From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Mon Jan 22 16:17:15 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 Jan 96 16:17:11 -0600; AA09840 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 16:17:09 -0600 From: "Tiziana Catarci" Message-Id: <9601222217.AA22439@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 Jan 96 16:17:09 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please accept our apologies if you receive this message multiple times. ------------------------------------------------------------------ AVI'96 Advanced Visual Interfaces: an International Workshop Gubbio, Italy, May 27-29, 1996 Under the patronage of the Universita di Bari Under the patronage of the Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Sponsored by IDOMENEUS (Esprit Network of Excellence No. 6606) In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI In cooperation with the Esprit 8422 "FADIVA" Working Group ******************************************************************* The list of accepted papers and system demos is now available at: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/AVI96/info.html ******************************************************************* Tiziana Catarci Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma ITALY Tel. +39-6-49918331 Fax. +39-6-49918331 or +39-6-85300849 E-mail catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it or tic@cs.brown.edu URL http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/AVI96/tchome.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 Mon Jan 22 16:17:54 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 Jan 96 16:17:51 -0600; AA09889 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 16:17:50 -0600 From: klsiau@unixg.ubc.ca Message-Id: <9601222217.AA22450@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 Jan 96 16:17:50 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design May 20-21, 1996 Crete, Greece WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Keng Siau and Yair Wand Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration The University of British Columbia Numerous modeling methods are used in systems analysis. New paradigms (most notably the object-oriented approach) and new models within a paradigm (there are at least a dozen different OO modeling methods) are constantly being introduced. Clearly, not all methods are suitable in all contexts. Systematic evaluation is needed to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each modeling method and the appropriate contexts and tasks where it can be most suitably applied. This understanding is important for the use of existing methods and for the development of new methods. Three categories of evaluation techniques can be identified: purely theoretical (e.g., the use of ontological or linguistic framework), purely empirical (e.g., experimental comparison of methods), and a hybrid of the two (i.e., theoretical approach with empirical evidence). Although the need for such studies is well-recognized, there is a paucity of research in the area. Evaluation of modeling methods remains a challenge in information systems engineering. There is clearly a need for innovative, effective, and efficient techniques for such evaluation. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in systems analysis and design modeling methods to meet, present their research results and experience reports, and exchange ideas on the subject. Relevant topics for this workshop include theoretical and/or empirical methods to study and evaluate modeling methods used in (not exhaustive): -- Information Systems Analysis -- Business Process Redesign -- Object-Oriented analysis -- Requirement Engineering -- Enterprise Modeling -- Data/Database Modeling Work on theoretical foundations, research methods, case studies and experience reports related to modeling are of particular interest to this workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: Send an email message to indicate interest, preferably with an abstract of up to 150 words February 10, 1996 (optional) Complete paper to be received by: March 1, 1996 (see instructions below) Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 1996 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS: Four copies of manuscript should be submitted to Keng Siau (co-chairperson) at the following address: Keng Siau Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration The University of British Columbia 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver B.C. Canada V6T 1Z2 Email: klsiau@unixg.ubc.ca The author(s) may submit an abstract of up to 150 words (using email) to the co-chairperson (Email: klsiau@unixg.ubc.ca) for comments and suggestions. All submissions should be double-spaced and use Times 12pt or equivalent fonts. Papers are limited to 2,500 words (excluding abstract, tables, figures and references). A separate cover sheet should be enclosed giving the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s) and their affiliation(s), and the address (including email address and fax number) to which correspondence should be sent. The number of words should be indicated on this page. The paper should also include an abstract of no more than 150 words. The papers will be evaluated based on (i) relevance to the workshop's theme; (ii) theoretical and methodological soundness; (iii) contribution to the field; and (iv) quality of writing. GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop is part of the program for the 8th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'96, May 20-24, 1996). The conference venue will be a resort hotel conveniently located close to Heraklion, the largest town of Crete. Information about the CAiSE conference is available on the World Wide Web (WWW): http://www.ics.forth.gr/caise96 EUROCONFERENCE SUPPORT The Human Capital and Mobility (HCM) programme of the European Community will provide financial support to selected young researchers and post-graduate students to enable them to attend CAiSE'96. Applications should be made to the CAiSE conference organizers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 22 20:10:19 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 Jan 96 20:10:15 -0600; AA00382 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 20:10:14 -0600 From: roger@kibblesnbits.cs.colorado.edu Message-Id: <9601230210.AA22707@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 Jan 96 20:10:14 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Below is an announcement for a position in Computer Science at the University of Colorado. Please note that we can consider a senior candidate only if the case is exceptional. If your area of expertise is Databases, and if you respond to this ad, please also send a brief email to roger@cs.colorado.edu. Your application should be sent (very soon) to our Chair, Gary Nutt. _______________________________________________________ University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Computer Science Applications are invited for a junior tenure-track faculty position in the area of artificial intelligence or software and systems. The department is particularly interested in candidates in the areas of human-computer interaction, human and machine learning, neural networks, databases, computer networks, distributed systems, programming languages, and software engineering. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field, and show strong promise in both research and teaching. The Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado has 22 faculty and about 200 graduate students. It has strong research programs in artificial intelligence, numerical and parallel computation, software and systems, and theoretical computer science. The computing environment includes a multitude of computer workstations and a large variety of parallel computers. The Department has been the recipient of two consecutive five-year Institutional Infrastructure (previously CER) grants from the National Science Foundation supporting its computing infrastructure and collaborative research among its faculty. Applicants should send a current curriculum vita and the names of four references to Professor Gary J. Nutt, Chair, Department of Computer Science, Campus Box 430, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0430. One-page statements of research and teaching interests would also be appreciated. Review of applications will begin on January 1, 1996, although all applications postmarked before March 1, 1996 are eligible for consideration. Earlier applications will receive first consideration. Appointment can begin as early as August 1996. The University of Colorado at Boulder strongly supports the principle of diversity. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from women, ethnic minorities, disabled persons, veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 22 20:12:43 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 Jan 96 20:12:41 -0600; AA00397 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 20:12:40 -0600 From: helemai@greta.cs.ioc.ee Message-Id: <9601230212.AA22717@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 Jan 96 20:12:40 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DEADLINE FOR ELECTRONIC and HARDCOPY SUBMISSIONS IS: February 1, 1996 YOU HAVE STILL 10 DAYS for completing your paper :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS http://greta.cs.ioc.ee/~balt96 Second International Baltic Workshop on DB and IS June 12-14. 1996 Doctoral Consortium, June 11, 1996 Tallinn, ESTONIA ORGANIZED by: Institute of Cybernetics Tallinn Technical University CIDEC of the Estonian Universities SPONSORED by: Estonian Informatics Fund Baltic Fund of VLDB Endowment OBJECTIVE This workshop is continuing a series of bi-annual Baltic workshops on databases and information systems. The previous workshop was held in Lithuania in 1994. The Baltic workshops are thought as an international forum for technical discussion among researchers and developers of database and information systems. The aim of the workshop is to consolidate views as well as to enhance communication between the database researchers and the community that uses database systems for building information systems. