From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sun Jun 9 10:15:13 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA22802 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 10:15:07 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA10804 for dbworld; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 10:15:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 10:15:06 -0500 From: "Manfred A. Jeusfeld" Message-Id: <199606091515.KAA10804@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu DBWORLD: The preliminary conference announcement for the 23rd VLDB (Athens, Greece, August 25-29, 1997) can be accessed via WWW from http://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/VLDB97/ Kind greetings, ..-- Manfred Jeusfeld ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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National Software Council Forum 25-26 June 1996 - St. Louis, Missouri http://www.nscusa.org/forum96 This NSC Forum will review and debate the issues surrounding certification and licensing of software engineers and its effect on the U.S. software industry. Including featured presentations: -- Putting Engineering into "Software Engineering" Mary Shaw - Carnegie Mellon University -- The Engineering Licensure Process and Engineering Specialty Certification Arthur Schwartz, General Counsel National Society of Professional Engineers -- A Model for Licensing Software Engineers: Objections and... Don Gotterbarn - East Tennessee State University -- Toward a Mature Software Engineering Profession Norman Gibbs - Guilford College -- Solving the Software Crisis Carl Clavadetscher - National Defense University -- Issues in Licensing and Certification of Software Engineers Nancy R. Mead - Software Engineering Institute -- Requisite Body of Knowledge Patricia Douglas - IBM Corporation -- Report on the joint work of the IEEE-CS & ACM on Software Engineering as a Profession (speaker to be announced) -- Workshop on Software Engineering Ethics Workshop Leader: Don Gotterbarn - East Tennessee State University In cooperation with: IEEE Computer Society TCSE, Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren Division, Center for Applic of Info Technology - Washington Univ, Assoc for Computing Machinery (ACM) Sigsoft, Reengineering Forum For more information, contact forum@nscusa.org or see: http://www.nscusa.org/forum96 In its role as a facilitator of national discussion, The National Software Council (NSC) sponsors forums to examine software issues that affect the U.S. economy and society. 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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@cs.wisc.edu Tue Jun 11 10:59:45 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA29418 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:59:38 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA13511 for dbworld; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:59:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:59:37 -0500 From: Roland Yap Hock Chuan Message-Id: <199606111559.KAA13511@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [We apologize if you receive this multiple times] CALL FOR PAPERS --- ASIAN'96 ASIAN COMPUTING SCIENCE CONFERENCE Singapore, December 2-5, 1996 BACKGROUND ---------- The first conference ASIAN'95 (also called ACSC'95 last year) was held in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 1995, organized by the Asian Institute of Technology in partnership with INRIA, France, and the UNU/IIST, Macau. Its main purpose was to provide a local forum for Asian researchers in Computer Science. Its scope was a broad coverage of CS, though there was a focus on the more conceptual areas of algorithms, concurrency and knowledge. Its proceedings appeared as Springer-Verlag's LNCS 1023. SCOPE ----- The 1996 conference will continue to emphasize the conceptual areas of CS, though papers in all areas will be considered. The following themes represent the areas of focus for this year. * Programming (semantics, languages, systems, paradigms, ...) * Concurrency & Parallelism (algorithms, formalisms, systems, ...) * Networking & Security (algorithms, protocols, formalisms, systems, ...) INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- The keynote speaker will be David HAREL (Weizmann Institute, Israel). The invited speakers will be: Jean-Chrysostome BOLOT (INRIA, France) on networking, Gert SMOLKA (DFKI Saarbruken, Germany) on programming languages, and Doug TYGAR (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) on secure electronic commerce. PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- By email, in a self-contained Postscript file (compressed and uuencoded), to be complemented by a hard copy sent to the address of the program chair. The length guidelines are 10--12 pages in 11-point font, and about 3000 words. For details, see the conference web page. The email address for submissions is asian96@iscs.nus.sg PUBLICATION ----------- The proceedings is expected to be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lectures Notes in Computer Science series. In addition to regular papers, we hope to accept posters, which will appear as one-page abstracts in the proceedings. Papers and posters must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- July 5, 1996 Paper submission deadline August 23, 1996 Acceptance decisions September 13, 1996 Camera-ready copy due December 2--4, 1996 Asian'96, Main Conference December 5, 1996 Asian'96, Workshops PRE and POST CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES ---------------------------------- The 9th Asian School on Computer Science: Synthesis & Verification of Finite-State Machine Based Systems by G. Berry, N. Halbwachs and E. Sentovich will be held on 22--29 November 1996, in Rayong, Thailand. (See http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/school96). On December 5, 3--4 workshops will be held in association with the main conference. CONFERENCE WEB PAGE ------------------- Additional information will be posted and will be available from http://www.iscs.nus.sg/~asian96 Sponsors: --------- * The Asian Inst. of Technology (AIT) * Inst. National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) * National Univ. of Singapore (NUS) * United Nations Univ. Intl. Inst. for Software Technology (UNU/IIST) Program Chair: -------------- Joxan Jaffar, Department of Information Systems & Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260 Phone: +65 772 6731 Fax: +65 779 4890 E-mail: joxan@iscs.nus.sg Asian'9X Steering Committee: ---------------------------- Dines Bjorner (UNU/IIST, Macau) Shigeki Goto (Waseda U., Japan) Joxan Jaffar (NUS, Singapore) Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand) Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France) Jean-Jacques Levy (INRIA, France) R.K. Shyamasunder (TIFR Bombay, India) Program Committee: ------------------ Martin Abadi (SRC, DEC, USA) Eliezer A. Albacea (U. of Phillipines) A. Anuchitanukul (Bank of Thailand/AIT) Kim Bruce (Williams College, USA) Rance Cleaveland (NCSU, USA) Dang Van Hung (UNU/IIST, Macau) Li Gong (SRI International, USA) Shigeki Goto (Waseda U., Japan) Seif Haridi (SICS, Sweden) Nevin Heintze (Bell Labs, USA) Pascal van Hentenryck (Brown U., USA) Jieh Hsiang (NTU, Taiwan) Kyoki Imamura (Kyushu IT, Japan) Joxan