From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Fri Mar 14 13:30:40 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 NAA07865 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:30:33 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA07182 for dbworld; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:30:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:30:32 -0600 (CST) From: Remi Zajac Message-Id: <199703141930.NAA07182@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Due to some conflicting dealines, the IJCAI-97 Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP submission deadline is extended: new submission dealine: Monday March 24 See the full annoucement at --- Rimi Zajac ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 14 13:56:31 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 NAA07917 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:56:22 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA07210 for dbworld; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:56:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:56:21 -0600 (CST) From: Jeroen Coppieters Message-Id: <199703141956.NAA07210@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu One of the posts advertised below is still not filled. Anyone interested is invited to apply to our Personel dept. in Heidelberg. (jobs@embl-heidelberg.de) Do not reply to me. To find out more about EBI you can have a look at http://www.ebi.ac.uk Jeroen [EMBL] EMBL Job Vacancy 96/61 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laboratoire Europeen de Biologie Moleculaire European Molecular Biology Laboratory Europaisches Laboratorium fur Molekularbiologie EMBL/V/96/61 November 1996 VACANCY NOTICE Member States of EMBL (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) are advised that applications are being sought for the following position at the Laboratory's Outstation in Hinxton, near Cambridge, UK: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS Applied Computing and Bioinformatics Grade: 8 Duty Station: Hinxton, near Cambridge, UK Date of Start: As soon as possible after closing date Job Description: To participate in a European research project designing and developing new information retrieval systems which are capable of interoperating between independent data sources and their services. This project will utilise leading edge technologies requiring innovative and well motivated candidates holding a relevant university degree. Qualifications and Experience: A PhD would be an advantage. Candidates should be familiar with biological databases and have programming skills in C++ and/or Java. Experience of database theory and design, WWW and CORBA would be useful but not essential. Contract : An initial contract of 3 years' duration is offered. Renewal will depend on availability of further external funding. Closing Date: 31.01.1997 EMBL is an inclusive, equal opportunity organization. Please send your CV, or write briefly for an application form, quoting reference no. 96/61 to: The Head of Human Resources, EMBL, Postfach 10.2209, 69012 Heidelberg, Germany. Fax: +49 6221 387555 email: jobs@EMBL-Heidelberg.de EMBL Outstation EBI Jeroen Coppieters (European Bioinformatics Institute) Research and Development Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Jeroen.Coppieters@embl-ebi.ac.uk Hinxton (or jecop@ebi.ac.uk) Cambridge CB10 1SD UK ++44 1223 494422 http://www.ebi.ac.uk fax ++44 1223 494468 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 17 09:56:43 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 JAA22810 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:56:26 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA10731 for dbworld; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:56:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:56:25 -0600 (CST) From: George Angelos Papadopoulos Message-Id: <199703171556.JAA10731@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) ====================================================================== 1998 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '98) Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications February 27 - March 1, 1998 Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia, U. S. A. (http://www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/SAC98.html) SAC '98: ~~~~~~~~ Over the past twelve years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC'98 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups SIGAda, SIGAPP, SIGBIO, and SIGCUE. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. The most recent previous ACM SAC conferences were held in San Jose (SAC'97), Philadelphia (SAC'96) and Nashville (SAC'95). Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC'98. The term "coordination" here is used in a rather broad sense covering traditional models and languages (eg. ones based on the Shared Dataspace and CHAM metaphors) but also other related formalisms such as configuration and architectural description frameworks, systems modeling abstractions and languages, programming skeletons, etc. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques. * Relationship with other computational models such as object oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or extensions of them with coordination capabilities. * Applications (especially where the industry is involved). * Theoretical aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification). * Software architectures and software engineering techniques. * All aspects related to the modeling of Information Systems (groupware, Internet and the Web, workflow management, CSCW). Track Program Chair: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George A. Papadopoulos Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.B. 537 CY-1678, Nicosia, CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy Tel: +357 2 338705/06, FAX: +357 2 339062 Guidelines for Submission: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Original papers and poster abstracts from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM Press SAC'98 proceedings. A special issue on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications of the ACM/SIGAPP quarterly Applied Computing Review is planned for the Fall of 1998 comprising expanded versions of selected papers from those accepted in this track. Submission guidelines must be strictly followed: * Submit six (6) copies of original manuscripts to the SAC '98 Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track Chair. Electronic submissions in uuencoded compressed postscript format are encouraged. Fax submissions will not be accepted. George A. Papadopoulos Department of Computer Science Universityof Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.B. 537 CY-1678, Nicosia, CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy Tel: +357 2 338705/06, FAX: +357 2 339062 * The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. * The body of paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced). * A separate cover sheet attached to each copy should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which correspondence should be sent. * All submissions must be received by August 15, 1997. Important Dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * August 15, 1997: Paper Submission. * October 15, 1997: Author Notification. * December 1, 1997: Camera-Ready Copy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 17 09:57:52 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 JAA22888 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:57:41 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA10744 for dbworld; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:57:40 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:57:40 -0600 (CST) From: Saracco Roberto Message-Id: <199703171557.JAA10744@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Dear all, this is a reminder for submitting papers for selection and publication in the Communications Magazine Special Issue on Enterprise Networking due October 97. Papers are to be submitted by April 97. The CFP is available at URL: http://www.bbn.com/enternet/comm_cfp.html Apologies for multiple mails. Roberto Saracco EntNet Committee Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 17 09:58:23 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 JAA22913 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:58:11 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA10751 for dbworld; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:58:10 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:58:10 -0600 (CST) From: Azer Bestavros Message-Id: <199703171558.JAA10751@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu RTDB'97 Second International Workshop on Real-Time Databases Call For Papers September 18-19, 1997 Burlington, Vermont, USA Objectives and Scope -------------------- The International Workshop on Real-Time Databases is the primary forum for the presentation and discussion of the issues involved in the design and implementation of real-time information systems and databases. Following the success of RTDB'96, the goal of this workshop will continue to be the promotion of an active interaction among real-time database researchers and practitioners. To that end, contributions describing recent advances