From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sun Jun 22 12:01:38 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 MAA13420 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 12:01:30 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA07578 for dbworld; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 12:01:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 12:01:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Bengt Jonsson Message-Id: <199706221701.MAA07578@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Please post this announcement for a chair in Computing Science at Uppsala university on the Concurrency Mailing list. Yours Bengt Jonsson Dept. Computer Systems Uppsala University. **************************************************************** UPPSALA UNIVERSITY invites applications for a tenured CHAIR (FULL PROFESSOR) IN COMPUTING SCIENCE at the Faculty of Science and Technology. Ref no. 3603/97 Applicants must demonstrate scientific excellence and pedagogical proficiency. The successful candidate is expected to pursue an active research program, perform graduate and undergraduate teaching, and supervise graduate students. The chair is placed in the division for mathematics and computer science, which is nicely located on a campus area for mathematics and information technology (http://www.mic.uu.se/) at Uppsala University. The campus houses chairs and graduate programs in areas including automatic control, computerized image analysis, computer systems, computing science, mathematical logic, mathematical statistics, mathematics, numerical analysis, signal processing, and systems analysis. Information about computer science in the division can be found at the home page of the department of computing science (http://www.csd.uu.se/datalogi/), of computer systems (http://www.docs.uu.se/), or of scientific computing (http://www.tdb.uu.se/). For additional information about the position, consult the dean of mathematics and computer science, prof. Ewert Bengtsson, tel no +46-18-183467 (after June 28 +46-18-4714367), e-mail Ewert.Bengtsson@cb.uu.se. Prospective candidates must contact the office of the faculty in order to receive the full announcement with instructions on how to apply. Please use fax no +46-18-181999 (after June 28 +46-18-4711999), e-mail: Christina.Lindberg@uadm.uu.se, or retrieve the announcement from http://www.csd.uu.se/datalogi/positions97/chair.shtml. Applications must be received on September 10, 1997, at the latest. The faculty wishes to establish a more equal proportion amongst female and male professors, and applications from women are encouraged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 23 01:25:49 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 BAA15883 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:25:43 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA08181 for dbworld; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:25:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:25:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Maria Zemankova Message-Id: <199706230625.BAA08181@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu GRANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACADEMIC LIAISON WITH INDUSTRY (GOALI) NSF 97-116 http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf97116 Initiative Announcement INTRODUCTION A major objective of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is to improve the nation's capacity for intellectual and economic growth. It does this by supporting the discovery of new knowledge and the enhancement of a skilled workforce. Industry can outline new technical challenges and assist in the support of academic institutions. By serving as a catalyst for industry-university partnerships, NSF helps ensure that intellectual capital and emerging technologies are brought together in ways that promote economic growth and an improved quality of life. The GOALI initiative aims to synergize university-industry partnerships by making funds available to support an eclectic mix of industry-university linkages. Special interest is focused on affording the opportunity for: (1) faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students to conduct research and gain experience with production processes in an industrial setting, (2) industrial scientists and engineers to bring industry's perspective and integrative skills to academe, and (3) interdisciplinary university-industry teams to conduct long-term projects. This initiative targets high-risk/high-gain research with a focus on fundamental topics that would not have been undertaken by industry, new approaches to solving generic problems, development of innovative collaborative industry-university educational programs, and direct transfer of new knowledge between academe and industry. PROGRAM GUIDELINES (excerpt) The topics addressed in a GOALI award need not focus on fundamental issues only, but should address long-term, generic research within an intellectual envelope shared by the industrial partner. Fundamental research generally is performed in academe in parallel with more applied research in industry. Investigators are expected to integrate research objectives with educational and human resources goals and industry needs. The GOALI program also emphasizes improving industry-university research linkages in the design of products and processes. The research should strengthen the fundamental scientific and engineering foundations on which new design and production practices and methods may be based. This emphasis aims to improve basic understanding and the development of integrated design tools in both academe and industry. Persons interested in