Jaffar, Chair (NUS, Singapore) Tomasz Janowski (UNU/IIST, Macau) Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France) Lam Kwok-Yan (NUS, Singapore) John Lamping (Xerox PARC, USA) Peter Lee (CMU, USA) Jean-Jacques L'evy (INRIA, France) C. Lursinsap (Chulalongkorn U/AIT) Michael Maher (Griffith U., Australia) Hideo Miyahara (Osaka U., Japan) Gustaf Neumann (Essen U., Germany) Vijay Saraswat (Xerox PARC, USA) S. Sudarshan (IIT, Bombay) R. Sureswaran (USM, Malaysia) Doug Tygar (CMU, USA) Phillip Wadler (U. of Glasgow, UK) Belawati Widjaja (U. of Indonesia) Roland Yap (NUS, Singapore) Local Arrangements Chair: ------------------------- Roland Yap (NUS, Singapore), E-mail: ryap@iscs.nus.sg %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LaTeX Version %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentstyle{article} \oddsidemargin 0pt \marginparwidth 90pt \marginparsep 10pt \topmargin -30pt \headheight 12pt \headsep 25pt \footheight 12pt \footskip 30pt \columnsep 10.5pt \columnseprule 0pt \addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-2.0cm} \setlength{\textwidth}{19.0cm}%{18cm} \addtolength{\topmargin}{-1cm} \setlength{\textheight}{27cm} \pagestyle{empty} \newcommand{\asian}{{\sc Asian'96}} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0pt} \begin{document} \begin{center} {\Large\sc Call for Papers - \asian{}} \end{center} \begin{center} {\Large \bf Asian Computing Science Conference}\\[1.5ex] \end{center} \begin{center} {\large\bf Singapore, \ December 2-5, 1996} \end{center} \vspace*{0.15in} \parbox[t]{6.3cm}{ %{5.3cm}{ \footnotesize \noindent {\bf Sponsors}: \\ \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{minipage}{6.3cm} \begin{tabular}{ll} $\bullet$ & The Asian Inst. of Technology (AIT)\\ $\bullet$& Inst. National de Recherche en \\ & Infor\-ma\-tique et en Automatique (INRIA) \\ $\bullet$ & National Univ. of Singapore (NUS) \\ $\bullet$ & United Nations Univ. Intl. Inst. for \\ & Soft\-ware Technology (UNU/IIST) \\ \end{tabular} \end{minipage} \vspace*{5mm} \noindent {\bf Program Chair:} \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{tabular}{l} Joxan Jaffar, \\ Department of Information Systems \\ ~~~~~ \& Computer Science, \\ National University of Singapore, \\ Singapore 119260 \\ {\it Phone}: +65 772 6731 \\ {\it Fax}: +65 779 4890 \\ {\it E-mail}: {\tt joxan@iscs.nus.sg} \\ \end{tabular} \vspace*{5mm}\vspace*{\fill} \noindent {\bf {\sc Asian'9X} Steering Committee:} \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{tabular}{l} Dines Bj{\o}rner (UNU/IIST, Macau) \\ Shigeki Goto (Waseda U., Japan) \\ Joxan Jaffar (NUS, Singapore) \\ Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand) \\ Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France) \\ Jean-Jacques Levy (INRIA, France) \\ R.K. Shyamasunder (TIFR Bombay, India) \\ \end{tabular} \vspace*{5mm}\vfill \noindent {\bf Program Committee:} \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{tabular}{l} Mart\'{\i}n Abadi (SRC, DEC, USA) \\ Eliezer A. Albacea (U. of Phillipines) \\ A. Anuchitanukul (Bank of Thailand \& AIT) \\ Kim Bruce (Williams College, USA) \\ Rance Cleaveland (NCSU, USA) \\ Dang Van Hung (UNU/IIST, Macau) \\ Li Gong (SRI International, USA) \\ Shigeki Goto (Waseda U., Japan) \\ Seif Haridi (SICS, Sweden) \\ Nevin Heintze (Bell Labs, USA) \\ Pascal van Hentenryck (Brown U., USA) \\ Jieh Hsiang (NTU, Taiwan) \\ Kyoki Imamura (Kyushu IT, Japan) \\ Joxan Jaffar, {\it Chair} (NUS, Singapore) \\ Tomasz Janowski (UNU/IIST, Macau) \\ Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France) \\ Lam Kwok-Yan (NUS, Singapore) \\ John Lamping (Xerox PARC, USA) \\ Peter Lee (CMU, USA) \\ Jean-Jacques L\'evy (INRIA, France) \\ C. Lursinsap (Chulalongkorn U. \& AIT) \\ Michael Maher (Griffith U., Australia) \\ Hideo Miyahara (Osaka U., Japan) \\ Gustaf Neumann (Essen U., Germany) \\ Phillip Wadler (U. of Glasgow, UK) \\ Vijay Saraswat (Xerox PARC, USA) \\ S. Sudarshan (IIT, Bombay) \\ R. Sureswaran (USM, Malaysia) \\ Doug Tygar (CMU, USA) \\ Belawati Widjaja (U. of Indonesia) \\ Roland Yap (NUS, Singapore) \\ \end{tabular} \vspace*{5mm} \noindent {\bf Local Arrangements Chair:} \vspace*{0.05in} \begin{tabular}{l} Roland Yap (NUS, Singapore) \\ {\it E-mail}: {\tt ryap@iscs.nus.sg} \end{tabular} } \parbox[t]{5mm}{ \rule[-23.1cm]{0.2mm}{23.8cm} } \begin{minipage}[t]{11.5cm}%{12.2cm} {\bf Background:} The first conference {\sc Asian'95} (also called {\sc Acsc'95} last year) was held in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 1995, organized by the Asian Institute of Technology in partnership with INRIA, France, and the UNU/IIST, Macau. Its main purpose was to provide a local forum for Asian researchers in Computer Science. Its scope was a broad coverage of CS, though there was a focus on the more conceptual areas of algorithms, concurrency and knowledge. Its proceedings appeared as Springer-Verlag's LNCS 1023. \vspace*{5mm} \noindent {\bf Scope:} The 1996 conference will continue to emphasize the conceptual areas of CS, though papers in all areas will be considered. The following themes represent the areas of focus for this year. \vspace*{5mm} \noindent $\bullet$ Programming ({\it semantics, languages, systems, paradigms, $\ldots$ }) \\ \noindent $\bullet$ Concurrency \& Parallelism ({\it algorithms, formalisms, systems, $\ldots$ }) \\ \noindent $\bullet$ Networking \& Security ({\it algorithms, protocols, formalisms, systems, $\ldots$} ) \vspace*{5mm} \noindent {\bf Invited Speakers:} The keynote speaker will be {\sc David Harel} (Weizmann Institute, Israel). The invited speakers will be: {\sc Jean-Chrysostome Bolot} (INRIA, France) on networking, {\sc Gert Smolka} (DFKI Saarbruken, Germany) on programming languages, and {\sc Doug Tygar} (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) on secure electronic commerce. \vspace*{5mm} \noindent {\bf Paper submissions:} By email, in a self-contained Postscript file (compressed and uuencoded), to be complemented by a hard copy sent to the address of the program chair. The length guidelines are 10--12 pages in 11-point font, and about 3000 words. For details, see the conference web page. The email address for submissions is \bigskip \hspace*{30mm} \fbox{\tt asian96@iscs.nus.sg} \vspace*{5mm} \noindent {\bf Publication:} The proceedings is expected to be published by Springer-Verlag in the {\it Lecture Notes in Computer Science} series. In addition to regular papers, we hope to accept posters, which will appear as one-page abstracts in the proceedings. Papers and posters must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. \vspace*{5mm} \noindent {\bf Important dates:} \begin{tabular}{ll} July 5, 1996 & ~~Paper submission deadline \\ August 23, 1996 & ~~Acceptance decisions \\ September 13, 1996~~ & ~~Camera-ready copy due \\ December 2--4, 1996 & ~~Asian'96, Main Conference \\ December 5, 1996 & ~~Asian'96, Workshops \end{tabular} \vspace*{5mm} {\bf Pre and Post Conference Activities:} \\ The 9th Asian School on Computer Science: {\it Synthesis \& Verification of Finite-State Machine Based Systems} by G. Berry, N. Halbwachs and E. Sentovich will be held on 22--29 November 1996, in Rayong, Thailand. (See {\tt http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/school96}). On December 5, 3--4 workshops will be held in association with the main