From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon Oct 21 10:41:59 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 KAA03073 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:41:52 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA09750 for dbworld; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:41:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:41:52 -0500 From: Michael Berthold Message-Id: <199610211541.KAA09750@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-97) Birkbeck College, University of London 4th-6th August 1997 In Cooperation with AAAI, ACM SIGART, BCS SGES, IEEE SMC, and SSAISB [ http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97.html ] Objective ========= For many years the intersection of computing and data analysis contained menu-based statistics packages and not much else. Recently, statisticians have embraced computing, computer scientists are using statistical theories and methods, and researchers in all corners are inventing algorithms to find structure in vast online datasets. Data analysts now have access to tools for exploratory data analysis, decision tree induction, causal induction, function finding, constructing customised reference distributions, and visualisation. There are prototype intelligent assistants to advise on matters of design and analysis. There are tools for traditional, relatively small samples and for enormous datasets. The focus of IDA-97 will be "Reasoning About Data". We are interested in intelligent systems that reason about how to analyze data, perhaps as human analysts do. Analysts often bring exogenous knowledge about data to bear when they decide how to analyze it; they use intermediate results to decide how to proceed; they reason about how much analysis the data will actually support; they consider which methods will be most informative; they decide which aspects of a model are most uncertain and focus attention there; they sometimes have the luxury of collecting more data, and plan to do so efficiently. In short, there is a strategic aspect to data analysis, beyond the tactical choice of this or that test, visualisation or variable. Topics ====== The following topics are of particular interest to IDA-97: * APPLICATIONS & TOOLS - analysis of different kinds of data (e.g., censored, temporal etc) - applications (e.g., commerce, engineering, finance, legal, manufacturing, medicine, public policy, science) - assistants, intelligent agents for data analysis - evaluation of IDA systems - human-computer interaction in IDA - IDA systems and tools - information extraction, information retrieval * THEORY & GENERAL PRINCIPLES - analysis of IDA algorithms - bias - classification - clustering - data cleaning - data pre-processing - experiment design - model specification, selection, estimation - reasoning under uncertainty - search - statistical strategy - uncertainty and noise in data * ALGORITHMS & TECHNIQUES - Bayesian inference and influence diagrams - bootstrap and randomization - causal modeling - data mining - decision analysis - exploratory data analysis - fuzzy, neural and evolutionary approaches - knowledge-based analysis - machine learning - statistical pattern recognition - visualization Submissions =========== Participants who wish to present a paper are requested to submit a manu- script, not exceeding 10 single-spaced pages. We strongly encourage that the manuscript is formatted following the Springer's "Advice to Authors for the Preparation of Contributions to LNCS Proceedings" which can be found on the IDA-97 web page. This submission format is identical to the one for the final camera-ready copy of accepted papers. In addition, we request a separate page detailing the paper title, authors' names, postal and email addresses, phone and fax numbers. Email submissions in Postscript form are encouraged. Otherwise, five hard copies of the manuscripts should be submitted. Submissions should be sent to the IDA-97 Program Chairs: Central, North and South America: Elsewhere: Paul Cohen Xiaohui Liu Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science Lederle Graduate Research Center Birkbeck College University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of London Amherst, MA 01003-4610 Malet Street USA London WC1E 7HX, UK cohen@cs.umass.edu hui@dcs.bbk.ac.uk IMPORTANT DATES February 1st, 1997 Submission of papers April 15th, 1997 Notification of acceptance May 15th, 1997 Final camera ready paper Review ====== All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity. At least two referees will review each submission independently. Results of the review will be send to the first author via email, unless requested otherwise. Publications ============ Papers which are accepted and presented at the conference will appear in the IDA-97 proceedings, to be published by Springer-Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors of the best papers will be invited to extend their papers for further review for a special issue of "Intelligent Data Analysis: An International Journal". IDA-97 Organisation =================== General Chair: Xiaohui Liu Program Chairs: Paul Cohen, Xiaohui Liu Steering Comm. Chair: Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts, USA Exhibition Chair: Richard Weber, MIT GmbH, Aachen, Germany Finance Chair: Sylvie Jami, Birkbeck College, UK Local Arrangements Chair: Trevor Fenner, Birkbeck College, UK Public. and Proc. Chair: Michael Berthold, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Sponsorship Chair: Mihaela Ulieru, Simon Fraser University, Canada Steering Committee Michael Berthold University of Karlsruhe, Germany Fazel Famili National Research Council, Canada Doug Fisher Vanderbilt University, USA Alex Gammerman Royal Holloway London, UK David Hand Open University, UK Wenling Hsu AT&T Consumer Lab, USA Xiaohui Liu Birkbeck College, UK Daryl Pregibon AT&T Research, USA Evangelos Simoudis IBM Almaden Research, USA Program Committee Eric Backer Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Riccardo Bellazzi University of Pavia, Italy Michael Berthold University of Karlsruhe, Germany Carla Brodley Purdue University, USA Gongxian Cheng Birkbeck College, UK Fazel Famili National Research Council, Canada Julian Faraway University of Michigan, USA Thomas Feuring WWU Muenster, Germany Alex Gammerman Royal Holloway London, UK David Hand The Open University, UK Rainer Holve Forwiss Erlangen, Germany Wenling Hsu AT&T Research, USA Larry Hunter National Library of Medicine, USA David Jensen University of Massachusetts, USA Frank Klawonn University of Braunschweig, Germany David Lubinsky University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain Sylvia Miksch Stanford University, USA Rob Milne Intelligent Applications Ltd, UK Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh Daimler-Benz Forschung und Technik, Germany Claire Nedellec Universite Paris-Sud, France Erkki Oja Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Henri Prade University Paul Sabatier, France Daryl Pregibon AT&T Research, USA Peter Ross University of Edinburgh, UK Steven Roth Carnegie Mellon University, USA Lorenza Saitta University of Torino, Italy Peter Selfridge AT&T Research, USA Rosaria Silipo University of Florence, Italy Evangelos Simoudis IBM Almaden Research, USA Derek Sleeman University of Aberdeen, UK Paul Snow Delphi, USA Rob St. Amant North Carolina State University, USA Lionel Tarassenko Oxford University, UK John Taylor King's College London, UK Loren Terveen AT&T Research, USA Hans-Juergen Zimmermann RWTH Aachen, Germany Enquiries ========= Detailed information regarding IDA-97 can be found on the World Wide Web Server of the Department of Computer Science at Birkbeck College, London: http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97.html Apart from presentation of research papers, IDA-97 also welcomes demonstr- ations of software and publications related to intelligent data analysis and welcomes those organisations who may wish to partly sponsor the confe- rence. Relevant enquiries may be sent to appropriate chairs whose details can be found in the above-mentioned IDA-97 web page, or to IDA-97 Administrator Department of Computer Science Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX, UK E-mail: ida97-enquiry@dcs.bbk.ac.uk Tel: (+44) 171 631 6722 Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727 There is also a moderated IDA-97 discussion list. To subscribe, send the word "subscribe" in the message body to: ida97-request@dcs.bbk.