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers as well as practitioners and PhD students in the field of database research that will improve the construction of future information systems. On the other hand, the workshop is giving opportunities to developers, users and researchers of advanced IS technologies to present their work and to exchange their ideas and at the same time providing a feedback for database community. The word Baltic in the workshop title has twofold meaning: first, it indicates three Baltic States rapidly developing their infrastructure IS on the basis of advanced DB and IS technologies; second, it points to the Baltic Sea which does not only separate but also can join different countries as well as research communities in these countries to give them opportunities to exchange ideas and to trigger collaborations. STRUCTURE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop language is English (talks as well as publications). The workshop is planned to include two main tracks: traditional research track and advanced technology track. To activate and motivate PhD students the workshop programme will be preceeded by one-day Doctoral Consortium chaired by invited professors. RESEARCH TRACK Academic researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts describing their research activities. Major research topics for the workshop will include, but are not limited to: - Foundations of databases - Logic and databases - Object-oriented, deductive and active databases - Client-Server and open networked database systems - Distributed database techniques and interoperability - Information System modeling - Linguistic components of IS - Information System and Data Communication security - Knowledge Bases - Hypertext Interface for IS - Requirements Engineering for IS - Integrated IS - Information management economics TECHNOLOGY TRACK The purpose of the Technology Track is to provide opportunities for developers, users, and researchers to communicate and collaborate in advancing database applications and IS technologies. Solicited topics include novel application of databases or database technology in infrastructure settings. Actual case studies from practitioners emphasizing applications, database and IS technology, system deployment, or business impact are especially welcome. Developers are invited to submit extended abstracts describing their latest product innovations. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Database development tools - IS and AI Technologies - National information infrastructure development - Regional and national Infrastructure IS and database applications - Integrated and interoperable database technologies - Telecommunication databases - Multimedia database applications - Scientific Applications DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM June 11, 1996 The aim of the Doctoral Consortium is to offer an environment for Ph.D. students to present their current work and receive feedback from professors as well as from other Ph.D. students. The Doctoral Consortium is arranged as a part of the Second International Baltic Workshop on Databases and Information Systems (for more information look at the www page: http://greta.cs.ioc.ee/~balt96). We welcome Ph.D. students who are just starting their work, as well as those who are on the final stage of their theses. The topics of the work must be in line with the main workshop topics. The Doctoral Consortium will last one day. 2-3 professors will be invited to evaluate the students' work, as well as to provide advice concerning different aspects of their research. To participate, Ph.D. students must submit an abstract of their work as stated in the call for participation in the main workshop, (but only 3-5 pages). Please, mark that your abstract is for the Doctoral Consortium. The review and selection will be made by the Programme Committee of the workshop. The authors of accepted works are expected to give a 30 min. presentation (20 min. for the presentation and 10 min. for discussion) at the Consortium. A handout of the participants' abstracts will be distributed during the Consortium. Authors of selected abstracts are asked to revise their work according to remarks received during the Consortium and to present full papers that will be published as proceedings after the Consortium. Deadlines for the full papers will be announced after the DC. The organisers of the Consortium are: Prof. Jaan Penjam, Estonia Diana Sidarkeviciute, Lithuania For questions, send e-mail to: diana.sidarkeviciute@maf.vu.lt. All participants of the Doctoral Consortium are also invited to participate in the main Workshop. SUBMISSION AND REVIEWS OF THE PAPERS Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in the form of extended abstracts at least in 8 pages or full papers that should not be longer than 12 pages. WE ENCOURAGE ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS IN THE FORM OF POSTSCRIPT, LATEX ETC. If hardcopies are submitted, four copies will be required. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three programme committee members. For further information and electronic submission, please send email to: balt96@cs.ioc.ee For hardcopy submission, please send to: Dr. Hele-Mai Haav Programme Chair BalticDB&IS'96 Institute of Cybernetics Akadeemia tee 21 EE0026 Tallinn ESTONIA Tel: +372 2 527 314 Fax: 372 2 527 901 Email: helemai@cs.ioc.ee Official publishing of proceedings is planned after the workshop in Workshops in Computing Series by Springer. Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. ONLINE INFORMATION This call for papers is available on the web at the URL: http://greta.cs.ioc.ee/~balt96 Up-to-date information will appear here as it becomes available. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for papers : February 1, 1996 Notification of acceptance : March 15, 1996 Camera-ready papers: April 15, 1996 Workshop dates: June 12-14, 1996 Doctoral Consortium: June 11, 1996 WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION Advisory Committee: Janis Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Arne Solvberg, University of Trondheim, Norway Programme Chair: Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia Organizing Chair: Ahto Kalja, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia Technology Track: Tarvi Martens, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia Doctoral Consortium: Jaan Penjam, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia Diana Sidarkeviciute, Vilnius University, Lithuania Programme Committee: Janis Barzdins, Latvia Alfs Berztiss, USA Sjaak Brinkkemper, The Netherlands Albertas Caplinskas, Lithuania Klaus R. Dittrich, Switzerland Janis Grundspenkis, Latvia Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Germany Juhani Iivari, Finland Leonid Kalinichenko, Russia Peri Loucopulos, UK Mihhail Matskin, Norway Julie McCann, UK Jorgen Fischer Nilsson, Denmark Bronius Paradauskas, Lithuania Jaan Penjam, Estonia Reind vand de Riet, The Netherlands Kazimiers Subieta, Japan Tiit Tammiste, Estonia Janis Tenteris, Latvia Jaak Tepandi, Estonia Bernhard Thalheim, Germany Enn Tyugu, Sweden Naoki Yonezaki, Japan Benkt Wangler, Sweden Organizing Committee: Arvo Ott, Estonia Merik Meriste, Estonia Monika Oit, Estonia Leis Paul, Estonia, Anne Villems, Estonia, Hannu Jaakkola, Finland Juris Borzovs,Latvia Saulius Maskeliunas, Lithuania Olegas Vasilecas, Lithuania Aalo Kukk, Estonia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Tue Jan 23 17:16:30 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:16:27 -0600; AA11037 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:16:26 -0600 From: Prof. Zicari Message-Id: <9601232316.AA23970@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:16:26 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu > ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- > > From: "Anita Andler" > Organization: University of Skovde > Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:21:21 +0100 > Subject: Position open - Computer Systems > Cc: anita.andler@ite.his.se > > -------------------- > > Position Open (Vacant Post) > > The University of Skovde is one of the youngest universities in > Sweden but is undergoing a dynamical development. The main focus > of all the University activities is towards the private sector, > industry and international trade, especially the use and development > of tools for information technology. Six areas of competence have > been established; engineering, computer science, cognitive science, > economics, language as well as media and arts. > > The University of Skovde, Sweden hereby gives notification of a > vacant post as > > SENIOR LECTURER IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS, ref no 223-95-42 > > The applicant shall have a general competence in digital electronics > with a special focus on some of the following subject areas: > computer architecture, digital signal processing, data communication > and the use of microprocessors in industrial automation. The main > task will be undergraduate education in those engineering science > programs which have a special emphasis on computer systems and > automation techniques. Additionally, the applicant must be capable > of effectively working in the 'interface' to computer sciences. > The position requires envolvement in both education and research. > > The qualification requirements for the post are stated in the Higher > Education Ordinance, chapter 4 (e.e. the possession of a doctorate > or of corresponding scientific competence). At the appointment of the > post, equal importance will be attached to scientific and pedagogical > skills. Terms as regards salary will be decided upon based on > competence. The job application should include statement of salary > expected. > > A job application stating the above reference number should, together > with a curriculum vitae, and inclusive of three copies of any papers > and reports referred to, be accompanied by a short written description > of the applicant's scientific, pedagogical and practical experience. > The application may be sent to the attention of: Anita Andler, > University of Skovde. Mailing address: P.OO. Box 408, S-541 28 Skovde, > Sweden. > Fax number: +46 500 46 46 95 - attention: Anita Andler > > Those interested may also get additional information by contacting > Anita Andler at e-mail address: anita.andler@ite.his.se > > ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Tue Jan 23 17:17:03 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:17:01 -0600; AA11115 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:16:59 -0600 From: Tan Kian Lee Message-Id: <9601232316.AA23978@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:16:59 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (PDF) IN DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA DATABASES Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellowship tenable at the Dept Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS) of the National University of Singapore. The post is for research in Distributed Multimedia Databases. Candidates with interest in the following areas are encouraged to apply: multimedia databases, video-on-demand servers, digital libraries, content-based image retrieval. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: 1. The post is funded by the National Science and Technology Board for 2 years. 2. An applicant should have a PhD in Computer Science, or will be graduating in less than 3 months from the date of application. 3. The PDF will be paid a stipend of S$42000 (approximately US$30000) per year. The stipend is taxable and subject to provident fund contribution. 4. The PDF is eligible for holiday leave based on 28 days in an academic year. Interested candidates please send CV and a brief description of research interests to: Beng-Chin Ooi or Kian-Lee Tan email: {ooibc, tankl}@iscs.nus.sg Dept. Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Lower Kent Ridge Road Singapore 119260 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Tue Jan 23 17:18:45 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:18:43 -0600; AA11262 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:18:42 -0600 From: mzemanko@nsf.gov (Maria Zemankova) Message-Id: <9601232318.AA23993@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:18:42 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu FYI The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News Number 9: January 22, 1996 NSF Director Neal Lane on Science Funding Outlook, Role of Scientists National Science Foundation Director Neal Lane, in a speech entitled, "Thin Ice Over Deep Water: Science and Technology in a Seven Year Downsizing," comments on the outlook for federal science funding and the role of scientists in the political process. Lane delivered his remarks at a January 15 meeting of the American Astronomical Society. See FYI #8 for Lane's description of the effect of the shutdown on NSF. FYIs #10 and 11 provide guidance on communicating with Congress. "Science in America is strong. The American system of higher education is strong. NSF is strong, in part due to its efficiency, effectiveness, and high standards of decision making through peer review, and most importantly the support and active involvement of the U.S. science community. But, we are not operating in a healthy environment for science -- research or education.... "The overall cuts in spending over the next seven years (1996-2002) are designed to help balance the budget, at least through the year 2002. However, the specific reductions and cuts by which we reach that goal can, in fact, spell trouble or triumph. My concern is that these plans target major portions of the Federal R&D enterprise for dismantlement, creating "thin ice" on which we attempt to skate toward continued economic success. "...we are now challenged to more clearly articulate the benefits of federally funded research and education to a nation that is largely uninformed about science and increasingly skeptical of federal funding of all sorts. Now it is important that scientists move beyond their intuitive understanding of the importance of their work and begin to fold in anecdotal evidence from the past with the results of careful assessments -- both existing and still to be done -- of the tangible societal benefits of scientific research and education. "Recently we have had strong validation of both our intuition and data. The President's Council of Economic Advisors issued a report in October entitled `Supporting Research and Development to Promote Economic Growth.' The economy is not the only benefit to be derived from R&D, but it is an important one. The report stresses that every federal dollar spent on R&D adds much more to the economy than simply a dollar of R&D. "The report goes on to state, `Investments in research and development are the key to increasing productivity, accounting [in recent history] for half or more of the growth in output per person.' And it has long been accepted that improved worker productivity is the key to the increased competitiveness of a business, and of an industry, and of the general economic environment within a state. "Further recognition of the importance of productivity came from the Economist Magazine which did a special survey on American business in its mid-September, 1995 issue. The report states, `What really matters is a country's ability to raise its own productivity. That is the only way in which a country's industries can sell their wares in international markets while raising their workers' wages.' The article also quotes Stanford economist Paul Krugman on this same issue. He says, `Productivity is not everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.' "And so here we have this tightly integrated cycle. R&D investments in science and technology, for the most part, advance productivity through improved processes and products. Highly trained technical workers are required for the kinds of jobs that research and development help create. This all comes together when you put skilled workers into high-value jobs and promote economic growth. All well and good if, among other things, the umbrella investment in federal R&D is maintained at a healthy level and the workers get the education they need. As Shakespeare would say, `aye, there's the rub.' "The federal investment in non-defense R&D is projected by the AAAS to decrease by approximately 33 percent in real terms by 2002, and the cuts in education are larger. In essence, this nation is getting ready to run an experiment it has never done before--to see if we can reduce the federal investment in R&D by one-third and still be a world leader in the 21st century. Nobody knows the outcome. But it seems pretty high risk.... "Mother Nature may have shut down Washington with a pair of blizzards, but before that the entire nation suffered something of a "whiteout" by the shutdown of the federal government on two occasions for a total of four weeks. In this last go-around, several agencies or programs that are politically visible and popular were pulled out of the usual appropriations bills by the Congress and given targeted appropriations, i.e., long-term C.R.s [continuing resolutions], through the end of the fiscal year. NSF was not one of them; nor was NASA -- we are in business only through January 26.... "My message to you today is that if you don't take it as one of your professional responsibilities to inform your fellow citizens about the importance of the science and technology enterprise, then that public support, critical to sustaining it, isn't going to be there. Who knows more about science, its complex relationship with technology, the linkage between research and education, the often unexpected benefits to society, than you? Who has greater credibility in discussing science, not just astronomy but science, than you? Who understands better than anyone the price our nation will pay if we fall behind in science and technology in the effort to downsize government? Is it self-serving to advocate support for science? Perhaps. But if the `self' is the American people and the position of leadership of the U.S. in all fields of science and technology in the 21st century, then I wouldn't worry too much about appearing self serving. "One thing that has been striking during this year of budget battles and, most recently, the shutdown, is the perceived stony silence of the science and technology community -- the universities, where most of the fundamental research is done, and with a few exceptions, business and industry, which depend on the knowledge and technologies research provides. And I can assure you that this perceived lack of concern has not gone unnoticed in Washington. "Clearly, this is a time of great challenge for science and technology in America. But, I believe we can seize this time as one of opportunity to work together in ways we have never done before, to raise our voices, together, to send out a clear and coherent message. This is not the time to plead for biology vs. chemistry or astronomy vs. engineering, or even basic vs. applied research or technology. It's a time to speak out about the importance of the Federal investment in science and technology, in research and education, in universities, in national laboratories and other institutions -- and in the partnerships that have been formed with industry and other sectors that use the knowledge and technologies for the public good...." ############### Richard M. Jones Public Information Division American Institute of Physics fyi@aip.org (301) 209-3095 ##END########## ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Tue Jan 23 19:41:06 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 23 Jan 96 19:41:00 -0600; AA17237 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:17:23 -0600 From: Hans Burg Message-Id: <9601232317.AA23983@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:17:23 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu NLDB'96 Second International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 26-28, 1996 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS This workshop aims at bringing together research results, practical experiences and new possible ideas and directions within the field of applications of natural language in database and information systems. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for a long time. Since two decades, consulting databases or getting answers in natural language remain a dream for many users. Nowadays, this is an accessible convergent point on which a lot of researchers are focusing, mainly due to the large progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage of real semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of the life cycle of the information system may be improved by using natural language techniques : database design (specification, validation, conflicts resolution), database query languages and consulting programs that use new software engineering research results allowing natural language program specifications. As information systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered the in broader sense of information and communication systems, abbreviated to ICS. The Workshop Organizers invite submissions of original papers, as well as posters descriptions, product demonstration outlines and panel proposals to NLDB'96, which will be held in Amsterdam on June 26-28, 1996. More and up-to-date information is available at: http://www.cs.vu.nl/vakgroepen/infsys/nldb96/nldb96.html Topics: ------- Major topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: - Natural languages interfaces for database querying, - Natural language as a specification interface for design of ICSs. - Paraphrasing the design of ICSs as conceptual schemas in natural language, - Natural language for the validation of specifications of ICSs, - Linguistic aspects of view integration, - Conceptual modelling and linguistic knowledge, - Use of linguistic tools and electronic dictionaries, - Textual databases, indexing and retrieval, - Generating texts from structured data, - Generation of natural language texts from formal specifications, - Semi-formal interfaces for interacting with databases, - Hypertext facilities for database querying. Program Committee: ------------------ Chairman: Reind van de Riet, Vrije U., The Netherlands Ana Paula Ambrosio U. of Goias, Brazil Elisa Bertino U. di Milano, Italy Mokrane Bouzeghoub PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France Janis Bubenko U. of Stockholm, Sweden Hans Burg Vrije U., The Netherlands Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau Essec, France Roland Dachelet Inria, France Jan Dietz U. of Delft, The Netherlands Frank Dignum U. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands Paul McFetridge Simon Fraser U., Canada Christian Fluhr CEA, France Sabine Geldof Vrije U. Brussels, Belgium Jon Atle Gulla GMD Darmstadt, Germany Henri Habrias U. of Nantes, France Kees Koster U. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Jean-Noel Meunier PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France Elisabeth Metais PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France Anton Nijholt U. of Twente, The Netherlands Erich Ortner U. of Konstanz, Germany James Pustejovsky Brandeis U., USA Anne de Roeck U. of Essex, UK Bram van der Vos Vrije U., The Netherlands Hans Weigand U. of Brabant, The Netherlands Chien-ho Wu NDMC, Taiwan Organizing Committee: --------------------- Chairman: Hans Burg (jfmburg@cs.vu.nl ) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31-20-444 7769, fax: +31-20-444 7653 Mokrane Bouzeghoub PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France Jon Atle Gulla GMD Darmstadt, Germany Anton Nijholt U. of Twente, The Netherlands Reind van de Riet Vrije U., The Netherlands Bram van der Vos Vrije U., The Netherlands Proceedings: ------------ The proceedings of the conference will be available at the conference. A special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering (North-Holland) is planned containing the best papers of the workshop. Workshop Format: ---------------- The workshop will be three days long from Wednesday to Friday, and will include invited talks, paper presentations, panel discussions, product demonstrations and poster sessions to encourage the participation of newcomers. Instructions to authors: ------------------------ The Workshop Organizers invite submissions of original papers (4 copies with a maximum of 5000 words, including a short abstract), as well as poster descriptions (including title and presenter(s)), product demonstration outlines (including product and organization name) and panel proposals to NLDB'96. To contribute, please submit to the program committee chairman: prof. dr. R.P. van de Riet Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31-20-444 7757, fax: +31-20-444 7653, secretary: +31-20-444 7730 Important dates: ---------------- Paper, poster, demo and panel submission deadline: February 1st, 1996 Notification of paper, poster, demo and panel acceptance: April 1st, 1996 Camera-ready papers due: May 15th, 1996 Related Workshop: ----------------- Succeeding the NLDB'96 workshop the related LAP'96 (Language Action Perspective) workshop will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands. More information about this communication oriented workshop can be found at: http://infolabwww.kub.nl:2080/infolab/lap96/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 24 11:48:20 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 24 Jan 96 11:48:10 -0600; AA02742 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 11:48:06 -0600 From: mohan@almaden.ibm.com Message-Id: <9601241748.AA24937@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 24 Jan 96 11:48:06 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Important Information regarding VLDB96 paper submissions ======================================================== New online abstract requirement Please note that we now require that you submit, by electronic mail, as a PLAIN ASCII text file (no postscript, no Latex), an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with the title, authors, electronic address of contact author and the track (research or industrial/application) for which the paper is being submitted. The deadline for receipt of the electronic abstracts is 16 February 1996. The FIRM deadline for RECEIPT of the full papers (non-electronic) is 23 February 1996. For further details, please see the updated version of the VLDB96 home page at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/vldb/ Please inform your colleagues about this new requirement and post this message on appropriate mailing lists. Thanks! Mohan *************************************************************************** * C. 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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 24 11:51:08 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 24 Jan 96 11:51:04 -0600; AA02986 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 11:51:03 -0600 From: smarch@csom.umn.edu (smarch) Message-Id: <9601241751.AA24952@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 24 Jan 96 11:51:03 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ER '96 Cottbus, near Berlin, Germany Oct. 7th - Oct. 10 th, 1996 http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ER96/ Deadlines paper, tutorial, panel, exhibition submissions : April 22nd 1996 (at the latest) ER'96 notification: June 10th, 1996 ER'96 final version: July 22nd, 1996 Schedule: conference: October 8th - 10th, 1996 workshops: October 7th, 10th, 1996 tutorials: October 7th, 1996 General Chair Joachim W. Schmidt, Hamburg University J_Schmidt@dbis1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Program Committee Chair Bernhard Thalheim, Cottbus Technical University thalheim@informatik.tu-cottbus.de Tutorials Mike Papazouglou, Queensland University of Technology mikep@icis.qut.edu.au Industrial Chairs Terry Halpin, Asymetrix and Gerhard Rod,, SAP terryh@asymetrix.com gerhard.rode@sap-ag.de Conference Organization Rotraut Goebel, Cottbus Technical University goebel@informatik.tu-cottbus.de Karla Hoppe, Cottbus Technical University hoppe@informatik.tu-cottbus.de CONFERENCE TOPICS The general theme of ER '96 is: Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems More specifically, relevant topics for the ER '96 include, but are not necessarily limited to the following: * advanced modeling - integrating ER-, OO-, OR- etc. modeling - database design methodologies - extending the scope to multimedia data, active data, secure data, heterogeneous and/or federated data - knowledge-based modeling * CASE, CASE tools and engineering of modeling * modeling techniques - integrating structural and process modeling - business and business process modeling - schema integration and schema coordination * systems engineering - systems evolution, reengineering, reuse, reverse engineering - user interfaces and query languages - development and management of user interfaces - novel IS architecture: distributed, cooperative, intelligent interoperable, multimedia, open, client-server * information systems - integrated information systems (decision support systems, office-information systems, knowledge-based systems, information-retrieval systems, hypertextsystems, document management systems, GIS, multimedia systems, management information systems, databases, knowledge bases) - engineering and modeling of information systems * theoretical fundamentals of conceptual modelling - conceptual models, extended modeling concepts - semantics and constraints - ER, OO, OR query languages - workflow management * applications - applications of the conceptual models and their extensions - enterprise modelling - IS in information superhighways - reengineering legacy information systems - information repositories - maintenance and evolution of IS Submissions should be sent by April 22nd, 1996 to Bernhard Thalheim Cottbus Technical University Computer Science Institute P. O. Box 10 13 44 D - 03013 Cottbus Germany thalheim @informatik.tu-cottbus.de Program Committee Catriel Beeri, Israel Takao Miura, Japan Yannis Bubenko, Sweden Robert Meersman, Belgium Sharma Chakravarthy, USA Shamkant B. Navathe, USA Isabelle Comyn-Watteau, France Erich Neuhold, Germany Opher Etzion, Israel Maria Orlowska, Australia David Embley, USA Peretz Shoval, Israel Jean-Luc Hainaut, Belgium Gunter Saake, Germany Terry Halpin, USA, Australia Arne Solvberg, Norway Igor Hawryszkiewycs, Australia August-Wilhelm Scheer, Germany Hannu Kangassalo, Finland Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Germany Jacques Kouloumdjian, France Graeme Shanks, Australia Alberto Laender, Brasil Il-Yeol Song, USA Claus Lewerentz, Germany Stefano Spaccapietra, Switzerland Leonid Libkin, USA Eberhard Stickel, Germany Tok Wank Ling, Singapore Markus Stumptner, Austria Ling Liu, USA Bernhard Thalheim, Germany (PC Chair) Peri Loucopoulos, Great Britain A Min Tjoa, Austria Florian Matthes, Germany Olga De Troyer, Netherlands Heinrich A. Mayr, Austria Yannis Vassiliou, Greece Leszek A. Maciaszek, Australia Herbert Weber, Germany GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Either submit five copies of the manuscript to the Program Chair or send an ordinary LaTex file without additional fonts to the PC chair and to ER96@informatik.tu-cottbus.de . Submitted papers must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere during the review process. The paper should not exceed 5000 words (approximately 11 pages LaTex text or 20 double-spaced pages). A separate cover sheet should be enclosed containing the title of the paper, the author(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail address and fax number) to which correspondence should be sent. Panel and tutorial proposals must include abstract of the topics and a copy of the participant(s) vita. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Proposals are solicited for organizing half-day tutorials that will be held during the conference. In particular those topics are wanted which bridge the gap between advanced database technology and conceptual modeling and its impact in specific application domains. Please send your proposal by April 22, 1996 to the tutorial program coordinator Mike Papazoglou Queensland University of Technology mikep@icis.qut.edu.au GENERAL INFORMATION Questions regarding the Program of the Conference can be sent to: ER96info@informatik.tu-cottbus.de Organizations interested in taking part in the exhibition in an industrial session or in a possible sponsorship of the conference are invited to contact Karla Hoppe. PUBLICATION The proceedings of the ER '96 conference are to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer Publishing House and these will be available at the conference. Selected papers of the conference will be published in the Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal. CO-EVENTS International Symposium on Business Process Modeling - Interaction between Business Process Modeling and Close Applications Cottbus, October 10th, 1996 Main topics of the symposium are: - Process Modeling - Business Process Evaluation - Strategic Business Planning - Process Cost Analysis - Quality Management - Workflow Management - Software Engineering - Data and Process Modeling - Manufacturing Simulations Submissions should be sent to Bernd Scholz-Reiter or Eberhard Stickel Industrial Information Systems Dept. of Information Systems Cottbus Technical University European University Viadrina P.O. Box 10 13 44 P.O. Box 7 76 D - 03013 Cottbus D - 15207 Frankfurt (Oder) bsr@iit.tu-cottbus.de stickel@euv-frankfurt-o.de More information: http://www.iit.tu-cottbus.de/bpm-er96/ International Exhibition on ER CASE Tools Cottbus, October 10th, 1996 Submissions should be sent to Bernhard Thalheim Computer Science Institute Cottbus Technical University D - 03013 Cottbus thalheim@informatik.tu-cottbus.de More information: http://www.iit.tu-cottbus.de/CASE-er96/ International Symposium on ER Concepts in Software Engineering Cottbus, October 7th, 1996 ER techniques are widely used both in Database Management and in Software Engineering. These two fields have progressed in the development of ER techniques quite independently due to different requirements and level of usage. The workshop is aiming to bring together experts from both fields. Thus, issues to be addressed are: - theory and practice of ER modeling in Software Engineering - semantic gaps experienced using ER modeling; overcoming those gaps - future trends for ER techniques and research questions Contacts Claus Lewerentz or Herbert Weber Computer Science Institute Fraunhofer Institute for Cottbus Technical University Software Engineering and Systems Engineering P.O. Box 10 13 44 Kurstr. 33 D - 03013 Cottbus D - 10117 Berlin cl@informatik.tu-cottbus.de herbert.weber@isst.fhg.de More information: http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ERinSE-er96/ Conference Location The Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus, founded in 1991, sees itself as a scientific institution, as a progressive center of high technology claiming to tread new paths in research and teaching. The foundation concept is based on the idea of cooperation between science, industry and society. The basic principle of scientific work in Cottbus is the interdisciplinary correlation between learning and teaching. Cottbus is one of the greenest towns in Germany and has a long tradition in horticultural architecture. A chain of green parks stretches through the whole city zone and is now joined by the splendid new park of the Bundesgartenschau 1995 (Federal Horticultural Exhibition). Cottbus is situated between Berlin and Dresden near the Spreewald and the Polish border. It is also very close to the Spreewald which is one of the most famous natural parks in Germany and contains much variety in terms of flora and fauna. Cottbus is the center of Lower Lusatia - a bilingual region, where German and Sorbs have lived together for centuries, which has greatly influenced the region's past and present. This town can be reached in many ways. The motorway M 15, the federal roads B 97, B 115 and B 169, and also the railway running lines between Frankfurt (Oder) and Leipzig, Berlin and Goerlitz and Dresden and Cottbus will all bring you to our town. The nearest airports are Berlin/Schoenefeld (reachable within 1 h 10 min), Dresden (reachable by car within 1 h 30 min) and Berlin/Tegel (reachable by train within 2 h). Singapore Airlines has agreed to provide a special shuttle service from the airport to Cottbus for those flying with SA to Berlin/Schoenefeld. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 24 18:03:20 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 24 Jan 96 18:03:16 -0600; AA12142 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 18:03:14 -0600 From: Sivakumar Ravada Message-Id: <9601250003.AA25489@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 24 Jan 96 18:03:14 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Papers: A Theme Section of Communications of the ACM on Geographic Information Systems Guest editors: Shashi Shekhar and Max J. Egenhofer Communications of the ACM (CACM) will publish in early 1997 a theme section on Geographic Information Systems (GISs). It will focus on case studies and descriptions of actual systems as well as principles learned from the design of such systems. The guest editors invite papers that address, but are not limited to: -- Spatial Data Models, Spatial Modeling, and Spatial Query Languages -- Intelligent GISs -- Query Processing in Geographic Databases -- Geo-Algorithms -- Scalable Parallel Approaches to GISs -- Industrial Practices -- System Architectures We are soliciting original research papers in three categories: Overview articles summarizing concisely the state of the art in Geographic Information Systems and discussing current research directions. The special section will include one such paper. Regular papers describing experiences in system design issues and the lessons learned from new system structures. The special section will include 3-4 papers of this category. Short papers reporting on practical experiences in developing GISs. The special section will include 3-5 such papers. Papers submitted for review should be 4,000 words long for overview and regular papers, and 1,000 words long for short papers. All submissions should identify a principal contact author with e-mail address, fax and telephone numbers, and postal address. Submission deadline is March 1, 1996. Send six copies of a double-spaced manuscript to one of the guest editors. Authors will be notified in August 1996; the theme issue will appear in early 1997. Authors must follow the CACM author guidelines when submitting papers. Prospective authors are strongly encouraged to contact either of the two guest editors to discuss the appropriateness of their plans for a manuscript and to receive additional guidance on CACM's publication policy. Please direct all your questions to acmgis@cs.umn.edu. Shashi Shekhar Max J. Egenhofer Department of Computer Science Department of Spatial Inf. Sc. and Engg. University of Minnesota University of Maine 100 Union Street S.E. 348B Boardman Hall Minneapolis, MN-55455 Orono, ME 04469-5711 shekhar@cs.umn.edu max@spatial.maine.edu Tel: (612) 624-8307 Tel: (207) 581-2114 Fax: (612) 625-0572 Fax: (207) 581-2206 For more information on the GIS Theme Section, see also our WWW page at http://www.spatial.maine.edu/max/cacmgis.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 25 09:58:26 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 25 Jan 96 09:58:22 -0600; AA24911 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 09:58:20 -0600 From: Len Seligman Message-Id: <9601251558.AA26125@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 25 Jan 96 09:58:20 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Special note to Professors: Please forward this to your best American students (and former students) at any level (BS, MS, PhD). Unfortunately, the positions do require U.S. citizenship. Thanks, Len Seligman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- **** Advanced Information Technology **** The MITRE Advanced Information Technology Center has a number of immediate openings in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary applied research environment. We exploit the latest technology available to solve complex information management and decision support problems. We need highly motivated individuals with technical skills in the following areas: INTELLIGENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT The successful candidate will posess skils in one of the following: advanced database management systems, natural language processing, information retrieval, and digital libraries. For database specialists, knowledge of relational and object databases is desired, while knowledge of data mining, data warehousing, active databases, and/or multidatabase interoperability are a plus. (Information on MITRE's research program in data management can be found at http://www.mitre.org/pubs/data_mgt). For natural language processing and information retrieval, knowledge of statistical and machine learning approaches is desirable. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The successful candidate will possess flexible, hands-on skills in one of the following: adaptive systems, cognitive modeling, intelligent agents, uncertainty reasoning, planning and information fusion. Experience with military modeling, C4ISR, information warfare, intel systems or WWW is a plus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All positions require a strong computer science background. We value hands-on experience across a variety of platforms and languages (especially C, C++, Lisp, Smalltalk, Perl, and/or JAVA). Knowledge of object and/or AI technologies would be desirable for all positions. All experience levels for these opportunities are welcome. Summer positions are also available for exceptional students. US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED FOR ALL POSITIONS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The MITRE Corporation is an independent, not-for-profit organization operating in the public interest that provides technical assistance, system engineering, and acquisition support to U.S. Government agencies. These positions are at MITRE's Northern Virginia offices near Washington, DC, an area rich in educational and cultural opportunities and high-tech companies. The MITRE Corporation is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and is committed to diversity in our workplace. For confidential consideration, please email your resume to seligman@mitre.org, fax it to Len Seligman at (703) 883-1279, or send it to the address listed below. Please mention that you got this posting from dbworld. -- Dr. Len Seligman Technology Area Manager Intelligent Information Management and Exploitation Advanced Information Technology Center The MITRE Corporation Email: seligman@mitre.org 7525 Colshire Drive W640 Phone: (703) 883-5975 McLean, VA 22102, USA FAX: (703) 883-1279 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Jan 26 11:02:54 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:02:51 -0600; AA29819 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:02:50 -0600 From: Timothy Finin Message-Id: <9601261702.AA27561@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:02:50 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Chairperson -- Department of Information Systems University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore MD 21228 The Department of Information Systems invites applications for the position of Chair. The successful candidate will be an experienced academic leader and researcher with scholarly accomplishments that qualify for the rank of full professor. The new chair will play a leadership role in filling several tenure track positions in the planned expansion of this highly interdisciplinary research & academic department. Information Systems, which offers BA, BS, BS/MS, MS, and PhD degrees, is one of the key departments in the School of Arts and Sciences. Its undergraduate programs are the largest on campus with over 700 majors. In addition, there are about 100 MS students and 40 doctoral students. The Department's faculty and programs have a broad view of Information Systems. Research and teaching interests currently include decision support system, intelligent tutoring systems, human-computer interaction, human factors, artificial intelligence, hypertext & multimedia environments, neural networks, information systems & software design, modeling & simulation of information systems, telecommunication & networks, management information systems, health informatics, and legal informatics. The department has excellent research and teaching facilities that include Sun SparcStations, NEXT machines, high-end Mac's , PC's and an assortment of scanners, printers, and graphic plotters. In addition, the department has access to the University's VAX cluster of UNIX and VMS machines, SGI cluster of Indigos, the University's Imaging Research Center and to the Supercomputer Consortium. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. Starting date is flexible. Screening of Applicants will begin on February 1, 1996, and continue until the position is filled. Applicants are invited to send a complete curriculum vitae with a statement of interest and name and addresses of 4 to 6 references. Nominations and applications should be sent to: Dr. Y. J. (Ray) Chen Chair, Search Committee Department of Information Systems University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21228-5398. UMBC is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer ___________________________________________________________________________ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY (UMBC). A dynamic research university, UMBC places special focus on undergraduate education and on research in the sciences, technology and policy. We offer undergraduates 27 majors ranging from the sciences and engineering to the arts and humanities, plus 12 pre-professional and allied health programs, and 4 certificate programs. The Graduate School offers 27 master's and 18 doctoral programs. Unique to UMBC are its state-of-the art centers for imaging research and structural biochemistry; its Shriver Center for learning and service; its Center for Health Program Development and Management, and its Howard Hughes Medical Institute research laboratory. UMBC enrolls an ethnically diverse student body including about 10,000 undergraduate and 1,600 graduate students. They come from 45 states and 80 foreign countries. Over 2,200 students live on campus. There are over 700 full-time and adjunct faculty members, who are committed to undergraduate teaching. Last year, their research programs attracted over $31 million in contracts and grants. THE COMMUNITY. UMBC is centrally located in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, which has a population of 2 million. It is 10 miles from Baltimore's Inner Harbor, 32 miles from Washington, DC, and 4 miles from BWI airport. UMBC is located on a 500-acre suburban campus in Catonsville. It includes 34 major buildings enclosed by a 2-mile elliptical drive. The Atlantic Ocean beaches are a 2 1/2 hour drive to the east, and on a clear day, one can see the Chesapeake Bay from UMBC's Library tower. UMBC's web page is and the Department's is . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Jan 26 11:15:50 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:15:46 -0600; AA29918 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:15:45 -0600 From: rahm@informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Prof. Rahm) Message-Id: <9601261715.AA27602@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:15:45 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Announcing a Euro-Par'96 Workshop ! ___ ___ _ ___ __ | __| _ _ _ ___ ___| _ \__ _ _ _( ) _ \/ / | _| || | '_/ _ \___| _/ _` | '_|/\_, / _ \ |___\_,_|_| \___/ |_| \__,_|_| /_/\___/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parallel and Distributed Database Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ENS Lyon, France. August 27-29, 1996. Program Commitee: Erhard Rahm, Univ. of Leipzig, Germany, Chair Peter Apers, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands, Vice-Chair Theo Haerder, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Vice-Chair Lionel Brunie, LIP, ENS Lyon, France, Local Chair Deadline: February 4, 1996 (paper); February 18, 1996 (electronic) Euro-Par is THE annual European conference in Parallel Processing. It merges the former PARLE and CONPAR-VAPP conferences, two major events of the field. The 1996 version will consist of a large panel of highly focused workshops on all aspects of parallel processing, from theory to practice, from academy to industry. They are expected to present the latest advances in their respective domains. They will be introduced by several high level tutorials of general interest. More than 20 workshops have been launched in parallel, ranging from 1/2 to 2 days. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS Series. Workshop #22: Parallel and Distributed Database Systems Parallel and distributed database systems are critical for many application domains like high-performance transaction systems, data warehousing and interoperable information systems. While these areas are being addressed by commercial systems there are several unsolved challenges, in particular for large-scale parallel systems and world-wide information systems based on the "information superhighway". Future database systems must therefore support flexible and adaptive approaches for data allocation, load balancing and parallel query processing for both traditional and non-traditional applications (e.g., geographic information systems). Distributed database processing on the world-wide web requires, among others, new approaches for information discovery, query processing, indexing and integration of heterogeneous data sources. Topics of interest include: Parallel query processing Dynamic load balancing Data allocation Performance evaluation and benchmarks Tertiary storage management Parallel and distributed object management Multimedia databases Data mining Heterogeneous databases and interoperability WWW-based database processing Further information is available at URL http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/europar96. It includes the list of all workshops. Please send all information requests and comments to europar96@lip.ens-lyon.fr. Register today on the Euro-Par'96 mailing list by sending us a mail! See below for additional information. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Valerie Roger, Euro-Par'96 Secretary | | LIP, ENS Lyon, 46, Allee d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France | | Phone: (~33)72728037; Fax: (~33)72728080; | | Internet: europar96@lip.ens-lyon.fr | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Additional information for Workshop #22 Parallel and Distributed Database Systems Submissions are expected to be no longer than 15 pages. The cover page must clearly indicate the name, address, affiliation, phone and fax numbers and electronic address of the author(s), plus a 100-word abstract. The workshop number (22) and the workshop title related to each submitted paper must also be clearly indicated on the cover page. The official languages of the conference are English and French. Submitted papers must not be simultaneously under review for any other conference, and authors must point out any substantial overlap with their previously published work. Electronic submissions are most strongly encouraged. They are mandatory for all people having access to standard electronic facilities. They should consist of two e-mails: - The first one containing an ASCII cover page, giving the author's full name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, a 100-word abstract and keywords. - The second one with the printable file, most preferably in attachment. Accepted formats are uuencoded compressed EPSF PostScript files (most preferably generated by dvips). We are sorry not to be able to accommodate other file formats. If at all possible, please attempt to print the document on more than one brand/model of laser printers. If your program requests it, assume that the document will be printed on a 300 DPI standard PostScript Unix Sun laser printer. We will do our best to get all files printed. If a file cannot be printed in spite of all our efforts, we will have to reject the electronic submission. In case of doubt, send us a (possibly preliminary) paper version of the submission before the February 4, 1996 paper deadline (one copy is enough in this case). We will consider that the electronic version of the submission, if printable, is the final one. The files should be mailed to europar96@lip.ens-lyon.fr and received at this address before February 18, 1996, 12:00 GMT. Please note that this is a firm deadline. Paper submissions are only allowed for people without easy access to standard electronic facilities. Authors should send 6 copies of their submission to the official address below, postmarked before February 4, 1996. Please note that this is a firm deadline. Proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by SPRINGER-VERLAG in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. Proceedings will be available at the conference. Papers will be published in 3 lengths: full papers (12 pages), short papers (8 pages), poster papers (4 pages). Register on the mailing list: Today! Deadline for paper submissions: February 4, 1996 Deadline for electronic submissions: February 18, 1996 Notification of acceptance: May 10, 1996 Final version due: June 10, 1996 Euro-Par'96 at ENS Lyon, France: August 27--29, 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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More info from: richard@dcs.st-and.ac.uk (Richard Connor) nettles@central.cis.upenn.edu (Scott Nettles) http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~POS96/home.