford University, USA 1996 Keynote Speakers Russel F. Doolittle, University of Calfiornia, San Diego David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz Chris Sanders, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg Robert Waterston, Washington University, St. Louis Call for Papers Key Dates Papers due: Feb 1, 1996. Replies to authors: Mar 15, 1996. Revised papers due: Apr 1, 1996 The purpose of the ISMB conference is to disseminate the latest developments in computational molecular biology and biophysics. Paper submissions are requested with the understanding that they represent orignal work by the authors and that the same work has not been and will not be published elsewhere. All papers presented at ISMB are peer reviewed and are published in hardcopy proceedings that are distributed to libraries throughout the world and abstracted in Medline and other bibliographic databases. If there is any question of overlap please cite the related paper and provide a copy for reviewers. Electronic and hardcopy publication While preserving the traditional of hardcopy publication, we are vigorously pursue full text electronic distribution of the meeting proceedings, possibly in CDROM format. Several approaches are under consideration including HTML, or Adobe Acrobat formats. For review purposes, hardcopy for papers should be submitted, single-spaced, 12 point type, 12 pages maximum including title, abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography with titles. The first page should include the name of the author responsible for correspondence, a full postal address, electronic mailing address, telephone and FAX number of each author. Also, please list five to ten keywords describing the methods, concepts and problems discussed in the paper. A list of suggestions for keywords is availble by WWW (http://ibc.wustl.edu/ismb96/keywords.html). Following submission all papers will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee using criteria defined on a standard review form. State whether you wish the paper to be considered for oral presentation only, poster presentation only or for either presentation format. If accepted, the paper will appear in the proceedins in either case. Submission Procedure * A. Six printed copies of each paper should be submitted to the following address: ISMB-96 c/o Dr. David States Institute for Biomedical Computing Washington University School of Medicine 700 South Euclid Avenue St. Louis, MO 63110-1012 USA and * B. Send email to ismb96@ibc.wustl.edu including the following information: TITLE, LIST OF AUTHORS, KEYWORDS, ABSTRACT For primary author*: NAME, AFFILIATION, E-MAIL ADDRESS and FULL POSTAL ADDRESS For other authors : NAME, AFFILIATION, E-MAIL ADDRESS *or other author responsible for correspondence Call for Tutorials Key Dates * Short proposals due: Feb 26, 1996 * Full proposals due: to be March 18, 1996 * Replies to authors: April 1, 1996 * Draft Handouts due: April 15, 1996 * Final Handouts due: May 13, 1996 * Tutorials Presented: June 12, 1996 Tutorials involve either a full day (6-8 hours) or half-day (3-4 hours) of instruction, and require the advance preparation of high quality, peer reviewed printed materials for the students. We are soliciting proposals for introductory and advanced tutorials appropriate to this diverse conference community. Below is a list of last year's tutorial topics. These topics are indicative of the type and scope of the proposals we are soliciting for this year. However, we are also very much interested in proposals to teach about recent advances in the field that have not been previously covered in an ISMB tutorial. * An Introduction to Intelligent Systems for the Biologist * An Introduction to Molecular Biology for the Computer Scientist In addition to these introductory tutorials, last year's conference included advanced tutorials on: * Protein Structure Prediction * Machine Learning Approaches to Molecular Biology * Linguistics of Biosequences * Protein Evolution * Computational Methods for Molecular Docking * Statistical Foundations of Multiple Sequence Alignment and Structure Prediction Tutorial instructors will receive an honorarium and have conference registration fees waived. If you are interested in proposing a tutorial, please send a short (approximately one page) indication of your interest, describing the content of the tutorial, its importance to the ISMB audience and your qualifications to teach it. Your proposals should be sent to the tutorial coordinator as soon as possible. The coordinator will help the proposers turn their brief description into a full proposal, which will then be peer reviewed. Be aware that in 1995 we received more than 30 applications for 8 tutorial slots, so please make a clear case for the appropriateness of your tutorial for the ISMB audience in your proposal. Please send your indications of interest, by email if possible, to Larry Hunter ISMB-96 Tutorials hunter@nlm.nih.gov (301) 496-0673 (fax) National Library of Medicine Bldg 38A, MS-54 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 USA Open Poster Session An open poster session will be held at the meeting to allow informal presentation of late breaking results and work in progress. To be included in the conference proceedings, abstracts for posters should be submitted to: Abstracts deadline: Apr 1, 1996 ISMB-96 c/o Dr. David States Institute for Biomedical Computing Washington University School of Medicine 700 South Euclid Avenue St. Louis, MO 63110-1012 USA Job Fair The ISMB meetings are unique in bringing together biological and computational scientists with interests in computational biology. With the automation of the experimental laboratory and the increasing use of databases and advanced information systems in the biotechnology industry, many employment opportunities exist for such individuals. To facilitate contact between job candidates and prospective employers, we will be hosting a job fair at ISMB-96. Both commercial and academic employers are encouraged to utilize the fair. Vendor's Fair Equipment demonstration and display facilities will be available for interested vendors. Contact David States for details. Proceedings Full-length manuscripts from accepted papers and posters will be published in archival proceedings. Copies will be distributed at the conference to registered attendees, and extra copies will be available for purchase from the publisher subsequently. Key Dates Paper Submissions: Papers due: Feb 1, 1996 Replies to authors: Mar 15, 1996 Revised papers due: Apr 1, 1996 Poster Submissions (open session): Abstracts due: Apr 1, 1996 Tutorial Presentations: * Full proposals due: to be March 18, 1996 * Replies to authors: April 1, 1996 * Draft Handouts due: April 15, 1996 * Final Handouts due: May 13, 1996 * Tutorials Presented: June 12, 1996 Future Conferences Groups who would like host the 1997 and 1998 ISMB conferences should send email to ismb96@ibc.wustl.edu. Contacts David States (states@ibc.wustl.edu) Terry Gaasterland (gaasterl@mcs.anl.gov) Randy Smith (rsmith@imgen.bcm.tmc.edu) Larry Hunter (hunter@work.nlm.nih.gov) ISMB-96 Institute for Biomedical Computing Washington University School of Medicine 700 South Euclid Avenue St. Louis, MO 63110-1012 USA telephone: (314) 362-2135 fax: (314) 362-0234 email: ismb96@ibc.wustl.edu www: http://ibc.wustl.edu/ismb96 ------- End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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It was realized that significant improvements may result as a consequence of careful analysis and redesign of existing business processes. This does not only hold for administrative but also for manufacturing processes. Analyzing existing processes requires modelling methods as well as modelling tools. Process improvement calls for methodologies to determine the value a certain process has for a company. Existing