From baydin@bilkent.edu.tr Tue Nov 1 03:26:49 CST 1994 >From baydin@bilkent.edu.tr Tue Nov 1 03:26:45 1994 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by fyvie.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 1 Nov 94 03:26:45 -0600 Received: from firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 1 Nov 94 03:26:18 -0600 Received: from [139.179.21.108] (mac8.cs.bilkent.edu.tr) by bilkent.edu.tr (5.65c/IDA-1.4) id AA10819; Tue, 1 Nov 1994 11:26:23 +0300 Message-Id: <199411010826.AA10819@firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr> X-Sender: baydin@139.179.10.13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 12:37:55 -0500 To: dbworld From: baydin@bilkent.edu.tr Subject: Open Position =A0 BILKENT UNIVERSITY=20 DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE=20 The Computer Engineering and Information Science Department of the= Bilkent University invites applications at the Assistant-Professor level= beginning =46ebruary 1995. Qualifications required for applicants include:= PhD in Computer Science, and commitment to research and teaching. We are especially interested in candidates with research experience in database systems and computer networks. We will consider strong candidates= in other areas as well. The Computer Engineering and Information Science Department currently consists of 13 faculty, and offers BS, MS, and PhD programs. The= language of instruction is English. The department emphasizes top level research= and excellent laboratories, computing facilities, and libraries. These facilities are continuously upgraded through various grants from= national and international resources. Departmental computing equipment consists= of=20 many Sparc Stations, X-terminals and servers, a Next, and a 32-processor Intel Hypercube. Access is also provided to a rich collection of= Sparc Stations of Bilkent Computer Center. Bilkent is a member node in= the national computer network and is connected to INTERNET and BITNET/EARN. Qualified applications should send a detailed resume and arrange= for three references to be sent to: Ms. Bilge Aydin, Secretary, Department= of Computer Engineering and Information Science, Bilkent University,= Bilkent, 06533 Ankara, TURKEY. E-mail: (baydin@bilkent.edu.tr), fax: (+90-312-266-4126). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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As part of this process, applications are invited from candidates with an established international reputation in research. The Department of Computing Science is top-rated in both research and teaching. It has a strong and dynamic research base, with major research groups in databases, formal methods, functional programming, information retrieval, and interactive systems. Preference will be given to candidates with interests that are complementary to the Department's existing research strengths, and able to build a new research group. However, exceptional candidates in interactive systems will also be considered. Experience of engineering large robust systems would be an advantage. The new Professor will also be expected to contribute to the Department's teaching and administration. External funding is being sought to appoint a Lecturer to assist the new Professor. 2 The University The University of Glasgow, founded in 1451, is the second oldest university in Scotland (and the fourth oldest in the UK). In the 19th century it relocated to its present campus in Glasgow's West End, and its tower is a prominent landmark on the Glasgow skyline. The University is governed by a Court, responsible for resource matters, and a Senate, responsible for academic matters. The academic departments are grouped into eight Faculties, of which the largest is the Faculty of Science. The University is conveniently located for all forms of transport, sport, arts, conference and exhibition facilities, and other services. The airport is 15 minutes away, and there are direct air services to most of the main cities of Western Europe and North America. Glasgow itself is a vigorous city, with a blend of splendid Victorian and modern architecture. It is within easy reach of the beautiful Highlands and western seaboard of Scotland. 3 The Department The Department of Computing Science is one of the foremost in the UK, setting itself the highest standards in research and teaching. It is part of the Faculty of Science. The academic staff comprises 5 professors, 1 reader, 3 senior lecturers, and 24 lecturers. These are supported by an IT officer, 7 programmers, an administrator, an information officer, a marketing officer, 9 secretarial staff, and 7 technical and ancillary staff. Currently there are also 2 visiting professors, 6 research fellows, 22 research assistants, and about 45 research students. The Department provides an invigorating but friendly working environment. It is large enough to sustain a rich diversity of interests, but small enough for everyone to know everyone else. The departmental ethos is that of a team working together to deliver high-quality research and teaching. There is little sense of hierarchy: senior staff are readily accessible without appointment, and everyone uses the common room as a forum for relaxed exchange of ideas. A weekly newsletter keeps everyone informed of what is going on. Teaching (and administrative) loads are shared openly and fairly, using a system that favours new lecturers, those delivering new courses, and those particularly active in research. Sabbatical leave is actively encouraged, and the Department is able to fund several academics on leave at any given time. The following is a brief summary of the Department's research, teaching, infrastructure, and strategy. Fuller details may be found in the booklet Computing Science in the University of Glasgow. (Copies may be obtained from the Department.) 