both in the concepts and practice of database design for real-time systems are sought. This includes but is not limited to: - Advances in the state-of-art in real-time database technology, including: novel data and transaction models and standards, and novel protocols for integrating scheduling, overload management, concurrency control, and recovery. - Research in disciplines related to real-time databases such as active databases, temporal databases, and mobile databases. - Research work dealing with real-time database issues in applications such as multimedia, telecommunication networks, financial transaction systems, real-time internet and intranet applications, among others. - Reports describing on-going real-time database system building efforts, including requirement specifications and design tools, integration with active, dependable, and secure database features, and interactions with operating systems and programming environments. Submission Guidelines --------------------- To achieve the above stated goals, both regular papers and short position statements are solicited for presentation at RTDB'97 and for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. Regular papers are limited to 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words) and are expected to describe original research or implementation work. Position statements are limited to 4 double-spaced pages (1,000 words) and are expected to report on practical experiences in building real-time database systems and applications, focussing on the insights, lessons learned, and features to beget. The proceedings of the workshop will be distributed in the workshop and also made available on the web. Selected papers from the workshop will be published in an edited book planned for publication after the workshop. Papers and position statements should be sent as postscript files via Email---hard copies are acceptable, although not preferred. Please send your submission by April 1, 1997 to one of the Program Co-Chairs listed below: Prof. Azer Bestavros Computer Science Department Email: best@cs.bu.edu Boston University Phone: (617) 353-9726 111 Cummington street, Fax: (617) 353-6457 Boston, MA 02215 Prof. Victor Wolfe Computer Science Department Email: wolfe@cs.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Phone: (401) 874-2499 258 Tyler Hall Fax: (401) 792-4617 Kingston, RI 02881 About Burlington and Vermont ---------------------------- >From diverse cultural activites to back country roads, mountain views, spectacular scenery, world class food, fun, and adventure, Burlington, Vermont is one of America's "Dream Towns". In September, that lovely town attracts tourists from all over the world to enjoy New England's fabulous foliage. Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chairs Sang H. Son, University of Virginia Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine Program Committee Chairs Azer Bestavros, Boston University Victor Wolfe, University of Rhode Island Local Arrangements Chair Paul Fortier, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Program Committee Members Alexandros Biliris, AT&T Laboratories, USA Rebecca Callison, Oregon State University, USA Anindya Datta, University of Arizona, USA Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Jorgen Hansson, University of Skoevde, Skoevde, Sweden Jane Liu, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Janet Prichard, East Carolina University, USA Krithi Ramamritham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Oliva Sheng, Hong Kong Science and Technology University, Hong Kong Kang Shin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Morikazu Takegaki, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan Bhavani Thurasignham, MITRE, Bedford, MA, USA Important Dates --------------- April 1, 1997 -> Deadline for submission of papers and position statements June 15, 1997 -> Notification of acceptance August 15, 1997 -> Final papers and position statements due September 18, 1997 -> Workshop For more information check RTDB'97 Home Page at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtdb97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 18 10:01:42 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 KAA15926 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:01:36 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA12397 for dbworld; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:01:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:01:36 -0600 (CST) From: Joseph Message-Id: <199703181601.KAA12397@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Database Workshop (formerly International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop) Data Mining, Data Warehousing and Client/Server Databases 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on July 29-31, 1997 Kowloon Shangri-La, Hong Kong Organized by Hong Kong Computer Society(Database Special Interest Group) in cooperation with ACM Hong Kong Sponsored by City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Polytechnic University Informix Software (HK) Limited Oracle Systems Hong Kong Limited Sybase Hong Kong Limited WinClient Technologies (HK) Limited BACKGROUND The first International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop was held in Hong Kong in December 1989, organized by the Hong Kong Computer Society in corporation with Hong Kong Polytechnic. Its main objective was to promote database technologies in Hong Kong. Its scope was a broad coverage of database advanced technologies, methodologies and software tools. The workshop has been an international annual event ever since then. SCOPE In today's information technologies, a single database can rarely meet a company's needs. Instead, multi-databases is the norm for most companies to run their daily operations and decision support systems. The technologies to develop and manage the multi-databases can be divided into data mining, data warehousing and client/server databases. Advances in data gathering, storage, and distribution technologies has out performed than the techniques for analyzing and understanding data. There is an urgent need for automated data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. Data mining is used to discover patterns, clusters and models from data which are then rendered in operational forms that are easy for people to visualize and understand. It is a general rule that the bigger the database, the more difficult it is to sustain high levels of performance. The key objective of data warehousing is to provide business executives with flexible access to vast quantities of information through loosely structured queries. Data warehousing is a continual process which enables a corporation to assemble operational and other data from a variety of internal and external sources. It transforms that data into consistent, high-quality, business information, distribute that information to the points of maximum value within the organizations and provide easy, flexible and fast access for busy non-technical users. In a client/server systems, users are capable of interconnecting various platforms efficiently and transparently to distribute data and application program across heterogeneous systems in a computer network. Application processing is developed between client and server workstations. The processing is initiated by the client and performed by the server, and both client and server cooperate to run an application. A client/server system increases processing power by separating the database management system from the application; the client as the front-end system handling the user interface and server as backend system accessing the database. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit previous unpublished contributions for inclusion in the workshop. The papers, limited to 20 pages or 3,000 words will be carefully reviewed. The workshop will accept no more than 200 attendees in order to foster an interactive atmosphere among participants. The program committee co-chairmen are: Dr Joseph Fong Professor John G Hughes Department of Computer Science Faculty of Informatics City University of Hong Kong University of Ulster Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong Co. Antrim BT37 OQB, UK The email address for submission is csjfong@cityu.edu.hk To contribute, please submit 5 copies of the full paper to the Program committee chairman. Tutorial sessions and exhibitions will be held during the conference. Proposal for tutorials and exhibitions on the state of the art of database should be sent to Dr Joseph Fong: PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be published by Springer-Verlag. We anticipate that the proceedings will be published as Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. IMPORTANT DATES Important dates: Close of call for paper: April 15, 1997 Notice of acceptance: May 7, 1997 Camera ready copy: May 23, 1997 Please send program suggestion and inquiries to the workshop co-chairmen: Brian Siu Irene S.Y. Kwan Paul Kwan(Commercial Session) Division of technology Department of Computing New World Telephone Ltd City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kowloon, Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: (+852)21336072 Phone: (+852)27889883 Phone: (+852)27667275 Fax: (+852)21333115 Fax: (+852)27888456 Fax: (+852)27740842 Email:paulkwan@nwt.com.hk Email: tcbksiu@cityu.edu.hk Email: csirkwan@comp.polyu.edu.hk PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------ Professor Chen, Arbee L. P. National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Professor Chen, Huei-huang Tatung Institute of Technology, Taiwan Professor Chin, Francis University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Professor Clark, Jon Colorado State University, USA Dr Fong, Joseph City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Professor Hughes, John G University of Ulster, UK Professor Liu Chun nian Peking Polytechnic University, China Professor Lochovsky, Frederick Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,HongKong Dr Lu Hougjun National University of Singapore Professor Lum, Vincent Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Professor Maier, David Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, USA Professor Navathe, Shamkant B. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Professor Orlowska, Maria E The University of Queensland, Australia Professor Paul, Ray Brunel University, UK Dr Sian, Keng University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA Professor Smith, Peter University of Sunderland, UK Professor Thalheim, Bernhard Technische Universit(t Cottbus, Germany Dr Sun, Wei Florida International University, USA Dr Yau, Chuk Griffith University, Australia ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------- Brian Siu General Chair Irene Kwan Organization Chair Paul Kwan Commercial session Chair Tommy Ho, Michael Tsui Registration Vivian Wong Publicity Peter de Vries Publication Benedict Lam Secretary K.H.Lau, Raymond Lo Treasurer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 18 10:51:25 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 KAA16939 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:51:15 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA12512 for dbworld; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:51:14 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:51:14 -0600 (CST) From: Elke Radeke Message-Id: <199703181651.KAA12512@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------- | | | ---> GEN'97 <--- | | International Symposium on | = | Global Engineering Networking | | | |where: Antwerp, Belgium | |when: April 22, Industry Day | | April 23-24, Workshops and Exhibition | ----------------------------------------------------- = --- Call for Participation --- --- and Call for Exhibitions --- Attached you'll find an introduction, agenda, call-for-exhibitors, and registration form for the symposium. More information can be found under http://wwwgen.uni-paderborn.de/gen97. Introduction on GEN'97 ---------------------- Global Engineering Networking (GEN) is an initiative supported by the = European Commission in order to foster the use of networks to open up = world-wide markets for users and suppliers of engineering products and = services. These networks have the goal of making engineering knowledge, solutions, = methods and services available via data networks. In this way, it is = intended that world-wide co-operation between engineers and providers of engineering products and services should be improved, product innovation fostered, and the efficiency of product development increased. GEN allows firms to develop and offer products dynamically by quickly placing, acquiring, exchanging and incorporating components and services in response to rapidly changing markets and technologies. By GEN, the Web and intranets can be used more efficiently in order to: - exploit internal corporate knowledge bases, inter-firm project team = knowledge bases and external design information and services, - enhance reuse of internal and external knowledge, - concentrate on core competences by making maximum use of products = and services available on world markets. GEN'97 aims to introduce industrial decision makers to the present state = of technology and to raise their awareness of the business benefits. = GEN'97 will deliver a strategic vision and an incremental path to = implement that vision. GEN'97 aims to provide a forum for researchers by technical presentations = and discussions, to stimulate co-operation between different initiatives and to promote standardisation. The GEN'97 exhibition room provides a place to demonstrate and market = industrially implemented solutions, IT vendor frameworks and results = from EU technology development projects. = Agenda ------ April 22nd: Industry Day (Programme Chair : Jos Pinte, WTCM, B) 9.00 Registration and Coffee 10.00 Welcome and Introduction = ( Jos Pinte, Director WTCM Vlaanderen, Belgium ) 10.15 Electronic Commerce in The European Union = ( Rosalie Zobel, European Commission, DG III , Industry ) 10.50 Global Engineering Networking : Vision, Status and Demo ( Ulrich Rethfeld, Managing Director of Globana Online GmbH, Germany ) GEN as an Electronic Marketplace in the Electronics Industry ( Thorsten Frank, member of the board, Unity AG, Germany = Hans-Dieter Peemoeller, Get Consulting GmbH, Germany ) Demo : GEN in Practice 12.00 Telenet : advantages of an interactive broadband network ( Marc De Buyser, Director Business Markets, Telenet, Belgium ) Success Stories in Engineering Applications 14.00 Automation of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems ( Prof. Peter P. Groumpos, Uni Patras, Greece, = coordinator of the ESPRIT Network of Excelence ICIMS-NOE ) 14.30 Global AICIME and PC-NET : a virtual environment for SMEs ( Dr. Alvaro D. de Oliveira, managing director of Alfamicro, Portugal ) 15.00 GEN - a vital component in a competitive construction industry = ( Gerry Walker, BIC, Ireland ) 16.00 Project Management Training and Support System-Development ( Mikko H=F6yn=E4l=E4nmaa, Jaakko P=F6yry Oy, Finland ) 16.30 3D visualisation, network use and business process systems ( Prof. Dr. Fernand Van Damme, CEO of VARTEC, Belgium ) 17.00 Building An Electronic Marketplace For Industrial Commerce ( Dr. Pertti Visuri, President and CEO of VisuCom Inc., USA ) 17.30 Conclusion of Industry Day ( Jos Pinte, Director WTCM Vlaanderen, Belgium ) 17.45 Reception Workshops April 23 Chair: P. Poyet, CSTB, Fr 10:45 Workshops Opening Session E. Radeke, SNI, Germany : GENIAL turning engineering knowledge into an accessible = corporate asset J. Gillis, DTI, UK: Impact on Engineering Networking on SMEs I. Faux, SNI, UK : Product Catalogues in Global Engineering Networking 11:00- 13:00 Session I: GEN-Applications in Engineering Domains Workshop A Mechanical Eng. (Chair: H. Grabowski) - H-G Schuermann : CAD construction with GEN support. - R. Pusch: BKKN: Know-how platform from campus to Industry via Internet. - H. Birkhofer: Engineering Marketplaces - State of the Art, Examples and Experiences. - H. Grabowski: Electronic Marketplaces - Beyond the vision. Workshop B: Software Engineering (Chair: G. Koch) - G. Muelleitner: Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination in the Global Software - J. Favaro: Software Component Libraries in a Global Software Engineering context - D. Waudig: Electronic Software Commerce - Software Sales on the Internet Workshop C: Civil Engineering (Chair: E. Buckley) - K. Lehner: Providing Civil Engineering Software Services on the Internet using VisualWave - R. Scherer: A Product Information System based on the Dynamic Association of Data and Engineering Knowledge - A. Zarli: Distribution STEP models with CORBA 15:00- 17:00 Session II: Enabling Technologies for GEN = Workshop D: Technologies and Methods for Publishing, Retrieval and Presentation (Chair: A. Riitahuhta) - A. Danish: Authoring and Publishing of on-line Business-to-business electronic catalogues - D. Schefstr=F6m: The mWeb Presentation Framework - B. Gutkauf: user adaptive presentation of information - J. Korzonnek: Recognition of complex events in large development environments Workshop E: Architecture, Frameworks and Infrastructure (Chair: M. Hardwick) - M. Hardwick: Data Protocols for the Industrial Virtual Enterprise - D. Blasband: The Web, Outside In - From an opening strategy to the external world to a unification strategy for an organization' internals - E. Radeke: Generating a WWW-Interface for Heterogeneous Databases - J. Goossenaerts: Framework for systematising information in Engineering Networks Workshop F: Intelligent Electronic Catalogues (Chair: G. Pierra) - G. Pierra: Intelligent Electronic Component Catalogues for Engineering and Manufacturing - Elu; Potier: Electronic catalogue generation = - Ondracek, N.: Electronic catalogues management and usage - E. Sardet: Formal Specification, Modelling and Exchange of Classes of Components according to ISO 13584 18:00 Visit to Antwerp and Conference Dinner Workshops April 24 Chair: A. Sauer, Globana Online GmbH = 09:00- 11:00 Session III: Services and Applications within GEN Workshop G: Teleworking and Co-operation (Chair: G. v.d. Broek) - U. Baake: Supporting Co-operative Engineering in a Global Enterprise - F.L. Krause: A Communication Environment for Global Automotive Engineering - J. Depolt: Human Factors of Global Engineering Networks - H. Kress: Networked Collaboration in Distributed Design Teams Workshop H: Engineering Services (Chair: J. Gausemeier) - C. Hornung: MUSE - Multimedia Systems Engineering - R. Anderl: Information Modelling for