conference. \vspace*{5mm} \noindent {\bf Conference Web Page:} Additional information will be posted and will be available from {\tt http://www.iscs.nus.sg/$\sim$asian96}. \end{minipage} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Jun 11 11:01:20 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA29429 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:01:14 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA13527 for dbworld; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:01:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:01:13 -0500 From: Michael Haugrud Message-Id: <199606111601.LAA13527@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu FACULTY POSITION COMPUTER SCIENCE and OPERATIONS RESEARCH NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Box 5164; Fargo, ND 58105 237-8562 email: perrizo@plains.nodak.edu The Department of Computer Science and Operations Research invites applications for a faculty position at the assistant professor level. Applications from computer science, operations research or a related field are encouraged. NDSU is the land grant institution of North Dakota, and serves 10,000 students. The Computer Science and Operations Research Department has 12 faculty working in Networks, Software Engineering, Database Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Theoretical Computer Science, and Distributed Systems. B.A., B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are offered to approximately 200 undergraduate and 80 graduate majors. The department is housed in a new building with over 300 computer systems, including a mainframe, minis, workstations and PCs; and several networks, including ATM (presently three switches), FDDI, switched ethernet, token ring, and internet connection (presently T1). THE COMMUNITY: Fargo is consistently rated as one of the most desirable urban communities in the U.S. It is located on the Red River of the North. The metropolitan area has a population of 200,000, 2 universities, a private college, major medical facilities, a community theater, a civic opera, a symphony orchestra and many other cultural activities. The Fargodome and other facilities regularly host major entertainment events. In athletics, the University is a national power in NCAA Division II, and there are semi-pro basketball and baseball teams. The popular Minnesota lakes country is less than a one hour drive away. STARTING DATE: August 16, 1996 QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES: Ph.D. in C.S., O.R. or related area; capability for quality teaching in a variety of courses; proficiency in spoken and written English, and evidence of capability for state of the art research. Research expertise in computer networks is preferred. The normal teaching load is four semester courses per year. Development of a strong independent or collaborative research program, graduate student supervision, and service are expected. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications. APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 15, 1996 or thereafter until the position is filled. Send vita and names and addresses of 3 references (or letters of recommendation) to: Dr. William Perrizo Chair of Recruitment Committee Computer Science and Operations Research Department North Dakota State University IACC 258, Box 5164 Fargo, ND 58105 (701) 231-8562 InterNet: perrizo@plains.NoDak.Edu More information concerning the position and the department is available at http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu. University information is available at http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu. NDSU IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Jun 11 11:05:48 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA29458 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:05:43 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA13546 for dbworld; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:05:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:05:42 -0500 From: tanand@winhitc.Atlantaga.ncr.com (Tej Anand) Message-Id: <199606111605.LAA13546@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu We have 2 immediate openings in the Knowledge Discovery group at NCR's Human Interface Technology Center (HITC). Both these positions require at least a graduate degree in Computer Science with specialization in machine learning, statistics or very large databases. Work within a specialization should demonstrate experience in dealing with issues pertaining to knowledge discovery. NCR is the world leader for commercial data warehouse solutions. NCR's customers include some of the world's largest retail, consumer packaged goods, transportation (cargo & passenger), telecommunications, insurance and banking enterprises. The HITC, located in midtown Atlanta, is an R&D group of approximately 100 individuals. HITC's vision is to revolutionize the way computer based products relate to people. Researchers at HITC have unprecedented access to NCR customers. Customer partnerships give us a context and focus to address challenging problems in the area of human-computer interaction. Our core competencies include user centered design, multi-modal user interfaces, mobile computing, audio/video processing, synthetic environments, image understanding, case-based reasoning and knowledge discovery. The Knowledge Discovery team at the HITC was established in 1993 to enable commercial enterprises realize business insights hidden in their operational data. This team conducts R&D to develop innovative knowledge discovery processes and data mining tools. All R&D is conducted in partnership with NCR customers. To learn more about the Knowledge Discovery team visit our website at http://www.ncrhitc.com/high/skills/kd. To apply for the openings send your resume via e-mail to tej.anand@atlantaga.ncr.com or by regular mail to Tej Anand NCR Corporation Prom I, Room 8147 1200 Peachtree St. Atlanta, GA 30309. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Jun 11 12:19:57 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA00533 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:19:50 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA13741 for dbworld; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:19:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:19:49 -0500 From: howe@research.att.com (Doug Howe) Message-Id: <199606111719.MAA13741@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu 1996 FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE FLoC'96 July 27 - August 3, 1996, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA CADE: 13th International Conference on July 30 - August 3 Automated Deduction CAV: 8th International Conference on July 31 - August 3 Computer-Aided Verification LICS: 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on July 27 - July 30 Logic in Computer Science RTA: 7th International Conference on July 27 - July 30 Rewriting Techniques and Applications +---------------------------------------------------------+ | | | *DEADLINES* | | | | Early Registration 21 Jun 1996 | | On-Campus Housing Reservation 21 Jun 1996 | | Hotel Reservation 28 Jun 1996 | | | +---------------------------------------------------------+ TRAVEL UPDATE. There is a shuttle service between Newark Airport and the Rutgers campus. See the FLoC web page (URL below) for details. FURTHER INFORMATION. For programs and registration information: http://www.research.att.com/lics/floc/ ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/floc/ For e-mail enquiries about the participating meetings: cade13@cisr.anu.edu.au cav96@research.att.com lics96@cs.cmu.edu rta96@mpi-sb.mpg.de For other enquiries about FLoC: lics-request@research.att.