applications need to be combined in order to generate support for the whole workflow that is initiated. The goal of the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING is to bring together researchers and practioners from the areas of * Business Process Modelling * Business Process Evaluation * Strategic Business Planning * Process Cost Analysis * Quality Management * Workflow Management * Software Engineering * Data and Process Modelling * Manufacturing Simulation in order to discuss the interaction and the relevance of these areas for Business Process Modelling. Detailed Information about the Symposium is also available on WWW: http://www.iit.tu-cottbus.de/bpm-er96 Co-Chairs Bernd Scholz-Reiter (Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus, Germany) Eberhard Stickel (Europa-University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany) Editorial Commitee Dimitris Karagiannis (Austria) Guy Doumeingts (France) Otto Rauh (Germany) Bernd Scholz-Reiter (Germany) Elmar J. Sinz (Germany) Eberhard Stickel (Germany) Wolffried Stucky (Germany) Symposium Organization Irene Krebs (Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus) Industrial Information Systems Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus P.O. Box 10 13 44 D-03013 Cottbus Germany Phone: +49 355 69 3112 Fax: +49 335 69 3135 Email: krebs@iit.tu-cottbus.de Authors are requested to submit four copies of their paper (at most 5000 words) to one of the co-chairs by March 29, 1996. Submissions should be written in English. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by May 6, 1996. The final camera-ready manuscript is due June 28, 1996. It is intended to publish accepted papers in one of the Springer computer science series. Submissions should be sent to Prof. Dr. Bernd Scholz-Reiter Industrial Information Systems Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus P.O. Box 10 13 44 D-03013 Cottbus Germany Phone: +49 355 69 3134 Fax: +49 335 69 3135 Email: bsr@iit.tu-cottbus.de or Prof. Dr. Eberhard Stickel Dept. of Information Systems Europa-University Viadrina P.O. Box 776 D-15207 Frankfurt (Oder) Germany Phone: +49 335 5534 358 Fax: +49 335 5534 357 Email: stickel@euv-frankfurt-o.de Important Dates March 29, 1996 Due date for Submissions May 6, 1996 Notification June 28, 1996 Final version due October 10, 1996 Symposium ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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We apologize should you receive multiple copies of this CFP from different sources. ====================================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 1996 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING The Annual Conference of the Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly ICONIP'96, September 24 - 27, 1996 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong In cooperation with IEEE / NNC --IEEE Neural Networks Council INNS - International Neural Network Society ENNS - European Neural Network Society JNNS - Japanese Neural Network Society CNNC - China Neural Networks Council ====================================================================== The goal of ICONIP'96 is to provide a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to meet and to exchange ideas on the latest developments in neural information processing. The conference also further serves to stimulate local and regional interests in neural information processing and its potential applications to industries indigenous to this region. The conference consists of two tracks. One is SCIENTIFIC TRACK for the latest results on Theories, Technologies, Methods, Architectures and Algorithms in neural information processing. The other is APPLICATION TRACK for various neural network applications in any engineering/technical field and any business/service sector. There will be a one-day tutorial on the neural networks for capital markets which reflects Hong Kong's local interests on financial services. In addition, there will be several invited lectures in the main conference. Hong Kong is one of the most dynamic cities in the world with world-class facilities, easy accessibility, exciting entertainment, and high levels of service and professionalism. Come to Hong Kong! Visit this Eastern Pearl in this historical period before Hong Kong's eminent return to China in 1997. Tutorials On Financial Engineering ================================== 1. Professor John Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA "Time Series Modeling: Classical and Nonlinear Approaches" 2. Professor Halbert White, University California, San Diego, USA "Option Pricing In Modern Finance Theory And The Relevance Of Artificial Neural Networks" 3. The third tutorial speaker will also be an internationally well known expert in neural networks for the capital markets. Keynote Talks ============= 1. Professor Shun-ichi Amari, Tokyo University. "Information Geometry of Neural Networks" 2. Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa, California Institute of Technology, USA "The Bin Model for Learning and Generalization" 3. Professor Leo Breiman, University California, Berkeley, USA "Democratizing Predictors" 4. Professor Christoph von der Malsburg, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany "Scene Analysis Based on Dynamic Links" (tentatively) 5. Professor Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland "Blind Signal Separation by Neural Networks " *** PLUS AROUND 20 INVITED PAPERS GIVEN BY WELL KNOWN RESEARCHERS IN THE FIELD. *** CONFERENCE TOPICS ================= SCIENTIFIC TRACK: ----------------- * Theory * Algorithms & Architectures * Supervised Learning * Unsupervised Learning * Hardware Implementations * Hybrid Systems * Neurobiological Systems * Associative Memory * Visual & Speech Processing * Intelligent Control & Robotics * Cognitive Science & AI * Recurrent Net & Dynamics * Image Processing * Pattern Recognition * Computer Vision * Time Series Prediction * Optimization * Fuzzy Logic * Evolutionary Computing * Other Related Areas APPLICATION TRACK: ------------------ * Foreign Exchange * Equities & Commodities * Risk management * Options & Futures * Forecasting & Strategic Planning * Government and Services * Garments and Fashions * Telecommunications * Control & Modeling * Manufacturing * Chemical engineering * Transportation * Environmental engineering * Remote sensing * Power systems * Defense * Multimedia systems * Document Processing * Medical imaging * Biomedical application * Geophysical sciences * Other Applications CONFERENCE'S SCHEDULE ===================== Submission of paper February 1, 1996 Notification of acceptance May 1, 1996 Early registration deadline July 1, 1996 Tutorial on Financial Engineering Sept, 24, 1996 Conference Sept, 25-27, 1996 SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================== Authors are invited to submit one camera-ready original and five copies of the manuscript written in English on A4-format (or letter) white paper with 25 mm (1 inch) margins on all four sides, in one column format, no more than six pages (four pages preferred) including figures and references, single- spaced, in Times-Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, and printed on one side of the page only. Electronic or fax submission is not acceptable. Additional pages will be charged at USD $50 per page. Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete title, author(s), affiliation, mailing, and email addresses, followed by an abstract (no more than 150 words) and the text. Each submission should be accompanied by a cover letter indicating the contacting author, affiliation, mailing and email addresses, telephone and fax number, and preference of track, technical session(s), and format of presentation, either oral or poster. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on quality, clarity, originality, and significance. Authors may also retrieve the ICONIP style, "iconip.tex" and "iconip.sty" files for the conference by anonymous FTP at ftp.cs.cuhk.hk in the directory /pub/iconip96. The address for information inquiries and paper submissions: ICONIP'96 Secretariat Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong Fax (852) 2603-5024 E-mail: iconip96@cs.cuhk.hk http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/iconip96 ====================================================================== General Co-Chairs ================= Omar Wing, CUHK Shun-ichi Amari, Tokyo U. Advisory Committee ================== International ------------- Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech Michael Arbib, U. Southern Cal. Leo Breiman, UC Berkeley Jack Cowan, U. Chicago Rolf Eckmiller, U. Bonn Jerome Friedman, Stanford U. Stephen Grossberg, Boston U. Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNC Geoffrey Hinton, U. Toronto Anil Jain, Michigan State U. Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki U. of Tech. Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton U. Robert Marks, II, U. Washington Thomas Poggio, MIT Harold Szu, US Naval SWC John Taylor, King's College London David Touretzky, CMU C. v. d. Malsburg, Ruhr-U. Bochum David Willshaw, Edinburgh U. Lofti Zadeh, UC Berkeley Asia-Pacific Region ------------------- Marcelo H. Ang Jr, NUS, Singapore Sung-Yang Bang, POSTECH, Pohang Hsin-Chia Fu, NCTU., Hsinchu Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya U., Nagoya Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka U., Osaka Zhenya He, Southeastern U., Nanjing Marwan Jabri, U. Sydney, Sydney Nikola Kasabov, U. Otago, Dunedin Yousou Wu, Tsinghua U., Beijing Organizing Committee ==================== L.W. Chan (Co-Chair), CUHK K.S. Leung (Co-Chair), CUHK D.Y. Yeung (Finance), HKUST C.K. Ng (Publication), CityUHK A. Wu (Publication), CityUHK B.T. Low (Publicity), CUHK M.W. Mak (Local Arr.), HKPU C.S. Tong (Local Arr.), HKBU T. Lee (Registration), CUHK K.P. Chan (Tutorial), HKU H.T. Tsui (Industry Liaison), CUHK I. King (Secretary), CUHK Program Committee ================= Co-Chairs --------- Lei Xu, CUHK Michael Jordan, MIT Erkki Oja, Helsinki U. of Tech. Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Members ------- Yoshua Bengio, U. Montreal Jim Bezdek, U. West Florida Chris Bishop, Aston U. Leon Bottou, Neuristique Gail Carpenter, Boston U. Laiwan Chan, CUHK Huishen Chi, Peking U. Peter Dayan, MIT Kenji Doya, ATR Scott Fahlman, CMU Francoise Fogelman, SLIGOS Lee Giles, NEC Research Inst. Michael Hasselmo, Harvard U. Kurt Hornik, Technical U. Wien Yu Hen Hu, U. Wisconsin - Madison Jeng-Neng Hwang, U. Washington Nathan Intrator, Tel-Aviv U. Larry Jackel, AT&T Bell Lab Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Australia Soo-Young Lee, KAIST Todd Leen, Oregon Grad. Inst. Cheng-Yuan Liou, National Taiwan U. David MacKay, Cavendish Lab Eric Mjolsness, UC San Diego John Moody, Oregon Grad. Inst. Nelson Morgan, ICSI Steven Nowlan, Synaptics Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Lab Ting-Chuen Pong, HKUST Paul Refenes, London Business School David Sanchez, U. Miami Hava Siegelmann, Technion Ah Chung Tsoi, U. Queensland Benjamin Wah, U. Illinois Andreas Weigend, Colorado U. Ronald Williams, Northeastern U. John Wyatt, MIT Alan Yuille, Harvard U. 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ADVANCE PROGRAM DIGITAL LIBRARIES '96: 1st ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES March 20-23, 1996 Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Maryland USA AN INVITATION FROM THE CONFERENCE CHAIR Welcome to DL '96! Digital libraries meld the storage and retrieval power of computing, the communication capabilities of electronic networking, and the structures and practices of physical libraries and archives. Much of the excitement related to digital libraries comes as a result of the interactions among disparate communities of scholars coming together to address common problems of information organization, access, and use. This meeting builds on two conferences held in Texas in 1994 and 1995 and initiates a series of ACM-sponsored research conferences devoted to digital library research and development. Gary Marchionini CONFERENCE SPONSORS Digital Libraries '96 is sponsored by ACM through SIGIR and SIGLINK. Other ACM SIGs have joined in cooperation, including SIGAda, SIGART, SIGBIO, SIGCAPH, SIGCOMM, SIGCUE, SIGDA, SIGMIS (formerly SIGBIT), and SIGOIS. In-cooperation sponsors include: ASIS (American Society for Information Science) CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) D-Lib (Digital Library Forum) IEEE CS (IEEE Computer Society) KSI (Knowledge Systems Incorporated) LITA (Library and Information Technology Association) LoC (Library of Congress) NAL (National Agricultural Library) NLM (National Library of Medicine) SLA (Special Libraries Association) IMPORTANT DATES February 5, 1996 --- Advance registration ends March 20, 1996 --- DL `96 Tutorials March 21-22, 1996 --- DL `96 Technical Program March 23, 1996 --- DL `96 Workshops CONFERENCE PROGRAM o Featured Speakers Opening Plenary Session Thursday, March 21, 8:00-9:30 am Dr. Barry M. Leiner, Assistant Director, Information Technology Office, Advanced Research Projects Agency "Interoperability Issues in Digital Libraries" Dr. Leiner is a Senior Scientist with the Universities Space Research Association. He is currently on loan to the Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he is Assistant Director of the Information Technology Office, responsible for the area of Networked Systems. This area is developing the information technologies required to support widely distributed operation. Particular areas of focus are mobile information systems, high performance networking, and the technologies required to facilitate distributed applications that exploit the emerging ubiquitous network environment. Banquet Speaker Thursday, March 21, 7:00-9:30 pm Ann S. Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University "How Will We Know When It Is a Library?" After 15 years of academic library and library management experience, particularly in serials and collections development, several years in the commercial sector, and service as a senior program officer for the Association of Research Libraries as its Director, Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing, Ms. Okerson became Associate University Librarian at Yale in September 1995, with responsibilities including making digital collections available. o Tutorials Wednesday, March 20, 1996 12:30 to 3:00 pm 1A. Information Retrieval and Hypertext Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech Robert Akscyn, Knowledge Systems, Inc Content: An introductory to intermediate tutorial intended for those desiring an introduction to information retrieval (IR) and hypertext (HT), which provides a background for: digital libraries as well as work in: content-based retrieval, hypermedia, networked information, educational courseware, and related technologies. 12:30 to 3:00 pm 1B. Foundations of the Organization of Information Elaine Svenonius, University of California, Los Angeles Content: A brief introduction to the foundations of Information Organization, which will cover: a) Principles which have been used to guide the design of systems for organizing information b) Examples of methods that have been used in the design of such systems, with a particular emphasis on automated methods c) current issues and problems in designing systems for organizing information in very large online databases. 