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 Fri Jan 26 16:24:54 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:24:44 -0600; AA05988 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:24:42 -0600 From: nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com (Kingsley Nwosu) Message-Id: <9601262224.AA28310@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:24:42 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS *************** FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTI-MEDIA DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS August 28-30, 1995 Minnowbrook Conf. Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY (The Adirondacks) Sponsors: CASE Center, Syracuse Univ. in cooperation with: IEEE Computer Society IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing The Data Management Specialty Group of the Mitre Corp. The rapid advances in many facets of Computer Technology have intensified Research and Development interests in Multi-Media Information Processing(MMIP). Despite the current existence of some forms of Multi-Media Systems, the true realization of MMIP rests on the ability to access and manipulate the multi-media objects. That can only be adequately addressed and achieved via Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems (MMDBMSs). For conventional text-based information, data access and manipulation have advanced considerably; however, for multi-media systems that incorporate continuous media objects, e.g., audio and video, and other media types like images, voice, and graphics, they pose novel problems. This workshop, which is intended to become an annual event, is a follow-up to the highly successful multi-media workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Annual Multi-Media Conference in San Francisco, California, in October 1994. The workshop will also feature two internationally reputable guest speakers. The workshop will emphasize the issues relevant to designing, developing, and utilizing MMDBMSs especially the areas listed below. Areas of Interest: ================= Image Processing (storage, retrieval, etc.) Multimedia Network Protocols Conventional Database Compatibility Issues Operating Systems Implications Multi-Media Database Models Decomposition/Organization Strategies Storage Structures and Techniques System, Schema, and Functional Architectures Query Language Designs and Specifications Retrieval/Search Techniques/Strategies/Algorithms Metadata Management Query Optimization Application/User Interfaces Access Methods and Indexing Techniques Distributed Multi-Media Data Management Multi-media Data Synchronization QoS Delivery/Presentation Issues Performance Evaluation Data Compression Access Security Issues Object-Oriented Paradigms Information for Authors: ======================= Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of each paper not exceeding 25 double-spaced pages, including figures, pictures, etc. to Dr. Kingsley C. Nwosu (see address below). Each paper must include an abstract of less than 200 words. Previously published papers will not be considered. When deemed necessary and sufficient by an author, a paper may be an extended summary. Each author must clearly describe the nature of the work, significant contributions to the body of work, discuss the novel features, and its current status. A one page cover which contains the full name, affiliation, phone numbers, e-mail address, and full mailing address of each author must accompany each paper. The cover page must also indicate a contact author in the case of multiple authors. If a paper is accepted, the author(s) will prepare the final manuscript, as requested, in time for inclusion in the Workshop proceedings. The Workshop Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Important Dates: =============== Papers due: March. 15, 1995. Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 1995. Camera-ready copies due: May 15, 1995. General Chair: ============== Prof. P. Bruce Berra Director, CASE Center, Suite 2-212, CST, Syracuse Univ., Syracuse, NY 13244. Program Chairs: ============== Dr. Kingsley C. Nwosu AT&T Bell Labs., 67 Whippany Rd., Rm. 2C-256, Whippany, NJ 07981-0903. Phone:(201)386-4211. Fax:(201)386-2182. email:nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham The Mitre Corp., K329, Burlington Rd., Bedford, MA. 01730. Phone:(617)271-8873. email:thura@mitre.org Program Co-Chairs: ================= Prof. Rajiv Mehrotra Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis 8001 Natural Bridge Rd. St. Louis, MO 63121 Phone:(314)553-6343 email:rajiv@arch.umsl.edu Dr. Patrick Bobbie Dept of CIS, Florida A&M Univ. Tallahassee, FL 32307. Phone:(904)599-3022. email:bobbie@serel.cis.famu.edu Publications Chair: =================== Dr. Cyril Orji Computer Science Dept. Florida International Univ. Miami, FL. 33199. email:orji@geneva.fiu.edu Local Arrangements/Registration: =============================== Emileen Butler CASE Center Suite 2-212, CST, Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, NY 13244. Phone:(315)443-1062. Emily Yakawiak CASE Center Suite 2-212, CST Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, NY 13244. Phone:(315)443-1060. Program Committee: ================== P. Venkat Rangan (UCSD) A. Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Labs) Arif Ghafoor (Purdue Univ.) Philip S. Yu (IBM) Warren Sterling (AT&T GIS) Roger Chen (Syracuse Univ.) Ralf Steinmetz (IBM) A. Biliris (AT&T Bell Labs) Raj Yavatkar (U. KY) Tom Little (Boston Univ.) Alex Pentland (MIT Media Lab.) F. Golshani (Arizona State Univ) Surajit Chaudhuri (Hewlett Packard) Joseph Urban (Arizona State Univ.) Bill Grosky (Wayne St. U.) Greg Speegle (Baylor Univ) Dragutin Petkovic (IBM) Le Gruenwald (U. OK) Olivia R. Liu Sheng (U. Arizona) Son K. Dao (Hughes Research Lab) Ramesh Jain (UCSD) Soon Chung (Wright St. U.) Satya Prabhakar (Honeywell) C. Faloutsos (U. Maryland) S. Ghandeharizadeh (USC) Kelly Lyons (IBM) =========================================== thanks Kingsley C. Nwosu, PhD. AT&T Bell Labs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Jan 26 16:25:06 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:25:02 -0600; AA06008 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:25:01 -0600 From: dimitris@gte.com (Dimitrios Georgakopoulos) Message-Id: <9601262225.AA28315@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:25:01 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ------------------------------------------- I C D E - 1 2 The 12th International Conference on Data Engineering Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Doubletree Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Feb. 26 - March 1, 1996 Advance registration -------------------- Deadline: January 31, 1996 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Registration form: http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/ICDE96/registration.html Hotel reservation and discount ------------------------------ Special rates: http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/ICDE96/hotel.html Airline reservation and discount --------------------------------- Special rates: http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/ICDE96/air.html Tutorial, technical, and industrial programs -------------------------------------------- The ICDE96 home page http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/ICDE96/flyer.html currently provides detailed information on: o the ICDE'96 tutorial program (including a variety of hot topics such as multimedia, temporal databases, workflows, and mobile computing). o the ICDE'96 technical program (including two keynote speeches, and twenty three sessions with paper presentations and panel discussions). o the ICDE'96 industrial program (particularly strong in 96 with six sessions on Object Standards, Extended Relational DBs, Workflow and Re-engineering Case Studies, Multimedia, Workflow and Groupware Systems, and Relational DBs). o the ICDE'96 organizing and program committees (with hypertext links to many personal home pages) The ICDE'96 home page will be kept up to date as additional information becomes available. The ICDE'96 final program will become available on February 5, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Jan 26 16:25:25 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:25:22 -0600; AA06023 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:25:21 -0600 From: "Boris Novikov" Message-Id: <9601262225.AA28320@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:25:21 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Announcement and Call for Papers Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS'96 ======================================================== Third International Workshop of the Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter In cooperation with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Moscow, September 10-13, 1996 Aims and Scope -------------- ADBIS'96 is the fourth annual workshop on Advances in Databases and Information Systems organized by the Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter. The two primary goals of these workshops are (1) to provide a forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of advanced research directions that will effectively improve the building and use of future information systems and (2) to allow direct interaction and communication between the research communities of both East and West thereby fostering old and new collaborations. Participation at the workshop is limited to 70 in order to pursue these two goals. Topics ------ ADBIS 96 will cover, as in the past, a wide range of research topics in the area. The programm committee specifically encourages high-quality contributions which focus on the advanced issues in information systems