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Smith) Message-Id: <199606120001.TAA14957@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% CALL FOR PAPERS %% %% INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES %% %% SPECIAL ISSUE ON %% %% METADATA AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% A special issue of the International Journal of Digital Libraries (see below) is planned for publication in February, 1997. This issue will focus on issues concerning metadata and digital libraries. Metadata is a term that is often used to refer to the characterization of information objects for purposes of locating, evaluating, and accessing appropriate sets of objects. The typical approach to metadata taken by traditional libraries involves selecting representations of concepts that characterize the structure, context, content, and evaluation of collection items; the extraction of such representations from library items; and the use of these representations for library functions that include indexing, cataloging, and search. Digital library technology is capable of both supporting major augmentations to each of these metadata activities and providing a basis for catalog interoperability. There is much current interest in issues relating to metadata and catalog interoperability in digital libraries and a special journal issue on such a topic is especially timely. We seek original, high quality contributions in this general area. Topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not limited to: o theoretical foundations of metadata; o metadata as a knowledge base for digital libraries; o knowledge representation languages for metadata; o use of controlled subsets of natural language for metadata representation; o standards for the extraction, representation, and exchange of metadata; o integration of various metadata sources, such as ontologies, thesauri, gazetteers, directories, and bibliographies; o relationships between metadata activities in digital libraries and metadata activities in areas such as scientific databases; o automated extraction of metadata; o database support for the storage and accessing of metadata; o query languages for metadata; o user-oriented (visual) representations of metadata; o metadata and catalog interoperability; o metadata in relation to Internet technologies; o metadata for special classes of information objects, such as maps, images, video, and multimedia. The objective of the special issue is to provide an outstanding set of articles that will have salient effects both on current research and on current practise concerning the nature of metadata and its use in digital library settings. Because of the timeliness of the topic of metadata and the associated issues, the following accelerated schedule will be followed for the special issue of JODL: o PAPERS DUE: October 15, 1996 o ACCEPTANCE: December 15, 1996 o FINAL VERSION: January 7, 1997 o PUBLICATION: February 1997 Papers should not exceed 8000 words in length. They should not have been previously published, nor currently submitted to other journals for publication. All papers will be refereed by anonymous referees according to the highest standards. Papers should include a title page containing title, authors' names and affiliations, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers and Fax numbers. Papers should include a 300-word abstract and 5-10 keywords. Please submit FIVE COPIES of your manuscript to the guest editor by October 15, 1996: Terence R. Smith Department of Computer Science University of California at Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA Tel: 805-893-2966 Fax: 805-893-8553 Email: smithtr@cs.ucsb.edu For further information, please contact the guest editor. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% %% INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES %% %% %% %% Springer Verlag %% %% %% %% %% %% Editors-in-Chief %% %% %% %% Nabil R. Adam Yelena Yesha %% %% Rutgers University CIMIC UMBC/NASA CESDIS %% %% Newark, NJ 07102 Baltimore, MD 21228 %% %% adam@adam.rutgers.edu yeyesha@cs.umbc.edu %% %% (201) 648-5239 (410) 455-3542 %% %% %% %% Advisory Board %% %% %% %% Al Aho, Columbia Univ. Dan Atkins, Univ. of Michigan %% %% Milton Halem, GSFC-NASA Don Tiedeman, AT&T %% %% Jim Flanagan, Rutgers University %% %% %% %% Editorial Board %% %% %% %% S. Abiteboul, Stanford University %% %% P. Aigrain, Universite Paul Sabatier, France %% %% P. Buneman, University of Pennsylvania %% %% D. Choy, IBM Almaden Research Center %% %% U. Dayal, HP %% %% R. Jain, UC-San Diego %% %% D. Maier, Oregon Graduate Institute %% %% H. Maurer, Institute of IPCSM, Austria %% %% A. McCray, The National Library of Medicine %% %% A. Mendelzon, University of Toronto, Canada %% %% S. Naqvi, Bellcore %% %% E. J. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany %% %% C. Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute %% %% E.A. Rundensteiner, University of Michigan %% %% J. Slonim, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, Canada %% %% T. Smith, UC-Santa Barbara %% %% S. Sugimoto, Univ. of Lib. Info. Sc., Japan %% %% H. Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon University %% %% %% %% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed Jun 12 10:19:51 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA24184 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 10:19:41 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00530 for dbworld; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 10:19:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 10:19:40 -0500 From: "Leonid A. Kalinichenko" Message-Id: <199606121519.KAA00530@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Participation 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. Format of the workshop ---------------------- The official language of the Workshop is English. The workshop programme includes invited and regular talks and posters. The authors of posters will be introduced to the audience by appropriate session chairs to enable informal discussion of their contributions. The Workshop will be held at the main building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskyi Prospect, 32, Moscow, Russia. The proceedings of ADBIS'96 will be printed in two volumes before the Workshop. The first volume will include full texts of all regular papers. The second volume will include extended abstracts of all other presentations. 