From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sat Feb 1 17:51:31 1997 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 RAA13644 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:51:24 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA26835 for dbworld; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:51:23 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:51:23 -0600 (CST) From: sten.andler@ida.his.se (Sten Andler) Message-Id: <199702012351.RAA26835@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu To colleagues interested in Active, Real-Time, or Temporal Databases: As a follow-up on the success of ARTDB-95, we are arranging a Second International Workshop on Active, Real-Time, and Temporal Database Systems, ARTDB-97, in connection with ICECCS'97 in Como Italy. The workshop is held September 8-9, 1997, and the deadline for submitting papers is April 15, 1997. We appreciate your help in disseminating this announcement by posting it or forwarding it to the appropriate fora. Regards, Sten and Jvrgen Workshop organizers Attachment: Official CFP for ARTDB-97 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS ARTDB-97 The Second International Workshop on Active, Real-Time and Temporal Database Systems September 8-9, 1997 In connection with ICECCS'97, Como, Italy http://www.his.se/ida/artdb97/ Sponsored by the University of Skovde, Sweden In cooperation with the IEEE CS Technical Committees on Real-Time Systems and Complexity in Computing Scope ----- The areas of active, real-time, and temporal databases have seen tremendous growth in the last few years. Availability of rules/triggers as part of database functionality is changing the way databases are modeled and applications are written. The functionality supported by active database systems is meant to meet the requirements of a number of emerging applications (such as workflow, air traffic control, CIM, network management, and stock trading) where correctness of execution is based not only on transaction semantics, but also on the timeliness of the result. Hence, the integration of active functionality, with temporal and real-time constraints seems to be the next logical step. Both active functionality, rule based execution, and real-time capability are crucial for the support of time-critical and embedded applications. Active database systems typically support event-based rules and provide a uniform mechanism for supporting many traditional capabilities as well as new ones. Real-time and temporal database systems, on the other hand, support various types of timing constraints in addition to transaction semantics. A number of open issues need to be resolved in order to combine active, real-time and temporal capability. Introducing rules and triggers into a real-time database increases the complexity of transactions, predictability, scheduling etc. Temporal aspects on data validity complicates the matter even more. Although extensive research has been carried out in these areas, only a limited number of proposals have been made to integrate active, real-time and temporal capabilities. It seems timely for these research communities to again get together to identify and share research results as well as chart new directions. Paper Submission ---------------- We strongly encourage submissions that address those issues reflecting problems associated with incorporating i) active functionality, ii) real-time constraints, and iii) temporal constraints into a single database system. We welcome submissions that address research and development in these areas (especially where the areas overlap), or propose new approaches suitable for meeting the demands that characterize systems of the next generation. Suggested topics and issues in the framework of active, real-time and temporal database systems include, but are not limited to: - Design and system architecture - Event specification and handling - Transaction constraint modeling - Data validity - Transaction scheduling and concurrency control - Representation techniques - Applications - Distribution and replication Contributions of original papers may be submitted electronically, and should not exceed 20 double spaced pages or 5000 words. The cover page should include the title, name and affiliation of the author(s), contact address, email, fax and telephone. Alternatively, 5 hardcopies of the paper may be submitted by mail. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by email. Electronic submissions should be in a device-independent PostScript format following the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions (ADSC), and made available by email. If compression is used (using 'compress' only), the contents must be properly encoded (using 'uuencode' only). Electronic submissions should be sent by email to: artdb97@ida.his.se, hardcopy submissions should be mailed to: ARTDB-97 Sten F. Andler/Jorgen Hansson University of Skovde Department of Computer Science Box 408 S-541 28 Skovde, Sweden Proceedings ----------- Accepted papers will be printed in the workshop proceedings. Formatting papers using LaTeX will facilitate this process. It is intended to publish the proceedings in the Springer series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science." Workshop Format --------------- The workshop is a 2-day workshop in connection with the Third IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'97), see http://www.elet.polimi.it/iceccs97/ for details. Important Dates --------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 1997 Camera ready copies: August 1, 1997 Workshop: September 8-9, 1997 Organizing Committee -------------------- Sten F. Andler, Department of Computer Science, University of Skovde Jorgen Hansson, Department of Computer Science, University of Skovde Email: artdb97@ida.his.se Phone: +46 (0)500 464713/464720 Fax: +46 (0)500 464725 Program Committee ----------------- Brad Adelberg, Northwestern University, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Florida, USA Anindya Datta, University of Arizona, USA Wolfgang Halang, Fernuniversitaet, Hagen, Germany Young-Kuk Kim, Chungnam National University, Korea Kam-yiu Lam, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA C. Douglass Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA Al Mok, University of Texas at Austin, USA Rajkumar Ragunathan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Krithi Ramamritham, University of Massachusetts, USA Tore Risch, Linkvping University, Sweden Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Sang H. Son, University of Virginia, USA John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia at Amherst, USA Alexander D. Stoyenko, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey Paulo Verissimo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA Conference Patrons ------------------ Lars-Erik Johansson, Vice-chancellor, University of Skovde Stig Emanuelsson, Head of Computer Science Dept, University of Skovde ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Feb 1 17:52:37 1997 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 RAA13649 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:52:32 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA26844 for dbworld; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:52:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:52:31 -0600 (CST) From: pirotte@info.ucl.ac.be (Alain Pirotte) Message-Id: <199702012352.RAA26844@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Open Position at the Universite catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Full-time tenure-track academic position at the IAG Management School Area; Information Systems Duties The new faculty member will teach graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars, existing or to be created, on information systems. The main theme is information system design, with a focus on, e.g., decision support with the help of software tools or application development methods. Teaching may also include programming languages and their practice. Research activities should develop in similar areas. Emphasis will be put on methods for information system design and their application in real management situations. The new faculty member will advise undergraduate and doctoral students. He/she is expected to submit research proposals to funding agencies and business institutions Qualifications - Doctorate in an area relevant to both information systems and management. - Research experience on relevant topics. - Ability to organize and supervise a research team. - Practical experience in designing and implementing information systems. - Proficiency in the French language, both spoken and written. - Preference will be given to candidates with research experience abroad and/or with teaching experience Start date: September 1, 1997 Applications should be sent to the Rector of the UCL (Place de l'Universite, 1, 1348 Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium), with reference ESPO 97/6, by February 15, 1997. A certified copy of diplomas should be included, as well as a resume, a list of publications with the abstract of the five most significant ones, and the name and address of four internationally recognized experts, not at the UCL, for reference. For additional information, please contact Professors F. Juckler (juckler@qant.ucl;ac.be) or A. Pirotte (pirotte@info.ucl.ac.be). ... ooo (o o) o| | ----oOO--(_)--------------------------------------------------------- Alain Pirotte, Prof. Computer Science e-mail: pirotte@info.ucl.ac.be University of Louvain phone: 32-10-47 8380 IAG Management School fax: 32-10-47 8324 1 Place des Doyens B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium http://yeroos.qant.ucl.ac.be --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Feb 1 17:53:33 1997 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 RAA13656 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:53:28 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA26849 for dbworld; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:53:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:53:27 -0600 (CST) From: Remi Zajac Message-Id: <199702012353.RAA26849@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ********************************************************************** Call for Submissions Please Distribute Widely ********************************************************************** IJCAI-97 Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP Nagoya, Japan, August 23-25, 1997 (Web page: Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP) Background ========== A number of ontology-related workshops have been held in the past years (e.g., 1993 in Padua, 1995 IJCAI, 1996 ECAI, 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium, etc.). However, none of them concentrated centrally on applications of world modeling to multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP). Ontologies for knowledge-based computing and especially for Natural Language Processing are steadily reaching a level of sophistication and size which make them increasingly useful to the resolution of problems in real-world NLP applications. The recent creation of an ad hoc ANSI working group on standardization of ontologies is an indication of the maturity of the field. More and more ontology-based systems are being built for multilingual applications (e.g., multilingual machine translation, multilingual information retrieval). However, most of the language-processing oriented ontologies that have been built so far have English or another language (e.g., Japanese or Spanish) as the basis (e.g., WordNet, EDR, Pangloss, etc.). Since there is a growing need for multilingual applications of these ontologies, it is natural to ask the following questions: Are any of these ontologies actually used in a multilingual setting? Can we characterize the degree of independence of an ontology from the natural language it is based on? What are the necessary properties of a truly multilingual (or universal) ontology? Is it possible to obtain a language-neutral ontology from a language-dependent ontology? What applications truly need multilingual (or language-neutral) ontologies? How do we separate language-specific (or lexical) information from ontological knowledge? How can the depth of knowledge in the ontology be balanced with the needs of an application? What are the prospects of automating ontology acquisition? What is the relationship between an ontology as the repository of general knowledge about the world and knowledge about particular individuals - people, places, organizations, events, etc.? These and many more questions must be discussed much more widely than they have been till now. Many of the previous workshops were devoted to more formal issues in ontology building, such as the knowledge representation schemata, closures, formal properties of ontologies, and so on. Moreover, they included the discussion of small ontologies that cover a very narrow domain of problem solving; NLP typically requires a broad-coverage ontology. The hypothesis of using interlingual representations based on an ontology is at least 50 years old. It was originally formulated in the framework of machine translation. However, few systems to date have tested this hypothesis, for MT or other applications, by implementing a large-scale interlingua-based system using a language-independent ontology. This workshop will debate the benefits, costs and competitiveness of such an approach to solving semantic and cross-language problems for MT, IR, and other NLP applications. Audience ======== The workshop is open to all members of the AI and NLP community. The workshop is intended for researchers and practitioners in knowledge-based NLP, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics who have been working on large scale knowledge-based resources, ontologies, multilingual lexical semantics, interlinguas, and their applications. Reports of actual work including problems and solutions in the design, construction and use of ontologies are strongly encouraged but more theoretical work (grounded on actual work on ontologies) aimed at defining the limits, constraints and directions for large-scale practical language-neutral ontologies is welcome as well. Issues ====== Issues to be addressed include but are not limited to: - Design of language-neutral ontologies. - Acquisition problems in multilingual ontologies. - Multilingual applications of ontologies. - Multilingual ontologies and terminological knowledge bases. - Ontologies and interlinguas. - Standardization of ontologies: issues of multilinguality. - Ontologies and Lexicons. - Sharing and standardization of language-independent ontologies for NLP. - Costs and competitiveness of ontology-based solutions vis-a-vis corpus-based and transfer-based methods for multilingual NLP. Format of the Workshop ====================== The workshop will include twelve presentation periods which will be divided into ten-minute presentations of positions followed by 20-minute discussions. The attendance will be limited to 20 active participants. Papers will be circulated among participants several weeks before the workshop. Presentation will be short, under 15 minutes (10 minutes preferably) with 20 minutes reserved for exchanges. We encourage the authors to focus on the salient points of their presentation and identify possible controversial positions. We encourage authors not to repeat as is what has been already written in the paper. There will be ample time set aside for informal and panel discussions and audience participation. Please note that workshop participants are required to register at the main IJCAI-97 conference. Submission Information ====================== Timetable --------- - March 15, 1997: Deadline for reception of submissions. - May 1, 1997: Notification of acceptance. - July 1, 1997: Deadline for reception of camera-ready copy. Format ------ Submissions must not exceed 6 pages in camera-ready format. Submissions in electronic form are prefered. Authors should follow the IJCAI format. Review Process -------------- Papers will be subject to peer review. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the Program Committee, taking into consideration the individual reviews, will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. Submission ---------- Electronic submission should be sent at zajac@crl.nmsu.edu. The subject line should contain "IJCAI97 workshop submission". Papers should be sent at the following address: Rimi Zajac / IJCAI-97 Computing Research Laboratory New-Mexico State University PO Box 30001 / 3CRL Las Cruces NM 88003 USA Fax: +1-505-646-6218 Schedule ======== - March 15, 1997: Deadline for reception of submissions. - May 1, 1997: Notification of acceptance. - July 1, 1997: Deadline for reception of camera-ready copy. - July 21, 1997: Publication of final list of workshop participants. - August 23-25, 1997: IJCAI-97 Workshop. Organizing Committee ==================== Rimi Zajac, CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA (Chair): zajac@crl.nmsu.edu Lynn Carlson, US Department of Defense: lmcarls@afterlife.ncsc.mil Kavi Mahesh, CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA: mahesh@crl.nmsu.edu Kazunori Muraki, NEC, Japan: k-muraki@hum.cl.nec.co.jp Nicholas Ostler, Linguacubun, Ltd., UK: nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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