3:30 - 6:00 pm 2A. Z39.50 Tutorial Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress Clifford Lynch, University of California Content: Z39.50 is an international standard client/server protocol for information retrieval. Z39.50-1992 is widely implemented, primarily for access to bibliographic databases. Z39.50-1995 is significantly richer and addresses search and retrieval of digital objects. Work is in progress to define a "Z39.50 Profile for the Access to Digital Collections". The Z39.50 tutorial will describe the background and history of Z39.50, its model, functionality, and technical aspects, and illustrate how Z39.50 addresses problems of access to digital collections. 3:30 - 6:00 pm 2B. Documents and Digital Libraries David M. Levy, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Content: This tutorial will offer a conceptual framework that highlights the inseparable relationship between document technologies and social purpose (or use). Topics will include: (1) digital documents: how they are similar to and different from paper documents; (2) document genre as the nexus of form, content, and use; (3) the fixity of documents: how documents fix communication in a medium; (4) documents and change (fluidity); (5) how fixity and fluidity are orchestrated by genre; (6) the medium (in)dependence of documents. The framework will be applied to analyze one or more current issues, such as the future of cataloging. o Technical Program Wednesday, March 20 ------------------- 7:00-9:00 Reception (included with registration) Thursday, March 21 ------------------ 7:00-8:00 Breakfast (included with registration) 8:00-9:30 Opening Plenary Session Keynote Speaker: Dr. Barry M. Leiner, Assistant Director, Information Technology Office, Advanced Research Projects Agency "Interoperability Issues in Digital Libraries" 9:30-10:30 Paper Session 1: Multimedia Digital Libraries Chair: Cliff McKnight, Loughborough University, UK "Building a Digital Library: The Perseus Project as a Case Study in the Humanities" Gregory Crane, Tufts University "Towards the Digital Music Library: Tune Retrieval from Acoustic Input" Rodger J. McNab, Lloyd A. Smith, Ian H. Witten, Clare L. Henderson, and Sally Jo Cunningham University of Waikato, New Zealand "VISION: A Digital Video Library" Wei Li, Susan Gauch, John Gauch, and Kok Meng Pua University of Kansas 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:00 D-Lib Working Session 1A: Metadata to Describe Information in Digital Libraries Terence R. Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara D-Lib Working Session 1B: User Needs Assessment and Evaluation Nancy A. Van House, University of California, Berkeley 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:15 Paper Session 2: Library and Information Science Perspectives Chair: David Levy, Xerox PARC "The Role of Intermediary Services in Emerging Digital Libraries" Allen Brewer, Wei Ding, Karla Hahn, and Anita Komlodi University of Maryland, College Park "Toward the Bibliographic Control of Works: Derivative Bibliographic Relationships in an Online Union Catalog" Gregory H. Leazer, University of California, Los Angeles Richard P. Smiraglia, Long Island University 2:30-3:30 D-Lib Working Session 2A: Social Aspects of Digital Libraries Christine L. Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles D-Lib Working Session 2B: Repository Interactions William L. Scherlis, Carnegie Mellon University 3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-5:00 Paper Session 3: Human-Computer Interaction: Browsing and Visualization Chair: Catherine Marshall, Texas A&M University "Graphical Table of Contents" Xia Lin University of Kentucky, Lexington "Visual Relevance Analysis" Nikos Pediotakis and Mountaz Zizi Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS-URA410, Univ. Paris-sud, France "A Browsing Tool of Multi-lingual Documents for Users without Multi-lingual Fonts" Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Akira Maeda, Takehisa Fujita, Shigeo Sugimoto, and Koichi Tabata University of Library and Information Science, Ibaraki, Japan 5:00-7:00 Posters To be announced 7:00-9:30 Banquet Banquet Speaker: Ann S. Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University "How Will We Know When It Is a Library?" Friday, March 22 ---------------- 7:00-8:00 Breakfast (included with registration) 8:00-8:45 Paper Session 4: Human-Computer Interaction: Images and Spatial Organization Chair: Su-Shing Chen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte "User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human" Chris North, Ben Shneiderman, and Catherine Plaisant University of Maryland, College Park "A Spatial Approach to Organizing and Locating Digital Libraries and Their Content" Jason Orendorf and Charles Kacmar Florida State University 9:00-10:00 D-Lib Working Session 3A: Digitization and Conversion M. Stuart Lynn, University of California, Office of the President D-Lib Working Session 3B: Naming Objects in the Digital Library William Y. Arms, Corporation for National Research Initiatives 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:30 Paper Session 5: Documents Chair: Henry Gladney, IBM Almaden Research Center "Index Structures for Structured Documents" Yong Kyu Lee, Seong-Joon Yoo, Kyoungro Yoon, and P. Bruce Berra Syracuse University "Toward Active, Extensible, Networked Documents: Multivalent Architecture and Applications" Thomas A. Phelps and Robert Wilensky University of California, Berkeley "Physical Objects in the Digital Library" Richard Furuta, Catherine C. Marshall, Frank M. Shipman III, and John J. Leggett Texas A&M University 11:30-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:00 Paper Session 6: Information Retrieval Chair: Bruce Schatz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Natural Language Information Retrieval In Digital Libraries" Tomek Strzalkowski, GE Corporate Research & Development Jose Perez Carballo, Rutgers University Mihnea Marinescu, New York University "Interactive Term Suggestion for Users of Digital Libraries: Using Subject Thesauri and Co-occurrence Lists for Information Retrieval" Bruce R. Schatz, Eric H. Johnson, and Pauline A. Cochrane, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona "Information Product Evaluation as Asynchronous Communication in Context: A Model for Organizational Research" Lisa D. Murphy Indiana University 2:00-3:00 Paper Session 7: Document Indexing and Analysis Chair: Nancy Ide, Vassar College "Text to Hypertext: Can Clustering Solve the Problem in Digital Libraries?" Robert B. Kellogg, PRC., Inc., Reston, VA Madhan Subhas, Virginia Tech "Indexing Handwriting Using Word Matching" R. Manmatha, Chengfeng Han, E. M. Riseman, and W. B. Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Building a Scalable and Accurate Copy Detection Mechanism" Narayanan Shivakumar and Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-4:30 Panel: Digital Library Research at the U.S. National Libraries Representatives from the Library of Congress, National Agricultural Library, and National Library of Medicine. D-Lib Working Sessions are based on continuing activities by the working groups. Before coming to the sessions, conference participants need to read the working group materials. They are available at: http://www.dlib.org o Workshops All workshops are scheduled for Saturday, March 23, from 9:30 am through 3:30 pm and include a box lunch. Each workshop is intended for researchers or practitioners with an active interest in the subject matter. Workshop A: Text Encoding Initiative Nancy Ide, Vassar College Judith Klavans, Columbia University Jean Veronis, Universite de Provence, France Please send a brief statement of interest to ide@cs.vassar.edu if you would like to attend Workshop A. Workshop B: User Needs Assessment and Evaluation Ann Bishop, University of Illinois Nancy Van House, University of California, Berkeley David Levy, Xerox PARC People interested in participating in Workshop B should email a statement of their experience and interest to Nancy Van House by February 5. Please do not register for this workshop until you have been invited to attend. REGISTRATION Last Name: _______________________ First Name: __________________ Title: ___________________________________ Organization:__________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ City: ___________________ State/Province: ____________________ Country: ____________________ Zip: __________ Telephone:______________________ Fax: _____________________ Email: ________________________________________ Special Needs (e.g., Dietary): ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Early registration rates are available only for registrations received by February 5, 1996. Member rates require your membership number for ACM or one of the other sponsors below. Full-time student rates require a copy of your valid student ID. 