From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon May 19 12:38:32 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 MAA24034 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 12:38:26 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA00948 for dbworld; Mon, 19 May 1997 12:38:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:38:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Peretz Shoval Message-Id: <199705191738.MAA00948@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Final Program and Call for Participation NGITS '97 The Third International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems 30 June - 3 July 1997 Neve Ilan (near Jerusalem), ISRAEL Main Sponsors ============= Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel Ministry of Science and the Arts The Adams Institute, School of Management, Tel-Aviv University Fisher Center for Information Technology and Management, U.C. Berkeley ______________________________________________________________________ Steering Committee ================== Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA Ami Motro, George Mason University, USA Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel Noshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel Program Committee Chairs ======================== Avi Silberschatz Peretz Shoval Information Sciences Research Center Information Systems Program Bell Laboratories Dept. of Industrial Engin. & Manage. 600 Mountain Ave Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel avi@bell-labs.com shoval@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Fax: 908 582-6923 Fax: +972 7-647-2958 Organizing and Local Arrangement Chairs ======================================= Opher Etzion and Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, 32000, Israel ngits@ie.technion.ac.il Fax: + 972 4-8235194 ________________________________________________________________________ URL of the Workshop: http://iew3.technion.ac.il:8080/Home/NGITS97.phtml ________________________________________________________________________ This announcement contains: 1. Call for participation 2. Program 3. Registration information 4. Registration and accommodation forms ________________________________________________________________________ 1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The next generation information systems will be complex, intelligent, and cooperative, and will utilize various multimedia-media technologies. The goal of the NGITS Workshop is to provide an international forum for discussing issues and solutions related to next generation information systems and the technologies that would make them possible. Following the success of the two previous workshops that were held in 1993 and 1995, the third NGITS Workshop will take place on June 30 - July 3 1997, at Neve Ilan, near Jerusalem, Israel The Workshop will feature: o Ten papers sessions including twenty seven research papers (14 regular and 13 short (S)) on topics such as the WWW, object-oriented development, knowledge discovery, relational databases and queries, heterogeneous and distributed systems, query evaluation, information retrieval, access methods, active and temporal databases, software engineering and workflow systems. o Three keynote talks by: - David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel - Arne Solvberg, Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology, Norway - Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA o Two panel discussions on: - Data Mining - Digital Libraries. o One posters session. ================================================================= 2. PROGRAM Monday, 30 June --------------- 9:00 - 9:30 Opening remarks Program Chairs and Organization Chair. Prof. Nahum Finger, Rector, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Prof. Niv Ahituv, Head of the Adams Institute, Tel-Aviv University. 9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Session 1 Speaker: David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Topic: "On the Aesthetics of Diagrams". 10:30 - 11:00 Refreshments 11:00 - 12:30 Papers Session 1: The WWW Chair: Catriel Beeri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel "Utilizing the multiple facets of WWW contents", Y. Kogan, D. Michaeli, Y. Sagiv and O. Shmueli, Israel "Automated Negotiation in Electronic Commerce", C. Beam and A. Segev, USA "Maintaining Information Resources" (S), S. Macskassy and L. Shklar, USA 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:10 Papers session 2: Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition Chair: Shalom Tsur, Hitachi, USA "Towards Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) by Exploiting Parallelism in Generic KDD Primitives", A. Freitas, UK "Temporal Knowledge Acquisition from Multiple Experters", H. Kaikova and V. Terziyan, Ukraine 15:10 - 15:30 Refreshments 15:30 - 16:45 Panel 1: Data Mining - where is it heading? Moderated by Avi Silbeschatz, USA 16:45 - 17:00 Refreshments 17:00 - 18:00 Papers session 3: Software Engineering Chair: Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel "A Neural Network Approach for Software Development Cost Estimation" (S), J. Balakrishnan, Canada; C. Cheng, Hong Kong; and A. Lee, USA "ParDes: A Parallel Computing Graphical Desktop" (S), S. Karsenty, Israel "The Caelum Toolkit for CSCW: The Sky is the Limit" (S), T. Anker, G. Chockler, D. Dolev and I. Keidar, Israel Evening: Dinner at the Events Garden, Neve-Ilan. Tuesday, 1 July --------------- 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Session 2 Chair: Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Speaker: Arne Solvberg, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Topic: "Teaching Information Systems Engineering". 10:00 - 10:15 Refreshments 10:15 - 12:00 Papers session 4: Relational Databases and Queries Chair: Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey "OSQL: An Extension to SQL to Manipulate Ordered Relational Databases", W. Ng and M. Levene, UK "Faster Joins, Self Joins and Multi-Way Joins Using Join Indices", H. Lei and K. Ross, USA "Maintenance and Self Maintenance of Outer-Join Views", A. Gupta, H. Jagadish and I. Mumick, USA 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - Evening: Excursion and main social event in Jerusalem. Wednesday, 2 July ----------------- 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Session 3 Chair: Avi Silberschatz, Bell Labs., USA Speaker: Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Topic: "Limits of microtransaction systems". 10:00 - 10:15 Refreshments 10:15 - 11:30 Papers session 5: Heterogeneous and Distributed DBMS Chair: Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA "Sybil: Supporting Heterogeneous Database Interoperability with Lightweight Alliances", R. King, M. Novak, C. Och and F. Velez, USA "Modeling Cooperation among Information Systems using Control Elements" (S), A. Gal, Canada "Persistence and Security Support for Distributed System with Mobile Software Objects" (S), B. Lavva, I. Ben-Shaul and O. Holder, Israel 11:30 - 11:45 Refreshments 11:45 - 13:00 Papers session 6: Query Evaluation and Information Retrieval Chair: Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel "Analytical Models and Neural Networks for Query Cost Evaluation", J. Boulos, Japan; Y. Viemont, France; K. Ono, Japan "Towards a Crystal Ball for Data Retrieval" (S), J. Hellerstein, USA "A Common Access Structure for Standard Attributes and Document Representations in Vector Space" (S), A. Henrich, Germany 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:45 Panel 2: Digital Libraries Moderated by Nabil Adam and Yelena Yesha, USA 15:45 - 16:00 Refreshments 16:00 - 17:10 Papers session 7: Access Methods and Data Searching Chair: Dov Dori, Technion, Israel "Improved hB-Tree with High Space Utilization and Eliminating DAG", J. Shudong, X. Sun and F. Yucai, China "A Fast Signature Algorithm for Sequence Data Searching", S. Lam and M. Wong, Hong Kong 17:10 - 18:05 Papers session 8: Workflow Systems Chair: Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois Chicago, USA "Correctness of Workflow in the Presence of Concurrency", I. Arpinar, S. Arpinar, U. Halici and A. Dogac, Turkey "Predictive Workflow Management" (S), E. Panagos and M. Rabinovich, USA 18:05 - 18:50 Poster presentations Chair: Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel "Modeling and Execution of Editing Processes in Collaborative Writing Applications Supported by a Database System", W. Wieczerzycki, Poland "More Static Data Semantics through the Expanded Entity-Relationship Model (PERM)", P. Loos, Germany "Software Aid for Formulation of Models", A. Pollatschek, Israel Evening - Dinner (on your own) Thursday, 3 July ---------------- 9:00 - 10:15 Papers session 9: Object-Oriented Development and DBMS Chair: Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Austin, USA "Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use of Three Object-Oriented Modeling Methods: An Empirical Test", J. Iivari, Finland "Extending Object-Process Diagrams for the Implementation Phase" (S), L. Wenyin and D. Dori, Israel "Enriching Object-Relational Databases with Relationship Semantics" (S), N. Zhang, J. Thomas, Germany; T. Hadar, Canada 10:15 - 11:30 Papers session 10: Active and Temporal Databases Chair: Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA "Self-Stabilization in Database Consistency Maintenance", O. Etzion an B. Dahav, Israel "Comparing the Expressiveness of Temporal Data Models based on Time Dimension Representation" (S), J. Won, R. Elmasri and J. Kwak, USA "DFL - A Hybrid Integration of Descriptions and Rules, using F-Logic as an Underlying Semantics" (S), M. Balaban and A. Eyal, Israel 11:30 - 12:00 Refreshments 12:00 - 13:00 Closing session Chairs: Avi Silberschatz, Peretz Shoval and Opher Etzion 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch ______________________________________________________________________ Program Committee ================= Nabil Adam, Rutgers University, USA Barbara Blaustein, National Science Foundation, USA Yuri Breitbart, University of Kentuky, USA Catriel Beeri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Dan Berry, Technion, Israel Ron Brachman, AT&T Research, USA Olga De Troyer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Avigdor Gal, University of Toronto, Canada Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Hans Hansen, Viena U. of Economics & Business Admin., Austria Haim Kilov, Merill Lynch, USA Robert Meersman, Vrije University, Belgium Tova Milo, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois Chicago, USA Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL), USA Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay, India Bernhard Thalheim, Cottbus Technical University, Germany Shalom Tsur, Hitachi, USA Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA Jeff Ullman, Stanford University, USA Riend Van De Riet, Vrije University, The Netherlands Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Yelena Yesha, University of Mariland, USA Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA ============================================================ 3. REGISTRATION INFORMATION The workshop will be held at Neve-Ilan, a hotel near Jerusalem, on June 30 - July 3, 1997. Workshop Fees: -------------- Early Registration (received by May 5): 275 US$ Late Registration (received after May 5): 325 US$ Fees include: 1. Participation in all workshop sessions. 2. One copy of the workshop proceedings. 3. Four lunches (Monday - Thursday). 4. Welcome reception and dinner on June 30. 5. Half day excursion in Jerusalem, on July 1. 6. Main social event with dinner in an exotic location, on July 1. Accommodations: --------------- Rooms are being reserved in Neve-Ilan Hotel. Prices per night (Bed & Breakfast): single: 80 US$ double: 90 US$ Additional child 10 US$ Israeli participants add VAT. About Neve-Ilan: Neve-Ilan is located about 30 minutes drive from Ben-Gurion airport, on rout to Jerusalem. The hotel information, including transportation information, can be found at http://www.virtual.co.il/travel/travel/neveilan Proceedings: ------------ Will be distributed to the participants of the Workshop. Extra copies can be purchased for 40 US$ per copy. Extra Tickets: -------------- Available for the two social activities. Prices: 50 US$ for the welcome reception and dinner on June 30. 80 US$ for the excursion and main social event (combined ticket) on July 1. =========================================================================== 4. Registration and accommodation forms -------------------------------- cut here --------------------------------- NGITS '97 REGISTRATION FORM =========================== This form should be returned along with a cheque or money order drawn in US Dollars (Israelis may send an equivalent amount in Shekels) to the order of "NGITS '97". The fees are: US$275 if the form is received by May 5th, and US$325 afterwards. Mail this form to: NGITS '97 c/o Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel Full Name: _______________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Mailing Address: _____________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Email: ________________________________ Fax: ________________________________ Amount Enclosed: Workshop Fees: (275/325) US$ __________________ Extra tickets for the Welcome reception and dinner: (50 each) US$ __________________ Extra tickets for the Excursion and main social event: (80 each) US$ __________________ Extra copies of the Proceedings: (40 each) US$ Total: __________________ --------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------- NGITS '97 ACCOMMODATION FORM ============================ This form is for making reservations at Neve Ilan Hotel. No prepayment is necessary for these reservations. The accommodation will be paid directly to the hotel. The hotel accepts all major credit cards. Mail this form by May 5, 1997 to: NGITS 97 c/o Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel or send by email to: schnapp@ie.technion.ac.il or send by fax to: 972-4-8235194, attn: Nilly Schnapp Full Name: ________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________ ________________________________ Mailing Address: ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Email (optional):________________________________ Fax (optional): ________________________________ 1. Accommodations: [ ] I want to reserve a room at Neve-Ilan hotel. 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EXTENDED DEADLINE: May 30, 1997 The 7th Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence, ACAI-97 "Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems: Integration Aspects" June 23-28, 1997, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania http://neris.mii.lt/ACAI/ACAI-97.html INVITED SPEAKERS - Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany) "Cooperative Information Systems: A Research Agenda" - Finn V. Jensen (Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark) "Decision Support Systems Based on Bayesian Networks" - Georg Lausen (Universitaet Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany) "Deductive Rules in Active Databases" - Olga Perevozchikova (Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev, the Ukraine) "Automated Software Design Using Domain-Specific Knowledge: A Method and Tools" - Rob L.W. van de Weg (University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands) "The Role of Knowledge in Production Automation" GENERAL INFORMATION ACAI is a biannual advanced course organised under the auspices of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI). ACAI-97 is supported by ECCAI, as well as the European Union's TEMPUS PHARE project S_JEP-09752-95 "Introduction of courses in information systems" (see http://www.maf.vu.lt/projects/jep09752.htm). ACAI-97 is open to all interested persons, from academia or industry. It is planned to be useful to young researchers and students (including Ph.D. students), but appeals also to more experienced people as a survey of the field and a place to exchange ideas. ACAI-97 aims at answering the question: `what is an intelligent information system?'. The course is organised by: - Vilnius University (VU) - Vilnius Technical University (VTU) - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI), Vilnius - The AI section of the Lithuanian Computer Society (LIKS-AIS) ORGANISING COMMITTEE - Vytautas Cyras (Chairperson), VU, Vilnius, Lithuania, Vytautas.Cyras@maf.vu.lt - Albertas Caplinskas, IMI, Vilnius, Lithuania, alcapl@ktl.mii.lt - Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia, jgrun@itl.rtu.lv - Ricardas Kudzma, VU, Vilnius, Lithuania, Ricardas.Kudzma@maf.vu.lt - Audrone Lupeikiene, IMI, Vilnius, Lithuania, audronel@ktl.mii.lt - Saulius Maskeliunas, IMI, Vilnius, Lithuania, mask@ktl.mii.lt - Jaan Penjam, Tallinn Technical University, Tallinn, Estonia, jaan@cs.ioc.ee - Olegas Vasilecas, VTU, Vilnius, Lithuania, Olegas.Vasilecas@fm.vtu.lt VENUE: Theatre Hall of Vilnius University, in the city centre. Venue and registration desk: Universiteto Street 3. REGISTRATION FEE. Regular: 200 USD. Student: 150 USD. Eastern: 100 USD (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belorussia, Russia, the Ukraine). REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 30th, 1997. The registration fee includes: admission, course materials, lunches, refreshments during breaks and welcoming reception. The Organising Committee will provide FREE OF CHARGE registration for a limited number of students and teachers from ESTONIA, LATVIA and LITHUANIA. This registration includes: admission, course materials and refreshments. Please apply to the organisers. LITHUANIAN VISA FORMALITIES: For many nationals no entry visa to Lithuania is required. Please ask your travel agent or the Lithuanian Embassy. CURRENCY: Lithuanian Litas (Lt). You may buy Litas on arrival to Vilnius airport. You may also sell unused Litas at your departure. The loss is less than 5%. Hard currencies are bought and sold at banks and exchange offices. Major credit cards are accepted in banks, most hotels, shops and many restaurants. The Litas is fixed to the US Dollar: 1 Lt = 0.25 USD. CONTACT ADDRESS Vytautas Cyras, ACAI-97 Secretariat Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics Tel.: (370-2)-636035, 620011 Naugarduko 24 Fax: (370-2)-223563, 729209 LT-2600 Vilnius, Lithuania E-mail: acai-97@conf.vu.lt SCHEDULE: Monday-Friday: 9:00-17:00, Saturday: 9:00-12:00. 9:00-10:00 lecture, 10:00-10:30 coffee break, 10:30-11:30 lecture, 11:30-12:00 coffee break, 12:00-13:00 lecture, 13:00-14:30 lunch break, 14:30-15:30 lecture or presentations of participants, 15:30-16:00 coffee break, 16:00-17:00 lecture or presentations of participants. Participants wishing to make a presentation please apply to the organisers. ABSTRACTS OF INVITED TALKS 1. Matthias JARKE, (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany) "Cooperative Information Systems: A Research Agenda" Modern systems development has to consider a triangle of tensions between formal organizations and their conceptual models, the work practice in human teams empowered by loosely defined group workspaces, and the distributed, database-intensive information systems infrastructure. In the past, only individual corners or sides of this triangle have been studied. The emerging research agenda of Cooperative Information Systems is to investigate the implications of looking at all the three aspects together. The presence of continuous change in technology, people, and organizations highlights the importance of intelligent tools and methods to assess, develop, and preserve organizational knowledge bases and information flows. The course will present a framework of thinking for Cooperative Information Systems developed in an European-Canadian project over the past few years. It will then use this framework to review existing research results, prototypical solutions, and remaining challenges. The concepts will be illustrated with detailed case studies from production and service industries. 2. Finn V. JENSEN (Aalborg University, Denmark) "Decision Support Systems Based on Bayesian Networks" Bayesian networks are used for systems giving advice when decisions based on estimates are to be taken, and they have attracted more and more attention in industry over the past five years. Bayesian networks is fundamentally a language for modelling domains where cause-effect relations are stochastic or dependent on factors not known to the decision maker. The models are directed graphs with conditional probabilities attached. The models are easily loaded to a computer through specific B-N- editors, which also take care of calculating new probabilties given evidence. Bayesian networks are extended to include actions and utilities, and then they are called influence diagrams. Contents: causal networks and d-separation; basic probability theory for sets of variables; Bayesian networks and the chain rule; how to build Bayesian network models (primer); some modelling tricks; learning and adaptation; probability updating, junction trees and HUGIN propagation; actions, utilities and influence diagrams. The course uses as a reference the book: Finn V. Jensen "An Introduction to Bayesian Networks", UCL Press, London 1996. 