requesting funds under GOALI should contact an NSF Program Director in the Directorate in their area of interest for guidance on proposal submission. Refer to the GPG, Appendix A, (http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/gpg) for a list of programs and telephone numbers. For additional current information you are encouraged to browse the Web sites of the appropriate directorate(s). The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) (http://www.cise.nsf.gov/) offers opportunities in all areas usually supported by the directorate. "CISE Postdoctoral Research Associates in Computational Science and Engineering, and Associates in Experimental Science" (NSF 96-119). ----------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: The Division for Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/ welcomes GOALI proposals submitted under the annual target dates of September 15 and February 15 (http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/targets.html). ----------------------------------------------------------------- INQUIRIES Inquiries about proposal submission are welcomed, and should be addressed directly to the disciplinary NSF Program Director in the corresponding research/education area in each Directorate. Refer to the Grant Proposal Guide, NSF 95-27, Appendix A, (http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/gpg) for a list of programs and telephone numbers. For generic comments on new mechanisms for GOALI write to T. Brady (tbrady@nsf.gov) in BIO, J. Cherniavsky in CISE (jchernia@nsf.gov), S. Ortega (sortega@nsf.gov) in EHR, D. Senich (dsenich@nsf.gov) in ENG, L.E. Johnson (lejohnso@nsf.gov) in GEO, H. Blount (hblount@nsf.gov) in MPS, and J.W. Dean, Jr. (jdean@nsf.gov) in SBE. For generic comments on NSF inter-directorate activities write to M.C. Roco (mroco@nsf.gov), Coordinator for the NSF GOALI initiative (NSF, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230, Suite 525). FURTHER INFORMATION NSF 97-116 GRANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACADEMIC LIAISON WITH INDUSTRY (GOALI) Initiative Announcement http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf97116 Hard copy of the announcement can be requested from . Please specify the publication number, number of copies and the full mailing address. ================================================================== Maria Zemankova, Ph.D. Deputy Division Director Information, Robotics & Intelligent Systems National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115 Arlington, VA 22230 email: mzemanko@nsf.gov Phone: 703-306-1926 Fax: 703-306-0599 URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/ ================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 23 10:41:11 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 KAA18433 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:41:05 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA08989 for dbworld; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:41:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:41:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Yannis Ioannidis Message-Id: <199706231541.KAA08989@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Please accept our apologies if you receive this announcement multiple times. ***************************************************** * EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE * * JULY 15 * ***************************************************** ======================================================================== T E N T A T I V E P R O G R A M Ninth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management The Evergreen State College campus Olympia, Washington, U.S.A. August 11-13, 1997 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~yannis/ssdbm.html The conference features an exciting program consisting of invited talks, paper presentations, panel sessions, poster presentations, and software demonstrations. Papers have been selected from two separate tracks, the Research track and the Experience/Challenge track, thus fostering the synergy between database researchers and domain scientists. For registration information visit the conference web page given above. ======================================================================== Monday 8/11 =========== WELCOME 8:30-8:45 ----------------------------------- DATA MINING 8:45-10:15 ----------------------------------- (Invited Talk) Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Implications for Scientific Databases Usama Fayyad Knowledge Discovery in an Earthquake Text Database: "Correlation between Significant Earthquakes and the Time of Day" J. A. Goldman, D. Stott Parker, and W. W. Chu Coffee Break 10:15-10:45 ----------------------------------- PANEL 10:45-12:00 ----------------------------------- Knowledge Discovery and its Impact on Scientific Information Systems E. Kapetanios and M. C. Norrie Lunch 12:00-1:15 ----------------------------------- ESTIMATION 1:15-2:45 ----------------------------------- A Cost Model for Estimating the Performance of Spatial Joins Using R-trees Yun-Wu Huang, Ning Jing, and Elke A. Rundensteiner Data Abstraction through Density Estimation by Storage Management Kathrin Anne Meier Large-Sample and Deterministic Confidence Intervals for Online Aggregation Peter J. Haas Coffee Break 2:45-3:15 ----------------------------------- DATABASE I/O 3:15-4:15 ----------------------------------- Query Pre-Execution and Batching in Paradise: A Two-Thronged Approach to the Efficient Processing of Queries on Tape-Resident Raster Images JieBing Yu and David DeWitt Parallel Input/Output with Heterogeneous Disks S. Kuo, M. Winslett, Y. Chen, Y. Cho, M. Subramaniam, K. Seamons