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Space for tutorials is limited and enrollments will be processed in the order in which they are received. ---MEMBER---- -NON-MEMBER- STUDENT Early Late Early Late Full Time TUTORIALS (Wednesday, March 20) ___1A IR&Hyprtxt 12:30-3:00 $150 $200 $180 $230 $100 ___1B Info Org " " " " " " ___2A Z39.50 3:30-6:00 " " " " " ___2B Docs & DL " " " " " " REGISTRATION (Thursday & Friday, March 21-22) ___Full Registration $240 $280 $280 $320 $100 ___One Day Registration $155 $175 $175 $175 $100 WORKSHOPS (Saturday, March 23) ___A Text Encoding $ 50 $ 50 $ 50 $ 50 $ 50 ___B User Needs Assessment " " " " " Extra Banquet tickets @ $50 each X # ____ = $_____ TOTAL FEES $________ PAYMENT INFORMATION Registration fees must accompany registration and be paid in full in U.S. funds. If payment is made by check or money order, make payable to ACM/DL96. 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The registration desk at the conference will be open on Wednesday, March 20 from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm Thursday, March 21 from 6:30 am until 6:30 pm Friday, March 22 from 6:30 am until 5:00 pm Saturday, March 23 from 8:00 am until noon HOTEL INFORMATION The conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency Bethesda One Bethesda Metro Center Bethesda, MD 20614 Voice: 800-233-1234 or 301-657-1234 Fax: 301-657-6453 Telex: 6716016 Room rates: $113.00 single or double, $133 triple, $153 quad. Subject to 5% sales tax plus 7% occupancy tax. You must reserve your room by February 20 to qualify for the conference rates. Discounted airfares (domestic and international) are available on TWA and US Air by making your travel reservations through Omega World Travel and mentioning ACM Digital Libraries '96. Phone: 800-229-6634 (office hours: 8am-6pm EST) Fax: 301-345-8090 Email: omega@umdacc.umd.edu Hotel parking is $10/day. 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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Conference Chair: Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland Program Chair: Ed Fox, Virginia Tech Treasurer: Larry Fitzpatrick, Open Text Corporation Registration: Linda Hill, University of Maryland & CESDIS Publicity: Nancy Van House, UC Berkeley Local Arrangements: Lida Larsen, University of Maryland Tutorials: Edie Rasmussen, University of Pittsburgh Workshops: Maria Zemankova, National Science Foundation Panels: Charles Kacmar, Florida State University Posters: Beth Davis-Brown, Library of Congress Conference Evaluation: Phil Doty, University of Texas Industry Liaison: Roberta Rand, National Agricultural Library Organizing Committee: Bill Arms, Corp. for National Research Initiatives Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University Ed Fox, Virginia Tech David Levy, Xerox PARC Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Further information is available at: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL96/ or contact Linda Hill, Registration Chair, email: lhill@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 18 09:24:13 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:24:10 -0600; AA09776 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:24:09 -0600 From: "M. Tamer Ozsu" Message-Id: <9601181524.AA17238@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:24:09 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The list of papers accepted to PODS'96 is now available on line. Access it via the SIGMOD/PODS'96 home page at http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~database/sp96/info.html == Tamer ____________________________________________________________________________ M. Tamer Ozsu, Professor Internet: ozsu@cs.ualberta.ca Department of Computing Science Tel: (403) 492-2860 University of Alberta Fax: (403) 492-1071 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1 WWW: http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~ozsu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 18 09:32:35 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:32:33 -0600; AA09838 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:32:32 -0600 From: Rick Hull Message-Id: <9601181532.AA17262@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:32:32 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu This is the list of accepted papers for PODS 96 (ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, 1996) Rick Hull Chair of PODS Program Committee ====================================== Linear vs. Order Contstrained Queries Over Rational Databases --- Alexei P. Stolboushkin and M.A. Taitslin Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems --- Ronald Fagin Are Window Queries Representative for Arbitrary Range Queries? --- Bernd-Uwe Pagel and Hans-Werner Six Integrating Information by Outerjoins and Full Disjunctions --- Anand Rajaraman and Jeffrey D. Ullman Mining Optimized Association Rules for Numeric Attributes --- Takeshi Fukuda, Yasuhiko Morimoto, Shinichi Morishita, and Takeshi Tokuyama Chasing Constrained Tuple-Generating Dependencies --- Michael Maher and Divesh Srivastava Verifiable Properties of Database Transactions --- Michael Benedikt, Timothy Griffin, and Leonid Libkin Relational Expressive Power of Consraint Query Languages --- Michael Benedikt, Guozhu Dong, Limsoon Wong, and Leonid Libkin Static Analysis of Intensional Databases in U-Datalog --- Elisa Bertino and Barbara Catania Topological Queries in Spatial Databases --- Victor Vianu, Christos Papadimitriou, and Dan Suciu A Model for the Prediction of R-tree Performance --- Yannis Theodoridis and Timos Sellis Tables as a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring --- Marc Gyssens, Iyer Subramanian, and Laks V.S. Lakshmanan Mining Event Sequences for Complex Temporal Relationships Involving Multiple Granularities --- Claudio Bettini, X. Sean Wang, and Sushil Jajodia Answering Queries Using Limited External Processors --- Alon Y. Levy, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeffrey D. Ullman Recovery for Transaction Failures in Object-Based Databases --- Man Hon Wong On Genericity and Parametricity --- Catriel Beeri, Tova Milo, and Paula Ta-Shma Temporal Versus First-Order Logic to Query Temporal Databases --- Serge Abiteboul, Laurent Herr, and Jan Van den Bussche Variable Independence and Aggregation Closure --- Dina Goldin, Gabi Kuper and Jan Chomicki Point vs. Interval-based Query Languages for Temporal Databases --- David Toman Towards Practical Constraint Databases --- Stephane Grumbach and Jianwen Su Managing Rule Conflicts in an Active Database --- H.V. Jagadish, Alberto Mendelzon, and Inderpal Singh Mumick Efficient and Acurate Cost Models for Parallel Query Optimizationh --- Sumit Ganguly, Akshay Goel, and Avi Silberschatz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 18 09:33:56 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:33:54 -0600; AA09845 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:33:53 -0600 From: Jeff Ullman Message-Id: <9601181533.AA17280@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:33:53 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Last May, an NSF-sponsored workshop met to consider the future of