Environmentally Sound Design - H. Meerkamm: TeleEngineering - Virtual Design offices in virtual enterprises - D. Vervenne: Co-Operative Knowledge Management Workhop I:Business Services (Chair: F. van Damme) - M. Coomans: Virtual Reality User Interfaces - R. Radimersky: Status and Perspective of Data-communication and Tele-cooperation Applications inthe News and Publishing Business - J.K. Simil=E4: Marketing and Product Customisation using virtual Products and Internet - J. Deibert : New Trends in Document and Workflow Management Software 11:15-12:30 Plenary Demonstrations European Projects GEN-related activities 14:00- 16:15 Presentation of Workshop Results by Chairs of Workshops A - I 16:30-17:00 Conclusion of the Symposium ( K.H. Robrock, European Commission: 5th Framework of the EU - Status and Implications P. Poyet, CSTB, France : Final Conclusion ) Exhibition April 23-24 Software products are critical to the implementation of Global Engineering = Networking. An exhibition will provide an opportunity for your firm to demonstrate = its technology and solutions. The exhibition will enable delegates to see real case = studies and demonstrations of EU technology development projects, industrially = implemented solutions and IT vendor frameworks. The exhibition will be open = during the workshop days. Call for Exhibitors ------------------- If your organisation is interested in participating in the GEN=9297 Exhibition, or = require more information about other promotional opportunities at GEN=9297, please = contact Pieter Kesteloot at the GEN=9297 secretariat. GEN=9297 Programme Committee Office Prof. Dr. Ing. J. 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Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Mar 18 10:52:11 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 KAA16962 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:51:58 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA12525 for dbworld; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:51:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:51:58 -0600 (CST) From: "LPNMR '97 Organizing Committee" Message-Id: <199703181651.KAA12525@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ========================================================================= See the conference home page at for more and latest information. ========================================================================= 4th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning LP & NMR '97 Dagstuhl, Germany July 28--31, 1997 ======================================================================== Following is the list of accepted papers for the forthcoming international conference on LP & NMR. Apart from the presentations of these works, there will be five invited talks, selected system descriptions/demonstrations, and a panel discussion on implementation. A preliminary schedule of scientific programme, registration information, travel details, and other relevant information will be posted soon. Please visit the conference home page frequently for updated information. ======================= LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS ======================= 1. A Study of Przymusinski's Static Semantics A. Bochman 2. Programs with Universally Quantified Embedded Implications V. Petukhin 3. Is Non-Monotonic Reasoning Always Harder? U. Egly, H. Tompits 4. Composing General Logic Programs A. Brogi, S. Contiero, F. Turini 5. Resolution for Skeptical Stable Semantics P.A. Bonatti 6. Complexity of Only Knowing: The Propositional Case R. Rosati 7. Modular Logic Programming and Generalized Quantifiers T. Eiter, G. Gottlob, H. Veith 8. Separating Disbeliefs from Beliefs in Autoepistemic Reasoning T. Janhunen 9. On Conservative Enforced Updates M. Dekhtyar, A. Dikovsky, N. Spyratos 10. Affordable Classes of Normal Logic Programs J. Seitzer, J. Schlipf 11. Generalized Query Answering in Disjunctive Deductive Databases: Procedural and Non-monotonic Aspects A. Yahya 12. Power Defaults G-Q Zhang, W. C. Rounds 13. Strong and Weak Constraints in Disjunctive Datalog F. Buccafurri, N. Leone, P. Rullo 14. Simulations between Programs as Cellular Automata H. Blair, F. Dushan, P. Humenn 15. A General Framework for Revising Nonmonotonic Theories C. Witteveen, W. van der Hoek 16. Computing Non-Ground Representations of Stable Models T. Eiter, J. Lu, V.S. Subrahmanian 17. A Paraconsistent Semantics with Contradiction Support Detection C.V. Damasio, L.M. Pereira 18. Nonmonotonic Reasoning with Quantified Boolean Contraints Ch. Pollett, J. Remmel 19. Improving the Alternating Fixpoint: The Transformation Approach U. Zukowski, B. Freitag, S. Brass ===== LPNMR '97 Organizing Committee http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~lpnmr97/ Attention: Chandrabose Aravindan Tel: +49 261 9119 {426,443} Universitaet Koblenz-Landau Fax: +49 261 9119 496 Fachbereich Informatik lpnmr97@informatik.uni-koblenz.de Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany. (For help: send mail with subject 'help') ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Description Workflow management has gained increasing attention recently, since it allows the combination of a data-oriented view on applications, which is the traditional one for information systems, with a process-oriented one in which activities and their occurrences over time are modeled and supported properly. Workflow management has thus far been considered mostly in business applications, and a number of workflow management systems for business applications are already commercially available. Since workflow management combines influences from a variety of disciplines, including cooperative information systems, computer-supported cooperative work, groupware systems, or active databases, it has recently attracted the attention of non-business application domains as well. In particular, workflow management is of increasing interest to scientists and to engineers who, for example, carry out experiments in a laboratory (e.g., soil analysis, DNA sequencing), design work in a computerized environment or perform once-off processes (such as critical detector assembly). What such applications share is the fact that processes to be executed are frequently (sequences of) events with undetermined outcomes or outcomes which can evolve as the experiment advances, so that the structure of the entire process is difficult to determine in advance. Nevertheless, modeling, execution control, and documentation (for the purpose of reuse) are highly relevant. From a workflow point of view, the important features found in these applications include flexibility in structuring and modeling workflows with a complex (or nested) inner structure of individual steps, the treatment of failures which can be more complex than dealing with ordinary cases, or system functionality features such as browsing and visualization, documentation, or coupling with external tools, e.g., for analysis. The domain of scientific applications (in particular in the natural sciences) and that of engineering applications thus seem particularly appropriate for the exploitation of workflow technology, since they involve processes in which humans and machines interact in considerable numbers, and could benefit from the automation in the execution of such processes. However, the requirement for workflow management in these areas differs significantly from those in business. Consequently, there has been little work so far towards an in-depth understanding of the relevant issues. It is the goal of the proposed workshop to contribute towards closing this gap. In the light of the demanding questions and of the fact that commercial developments in the workflow management area have so far ignored scientific and engineering applications, this workshop seeks to bring together researchers in the field and aims at advancing the knowledge about scientific workflow management. 2. Topics of Interest We particularly encourage contributions from researchers who conduct projects in the domains described above and who are willing to share their experiences with a broader audience. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -- modeling tools for incomplete and ad-hoc workflows -- dynamic modification of workflow specifications -- platform independence -- experience from application areas such as geoprocessing, molecular biology, laboratory management, mechanical and electrical engineering -- experiences in using commercial workflow management tools for scientific applications -- integration of workflow management and product data management -- laboratory information management systems -- exploitation of Internet technology -- exploitation of distributed systems technology in workflow management -- architecture of scientific workflow management systems -- distribution issues and platforms 3. Submissions Short original contributions regarding the above or related issues are welcome. Detailed abstract papers should be in English and not exceed 5 double spaced pages or 1000 words. The cover page should include the title, name and affiliation of the author(s), contact address, email, fax and telephone. Final papers should not exceed 10 single spaced pages. Papers should be sent electronically (postscript) not later than 21 April 1997 to the following address: vossen@helios.uni-muenster.de Due to the explorative nature of a workshop, submissions will mainly be read for relevance of the respective contribution to the topic of the workshop. The DEXA workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. 