3.1 Research The Department is internationally recognised for its research, and was awarded a rating of "5" (the highest possible) in the 1992 Research Assessment conducted by the Universities Funding Council. There are five major research groupings in the Department, whose work is widely recognised to be world-class: * Databases There are several cooperating groups working within this broad area. They are interested in producing languages and systems for manipulating databases, providing simple, intuitive, and powerful user interfaces. Their research topics include bulk data types and data modelling, distributed object management, object-oriented database systems, and persistent programming systems. The leader of this research is Professor Malcolm Atkinson. * Formal Methods This group focuses on the central issues of program specification, design, correctness, implementation, and reuse. It also applies formal methods to the design of programming and specification languages, compilers, protocols, and concurrent systems. The group's research topics include action semantics, automated theorem proving, Lotos and algebraic specification, mathematics in design of programs, software reuse, type-theoretic specification and refinement. * Functional Programming The FP group's research spans theory and practice, with fruitful interaction between them. The group's research topics include applications of category theory and type theory, architectures for parallel functional programming, functional languages for massive parallelism, Haskell language and implementation, and semantics based program manipulation. The leaders of this research are Professors Simon Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler. * Information Retrieval The IR group addresses the problems of fast access to ever-increasing volumes of stored information, which may be textual, visual, or auditory. The group's research topics include accessing very large document systems, hypermedia systems, multimedia retrieval, neural networks to represent learning processes in IR, theoretical foundations, and word sense disambiguation applied to IR. The leader of this research is Professor Keith van Rijsbergen. * Interactive Systems GIST is an interdisciplinary research group, involving not only computing scientists - who contribute expertise in human-computer interaction and graphics - but also psychologists and others both within the University and beyond. The group's research topics include 3D modelling and rendering, computer animation, data visualisation, digital audio, interactive system design methods, modelling human dialogue, multimedia, software support for interactive systems, and temporal aspects of usability. Group members also contribute to database and information retrieval projects. Two other broad themes can be identified, within which research is pursued by smaller groups and individuals, and whose work is also internationally recognised: * Computer Architecture and Hardware Hardware specification, high-performance networks, performance modelling, scalable parallel architectures. * Mathematics of Computation Algorithms and complexity, logic and inference, neural networks, numerical computation. The Department intends to diversify its research further, preferably into an area such as Distributed Systems or Multimedia Information Systems. A new professor will be appointed in 1995, whose remit will be to build up a world-class research group in the chosen area. The Department currently has 17 research projects funded by UK Research Councils, 11 projects funded by the European Strategic Programme for Information Technology (Esprit), and 5 projects funded by industry. Altogether, these projects bring in an annual income of about #0.8M. Much of the research is collaborative and interdisciplinary. Collaborators include other departments within the University, and universities and industrial partners throughout the UK, Europe, and North America. Most of the groups hold weekly research discussions, drawing participants from neighbouring universities, and speakers from near and far. These are complemented by weekly "cakes talks": half-hour talks on research (and other topics) given by staff, research students, and visitors. The Distinguished Lecture Series are major seminars given by speakers of international repute, and attract large audiences ranging from professors to undergraduates. Scholarship is much in evidence. Department members have authored numerous books, including seven in the prestigious Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science. One lecturer's PhD thesis was among the first to be published in the CPCS Distinguished Dissertations Series. The editors of Computer Journal, Journal of Functional Programming, the BCS/PrenticePHall Practitioners' Series in Software Engineering, the BCS/Springer Workshops in Computing Series, and the Cambridge University Press Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science Series are all Department members. 