POSTERS/DEMOS 4:15-5:30 ----------------------------------- Tuesday 8/12 ============ STATISTICAL TOOLS 9:00-10:00 ----------------------------------- (Invited Talk) The S-PLUS DataBlade for Informix Universal Server: the Natural Wedding of an Object-Relational DataBase with an Object-Oriented Data Analysis Engine Doug Martin and Vikram Chalana Coffee Break 10:00-10:30 ----------------------------------- STATISTICAL DATABASES 10:30-12:00 ----------------------------------- Summarizability in OLAP and Statistical Data Bases Hans-J. Lenz and Arie Shoshani Usability of Compromise-Free Statistical Databases for Range Sum Queries Ljiljana Brankovic', Peter Norak, and Mirka Miller Security Problems for Statistical Databases with General Cell Suppressions Tsan-sheng Hsu and Ming-Yang Kao Lunch 12:00-1:15 ----------------------------------- METADATA 1:15-2:15 ----------------------------------- (Invited Talk) Metadata: A Case Study from the Environmental Sciences Francis P. Bretherton and William L. Hibbard Coffee Break 2:15-2:45 ----------------------------------- METADATA AND STANDARDS 2:45-4:15 ----------------------------------- Some Thoughts About a Metadata Management System Jean-Pierre Kent and Maarten Schuerhoff A Simple Structure for Statistical Meta-Data Andrew Westlake Using the STEP Standard and Databases in Science Udo Nink Wednesday 8/13 ============== BIODATA MANAGEMENT 9:00-10:00 ----------------------------------- (Invited Talk) Title TBA Tim Hunkapiller Coffee Break 10:00-10:30 ----------------------------------- SYSTEMS I 10:30-12:00 ----------------------------------- LOGOS: A System for Neurobiological Structure/Function Analysis M. Stiber, G. A. Jacobs, and D. Swanberg Beyond Interoperability - Tracking and Managing the Results of Computational Applications J. Cushing, J. Laird, E. Pasalic, E. Kutter, T. Hunkapiller, F. Zucker, and D. Yee Constructing and Maintaining Scientific Database Views I-Min A. Chen, Anthony S. Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz, and Ernest Szeto Lunch 12:00-1:15 ----------------------------------- PANEL 1:15-2:30 ----------------------------------- Scientific Databases: A Challenge in Interdisciplinary Education Larry Kerschberg Coffee Break 2:30-3:00 ----------------------------------- SYSTEMS II 3:00-4:00 ----------------------------------- The Virtual Domain Application Data Center: Serving Interdisciplinary Earth Scientists M. Kafatos, Z. Li, R. Yang, P. Hertz, D. King, X. Sean Wang, H. Weir, H. Wolf, D. Ziskin geoPOM: A Heterogeneous Geoscientific Persistent Object System S. Nittel, R. R. Muntz, and E. Mesrobian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 23 13:00:09 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 NAA19995 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:00:03 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA09459 for dbworld; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:00:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:00:01 -0500 (CDT) From: gustavo@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar (Gustavo Rossi) Message-Id: <199706231800.NAA09459@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu 26 JAIIO Argentine Symposium on Object Orientation ASOO'97 Buenos Aires, August 11-12, 1997 * Advanced Program * Monday, 11 ********** 08:00-09:00 Registration 09:00-10:30 Technical Papers: Databases and Requirements - Partitura Musical como um Tipo de Dado en um Gerenciador de Objetos Marisa Beck Figueiredo, Caetano Traina Junior, Agma Machado Traina (USP-Brasil) - Roles Representing the Evolution of Objects Nina Edelweiss, Jos=E9 Palazzo M. de Oliveira (UFRGS-Brasil) - Animaci=F3n de Modelos Conceptuales para Ayudar en la Validacion d= e Requisitos. Patricio Letelier Torres , et al. (Univ. de Valencia-Espa= =F1a) =46rameworks and Patterns =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 10:30-13:00 Tutorial T1 Framework Patterns Wolfgang Pree, Konstanz University, Germany 14:00-15:15 Technical Papers - Un Framework para Soportar Objetos + Hipermedia Francisco Vives, Pablo Zanetti, Alejandra Garrido (UNLP, Argentin= a) - Framework Orientado a Objetos para a Avalia=E7=E3o de Software Juliana Silva Herbert, Ana Maria de Alencar Price (UFRGS, Brasil) - Using Modelling Techniques for Object-Oriented Framework Design Ricardo Pereira e Silva, Roberto Tom Price (UFRGS-Brasil) Reflection: Concepts and Applications =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 15:30-16:30 Invited Talk - Meta-Class Mechanisms- A CLOS Perspective Manuel Kolp, Universite Catholique de Louvain la Neuve, Belgium 16:30-17:30 Technical Papers - A Reflective Abstract Machine Approach to Flexible Integral Object-Oriented Computing Environments Dar=EDo =C1lvarez Guti=E9rrez, Lourdes Tajes Mart=EDnez, et al. (= Oviedo Univ.-Spain) - Building Intelligent Agents from Objects Analia Amandi, Ana Maria de Alencar Price (UNICEN-Argentina//UFRGS-Brasil) - Dynamic Component Exchangeability: Problems and Solutions in the OO Model Lucia Lisboa, Werner Haetinger (UFRGS-Brasil) Keynote =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 17:30-19:00 Invited Talk Componentware: Past, Present and Future Wolfgang Pree, Konstanz University, Germany Thursday, 12 ************ 08:30-10:00 Tutorial T2 Design Patterns for the Hypermedia Domain Gustavo Rossi (UNLP-Argentina) 08:30-10:00 Tutorial T3 Virtual Systems and Java Alvaro Ortigosa (UAM-Spain/UNICEN-Argentina) Special Session: Interoperability and Distributed Objects =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 10:00-11:30 Invited Talk Application Integration with CORBA Tara O'Sullivan, IONA Technologies, Ireland 11:30-11:50 Technical Paper - Mobile Agents - A New Approach for Distributed System Djamel H. Sadok, Judith Kelner, Ricardo Martins de A. Silva and Ana Cristina Rouiller (UFPE-Brasil) 11:50-1300 Experiences - A Distributed Pump-Off Monitor using CORBA Mario Zito - Softlab - Argentina - CORBA-OLE Interoperability Angel Perez Pulletti, Baufest- Argentina Methods and Architectures =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 14:00-15:30 Tutorial T4 Object-Oriented Software Architecture Marcelo Campo (UNICEN-Argentina) Tutorial T5 "to be confirmed" Object-Oriented Development Methods Maximo Prieto(UNLP-Argentina) 15:30-16:30 Technical Papers - A Literate Approach to Architecture-Driven Design Edgardo Belloni, Marcelo Campo (UNICEN-Argentina) - A Specification Language of Architectural Patterns in Software Sys= tems Carlos Canal, Ernesto Pimentel, Jose Troya (M=E1laga Univ.