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 (Steklov 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) Bernhard Thalheim (Tech. University of Cottbus, Germany) Colette Rolland (Sorbonne, France) 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) P R E L I M I N A R Y P R O G R A M M E ================================================ Sept 10 9:30 - 10:00 Opening Address 10:00-11:30 Session 1: Models F. Matthes, R. M\"{u}ller, and J.W. Schmidt. Towards a Unified Model of Untyped Object Stores: Experience with the Tycoon Store Protocol. Klaus Berg and Leonid Kalinichenko Modeling Facilities for the Component-based Software Development Method David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Yiu-Kai Ng On Harmonically Combining Active, Object-Oriented, and Deductive Databases 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee 12:00 - 13:00 Schema Evolution St\'ephane Demphlous Databases Evolution: A Metaobject Approach C. Urtado and C. Oussalah Semantic Rules to Propagate Versions in Object-Oriented Databases 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Information system design Margita Altus User Modelling for Conceptual Database Design Based on an Extended Entity Relationship Model I. A. Basarab, B. V. Gubsky, N. S. Nikitchenko Declarative Languages of Composition Database Development Method Y. Amghar and M. Meziane Designing Databases using the Activity Paradigm poster: Odrova A.N. Implementing the Object Oriented Application 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee 16:30 - 18:00 Logic and Databases V.E.Wolfengagen Objects and their Computational Framework Stefan Brass SLDMagic --- An Improved Magic Set Technique Juergen Kalinski Disjunctive Rules, Maybe Tuples and Null Values: Logic Programs with Incomplete Information poster: N.E. Emelyanov, A.V. Solovyev, I.V. Schelkacheva Classification of Structured Data Representations poster: Philippov V. A., Tschukin B. A. Postrelational Data Model Sept 11 9:30 - 11:00 Data Warehousing and Migration T. Morzy Warehouse - Integration of External Data Sources Sofien Gannouni, Emmanuel Gleizer Incremental View Maintenance For Data Warehousing K. Menhoudj, M. Ou-Halima Migrating Data-Oriented Applications to a Relational Database Management System 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 13:30 Transactions and Workflows Silvio Salza, Antonio Massari and Massimiliano Bruno A Distributed Architecture for Integrated Access to Legacy Database Systems G. Kappel, S. Rausch-Schott, W. Retschitzegger A Transaction Model For Handling Composite Events Ahmad R. Hadaegh Ken Barker Value-serializability and an Architecture for Managing Transactions in Multiversion Objectbase Systems Vadim Doubrovski Key Integrity for Cooperative Database Environments with Stationary and Mobile Hosts poster: S.A. Kastanoff, V.V.Zhelyazko, S.V. Zikov Designing Information Processing Systems for Workflow Automation 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Query optimization and processing Yi\~{g}it Kulaba\c{s} and \"{O}zg\"{u}r Ulusoy Heuristic Algorithms for Inter-Query Scheduling in Database Systems N. Biscondi, L. Brunie, A. Flory Parallel Databases: Structured Query Optimization Estrella Pulido Recursive query processing with the STARBASE method 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee 16:30 - 18:00 Object-Oriented Design Leonid A. Kalinichenko Type Associations Identified to Support Information Resource Reuse in Megaprogramming Dmitry O. Briukhov Interfacing of Object Analysis and Design Methods with the Method for Interoperable Information Systems Design Parfenov Yu. Yu., Barabash R.K. Object-oriented design of system for supporting office management poster: L.Yu.Ismailova, K.E. Zinchenko Object-Oriented Tools for Advanced Applications poster: A. Gavrilov New Developers Tools for the CAD Information Systems Design Sept 12 9:30 - 13:00 Tutorial 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Text retrieval and active DB Maxim Martynov, Boris Novikov An Indexing Algorithm for Text Retrieval D. Dervos P. Linardis Y. Manolopoulos Perfect Encoding: a Signature Method for Text Retrieval Ian S. Thomas, Andrew C. Jones Extending the Gemstone Smalltalk Interface Debugger to cope with Active Database Components 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee 16:30 - 18:00 Databases on the Web I Peter Kutschera MediaStore: A World-Wide Web based user interface for multimedia database systems Trushkin S.A. Andernach H. Micol A. Gubanov A.G. Giovannini G. Verkhodanov O. Titov V.B. Chernenkov V.N. Bursov N.N. Reshetnikov V. The First Publicly Accessible Database ot Radio Sources: an INTAS-RFBR Project Litvinenko E.I. Hypertext Infosystem for Pulsed Neutron Sources and Scientific Investigations Based on these Sources. Sept 13 9:30 - 11:00 Databases on the Web II rfbr36 S.~I.~Alekhin, V.~V.~Ezhela, B.~B.~Filimonov, S.~B.~Lugovsky, A.~S.~Nikolaev, B.~V.~Polishchuk, S.~R.~Slabospitsky, S.~I.~Striganov, Y.~G.~Stroganov COMPAS Project at IHEP. History, Current State, Plans for the Future. V.E.Abramov-Maksimov, V.M.Bogod, A.N.Korzhavin, L.V.Opeikina, V.A.Shatilov Software for Management of a Database of Solar Observations on the Radio Telescope RATAN-600 A.E.Avramenko, R.R.Akhmetov, A.S.Gryasnov, O.V.Doroshenko, Yu.P.Ilyasov, V.A.Potapov, A.E.Rodin Pulsar Astrometry Information System and Data bases for Pulsar Timing and VLBI Observations Emelyanov N.E., Muhanov I.V., Tishchenko V.A. Web-Server on the Basis of NIKA DBMS 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 13:00 RFBR session I B. Novikov Programme Committee Report Smirnov I.S., Lobanov A.L., Alimov A.F., Dianov M.B., Sokolov E.P., S.G. Medvedev Development of Information Retrieval System ZOOINT for Zoology M.Yu.Zakharov, E.A.Loupian, A.A.Mazurov, R.R.Nazirov, E.V.Flitman Information System for On-Line Access to Satellite Data. P.P.Firstov, Yu.A.Filippov A System to Store the Records of Wave Disturbances in the Atmosphere Caused by Volcanic Eruptions Syuntyurenko O. V., Leontieva T. M., Shogin A. N. New Problems of Complex Information Service on the Basis of Information Resources Integration poster: Tasenko S.V., Dlikman F.L., Frishberg F.M., Magariu G.A.,Nadvodniuc N.A., Burtseva L.V. Simulation of Information Support of Local Databases in Network of Satellites Geophysical Control System Victor A. Krivoschokov, Konstantin V. Chuguev Multilanguage and Multicharset Information System 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 RFBR session II I.M.Bockstein, N.S.Merzlyakov, B.M.Miller, L.I.Rubanov Development of an Archive Image Database within the Framework of Modern Technologies of Image Processing and Storage Boris R. Gelchiski, Alexei S. Bushuev, Dmitry V. Latukhin, Valery P. Beskachko Information and Research System on Physical-Chemical Properties of Metals on the Basis of Packages of Applied Programs and Database L.M. Kitaev, A.N. Krenke, E.A.Barabanova Generation and Application of Snow Cover Information System on a Continental Scale V.F.Levchenko, I.I.Evdokimov, Z.M.Grishman, O.A.Snetkova The Databases on the Ecological Conditions of the East Part of the Finnish Gulf (St.Petersburg Region), Internet Access to them and Disseminating of the Data D.A.Varlamov, V.N.Balashov, A.G.Kalinichev, V.V.Ermakov Information System on Experimental Mineralogy and Physical Geochemistry poster: Roman Snytsyr Integration of Biologist Databases Using Component Object Model poster: E.S.Vasiayeva, N.S.Vasiayeva, V.V.Nickolayev Logic-based information system for processing of archaeological materials 16:00 - 16:30 Last Coffee 16:30 - 18:00 RFBR session III E.I. Golovanov, A.A. Stolyarov, D.D. Vasilyev Multilayer Hypertext Model for the Historical Monuments' Databases G.G Belonogov, Al-dr A. Khoroshilov, Al-sey A. Khoroshilov, B.A. Kuznetsov, A.P. Novoselov, Yu.G. Zelenkov Problem of Phraseological