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon Oct 21 22:52:53 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 WAA25328 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:52:40 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA10709 for dbworld; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:52:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:52:40 -0500 From: Frederic ANDRES Message-Id: <199610220352.WAA10709@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Research Positions available at the Database Research Group of NACSIS, Japan The National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS) in Tokyo, Japan, offers two or more fellowships for young computer scientists to work on a leading information processing project (The PHASME project) The Database Research Group in the R&D division in NACSIS is seeking for several post-docs and senior research visitors in the areas indicated below: * Distributed and Parallel Database Server Architectures on top of high speed networks * Multimedia and content-based Image Database Systems * Hypermedia Library Applications Each of the fully paid positions will have a duration of up to 1 year. A single extension by one additional year is possible. Applications must arrive as soon as possible but before November 10th, 1996. Applicants with a Ph.D.are prefered. They must demonstrate research experience from projects in research institutions, universities or industry. A statement of research qualification and interest should accompany the application. The applications should include the following: * Curriculum Vitae * 2 Reference letters * Publication list Send your application both in hard copy and by e-mail to: Dr. Frederic Andres R&D division NACSIS Otsuka 3-29-1 Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112 Japan Fax: 81-3-5395-7064 E-Mail: andres@rd.nacsis.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 22 14:51:08 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 OAA14083 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:51:03 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA12026 for dbworld; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:51:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:51:02 -0500 From: Ouri Wolfson Message-Id: <199610221951.OAA12026@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ______________________________________________________________________ First International Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS) November 13, 1996 (Immediately following ACM MobiCom'96) Rye Hilton, Rye, New York, USA Sponsored by Hughes Research Laboratories and ACM Sigmobile (pending). _______________________________________________________________________ Scope: Satellite communication will play an increasingly important role in our future information-based society. This trend as evidenced by the large number of systems planned or in operation (e.g. GPS, IRIDIUM, DIREC-PC). This workshop will bring together researchers and engineers from academia and industry to discuss satellite applications and services. The services are characterized by direct or global broadcast capabilities of satellites, high and possibly asymmetric bandwidth, low setup costs. Applications of such services are often real-time, and they include telemedicine, education, public information services, entertainment, digital battlefield, emergency and disaster response. Workshop Schedule: 8:00 - 8:30 On-site registration. 8:30 - 8:40 Opening remarks, Ouri Wolfson, program co-chair. 8:40 - 9:30 Invited Talk: ATM over Satellite, Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech 9:30 - 11:00 Paper Session I: Direct Broadcast Satellite Networking using Direct Broadcast Satellite Venkata Padmanabhan, Hari Balakrishnan, Keith Sklower, Elan Amir, and Randy H. Katz, University of California at Berkeley Integration of DBS and LEO Satellites for High Volume Information Distribution, David Walters and Regan Howard, CTA Incorporated Integrating Direct Broadcast Satellite with Wireless Local Access Yongguang Zhang and Son Dao, Hughes Research Laboratories 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 - 1:00 Paper Session II: Data Broadcasting Adaptive Data Broadcasting Using Air-Cache Konstantinos Stathatos, Nick Roussopoulos, and John Baras, University of Maryland Data Broadcast in Asymmetric Environments Nitin Vaidya and Sohail Hameed, Texas A&M University Propagating Updates in Asymmetric Channels Anil Gurijala and Udo Pooch, Texas A&M University 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own) 2:00 - 3:15 Paper Session III: Satellite Networks Secure Data Broadcasting Mechanisms for Satellite Networks Tzi-cker Chiueh, State University of New York at Stony Brook Leveraging Network Management Standards for Satellite Networks R. Gopal, Hughes Network Systems Supporting Unidirectional Links in the Internet Emmanuel Duros and Walid Dabbous, I.N.R.I.A. Sophia Antipolis An Integrated Satellite Based Asset Management System Tarun Soni, Torrey Science Corporation Satellite-Based Near-Real-Time Imagery Dissemination James Mehring and Stephen Gizinski, Hughes Space and Communication 3:30 - 4:30 Paper Session IV: Protocols An Application-Level Solution to TCP's Satellite Inefficiencies Mark Allman, Hans Kruse and Shawn Ostermann, Ohio University On Source Rules for ABR Service on ATM Networks with Satellite Links Sonia Fahmy, Rai Jain, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Rohit Goyal, and Fang Lu, Ohio State University 4:30 - 5:30 Panel: Global Internet over Satellite Networks Chair: Son Dao, Hughes Research Laboratories For further information visit the workshop web page at: http://www.eecs.uic.edu/~wolfson/html/wosbis96.html _____________________________________________________________________ Registration for First International Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS) November 13, 1996 * Rye, New York _______________________________________________________________ Name _______________________________________________________________ Company/Organization _______________________________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________________________ Telephone Number_______________________FAX_____________________ URL(WWW) Address_______________________Email___________________ _______________________________________________________________ Name on Badge Workshop Registration Fee: $75 if received by November 6, 1996 OR On-site registration fee: $100 Please complete and return with US$ check (made payable to Hughes Research Labs) to: Hughes Research Labs Attn: WOSBIS (Pam Evans) 3011 Malibu Canyon Road Malibu, CA 90265 310-317-5688 - phone 310-317-5695 - fax email: pevans@isl.hrl.hac.com If registering on-site, return registration form electronically and pay on site by either cash or check. _______________________________________________________________________ For hotel information see the MobiCom web page at: http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/conf/mobicom96 When making the reservation please mention WOSBIS/MobiCom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 22 15:47:56 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 PAA15801 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:47:50 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA12197 for dbworld; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:47:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:47:49 -0500 From: Ramesh Venkataraman Message-Id: <199610222047.PAA12197@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Hi Folks: Just a friendly reminder that October 28 is the deadline for paper submissions. I have reproduced the relevant section from the SIGMOD CFP below. "The FIRM deadline for the submission of electronic abstracts is October 21, 1996. The full paper should still be sent as hard copy. Actual paper submissions are allowed a grace period of seven days, up to October 28, 1996, provided that the abstract has been received in time, and provided that the paper number is marked prominently on the top right corner of each copy." thanks, -ramesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 22 19:25:25 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 TAA20197 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:25:18 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA12657 for dbworld; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:25:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:25:18 -0500 From: mcfet@cs.sfu.ca (Paul McFetridge) Message-Id: <199610230025.TAA12657@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu N L D B ' 97 * Third Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems = * Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, JUNE 25-27 1997 C A L L F O R P A P E R S This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and potential industrial end users interested in various applications of natural language in the database and information systems field. The integration of databases, natural language processing and linguistic theory has been a long term goal. The convergence of research in the two technologies is mainly due to the progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage of semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of the life cycle of an information system may be improved by using natural language techniques: database design (specification, validation, conflict resolution), database query languages and consulting programs that use new software engineering research allowing natural language program specifications. As information systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems. Previous workshops have been held in Versailles and Amsterdam, and have attracted researchers from Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. In addition to a workshop proceedings, selected papers have in the past been submitted for review and publication in special editions of the Journal of Knowledge and Data Engineering. TOPICS: Major topics of interest of previous workshops will include: Conceptual Modelling - Conceptual modelling and linguistic knowledge - Analysis of natural language descriptions into conceptual models - Verification of conceptual models by paraphrasing Natural Language Interfaces - Natural languages interfaces for database querying - Verification of database queries by paraphrasing Hypertext and Hyperbases - Hypertext as a navigation tool - Generating hypertext from data sources Information Retrieval - Semantic analysis for information retrieval View Integration and multidatabase systems - Linguistic aspects of view integration - Natural language queries to multidatabase systems and data warehouses Large-scale Online Linguistic Resources - electronic dictionaries - question-answer corpora INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: To contribute, please submit 4 copies of an original paper which does not exceed 5000 words, including a short abstract, to the program committee chairman: Paul McFetridge Department of Linguistics Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C. Canada, V5A 1S6 mcfet@cs.sfu.ca phone: 1-604-291-3632 fax: 1-604-291-5659 IMPORTANT DATES : PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 1997 Camera-ready paper: May 1, 1997 SUPPORTING EVENTS: The organizers would like to provide for opportunities to disseminate work in a variety of ways. Those interested in preparing tutorials or panel discussions are invited to contact the program chair. SETTING: Vancouver is noted for the beauty of its physical setting and its multiculural climate. It is an entrance to the west coast of Canada and the U.S.A. as well as to the Pacific Rim nations. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University, Canada Ana Paula L. Ambrosio, Universidade do Goias, Brazil Elisa Bertino, Universita' di Milano, Italy A.T. Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM. Universit=E9 de Versailles, France Hans Burg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Nick Cercone, University of Regina, Canada Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Essec, France Roland Dachelet, Inria, France Anne De Roeck, University of Essex, UK Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands =46rank Dignum, Eindhoven University of Technolgy, The Netherlands Christian Fluhr, CEA, France Sabine Geldof, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada Jon Atle Gulla, Norway Henri Habrias, Universite de Nantes, France Howard Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada Kees Koster, Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands Elisabeth Metais, PRiSM. Universite de Versailles, France Anton Nijholt, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands T Pattabhiraman, Seagate Software, Canada Reind van der Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Bram van der Vos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Hans Weigand, Universiteit Babant, The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 23 12:58:02 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 MAA08986 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 12:57:48 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA14744 for dbworld; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 12:57:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 12:57:47 -0500 From: mpsingh@eos.ncsu.edu Message-Id: <199610231757.MAA14744@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Second IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems Call for Papers Charleston, South Carolina, USA, June 24-27 1997 Home: http://www.ece.sc.edu/Labs/HIIT/CoopIS/CoopIS97.html Mirror: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/mpsingh/activities/coopis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION The Second IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) is the premier event in Cooperative Information Systems. It is sponsored by the International Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS), and replaces the erstwhile international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems (IMS) and the conference series on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS & ICICIS). Cooperative Information Systems - the area and the conference - brings together scientists and ideas from artificial intelligence, databases, and distributed computing. This is the first time that CoopIS will be held in the USA (or the Americas, although a previous incarnation of it was held successfully in Toronto). Topics of interest include cooperation and interoperability among all types of information systems. Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the theoretical and practical aspects of the following * Information management via cooperating agents * Federated databases and multidatabases, including the issues of legacy data and applications, distribution, heterogeneity, autonomy, and security. * Multimedia information systems, including document management, metadata for digital media, and data transformation. * Global information systems, including information resource discovery, information brokering, electronic/information commerce, and electronic data interchanges. * Business process modeling and workflow modeling and management. * Information modeling and semantic interoperability. * Architectural issues in the above. * Data management issues, including collection, exchange, mining, simulation, and animation. * Core technologies, including DAI and multiagent systems, distributed object management, mediators, wrappers, advanced transaction models, negotiation, communication subsystems & infrastructure, and issues of storage, buffering and optimization. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Original research and industrial papers are solicited. Papers should not be longer than 5000 words. Industrial papers should describe technical or key business issues in applying the relevant technology, which should highlight aspects of cooperation and interoperation. Submissions should be unpublished and not under consideration by another conference or journal. SUBMIT * a 100-200 word plain-text abstract by email to the nearest program chair. The format for the abstract is as follows: Title: title Authors: name[, name] Abstract: abstract * six copies of the manuscript to the same program chair Proposals for panels can be sent to the panel chair at the address below. IMPORTANT DATES Electronic Abstract Submission Deadline: February 3, 1997 Paper Submission Deadline: February 10, 1997 Panel Proposals Deadline: February 10, 1997 Author Notification: March 21, 1997 Camera Ready Version Due: April 22, 1997 GENERAL CHAIR Michael N. Huhns Director, Center for Information Technology Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 301 South Main Street University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 USA huhns@sc.edu +1 (803) 777-5921 +1 (803) 777-8045 fax PROGRAM CHAIRS Americas Munindar P. Singh Department of Computer Science Withers 226 / Box 8206 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 USA singh@ncsu.edu Europe Wolfgang Klas Universitaet Ulm Fakultaet fuer Informatik D-89069 Ulm Germany klas@informatik.uni-ulm.de Asia & Pacific Rim Arbee L.P. Chen Department of Computer Science National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. Fax: 886-35-723694 alpchen@cs.nthu.edu.tw PANEL CHAIR Robert A Meersman VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Department of Computer Science STARlab --Building F-G/10 Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussels Belgium meersman@vub.ac.be PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Awaiting confirmation from a few additional people) Karl Aberer GMD-IPSI, Germany Gul Agha UIUC, USA Barbara Blaustein NSF, USA Mike Brodie GTE Labs, USA Ming-Syan Chen National Taiwan U, Taiwan Peter Dadam U Ulm, Germany Umesh Dayal HP Labs, USA Asuman Dogac Middle East Technical U, Turkey Ahmed Elmagarmid Purdue U, USA Avigdor Gal U Toronto, Canada Georges Gardarin Laboratoire PRISM, France James Geller NJIT, USA San-Yih Hwang National Sun Yat-Sen U, Taiwan Stefan Jablonski U Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Yahiko Kambayashi Kyoto University, Japan Vipul Kashyap MCC, USA Qing Li HKUST, Hong Kong Hongjun Lu National U of Singapore, Singapore Aris M. Ouksel UIC, USA David Maluf Stanford U, USA Dennis McLeod U Southern California, USA Peter Muth U Saarlandes, Germany John Mylopoulos U Toronto, Canada Maria Orlowska U Queensland, Australia Marek Rusinkiewicz MCC & U Houston, USA Felix Saltor U Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain VS Subrahmanian U Maryland, USA Katia Sycara CMU, USA Mario Tokoro Keio U & Sony, Japan Susan Urban Arizona State U, USA Kyu-Young Whang KAIST, Korea ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 23 13:22:42 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 NAA09412 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:22:31 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA14786 for dbworld; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:22:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:22:31 -0500 From: Branislav Meandzija Message-Id: <199610231822.NAA14786@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE GLOBAL INTERNET The IEEE Communications Magazine is soliciting original tutorial-style manuscripts for a planned Special Issue on the Global Internet. From its origins as a US government research project, the Internet has grown to become a major component of the global world-wide network infrastructure, linking millions of machines and tens of millions of users around the world. If the Internet were a stock it would be considered a market phenomenon, with sustained double-digit growth and no apparent end in sight to its upward spiral. Over 70 countries have full TCP/IP Internet connectivity, and about 150 have at least e-mail services through IP or via more limited means of connectivity (e.g., UUCP or Fidonet). Given such phenomenal growth, the Global Internet is increasingly viewed as the catalyst for a communications revolution resulting in a plethora of new technological, economic, and social changes. The focus of the special issue is on the technologies of the Internet, the technological changes driven by the emergence of a truly Global Internet, and collateral economic and social issues. Papers are solicited on the following specific subjects: * Internet Applications - information retrieval, directory services, catalogs, search tools and user agents; electronic publishing; education; www; languages; collaborative work environments. * Internet Connectivity Infrastructure - service characteristics ("best effort" vs. guaranteed); reliability (utility); addressing; multicasting; routing; protocols. * Internet Administrative Infrastructure - regulation; public policy; economics; standards. * Internet Security - security technology; export controls; privacy. * Internet Management - protocols; agent technology; standards; platforms. * Internet Commerce - electronic banking; virtual retailing; payment systems. Submitted manuscripts must be no longer than 12 single-spaced pages. The cover page should include the title of the paper, a brief abstract, a list of keywords, and the full name, affiliation, postal address, telephone number, and electronic mail address of each author. Papers may be submitted in postscript format via e-mail or as hardcopy (six copies). Authors should obtain company and government clearances prior to submission of papers. Papers should be submitted by October 31, 1996 to either of the guest co-editors. All papers will go through a peer-review process. They will be judged with respect to their quality and relevance to the Special Issue and the IEEE Communications Magazine. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 15, 1996. Final copies of accepted papers will be due by January 31, 1997. Publication is scheduled for May 1997. Please submit manuscripts by October 31 to either: Branislav Meandzija - OR- Lyman Chapin Meta Communications, Inc. BBN CORPORATION 322 North Cleveland Ave., Suite 100 10 Moulton Street Oceanside, CA 92054 USA Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Phone: +1 619 721 6033 Phone: +1617 873 3133 Fax: +1 619 721 6041 Fax: +1617 873 3243 e-mail: bran@metacomm.com e-mail: lyman@bbn.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Thu Oct 24 16:54:13 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 QAA29843 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:54:05 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA16330 for dbworld; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:54:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:54:04 -0500 From: Alex Rousskov Message-Id: <199610242154.QAA16330@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Dear colleagues, A great collection of technical papers on multimedia servers is available at http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~tatarino/mm/ We have collected more than 230 references to papers of leading researchers. Topics include multimedia servers architecture, admission control, buffer management, disk scheduling, data placement, network and OS support, etc. Papers are search-able by topic, author, and title. Our collection is unique because 80% of entries have a reference to a location of the soft copy of the paper and about 75% of entries have abstracts viewable directly from our archive. This gives you a unique opportunity to preview abstracts and download interesting papers. A collection of researchers' personal Web pages may be useful as well. Enjoy, Alex Rousskov (rousskov@plains.NoDak.edu), Igor Tatarinov (tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Oct 24 16:58:41 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 QAA29880 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:58:34 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA16354 for dbworld; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:58:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:58:34 -0500 From: georgana@mcrlab.uottawa.ca (Nicolas D. Georganas) Message-Id: <199610242158.QAA16354@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS (PLEASE CIRCULATE TO YOUR LISTS) IEEE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS'97 (IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems'97 ) June 2-6, 1997, Chateau Laurier , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/ICMCS97.html [Concurrently with "ARTS INTERACTIVE'97: A Festival of the Arts and Technology", also held in Ottawa, June 2-6 , 1997 and just prior to the IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC'97), held in near-by Montreal, Quebec,Canada, June 8-12, 1997] Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, TC on Multimedia Computing, and NORTEL (Northern Telecom). In cooperation with the Ottawa Carleton Research Institute (OCRI) and the Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario (TRIO). For more information contact: Nicolas D. Georganas , General Chair Multimedia Communications Research Lab (MCRLab) Dept. of Electrical Engineering University of Ottawa E-mail: georgana@mcrlab.uottawa.ca http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca The 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems ( IEEE Multimedia Systems'97 ), will be held in Ottawa, Canada's beautiful capital, often called "Telecom Valley