4. Timetable Submission deadline 21 April 1997 Notification of acceptance 12 May 1997 Final paper due 26 May 1997 5. Organization Committee Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada Gerti Kappel, University of Linz, Austria Jean-Marie Le Goff, CERN, Switzerland Richard McClatchey, University West of England, UK Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA Helmut Thoma, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland Gottfried Vossen, University of Muenster, Germany (chair) Mathias Weske, University of Muenster, Germany 6. Further Information Further information can be obtained from the DEXA Workshop Chairperson: Prof. R.R. Wagner Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW) University of Linz A-4040 Linz Austria Phone: +43 732 244962 Fax: +43 732 243989 Email: rrw@faw.uni-linz.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 18 11:05:05 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 LAA17416 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:04:41 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA12545 for dbworld; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:04:40 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:04:40 -0600 (CST) From: June-Suh Cho Message-Id: <199703181704.LAA12545@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu IEEE ADL '97 Call for Participation IEEE International Conference on the Advances in Digital Libraries May 7 - 9, 1997 Library of Congress Washington, D. C. Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, CESDIS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The National Library of Medicine, and The Library of Congress. In Cooperation with: Columbia University, George Washington University, Rutgers-Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity, The University of Maryland - Baltimore County, and The University of Texas at Austin. Advance Program - as of 2/21/97 Wednesday, May 7, 1997 9:00 a.m. Keynote 1: Robert Harriss, Director of Science Division, NASA ``Mission to Planet Earth'' Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University 10:15 a.m. Forum Discussion 1: Very Large Digital Libraries Chair: Karen Moe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center EOSDIS - Large Scale Active Archives to Support Earth Observations from Space. John Dalton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The National Digital Library Program: Building an Institutional Capacity. Laura Campbell, Library of Congress. Opportunities, Challengs, and Solutions for High-Performance Biomedical Digital Libraries. Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine. 12:00 p.m. Lunch 1:15 p.m. Keynote 2 : Peter House, Smithsonian Institution Chair: Burt Edelson, George Washington University 2:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 1: Images in Digital Libraries Chair: Terry Smith Digital Image Indexing and Retrieval by Content using the Fractal Transform for Multimedia Databases. Jean Michel Marie-Julie and Hassane Essafi, LETI, DEIN - CEA, France. Wavelet-Based Image Indexing Techniques with Partial Sketch Retrieval Capability. James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein, Sha Xin Wei, Stanford University. Neural Fuzzy Agents that Learn a User's Preference Map. Sanya Mitaim and Bart Kosko, University of Southern California. Query by Templates: A generalized approach for visual query formulation for text dominated databases. Arit Sengupta and Andrew Dillon, University of Indiana. 4:00 p.m. Forum Discussion 2: Digital Libraries in Europe Chair: Rudolf Bayer, Institut fuer Informatik, Germany The Digital Collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France: An Experiment on Internet. Daniel Renoult, French National Library. The German National Bibliography 1601-1700: Digital Images in a Cooperative Cataloging Project. Dr. Doerr, Bavarian State Library, VD17 Project. Moving from the Digital to the Virtual Library: The Tilburg Experience. Dr. Geleijnse, Tilburg Library, Netherlands. Digital Library and Electronic Publishing Activites of German Professional Societies. Albert Endres, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany. Thursday, May 8, 1997 9:00 a.m. Keynote 3: Jay Sanders, M.D., President and CEO Global Telecommunications Group, and American Telemedicine Association "Future Health" Chair: Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine 10:15 to 12:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 2: Digital Library Projects Chair: Ron Musick, Lawrence Livermore National Labs Scalable Access within the Context of Digital Libraries. X. Cheng, R. Dolin, M. Neary, S. Prabhakar, K. V. Ravi Kanth, D. Wu, D. Aggrawal, A. El Abbadi, M. Freeston, A. Singh, T. Smith, and J. Su, University of California, Santa Barbara. Columbia Digital News System: An Environment for Briefing and Search over Multimedia Information. A. Aho, S.-F. Chang, K. McKeown, D. Radev, J. Smith, and K. Zaman, Columbia University. Continuing Medical Education to the Point of Care Using a Digital Library and Intimate Computers. Michael P. D'Alessandro, Jeffrey R. Galvin, James J. Choi, William E. Erkonen, and Louis G. Crist, University of Iowa. A Framework for Supporting Quality-Based Multimedia Presentation in Educational Digital Libraries. Aidong Zhang and Thomas V Johnson, SUNY, Buffalo. 12:00 p.m. Lunch 1:15 p.m. Keynote 4: Bruce Lehman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks "Intellectual Property in the Digital Age" Chair: Milton Halem, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 3: Technology for Digital Libraries Chair: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Darmstady, Germany Error Tolerant Document Structure Analysis. Bertin Klein and Peter Frankhauser, GMD-IPSI, Germany. A Relational Interface for Heterogeneous Information Sources. Ee-Peng Lim and Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Assuring Security and Privacy for Digital Library Transactions on the Web: Client and Server Security Policies. M. Winslett, N. Ching, V. Jones, and I. Slepchin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 4:00 Forum Discussion 3: Content for the Digital Library: What the Professional Societies Are Doing. Chair: Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University Mark Mandelbaum, ACM Robert Care, IEEE Jim Crowley, SIAM Ian Butterworth, Imperial College and Academia Europaea 7:00 Banquet Invited Speaker: Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for "Communications and Information" Chair: Nabil Adam, Rutgers University Friday, May 9, 1997 9:00 Keynote 5: Deanna Marcum, President, Research Library Associaton and National Digital Library Federation "The Current Agenda and Further Directions of the National Digital Library Federation" Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University 10:15 Forum Discussion 4: Digital Libraries, Electronic Commerce, and Law Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University Technological Protocols as Law: Democracy vs. a Technological Priesthood. Steve Jamar, Howard University. Vision vs. Reality: The Digital Information Environment in College Libraries. Sarah Pritchard, Smith College. 11:15 Forum Discussion 5: Making the Internet Safe for Electronic Commerce Chair: Shamim Naqvi, Bellcore Balancing Risks in Electronic Commerce. Rich DeMillo, Bellcore. European Perspective on Internet Security. Brian Collins, Consultant on Information Systems Security, UK. European Perspective on Internet Security and Overcoming Barriers. Revital Maron, THESEUS Institute, France. Avi Silberschatz, Lucent Bell Labs. 12:45 Forum Wrap-up Discussion Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University. 1:00 Adjourn Any questions can be directed to Georgia Flanagan - georgia@cesdis.usra.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE ADL '97 Registration Information IEEE International Conference on the Advances in Digital Libraries May 7 - 9, 1997 Library of Congress Washington, D. C. 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Advance Registration: ____ Members $280 ____ Non Members $345 ____ Full-time Student $100 ____ Banquet Ticket $40 On Site Registration: ____ Members $330 ____ Non Members $395 ____ Full-time Student $130 ____ Banquet Ticket $50 Payment MUST be enclosed. Please make checks payable to IEEE Computer Society. All payments must be in U.S. dollars, drawn on U.S. banks. Method of Payment: ____ Personal Check ____ Company Check ____ U. S. Government P.O. (must accompany this form) ____ American Express ____ VISA ____ MasterCard ____ Diners Club Cardholder Name: ____________________________________ Signature: ___________________________________________ Card Number: _______________________________________ Exp. Date: _________________ Amount: $ ______________ Today's Date: _____________________ All persons attending IEEE ADL'97 will be required to register. Written requests for refunds must be received in the IEEE Computer Society office no later than April 21,1997. Refunds are subject to a $50 processing fee. All no-show registrations will be billed in full. Students are required to show current picture school ID cards at the time of registration. Registrations after April 21, 1997 will be accepted on site only. On-site registration will be available throughout the conference. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE ADL '97 Hotel Information IEEE International Conference on the Advances in Digital Libraries May 7 - 9, 1997 Library of Congress Washington, D. C. Hotel Information For hotel reservation, please contact (say you're attending the ADL'97 Conference): Washington National Airport Hilton 2399 Jefferson Davis HIghway Arlington, VA 22202 phone: 703-418-6800 fax: 703-418-3762 Rate: $112.99/single and double Rooms will be held until 6:00 p.m. unless guaranteed with an accepted credit card. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. Check-out is 1:00 p.m. Room charges are subject to a 9/75% tax. Reservations can be made until April 11, 1997. After this date, reserations will be based upon room and rate availability. Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to arrival to avoid charge of one night's room and tax. Any questions can be directed to Georgia Flanagan - georgia@cesdis.usra.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE ADL '97 Contact Information IEEE International Conference on the Advances in Digital Libraries May 7 - 9, 1997 Library of Congress Washington, D. C. General Chair: Nabil Adam, adam@adam.rutgers.edu 201-648-5239 Program Chair: Alfred Aho, aho@cs.columbia.edu 212-939-7004 Registration: IEEE Computer Society, m.k.rada@computer.org 202-371-1013 Hotel: Washington National Airport Hilton 703-418-6800 General Information: Susan Hoban, susan.hoban@gsfc.nasa.gov 301-286-7980 Any questions can be directed to Georgia Flanagan - georgia@cesdis.usra.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 Wed Mar 19 10:34:04 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 KAA18326 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:33:57 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA14149 for dbworld; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:33:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:33:57 -0600 (CST) From: "Don Morris" Message-Id: <199703191633.KAA14149@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Subject: Time:8:04 PM OFFICE MEMO Genomics Database Job Date:3/18/97 Genomic Database R&D Position Affymetrix, a fast-growing biotechnology company, is applying its proprietary high-density DNA probe array technology to the study of human genetic diversity and the mapping and identification of genes which participate in human diseases. This project is an interdisciplinary effort involving molecular biologists, geneticists, statisticians and outside collaborators. The candidate will be responsible for designing and developing the database software to support this effort. The database will integrate experimental data and analysis results (discovery, genotyping and expression experiments), with sample data (e.g. pedigree, population, phenotype) and gene data (e.g. sequence, map location, metabolic pathway, biochemical function) in a manner capable of supporting the genomics challenges of the future. Qualifications: The candidate must have a degree in CS/EE (Ph.D. or M.Sc.), be highly motivated, and have expertise in user-interface design and database development. Familiarity with bioinformatics, molecular biology, and data analysis are assets. Please send your cv to Dr. Don Morris , Email: don_morris@affymetrix.com, Tel: (408) 522-6025, Fax: (408)481-0422 Affymetrix Inc., 3380 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051 Affymetrix (Web Site http://www.affymetrix.com ) has developed GeneChip, a system for acquiring, analyzing and managing complex genetic information in order to improve the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease. The company's GeneChip system consists of disposable DNA probe arrays and reagents, instruments to acquire data from the arrays, and software to analyze and manage genetic information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 19 10:36:28 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 KAA18416 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:36:19 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA14172 for dbworld; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:36:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:36:19 -0600 (CST) From: Jiawei Han Message-Id: <199703191636.KAA14172@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ============================================================================ SIGMOD'97 Pre-Conf. Data Mining Workshop: Preliminary Call For Participation (Detailed registration information will be set in a few days) ============================================================================ Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD'97) in cooperation with ACM-SIGMOD'97 Tucson, Arizona, May 11, 1997 ========================================== (URL: http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd97.html) OBJECTIVES Mining knowledge from large databases and data warehouses is a promising research area, with high application potential due to the huge amounts of data accumulated in databases, data warehouses, and other information repositories. Coupled with the rapid growth of data, data mining has attracted people from many different fields, including database systems, data warehouses, machine learning, knowledge acquisition, statistics, information retrieval, and data visualization. The past conferences and workshops dedicated to knowledge discovery in databases are associated with conferences with very diverse themes. It is important to have such a forum associated with database conferences as well to examine mining issues particularly related to database systems. Consequently, in June 1996, we organized a SIGMOD workshop on research issues on data mining and knowledge discovery. It was well attended and was widely considered to be successful in creating a forum for database researchers to exchange their research ideas and results in data mining. To continue to provide such a forum, we are organizing the second workshop again in cooperation with SIGMOD. PROGRAM The workshop will be held one day before the SIGMOD/PODS'96 conference. The program is as follows: 8:30--8:35 Opening Remarks 8:35--9:30 Invited Talk 9:30--9:45 Coffee Break 9:45--11:00 Session I Clustering/Classification A Fast Clustering Algorithm to Cluster Very Large Categorical Data Sets in Data Mining Zhexue Huang Clustering Based On Association Rule Hypergraphs Eui-Hong Han, George Karypis, Vipin Kumar and Bamshad Mobasher Ontology-based Induction of High Level Classification Rules Merwyn G. Taylor, Kilian Stoffel and James A. Hendler 11:00--11:15 Coffee Break 11:15--12:30 Session II Applications An efficient domain-independent algorithm for detecting approximately duplicate database records Alvaro E. Monge and Charles P. Elkan An Application of Adaptive Data Mining: Facilitating Web Information Access Parvathi Chundi and Umeshwar Dayal Efficient Roll-Up and Drill-Down Analysis for Large Data Sets Min Wang and Bala Iyer 12:30--14:15 Lunch, Posters, Demos 14:15--15:30 Session III Association Rules Mining Association Patterns from Nested Databases Ke Wang Maintenance of Discovered Association Rules: When to update? S.D. Lee and David W. Cheung Efficient Algorithms for Discovering Frequent Sets in Incremental Databases Ronen Feldman, Yonatan Aumann, Amihood Amir and Heikki Mannila 15:30--15:45 Coffee Break 15:45--17:00 Session IV Miscellany Sharing Processing in Data Mining Systems Arun Swami and Brian Lent A Pattern Discovery Algebra Alexander Tuzhilin On the Complexity of Mining Temporal Trends Jef Wijsen and Robert Meersman 17:00-18:00 Summary Discussion PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Inderpal Bhandari, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Nick Cercone, University of Regina, Canada Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan David W. Cheung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA Usama M. Fayyad, Microsoft Research, USA Brian Gaines, University of Calgary, Canada Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada Tomasz Imielinski, Rutger University, USA Bala Iyer, IBM Database Technology Institute, USA Daniel A. Keim, University of Munich, Germany Willi Kloesgen, GMD, Germany Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Munich, Germany Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada Hongjun Lu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland Shinichi Morishita, IBM Tokyo Research Center, Japan Shamkant B. Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories, USA Wei-Min Shen, University of Southern California, USA Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Shalom Tsur, Hitachi America Ltd., USA Alexander Tuzhilin, New York University, USA Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Carlo Zaniolo, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada (han@cs.sfu.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. 