development. Major topics will include, but are not limited to: - Conceptual modeling and specification - Requirements engineering - Design engineering - Methodologies and tools - Activity modelling and advanced transaction models - Deductive and object-oriented databases - Interfaces to databases and information systems - Novel database application areas - Scientific databases and information systems - Information systems on the Internet - Multimedia databases - Interoperable, heterogeneous environments and systems - Semantic interoperability Information for Authors ----------------------- Only electronic submissions will be considered. The authors are invited to send extended abstracts not exceeding 4000 words (4--5 pages) in LaTeX or ASCII of their contributions by March 24, 1996 to the program committee co-chair at: ADBIS@orl.usr.pu.ru At least one of the authors of accepted papers is expected to attend the workshop. Full versions of accepted papers (LaTeX source is required) must be sent to the same address by May 31, 1996 for printing and distribution to participants of the workshop. The papers should not exceed 8000 words. Final paper versions for the proceedings must be e-mailed before October 15, 1996. Negotiations are taking place for publication of the proceedings by Springer-Verlag. A PostScript version of this call for papers is available via anonimous FTP from: ftp://ftp.niimm.spb.su/pub/laboratories/ORL/ADBIS96-cfp.ps Important Dates --------------- Submission of extended abstracts March 24, 1996 Notification of acceptance or rejection April 30, 1996 Full papers by email for workshop May 31, 1996 Workshop September 10-13, 1996 Final version of paper for the proceedings October 15, 1996 General Co-Chairs ----------------- Mikhail Alfimov Russian Foundation for Basic Research Leninsky prosp. 32a, 117334 Moscow Leonid Kalinichenko Institute for Problems of Informatics Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Vavilov str., 30/6, 117900, Moscow Phone: (095) 237-20-31 Yuri Zhuravlev Computing Center RAS Vavilov str., 40, 117967, Moscow Phone: (095) 135-24-89 Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Boris Novikov University of St.-Petersburg, Bibliotechnaya pl. 2, 198904 St.-Petersburg boris@orl.usr.pu.ru Joachim W. Schmidt University of Hamburg, Germany Vogt-Koelln Str. 30, D-22527 Hamburg J_Schmidt@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Program Committee ----------------- Johann Eder (Klagenfurt University, Austria) Nikolay Emelyanov (Institute for Systems Analysis, RAS, Russia) Janis Grundspenkis (Riga Technical University, Latvija) Remigijus Gustas (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania) Hele-Mai Haav (Institute of Cybernetics, Talinn, Estonia) Yuri Hohlov (Mathematical institute, RAS, Russia) Leonid Kalinichenko (Inst. for Problems of Informatics RAS, Russia) Hannu Kangassalo (Tampere, Finland) Wolfgang Klas (GMD, Germany) Mikhail Kogalovsky (Institute for Market Economy, RAS, Russia) Sergey Kuznetsov (Institute for Systems Programming, RAS, Russia) Peri Loucopoulos (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Florian Matthes (University of Hamburg, Germany) Rainer Manthey (University of Bonn, Germany) Ron Morrison (St.-Andrews University, Scotland) Tadeusz Morzy (Tech. Uniersity of Poznan, Poland) Nikolay Nikitchenko (Kiev University, Ukraine) Jaroslav Pokorny (Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic) Colette Rolland (Sorbonne, France) Sivio Salza (University of Roma, Italy) Bernhard Thalheim (Tech. University of Cottbus, Germany) Benkt Wangler (Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden) Vjatcheslav Wolfengagen (Moscow Engineering and Physics Inst., Russia) Alexandre Zamulin (Inst. of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Jan 26 16:28:55 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:28:46 -0600; AA06088 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:28:44 -0600 From: hfk@research.att.com (Hank Korth) Message-Id: <9601262228.AA28338@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:28:44 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Tutorials Fourth International Conference on PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS December 18-20, 1996 Eden Roc Resort & Spa, Miami Beach, Florida Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering ACM SIGMOD ******************************************************************* * World Wide Web page: http://panda.cs.binghamton.edu/pdis96.html * ******************************************************************* The Conference will include two half-day tutorials. Proposals for tutorials will be considered on subjects relating to the theme of the conference. Topics areas include (but are not limited to): * high-performance online transaction processing * data integration and warehousing * online analytical processing and data mining * parallel query optimization and scheduling * parallel and distributed object management * data distribution and replication * multimedia databases * parallel and distributed document management * storage system administration and tuning * tertiary storage management * data management on networks of workstations * mobile and disconnected clients * business workflow management * extended transaction models and management * distributed middleware * interoperability and heterogeneous systems * directory services and information discovery * information and resource brokering * WWW-based query processing * distributed real-time and active database systems * highly available large-scale systems * applications on parallel and distributed systems Tutorial proposals should consist of the following: Tutorial title Instructor(s) and their affiliations Summary (no more than one page) List of other venues at which the proposed tutorial has been or is scheduled to be presented. This list should be updated if it changes while the proposal is under consideration. Feel free to include additional materials (such as lengthier summary, URL for slides, etc.) if desired. Proposals should be sent to the PDIS Tutorial Chair by hardcopy or electronic mail: Hank Korth AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 2T-214 600 Mountain Avenue, P.O. Box 636 Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 hfk@research.att.com voice: +1-908-582-7791 fax: +1-908-582-5809 Deadline for submissions is April 22, 1996. ----- End Included Message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Jan 26 16:29:45 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:29:37 -0600; AA06107 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:29:35 -0600 From: datamine@aig.jpl.nasa.gov (Data Mining Journal) Message-Id: <9601262229.AA28344@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 26 Jan 96 16:29:35 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu **************************************************************** New Journal Announcement: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery an international journal http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine/ Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers C a l l f o r P a p e r s **************************************************************** Advances in data gathering, storage, and distribution technologies have far outpaced computational advances in techniques for analyzing and understanding data. This created an urgent need for a new generation of tools and techniques for automated Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). KDD is a broad area that integrates methods from several fields including statistics, databases, AI, machine learning, pattern recognition, machine discovery, uncertainty modeling, data visualization, high performance computing, management information systems (MIS), and knowledge-based systems. KDD refers to a multi-step process that can be highly interactive and iterative. It includes data selection/sampling, preprocessing and transformation for subsequent steps. Data mining algorithms are then used to discover patterns, clusters and models from data. These patterns and hypotheses are then rendered in operational forms that are easy for people to visualize and understand. Data mining is a step in the overall KDD process. However, most published work has focused solely on (semi-)automated data mining methods. By including data mining explicitly in the name of the journal, we hope to emphasize its role, and build bridges to communities working solely on data mining. Our goal is to make Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery a flagship journal publication in the KDD area, providing a unified forum for the KDD research community, whose publications are currently scattered among many different journals. The journal will publish state-of-the-art papers in both the research and practice of KDD, surveys of important techniques from related fields, and application papers of general interest. In addition, there will be a pragmatic section including short application reports (1-3 pages), book and system reviews, and relevant product announcements. Please visit the journal's WWW homepage at: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine/ to obtain further information, including: - A list of topics of interest, - full call for papers, - instructions for submission, - contact information, subscription information, and - ordering a free sample issue. Editors-in-Chief: Usama M. Fayyad ================ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA Heikki Mannila University of Helsinki, Finland Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro GTE Laboratories, USA Editorial Board: =============== Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) Tej Anand (AT&T Global Information Solutions, USA) Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA) Wray Buntine (Thinkbank Inc, USA) Peter Cheeseman (NASA AMES Research Center, USA) Greg Cooper (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Bruce Croft (University of Mass. Amherst, USA) Dan Druker (Arbor Software, USA) Saso Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) Oren Etzioni (University of Washington, USA) Jerome Friedman (Stanford University, USA) Brian Gaines (University of Calgary, Canada) Clark Glymour (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) Jim Gray (Microsoft Research, USA) Georges Grinstein (University of Lowell, USA) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada) David Hand (Open University, UK) Trevor Hastie (Stanford University, USA) David Heckerman (Microsoft Research, USA) Se June Hong (IBM T.J. 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