North" because of the high concentration of major telecommunications and software companies, such as NORTEL / BNR, NEWBRIDGE, GANDALF, MITEL, COREL, COGNOS, SHL SYSTEMHOUSE and many others. The conference will address but is not limited to practical, technical, strategic, artistic and standardization issues in the following fields: Systems and Tools: Architectures(S/W,H/W), networks, distributed systems, operating systems, storage systems, communication protocols, multimedia database and information systems, multimedia production and authoring tools, multimedia intelligent systems. Techniques: Video/audio/image compression, human-computer interaction, realtime scheduling, content-based indexing & retrieval, image processing, animation. Applications: Digital libraries, consumer video on demand, interactive TV, arts, medicine, publishing, meeting room support and training, education, entertainment. Submission of Papers and Videos: Only POSTSCRIPT full paper submissions by Email will be considered and reviewed as such. In the covering Email specify: Paper title, authors, address, phone, fax , Email and category of paper. Paper Format: Title, authors' affiliations, 100 word abstract, paper limited to 25 double-spaced pages including figures and references. Submit to the following Email address no later than : November 30, 1996 to: Ibrahim Gedeon, Progr. Co-Chair NORTEL Multimedia Networks by courier: 1431 Merivale Road - Nepean, Ontario, Canada by mail: P.O. Box 5080, Stn F Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2C 3T1 Email: i.gedeon@ieee.org Call for Videos: Research results and industrial case studies demonstrated by videos are encouraged. Submissions of video tapes should accompany a paper and consist of a maximum 5 minute video segment (NTSC VHS only) and an information sheet including the title of the presentation, affiliations, name of authors , and a 100 word abstract. All accepted videos will be made available to conference registrants in a conference video tape. Special Sessions: To propose a special session, contact one of the Program Co-Chairs by providing the session name and a list of 6-10 potential papers and authors. All potential session papers will be reviewed. Tutorials: Contact the Tutorials Chair by November 30, 1996: Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan Dept of Electr. & Comp. Eng, University of Ottawa P.O. Box 450, Station A, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5 Tel: +1-613- 562 5800 Ext.6206 Fax: +1-613-562 5175 e-mail: panch@elg.uottawa.ca COMMITTEE MEMBERS Conference General Chair: Nicolas D. Georganas (University of Ottawa, Canada) Program Co-Chairs: Wolfgang Effelsberg (University of Mannheim, Germany) Ibbrahim Gedeon (NORTEL, Canada) HiroshiYasuda (NTT Corp., Japan) Steering Committee: Chair: Tadao Ichikawa (Hiroshima University, Japan) Les A. Belady (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., USA) Scott M. Stevens (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Program Committee: Hossein Badran (NORTEL Technology, Canada) Meera Blatner (University of California , Davis, & LLNL, USA) John F. Buford (University of Mass. at Lowell, USA Edward A. Fox (Virginia Polyt. Inst. & St.Univ., USA) Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Ramesh Jain (University of California, San Diego, USA) William Grosky (Wayne Ste University, USA) Ahmed Karmouch (University of Ottawa, Canada) Tom D.C. Little (University of Boston , USA) Peiya Liu (Siemens, USA) Tamer Ozsu (University of Alberta, Canada) Sathuraman Panchanathan (University of Ottawa, Canada) Lawrence A. Rowe (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Jacob Slonim ( IBM CAS, Canada) Michel Adiba (IMAG-LGI, U. de Grenoble, France) Gordon Blair (Lancaster University, UK) Ernst Biersack (Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France) Stavros Christodoulakis (MUSIC, T.U. Crete, Greece) Jon Crowcroft (University College of London, London, UK) Christophe Diot ( INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France) Jose Encarnacao, (Technische Hochschulle Darmstadt, Germany) Domenico Ferrari (Universita Cattolica di Piacenza, Italy) Simon Gibbs (GMD, St. Augustin, Germany) Ralf Guido Herrtwich (Telliance GmbH, Essen, Germany) Wolfgang Klas (Ulm Univ., Germany) Radu Popescu-Zeletin (Berkom and GMD, Berlin, Germany) Ralf Steinmetz (Tech.Univ. Darmstadt, Germany) Giorgio Ventre (University of Napoli, Italy) Ming-Syan Chen (Nat.Taiwan University, Taiwan) Yoichi Muraoka (Waseda University, Japan) Desai Narasimhalu (Nat. Univesrity of Singapore, Singapore) Jun Ohya (ATR Comm. Systems Res. Labs, Japan) Shinji Ozawa (Keio University, Japan) Masao Sakauchi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Sigeru Sasaki (Fujitsu Ltd, Japan) Gen Suzuki (NTT Software Corp., Japan) Yossuke Takashima (NEC Co., Japan) Fumio Wakamori ( Hitachi Ltd, Japan) Multimedia and the Arts Chair: Paul Hoffert (CulTech Research Centre, Canada) Tutorials Chair: S. (Panch) Panchanathan (University of Ottawa, Canada) Publication Chair: Bill Collins (Ottawa Carleton Research Institute, Canada) Finance Chair: J. Gerry Turcotte (Communications Research Centre, Canada) Publicity Chair: Bill Collins (Ottawa Carleton Research Institute, Canada) Local Arrangements Chair: Ken Joseph (General DataCom, Canada) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Thu Oct 24 17:04:41 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 RAA29968 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:04:32 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA16396 for dbworld; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:04:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:04:32 -0500 From: Jiawei Han Message-Id: <199610242204.RAA16396@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Due to the extension of the deadline of the SIGMOD/PODS conference, we have received quite a few requests for extension of the deadline of JIIS special issue on Data Mining. Here we announce that there is one week extension of the deadline of this special issue. That is, the submission must be postmarked by Nov. 7, 1996. But you must send an on-line abstract by Nov. 1 to han@cs.sfu.ca to facilitate timely review. Thanks for your interest. - Speical Issue Guest Co-editors: J. Han, R. Ng and L.V.S. Lakshmanan --------------- Call For Papers --------------- ------------------------------------------------- Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) ------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Special Issue on Data Mining ---------------------------- As a young, promising research area with broad applications, data mining and knowledge discovery in databases has attracted great interest in the research communities of database systems, machine learning, statistics, high performance computing, information retrieval, data visualization, and many others. As an example, ACM-SIGMOD'96 Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD'96) held in Montreal, Canada (June 2, 1996) attracted over 100 attendees. Also, KDD'96 conference held in Portland, Oregon, August 2-4, 1996, received over 200 submissions and attracted over 500 attendees. With such overwhelming interest in this area, the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) is organizing a special issue on Data Mining. The information on JIIS and instructions to authors are available at: http://www.isse.gmu.edu/JIIS/ The journal published a Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery in Databases in Volume 4, Number 1, January 1995. We welcome research and applications papers addressing the following issues to be submitted to this special issue. 