Machine Translation of Polythematic Texts from Russian into English and from English into Russian Discussion ====================================================================== T U T O R I A L An Agenda for Research on Cooperative Information Systems John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto) Giorgio De Michelis (Universita di Milano) Florian Matthes (University of Hamburg) Cooperative Information Systems is a relatively young research area which attempts to offer new approaches to information system development and maintenance in response to rapid and far reaching technological and organizational changes. This tutorial articulates a vision of the emerging Cooperative Information Systems paradigm, which is based on the premise that change management will be the central issue to be addressed by information systems of the future. On the basis of this premise, the tutorial proposes a generic architecture for cooperative information systems which consists of four layers: the system layer, which includes existing legacy systems, a system integration layer, a human cooperation layer and an organization layer. This architecture is offered as a means for building cooperative information systems on top of existing systems in order to provide information services that meet evolving organizational objectives. The architecture is also useful in accommodating changes which originate in any of the layers and are then propagated to other layers. On the basis of this architecture, the tutorial takes a closer look at the areas which encompass the four layers: o The system layer accommodates existing information, workflow and other computer-based systems, developed in terms of conventional technologies such as programming languages, DBMS and workflow systems which are executing on conventional, distributed hardware and software. These systems were developed in a bottom-up fashion by individuals, groups or even the organization itself and were intended to serve local and often less-than-permanent needs. o The system integration layer addresses interoperation concerns, including data transfer, semantic and control integration. It is intended to ensure that all systems within an organization, can share data and use each others' functionality, independently of the platform on which they were developed or the one on which they are executing, also independently of their original purpose or origin. o The group collaboration layer addresses human collaboration and coordination concerns in terms of groupware, organizational computing and other tools. This layer ensures that groups of people working on a common business process or other project -- such as co-authoring a report -- can coordinate their activities, get useful information on a timely fashion and can deal with all contingencies as though they were working physically together. o Finally, the organizational layer addresses global organizational concerns, including organizational objectives and business goals, policies, regulations, etc., relating these with intermediate layers, all the way down to existing systems and execution engines. This layer accommodates models of organizational goals, organizational structure, interdependencies among organizational agents as well as models of lower layers and how they all inter-depend. The layer maintains through a repository contact between existing systems, on-going business activities and global organizational objectives; it also offers mechanisms for propagating organizational objective changes to all other layers. For the system integration, group collaboration and the organization layer, the tutorial will review fundamental concepts, promising research directions and open questions. Topis to be covered include: o Cooperation and Change o The CoopIS Architecture o The system integration layer Improved interoperation Liberated coordination Maintenance of links between implementation and model o The group collaboration layer Distinct work space Synchronous and asynchronous share work space Managing the switches Linkages between the organizational and group collaboration layers o The organizational layer Modeling organizational objectives Modeling system requirements Ensuring continuing cooperation\ o Conclusions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A little bit about Moscow The beginning of September is one of the best time of year in Moscow. Usually the weather is sunny and warm but not hot. The place of the Workshop is near Moscow River and one of the biggest parks of Moscow - well-known Gorky Park. From highest floors of the building you could see a beautiful view of the centre of Moscow. Moscow is not only the capital of Russia and very nice city, it's also the great cultural centre. There are a lot of museums. We recommend you to visit museums of Kremlin and also art museums - famous Tretiakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum. Concert halls and theatres of Moscow provide excellent performances every evening. You could choose what do you like more. ============================================================ Registration People wishing to attend the Workshop should fill in the enclosed registration form and to send it by e-mail to the address of Organizing Committee: slava@jurinf.msu.su A separate registration form must be completed by each participant. The regular Workshop fee is $200. For members of the ACM it's reduced to $180. For students the fee is $40. Workshop registration fee includes admission to the technical sessions, tutorial, reception, refreshment breaks, and one copy of the workshop proceedings. Student fee includes only the technical sessions and refreshment breaks. The participation is free for researchers involved in projects supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Special discounts are available for participants that are permanent residents in the countries from the former Soviet Union. Please fill in application form at the end and send it to organizing committee. There are two possible methods of payment: - bank transfer (free of charges for us, please) to the following account: Intermediary: BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, 280 Park Avenue, New York 10017 NY USA SWIFT: BKTR US 33 Beneficiary bank: N 04402672 INTERPROGRESSBANK, Moscow, Russia SWIFT: INTP RU MM Beneficiary: MEPhI account 1070750 === Important: don't forget to include === === in SWIFT card purpose field: === ===>>> `For ADBIS'96 participation' <<<=== - by cash at the registration desk. Accommodation The Organizing Committee proposes you to live in the Hotel Rossia. This big hotel is placed in the very centre of Moscow near Kremlin. There are only three stops by metro to Leninskyi Prospect from there. The price for single-bed room in this hotel is $60 per night. If you like you can book a room in Rossia yourself by fax: +7 (095) 298-5541. There also two less expensive hotels near the place of the Workshop: Hotel Sputnik and Hotel Orlenok ($46 for single-bed room per night), approximately *** hotels. If you prefer these hotels please ask us to book rooms there (see the registration form). We don't propose more expensive hotels (from $200 per night) but they are available, and we can provide your accommodation there. Please reflect your wishes within registration form, and we'll book a room