3. Georg LAUSEN and Bertram LUDAESCHER (Universitaet Freiburg, Germany) "Deductive Rules in Active Databases" Traditional database systems are passive, i.e., they only execute queries or transactions explicitly submitted by the user or an application program. In contrast, active database systems (ADBs) allow to define (re)active behavior by means of active rules resulting in a quite flexible and powerful formalism. ADBs support automatic triggering of data manipulating operations or more general actions as a response to external or internal events, and are attractive for several reasons. A number of advanced database features like checking and enforcing integrity constraints, incremental view maintenance, (view) updates, access and version control, and many others, can be expressed naturally and uniformly by active rules. From a software engineering perspective, it is advantageous that functionality can be moved from application programs to the ADB. Thus, more code can be shared by different application programs, thereby facilitating development and maintenance of applications. Moreover, an ADB can be more efficient for monitoring tasks compared to a passive system which would have to be polled frequently by the application program. Finally, active rules can be used in advanced applications like workflow management and data warehousing applications, the latter requiring maintenance of huge materialized views. Although the area of active databases has been quite active indeed, and produced a huge amount of literature as well as a number of prototypes, theoretical foundations are still rare and there is no generally accepted framework. This is in contrast to the area of deductive databases with its well-established logical foundations. While deductive rules allow to express knowledge on the current state of the modeled world, they lack the ability to define automatic (re)actions as a response to external or internal (database) events like previously executed updates. Therefore, it is highly desirable to integrate active capabilities with the declarative semantics from the area of deductive databases and logic programming. In the first part of the course, active and deductive rules are introduced and compared wrt. their distinctive features like updates vs. queries, execution models, and theoretical foundations. In the second part we present a logical framework integrating the core features of active rules with the declarative semantics of deductive databases, and compare it with related approaches from the literature. 4. Olga PEREVOZCHIKOVA, Valeri GRECHKO and Vadim TULCHINSKY (Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev, the Ukraine) "Automated Software Design Using Domain-Specific Knowledge: A Method and Tools" Many languages, tools and techniques are used for the development of software systems, including database and knowledge-based systems. In this lecture, an automated database and knowledge- based systems development method using MikroPoisk is presented. MikroPoisk is both a development environment and a run-time system. Domain-specific knowledge is essential in this approach. Conceptual modelling techniques, algebraic methods and grammars are combined to model an application domain. A number of systems have been developed using MikroPoisk (for example, a multifunctional data analysis and decision-support system FACTOR; a geological research data analysis and interpretation system GeoPoisk, a cardiology diagnostic system, the Ukraine phone network design system, etc.). 5. Rob L.W. van de WEG (University of Twente, the Netherlands) "The Role of Knowledge in Production Automation" Production automation is becoming more and more a factor of survival in the fierce international competition. Production automation is very different from developing business information systems. Two main issues in production control systems are: coordination and cooperation of hardware components, and failures of hardware components. In existing development methods for technical real-time systems there is not enough attention for these problems. Another important issue is the reuse of earlier product designs and production designs (hardware as well as software designs) in order to reduce the throughput time of the design process and to increase the quality. In this talk we will discuss the following aspects of knowledge with respect to production automation: - Knowledge involved in the software development process. It will be shown how a method for the software development process and related software tools can be constructed (method engineering). First, concepts are to be identified needed for modelling and design. It turned out that our approach is applicable to the design of as well robots as workflow management systems. Furthermore, our approach can be also used to establish what kind of implementation can be used (e.g. case-based or model-based reasoning, or a database implementation). - Reuse of knowledge on earlier developed software or hardware for production automation. This will increase the productivity of the software and hardware development processes. - Retrieval and reuse of knowledge of earlier product designs. The accessibility and reuse of so-called organizational memories is of paramount importance for a company, for instance, to avoid the continuous reinvention of the wheel, to improve the bid process in the competition with other companies. We will discuss the (re)design of organizational memories and discuss some implementations (e.g. application of WWW). Of course the talk is not restricted to production automation only, but will be broadened to the lessons that can be learned for other types of automation. === cut here =============================================== APPLICATION FORM I shall participate in the Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence, ACAI-97, June 23-28, 1997, in Vilnius. SURNAME: FIRST NAME: DATE OF BIRTH: CITIZENSHIP: MALE [ ] / FEMALE [ ] INSTITUTION: POSITION: MAILING ADDRESS: TELEPHONE: FAX: E-MAIL: ACCOMPANYING PERSON(S): REGISTRATION FEE Regular: [ ] 200 USD Student: [ ] 150 USD Eastern: [ ] 100 USD Extra welcoming reception ticket: [ ] 20 USD Excursions: Kaunas City, Sunday, June 22nd [ ] 20 USD Trakai Castle, Saturday, June 28th [ ] 15 USD ------------------------------------------------------------ Total: ... USD HOTEL ACCOMODATION (to be paid at the hotel) Please book me from .......... to .......... a single [ ] or a double [ ] room. I wish to share: NO [ ] YES [ ] with ................... . 1. Three star: [ ] 70-120 USD 2. Two star: [ ] 40-70 USD 3. Season hotel: [ ] 20-40 USD 4. Student hostel (1-2 pers./room): [ ] 5-20 USD Reservations will be made on a "first-come, first-served" basis. Remarks (special diet, etc.): ............................ . DATE: SIGNATURE: === cut here =============================================== Please send the Application Form with a payment document to: Vytautas Cyras, ACAI-97 Secretariat Vilnius University, Faculty of Mathematics Naugarduko 24, LT-2600 Vilnius, Lithuania Fax: (370-2)-223563 (or 729209) Payment in US Dollars please pay to: Vilniaus Bankas AB, Vilnius, SWIFT: CBVI LT 2X, correspondent account no. 36016952 with Citibank, New York, SWIFT: CITI US 33 for further credit to Vilnius University, Universiteto 3, LT-2734, Vilnius, account no. 57089123, details of payment: ACAI-97 registration fee. Payment in Litas (e.g. participants from Lithuania) pay to: Vilniaus Bankas AB, Vilnius, bank code 260101777, for credit to Vilnius University, account no. 142712, details of payment: ACAI-97 registration fee. Credit cards cannot be accepted. All money transfers must be free of charge for the recipient. Payment must accompany the registration form. On-site registration is considered as an exception to be agreed upon with organisers. === end CfP: ACAI-97 ========================== 10 May 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 19 12:41:02 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 MAA24085 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 12:40:50 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA00967 for dbworld; Mon, 19 May 1997 12:40:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:40:49 -0500 (CDT) From: mliu@cs.uregina.ca (Mengchi Liu) Message-Id: <199705191740.MAA00967@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu *********************************************************************** * ANNOUNCEMENT * * Release of the ROL * * Deductive Object Database System * * Version 2.2 * * May 10, 1997 * *********************************************************************** This notice announces the public release of the ROL system version 2.2 via anonymous ftp. 1. What is it? ROL (Rule-based Object Language) is a deductive object base system developed at the University of Regina in Canada with support from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The ROL language effectively integrates important features in deductive databases and object-oriented databases. It supports object-oriented features such as object identity, complex objects, classes, class hierarchy, multiple inheritance with overriding and blocking, and schema definition. It also supports structured values such as functor objects and sets and provides powerful mechanisms for representing both partial and complete information about sets. It is a pure declarative query language without any imperative parts. It builds-in important integrity constraints, such as domain, key, referential, functional dependency, and cardinality in a uniform framework. Furthermore, it has a logical semantics that cleanly accounts for all of its object-oriented and value-oriented features. 2. Who may use it? The ROL system has been used by hundreds of users world-wide for various data and knowledge-based applications since its first public release. Some users say that the ROL is so far the only product available that can do everything for their research projects and it is quite easy to learn and use. It is best suited for advanced database applications. The ROL system has also been used to teach advanced database courses on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and/or deductive and object-oriented databases at a number of universities around the world. 3. Where to get it? Release 2.2 of ROL is available via anonymous ftp from the server ftp.cs.uregina.ca/pub/rol It is also available from its World Wide Web home page at http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~mliu/ROL/ 4. What platforms does it run on? It runs on the following platforms: Hardware Operating Systems -------- ----------------- SUN SparcStations Solaris 2.4 (both rol and xrol) SGI Workstations IRIX 5.3 (both rol and xrol) DEC Workstations Untrix V4.3 (only rol) IBM PC Compatibles Linux 1.2.8 (only rol) 5. What is new in 2.2: 5.1 Schema, fact, and rule queries in addition to object queries The ROL system now extends the query command to support schema, fact and rule queries. 5.2 Meta database management and new createdb, destroydb, and open commands The ROL system now keeps track of all databases existing in the system. The database can only be created with the createdb command rather than the open command. The open command only makes the existing database accessible. The destroydb command destroys the specific database from the system and from the meta database. 5.3 New insert and delete commands The insert command can be used to insert facts, rules, and class definitions. The delete command can be used to delete facts, rules, and class definitions. 5.4 Update command The insert and delete commands can be used together to update the attribute values of objects declaratively. 6. What is new in 2.1: 6.1 Query result control and processing It now provides the write command so that the user can control the way the query results are displayed and can store the results into a file in the way similar to C++. Here is an example: query A[age -> B], B > 20, write(stdout, A, '[age ->', B, ']\n') 6.2 Error message reporting If a ROL program has errors, the error messages are displayed more meaningful so that it is easier to debug the program. 6.3 Graphical database display If the ROL database used is a graphic database containing functor objects such as point, line, circle, polygon, polyline, and inpicture, then the database can be drawn on the screen by using the drawpicture command. 6.4 X-window interface (xrol) The user can simply use mouse to select commands rather than type everything. 6.5 Extensive and classified examples Significantly more examples are included in this distribution. Some of them are contributed by ROL users world-wide. 7. What is new in 2.0 7.1 Simplify and unify user interface 7.2 Support multiple class, object, and rule updates 7.3 Support createdb, destroydb for creating and destroying all database system files within ROL 7.4 Add the data type 'real' and the corresponding operations 7.5 Add string operations such as concat, like, substring 7.6 Add the 'in' (member-of) operation for sets 8. Features of 1.0 8.1 Effectively combining the bottom-up with top-down evaluation strategies together to answer user queries, and return all query results to the user at reasonable speed 8.2 Supporting higher-order features so that the user can write more general rules and issue more general queries 8.3 Providing basic update facilities so that the user can update facts and rules at run-time 9. An Example Following is a graphic ROL program which can show the power of ROL system: % This is a graphic database represented in ROL format. % This database can be displayed on the screen by using the drawpicture % command. To obtain the complete picture described by this program, % first type query X:inpicture, then type drawpicture, as some objects % in the picture are inferred by rules. Schema object point(integer, integer) % x, y line(point, point) isa object % from, to circle(point, integer) isa object % center and radius polygon(integer, {point}) isa object % location, side #, points polyline(integer, {line}) isa object % location, side #, lines house[ roof => polygon, door => polygon, windows => {polygon}, frame => polygon, paveway => {line} ] isa object human[ head => circle, body => line, arms => {line}, legs => {line} ] isa object tree [ lines => {line} ] isa object inpicture(point, object) Facts % Define the graphic object standing human % Here standing is an object identifier which identifies a graphic % structure so that several objects in the picture can use/share the % same structure. standing: human[head -> circle(point(10,25),5), body -> line(point(10,20), point(10,10)), arms -> {line(point(10,15),point(0,10)), line(point(10,15), point(20,10))}, legs -> {line(point(5,0), point(10, 10)), line(point(10,10), point(15, 0))}] % Define the graphic object working human working: human[ head -> circle(point(10,25),5), body -> line(point(11,20), point(13,10)), arms -> {line(point(12,15), point(9,11)), line(point(9,11), point(4,8)), line(point(12,15), point(16,15)), line(point(16,15), point(20,10))}, legs -> {line(point(13,10), point(8, 2)), line(point(8,2), point(8, 0)), line(point(13,10), point(18, 0))}] % Define the graphic object bungalow house bungalow:house[ roof -> polygon(4, {point(10,50),point(60,50), point(70,40),point(0,40)}), door -> polygon(4, {point(30,20), point(30,34), point(40,34),point(40,20)}), windows -> {polygon(4, {point(15,27), point(15,32), point(25,32),point(25,27)}), polygon(4, {point(45,27), point(45,32), point(55,32),point(55,27)})}, frame -> polygon(4, {point(10,20), point(10,40), point(60,40),point(60,20)}), paveway -> {line(point(30,20),point(27,0)), line(point(40,20),point(43,0))}] % Define the graphic object twostory house twostory: house[ roof -> polygon(3, {point(0,65),point(40,80), point(80,65)}), door -> polygon(4, {point(35,20),point(35,40), point(45,40),point(45,20)}), frame -> polygon(4, {point(10,20),point(10,65), point(70,65),point(70,20)}), windows -> {polygon(4,{point(15,30), point(15,40), point(30,40),point(30,30)}), polygon(4,{point(50,30), point(50,40), point(65,40),point(65,30)}), polygon(4,{point(15,50), point(15,60), point(30,60),point(30,50)}), polygon(4,{point(50,50), point(50,60), point(65,60),point(65,50)}), polygon(4,{point(35,50), point(35,60), point(45,60),point(45,50)})}, paveway -> {line(point(35,20),point(32,0)), line(point(45,20),point(48,0))}] % Define the graphic object pine tree pine:tree[ lines -> {line(point(18,0),point(18,20)), line(point(0,20),point(36,20)), line(point(0,20),point(18,55)), line(point(18,55),point(36,20))}] maple:tree[ lines -> {line(point(10,0),point(10,30)), line(point(0,25),point(10,15)), line(point(10,15),point(20,25))} ] % Draw initial humans inpicture(point(50,215), standing) inpicture(point(110,215), working) % Draw initial houses inpicture(point(50,220), bungalow) inpicture(point(400,220), twostory) % Draw an initial tree inpicture(point(10,235), pine) % Draw the road inpicture(point(10,220), line(point(0,0), point(640,0))) inpicture(point(0,210), line(point(0,0), point(630,0))) % Draw the Sun inpicture(point(500,500), circle(point(10,20), 20)) % Draw the mountain inpicture(point(100,300), polyline(2,{line(point(0,0),point(150,150)), line(point(150,150), point(300,0))})) % Draw the garden inpicture(point(50,100), polygon(4,{point(0,0), point(50,50), point(500,50), point(550,00)})) % Draw initial trees arround graden inpicture(point(120,140), maple) inpicture(point(90,110), maple) Rules % Draw the rest humans inpicture(point(X,Y), Z) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), Z), Z:human, X = X1 + 180, X < 650 % Draw the rest pine trees with rules inpicture(point(X,Y), pine) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), pine), X = X1 + 120, X <650 % Draw the rest maple trees with rules inpicture(point(X,Y), maple) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), maple), X = X1 + 50, X <550 % Draw the rest houses with rules inpicture(point(X,Y), bungalow) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), bungalow), X = X1 + 120, X <400 inpicture(point(X,Y), twostory) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), twostory), X = X1 + 120, X <550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 19 12:43:45 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 MAA24140 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 12:43:38 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA00988 for dbworld; Mon, 19 May 1997 12:43:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:43:38 -0500 (CDT) From: yuri@research.bell-labs.com (Yuri Breitbart) Message-Id: <199705191743.MAA00988@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Lucent Technologies - Bell Laboratories There are currently several openings for Ph.D. and Master level computer scientists to join Data Integration Architecture group to conduct research, design, and development of various integration architectures for legacy systems and network products platforms. A successful candidate would be expected to propose integration architectures that guarantee consistency of shared data in heterogenous distributed system environment, as well as to demonstrate a viability of the proposed architectures by applying them to a solution of specific company problems. The proposed architectures should be able to integrate internal company software products as well as software products from external vendors. The positions are located at Murray Hill, NJ. Interested candidates should email or fax or send their resume to: email: yuri@research.bell-labs.com fax : 908-582-5192 Mail: Yuri Breitbart rm 2T-106 Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies 600 Mountain Av. Murray Hill, NJ 07974 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 19 13:02:09 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 NAA24344 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 13:02:03 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA00999 for dbworld; Mon, 19 May 1997 13:02:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:02:03 -0500 (CDT) From: "William I. Grosky" Message-Id: <199705191802.NAA00999@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Announcing the publication of a new book: ---------------------------------------- Handbook of Multimedia Information Management --------------------------------------------- William I. Grosky, Ramesh Jain, and Rajiv Mehrotra Prentice-Hall, April 1997, ISBN 0-13-207325-0 Contents: Preface Introduction Data Modeling ------------- Modeling Time-Based Media Simon Gibbs, Christian Breiteneder, and Dennis Tsichritzis Document Model Issues for Hypermedia Lynda Hardman and Dick C.A. Bulterman Information Retrieval Techniques -------------------------------- Content-Based Indexing and Retrieval H.V. Jagadish Video and Image Content Representation and Retrieval Nevenka Dimitrova and Forouzan Golshani Video Segmentation for Video Data Management Nilesh V. Patel and Ishwar Sethi Multimedia Interfaces --------------------- Visual Interfaces to Multimedia Databases S.K. Chang and M.F. Costabile Multimedia Interfaces - Multimedia Content Indication Yoshinobu Tonomura Multimedia Presentation ----------------------- Composite Models R. Hamakawa and A. Atarashi Memory Management ----------------- Memory Management: Codecs Bhaskaran Vasudev and Wei Li Design of Large-Scale Multimedia-on-Demand Storage Servers and Storage Hierarchies Milind M. Buddhikot, Guru M. Parulkar, Srihari Sampath Kumar, and P. Venkat Rangan Multimedia Communications ------------------------- Multimedia Communications - Synchronization Shahab Baqai, M. Farrukh Khan, and Arif Ghafoor Prototype Systems ----------------- Image Database Prototypes Carole Goble Video Database Systems - Recent Trends in Research and Development Activities Eitetsu Oomoto and Katsumi Tanaka Third-Generation Distributed Hypermedia Systems John F. Buford and Lloyd Rutledge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 19 13:16:52 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 NAA24506 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 13:16:39 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA01045 for dbworld; Mon, 19 May 1997 13:16:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:16:38 -0500 (CDT) From: iparsa@epsilon.com (Ismail Parsa) Message-Id: <199705191816.NAA01045@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY CUP (KDD-CUP-97): A Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Tools Competition to be held in conjunction with THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING (KDD-97) http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/HyperNews/get/KDD97.