1. Foundations, principles and methodologies of data mining, including Data mining methods and techniques Efficiency and scalability of KDD algorithms Mining different kinds of knowledge from data Integration of deductive and inductive techniques Statistics, probability and uncertainty in data mining Maintenance of mined knowledge and knowledge-base construction Knowledge evolution through learning Methods for knowledge discovery in advanced database systems (including object-oriented, deductive, spatial, temporal, textual, multimedia, heterogeneous, transaction, and active databases, and global information systems) 2. Systems and implementations for data mining, including Knowledge discovery systems, implementations, and performance Languages and interfaces for knowledge discovery in databases Interactive data mining and knowledge visualization Integrated discovery systems Integration of data mining and data warehousing Systems, implementations, and performance for knowledge discovery in advanced database systems 3. Knowledge discovery applications, including Successful knowledge discovery application examples in industry, administration, business, and science or engineering New application challenges and requirements for data mining (e.g., science, engineering, education) The inadequacy of current knowledge discovery mechanisms Influence of data mining to the advances of database systems Security and social impact of data mining IMPORTANT DATES Electronic abstracts due: November 1, 1996 (to han@cs.sfu.ca) Submissions Due: November 7, 1996 (must be postmarked on 11/7/96 --- this reflects the one-week extension) Review Notice: January 31, 1997 Final Version due: March 15, 1997 Five hard copies of the paper, with the length limited to 20 pages, should be submitted by November 7, 1996 to Dr. Jiawei Han School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C. Canada, V5A 1S6 han@cs.sfu.ca JIIS Special Issue Guest Co-Editors Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada (han@cs.sfu.ca). Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada (laks@cs.concordia.ca). Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada (rng@cs.ubc.ca). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fri Oct 25 08:07:34 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 IAA10629 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:07:24 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA17574 for dbworld; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:07:24 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:07:24 -0500 From: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr (Asuman DOGAC) Message-Id: <199610251307.IAA17574@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Call For Minitrack Proposals ========================================================================= D E A D L I N E *** November 26, 1996 *** (Please e-mail your proposal in *plain ASCII* to rewini@cs.unomaha.edu) ========================================================================= Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice The Software Technology Track of HICSS-31 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences The Big Island of Hawaii - JANUARY 6-9, 1998 ========================================================================= You are invited to submit a proposal for a minitrack for the Software Technology Track of HICSS-31. The HICSS series of conferences has become a unique and respected forum in computer and information systems and technology for the exchange of ideas among the researchers and development communities in North America, the Asian and Pacific Basin Nations, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition to the Software Technology Track, HICSS-31 will have Tracks in Computer Architecture, Digital Documents and Information Systems. A TRACK consists of three full days of parallel technical sessions, coupled with a set of advanced seminars and tutorials. A MINITRACK is either a half day or a full day of technical sessions. All sessions are conducted in a workshop-like setting and participants often participate in several different tracks. HICSS is sponsored by the University of Hawaii. ========================================================================= Proposal Topics *************** This particular solicitation is for the Software Technology Track which will focus on "Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice." The topics include but not limited to the following: - - Client/Servers systems - - Coordination Languages, models, and systems - - Collaboration over the web - - Debugging and performance analysis environments - - Distributed complex systems - - Distributed objects & emerging standards (CORBA, DSOM, etc.) - - Distributed operating systems - - Distributed real time systems - - Distributed simulation - - Heterogeneous Processing - - High speed networks - - Migration to distributed systems - - Mobile computing - - Multimedia communication and systems - - Multi-threaded systems - - Networked computing (PVM, MPI, etc.) - - New and innovative programming paradigms: languages & constructs - - Parallel & distributed algorithms (design and analysis) - - Parallel & distributed database systems - - Parallel & distributed software tools - - Parallelizing compilers and optimization - - Reliability and fault tolerance issues - - Scalability issues - - Scheduling and load balancing - - Software engineering of parallel & distributed systems - - Software frameworks and design patterns - - Visualization ========================================================================= Proposal Contents ***************** The proposals should be on timely and important topics in the field. Your proposal should be about five pages long and should: 1) define the proposed technical area, discuss the topics the minitrack will address, and describe how they fit into the area; 2) discuss how these topics have recently been covered in other conferences and publications to substantiate that HICSS is not only an appropriate and timely forum for the topics but also that there is a body of unpublished good work to draw from; and, 3) contain: a) a short paragraph (50 words) describing the topics of your minitrack for inclusion in final call for papers, if your proposal is approved by the advisory committee. b) a short bio-sketch c) an explicit statement that your organization endorses your involvement and attendance and has the infrastructure to support that involvement as described in enclosed list giving the responsibilities of minitrack coordinators. ========================================================================= Submission Instructions *********************** - All proposals in **plain ASCII** should be e-mailed to the chairman of the track (e-mail: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu) no later than November 26, 1996. (** Please DON'T submit latex or postscript files **) - Include a phone number that we can use if we need to reach you during the Christmas break. - Each proposal will be evaluated by the track advisory committee whose decision will be based on the overall technical merit of the proposal. Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by e-mail no later than December 31, 1996. ========================================================================= Track Chairman ************** Hesham El-Rewini Department of Computer Science University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, NE 68182-0500 e-mail: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu Voice: (402) 554-2852 FAX: (402) 554-2975 ========================================================================= International Track Advisory Committee ************************************** - Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA - Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey - Wolfgang A. Halang, Fernuniversitaet, GERMANY - Abdelsalam Helal, MCC, USA - Innes Jelly, Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, USA - Alexey Lastovetsky, Russian Academy of Science, RUSSIA - Keqin Li, State University of New York, USA - Gregory A. Riccardi, Florida State University, USA - John Rosenberg, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA - Diane T. Rover, Michigan State University, USA - Alok Sinha, Microsoft, USA - Anthony Skjellum, Mississippi State University, USA - Alexander D. Stoyenko, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA - Caetano Traina Junior, University of Sao Paulo, BRAZIL - Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE - Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA ------------------------------Enclosures-------------------------------- The Responsibilities of Minitrack Coordinators ============================================= Interacting with authors and referees in a fair and professional manner and employing control mechanisms that increase the overall quality of the meeting are among the major responsibilities. The detailed responsibilities are summarized as follows: 1. Workshop-like Setting ------------------------ A HICSS minitrack consists of two or four 90-minute sessions conducted in a workshop-like setting. Each session consists of three papers; the papers are allotted thirty minutes for presentation and questions. The last session should include a forum which typically is a lively, open dialogue on the issues raised in the presentations. You are to solicit manuscripts, have them refereed, collaborate with the Track Coordinator in determining which manuscripts are to be accepted, structure the sessions, introduce the speakers in your sessions, and act as the moderator of the forum. 