DBMS research. A report, edited by Avi Silberschatz, Mike Stonebraker, and me, with the help of all the workshop attendees, is now available. You can find it at http://db.stanford.edu/pub/ullman/lagii.ps ---jdu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 18 13:57:37 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:57:33 -0600; AA15747 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:57:32 -0600 From: han@cs.sfu.ca Message-Id: <9601181957.AA18111@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:57:32 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Due to the snowstorm! ACM-SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Submission Deadline Extension: January 22, 1996 (to rng@cs.ubc.ca). Abstract due to rng@cs.ubc.ca by January 15, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, Due to the snowstorm in Eastern U.S. and Canada, we received some e-mails, requesting for the extension of the submission deadline. The new deadline is as follows. Paper electronic submission dealine: January 22, 1996 (1-week extension). To: rng@cs.ubc.ca Note: Please submit a half-page abstract to rng@cs.ubc.ca by January 15, 1996 (for all the early or late submissions). The abstract should contain title, author(s), keywords, and one paragraph abstract. Since the allowed review period is short, please observe these deadlines! Electronic submissions are encouraged!! ============================================================================ Call For Position Papers and Review Talks ============================================================================ Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in cooperation with ACM-SIGMOD'96 Montreal, Canada, June 2 (Sunday) 1996 =========================================== OBJECTIVES Mining knowledge from large databases is a promising research area, with high application potential due to the huge amounts of data accumulated in databases and other repositories, coupled with the rapid growth of data. Data mining has attracted people from many different fields, including database systems, knowledge-base systems, machine learning, knowledge acquisition, statistics, information retrieval, and data visualization. The past conferences and workshops dedicated to knowledge discovery in databases are associated with AI conferences (e.g., IJCAI, AAAI, and Machine Learning). It is important to have such a forum associated with database conferences as well to examine mining issues particularly related to database systems. The objective of this workshop is to bring researchers in database systems together to discuss and examine the issues related to mining knowledge from databases. FORMAT The workshop will be held one day before the SIGMOD/PODS'96 conference. The plan is to have a full-day workshop, consisting of 3 theme sessions and one panel session. The three theme sessions will be on three major issues: Foundations, Implementations, and Applications respectively. Each theme session includes one overview talk, 5-6 position presentations (including a short discussion after each position presentation). If the number of submissions is large, we will consider arranging a poster session and a system demonstration session in parallel with it. The workshop will also be coordinated with KDD'96 conference (http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96) (Portland, Oregon, August 1996). TOPICS The topics of the discussion will be partitioned into 3 major themes. 1. Foundations, principles and methodologies of data mining, including Knowledge discovery methods Efficiency and scalability of KDD algorithms Mining different kinds of knowledge from data Integration of deduction and induction techniques Statistics, probability and uncertainty in data mining Maintenance of mined knowledge and knowledge-base construction Knowledge evolution through learning Methods for knowledge discovery in advanced database systems (including object-oriented, deductive, spatial, temporal, textual, multimedia, heterogeneous, transaction, and active databases, and global information systems) 2. Systems and implementations for data mining, including Knowledge discovery systems, implementations, and performance Languages and interfaces for knowledge discovery in databases Interactive data mining and knowledge visualization Integrated discovery systems Systems, implementations, and performance for knowledge discovery in advanced database systems 3. Knowledge discovery applications, including Successful knowledge discovery application examples in industry, administration, and business New application challenges and requirements for data mining The inadequacy of current knowledge discovery mechanisms Influence of data mining to the advances of database systems Security and social impact of data mining SUBMISSION AND REVIEWS OF THE POSITION PAPERS and OVERVIEW TALK PAPERS. Authors are invited to submit short position papers and comprehensive overview talk papers on each of the three themes. Each position paper should be no longer than 6 pages. Each overview talk paper should be no longer than 25 pages. WE ENCOURAGE ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS IN THE FORM OF POSTSCRIPT, LATEX, ETC. but limited to the std 8/5x11 size paper. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. The selected papers of the Workshop, after being extended into journal length and quality, will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Ron Brachman, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA Arbee L.P. Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Ming-Syan Chen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Wesley Chu, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Son Dao, Hughes Research Labs, USA Christos Faloutsos, AT&T and Univ. of Maryland, USA Usama M. Fayyad, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, USA Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada Howard Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada Tomasz Imielinski, Rutger University, USA Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA Willi Kloesgen, GMD, Germany Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Munich, Germany Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada Hongjun Lu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland Sham Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada KayLiang Ong, Trilogy, USA Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories, USA Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, Mitre Corp., USA. Shalom Tsur, Argonne National Research Lab, USA S.K. Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada Carlo Zaniolo, University of California at Los Angeles, USA IMPORTANT DATES Send a short abstract to rng@cs.ubc.ca by January 15, 1996. Submissions Due: January 15, 1996 (Electronic submission: 1/22/96). Acceptance Notice: March 15, 1996 Final Version due: April 15, 1996 Five hard copies or one electronic copy of the paper should be submitted by January 15, 1996 to Dr. Raymond Ng Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4, Canada rng@cs.ubc.ca ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada (han@cs.sfu.ca). Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada (laks@cs.concordia.ca). Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada (rng@cs.ubc.ca). Workshop (SIGMOD'96 DMKD) Home Page: http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd96.