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To benchmark the performance of existing knowledge discovery and data mining (KDDM) tools, we are organizing a KDDM tools competition this year. The Knowledge Discovery Cup will be open to all KDDM tool vendors, academics and corporations with significant applications. All products, applications, research prototypes and black-box solutions are welcome. Our aim is not to rank the participants but to recognize the most innovative, efficient and methodologically advanced KDDM tools. The participants are required to demonstrate the performance of their KDDM tool in one or all of the following areas: A. Supervised Learning: Classification or Discrimination B. Unsupervised Learning: Clustering or Segmentation. In the interest of time, the regression or prediction category and other descriptive modeling techniques, such as the association rules, are not included in the competition this year. The registration deadline for the Knowledge Discovery Cup is June 13, 1997. The training and validation data set(s) will be sent to the participants by June 19th. All participants must send back the results along with a scoring code[1] by July 17th, one month prior to the KDD-97 conference. The scoring code will be used by the KDD-CUP-97 committee to independently validate the results. A jury of experts (to be announced) will determine the winner(s.) The results of the competition will be privately announced to the participants by August 11, 1997. The top three performing tools in the supervised and unsupervised learning categories will be announced during the KDD-97 conference and will be awarded Gold Miner, Silver Miner and Bronze Miner awards, respectively. The winners will also be listed in the KD Nuggets web site (http://www.kdnuggets.com) until the beginning of the KDD-98 conference, unless the participants and their affiliated companies/ institutions wish to preserve their anonymity. If your company/institution would like to sponsor this event, please indicate it in the registration brochure. ATTENDANCE TO KDD-97 CONFERENCE IS NOT REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CUP. If you will not attend the KDD-97 conference but would like to participate in the KDDM tools competition then indicate it in the registration brochure. [1] The scoring code is a stand alone C or C++ callable program or hard code that carries out all the steps required to implement the learning algorithm outside the model building environment. In addition to the numeric values of the weights, it also includes preprocessing statements for treating the missings, transforming/normalizing/standardizing inputs, etc. It is ultimately used in computing the predicted value or output outside the modeling environment. For decision tree algorithms, the preprocessing code along with the 'if-then-else' rules constitute the scoring code. EVALUATION CRITERIA ------------------- A. CLASSIFICATION OR DISCRIMINATION CATEGORY Although the predictive power, i.e., the classification accuracy, of the resulting model measured in terms of lift (the term 'lift' implies improvement over random or no prediction) will be the primary evaluation criterion in the classification category, the winner will be selected based on a weighted combination of all of the following (the weights are to be determined): 1) Software Novelty/Innovation, e.g., unified approach to analyses through the implementation of analytic metadata, integration of data mining with data visualization, integration with other systems in novel ways, user interaction, built-in intelligence, etc. 2) Efficiency, i.e., people and CPU time 3) KDD Methodology, including but not limited to: - Data Archaeology, including but not limited to: Data Hygiene (quality-control and cleaning) Identification and elimination of noise Preprocessing Identification and elimination of constants Identification and treatment of missing values Identification (and treatment) of outliers Identification (and treatment) of non-linearity Identification (and treatment) of non-normality Creation of derived features based on string-to-numeric conversions Creation of derived features based on dates Creation of derived features based on time series smoothing Discretization or binning of continuous features Criterion-based discretization or binning of nominal features Creation of derived features based on feature interactions and/or ratios Creation of derived features based on transformations Identification of feature measurement scales (i.e., nominal, ordinal, continuous) - Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), including but not limited to: Collinearity screening (elimination of redundant features) Feature dimensionality reduction Feature subset selection Data visualization - Model Development and Implementation, including but not limited to: Application of the data mining algorithm(s) to extract patterns Evaluation of alternative algorithms, modeling technologies Validation of results (to avoid over-fitting) Interpretability of extracted patterns Data visualization Return on investment (ROI) or back-end analysis Application of the learned knowledge to the universe, i.e., scoring. B. CLUSTERING OR SEGMENTATION CATEGORY: In the clustering or segmentation category, the validity of the final solution will be determined based on a combination of the relevant items listed above and one or more of the following: 1) External evaluation, i.e., using samples from known clusters 2) Internal evaluation, i.e., using statistical or other measures to characterize the goodness of fit of the clustering solution 3) Replicability, i.e., using cross-validation samples 4) Relative criteria, i.e., comparison of cluster solutions obtained from alternative clustering algorithms applied to the same data set. Visualization of the final clustering solution will also be important. REGISTRATION BROCHURE ===================== To participate in the KDD-CUP-97, please complete the application form below and sent it in plain ASCII format to (e-mail preferred): *-----------------------------* | Ismail Parsa | | Epsilon Data Management | | 50 Cambridge Street | | Burlington MA 01803 USA | | | | E-mail: iparsa@epsilon.com | | Phone: (617) 273-0250*6734 | | Fax: (617) 272-8604 | *-----------------------------* Detailed information regarding the rules of the competition will be sent to the participants later. ---------------------------------- cut --------------------------------- KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY CUP (KDD-CUP-97) Registration Brochure Competition category..........: (_) Classification or Discrimination (check all that apply) (_) Clustering or Segmentation Will you attend the KDD-97 conference..................: (_) Yes (_) No Would you like to sponsor this event? (terms/benefits to be determined).................: (_) Yes (_) No Name of software/product/tool research prototype..........: Status of software/product/ tool/research prototype.....: (_) Alpha (_) Beta (_) Production Release date of software/ product/tool/research prototype (in YYMM format)..: Platform availability.........: (_) PC (_) Unix (_) Mainframe (check all that apply) (_) Parallel environment (_) Other Built-in KDDM methodology/ technology..................: (_) Graphical User Interface (GUI) (check all that apply) (_) Data Access (_) Data Selection (sampling, etc.) (_) Data Preprocessing (_) Exploratory Data Analysis (_) Link Analysis (Associations, Sequences, etc.) (_) Clustering or Segmentation (_) Time Series Analysis (_) Classification or Discrimination (_) Prediction or Regression (_) Multiple Learned or Combined Models (_) Data Postprocessing (_) Data and Knowledge Visualization (_) Other, specify: _______ _______ Data mining algorithms........: (_) Supervised Neural Networks (MLP, (check all that apply and RBF, etc.) specify the algorithms) (_) Statistical Methods (Logistic, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ OLS, MARS, PPR, GAM, Nearest Neighbors, etc.) (_) Decision Trees (ID3, C4.5, CHAID, CART, etc.) (_) Hybrid Systems (Neuro-fuzzy systems, GA optimized neural systems, etc.) (_) Unsupervised Algorithms (Kohonen networks, K-means clustering, etc.) (_) Case-Based Reasoning (_) Associations and Sequence Discovery (_) Other, specify: _______ _______ Is your software/product/tool/ research prototype: Freeware....................: (_) Yes (_) No Available for purchase......: (_) Yes (_) No if 'yes' then Price (optional, in US$)..: Number of sites installed.: Does your software/product/ tool/research prototype have limitations, e.g., number of variables and rows it can handle, etc.....: (_) No (_) Yes, please specify: _______ Other relevant information....: PRIMARY CONTACT: Name..........................: E-mail Address................: Phone Number..................: Fax Number....................: Title.........................: Name of Company/Institution...: Mailing Address...............: SECONDARY CONTACT: Name..........................: E-mail Address................: Phone Number..................: Title.........................: Name of Company/Institution...: Mailing Address...............: ---------------------------------- cut --------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 19 13:29:12 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 NAA24601 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 13:29:06 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA01122 for dbworld; Mon, 19 May 1997 13:29:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:29:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Amit Basu Message-Id: <199705191829.NAA01122@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The knowledge and data management area of the INFORMS Journal on Computing invites technical papers on the analysis, design and management of knowledge discovery and data mining methods and systems. Selected papers will be published in a special cluster on this topic. The journal is an official publication of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, and focuses on the interface between operations research/management science and computer science. Papers that deal with algorithms for system design, methods for efficient information management, and analytical or empirical studies of system performance are welcome. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * performance analysis of KD/DM algorithms (efficiency, scalability, reliability, etc.) * the use of optimization methods in KD/DM * comparative studies of KD/DM versus other exploratory data analysis methods, including traditional statistical and mathematical programming models * analysis of context-specific KD/DM methods * neural networks in KD/DM * performance analysis of uncertainty management methods in KD/DM * analysis of KD/DM algorithms in large-scale, distributed and/or heterogeneous database systems * efficiency and scalability analysis of KD/DM algorithms for specialized databases (spatial, temporal, multimedia, statistical, etc.) * analysis of data mining methods on confidential data * efficient data preprocessing methods (e.g., scrubbing, sampling and reduction) for data mining * performance of KD/DM methods on multidimensional data Deadline: July 31, 1997. Four (4) copies of each manuscript should be submitted to Professor Amit Basu, the Area Editor for Knowledge and Data Management, at the following address: Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37203 TEL: 615-322-7043 FAX: 615-343-7177 email: basua@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Manuscripts should be prepared according to JoC guidelines. For more information, please contact Professor Basu, or the Editor-in-Chief of JoC, Professor Bruce Golden, who can be reached at the address below: College of Business and Management University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 TEL: 301-405-2232 FAX: 301-314-9157 email: bgolden@umdacc.umd.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 Mon May 19 22:18:44 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 WAA08717 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 22:18:36 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA02874 for dbworld; Mon, 19 May 1997 22:18:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 22:18:35 -0500 (CDT) From: guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de (Oliver Guenther) Message-Id: <199705200318.WAA02874@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The three Berlin universities and the Technical University of Cottbus recently received a major grant to set up a research program in distributed information systems. We currently have several openings for junior researchers. More details can be obtained from the official announcement below and from http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/gkvi. Most of these materials are in German, and for practical purposes a basic ability to communicate in German will be of great advantage. Ph.D. theses, however, can be written in English, and most related publications are expected to be in English as well. If you have further questions, please contact the program coordinator: Prof. Oliver Guenther, guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de, http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~guenther. ----- Zum 1. Dezember 1996 wurde an den drei Berliner Universitaeten und der BTU Cottbus aus Mitteln der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft ein Graduiertenkolleg "Verteilte Informationssysteme" eingerichtet. Das interdisziplinaer ausgerichtete Kolleg wird von Lehrstuehlen mit den Schwerpunkten Datenbanken (Freytag, Schweppe, Thalheim), Softwaretechnik (Weber) und Wirtschaftsinformatik (Guenther, Krallmann, Lenz) getragen. Die derzeitigen Arbeitsinhalte betreffen sowohl technische Aspekte als auch innovative Anwendungen moderner Netzarchitekturen. Weitere Angaben koennen den WWW-Seiten des Kollegs entnommen werden: http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/gkvi. Fuer den zweiten Kollegiatenjahrgang sind zum 1.12.97 mehrere Promotionsstipendien fuer eine Laufzeit von zunaechst zwei Jahren zu vergeben. Wir suchen hervorragende Absolvent(inn)en eines universitaeren Studiums, vorzugsweise der Informatik oder der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Kandidaten aus anderen Fachrichtungen sind willkommen, einschlaegige Schwerpunktsetzung vorausgesetzt. Die Stipendienhoehe betraegt ca. DM 2500 pro Monat. Die Stipendien sind steuerfrei. Bewerbungen werden bis zum 8. Juni 1997 per E-Mail (ASCII, HTML oder Postscript, KEIN WinWord) an den Sprecher des Kollegs, Prof. Dr. Oliver Guenther, E-Mail: gkvi-sprecher@wiwi.hu-berlin.de erbeten. Erwartet werden eine ausfuehrliche Darstellung der bisherigen Arbeitsschwerpunkte und ggf. erste Ueberlegungen zur geplanten Dissertation, Lebenslauf, Zeugnisnoten (Diplom, Vordiplom, Abitur) sowie 1-2 Referenzen (moeglichst mit E-Mail-Anschrift). Fuer Rueckfragen ist das Kollegsekretariat unter der Rufnummer (030) 2093-5806 erreichbar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 19 22:19:04 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 WAA08722 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 22:18:59 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA02879 for dbworld; Mon, 19 May 1997 22:18:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 22:18:58 -0500 (CDT) From: guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de (Oliver Guenther) Message-Id: <199705200318.WAA02879@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Institute of Information Systems The Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt University invites applications for two positions as Research and Teaching Associate [Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter] Applicants for these junior faculty positions must have a Master's degree, possibly a Ph.D., in computer science or a related field. The successful applicants will join our research project MMM, where we build a Web-based tool to access software modules remotely. Primary consideration will be given to individuals with research experience in (Internet-based) information systems and database management. A basic working knowledge of German is desirable. The positions are available immediately for an initial 2.5-year-term. Depending on age and marital status, the annual *net* salary (after taxes and social security) ranges between US$ 24,000 and US$ 30,000. Humboldt University is located in the Eastern part of the city. After reunification, the university has gone through a major restructuring, and more than 300 new professors have been hired within the last three years. The Department of Business Administration and Economics currently consists of 25 tenured professors and about 20 junior faculty. The department offers Master's and Ph.D. degrees in business administration and economics, with a major in information systems. More information about the institute is available on the Web at http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/iwi. The MMM home page is at http://mmm.wiwi.hu-berlin.de. E-mail applications should include a curriculum vitae, a statement of your current research interests, links to your most relevant publications (if available), and e-mail addresses of two references. Applications should be in Postscript, HTML, or ASCII (NO WinWord!), and should be sent as soon as possible to guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Oliver Guenther Tel. +49-30-2093-5743 Institute of Information Systems Sec. +49-30-2093-5742 Humboldt University Fax +49-30-2093-5741 Spandauer Str. 1 guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de 10178 Berlin, Germany www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~guenther ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 19 23:45:36 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 XAA10586 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 23:45:29 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA03197 for dbworld; Mon, 19 May 1997 23:45:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 23:45:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Raghu Ramakrishnan Message-Id: <199705200445.XAA03197@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Subject: NEW DATABASE TEXT FOR FALL 97 Hello, I'm (very!) happy to announce that the first regular edition of my book will be available in late August, after over a year of beta-testing. McGraw-Hill has promised to arrange special delivery direct from the warehouse for Fall 97 adoptions upon request (Contact: Betsy Jones). If you want to consider Fall 97 adoption, please contact Emily Gray at emily_gray@mhhe.com (and cc me on your msg); she can send you page proofs of a recent draft. If you want a sample copy of the 1st edition (it'll get to you by early September) send mail to Betsy Jones at betsy.jones@tmhe.com (and cc me on your msg!). Incidentally, some people who requested sample copies of the beta edition apparently did not receive it due to a mix-up at McGraw-Hill; my apologies. Let me leave you with this Churchill quote, which Moshe Vardi brought to my attention: "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled with your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public". Cheers, Raghu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free software, Projects, Lecture slides, Solutions --- All this can be yours! (*) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (*) Not to mention $2 for the first report of a bug in the book! Get rich! DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS McGraw-Hill, 1st Edition Pub. Date: Aug 22, 1997, ISBN: 007050775-9 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/coral/minibase/dbbook.html RAGHU RAMAKRISHNAN University of Wisconsin-Madison This is a new undergraduate/graduate level text, designed to be used in a first or second database course. The approach emphasizes quantitative examples and hands-on problem solving, and concentrates on relational DBMSs and their extensions. Topics covered in depth include: relational model concepts, conceptual and physical database design, storage, file structures and indexing, database implementation, parallel and distributed databases, and transaction processing. There is an accompanying FREE SOFTWARE package called Minibase, that can be used to create course projects in which students are asked to implement parts of a relational database (e.g., heap files, buffer manager, B+ trees, join methods, etc.). It also contains visualization components for the buffer manager, B+ trees, the query optimizer and normalization. These components can be used to create a variety of assignments that involve hands-on experimentation and design, rather than implementation. The book is designed to provide the background necessary to use the software, but does not in any way depend upon the software. Extensive exercises are included for all chapters, and SQL-92 and SQL3 standards are followed wherever appropriate. On-line support material includes LECTURE TRANSPARENCIES in Powerpoint, Postscript and PDF, suggested software-oriented ASSIGNMENTS, and SOLUTIONS for chapter exercises and software assignments. The beta-editions of this book have been class-tested at a number of universities world-wide, over several semesters. For those familiar with the beta-editions, the first edition includes extensive editing and revision of all chapters. Major changes and additions include: * More modular chapter organization: The book is now structured so that topics can easily be covered in the order preferred by an instructor. In particular, ER design and query languages can be covered early if you wish. * Deductive and active databases: A new chapter covers these extensions to relational query languages and integrity constraint mechanisms, for which support is expected in the forthcoming SQL3 standard. * Object-oriented extensions: A chapter is devoted to discussion of object-oriented concepts and how a relational system can be enhanced using these ideas, leading to object-relational database systems, towards which most relational products are currently evolving. * Decision support: Increasingly, organizations are concerned with consolidating their datasets and asking complex questions that reveal useful trends, in order to support high-level decision making. A new chapter covers this important area, including the topics of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 01:01:07 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 BAA11607 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 01:01:00 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA03555; Tue, 20 May 1997 01:01:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 01:01:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Raghu Ramakrishnan Message-Id: <199705200601.BAA03555@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Subject: (DBWORLD) Clarification: New Database Text Cc: betsy.jones@tmhe.com I apologize for this double posting, but based on several responses that I've already received, the following clarification is called for: McGraw-Hill will only send free sample copies to course instructors who want to consider the text for adoption. So be sure to mention which course you teach. Thanks, Raghu ---------------------------- If you want a sample copy of the 1st edition (it'll get to you by early September) send mail to Betsy Jones at betsy.jones@tmhe.com (and cc me on your msg!). DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS McGraw-Hill, 1st Edition Pub. Date: Aug 22, 1997, ISBN: 007050775-9 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/coral/minibase/dbbook.html RAGHU RAMAKRISHNAN University of Wisconsin-Madison ----------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:55:42 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 KAA14752 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:55:36 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA04586 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:55:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:55:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Zoran Milosevic Message-Id: <199705201555.KAA04586@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Please find enclosed Call for Papers for the First Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOC'97). We apologise if you receive multiple copies. Please forward this message to colleagues who might be interested. ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOC'97) October 24-26, 1997, Marriott Resort, Gold Coast, Australia http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/ Hosted by: DSTC - Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology, Australia Principal Sponsor: MCI Systemhouse Co-sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society - Enterprise Networking Technical Committee In cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN Endorsed by: Object Management Group (OMG) International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE)* ***************************************************************** EDOC'97 will be followed by the 3rd Asia Pacific Distributed Solutions Event (DSE97), Oct. 26-29, 1997 at the same venue. SCOPE: ~~~~~~ Distributed object technology has reached a stage which offers many new promises for its use in business applications. It brings solutions to the technical problems which the IT community has faced for many years: interoperability between heterogeneous hardware and software systems and evolution of IT systems to support changing business requirements. The distributed object paradigms, such as CORBA, ActiveX/DCOM, Java and TINA, as well as the guidelines of the ISO/ITU standard on Open Distributed Processing (ODP) provide a sound basis for building enterprise applications. However, in spite of the benefits which OO, high communication bandwidth and standard middleware solutions could bring, there are still many problems which prevent wide use of this technology within and among enterprises. As a result, the focus of the IT community is gradually shifting towards providing support for the use of distributed object technology for a wide range of business applications. This includes having a commonly accepted enterprise language for the description of enterprise applications, suitable object models and the underlying distributed infrastructure, as a 'business bus' for enterprise wide applications. These topics constitute an Enterprise Distributed Object Computing. This first International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop will bring together experts from different backgrounds working on various aspects of Enterprise Distributed Object Computing. A further aim of the event is to promote this important topic within the Asia-Pacific Region. Due to the increasing interest in this area we anticipate that we will have a substantial number of good presentations with plenty of time for discussions. TOPICS: ~~~~~~~ The topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to: - Distributed object architectures, frameworks and patterns - Enterprise architectures and WWW - Distributed business objects and components - ODP enterprise language extensions and refinements - ODP enterprise language and business process modelling - Distributed objects and intra and inter-organisational workflow - Role-based enterprise security - Distributed objects for electronic commerce - CSCW support for enterprise interactions and cooperation - Enterprise policy and management - Case studies on distributed enterprise systems - Domain architectures (finance, health, telecommunications) - Trader and Intelligent Brokers - Distributed intelligent agents for enterprise systems - The use of mobile computing in enterprise systems - Enterprise aspects of Quality of Service - Architecture Definition Languages and enterprise applications - Methods for enterprise distributed object computing IMPORTANT DATES: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June 1, 1997: Papers due August 8, 1997: Notification of acceptance September 5, 1997: Final papers due October 24-26, 1997: Workshop date INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Papers: Authors are invited to submit full papers. Papers will be refereed. The papers presented will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. While initial submissions can be in any format, it may be more convenient for authors to use the IEEE Author Guidelines for these submissions - the final papers will need to comply with the IEEE format. Final papers should not exceed 12 pages in length, corresponding to the IEEE format (double column, single spaced, 10 points Times). The IEEE guidelines for authors are available at: http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/authorguide.html Submission guidelines: The preferred method for submission is electronic mail or ftp transfer. For submission details please have a look at: http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/Sub.html WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General Chair: Zoran Milosevic (DSTC, Australia) Program Chairs: Cris Kobryn (MCI Systemhouse, USA) Morris Sloman (Imperial College, London, UK) Program Committee: Fausto Caneschi (Finsiel S.p.A., Italy) Eng Chew (Optus, Australia) Luke O'Connor (IBM Zurich, Switzerland) Fred Cummins (EDS, USA) Takeo Hamada (Fujitsu, Japan) Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Subrata Mazumdar(Bell Labs, USA) Osamu Miyagishi(NTT, Japan) Maria Orlowska (The University of Queensland, Australia) Kerry Raymond (DSTC, Australia) Roberto Saracco (CSELT, Italy) Oliver Sims (SSA Object Technology, UK) Richard Mark Soley (OMG, USA) Jean-Bernard Stefani (CNET France Telecom, France) R. Alexander (Sandy) Tyndale-Biscoe, (Birchquest Ltd, UK) Karl-Heinz Weiss (Public Administration Berlin, Germany) Bryan Wood (Open-IT, UK) Douglas Zuckerman (Bellcore, USA) Local Organising Committee: Elizabeth Armstrong, DSTC Andy Bond, DSTC Emma Crameri, DSTC Kim Dinh, DSTC Ron Hickey, DSTC Jenny MacKay, DSTC Andry Rakotonirainy, DSTC VENUE: ~~~~~~ EDOC'97 will be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, at one of the Gold Coast's premier venues: Marriott Resort. The Gold Coast is the most popular tourist destination in Australia. Its glorious sandy beaches and sub-tropical, though mild climate, attract people from all over the world. The Gold Coast is located 80 km south of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia's Sunshine State. The Gold Coast offers a wide range of entertainment and sporting activities, including many beautiful golf courses, fishing and boating facilities, rainforest bushwalking, excellent restaurants and many more attractions. ENQUIRIES AND REGISTRATION DETAILS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Accommodation (at a discounted conference rate) is available at the workshop venue as well as at alternative accommodation nearby. Registration and accommodation details are available at: http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/acco.html Please email your enquiries to: edoc-info@dstc.edu.au Postal address: Level 7, Gehrmann Laboratories The University of Queensland, Q4072 Australia Phone: +61 7 3365 4310, Facsimile: +61 7 3365 4311 RELATED EVENTS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ October 21-23, 1997 DSOM'97 (Sydney) 8th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems Operations & Management October 26-29 DSE'97 (Gold Coast) 3rd Asia Pacific Distributed Solutions Event November 10-12 OOIS97 (Brisbane) 4th International Conference On Object-Oriented Information Systems WWW PAGE: ~~~~~~~~~ Further details for the EDOC'97 event and this Call For Papers can be found in: http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/ *Awaiting final approval ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:56:10 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 KAA14757 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:56:06 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA04592 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:56:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:56:05 -0500 (CDT) From: George Angelos Papadopoulos Message-Id: <199705201556.KAA04592@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FIRST PANHELLENIC SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC July 21-24 1997, Nicosia, Cyprus (http://zeus.cc.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/symposium/) Logic finds its roots in the various schools of philosophy in Ancient Greece. Amongst these, the Aristotelian school has dominated the development of Logic from antiquity until today. In its modern form Logic manifests itself as a fundamental area in many other disciplines such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Law and others. This Symposium aims to bring together researchers from these various disciplines to address modern developments in logic. In particular, the symposium aims to promote cross-fertilization amongst developments and needs in these different disciplines and evaluate the overall significance of Logic as a unifying basic discipline. The scientific program of the symposium will include invited talks, presentations of accepted papers and panel discussions. The meeting will include the following invited talks: F. Afrati (NTUA, Greece) "Arity hierarchies for fixed-point logic" I. Antoniou (International Solvay Institutes, ULB, Belgium), "Probabilistic Logics Associated with Complex Systems" S. Cosmadakis (University of Patras, Greece) "Expressiveness of Database Query Languages" C. Dimitrakopoulos (University of Athens, Greece), "Subsystems of Peano Arithmetic: Some results and problems" T. Feidas (University of Heraclion, Greece), "Current trends in Model Theory and Hilbert's Tenth Problem" P. Kolaitis (University of California, USA), "0-1 Laws in Finite Model Theory" G. Metakides (European Commission, Belgium), "Title to be announced" C. Papadimitriou (University of California at Berkeley, USA), "Title to be announced" E. Papadopetrakis (University of Patras, Greece), "The Propositional Calculus and the Stoics" J. Sifakis (VERIMAG, France) "Program Specification and Verification" M. Yannakakis (Bell Labs, USA) "Title to be announced" S. Zachos (NTUA, Greece) "Non-Collapsing Assumptions about Complexity Classes needed for proving Non-Approximability Results" Papers are invited on all aspects of Logic from researchers who are interested in participating. Position papers on open problems in Logic or the relationship and relevance of logic in other areas are particularly encouraged. Papers must be short not exceeding five pages. They can be written in either English or Greek and should be sent to the symposium address before May 31, 1997. Papers can be sent either in hard copy form or electronic form. Authors are requested to classify their work in one of the following domains: 1. Formal Logic, 2. Logic in Computer Science, 3. Logic, Sciences and Philosophy, 4. Other (please specify). Interested authors are also kindly requested to register their intention to submit a paper by sending an email with a tentative title and abstract to the symposium address as early as possible. This is needed to ensure that appropriate reviewers can be found within the tight schedule available. Notification of authors will be sent on June 15, 1997 and copies for the proceedings need to arrive at the symposium address by July 7, 1997. The Symposium will also include three panel discussions of general interest on the following topics: 1. Frontiers of Logic:Research trends and directions (Panelists include:T. Feidas, K. Georgatos, P.Kolaitis, M. Mitilineos, K. Skandalis) 2. Industrial and other applications of Logic (Panelists include:F. Afrati, I. Antoniou, G. Metakides, J. Sifakis, S. Zachos) 3. Logic in Education. (Panelists include:C. Dimitrakopoulos, C. Drosos, C.Hatzikiriakou, G. Koletsos, A. Kakas) Anyone interested in contributing to the discussion should send a short summary of her/his position statement (maximum 2 pages) to the symposium address before June 15, 1997. The position statements of the panelists will be posted on the WWW pages of the symposium at the begining of June. Also during the meeting there will be demonstrations of systems based on Logical Foundations. Anyone wishing to demonstrate a system should send a short (maximum 2 pages) description of the system together with a complete list of hardware and software needed for the system to run. These should reach the symposium address as soon as possible before June 7, 1997. More details about the Symposium can be found at its WWW page at the http://zeus.cc.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/symposium/ or by email at the Symposium address below. Registration, travel and accommodation information can also be found below attached with this message. Symposium Address Panhellenic Symposium on Logic, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, P.O.Box 537, CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus. Fax: +357-2-339062 Email: antonis@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy Symposium Co-chairs Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Anneta Sinachopoulos (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) Organizing Committee Theodoros Bolis (University of Ioannina, Greece) Yannis Dimopoulos (University of Freiburg, Germany) Costas Drossos (University of Patras, Greece) Kostas Hatzikiriakou (University of Crete, Greece) Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) George Potamias (FORTH, Crete) Anneta Sinachopoulos (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) Thanasis Tzouvaras (University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Advisory Committee C. Dimitrakopoulos (Athens,Greece) A. Kechris (California Institute of Technology, USA) L. Kirousis (University of Patras, Greece) P. Kolaitis (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) G. Koletsos (NTUA, Greece) C. Courcoubetis (FORTH, Crete) G. Metakides (European Commission, Belgium) C. Papadimitriou (University of California at Berkeley, USA) J. Sifakis (VERIMAG, France) M. Yannakakis (Bell Labs, USA) ===================================================================== REGISTRATION AT THE FIRST PANHELLENIC SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC (21-24 July 1997, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.) Name: ............................................................. Affiliation: ...................................................... Address: .......................................................... .......................................................... Country: .......................................................... Phone: ...................... Fax: ........................ Email: ............................................................ Do you have any special dietary requirements? .................................................................... Registration Fee: The registration fee is a nominal 25 CYP (app. 40 ECU). There is no need to pay this when sending this form. The registration fee can be paid on site. TRAVEL INFORMATION People attending the Symposium should fly to Cyprus at Larnaca airport preferably. Paphos airport is another possibility but this is a smaller airport (hence there will be less flights to it) and it is a lot further away from Nicosia than Larnaca airport. To get from Larnaca to Nicosia (a 45 minutes trip) there will be two possibilities: (i) you can register with us (see below) your arrival time and that you would like to take a mini-bus that we will organize or (ii) take (or better share) a private taxi from the airport. There is a fixed fare for Larnaca-Nicosia which is about 15CYP (25Ecu) depending on the time of day. The second option can always be a fall back option. I would like to take the minibus:................... My flight number is:........................ Arrival time in Larnaca:...................... The Symposium has secured special air-fare from Cyprus Airways for participants to travel to Cyprus from Greece and many other major European towns. These fares are as follows plus some airport taxes (usually about 15-30 ECU): Athens/Larnaca/Athens 50,000 Draxmes Thessaloniki/Larnaca/Thessaloniki 50,000 Draxmes London/Larnaca/London Mon-Fri (day flight) 239 UKP Mon-Thu (night flight) 193 UKP Sat-Sun (day flight) 263 UKP Sat-Sun (night flight) 217 UKP Manchester/Larnaca/Manchester Birmingham/Larnaca/Birmingham Mon-Fri (day flight) 219 UKP Mon-Thu (night flight) 199 UKP Sat-Sun (day flight) 237 UKP Sat-Sun (night flight) 219 UKP Amsterdam/Larnaca/Amsterdam 615 NLG Paris/Larnaca/Paris 2200 FRF Vienna/Larnaca/Vienna 3600 ATS Zurich/Larnaca/Zurich 547 CHF Rome/Larnaca/Rome 568.500 ITL Frankfurt/Larnaca/Frankfurt 515 DEM Berlin/Larnaca/Berlin 540 DEM Hamburg/Larnaca/Hamburg 540 DEM Brussels/Larnaca/Brussels 13.600 BEF To get these special fares you must book directly at a Cyprus Airways office in the town of departure. You should mention the Symposium and they should know about it and confirm that this is the fare. If anyone needs more evidence please send your fax number to us so that we can fax you a copy of the letter of offer from Cyprus Airways. REGISTRATION OF ACCOMMODATION The meeting will take place at the University of Cyprus. Special hotel accommodation prices have been arranged with the Hilton Hotel which is very near the campus (2 minutes walk) : 40 CYP (68 ECU) for single room 26 CYP (41 ECU) per person for double room, Also special student rates are currently negotiated in three-bed rooms. Hilton was chosen for various reasons: competitive prices, proximity to the venue place (especially important when one considers the high temperatures in July in Nicosia) and its excellent facilities. To register for accommodation please fill in the questions below: Name: ............................................................. Affiliation: ...................................................... Arrival date: ............................................... Departure date: ......................................... Single/double room: ...................................... Student room: ............................................. Smoking/Non-smoking:..................................... The suggested arrival date is Sunday, June 20, or before. On that evening there will be a welcoming reception by the Rector of the University of Cyprus. SPONSORSHIPS The Symposium has a modest fund for sponsoring participants in need especially students. Anyone wishing to apply for sponsorship should fill the form below. The decision will be taken before the end of June 1997. Name: ............................................................. Affiliation: ...................................................... Student (yes/no):.............. (if no please state your position:..........................) Amount required:................... Other Sponsorship: ................... OTHER INFORMATION Several social events are under consideration, including "cultural evening walks" in Nicosia, special dinners, guided outings to museums and archeological sites and outings to the sea. Details will be announced later in June 1997. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:57:29 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 KAA14764 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:57:24 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA04604 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:57:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:57:24 -0500 (CDT) From: "Siau, Keng Leng" Message-Id: <199705201557.KAA04604@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu HICSS-31 CALL FOR PAPERS Information Modeling Methods and Methodologies -- Evaluation Techniques Part of the Modeling Technologies and Intelligent Systems Track of the Thirty-first Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Big Island of Hawaii, HI - January 6 - 9, 1998 http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss Papers are invited for the minitrack on Information Modeling Methods and Methodologies -- Evaluation Techniques as part of the Modeling Technologies and Intelligent Systems Track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). The minitrack focuses on the evaluation of modeling methods and methodologies. The aim of this minitrack is to become a premier presentation forum for the exchange of latest ideas and results in the area of evaluation of modeling techniques. In recent years, we have witnessed the proliferation of a number of new systems development paradigms and methods. Examples of these include the object-oriented analysis and design methods, and business process reengineering methods. New paths and directions in modeling techniques, such as the idea of creating one common "best" OO approach in the Unified Modeling Language and OPEN method, were also introduced and proposed. There is, therefore, a need for improvement in the analysis of these information modeling methods and methodologies, and in understanding their use and functionality. This minitrack seeks to find new innovative research streams and ideas on the nature of research methods and techniques to understand, compare, and evaluate modeling techniques. Relevant topics for this minitrack include: (i) Theoretical foundations for evaluating modeling methods and methodologies (ii) Evaluation techniques for -- Information Modeling -- Software Engineering -- Business Process Re-engineering -- Object-Oriented Modeling -- Requirements Engineering -- Enterprise Modeling -- Data Modeling (iii) Reports on evaluation results -- Theoretical evaluation (i.e., analytical approach) -- Experimental studies (i.e., laboratory or field studies) -- Case studies (iv) Advanced application of modeling techniques: -- Suitability of modeling methods to support emerging technologies such as WWW, Visual Programming, Client/Server development -- Method support for reuse, frameworks, reference models and component based software modeling -- Metamodeling MINITRACK CHAIRS: Keng Siau Department of Management 209 College of Business Administration University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0491, USA Email: klsiau@unlinfo.unl.edu Matti Rossi METAPHOR Project Department of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Jyvaskyla Mattilanniemi, Building MaE, 1st floor P.O.Box 35 SF-40351 JYVASKYLA FINLAND E-mail: mor@jyu.fi INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS: 1. Submit 6 (six) copies of the full paper, consisting of 20 - 25 pages double-spaced including title page, abstract, references, and diagrams directly to the minitrack coordinator Dr. Keng Siau. 2. Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The paper should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. 3. Each paper must have a title page which includes the title, full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es). 4. The first page of the paper should include the title and a 300-word abstract. DEADLINE: June 1, 1997: Full papers submitted to the appropriate minitrack chair Aug. 31, 1997: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors. Oct. 1, 1997: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, sent to minitrack chair; author(s) must register by this time. Nov. 15, 1997: All other registrations must be received. Registrations received after this deadline may not be accepted due to space limitations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- - 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOT ER- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:57:58 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 KAA14769 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:57:54 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA04609 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:57:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:57:53 -0500 (CDT) From: "Siau, Keng Leng" Message-Id: <199705201557.KAA04609@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Hi there The following is the advance program for The Second (CAiSE'97/IFIP8.1) International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design. In addition to the high quality research papers, the program includes a tutorial by internationally renowned empirical researcher Professor Izak Benbasat. IFIP8.1 Scientific Meeting will also be part of our program. The registration information is available at http://alabi.upc.es/~caise97/participation/contents.html The code for this workshop is W5. Thank you and hope to see you in Barcelona. Sincerely Keng Siau -------------- Department of Management 209 College of Business Administration University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0491, USA Email: klsiau@unlinfo.unl.edu Tel: (402) 472-3078 Fax: (402) 472-5855 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Advance Program and Call For Participation CAiSE/IFIP8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design June 16-17, 1997 Barcelona, Spain Monday, June 16 ------------------------ 8:00-9:00 Workshop Registration 9:00-9:30 Introduction of Participants 9:30-11:00 Session 1 Method Points -- Towards a Metric for Method Complexity by Graham McLeod Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems -- A Meta Model Approach by Michael Rosemann, Michael zur Muehlen Comparative Study of Four Data Modeling Approaches by J.H. ter Bekke 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-13:00 Session 2 Syntax and Semantic Capture in Object-Oriented Modeling Methods by Mary Lou A. Hines, J. Kenneth Blundell Evaluation of Data Modeling Methods for Geographic Applications by Thanasis Hadzilacos, Nectaria Tryfona Differences in Method Engineering Performance with Graphical and Matrix Tools by Steven Kelly, Matti Rossi 13:00-15:00 Lunch 15:00-16:30 Session 3 The Usefulness of Process Models: A Lifecycle Description of How Process Models are Used in Modern Organization by Michael Rosemann, Michael zur Muehlen Using the F3 Enterprise Model for Specification of Requirements -- An Initial Experience Report by Anne Persson Using GOMS for Evaluation of Modeling Methods by Keng Siau 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:30 Session 4 Evaluating Temporally Extended ER Models by Heidi Gregersen, Christian S. Jensen, Leo Mark Object-Oriented Requirements Analysis in the Air Traffic Control Domain by Jan Wortmann, Ingo Claben, Jerry Watson An Empirical Comparison of Object Oriented and Data Flow Modeling by Yair Wand, Andrew Gemino, Carson Woo 21:00 Workshop Dinner Tuesday, June 17 ------------------------ 9:30-11:00 Session 5: Tutorial Topic: Experimental Research and Information Modeling Distinguish Speaker: Professor Izak Benbasat 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-13:00 Session 6 Process-Oriented Improvement of Methods by John M. Roche, Mike Jackson, Martin Shepperd Rapid Application Development in Dynamic Organizations with Business Modelling by Alan JJ van Beek, Hans BF Mulder, Victor E. van Reijswoud Use of Information Systems Analysis and Design Grammars in Combination in Upper Case Tools by Peter F. Green 13:00-15:00 Lunch 15:00-16:30 Session 7 What Makes Business Processes Special ? by Wil Janssen, Henk Jonkers, Jack Verhoosel A Semiotics Level Framework for Database Design, Use, and Maintenance by Roger Chiang, Terence M. Barron, Veda C. Storey, Ee-Peng Lim Speech Act Based Communication and Information Modelling with DEMO by Victor van Reijswoud, Hans B.F. Mulder 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:30 Session 8 IFIP8.1 Scientific Meeting Open to all participants 18:30-20:00 IFIP8.1 Business Meeting Open to IFIP8.1 Members only 20:00 Conference Reception ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:58:38 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 KAA14774 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:58:34 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA04614 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:58:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:58:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Chi-chao Chao Message-Id: <199705201558.KAA04614@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Apology if you receive multiple copies of this email. Thank you for your attention. ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 1997 International Symposium on Communications December 17 -- 19, 1997, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan The 1997 International Symposium on Communications (ISCOM-97) is the 4th biennial symposium organized by the academic, research and industrial societies in communications in Taiwan and will be held at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, from Wednesday December 17, 1997 to Friday December 19, 1997. An exhibition will be organized for local industrial companies and development/research institutes. Detailed information on accommodations, travel arrangements, excursions and the technical program will be included in subsequent mailings or can be reached via WWW at http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/~iscom97/. Papers presenting new results in the following areas are solicited: * Wireless Communications * Antenna and Propagation * Optical Communications * EM Waves and Microwave Engineering * Satellite Communications * Audio/Video Processing * Communication and Coding Theory * Statistical Signal Processing * High Speed Networks * Communication ICs * Communication Software * VLSI for Signal Processing * Personal Communication Systems * Telecommunication Services and * Network Security Management Prospective authors are invited to submit 4 copies of extended abstracts of no more than 4 pages. All the manuscripts must be written in English in single-spaced single column on white papers. The top of the first page of each paper should include a title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, phone/fax numbers, and email addresses if applicable. The indicated corresponding author will receive an acknowledgement of his/her submission. Camera-ready full papers of accepted manuscripts will be published in a hard-bound proceeding and distributed in the symposium. The deadline for submission of all extended abstracts is June 1, 1997 with notification of acceptance by August 1, 1997. Submission of camera-ready papers is by September 15, 1997. All submitted extended abstracts should be sent to one of the following addresses: For submission from Asia: Professor Makoto Takizawa Department of Computers and Systems Engineering Tokyo Denki University Ishizaka, Hatoyama, Saitama 350-03, Japan Email: taki@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp Fax: +81 492 96 6185 (or 0501) For submission from North America: Dr. Jonathan L. Wang Bell Communications Research 331 Newman Springs Road Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA Email: jwang@cc.bellcore.com Fax: +1 908 758 4370 For submission from local and other areas: Professor Chung-Chin Lu Department of Electrical Engineering National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu 30043, Taiwan Email: iscom97@ee.nthu.edu.tw Fax: +886 3 571 5971 ORGANIZATION OF ISCOM-97 Advisory Committee: Horst Bessai, University of Siegen Jin-Fu Chang, National Taiwan University Chun-Hsiung Chen, National Taiwan University Wen-Tsuen Chen, National Tsing Hua University Steve Cheng, Computer and Communication Research Laboratory, ITRI Byeong Gi Lee, Seoul National University Lin-Shan lee, Academia Sinica Shu Lin, University of Hawaii Ming L. Liou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ching-Ling Liu, Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology Hideo Miyahara, Osaka University Hikmet Sari, Alcatel Telspace Tjeng T. Tjhung, National University of Singapore Jin-Tu Wang, Chung Hua Telecommunication Laboratory Che-Ho Wei, National Chiao Tung University General Chairman: Hsiao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University Program Co-Chairmen: Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University Jonathan L. Wang, Bell Communications Research Chung-Chin Lu, National Tsing Hua University SPONSORS OF ISCOM-97 Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC Directorate General of Telecommunication, MOTC, Taiwan, ROC Chung Hua Telecommunication Company Computer and Communinication Research Laboratory, ITRI IEEE Taipei Section Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering IMPORTANT DATES Submission Due: June 1, 1997 Acceptance Notice Sent: August 1, 1997 Camera-ready Papers Due: September 15, 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 11:22:06 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 LAA15286 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:21:39 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA04664 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:21:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 11:21:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Elena Ferrari Message-Id: <199705201621.LAA04664@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED DEADLINE: June 9, 1997 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems September 25-27, 1997 Conference Center Villa Olmo Como - Italy SPONSORS: U.S. Army Research Office IN COOPERATION WITH: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Milano ***** a special journal issue is planned selecting the best papers from the Workshop. Previous workshops in this series led to special issues of Multimedia Tools & Applics, and ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal***** The 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems follows upon the success of the first and second workshops in this series that was held in Arlington, VA, and West Point, NY,respectively. We plan to have a small focused workshop, consisting of participants drawn from a wide variety of disciplines (e.g. theory, algorithms, real-time systems, networks, operating systems, graphics and visualization, databases, artificial intelligence, etc.), all of whom are engaged in research and development on one or more aspects of multimedia systems. We invite short papers (max.5 pages, double spaced, 12 point font) on all aspects of multimedia information systems. The position papers will be collected in a proceeding volume and distributed at the Workshop GENERAL CHAIR: Elisa Bertino (Univ. of Milano) PROGRAM CHAIRS: Richard R. Muntz (UCLA) Thomas Rakow (Springer-Verlag) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Karl Aberer (GMD-IPSI) Peter Buneman (UPenn) Stavros Christodoulakis (MUSIC/ Techn. Univ. of Crete) Frank Eliassen (Univ. of Tromso) Elena Ferrari (Univ. of Milano) Leana Golubchik (Columbia Univ.) Dave Hislop (US Army Research Office) Sham Navathe (GaTech) Venkat Rangan (UCSD) VS Subramanian (UMaryland) Markus Tresch (ETH Zurich) Satish Tripathi (UC Riverside) Michalis Vazirgiannis (Nat. Univ. of Athens) Hartmut Wittig (German Telekom) Clement Yu (UIC) Philip Yu (IBM) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: Silvana Castano (Univ. of Milano) SUBMISSION DETAILS: Submit 5 copies of a short, 5 page (double spaced, 12 point font) position paper to: Richard R. Muntz UCLA Computer Science Department 4732 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596 TIMETABLE: Submission Deadline: June 9, 1997 Accept/Reject Notification: July 21, 1997 Camera Ready Copy due: Sep. 1, 1997 Workshop: Sep. 25-27, 1997 WEB SITE: Have a look at the following URL for recent information about the workshop: http://www.dsi.unimi.it/~bertino/MISC97/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 11:34:53 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 LAA15700 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:34:38 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA04766 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:34:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 11:34:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Alberto Mendelzon Message-Id: <199705201634.LAA04766@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The deadline for submitting papers to the special issue of TAPOS on "Objects, Databases, and the WWW" has been extended to JUNE 30, 1997. Here is the call for papers: Objects, Databases, and the WWW A special issue of Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS) As the Internet and the WWW become preferred media for broadcasting, content dissemination, data access, personal communications, distance education, electronic commerce, and other as yet unforeseen applications, it becomes urgent to explore the interactions between these new media and other well established technologies for information access. This special issue will focus on the interaction among object technology, database systems, and the WWW. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest: -Object technology on the web -Distributed objects -Component frameworks and the web -Accessing databases through the web -Architectures and protocols -Data warehousing -User interfaces -Transaction processing -Standards -Security -The web as a database: -Querying network structure -Querying unstructured and semi-structured objects -Web information retrieval -Web data mining -Developing web-centered applications: -Methodologies -Programming languages -Development environments -Tools -Applications -Electronic commerce -Multimedia -Digital Libraries -Information Systems -Data Visualization We invite unpublished manuscripts presenting original research for consideration for this issue, which is tentatively planned to appear in April of 1998. Submissions will be peer-reviewed in the usual way. Please send your submission by JUNE 30, 1997 to the editor: Alberto Mendelzon Computer Systems Research Institute University of Toronto 6 King's College Road Toronto, Canada M5S 3H5 mendel@db.toronto.edu phone +1-416-978-2952 http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mendel Electronic submissions are encouraged, preferably in the form of Postscript files. Please contact the editor to discuss the details of electronic submission. For hard copy submissions, send five copies to the address above. TAPOS is a journal for high-quality peer-reviewed research in all areas of object technology. The editors-in-chief are Karl Lieberherr and Roberto Zicari. For more information on the journal, see https://www.wiley.com/compbooks/object/ or http://www.dbis.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~taposadm/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 11:38:51 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 LAA15790 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:38:21 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA04795 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:38:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 11:38:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Ramesh Venkataraman Message-Id: <199705201638.LAA04795@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Folks, I hope that those of you who were able to join us for SIGMOD/PODS'97 enjoyed enjoyed the conference. The list of people who attended SIGMOD/PODS '97 is now available from the SIGMOD/PODS '97 web page located at (you will need a browser that supports tables to view it) http://mundos.ifsm.umbc.edu/~ramesh/sigmod97/info.html This will probably be my last message on DBWORLD in my capacity as Publicity Chair for SIGMOD/PODS'97. You should be hearing from Prabhu Ram the Publicity Chair for next year's conference in due time. thanks, -ramesh Ramesh Venkataraman Publicity Chair SIGMOD/PODS'97 ======================================================================= Ramesh Venkataraman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Information Systems University of Maryland Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 410-455-3937 (O) 410-203-0248 (H) 410-455-1073 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 13:22:18 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 NAA19117 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 13:22:10 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA05559 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 13:22:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 13:22:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Andreas Nonnengart Message-Id: <199705201822.NAA05559@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu FIRST INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE PRACTICAL REASONING ECSQARU/FAPR'97 June, 9 - 12, 1997, Bad Honnef, Germany You can find program, general information and registration form at the conference homepage http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/FAPR/ PROGRAM, GENERAL INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FORM -------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION It has become apparent in the last decades that human practical reasoning demands more than traditional deductive logic can offer. >From both a philosophical and an engineering perspective the analysis and mechanisation of human practical reasoning requires a subtle understanding of pragmatics, dialectics, and linguistics, even psychology. Philosophers, software engineers, and AI researchers have similar ambitions in this respect; they all try to deepen our understanding of human reasoning and argumentation. Various aspects of human practical reasoning have resulted in the development of non-monotonic logics, default reasoning, modal logics, belief function theory, Bayesian networks, fuzzy logic, possibility theory, and user modelling approaches, to name a few. These are new and active areas of research with many practical applications and many interesting, as yet unsolved, theoretical problems. The purpose of the ECSQARU/FAPR is to introduce these communities to each other, compare the current state of research, and make research available to all researchers involved. This year particular attention is directed to special tutorials and invited sessions which were organised by leading researchers from the ``quantitative'' and the ``qualitative communities'' respectively. The ECSQARU/FAPR'97 Conference will be held at the Seminaris, Alexander-von-Humboldt-Str. 20, 53604 Bad Honnef, Germany. The Seminaris is within easy reach of the main train station of Bonn. Major airports are Cologne/Bonn, Duesseldorf (1 hour by train) and Frankfurt (2 hours by train). Registered participants will receive detailed information about Seminaris and how to get there. Conference Chairs Dov Gabbay Rudolf Kruse Imperial College Otto-von-Guericke-Univ. 180 Queen's Gate Bueltenweg 74/75 London SW7 2BZ 39106 Magdeburg Great Britain Germany Secretary Arrangement Christine Harms Andreas Nonnengart c/o GMD Max-Planck-Institut Schloss Birlinghoven Im Stadtwald 53757 St. Augustin 66123 Saarbruecken Germany Germany email: christine.harms@gmd.de email: nonnenga@mpi-sb.mpg.de Program Committee: L.Carlucci Aiello, J.Baldwin, J.Bell, W.Bibel, J.Bigham, F.Bergadano, P.Besnard, J.Blair, B.Bouchon-Meunier, G.Brewka, A.Bundy, A.Cohn, J.Cunningham, M.Delgado, R.Demolombe, P.Doherty, D.Dubois, L.Farinas del Cerro, J.Fox, C.Froidevaux, D.Gabbay, P.Gaerdenfors, J.Gebhardt, T.Gordon, E.Gregoire, R.Grootendorst, P.Hajek, H.Herre, A.Hunter, D.Israel, R.Johnson, A.Jones, J.Kohlas, R.Kowalski, P.Krause, R.Kruse, S.Lauritzen, R.Lopez de Mantaras, W.Lukaszewicz, E.Mamdani, A.Martelli, J.Meyer, S.Moral, B.Nebel, A.Nonnengart, D.Nute, H.Ohlbach, D.Pearce, D.Perkins, H.Prade, I.Pratt, U.Reyle, H.Rott, L.Saitta, E.Sandewall, T.Schaub, M.Scriven, P.Siegel, J.Siekmann, P.Smets, K.Sundermeyer, Y.Tan, R.Thomason, J.Treur, D.Vermeir, F.Voorbraak, D.Walton, E.Weydert, N.Wilson, C.Witteveen, J.Woods, L.Zadeh PROGRAM: Monday, June 9, Track A 8:45 Dov Gabbay and Rudolf Kruse Opening Plenary Session: Invited Talk 9:00 Henri Prade and Didier Dubois Focusing vs. Belief Revision: A Fundamental Distinction when Dealing with Generic Knowledge 10:00 Break Tutorial 10:30 Philippe Smets Numerical Approaches to Uncertainty 12:30 Lunch Information Fusion: Methodological Aspects Organised by Didier Dubois and Henri Prade 14:00 Philippe Smets The alpha-Junctions: Combination Operators Applicable to Belief Functions 14:30 Alain Appriou Multisensor Data Fusion in Situation Asessment Processes 15:00 Joerg Gebhardt and Rudolf Kruse Background and Perspectives of Possibilistic Graphical Models 15:30 Salem Benferhat, Didier Dubois and Henri Prade Syntactic Combination of Uncertain Information: A Possibilistic Approach 16:00 Break 16:30 Philippe Smets and Roger Cooke How to Derive Belief Functions Within Probabilistic Frameworks? 