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Anderson" Message-Id: <199703191658.KAA14320@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium December 3-5, 1997 San Francisco, CA, USA Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society TC on Real-Time Systems Scope The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers and developers from academia, industry and government to advance the science and technology of real-time computing. Papers on all aspects of real-time computing are sought, including operating systems and scheduling, fault-tolerance, databases, programming languages, tools, communication networks, architectures, performance modeling, formal methods, case studies, and applications. Of particular interest are reports describing practical experiences and experimental results based on system building efforts, and real-time issues in applications such as avionics, multimedia, robotics, automated process control and manufacturing. Submissions Papers should describe original work, and be 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in length. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. The best papers from the conference may be considered for publication in a special issue of a journal (to be decided). Please send an electronic version (postscript file) or 5 copies of the manuscript to the program chair at the following address. A single cover page should be included which contains: paper title, full name, affiliations, complete addresses, phone and fax numbers, and email addresses of the authors, as well as an abstract of up to 150 words. In addition, a text file containing the title and abstract should be emailed to the program chair. All submissions must be received by May 1, 1997. Professor Kwei-Jay Lin Engineering Tower 516D Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697, USA phone: +1-714-824-7839 fax: +1-714-824-2321 email: klin@uci.edu Important Dates Deadline for Submission May 1, 1997 Acceptance Letters July 25, 1997 Camera-Ready Papers September 1, 1997 Symposium December 3-5, 1997 Workshop and Exhibition A workshop on a special topic related to real-time systems is being organized to be held immediately before the symposium on December 2. More information about the workshop will be announced later. There will also be a Work-In-Progress session with short presentations. WIP papers will have a later deadline (to be announced) much closer to the Symposium dates. In addition, an exhibition of hardware and software products for real-time systems will be held in conjunction with the symposium. For the exhibition, contact Dr. Jen-Yao Chung (jychung@watson.ibm.com). Please also visit RTSS'97 WWW page at "http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtss97/". *********************************************************** Conference Organization General Chair Sang H. Son, USA Program Chair Kwei-Jay Lin, USA Treasurer Walt Heimerdinger, USA Publicity Chairs James H. Anderson, USA Alan Burns, UK Sang Lyul Min, Korea Industrial Chair Jen-Yao Chung, USA Ex-Officio C. Douglass Locke, USA Program Committee Sanjoy Baruah, USA Azer Bestavros, USA Alan Burns, UK Jean-Charles Fabre, France Richard Gerber, USA Ching-Chih Han, USA Michael Gonzalez Harbour, Spain Connie Heitmeyer, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, Taiwan Yann-Hang Lee, USA Jane W.S. Liu, USA Raj Rajkumar, USA Krithi Ramamritham, USA Heonshik Shin, Korea John A. 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This post is funded by the EPSRC and the salary is in the range 16,451 to 23,653 pounds sterling per annum. Applicants should have PhD in Computer Science and a good knowledge of database systems. Familiarity with functional programming and/or a good theoretical computing background are also an advantage. Applications for part-time employment will also be considered in which case a PhD is not essential. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr A.Poulovassilis (alex@dcs.kcl.ac.uk). A summary of the project may be found at http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/alex. Applications should consist of a detailed CV and name two referees. Applications should be sent to Dr A.Poulovassilis, Department of Computer Science, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS. Previous applicants need not reapply. 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Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Mar 20 15:32:19 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 PAA11217 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:32:09 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA18012 for dbworld; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:32:08 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:32:08 -0600 (CST) From: Innes E Jelly Message-Id: <199703202132.PAA18012@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - A Reminder RIDE'97 (Seventh International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering) April 7-8, 1997, Birmingham, England Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering Topic: High Performance Database Management for Large Scale Applications INTRODUCTION This is the seventh in a series of annual workshops held in connection with the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering which is taking place at the same venue from 9th to 11th April 1997. RIDE'97 will bring together researchers, developers and users working on issues related to high performance database management for large scale applications. The Internet and its underlying infrastructure is restructuring the way in which people interact with service providers such as - banks, retail stores, government agencies and professional and social organisations. Such organisations now have the opportunity to undertake electronic commerce, on-line shopping, support extensive decision making capabilities using data mining and data warehousing techniques as well as supporting mission critical operations. All these activities place an ever increasing load upon the underlying data management systems. The RIDE'97 workshop is devoted solely to addressing these issues and contains a mixture of invited talks, contributed papers panel sessions together with a session specifically dedicated to work being funded in this area by the European Union. REGISTRATION DETAILS Registration Fees Fee for early registration - before 28.02.97 $325 (Members $260) (Students #125) Fee for late registration - after 28.02.97 $405 (Members $325) (Students $155) To include proceedings, coffee breaks and conference dinners Please note there is a $40 reduction in cost of registration for RIDE97 if you are also registering for ICDE'97 General inquiries: ride97@wlv.ac.uk --------------------- cut here ------------------- BOOKING FORM RIDE'97 Name: .......................................................... Institution:.................................................... Full Address: .................................................. ................................................................. ................................................................. Tel: ........................................................... Fax: ........................................................... Email: ......................................................... Member of IEEE? Y/N, Membership No.......... Student? Y/N. If yes, you must attach a letter from your academic institution confirming your status. ________________________________________________ Payment by Credit Card: Access/Visa/AMEX/Diners* Name: ............................... Signature: ................................. Card No:................................... Expiry Date: ...................... Address (if different):................................... ........................................................... ........................................................... *delete as appropriate Registered for ICDE: Yes No Please return to: Ms Mary Garvey, SCIT, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK ------------------------ cut here -------------------------- ACCOMMODATION DETAILS Accommodation to be booked via Birmingham Convention & Visitor Bureau ICC Broad Street Birmingham B1 2EA UK Tel: +44 (0)121 665 6116 Fax: +44 (0)121 643 3280 ACCOMMODATION Accommodation for ICDE '97 and RIDE '97 can be booked via the Birmingham Convention and Visitor Bureau. The bureau has negotiated three packages for the conferences. These may only be booked via the Bureau. Of the three Chamberlain Hall is much nearer the conference location than the other two. As there is no convenient public transport between the Norfolk and Cobden hotels and the University, delegates staying at these hotels should expect to have to travel to and from the conference venue by taxi. There are only a limited number of places available in Chamberlain Hall, these will be allocated on a "first come, first serve basis". Within walking distance: Chamberlain Hall, The Vale Halls of Residence, University of Birmingham Accommodation has been made available close to the University Campus. The single study bedrooms each have a washbasin and tea and coffee making facilities. There is ample toilet and bath/shower accommodation on each floor. 