for you. Please note, that probably you will need to pay for your accommodation by cash. Registration form (please fill in and e-mail it to slava@jurinf.msu.su ) Name: Last,First, Middle __________________________________________ Affiliation: ____________________________________________________ Mailing Address: ________ ________________________________________ City,State,Mail Code/Zip: __________________________________________ Country: ______________________________________________________ Telephone _______________________ FAX _________________________ Email _________________________________________________________ RFBR grant: Name of grantee (if different from participant)____________________ _________________________________________Grant No:_________________ Registration Fee $ _______________ Method of Payment: _____Bank transfer _____Cash Accommodation requirements: Hotel Rossia _____ Please book a single-bed room for me (yes, no) Please book a double-bed room for me (yes, no) Hotel Sputnik _____ Hotel Orlenok _____ Some other more comfortable hotel _____ Visa support To get a visa in any embassy of Russia you need to have an official letter of invitation. The organizing committee of ADBIS'96 will provide you with such letters (by fax). An invitation should contain some your personal information. Please, send by e-mail slava@jurinf.msu.su together with your filled registration form your full name, date and place of birth, residence, nationality, affiliation, passport number, passport issued from, place and date of issue, date of expiration. Also please give us a number of your fax to send you the invitation. ============================================================= REQUEST FOR A GRANT (only for participants from the former Soviet Union) The grant will cover registration fee only. No travel or accommodation grants are available. -- RETURN COMPLETED FORM NO LATER THAN AUGUST 31, 1996, IF POSSIBLE VIA E-MAIL, TO: slava@jurinf.msu.su -- PERSONAL DATA Last/Family Name : First Name : Middle Name : Title : Affiliation : Mailing Address : Country : Daytime Phone Number : Fax Number : E-mail Address : I am an author or a co-author of a paper accepted for ADBIS : yes or no I am an author or a co-author of a paper submitted for ADBIS: yes or no State of permanent residence: Date of birth: Place of birth: Highest degree earned: (when and from which school) Present position and responsibilities: Extended visits and training in other organizations and countries: (when and where) Teaching: Research Areas: Publications: (list at most 3 recent publications) Conference Attendance: (list at most 3 conferences you attended) Participation in Research Programs and Projects: (title, sponsors, partners, objectives) Membership of Scientific and Professional Societies: ============================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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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@cs.wisc.edu Thu Jun 13 09:15:08 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA19188 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 09:14:37 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA02129 for dbworld; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 09:14:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 09:14:35 -0500 From: Lin Padgham Message-Id: <199606131414.JAA02129@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu 1996 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'96) November 2-4, 1996 Boston MA, USA CALL FOR PAPERS The 1996 International Workshop on Description Logics continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of description-oriented knowledge representation formalisms based on logic. The Workshop will be held in Boston, 2-4th November, immediately prior to KR'96. The intention is for workshop format to include a lot of discussion, rather than many paper presentations. Presentation of current work will be via papers in the proceedings and/or in informal discussions. SCOPE ----- Subjects to be addressed include the following: -- Foundations of Description Logics, including distinguishing features of Description Logics with respect to other formalisms, expressive power of Description Logics, types of reasoning, decidability and complexity results of reasoning, and relationships with other formalisms. -- Extensions of Description Logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, queries, constraints, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge. -- Integration of Description Logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented languages and systems, type systems, constraint-based programming, logic programming, rule-based systems, etc. -- Specification, design and building of representation and reasoning systems based on Description Logics, concentrating on empirical results, novel algorithms, and implementation techniques, with special emphasis on their relationship with theoretical results. -- Applications and use of both Description Logics and representation and reasoning systems based on them, in areas such as natural language, planning, learning, databases, software engineering, information management systems, etc. SUBMISSION ---------- Interested parties should prepare a short paper on some aspect of their current work in Description Logics for inclusion in the proceedings (no more than 5 LaTeX article-style pages), or a short position paper indicating interest in description logics and the workshop. Please prepare a version of your submission (preferably as a self-contained LaTeX 12-point article style file) and send it to dl96@dl.kr.org by e-mail, to arrive by July 15 1996. We will determine participation in the workshop by September 9th based on the proceedings papers and position papers. (If you need to know before this, in order to make travel arrangements, please contact the committee at dl96@dl.kr.org. The reason for the late dates is to allow submission following KR notification). Early submissions are welcome! Revised versions of accepted proceedings papers should be prepared on the basis of the comments of the organizers, and sent to them by October 7th 1996. The revised position papers will be electronically distributed to participants. The proceedings consisting of revised versions of the position papers will be produced and distributed after the workshop, and made available to other researchers. In addition each person should indicate a list of topics they would be interested in seeing included in the workshop, for each of them indicating whether it should be a long or short paper presentation, a panel, or a general discussion, as well as an indication of how you personally would like to participate in the workshop (e.g. panel on X, general discussion, short/long paper presentation, etc.). IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission deadline: July 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance: September 9, 1996 Camera ready papers due: October 7, 1996 Workshop: November 2-4, 1996 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Chair: Lin Padgham Department of Computer Science Royal Melbourne Insitute of Technology (RMIT) University Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia linpa@cs.rmit.edu.au Enrico Franconi Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) I-38050 