17:00 Laurence Cholvy and Anthony Hunter Information Fusion in Logic: A Brief Overview 17:30 Paolo Bison, Gaetano Chemello, Claudio Sossai, Gaetano Trainito A Syntactic al Approach to Data Fusion Monday, June 9, Track B 8:45 Dov Gabbay and Rudolf Kruse Opening Plenary Session: Invited Talk 9:00 Henri Prade and Didier Dubois Focusing vs. Belief Revision: A Fundamental Distinction when Dealing with Generic Knowledge 10:00 Break Tutorial 10:30 John Woods: Fallacies 12:30 Lunch Session: Conflict Resolution 14:00 Bertrand Mazure, Lakhdar Sais and Eric Gregoire Checking Several Forms of Consistency in Nonmonotonic Knowledge-Bases 14:30 Salem Benferhat and Laurent Garcia A Coherence-Based Approach to Default Reasoning Tutorial 15:00 Erik Sandewall Formalization of Agent's Behaviors with Actions Tuesday, June 10, Track A Plenary Session: Invited Talk 9:00 John Woods Just How Stupid is Postmodernism? 10:00 Break Invited Session on Data Mining Organized by Daimler Benz 10:30 Gholamreza Nakaizadeh Applications Aspects of Data Mining 11:00 Peter Kischka Causal Structures and Dependency Modelling 11:30 Siegfried Bell Dependency Mining in Relational Databases 12:00 Christian Borgelt and Rudolf Kruse Some Experimental Results on Learning Probabilistic and Possibilistic Networks with Different Evaluation Measures 12:30 Lunch Session: Reasoning about Knowledge and/or Time 14:00 Robert Demolombe, Andrew Jones and Jose Carmo Toward a Uniform Logical Representation of Different Kinds of Integrity Constraints 14:30 Bernhard Heinemann A Modal Logic for Reasoning about Knowledge and Time on Binary Subset Trees 15:00 Miguel Leith and Jim Cunningham Representing and Reasoning with Events from Natural Language 15:30 Break Session: Reasoning about Actions 16:00 Anna Radzikowska Towards a Formalization of Narratives: Actions with Duration, Concurrent Actions and Qualification 16:30 Wolfgang May Process Modeling with Different Qualities of Knowledge 17:00 Break 18:00 Conference Dinner (Barbecue) Tuesday, June 10, Track B Plenary Session: Invited Talk 9:00 John Woods Just How Stupid is Postmodernism? 10:00 Break Session: Dempster-Shafer Theory 10:30 Anna Slobodova Multivalued Extension of Conditional Belief Functions 11:00 Johan Schubert Creating Prototypes for Fast Classification in Dempster-Shafer Clustering 11:30 Ivan Kramosil Belief Functions with Nonstandard Values 12:00 R.Bissig, J.Kohlas and N.Lehmann Fast-Division Architecture for Dempster-Shafer Belief Functions 12:30 Lunch Session: (Programming) Languages and Systems 14:00 B.Anrig, R.Haenni, J.Kohlas and N.Lehmann Assumption-Based Modeling Using ABEL 14:30 P.Rondogianni, M.Gergatsoulis and T.Panayiotopoulos Cactus: A Branching-Time Logic Programming Language 15:00 Joeri Engelfriet and Jan Treur A Compositional Rreasoning System for Executing Nonmonotonic Theories of Reasoning} 15:30 Break Session: Uncertainty 16:00 Pablo Ibarguengoytia, Sunil Vadera and L.Enrique Sucar A Layered, Anytime Approach to Sensor Validation 16:30 Frans Voorbraak Combining Evidence under Partial Ignorance 17:00 Break 18:00 Conference Dinner (Barbecue) Wednesday, June 11, Track A Plenary Session: Invited Talk 9:00 David Makinson On the Fundamental Problem of Deontic Logic 10:00 Break Session: Default Logic 10:30 Anthony Hunter Using Default Logic for Lexical Knowledge 11:00 Emil Weydert Rational Default Quantifier Logic 11:30 Uwe Egly, Hans Tompits Non-Elementary Speed-Ups in Default Reasoning 12:00 Yan Zhang Disjunctive Update, Minimal Change, and Default Reasoning 12:30 Lunch Session: Probability 14:00 Gabriele Kern-Isberner A Logically Sound Method for Uncertain Reasoning with Quantified Conditionals 14:30 Gerhard Schurz Probabilistic Default Logic Based on Irrelevance and Relevance Assumptions 15:00 Nathalie Jitnah and A.Nicholson treeNets: A Framework for Anytime Evaluation of Belief Networks 15:30 Break 16:00 Boat trip on the Rhine to Rhoendorf; Following wine-tasting Wednesday, June 11, Track B Plenary Session: Invited Talk 9:00 David Makinson On the Fundamental Problem of Deontic Logic 10:00 Break Session; Miscellaneous Reasoning I 10:30 J.Delechamp and B.Bouchon-Meunier Graduality by Means of Analogical Reasoning 11:00 Fabio Massacci Reasoning About Security: A Logic and a Decision Method for Role-Based Access Control 11:30 Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr and Jerome Lang Reasoning About Unpredicted Change and Explicit Time 12:00 John Slaney and Robert Meyer Logic for Two: The Semantics of Distributive Substructural Logics 12:30 Lunch Session: Argument-Based Reasoning 14:00 Leila Amgoud and Claudette Cayrol Integrating Preference Orderings into Argument-Based Reasoning 14:30 Simon Parsons Normative Argumentation and Qualitative Probability 15:00 Chris Reed and Derek Long Multiple Subarguments in Logic, Argumentation, Rhetoric and Text Generation 15:30 Break 16:00 Boat trip on the Rhine to Rhoendorf; Following wine-tasting Thursday, June 12, Track A Plenary Session: Invited Talk 09:00 Stefan Wrobel Algorithms and Systems for Data Mining 10:00 Break Session: Nonmonotonicity and Belief Revision 10:30 Konstantinos Georgatos Entrenchment Relations: A Uniform Approach to Nonmonotonicity 11:00 Dov Gabbay and Odinaldo Rodrigues Structured Belief Bases: A Practical Approach to Prioritised Base Revision 11:30 Andreas Herzig How to Change Factual Beliefs Using Laws and Dependence Information 12:00 Lunch 14:00 End of Conference Thursday, June 12, Track B Plenary Session: Invited Talk 09:00 Stefan Wrobel Algorithms and Systems for Data Mining 10:00 Break Session: Miscellaneous Reasoning II 10:30 Soowoo Lee Error Tolerance Method in Multiple-Valued Logic 11:00 Philippe Besnard, J.-M.Guinnebault and Emm.Mayer Propositional Quantification for Conditional Logic 11:30 Daniel Pacholczyk A Fuzzy Analysis of Linguistic Negation of Nuanced Property 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Embley" Message-Id: <199705210114.UAA06675@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Workshop Proposals to be held in conjunction with The 16th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'97) Los Angeles, California, USA 3 - 6 November 1997 The ER'97 program committee invites proposals for workshops. The workshops are intended to provide an opportunity to meet and discuss selected topics on conceptual modeling. Workshops can be scheduled around the conference as workshop organizers see fit -- for example, the weekend before, evenings during the conference, the afternoon of last conference day, the day following the last conference day, or combinations of these times. Attendees at workshops must register for the ER'97 conference and must also pay an additional workshop fee. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submit by electronic mail the following information to one of the program co-chairs below. * Title of the workshop. * A brief description of the technical issues to be discussed. * A statement of why the workshop is of interest at this time. * Information about the proposed organizing committee. * Contact information for the chair of the organizing committee. * An estimate of the number of expected participants. * Proposed dates and times for the workshop. * A budget for any items beyond room rental, coffee breaks, and rental of overhead, easel and markers. Proposals for workshops on technology development should be sent to Embley, and proposals for workshops on technology application should be sent to Goldstein. (Submission of an initial working proposal is encouraged.) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS David W. Embley Robert C. Goldstein Department of Computer Science Management Information Systems Division Brigham Young University Faculty of Commerce and Bus. Administration Provo, Utah 84602 University of British Columbia USA Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z2 email: embley@cs.byu.edu email: bob.goldstein@ubc.ca phone: 801-378-6470 phone: 604-822-8389 fax: 801-378-7775 fax: 604-822-9574 Each workshop organizing committee will be responsible for producing a Call for Participation for the workshop and for selecting participants. The ER'97 committee will make the Call for Participation available as part of the ER'97 web site. Workshops registration forms will be included with the registration material for ER'97. Workshop organizers are responsible to produce a short summary report (3 - 7 pages). These summary reports will be made available on the web as part of ER'97. Any additional reports, summaries, or proceedings are the responsibility of the workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposal Submissions (NEW DATE): 10 June 1997 (or earlier) Notification (NEW DATE): 17 June 1997 (or earlier) List of Participants Sent to ER'97 Committee: 30 August 1997 Registration of Sufficient Participants: (early registration deadline) Workshops: 1 - 7 November 1997 Summary Report Due: 21 November 1997 The ER'97 committee reserves the right to cancel any workshop if deadlines are missed, or if the number of registered attendees at the workshop is too low to support the costs of running the workshop. More information: http://osm7.cs.byu.edu/ER97/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 20:16:06 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 UAA24255 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 20:16:02 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA06683 for dbworld; Tue, 20 May 1997 20:16:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 20:16:01 -0500 (CDT) From: ygz@isl.hrl.hac.com (Yongguang Zhang) Message-Id: <199705210116.UAA06683@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu 2nd Int'l Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS'97) CALL FOR PAPERS October 1, 1997, Budapest, Hungary (In connection with ACM MobiCom'97) ----------------------------------- Sponsored by ACM Sigmobile (pending) and NASA Lewis Research Center Satellite communications will play an increasingly important role in our future information-based society. This trend is evidenced by the large number of systems planned or in operation (e.g. GPS, ACTS, DirecTV(TM), Iridium, DirecPC, SpaceWay, Teledesic). As its popular predecessor held in conjunction with MobiCom'96, the objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for exploratory research contributions on satellite applications and services. The services are characterized by direct or global broadcast capabilities of LEO, MEO, GEO satellites, low setup costs, high and possibly asymmetric bandwidth, and unconventional network routing. Applications of such services are often real-time, mobile, high bandwidth, and they include telemedicine, public information services, education, entertainment, Internet access, digital battlefield, emergency and disaster response. Topics of contributed papers will include, but are not limited to: * Applications using satellite services * Software and architectures for integration with terrestrial networks * Data management and file systems in satellite applications * Distributed computing using satellite communication * Software techniques for reducing latency in satellite applications * Satellite network protocols and routing * ATM over satellites and quality of services * TCP/IP for satellite communications * Internet applications, WWW access and cache through satellites * Direct broadcast and multicast applications * Asymmetric communication services * Security issues in satellite communications and applications * Reliability and scalability in satellite applications * Software for satellite switch control * Mobile computing and location tracking in satellite applications * Inter-satellite communication and network management * Mobile satellite services * Middleware for satellite-based information services development The setting of the workshop will be informal, and will encourage discussion and interaction. We solicit the submission of research papers, position papers, experience papers, and panel proposals. SUBMISSIONS We invite papers for presentation and discussion at the workshop. Send a postscript copy of the paper by email to the address below. The page limit on all submissions is 5-10 pages, double spaced, 10 pt minimum (approximately 1500-2500 words). Yongguang Zhang Hughes Research Labs, RL-96 Malibu, CA 90265 E-mail: ygz@isl.hrl.hac.com PROCEEDINGS: An informal proceedings will be published and distributed at the workshop. The format will be similiar to standard ACM proceedings: double column, single spaced and the page limit on each paper is 12. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to submit their final papers in HTML (in addition to Postscript). The HTML versions can be slightly different than the Postscript versions to add hyperlinks to relevant work, such as to executable demos available at their own sites. An electronic proceeding linking together the HTML versions will be made available to major Web search engines and mirrored at the sites of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES: * Papers Due: July 3, 1997 * Acceptance Notification: Aug. 8, 1997 * Final papers due: Sep. 5, 1997 * Workshop: Oct. 1, 1997 WEB SITE: http://www.wins.hrl.com/conferences/WOSBIS97/ CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Son K. Dao, Hughes Research Labs. Ouri Wolfson, EECS Dept, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: John S. Baras, University of Maryland Gary Minden, Univ. of Kansas. Yongguang Zhang, Hughes Research Labs. PUBLICITY: Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France Nghia Pham, Eutelsat TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Rafael Alonso, David Sarnoff Research Center John Baras, Univ. of Maryland Kul Bhasin, NASA Lewis Research Center Tzi-cker Chiueh, SUNY, Stony Brook Imrich Chlamtac, Boston Univ. Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France Son Dao, Hughes Research Labs. Raj Jain, Ohio State Univ. Randy Katz, UC Berkeley Henry Korth, Bell Labs Gary Minden, Univ. of Kansas Shawn Ostermann, Ohio Univ. Csaba Szabo, Technical University of Budapest Ouri Wolfson, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Yechiam Yemini, Columbia Univ. Yongguang Zhang, Hughes Research Labs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 21 12:53:10 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 MAA02216 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 12:53:04 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA07940 for dbworld; Wed, 21 May 1997 12:53:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:53:03 -0500 (CDT) From: VLDB 97 Account Message-Id: <199705211753.MAA07940@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu =========================================================================== VLDB 97 -- ACCEPTED PAPERS (also available on http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/VLDB97/ details about the conference will be out soon) RESEARCH TRACK ============== Data Warehousing Incremental Organization for Data Recording and Warehousing H.V. JAGADISH, P.P.S. NARAYAN, S. SESHADRI, S. SUDARSHAN, R. KANNEGANTI Multiple-View Self-Maintenance in Data Warehousing Environments. Nam HUYN Recovering Information from Summary Data Christos FALOUTSOS, H.V. JAGADISH, N.D. SIDIROPOULOS ========================================================================== Database Design Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment Jian YANG, Kamalakar KARLAPALEM, Qing LI An Efficient Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server Surajit CHAUDHURI, Vivek NARASAYYA Materialized Views Selection in a Multidimensional Database Elena BARALIS, Stefano PARABOSCHI, Ernest TENIENTE ========================================================================== Sorts and Joins Dynamic Memory Adjustment for External Mergesort Weiye ZHANG , Per-Ake LARSON Evaluation of Main Memory Join Algorithms for Joins with Set Comparison Join Predicates Sven HELMER, Guido MOERKOTTE Spatial Joins Using R-trees: Breadth-First Traversal with Global Optimizations Yun-Wu HUANG, ning JING, Elke A. RUNDENSTEINER ========================================================================== Novel Data Types A Language for Manipulating Arrays Arunprasad P. MARATHE, Kenneth SALEM Implementing Abstract Objects with Inheritance in Datalog-neg Hasan M. JAMIL The Case for Enhanced Abstract Data Types Praveen SESHADRI, Miron LIVNY, Raghu RAMAKRISHNAN ========================================================================== Spatial Access Methods A Generic Approach to Bulk Loading Multidimensional Index Structures Jochen van den BERCKEN, Bernhard SEEGER, Peter WIDMAYER A Region Splitting Strategy for Physical Database Design of Multidimensional File Organizations Jong-Hak LEE, Young-Koo LEE, Kyu-Young WHANG, Il-Yeol SONG M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces Paolo CIACCIA, Marco PATELLA, Pavel ZEZULA ========================================================================== Query Optimization Optimizing Queries with Universal Quantification in Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Databases Jens CLAUSSEN, Alfons KEMPER, Guido MOERKOTTE, Klaus PEITHNER Parallel Query Scheduling and Optimization with Time- and Space-Shared Resources Minos N. GAROFALAKIS, Yannis E. IOANNIDIS The Complexity of Transformation-Based Join Enumeration Arjan PELLENKOFT, Cesar GALINDO LEGARIA, Martin KERSTEN ========================================================================== Data Mining Efficient Construction of Regression Trees with Range and Region Splitting Yasuhiko MORIMOTO, Hiromu ISHII, Shinichi MORISHITA Parallel Algorithms for High-dimensional Similarity Joins for Data Mining Applications John C. SHAFER, Rakesh AGRAWAL STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach to Spatial Data Mining Wei WANG, Jiong YANG, Richard MUNTZ ========================================================================== Heterogeneous Databases Describing and Using the Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources Vasilis VASSALOS, Yannis PAPAKONSTANTINOU Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources Mary TORK ROTH, Peter SCHWARZ Optimizing Queries Across Diverse Data Sources Laura HAAS, Donald KOSSMANN, Edward WIMMERS, Jun YANG ========================================================================== Querying and Browsing DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases Roy GOLDMAN, Jennifer WIDOM Keyword detection, navigation, and annotation in hierarchical text Soumen CHAKRABARTI, Byron DOM, Rakesh AGRAWAL, Prabhakar RAGHAVAN Towards an ODMG-Compliant Visual Object Query Language Manoj CHAVDA, Peter WOOD ========================================================================== Multidimensional Databases A Foundation for Multi-dimensional Databases Marc GYSSENS, Laks V.S. LAKSHMANAN Data Warehouse Configuration Dimitri THEODORATOS, Timos SELLIS Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes Kenneth A. ROSS, Divesh SRIVASTAVA ========================================================================== Database Algorithms A One-Pass Algorithm for Accurately Estimating Quantiles for Disk-Resident Data Khaled ALSABTI, Sanjay RANKA, Vineet SINGH Concurrent Garbage Collection in O2 Marcin SKUBISZEWSKI, Patrick VALDURIEZ Garbage Collection in Object Oriented Databases Using Transactional Cyclic Reference Counting S. ASHWIN, Prasan ROY, S. SESHADRI, Avi SILBERSHATZ, S. SUDARSHAN ========================================================================== Distributed Databases 1-Safe Algorithms for Symmetric Site Configurations Rune HUMBORSTAD, Maitrayi SABARATNAM, Svein Olav HVASSHOVD, Oystein TORBJORNSEN Adaptive Data Broadcast in Hybrid Networks Kostas STATHATOS, Nick ROUSSOPOULOS, John BARAS Finding Data in the Neighborhood Andre EICKLER, Alfons KEMPER, Donald KOSSMANN ========================================================================== Web Databases Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources Luis GRAVANO, Hector GARCIA-MOLINA To Weave the Web Paolo ATZENI, Giansalvatore MECCA, Paolo MERIALDO Using Probabilistic Information in Data Integration Daniela FLORESCU, Daphne KOLLER, Alon LEVY, Avi PFEFFER ========================================================================== Query Processing Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms Phillip GIBBONS, Yossi MATIAS, Viswanath POOSALA Groupwise Processing of Relational Queries Damianos CHATZIANTONIOU, Kenneth ROSS Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption Viswanath POOSALA, Yannis IOANNIDIS ========================================================================== Transactions and Reliability Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases Wee Teck NG, Peter M. CHEN Logical and Physical Versioning in Main Memory Databases Philip BOHANNON, Dennis LEINBAUGH, Rajeev RASTOGI, S. SESHADRI, Avi SILBERSHATZ, S. SUDARSHAN Using Versions in Update Transactions : Application to Integrity Checking Francois LLIRBAT, Eric SIMON, Dimitri TOMBROFF ========================================================================== Tertiary Storage On-Demand Data Elevation in Hierarchical Multimedia Storage Servers Peter TRIANTAFILLOU, Thomas PAPADAKIS Principles of Optimally Placing Data in Tertiary Storage Libraries Stavros CHRISTODOULAKIS, Peter TRIANTAFILLOU, Fenia ZIOGA Vertical Data Migration in Large Near-Line Document Archives Based on Markov-Chain Predictions Achim KRAISS, Gerhard WEIKUM ========================================================================== Multimedia Databases Effective Memory Use in a Media Server Edward CHANG, Hector GARCIA-MOLINA Efficient User-Adaptable Similarity Search in Large Multimedia Databases Thomas SEIDL, Hans-Peter KRIEGEL Resource Scheduling in Enhanced Pay-Per-View Continuous Media Databases Minos N. GAROFALAKIS, Banu OZDEN, Avi SILBERSCHATZ ************************************************************************** INDUSTRY/COMMERCIAL TRACK ========================= System Experiences Integrating SQL databases with content-specific search engines S. DESSLOCH, N.M. MATTOS Facilitating Multimedia Database Exploration through Visual Interfaces and Perpetual Query Reformulations W-S. LI, S. CANDAN, K. HIRATA, Y. HARA Geo/Environmental and Medical Data Management in the RasDaMan System P. BAUMANN, P. FURTADO, R. RITSCH, N. WIDMANN ========================================================================== Application Challenges GTE SuperPages: Using IR Techniques for Searching Complex Objects S. WHITEHEAD, H. SINHA, M. MURPHY Data Manager for Evolvable Real-time Command and Control Systems R. GINIS, E. HUGHES, P. KRUPP, J. MAURER, B. THURAISINGHAM Mining Insurance Data at Swiss Life J-U. KIETZ, U. REIMER, M. STAUDT ========================================================================== Research Visions The Network as a Global Database: Challenges of Interoperability, Proactivity, Interactiveness, Legacy P. LOCKEMANN, U. KOELSCH, A. KOSCHEL, R. KRAMER, R. NIK Distributed Processing over Stand-alone Systems and Applications G. ALONSO, C. HAGEN, H-J. SCHEK, M. TRESCH Critical Database Technologies for High Energy Physics D.M. MALON, E.N. MAY ========================================================================== Industry Solutions Caprera: An Activity Framework for Transaction Processing on Wide-Area Networks S. KUMAR, E-K. KWANG, D. AGRAWAL The Oracle Universal Server Buffer W. BRIDGE, A. JOSHI, M. KEIHL, T. LAHIRI, J. LOAIZA, N. MACNAUGHTON Efficient Testing of High Performance Transaction Processing Systems D. WILDFOGEL, R. YERNENI Timos Sellis, Chair of the VLDB97 Organizing Committee ========================================================================== Prof. Timos Sellis Tel. +30-1-7721-601 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engin. FAX. +30-1-7721-659 Division of Computer Science timos@cs.ntua.gr National Technical University of Athens WWW: http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~timos Zographou 157 73, Athens GREECE ************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 21 12:55:40 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 MAA02225 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 12:55:35 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA07953 for dbworld; Wed, 21 May 1997 12:55:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:55:34 -0500 (CDT) From: hull@research.bell-labs.com (Rick Hull) Message-Id: <199705211755.MAA07953@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Here is the list of the papers accepted to the 6th International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL). The workshop will be held in Estes Park, Colorado, August 18-20, 1997. See http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~cluet/dbpl.html for further information. Rick Hull and Sophie Cluet Program Committee Co-chairs =============================================================== Constrained Matching is Type Safe --- S. Alagic Towards a Language for the Fully Generic Queries --- C. Beeri, T. Milo, P. Ta-Shma Modular Composition of Transaction Programs with Deductive Databases --- A. J. Bonner Querying String Databases with Transducers --- A. J. Bonner, G. Mecca On the Power of Aggregation in Relational Query Languages --- L. Libkin, L. Wong Incremental Recomputation of Recursive Queries with Nested Sets and Aggregate Functions --- L. Libkin, L. Wong Implementing Incremental View Maintenance in Nested Data Models --- A. Kawaguchi, D. Lieuwen, I. S. Mumick, K. Ross A Structure-Based Approach to Querying Semi-Structured Data --- M. Fernandez, L. Popa, and D. Suciu Integrating Organisational and Transactional Aspects of Cooperative Activities --- F. J. Faase, S. J. Even, R. A. de By, P. Apers Formal Foundations for Optimising Aggregation Functions in Database Programming Languages --- A. Poulovassilis, C. Small Existentially Quantified Procedures: A Mechanism for Abstracting Type in Dynamic Typing Constructs --- R. Connor Degrees of Monotonicity of Spatial Transformations --- B. Kuijpers Automatic Verification of Transactions on an Object-Oriented Database --- D. Spelt, H. Balsters Static Analysis of Transactions for Conservative Multigranularity Locking --- G. Amato, F. Giannotti, G. Mainetto Querying Multidimensional Databases --- L. Cabibbo, R. Torlonne VQL: A Query Language for Multiversion Databases --- T. Abdessalem, G. Jomier DEDALE, A Spatial Constraint Database --- S. Grumbach, P. Rigaux, M. Scholl, L. Segoufin Object Views and Database Restructuring --- Z. Lacroix, C. Delobel, P. Breche Business Conversations: A High-level System Model for Agent Coordination --- Florian Matthes Datalog and Description Logics: Expressive Power --- Marco Cadoli, Luigi Palopoli, Mauricio Lenzerini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Simon Cheng" Message-Id: <199705211758.MAA07971@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Computer Science: The School of Computer and Applied Sciences of Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems. This appointment will begin in September, 1997. Candidates must have a doctorate degree in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or a related field by Fall, 1997. Evidence of ongoing and future research, a commitment to excellence in teaching at the undergraduate/graduate level, and willingness to participate fully in the School's degree programs are basic requirements. The successful candidate will be expected to teach both Computer Science and Computer Information Systems classes. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants should send a vita, copies of all college transcripts, and three letters of reference to: Dean, School of Computer and Applied Sciences, Georgia Southwestern State University, 800 Wheatley Street, Americus, Georgia 31709. Voice:(912)931-2100, fax:(912)931-2270. Review of applications will begin on June 1, 1997 and continue until the position is filled. Georgia Southwestern State University is an EEO/AA institution and accommodates persons with disabilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 21 12:59:48 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 MAA02310 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 12:59:42 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA07978 for dbworld; Wed, 21 May 1997 12:59:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:59:41 -0500 (CDT) From: "search3" Message-Id: <199705211759.MAA07978@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu INDIANA UNIVERSITY COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT SPECIAL FACULTY POSITIONS The Indiana University Computer Science Deparment seeks candidates for two positions. The department occupies a recently renovated spacious limestone building, and has extensive state-of-the-art computing facilities. The attractive wooded campus of Indiana University is located in Bloomington, voted one of the most cultural and livable small cities in the US, and a short drive from the Indianapolis airport. Applications will be considered through June 15. Please send a detailed CV and a list of references to Educational Director Search Computer Science Department Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Internet: search@cs.indiana.edu 1. A two year visiting assistant professorship, possibly extendable. The position requires a vigorous computer scientist with interest in teaching, developing, and administering undergraduate courses. PhD in CS or related area required. Remuneration will be at the range of US$40-52,000 plus benefits, depending on qualifications. 2. Director of Educational Development, a senior special-faculty position, permanent in nature but not tenured. We are looking for an outstanding computer scientist with a long term interest in developing and administering innovative programs in computer science, programming, and computer literacy undergraduate education. Responsibilities include directing the department's undergraduate programs, developing and teaching courses, and representing the department in coordinating campus-wide instruction on computer applications. As well as requring a PhD in CS or related area, the position requires demonstrable long-term interests and commitment to dynamic development of educational programs and technologies. Research interests in computer science pedagogy are desirable. Remuneration commensurate with experience and qualifications; senior faculty level compensation expected if appropriate. Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 21 13:00:30 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 NAA02326 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 13:00:19 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA07989 for dbworld; Wed, 21 May 1997 13:00:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:00:19 -0500 (CDT) From: oulusoy@cs.bilkent.edu.tr (Ozgur Ulusoy) Message-Id: <199705211800.NAA07989@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Issues and Applications of Database Technology (IADT'98) http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/iadt98.html Berlin, Germany, July 6-9, 1998 In connection with The 3rd World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology Sponsored by: Society for Design and Process Science SCOPE The 3rd World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology is a major international forum for the integration of design and process technologies. The workshop is organized as a part of this conference. The objective of the workshop is to provide an effective forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and applications among researchers and practitioners from academia, business and industry working in various fields of database systems. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Process Technology - Workflow Management Systems - Novel Database Applications - Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Bases - Advanced Transaction Models - Interoperable and Heterogeneous Database Systems - Information Retrieval - Deductive and Object-Oriented Database Systems - Real-Time and Active Database Systems - Scientific and Engineering Database Systems - Temporal, Spatial and Geographical Database Systems - Multimedia and Hypermedia Database Systems - Database Applications on the WWW - Databases and Programming Systems - Parallel and Distributed Database Systems - Query Processing and Optimization - Mobile Database Systems - Imprecise and Uncertain Information - View Management and Data Warehousing - Client/Server Database Systems - Database Theory and Algorithms - Distributed Object Management - Transaction Models for Object Systems - Databases for Computer-Aided Software Engineering - Intelligent User Interfaces - Document Databases - Digital Libraries IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission (ASCII file) May 30, 1997 Full-Paper Submission (ps file) October 15, 1997 Notification of Acceptance December 15, 1997 Camera-Ready Copy Submission February 2, 1998 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit an abstract of their paper by May 30, 1997. The abstracts should not be more than 200 words. The full papers describing relevant, original and unpublished research or experience works should be emailed before October 15, 1997. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended version of their papers either to be published in the Fall 1998 special issue of Journal of Database Management or in the book entitled "Issues of Database Technology and Design" to be published by Idea Group Publishing, USA. A copy of the abstract, including author names and affiliations, should be submitted through email by May 30, 1997 to: Professor Asuman Dogac Program Co-Chair Department of Computer Engineering Middle East Technical University 06531 Ankara, Turkey E-mail: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr GENERAL CHAIR Tamer Ozsu (University of Alberta, Canada) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Ozgur Ulusoy (Bilkent University, Turkiye) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hamideh Afsarmanesh (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Reda Alhajj (Bilkent University, Turkiye) Erol Arkun (Bilkent University, Turkiye) Geneva Belford (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Elisa Bertino (University of Milano, Italy) Alex Buchmann (Darmstadt University, Germany) Bill P. Buckles (Tulane University, USA) Fazli Can (Miami University, USA) Sharma Chakravarthy (University of Florida, USA) Ahmet Cosar (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Johann Eder (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) Aral Ege (MDA, Turkiye) Ahmed Elmagarmid (Purdue University, USA) Opher Etzion (Technion, Israel) Cem Evrendilek (Northwestern University, USA) Michael J. Franklin (University of Maryland) Georges Gardarin (INRIA, France) Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (GTE Laboratories, USA) Ugur Halici (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Leonid Kalinichenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Alfons Kemper (University of Passau, Germany) Nihan Kesim (Bilkent University, Turkiye) Mehdi Khosrowpour (Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, USA) Wolfgang Klas (University of Ulm, Germany) Kia Makki (University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA) Robert A. Meersman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Erich J. Neuhold (GMD-IPSI, Germany) Esen Ozkarahan (Dokuz Eylul University, Turkiye) Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Gultekin Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Thimios Panagos (AT&T Laboratories, USA) Fred Petry (Tulane University, USA) Niki Pissinou (University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA) Faruk Polat (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University, USA) Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Peretz Shoval (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Abdullah Uz Tansel (Bernard M. Baruch College, CUNY, USA) Hakki Toroslu (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Markus Tresch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Adnan Yazici (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 21 13:00:55 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 NAA02343 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 13:00:49 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA07994 for dbworld; Wed, 21 May 1997 13:00:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:00:48 -0500 (CDT) From: gorrieri@CS.UniBO.IT (Roberto Gorrieri) Message-Id: <199705211800.NAA07994@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ******************************************************* * * * ICALP '97 * * ========= * * 24th International Colloquium on Automata, * * Languages, and Programming * * * * Silver Jubilee of EATCS * * * * Bologna, Italy, July 7th - 11th, 1997 * * * ******************************************************* The (nearly) final program and information about the conference are available per www under http://www.cs.unibo.it/icalp97/ SPECIAL EVENT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On Wednesday, July 9th, Robin Milner and Maurice Nivat will receive a Laurea Honoris Causa in Computer Science from the University of Bologna. GRANTS ^^^^^^ A few UNESCO grants are still available for participants coming from less developed countries. Some EU grants are available for supporting the participation of young researchers: - only persons with nationality of one of the EU Member States or of an Associated State may benefit directly from Commisssion support; - participants should be less than 35 on the 1st day of the conference. Requests for grants should be sent (e-mail or fax) to the Conference Office: Italiana & Co. - ICALP'97 Via Altabella 3 I-40126 BOLOGNA (Italy) Phone: + 39 51 228716 Fax: + 39 51 222881 Email: italiana@bo.nettuno.it Please specify nationality, age, status and affiliation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 21 16:11:53 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 QAA07850 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 16:11:44 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA08867 for dbworld; Wed, 21 May 1997 16:11:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 16:11:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Ming-Chien Shan Message-Id: <199705212111.QAA08867@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The workflow research group in Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, invites candidates in the workflow, database, and internet areas to apply for a research staff position started immediately. We are seeking a candidate who takes pride in the result of his/her research work, is a team player, has demonstrated good prototype implementation skill, and enjoys taking challenges outside his/her expertise. The candidate is expected to make contribution in research as well as technology transfer to product divisions. During the past three years, we have prototyped a workflow system supporting enterprise business process flow management. This prototype supports very high throughput, reliability and availability. It also supports multiple communication infrastructures (including CORBA, MQSeries, and Web). Based on this prototype, an HP product has been developed, which won the best collaborative computing product award at EMA 97. We have started a new project to develop an internet-based workflow system to explore scalability, availability, and performance tradeoffs for mobile and embedded workflow system, to support electronic commerce and supply chain management applications. Preference will be given to candidates with good knowledge in Java, ActiveX, Microsoft NT, CORBA, and OLE will be preferred. Applications will be considered through August 15. Please send a detailed CV (in Postscript, HTML, or text) and a list of references to shan@hpl.hp.com. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu May 22 11:57:28 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 LAA12507 for ; Thu, 22 May 1997 11:57:22 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA10149 for dbworld; Thu, 22 May 1997 11:57:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 11:57:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Yannis Ioannidis Message-Id: <199705221657.LAA10149@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu P R E L I M I N A R Y 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 (Immediately before KDD) http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~yannis/ssdbm.html The conference features an exciting program consisting of keynote 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 scien- tists. A preliminary outline of the program is now available through the conference web page. Information about lodging, transportation, and registration can be found through the same page as well. We look forward to seeing you in Olympia! Yannis Ioannidis Program Chair SSDBM97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu May 22 12:43:31 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 MAA13487 for ; Thu, 22 May 1997 12:43:26 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA10351 for dbworld; Thu, 22 May 1997 12:43:26 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 12:43:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Laura Tarantino Message-Id: <199705221743.MAA10351@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu _____________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers AVI '98 ADVANCED VISUAL INTERFACES International Working Conference May 25-27, 1998 L'Aquila, Italy In cooperation with: ACM-SIGCHI (pending), ACM-SIGMM (pending),SIGCHI Italy _____________________________________________________________________________ AVI98 Web Site: http://infolab.ing.univaq.it/avi98/ _____________________________________________________________________________ SCOPE This Conference has the aim of bringing together experts in different areas of computer science who have a common interest in the design and management of visual interfaces. This Conference is the fourth of a series initiated with AVI'92 in Rome, and continued with AVI'94 in Bari, and AVI'96 in Gubbio. Both formal methods and concrete applications well fit into the framework of the conference, with a particular focus on the areas of information visualization, graphical and pictorial communication tools, virtual reality applications, multimedia environments, WWW interfaces, visual languages, adaptive interfaces, and other recent technological developments. Cognitive science and metaphor analysis are also relevant, since they are extremely useful for understanding the basic mechanisms which allow visual interfaces to be easy to learn and use. As in the previous editions, the program will comprise invited talks, given by leaders in the field. _____________________________________________________________________________ TOPICS Visual Interface Design WWW interfaces Visual Interaction Virtual Reality Interface Evaluation Multimodal Interfaces Visualization Cognitive Models of User Animated Interfaces Metaphor Analysis Adaptive Interfaces Graph Drawing Hypermedia & Multimedia Computer Supported Cooperative Work _____________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Stefano Levialdi, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel. +39-6-8841962 Fax +39-6-8419188 e-mail: levialdi@dsi.uniroma1.it PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Maria Francesca Costabile, Universita' di Bari, Dipartimento di Informatica, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy. Tel./Fax +39-80-5443300 e-mail: fcosta@iesi.ba.cnr.it Laura Tarantino, Universita' dell'Aquila, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Poggio di Roio, 67040 L'Aquila, Italy. Tel. +39-862-434415 Fax +39-862-434403 e-mail: tarantino@vaxaq.cc.univaq.it PANEL, TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP CHAIR Tiziana Catarci, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel./Fax +39-6-49918331 e-mail: catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it, tic@cs.brown.edu EXHIBIT PROGRAM CHAIR Giuseppe Santucci, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel. +39-6-49918484 Fax +39-6-49918331 e-mail: santucci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it _____________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Martin Andersson (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) Albert Badre (Georgia Tech, USA) Dick Bulterman (CWI, The Netherlands) Shi-Kuo Chang (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Alan Dix (Staffordshire University , UK) Eliseo Clementini (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Stephen G. Eick (Bell Laboratories, USA) Miguel Encarnacao (University of Tuebingen, Germany) Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Walter Gerbino (University of Trieste, Italy) Nahum Gershon (The MITRE Corporation, USA) Anna