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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Jan 18 13:58:31 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:58:28 -0600; AA15754 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:58:27 -0600 From: Peter van Beek Message-Id: <9601181958.AA18119@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:58:27 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Attached below is a Latex version of the Call for Papers for CP'96. If you have the opportunity to display it at your site or distribute it at conferences and workshops, this would be much appreciated. Sincerely, Peter van Beek ================================================================= \documentstyle{article} \oddsidemargin 6pt \evensidemargin 6pt \marginparwidth 90pt \marginparsep 10pt \topmargin -30pt \headheight 12pt \headsep 25pt \footheight 12pt \footskip 30pt \columnsep 10.5pt \columnseprule 0pt \addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-2.0cm} \setlength{\textwidth}{18.7cm}%{18cm} \addtolength{\topmargin}{-1cm} \setlength{\textheight}{27cm} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{center} {\Large\sc Call for Papers - CP96} \end{center} \begin{center} {\Large \bf Second International Conference on}\\[1.5ex] {\Large \bf Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming} \end{center} \begin{center} {\large\bf Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, August 19-22, 1996} \end{center} \vspace*{0.15in} \parbox[t]{6.3cm}{ %{5.3cm}{ \footnotesize \noindent {\bf Program Chair:} \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{tabular}{l} Eugene C. Freuder\\ Department of Computer Science\\ University of New Hampshire\\ Kingsbury Hall M208, College Road\\ Durham, New Hampshire 03824 USA\\ phone: 603-862-1867\\ fax: 603-862-3493\\ e-mail: ecf@cs.unh.edu\\ \end{tabular} \vspace*{0.10in} \noindent {\bf Organizing Committee:} \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{tabular}{l} Alan Borning, U.~of Washington\\ Jacques Cohen, Brandeis U.\\ Alain Colmerauer, U.~of Marseille\\ Eugene Freuder, U.~of New Hampshire\\ Herve Gallaire, Xerox Corp., Grenoble\\ Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, U.~of Paris Sud\\ Paris Kanellakis, Brown U.\\ Jean-Louis Lassez, chair, IBM Watson\\ Ugo Montanari, U.~of Pisa\\ Anil Nerode, Cornell U.\\ Vijay Saraswat, Xerox Corp., PARC\\ Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown U.\\ Ralph Wachter, Office of Naval Research\\ \end{tabular} \vspace*{0.10in} \noindent {\bf Program Committee:} \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{tabular}{l} Endre Boros, Rutgers U.\\ Philippe Codognet, INRIA-Rocquencourt\\ Rina Dechter, U.~of California, Irvine\\ Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech.\\ Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Object Tech. Intl.\\ Eugene Freuder, chair, U.~of New Hampshire\\ Thomas Fruehwirth, ECRC\\ Martin Golumbic, Bar-Ilan U.\\ Hoon Hong, RISC\\ John Hooker, Carnegie Mellon U.\\ Joxan Jaffar, National U.~of Singapore\\ Deepak Kapur, State U.~of New York, Albany\\ Alan Mackworth, U.~of British Columbia\\ Kim Marriott, Monash U.\\ William Older, Bell-Northern Research\\ Leszek Pacholski, U.~of Wroclaw\\ Catuscia Palamidessi, U.~of Genova\\ Jean-Francois Puget, ILOG\\ Raghu Ramakrishnan, U.~of Wisc., Madison\\ Peter Revesz, U.~of Nebraska, Lincoln\\ Thomas Schiex, INRA\\ Bart Selman, AT\&T Bell Laboratories\\ Helmut Simonis, COSYTEC\\ Gert Smolka, DFKI\\ Wayne Snyder, Boston U.\\ Edward Tsang, U.~of Essex\\ H. Paul Williams, U.~of Southhampton\\ Makoto Yokoo, NTT Comm.~Science Lab. \end{tabular} \vspace*{0.10in} \noindent {\bf Local Arrangements Chair:} \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{tabular}{l} Isabel Cruz, Tufts University\\ cp96@cs.tufts.edu \end{tabular} \vspace*{0.10in} \noindent {\bf Publicity Chair:} \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{tabular}{l} Peter van Beek, University of Alberta\\ vanbeek@cs.ualberta.ca \end{tabular} } %\end{parbox} \parbox[t]{5mm}{ \rule[-20.7cm]{0.2mm}{21cm} } %\end{parbox} \begin{minipage}[t]{11.5cm}%{12.2cm} \small CP96 will be held in conjunction with the first appearance in the USA of the Conference on the Practical Applications of Constraint Technology, PACT-USA 96, August 23, 1996. \vspace*{0.12in} \noindent {\bf Scope of the conference:} Constraints have emerged as the basis of a representational and computational paradigm that draws from many disciplines and can be brought to bear on many problem domains. The conference is concerned with all aspects of computing with constraints including: algorithms, applications, environments, languages, models, systems. Contributions are welcome from any discipline concerned with constraints, including: artificial intelligence, combinatorial algorithms, computational logic, concurrent computation, databases, discrete mathematics, operations research, programming languages, symbolic computation. Contributions are welcome from any domain employing constraints, including: computational linguistics, configuration, decision support, design, diagnosis, graphics, hardware verification, molecular biology, planning, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, resource allocation, robotics, scheduling, software engineering, temporal reasoning, vision, visualization, user interfaces. Papers are especially welcome that bridge disciplines or combine theory and practice. \vspace*{0.12in} \noindent {\bf Paper submissions:} Submit hard copies and an electronic copy and an e-mail message according to the following instructions. All three must be received by February 15, 1996. Papers must be a maximum of 15 pages total, including title page, figures and references. Text should be in 12 point type and occupy a printing area of 6 inches by 9.5 inches (15.3 cm by 24.2 cm) on 8.5 by 11 inch or A4 paper. The title page must contain: title and authors; physical and e-mail addresses, telephone and (if available) fax number for each author; identification of corresponding author, if not the first author; an abstract of no more than 200 words; a list of keywords. Hard copies: Submit five hard copies (not faxes or electronic copies), in English, to the Program Chair. Electronic copy: Electronic submission is required in addition to, not in place of, hard copy submission. (Those without access to the necessary technology for electronic submission can submit just hard copies.) Details on electronic submissions are available from the CP96 web site (the URL is given below). E-mail message: Send a message that contains the name of your submitted postscript file and a copy of your title page in plain text to cp96@cs.unh.edu, with ``submission'' as the subject line. Decisions on acceptance will be sent by April 15. Some submissions not accepted as papers may be offered presentation as posters, with an extended abstract in the proceedings. \vspace*{0.12in} \noindent {\bf Publication:} The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Camera-ready copy will be due by May 15, 1996. The publication cannot duplicate an earlier conference publication. Papers and posters must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revisions to a special issue of the Constraints journal devoted to the conference. An award will be given to the paper that best exemplifies the interdisciplinary spirit of the conference. \vspace*{0.15in} \noindent {\bf Important dates:} \begin{tabular}{ll} February 15, 1996 & Paper submissions\\ April 15, 1996 & Acceptance decisions\\ May 15, 1996 & Camera-ready copy due\\ August 19-22, 1996 & CP96\\ August 23, 1996 & PACT-USA 96 \end{tabular} \vspace*{0.15in} \noindent {\bf Additional information} will be posted and will be available at the CP96 web site: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/\verb"~"ai/cp96. \end{minipage} \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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Jan 18 13:58:56 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:58:54 -0600; AA15761 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:58:53 -0600 From: "Arie Shoshani [csr]" Message-Id: <9601181958.AA18124@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:58:53 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu A special thanks to the founding Editor-in-Chief - Hans Schek ------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Schek, who