-Spain) - Telescope: An Object-Oriented Architecture for Visualization Syste= ms Ricardo Orosco(UAM-Spain/UNICEN-Argentina) Perspectives =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 16:30-17:30 Open Panel: Can Argentina Be "Object-Oriented" in the Near Futu= re? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 23 17:07:32 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 RAA21521 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:07:27 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA09906 for dbworld; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:07:26 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:07:26 -0500 (CDT) From: sohraby@lucent.com Message-Id: <199706232207.RAA09906@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on PCS Network Management Guest editors: Yi-Bing Lin Kazem Shoraby Dept. Comp. Sci. & Info. Engr. Lucent Technologies National Chiao Tung University Bell Laboratories, Room 3K-334 Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. 101 Crawfords Corner Rd. Fax: +886-35724176 Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA liny@csie.nctu.edu.tw Email: sohraby@lucent.com Voice: 908-949-0496 Fax: 908-834-5906 Scope: Personal communications services (PCS) provide communication services anywhere, anytime, with anybody, and in any form. To implement these communications concepts, extremely sophisticated network management which integrates many diverse technologies are required. This special issue focuses on the research and development of advanced PCS network management techniques. Concise, tutorially oriented reference of the state-of-the art or original contributions related to the following topics are solicited: - Small scale mobility (inter-system handover) management - Large scale mobility (roaming) management - Security (privacy and authentication) management - Multi-system interworking - PCS database reliability - Intelligent networks for PCS - Network management for PCS data and multimedia applications - PCS transport network issues (Internet, PSTN, PSDN, ATM) - Modeling of PCS network management (measurement, analysis, and simulation) Authors are invited to submit postscript files of their papers to liny@csie.nctu.edu.tw or sohraby@lucent.com. Papers should not exceed twenty double spaced pages in length, excluding figures and diagrams. Submission deadline: October 25, 1997 Acceptance notification: February 25, 1998 Final manuscript due: April 25, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Real-time database systems provide issues for the processing of time-constrained transactions in time-critical applications, whereas active database systems provide rules for triggering transactions to monitor and react to changes in the external environment in a timely manner. Although the applications of real-time databases and active databases have similar characteristics, their research has proceeded separately. In recent years, there is a strong move toward integrating these two new technologies. However, the integration is not trivial. A lot of design issues have to be reconsidered and solved. The purpose of this special issue is to report new research results on this newly emerging area, real-time active databases. The special issue will focus on (but is not limited to) the following topics and issues in the context of the design and development of real-time active database systems : * scheduling of time-constrained triggered transactions * deadline and priority assignment * concurrency control and recovery * modelling of real-time active transactions * coupling modes for triggering time-constrained transactions * rules specification and evaluation * system architecture * commitment of transactions * replicated data management * prototyping of real-time active database systems * applications and tools Papers should be on the border between theory and practice, reporting findings with practical implications. They should contain some sort of practical evaluation of their findings, through either experimentation, simulation, analysis, and/or experience. Please submit six copies of your manuscript to the guest editor by 31 July 1997 : Kam-yiu Lam Guest Editor Journal of Systems and Software Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon HONG KONG tel : (852) 2788-9807 fax : (852) 2788-8614 email : cskylam@cityu.edu.hk Instructions for submitting papers : Papers should not exceed 30 double spaced pages. Papers should not have been previously published, nor currently submitted for publication. Papers should include a cover page containing title, authors' names and affiliations, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers and fax numbers. Papers should include a 300 words abstract with three to five keywords. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Jun 24 11:46:14 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 LAA25317 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:46:10 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA11091 for dbworld; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:46:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:46:09 -0500 (CDT) From: IF Computer Japan Limited Message-Id: <199706241646.LAA11091@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS INAP-97 The 10th Exhibition and Symposium on Industrial Applications of Prolog Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo Japan, 7-9 October 1997 http://www.ifcomputer.com/inap97/ http://bach.seg.kobe-u.ac.jp/inap97/ (local information) =================================== Call for Papers --------------- The Tenth Exhibition and Symposium on Industrial Applications of Prolog will be held in Kobe Japan on 7-9 October 1997. The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners working on industrial Prolog applications to exchange research ideas and to share development experiences. INAP consists of technical presentations, keynote address, panel discussion, reception party and the simultaneous exhibition. Submissions Details ------------------- Apply by July 20 1997 with the authors' names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers, paper title and abstract (A4 one page in English or Japanese). INAP-97 Program Committee will review the abstracts. Authors of acepted papers will be required to submit their camera-ready final papers in English or Japanese not exceeding 8 pages A4. Final camera-ready papers are also reviewd by INAP-97 Program Committee. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the conference in English or Japanese. Important Dates --------------- 20 July 1997 Deadline for application 20 August 1997 Notification of acceptance 10 September 1997 Deadline for camera-ready copies INAP Target Focus and Audience ------------------------------ Prolog is famous as the first very high level programming language and for its unique potential as a specification, artificial intelligence and general purpose programming language. Due to the growing number and economic importance of industrial applications of Prolog based systems there is increasing need for information exchange catering to a sophisticated and critical audience in order to discuss achievements, trends, needs and problems of commercial users. INAP is a forum to discuss results and potential of the application of Prolog in products, production, management, services and software engineering, together with requirements, tools, programming techniques and standards necessary to satisfy technological and economic constraints. Authors are invited to submit full manuscripts or extended abstracts in English or Japanese on applications of Prolog including but not limited to: - Agents - Concurrent Engineering - Business Processes - Electronic Data Interchange - Design - Documentation - Emotion Engineering - Optimization - Quality Control - Multimedia - Visualization Address papers and enquiries to: ------------------------------ Mr. Toshiaki Yagihashi INAP Organizer's Office REN Associates, Inc. 2-12-14 Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan Tel +81-3-3433-2543 Fax +81-3-5403-7216 ren.associates@jsn.justnet.or.jp Organized by: ============= INAP Organizing Committee Prolog Association of Japan Program Chairman: Shuichi Fukuda, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan Program Committee: Yoshihiro Adachi, Toyo University, Japan Oskar Bartenstein, IF Computer Japan, Japan Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Korea Hon Wai Chun, City University, Hong Kong Philippe Codognet, INRIA, France Andrew Davison, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand Michel Van Caneghem, PrologIA, France Robin Drogemuller, James Cook Univ of North Queensland, Australia Alexander Herold, Siemens AG, Germany Masatomo Inui, Ibaragi University, Japan Geun Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea Yukio Kaneda, Kobe University, Japan Nobukuni Kino, ISAC, Japan Yoshiki Kishi, Ibaragi University, Japan Isao Nagasawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Hideyuki Nakashima, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan Mihoko Okada, Suzuka Medical School, Japan Takao Ozaki, Keizo, Japan David Pearce, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Alli Roth, Prolog Management Group, UK Roger Scowen, National Physical Laboratory, UK Naoyuki Tamura, Kobe University, Japan Jiro Tanaka, University of Tsukuba, Japan Takushi Tanaka, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba, Japan Kuniaki Uehara, Kobe University, Japan Masanobu Umeda, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Osamu Yoshie, Science University of Tokyo, Japan Hajime Yoshino, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan In Cooperation with: Association of Logic Programming bit Computer Science Magazine EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation European Computer Industry Research Centre German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan German National Research Center for Computer Science International Society for Applied Intelligence International Society for Productivity Enhancement Japanese Cognitive Science Society Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Practical Application of Prolog Prolog Management Group Robotics Society of Japan Local Chairman: Yukio Kaneda, Kobe University, Japan Local Committee: Oskar Bartenstein, IF Computer Japan, Japan Takeshi Ogihara, Kobe University, Japan Naoyuki Tamura, Kobe University, Japan Kuniaki Uehara, Kobe University, Japan Conference Office: REN Associates, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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