30.00 UK pound per person per night inclusive of English Breakfast/VAT Can you please note: accommodation booked at the Halls of Residence requires full prepayment. AMEX, Mastercard or VISA is acceptable. Please complete the credit card section below. Hotels within taxi journey distance: If you are attending the above event, the following accommodation is available with specially discounted rates negotiated for you at the Quality Cobden and Quality Norfolk Hotels (available when making your reservation via the Birmingham Convention and Visitor Bureau). Quality Cobden Hotel, Hagley Road, Edgbaston This 3 star hotel has 230 ensuite bedrooms all with colour television, direct dial telephone, tea and coffee making facilities. The hotel has a leisure centre with swimming pool, aqua spa, sauna, solaria and gymnasium. Bar and restaurant available. Ample free car parking. 30.00 UK pound per person per night inclusive of English Breakfast/VAT Quality Norfolk Hotel, Hagley Road, Edgbaston This 3 star hotel has 210 ensuite bedrooms all with colour television, direct dial telephone, tea and coffee making facilities. Leisure facilities can be enjoyed at the sister hotel, Quality Cobden just a short distance away. Bar and restaurant available. 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Birmingham Convention & Visitor Bureau accepts no liability in connection with this booking and it is understood that you will accept responsibility for all legitimate charges made by the hotel. PLEASE NOTE RATES MAY BE SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. PROGRAMME Monday April 7, 1997 9:00 -9:30 Introduction and Welcome 9:30 -10:30 Invited Talk--Avi Silberschatz (Bell Laboratories, USA) Title: "Storage and Retrieval of Multimedia Objects" 10:30 -11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:20 Session 1--Databases and the WWW Chair: Azer Bestavros (Boston University, USA) "PRIME-GC. A medical information retrieval prototype on the WEB" M. Mechkour, P. Mulhem, F. Fourel, and C. Berrut, (CLIPS-IMAG, France). "Caching large database objects in webb servers" Divyesh Jadav (Syracuse University, USA), Monish Gupta, and Seetha Lakshmi (Informix, USA). "Knowledge discovery from users web-page navigation" Cyrus Shahabi (USC, USA), Amir M. Zarkesh (Microagent Technology, USA), Jafar Adibi, and Vishal Shah (USC, USA). 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00--15:30 Session 2--Data Mining and Warehousing Chair: Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada) "Tackling the challenges of materialized view design in data warehousing environment" Jian Yang (University of New South Wales, Australia), Kamalakar Karlapalem and Qing Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong). "Evaluation of sampling for data mining of association rules" Mohammed Javeed Zaki, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Wei Li, and Mitsunori Ogihara (University of Rochester, USA). "Mediator join indices" Ling Ling Yan, M. Tamer Ozsu and Ling Liu (University of Alberta, Canada). 15:30-16:00 Coffee 16:00 -17:30 Session 3- Work in Progress: EC Funded Projects Chair: Michael Arentoft (EC, Belgium) "DAFS: data mining file server" Iain McLaren, Ed Babb (Parsys, UK) and Jorge Bocca (Integral Decision Systems, Germany) "High performance banking" Jon Keane (UMIST, UK) "CRITICAL: Client-server Rule Induction Technology for Industrial Knowledge Acquisition from Large Databases" Akeel Al-Attar (Attar Software, UK) "The DBInspector Project" Paolo Stofella (Artificial Intelligence Software, Italy) " WIDE: A Distributed Architecture for Workflow Management" Stefano Ceri (Politecnico de Milano, Italy), Paul Grefen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) and Gabriel Sanchez (Sema Group, Spain) Dinner Tuesday, April 8 9:00-10:30 Session 4 --Electronic Commerce and Workflow Management Chair: Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) "Distributed data management in workflow environments" Gustavo Alonso (ETH, Switzerland), B. Reinwald and C. Mohan (IBM Almaden, USA). "Brokerage architecture for stock photo industry" Wen-Syan Li, Yoshi Hara, Nancy Fix, Selcuk Candan, Kyoji Hirata, and Sougata Mukherjea (NEC Research Labs, USA). "On disconnected browsing of distributed information" Anupam Joshi (University of Missouri, USA), Sanjiva Weerawarana, and Elias Houstis (Purdue University, USA). 10:30 -11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Session 5 --Challenges in scalability of database systems Chair: Clement Yu (University of Illinois, Chicago Invited Talk--Martin Kersten (CWI, The Netherlands) Title: "The Database Engine for the Next Decade" "Generalization and decision tree induction: efficient classification in data mining" Micheline Kamber, Lara Winstone, Wang Gon, and Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30 -15:30 Session 6--Distributed File Structures and Multimedia Systems Chair: Rajeev Rastogi (Bell Laboratories, USA) "Techniques for increasing the stream capacity of a multimedia server" Chutimet Srinilta, Divyesh Jadav (Syracuse University, USA) and Alok Choudhary (Northwestern University, USA) "Stochastic performance guarantees for mixed workloads in a multimedia information system" Guido Nerjes, Peter Muth, and Gerhard Weikum (University of the Saarland, Germany). "LH*s: a high-availability and high-security scalable distributed data structure" W. Litwin (University Paris 9, France) and M-A Neimat (Hewlet-Packard, USA). "A dynamic migration algorithm for a distributed memory-based file managementsystem " Jim Grifffioen, Todd Anderson (University of Kentucky, USA) and Yuri Breitbart (Bell Laboratories, USA) 15:30 -16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 Panel: OLAP and Data Warehousing (Moderator: Arie Shoshani) ORGANISATION AND CONTACT DETAILS For general inquiries, email ride97@wlv.ac.uk General Co-Chairs Jon Kerridge Department of Computer Studies, Napier University, 219 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ UK email: j.kerridge@dcs.napier.ac.uk tel: +(0) 131 455 4395 fax: +(0) 131 455 4552 Yuri Breitbart Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA e-mail: yuri@research.bell-labs.com Program Chair Peter Scheuermann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nothwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA email: peters@ece.nwu.edu tel: (847)-491-7141 fax: (847)-491-4455 Program Committee Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, France) Daniel Barbara (Bellcore, USA) Azer Bestavros (Boston University, USA) Stephen Blott (ETH, Switzerland) Michael Carey (IBM Almaden, USA) Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Misbah Deen (Keele University, UK) Klaus Dittrich (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California, USA) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Mathias Jarke (RWTH-Aachen, Germany) Martin Kersten (CWI, The Netherlands) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Simon Lavington (University of Essex, United Kingdom) Witold Litwin (University of Paris 9, France) Kia Makki (University of Nevada, USA) Patrick O'Neil (University of Massachussets, USA) M. Aris Ouksel (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tamer Ozsu (University of Alberta, Canada) Nikki Pissinou (University of Southwestern Lousiana, USA) Rajeev Rastogi (Lucent Bell Labs, USA) Nick Roussopoulos (University of Maryland, USA) Doron Rotem (Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA) Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Oded Shmueli (Technion, Israel) S. Sudarshan (IIT Bombay, India) Gerhard Weikum (University of Saarbrucken, Germany) Yelena Yesha (NASA CESDIS, USA) Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Steering Committee: Ahmed Elmagarmid (Purdue University, USA), John Urban, (USA) Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Marek Rusinkiewicz (MCC, USA) Publication Chair: Sharad Mehrotra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs: Innes Jelly (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) i.jelly@shu.ac.uk Radek Vingralek (Northwestern University, USA) radek@lilac.eecs.nwu.edu Industrial Coordinator David Parsons, parsons@cs.man.ac.uk American Coordinator: Chris Clifton European Coordinator: Michael Arentoft (European Commission, DG Industry) michael.arentoft@dg3.cec.be Far East Coordinator: Ian Gorton (CSIRO, Australia) iango@syd.dit.csiro.au Local Arrangements: Alan Sexton (University of Birmingham, UK) a.p.sexton@cs.bham.ac.uk Financial Chair: Jim Griffioen (University of Kentucky, USA) Registration Chair: Mary Garvey (University of Wolverhampton, UK) m.garvey@wlv.ac.uk RIDE'97 Email: ride97@wlv.ac.uk Web Page: http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/events/RIDE97.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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I apologise if you receive this so many times that it becomes annoying. Simon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Simon Parsons | | Intelligent Systems Applications Group \/\/ S.D.Parsons@qmw.ac.uk | | Department of Electronic Engineering /\/\ | | Queen Mary and Westfield College \/\/ Tel: +44 171 975 5358 | | Mile End Road /\/\ Fax: +44 181 981 0259 | | London | | E1 4NS http://www.elec.qmw.ac.uk/~sp/homepage.html | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING LECTURESHIP Applications are invited for a Lectureship which is available from 1 July o= r=20 as soon as possible thereafter. You will be expected to extend the internationally recognised work of this= =20 Grade 5 Department in Intelligent Systems. In addition you will contribute= =20 to the teaching of postgraduate students and develop new Continuing=20 Professional Development courses. 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