is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal decided to conclude his role in the journal after serving for four years. We, the current Editors-in-Chief, and the VLDB Endowment representative for the VLDB Journal (acting as a Publication Board Chair), have worked with Hans closely, and have seen his dedication to the success of the journal. It is no exaggeration to say that Hans is the single person most responsible for the success of the journal to date, and for its high quality. It has been a pleasure for us to work with him, and to see the journal improve in quality due to his untiring efforts. The Editors-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal receive no royalty. Their work is out of dedication and belief that a journal sponsored by an organization consisting solely of members of the database community is a worthwhile activity. We have seen the journal under Hans leadership move in the direction of emphasizing practical systems aspects of database systems. This direction was the consensus reached after many discussions of the Endowment trustees. Hans is the person who implemented this policy. He not only solicited system oriented papers, commissioned special issues, and recruited special issue editors, but also recruited the new Editors-in-Chief who share this philosophy. He was also instrumental in setting up the negotiations with Springer-Verlag to publish the journal starting in January 1996. It is the quality of the journal that convinced this well established and prestigious publisher to accept the journal's publication. Hans dedication went beyond being an excellent Editor-in-Chief. He worried about publicity, and appointed one of his students, Michael Rys, to help with this task. He also volunteered his secretary, Antoinette Foerster, to keep track of all activities of the journal. Both did an excellent job under his guidance, and we are thankful to them as well. The great amount of energy and resources Hans put into supporting and promoting the journal deserve our special appreciation. On behalf of the VLDB Endowment and the entire Editorial Board, we wish Hans the best, and to enjoy the extra time now on his hands. NOTE: the electronic version of the journal is now available on line. The papers as well as various information on the journal is available on the web: "http://science.springer.de/vldb/vldb.htm". Papers are posted electronically as soon as they are accepted, often months before the paper version. For a limited time (about a month), abstracts and full articles are free of charge. Afterwards, full papers will be available only to subscribers of the printed version. Peter Apers, Jim Gray, Ron Sachs-Davis, Stanley Su, Editors-in-Chief Arie Shoshani, Chair of Publication Board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 18 13:59:24 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:59:22 -0600; AA15768 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:59:20 -0600 From: sobol@julius.crd.ge.com Message-Id: <9601181959.AA18129@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:59:20 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Final CALL FOR PAPERS Concurrent Engineering 96 ========================= Third ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 26-28, 1996 ISPE Concurrent Engineering 96 Conference (ISPE/CE96) is the major forum for the international scientific exchange of research results in the development and application of information technologies and business practices in achieving concurrency and integration in engineering. Submissions of papers are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in Concurrent Engineering. Topics include: * Planning & Scheduling: Enterprise integration, assessing an organization's readiness, CE process characterization, workflow tracking and management, CE assessment models, planning and scheduling of activities, re-engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual enterprises. * Collaborative Decision Making: Cooperative work, team coordination, decision support and design assessment, monitoring progress of product development, change notification across perspectives, cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure, project & team coordination. * Information Modeling: Information modeling and simulation, integrated process capture, design intent capture, data version control and management, PDES/STEP, multi-level user access, capturing corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design rationale, integrated database and knowledge- base management systems, constraints. * Teaming and Sharing: Information sharing, communication tools, computer-based video and audio conferring and consulting, multimedia electronic mail, network-wide sharing of tools, graphical collaborative user interfaces for inter-operability, networked collocation. * Networking and Distribution: Integrated frameworks, architectures for building CE systems, CE languages & tools, integration of design and manufacturing, knowledge-based integration, virtual team support environments, tools for multi-media conference on the networks, distributed computing environment. * Organization and Management: Principles of CE, emerging standards and practices, life cycle engineering, design for X, integrated product and process development, environmentally conscious manufacturing, life-cycle cost and quality. * Reasoning & Negotiation: Conflict resolution techniques, constraint management, negotiation, blackboard and agent-based architectures, corporate technical memory. * Practical applications: Practical solutions, systematic guidelines, pitfalls and success stories, case studies, lessons learned, etc. Best Paper Award ---------------- The Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications journal (Dr. B. Prasad, Ed. bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com) will sponsor an award for the best paper. CE96 is sponsored by The International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE). Timetable --------- * 1 February 1996: Paper submissions due. Maximum 10 pages, single spaced, 12 point font. Please submit 4 copies (or postscript file by email) to Program Chair: Dr. M. Sobolewski (address below). Late submissions will be returned unopened. * 1 April 1996: Notification of acceptance/rejection sent to authors. * 1 May 1996: Camera-ready copy of accepted papers due. Further Information ------------------- * Additional information can be found on the World Wide Web: http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/ce/ * Selected papers will be reviewed for inclusion in a special issue of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Application. * Conference proceedings will be published by Technomic Pub. Co. * Information on CE94 and CE95 proceedings can be found at http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/ce/ Conference Organization ----------------------- Conference General Chair: Prof. Mark S. Fox Dept. of Industrial Eng., University of Toronto 4 Taddle Creek Road Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, CANADA E-Mail: msf@ie.utoronto.ca Tel: +1-416-978-6823, Fax: +1-416-971-2479 Conference Program Chair: Dr. Michael Sobolewski GE Corporate Research and Development KW Building, Room C276B, P. O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 USA E-Mail: sobol@crd.ge.com Tel: +1-518-387-5150, Fax: +1-518-387-7080 Program Area Chairs ------------------- Enterprise Integration: Dr. Pravir K. Chawdhry, UK Information Modeling: Dr. V. "Juggy" Jagannathan, USA Data Exchange: Dr. Martin Hardwick, USA Collaborative Work Dr. A. Gunasekaran, Australia Reasoning & Negotiation: Dr. Mark Klein, USA Practical Applications: Dr. Anthony J. Gadient, US Planning & Scheduling: Dr. Shuichi Fukuda, Japan Organization & Management: Dr. B. 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