2. Solicit Manuscripts for the Minitrack ---------------------------------------- After your minitrack has been approved by your Track Coordinator, you are encouraged to distribute the Unified Call for Papers and Referees and place it on appropriate electronic bulletin boards. This call will be prepared by your track chairman and cover all minitracks in the Software Technology Track. You should solicit high-quality manuscripts from people who are known to do excellent work in the field. We recommend you contact potential authors and referees to describe the overall objectives of the conference and the minitrack and solicit their ideas, a manuscript, or a commitment to referee. Each manuscript should be 22-25 type written, double-spaced pages in length. Do not accept submissions that are significantly shorter or longer than this. The material must contain original results and not have been submitted elsewhere while it is being evaluated for acceptance to HICSS. Manuscripts that have already appeared in publication are not to be con- sidered for this conference. 3. Acquire Referees Who Will Critically Review the Submitted Manuscripts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quality refereeing is essential to ensure the technical credibility of HICSS. Each manuscript should be stringently reviewed by a number of qualified people who are actively working in the topics dealt with in the paper. You are responsible for having each manuscript submitted to you reviewed by at least five people in addition to yourself. The author should only be given reviews that are technically substantive. If you wish to submit a paper to your own minitrack, six copies should be sent to the Track Chairman who will administer the refereeing process. Do not use authors of manuscripts as referees as this potentially places them in a conflict of interest situation. HICSS does not have "invited" manuscripts; all submissions go through a rigorous peer refereeing process. 4. Accept Manuscripts for the Minitrack --------------------------------------- A full-day minitrack should accept nine papers. A half-day minitrack should accept five. To ensure excellent accepted papers, typically more than two to three times the number of papers needed must actually be solicited. Many papers will not meet our quality standards (i.e., will not make it through the refereeing process) and some authors may not be able to fulfill their initial commitment and complete the paper for you. If nine technically solid papers do not survive the refereeing process, the full-day minitrack can be changed to a half-day minitrack. 5. Re-publication of the Manuscripts ------------------------------------ We encourage you to work with an Editor-in-Chief of a professional society periodical to use your accepted papers as the basis of a special issue of the publication. Such an arrangement encourages quality submission and requires good refereeing standards. Enter into such an agreement as soon as possible. 6. Write an Introduction to the Minitrack for the Proceedings ------------------------------------------------------------- After the authors have been notified of the acceptance of the final version of their manuscript, you are to write a three to four-page introduction to the minitrack for inclusion in the conference proceedings. It should not be an overview of abstracts of the papers, but should introduce the reader to the important problems that exist in the area. 7. Select the Best Paper Candidate from the Manuscripts ------------------------------------------------------- Within ten days after you have selected the manuscripts for inclusion in your minitrack, your candidate best paper selections must be forwarded to the Track Coordinator. If you have your own manuscript accepted in your minitrack, make your selection excluding your own work. An external committee will make the selection for the minitrack, considering your manuscript along with the candidates you have provided. ----------------------------------End------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________________________ Professor Asuman Dogac Director Software R&D Center Internet: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr Department of Computer Eng. Tel: +90 (312) 210 12 98 Middle East Technical University Fax: +90 (312) 210 1259 06531 Ankara Turkey WWW: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/~asuman/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fri Oct 25 08:09:16 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 IAA10640 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:09:12 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA17586 for dbworld; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:09:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:09:11 -0500 From: Raghu Ramakrishnan Message-Id: <199610251309.IAA17586@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu >From sequences97@dia.unisa.it Fri Oct 25 06:29:15 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id GAA17546 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 06:29:14 -0500 Received: from udsab (topmgr.unisa.it [193.205.160.1]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id GAA29968 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 06:28:59 -0500 Received: by udsab; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/24Jun96-1229PM) id AA23531; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:29:47 +0100 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:29:47 +0100 From: SEQUENCES97 Message-Id: <9610251229.AA23531@udsab> To: raghu@cs.wisc.edu Subject: SEQUENCES97 - Preliminary Call for Papers Status: R ***** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ***** "Compression and Complexity of SEQUENCES 1997" In cooperation with the IEEE Data Compression Conference Positano (Amalfitan Coast) - Salerno, Italy June 11-13 1997 CHAIRS: B. Carpentieri (U. di Salerno) A. De Santis (U. di Salerno) J. Storer (Brandeis U.) U. Vaccaro (U. di Salerno) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: A. Apostolico (U. di Padova / Purdue U.) R. Arps (IBM) B. Carpentieri (U. di Salerno) M. Cohn (Brandeis U.) M. Crochermore (U. de Marne-la-Vallee) A. De Santis (U. di Salerno) Z. Galil (Columbia U.) R. Gray (Stanford U.) J. C. Grossetie (JRC) P. Howard (AT&T) A. Lempel (Technion / HP Israel Science Center) M. Rabin (Harvard U. / Hebrew U.) J. Rissanen (IBM) D. Sheinwald (IBM) J. Storer (Brandeis U.) U. Vaccaro (U. di Salerno) P. Vitanyi (CWI / U. of Amsterdam) J. Vitter (Duke U.) M. Weinberger (HP) I. Witten (Waikato U.) J. Ziv (Technion) THEME: This conference will bring together european and international researchers to exchange ideas and results related to the theoretical and practical aspects of Data Compression, Complexity, and Manipulation of Strings. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Lossless and lossy data compression, source coding, string algorithms, statistical classification and pattern recognition, information retrieval, closest-match retrieval, minimal length encoding and applications to learning, parallel algorithms for compression and string manipulation, applications in molecular biology. Papers reporting on original research unpublished elsewhere are primarily sought. Surveys of important results, especially recent ones, are also invited SUBMISSION: Authors should send by surface mail (NOT fax or email: Air Courier is strongly recommended) four copies of an extended abstract of 8 to 10 pages (including affiliation, address, phone number and email address) by February 18 1997 to: Dr. Bruno Carpentieri Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni "R. M. Capocelli" Universita' di Salerno 84081 Baronissi (SA) ITALY NOTIFICATION: Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection via email by March 20 1997. A final camera-ready draft is due April 4 1997. PROCEEDINGS The hard-bound conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. To encourage new ideas and interactions between researchers as well as review and feedback on presentations, a preliminary soft-cover proceedings will be distributed at the conference. After the conference the final hard-bound proceedings will be mailed to all participants and made available to the public by the IEEE. ___________________________________________________________________________ All future information about SEQUENCES97 will be sent by email! 