Giannetti (SOGEI, Italy) Mountaz Hascoet-Zizi (University of Paris-Sud, France) Ramesh Jain (University of California San Diego, USA) Daniel Keim (University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Jessie B. Kennedy (Napier University, UK) Ravi Krishnamurthy (HP Laboratories, USA) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Piero Mussio (University of Brescia, Italy) Fabio Paterno' (CNUCE-CNR, Italy) Peter Pirolli (Xerox PARC, USA) Yoshinobu Tonomura (NTT Human Interface Labs, Japan) Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland, USA) Divesh Srivastava (AT&T, USA) Enrico Vicario (University of Firenze, Italy) Colin Ware (University of New Bunswick, Canada) _____________________________________________________________________________ PAPER SUBMISSION We strongly encourage submissions that address research and development on the above and other related topics, or that propose new approaches suitable for fulfilling the demands that characterize advanced interfaces of the next generation. Please submit six copies of an 8000 word original manuscript to: AVI' 98, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel. +39-6-8841962 Fax +39-6-8419188 Electronic submission will also be available. Detailed information on electronic submission can be found under http://infolab.ing.univaq.it/avi98/Submission/ Authors intending to submit a paper MUST send an electronic abstract of no more than 250 words by filling in the abstract submission form that can be found under http://infolab.ing.univaq.it/avi98/Abstracts/ Contributors with no access to the World Wide Web please contact Laura Tarantino for further information (tarantino@vaxaq.cc.univaq.it or avi98@infolab.ing.univaq.it) _____________________________________________________________________________ PANEL, TUTORIAL, AND WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Panels - The aim of panels is to stimulate the discussion, so they should address exciting, hot, and controversial topics rather than being short paper sessions. The panel proposal should include a 1000 word abstract, which illustrates the panel topic, stating compelling issues to be debated, and a list of all panel members. Tutorials - Tutorials provide conference participants with the opportunity to gain new insights in the area of advanced visual interfaces. The up to two page tutorial proposal should clearly state the content, organization, and target audience of the tutorial. A/V requirements and a biosketch of the presenter(s) should also be provided. Workshops - The objective of the pre-AVI workshops is to focus on special topics of major importance. The up to 1000 word proposal should state the objective and significance of the workshop, potential participants, format and duration of the workshop. Panel, tutorial, and workshop proposals should be sent to: Tiziana Catarci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel./Fax +39-6-49918331 e-mail: catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it or tic@cs.brown.edu Proposals may also be sent via e-mail only in a PLAIN TEXT format. _____________________________________________________________________________ DEMO PROPOSAL SUBMISSION The Exhibit Program will primarily consist of demonstrations of software prototypes. The demo proposal should include a detailed project/system description of up to 3000 words (specifying hw/sw requirements). A full working version of accepted prototypes must be available for installation by April 30, 1998. Demo proposals should be submitted in four copies to: Giuseppe Santucci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel. +39-6-49918484 Fax +39-6-49918331 e-mail: santucci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it _____________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Electronic abstract submission deadline: October 26, 1997 Paper and demo proposal submission deadline: November 1, 1997 Panel/tutorial/workshop proposal submission deadline: November 30, 1997 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 1998 Camera-ready paper due: February 7, 1998 Demo software due: April 30, 1998 Accepted papers, as well as system, panel, and tutorial descriptions that will be presented at the Workshop will be included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press. _____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 23 11:03:46 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 LAA17532 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 11:03:41 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA11646 for dbworld; Fri, 23 May 1997 11:03:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:03:40 -0500 (CDT) From: oshmu@CS.Technion.AC.IL (Oded Shmueli) Message-Id: <199705231603.LAA11646@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu You are welcome to pose WWW queries using W3QS: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~W3QS W3QS is a query system for the WWW. It views the Web as a huge database. The system supports a declarative query language called W3QL. It also provides a number of "friendly" querying interfaces. One of the benefits of W3QL is its ability to use existing search services as indexes thereby avoiding the manual sifting through multitudes of documents. You may obtain a W3QS account at the http address above, and will receive your password via e-mail. A directory of queries will then be maintained for you. The "My First Query" button provides a quick guided tour. You may enter a query through a number of interfaces. An entered query is either immediately executed or is declared as "Edit Only", in which case it is simply saved for future use. The execution of a query proceeds independently of whether the user stays ``logged on'' or not. At any point, even as the query is being executed, the query may be edited and then either re-submitted, or simply saved in the user's directory. During execution, the query engine gen- erates an execution trace - showing the progression of the query engine's navigation through the Web - that may be viewed at any time. The query engine executes at the Technion. Once the query search is completed, the user may view the Table of Solutions which provides a value for each query variable. For certain users, the actual qualifying pages are kept (and not just their addresses). Pages are kept in a hierarchical directory structure produced for the specific query. One may view this structure. Many useful queries may be easily specified by the Simple and Power intuitive interfaces. To write more powerful queries in W3QL one needs a working knowledge of PERL regu- lar expressions. An interesting feature of W3QL is its ability to specify how to fill out forms and to do so while navigating through the Web. Another attractive feature is W3QL's ability to specify the re-evaluation of queries at pre-determined time intervals. To get a taste of W3QL's querying abilities, consider the following problem. We'd like to search through a site, say the Data Mining group publications at West University at http://www.west.edu/datamining/publications.html and look for papers in Postscript that are authored by Smith and Jones. Here is our first cut into the problem: Select >From n1,l1,n2 where n1 in { http://www.west.edu/datamining/publications.html }; n1: PERLCOND '(n1.content =~ /Jones/i) && '(n1.content =~ /Smith/i); n2: PERLCOND ' (n2.format =~ /postscript/i)'; using ISEARCHd This specifies a pattern consisting of page n1 pointing via link l1 to page n2. In addition, n2 should be a Postscript file. Also, page n1 should contain the sub-strings Jones (/i means case independent matching) and Smith. This is not yet what we want, since currently we know that page n1 con- tains both Jones and Smith, but there is no guarantee that page n2 (the Postscript file) is actually co-authored by them. The following PERL regular expression ensures co- authoring: (l1.content =~ /"(.*)"/) && (n1.content =~ /Jones[^"]+Smith[^"]+"$1"/i) '; The first line identifies the http address component, out of the link, and assigns it to PERL variable $1. The second line checks that the page n2 contains the sub-string Jones followed by any sequence of characters different than " (the expression for that is [^"]+), followed by the content of link l2 (as identified by $1) in quotes. The resulting query is: Select >From n1,l1,n2 where n1 in { http://www.west.edu/datamining/publications.html }; n1,l1: PERLCOND ' (l1.content =~ /"(.*)"/) && (n1.content =~ /Jones[^"]+Smith[^"]+"$1"/i) '; n2: PERLCOND ' (n2.format =~ /postscript/i)'; using ISEARCHd The W3QS homepage at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~konop/w3qs.html contains more details about W3QL and W3QS. Help on using the system and its interfaces are available at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~W3QS/cgi_bin/new/general.html (a general introduction) http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~W3QS/cgi_bin/new/simple.html (the Simple Interface) http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~W3QS/cgi_bin/new/complex.html (the Power Interface) We hope you find W3QS useful. Feedback is welcome! Disclaimers: W3QS is an experimental system built for research and experimentation. There is no commitment to sup- port W3QS users and there is no kind of warranty regarding its quality. In particular: (1) Query results may be wrong. (2) W3QS's availability may fluctuate. (3) W3QS service may be slow. (4) There are no privacy guarantees concerning your queries, they may be viewed by others. (5) There are no durability guarantees, your queries may be lost. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 23 11:16:56 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 LAA17693 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 11:16:50 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA11717 for dbworld; Fri, 23 May 1997 11:16:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:16:50 -0500 (CDT) From: "Norbert E. Fuchs" Message-Id: <199705231616.LAA11717@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu A preliminary program of LOPSTR '97 and the list of accepted extended abstracts can be found at http://www.ifi.unizh.ch:80/groups/req/staff/fuchs/lopstr97/CallforParticipation. html The complete program will be available at a later time. Norbert E. Fuchs Department of Computer Science University of Zurich CH-8057 Zurich Switzerland Telephone +41-1-257 43 13 Fax +41-1-363 00 35 Email fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch WWW http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/fuchs.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 23 11:19:35 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 LAA17742 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 11:19:30 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA11729 for dbworld; Fri, 23 May 1997 11:19:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:19:29 -0500 (CDT) From: "Dr. Karl Aberer" Message-Id: <199705231619.LAA11729@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The Institute for Integrated Publication- and Information-Systems IPSI at GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology - is performing research in Multimedia Database Management Technology. We are investigating problems in multimedia data management, heterogeneous information integration and cooperative work (http://este.darmstadt.gmd.de:5000/dimsys/home.html). We are looking for a POSTDOC (3 years) who will be engaged in projects in continuous media management, cooperative transactions and workflow, document management and biomolecular database applications. The position involves leadership, research, and prototype implementation in one or more database group projects. The researcher will also be expected to undertake funding and organizational tasks, such as proposal and report writing, and seminar, lecture and workshop organization. Applicants should have a doctorate in computer science, preferrably with a specialization in database management systems. Experience in project aquisition, cooperation with industry partners and transfer of research results will be necessary. We can offer the opportunity to work on exciting problems in an open-minded interdisciplinary environment. Further qualification towards the habilitation (degree for the German univeristy career) is part of the setup of this position due to close collaboration with the Technical University Darmstadt. The salary is according to the tariff BAT Ib of the German public service tariff system. The employment can commence as early as possible. GMD is aiming at increasing the fraction of women among their scientists. Handicapped people are given preference if equally qualified. Applicants please send their material (including vita, publication list, statement of research interests, and addresses for references) to Dr. Karl Aberer GMD-IPSI, Dolivostrasse 15, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany Phone: +49-6151-869-935 Fax: +49-6151-869-966 aberer@darmstadt.gmd.de http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~aberer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 23 17:50:33 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA21090 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 17:50:27 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA12610 for dbworld; Fri, 23 May 1997 17:50:26 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 17:50:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Ramesh Venkataraman Message-Id: <199705232250.RAA12610@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Folks, The systems administrators of the machines that housed the SIGMOD/PODS'97 web pages made some changes to my account. As a result, the web pages became inaccessible for the past few days. I apologize for any convenience that it may have caused you. The new web page address for the SIGMOD/PODS'97 web page is as follows: http://user-sun.ifsm.umbc.edu/~venkatar/sigmod97/info.html The list of attendees is available as a link from this address. thanks, -ramesh Ramesh Venkataraman Publicity Chair SIGMOD/PODS'1997 ======================================================================= Ramesh Venkataraman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Information Systems University of Maryland Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 410-455-3937 (O) 410-203-0248 (H) 410-455-1073 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sat May 24 22:27:06 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 WAA26148 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 22:27:00 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA13885 for dbworld; Sat, 24 May 1997 22:27:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 22:27:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Zoran Milosevic Message-Id: <199705250327.WAA13885@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed Final Call for Papers for the First Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOC'97). Our sincere apologies in case you receive this message through multiple mailing lists. ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOC'97) October 24-26, 1997, Marriott Resort, Gold Coast, Australia http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/ Hosted by: DSTC - Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology, Australia Principal Sponsor: MCI Systemhouse Co-sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society - Enterprise Networking Technical Committee In cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN Endorsed by: Object Management Group (OMG) International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE)* ***************************************************************** EDOC'97 will be followed by the 3rd Asia Pacific Distributed Solutions Event (DSE97), Oct. 26-29, 1997 at the same venue. SCOPE: ~~~~~~ Distributed object technology has reached a stage which offers many new promises for its use in business applications. It brings solutions to the technical problems which the IT community has faced for many years: interoperability between heterogeneous hardware and software systems and evolution of IT systems to support changing business requirements. The distributed object paradigms, such as CORBA, ActiveX/DCOM, Java and TINA, as well as the guidelines of the ISO/ITU standard on Open Distributed Processing (ODP) provide a sound basis for building enterprise applications. However, in spite of the benefits which OO, high communication bandwidth and standard middleware solutions could bring, there are still many problems which prevent wide use of this technology within and among enterprises. As a result, the focus of the IT community is gradually shifting towards providing support for the use of distributed object technology for a wide range of business applications. This includes having a commonly accepted enterprise language for the description of enterprise applications, suitable object models and the underlying distributed infrastructure, as a 'business bus' for enterprise wide applications. These topics constitute an Enterprise Distributed Object Computing. This first International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop will bring together experts from different backgrounds working on various aspects of Enterprise Distributed Object Computing. A further aim of the event is to promote this important topic within the Asia-Pacific Region. Due to the increasing interest in this area we anticipate that we will have a substantial number of good presentations with plenty of time for discussions. TOPICS: ~~~~~~~ The topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to: - Distributed object architectures, frameworks and patterns - Enterprise architectures and WWW - Distributed business objects and components - ODP enterprise language extensions and refinements - ODP enterprise language and business process modelling - Distributed objects and intra and inter-organisational workflow - Role-based enterprise security - Distributed objects for electronic commerce - CSCW support for enterprise interactions and cooperation - Enterprise policy and management - Case studies on distributed enterprise systems - Domain architectures (finance, health, telecommunications) - Trader and Intelligent Brokers - Distributed intelligent agents for enterprise systems - The use of mobile computing in enterprise systems - Enterprise aspects of Quality of Service - Architecture Definition Languages and enterprise applications - Methods for enterprise distributed object computing IMPORTANT DATES: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June 1, 1997: Papers due August 8, 1997: Notification of acceptance September 5, 1997: Final papers due October 24-26, 1997: Workshop date INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Papers: Authors are invited to submit full papers. Papers will be refereed. The papers presented will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. While initial submissions can be in any format, it may be more convenient for authors to use the IEEE Author Guidelines for these submissions - the final papers will need to comply with the IEEE format. Final papers should not exceed 12 pages in length, corresponding to the IEEE format (double column, single spaced, 10 points Times). The IEEE guidelines for authors are available at: http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/authorguide.html Submission guidelines: The preferred method for submission is electronic mail or ftp transfer. For submission details please have a look at: http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/Sub.html WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General Chair: Zoran Milosevic (DSTC, Australia) Program Chairs: Cris Kobryn (MCI Systemhouse, USA) Morris Sloman (Imperial College, London, UK) Program Committee: Fausto Caneschi (Finsiel S.p.A., Italy) Eng Chew (Optus, Australia) Luke O'Connor (IBM Zurich, Switzerland) Fred Cummins (EDS, USA) Takeo Hamada (Fujitsu, Japan) Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Subrata Mazumdar(Bell Labs, USA) Osamu Miyagishi(NTT, Japan) Maria Orlowska (The University of Queensland, Australia) Kerry Raymond (DSTC, Australia) Roberto Saracco (CSELT, Italy) Oliver Sims (SSA Object Technology, UK) Richard Mark Soley (OMG, USA) Jean-Bernard Stefani (CNET France Telecom, France) R. Alexander (Sandy) Tyndale-Biscoe, (Birchquest Ltd, UK) Karl-Heinz Weiss (Public Administration Berlin, Germany) Bryan Wood (Open-IT, UK) Douglas Zuckerman (Bellcore, USA) Local Organising Committee: Elizabeth Armstrong, DSTC Andy Bond, DSTC Emma Crameri, DSTC Kim Dinh, DSTC Ron Hickey, DSTC Jenny MacKay, DSTC Andry Rakotonirainy, DSTC VENUE: ~~~~~~ EDOC'97 will be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, at one of the Gold Coast's premier venues: Marriott Resort. The Gold Coast is the most popular tourist destination in Australia. Its glorious sandy beaches and sub-tropical, though mild climate, attract people from all over the world. The Gold Coast is located 80 km south of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia's Sunshine State. The Gold Coast offers a wide range of entertainment and sporting activities, including many beautiful golf courses, fishing and boating facilities, rainforest bushwalking, excellent restaurants and many more attractions. ENQUIRIES AND REGISTRATION DETAILS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Accommodation (at a discounted conference rate) is available at the workshop venue as well as at alternative accommodation nearby. Registration and accommodation details are available at: http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/acco.html Please email your enquiries to: edoc-info@dstc.edu.au Postal address: Level 7, Gehrmann Laboratories The University of Queensland, Q4072 Australia Phone: +61 7 3365 4310, Facsimile: +61 7 3365 4311 RELATED EVENTS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ October 21-23, 1997 DSOM'97 (Sydney) 8th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems Operations & Management October 26-29 DSE'97 (Gold Coast) 3rd Asia Pacific Distributed Solutions Event November 10-12 OOIS97 (Brisbane) 4th International Conference On Object-Oriented Information Systems WWW PAGE: ~~~~~~~~~ Further details for the EDOC'97 event and this Call For Papers can be found in: http://www.dstc.edu.au/events/edoc97/ *Awaiting final approval ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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