Povo TN, Italy franconi@irst.itc.it Manfred Gehrke Siemens AG ZFE ST SN 5 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 81730 M|nchen, Germany Manfred.Gehrke@zfe.siemens.de Deborah L. McGuinness AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill NJ 07974, USA dlm@research.att.com Peter F. Patel-Schneider AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill NJ 07974, USA pfps@research.att.com RESOURCES --------- Enquiries about the workshop can be made by mailing to dl96@dl.kr.org. Information regarding costs, travel information, hotels, etc. will be distributed later. Check the web page at http://dl.kr.org/dl/dl96/ for updates. The official Description Logics WWW home page is at http://dl.kr.org/dl/. Lin Padgham, Enrico Franconi, Manfred Gehrke, Deborah McGuinness, Peter Patel-Schneider ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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A. ############################################################## SAC '97 ======= Over the past eleven years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC '97 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups SIGAda, SIGAPP, SIGBIO, and SIGCUE. Authors are invited to contribute original papers or abstracts for a poster session in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. Panel and workshop proposals which deal with the symposium themes are encouraged. The special tracks form the heart of the symposium. Papers and poster abstracts relating to the specific tracks should be mailed to the respective track chairs. In addition to the topics covered by the tracks listed below, papers and posters are solicited in geographic information systems, image processing, biomolecular computing, cognitive science, biology, chemistry, physics, geosciences, electronic libraries, office automation and other areas of applications development. Papers or posters not relating to a specific track or spanning more than one track should be mailed to the Program Chair. Look for additional information in SIG newsletters or contact the individuals listed below. Also check the SAC WWW page: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac97/ PAPERS ====== Original papers and posters dealing with any aspect of computing applications will be considered for presentation and publication in the SAC '97 Proceedings. This includes three categories of submissions: 1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and, 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each category of submissions will be reviewed by peer groups appropriate to that category. Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Expanded versions of selected papers from all categories will be considered for publication in the ACM/SIGAPP quarterly Applied Computing Review or one of the other participating SIGs' publications. Submission guidelines must be strictly followed: * Mail six (6) copies of the paper to the appropriate Track Chair. (For electronic submission consult the appropriate track chair.) * The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper; self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. * The body of the paper should not exceed 4000 words (about 15 pages, double- spaced). * A separate cover sheet included with the submission should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which correspondence should be sent. * All submissions must be received by AUGUST 15, 1996. PANELS AND WORKSHOPS ==================== Send submissions and proposals for panels, tutorials and workshops to the Program Chair by AUGUST 15, 1996. SAC '97 CONFERENCE OFFICIALS ============================ Symposium Chair --------------- Jim Hightower Department of Management Science and Information Systems California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA 92634-9480, U. S. A. E-mail: hightower@acm.org Tel: +1 714 773 2221, FAX: +1 714 449 5940 Symposium Co-Chair ------------------ K. M. George Department of Computer Science, MS 218 Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078, U. S. A. E-mail: kmg@a.cs.okstate.edu Tel: +1 405 744 5221, FAX: +1 405 744 9097 General Program Chair --------------------- Barrett R. Bryant Department of Computer and Information Sciences The University of Alabama at Birmingham 1300 University Blvd. Birmingham, AL 35294-1170, U. S. A. E-mail: bryant@cis.uab.edu Tel: +1 205 934 2213, FAX: +1 205 934 5473 TRACKS AND TRACK CHAIRS ======================= Ada and Software Engineering Steve Grimaldi, UHD (USA) steveg@uhd2.uhd.com Artificial Intelligence Robert Inder, University of Edinburgh (UK) robert@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk Biomedical Computing Donna Mooney, Univ. Arkansas for Med. Sci. (USA) dmmooney@care.ach.uams.edu Computational Logic and Ralph Wilkerson, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla (USA) Logic Programming ralphw@cs.umr.edu Computer and Mohammad S. Obaidat, City Univ. New York (USA) Telecommunication Networks obaidat@ees1s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu Computer Uses in Education Jim Hightower, Calif. St. Univ.-Fullerton (USA) hightower@acm.org Database Technology Masaru Kitsuregawa, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) kitsure@tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp Fuzzy Applications E. Damiani, University of Milan (Italy) damiani@hermes.dsi.unimi.it > M.G.Fugini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) fugini@elet.polimi.it Genetic Algorithms Roger Wainwright, University of Tulsa (USA) rogerw@penguin.mcs.utulsa.edu Mobile Computing Systems Dorota M. Huizinga, Calif. St. U-Fullerton (USA)and Applications dorota@titan.fullerton.edu Multimedia Systems Brajendra Panda, Alababama A&M University (USA) aambnp01@asnaam.aamu.edu Parallel and Distributed Keqin Li, State Univ. New York-New Paltz (USA) Algorithms lik@npvm.newpaltz.edu Programming Languages Hisham Al-Haddad, Marshall University (USA) haddad@acm.org Scientific Computing S. Lakshmivarahan, University of Oklahoma (USA) varahan@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu Direct general inquiries to the Symposium Chair or the Program Chair. IMPORTANT DATES =============== August 15, 1996 Papers and Proposals Due October 15, 1996 Notification of Acceptance December 1, 1996 Camera-Ready Paper Due ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please complete the following form and return it to sac@cis.uab.edu. I plan to submit a paper to SAC '97 _____ Topic area of submitted paper _________________________________________ Name: __________________________ Address: __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ E-mail: __________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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For more information, see the web page listed in my signature block. ================================================================== Barbara Blaustein Internet: bblauste@nsf.gov Database and Expert Systems Program Bitnet: bblauste@nsf National Science Foundation Phone: 703-306-1926 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115 Fax: 703-306-0599 Arlington, VA 22230 URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/DBEShome.html ================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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