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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 Fri Oct 25 16:29:27 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 QAA23792 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:29:21 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA18280 for dbworld; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:29:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:29:20 -0500 From: Chengwen Liu Message-Id: <199610252129.QAA18280@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS ______________________________________________________________________________ The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology (ICAST97) in conjunction with The 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems (ICMIS97) in conjunction with The 1st IEEE/CS YUFORIC Conference -- Chicago April 3-5, 1997 Motorola University, Schaumburg, Illinois, USA THEME: MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Enabling Technology for the Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________________ http://www.cs.depaul.edu/ICMIS97.html http://www.depaul.edu/~cliu/icmis97 ______________________________________________________________________________ Sponsors: Chinese Academic and Professional Association in Mid-America (CAPAMA) DePaul University Motorola Inc. Co-Sponsors: International Center for Software Engineering (ICSE), UIC IEEE Computer Society YUFORIC Task Force IEEE Societies Chicago Chapters Chicago Software Improvement Network (C-SPIN) Mid-America Chinese Science and Technology Association (MACSTA) Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan _____________________________________________________________________________ Multimedia technology can substantially improve the communication between information providers and consumers. It contributes to the general accessibility of information, through new interactive media as well as through new forms of production, delivery and perception of existing media. The modeling, specification, analysis and application of multimedia information systems present many challenging problems to both researchers and practitioners. The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology (ICAST97) in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems (ICMIS97) will be held to promote the exchange of information and ideas between academia and industry, faculty, practitioners and students. It provides a forum for practitioners, researchers and students to get together to share ideas with and learn from each other. The conference encompasses technical aspects of both computer and telecommunications technologies. In order to encourage closer interaction between the industrial and research communities, we solicit both regular research papers and industrial contributions which address the related issues from a commercial point of view and describe actual products or prototypes. The authors should indicate whether their papers should be considered as regular papers or industrial papers. Topics include but are not limited to the following: Computer Technology: Multimedia Technologies Object-Oriented Technologies Software Processing Engineering Virtual Reality and Real Virtuality Human-Computer Interfaces Software Visualization Multimedia Databases Compression Techniques Telecommunications Technology: Communication Software Methodology and Tools Telecommunication Devices Switching System Architecture Transmission Technology Communication Protocols Wireless Communications and PCS Intelligent Networks Distributed Systems Internet Technology Internet Security Applications of Multimedia Technology in commerce finance government services manufacturing education entertainment health care _____________________________________________________________________________ Paper Submission: (Dec. 16, 1996) The working language of the conference is English. Each submitted paper must include title, authors' affiliations, abstract and be limited to 25 double-spaced pages including figures and references. Please also include the phone number, fax number and email address of the contact person of the paper. Papers should be submitted to one of the Program Co-Chairs. We strongly encourage electronic submissions in Postscript (2.0 or later) or MS-Word format. If you submit hard copies, please make sure that four hard copies reach us by the deadline. Prof. Chengwen Liu ICAST97/ICMIS97 Program Co-Chair School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems DePaul University 243 South Wabash, Chicago, IL 60604, USA Phone: +1-312-362-8722 Fax: +1-312-362-6116 E-mail: liu@cs.depaul.edu Dr. David E. Morgan ICAST97/ICMIS97 Program Co-Chair Vice President of Technology Motorola Multimedia Group 3436 N. Kennicott Ave, #150 Arlington Heights, IL 60004, USA Phone: +1-847-435-9390 Fax: +1-847-632-2620 E-mail: ASF39@email.mot.com Student papers (papers whose authors are all students) should be submitted to the following address: Mr. Seongwoon Kim Department of EECS The Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL 60607, USA Phone: +1-312-996-4860 Fax: +1-312-413-1386 E-mail: skim1@eecs.uic.edu ______________________________________________________________________________ Important Deadlines: Paper due: Dec. 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance: Feb. 1, 1997 Deadline for camera-ready form: Mar. 1, 1997 _____________________________________________________________________________ Conference Committees Steering Committee Chairperson: Dr. Barbara L. Lin, President, CAPAMA Steering Committee: Prof. Carl K. Chang, Director, ICSE/UIC Prof. Wai-kai Chen, Chairman of Dept. of EECS, UIC Prof. Helmut Epp, Vice President for Information Technology and Dean of the School of Computer Science, DePaul University Dr. Terry Heng, Vice President and Director of Technology Planning, Motorola Inc. Prof. Jack Wang, Dean of Engneering College, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan General Chair: Dr. Paosheng Chang Honeywell Inc., 1500 West Dundee Rd, Arlington Heights, IL 60004-1472, USA Phone: +1-847-797-4775 Fax: +1-847-797-3660 E-mail: paosheng.chang@HBC.honeywell.com Program Committee Co-Chairs: Prof. Chengwen Liu, DePaul University Dr. David E. Morgan, Motorola Inc. Program Committee: Yahya Alsalqan, Sun Microsystems, USA Rashid Ansari, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Arup Bhuyan, Lucent Technologies, USA Greg Brewster, DePaul University, USA Annie Combelles, Objectif Technologie, France Morris Chang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Y.C. Chen, National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan, ROC David Wai-lok Cheung, The Univ. of Hong Kong, HK I-Ping Chu, DePaul University, USA Chan Hock Chuan, National Univ. of Singapore Yumin Feng, Northern Jiaotong University, China Hamid Ghezavat, C-SPIN/Honeywell Inc., USA Ken Goncharoff, C-SPIN/Tellabs Operations Inc., USA Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA Janet Hartman, Illinois State University, USA Lawrence Henschen, Northwestern University, USA Francis Leung, Motorola Inc., USA Wen-Syan Li, CCRL, NEC USA, Inc., USA Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Pat Liu, Lucent Technologies, USA Steve Lytinen, DePaul University, USA Weiyi Meng, SUNY Birmingham, USA Ranga Puranik, Motorola Inc., USA Prabhu Ram, Boeing Info. and Support Services, USA Arthur Ramer, University of New South Wales, Australia Andrew Sears, DePaul University, USA Masakazu Sengoku, Niigata University, Japan Wei Sun, Florida Internatioal University, USA Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Anestis Toptsis, York University, Canada F. J. Wang, National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan, ROC Jessie Wang, Chicago State University, USA Jessie Wang, Chicago State University, USA Nor Adnan Yahaya, Malaysian Telecomm, Malaysian Qi Yang, University of Wisconsin at Plattville, USA David Yen, Motorola Inc., USA Weider Yu, Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs), USA Weining Zhang, The University of Lethbridge, Canada Leon Zhao, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., HK _____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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