3.2 Teaching The Department currently teaches about 1,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students (400 full-time-equivalent). Undergraduate courses fit into the Scottish pattern of flexible four-year Honours degrees and even more flexible three-year Ordinary degrees. The degree programmes to which the Department contributes are: * BSc Honours in Computing Science * BSc/MA Combined Honours in Computing Science and a variety of other subjects * BSc Honours in Software Engineering * BSc/BEng Honours in Electronic & Software Engineering * BSc/MA Ordinary (which may include Computing Science as a major or minor subject). Each year about 70 students graduate with these Honours degrees, and about 30 students graduate with Ordinary degrees in which Computing Science is the major subject. Many more undergraduates study Computing Science for one or two years as a minor subject. The Department is also a major contributor to the following: * Diploma/MSc in Information Technology (IT). This is an interdisciplinary postgraduate course aimed at graduates in other subjects. About 100 students complete the IT course each year. The course has recently been redesigned and broadened, and from 1994 every student will be able to choose a specialism such as MSc in IT (Systems & Software), MSc in IT (Health Informatics), or MSc in IT (Computational Physics). Several other curricular developments are currently in various stages of planning: a new MSc in Advanced Information Systems (due to start in 1995); modularisation of the undergraduate courses (1996); a new BSc/MA Combined Honours in Informatics (1995 or 1996). All existing degree programmes enjoy BCS accreditation, which was renewed in 1993. The Honours degree programmes in Electronic & Software Engineering and Computing Science additionally received IEE accreditation for the first time in 1992 and 1993, respectively. In 1994 the Department's teaching was subjected to Quality Assessment by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, and was awarded a rating of "excellent". 3.3 Infrastructure The Department is housed in an attractive Victorian terrace in Lilybank Gardens, on the edge of the University campus. The building was fully refurbished in the mid-1980s, and in addition to office space contains two lecture rooms, a conference/seminar room, four computer laboratories, two machine halls, and an electronics workshop. In addition, the Department has five teaching laboratories in the nearby Boyd Orr Building. Offices and laboratories are equipped with about 110 Suns and 400 Macintoshes, backed up by file and print servers. Included are a number of colour workstations and printers, a scanner, and audio equipment. All departmental computers are connected by a single backbone Ethernet and 17 LocalTalk networks. The departmental network is in turn connected to the University's X25 network, and thence to the national and international networks. 3.4 Management The Department of Computing Science is part of the new Planning Unit of Computing Science, Mathematics, and Statistics, which enjoys a large degree of control over its own budget. The Department's share of this budget amounts to approximately #1.6M p.a., plus discretionary funds arising out of various income-generating activities. The Head of Department is advised by the Computing Science Management Committee, whose other members are the appointed professors and the convenors of the major departmental committees. Much of the detailed decision-making and administration are devolved to the Teaching, Research, Graduate School, IT, Interface (external relations), and Administration Committees. Formal and informal staff meetings are held about once per month, allowing all staff to participate in decision-making. About once a year the staff retreat to an all-day meeting at which teaching or research strategy is developed. The Department has a small external relations unit, with two full-time staff. The unit supports the Department's contacts with industry and commerce, schools and colleges. One focus of this work is the Computing Science Industrial Association, which has 20 industrial members. The unit markets consultancy services, industrial courses, and the Modular MasterUs degree course in Software Engineering. (The latter course is designed for practising software engineers, and is offered collaboratively by a UK-wide consortium of universities.) The unit is also involved in student recruitment, helping to produce recruitment literature and currently a CD-ROM. Department members are active in the University at large, serving on all the major committees, and playing particularly active roles in the development of the University's IT strategy and modernisation of its course structures. Professor Arthur Allison is currently serving as Vice-Principal for Science and Engineering. 3.5 Strategy The Department maintains and regularly updates a strategy document, setting out its research, teaching, IT, and industrial strategies. The following is an executive summary of the strategy document. The Department of Computing ScienceUs mission statement is: To develop and provide education in intellectual and practical tools for the design, construction and use of complex, reliable, usable, and appropriate information systems. Our overall goals are therefore to maintain and develop excellence in teaching and research, within our subject area, and thereby to contribute effectively and flexibly to the needs of society and the economy. The entire strategy is predicated on the adoption of an income-driven model for resource allocation within the University. For example, we can plan to invest in expanding student numbers only if we believe that resources will follow such expansion. Research strategy Our research strategy is: * To promote excellence in research, by maintaining and developing our existing areas of strength. We attained a rating of "5" in the 1992 Research Assessment. We intend to attain a rating of "5*" in the 1996 Research Assessment. * To increase our research student numbers from about 45 to 60 individuals by 1998. * To lead a University and industrial consortium to establish a high-profile Interactive Media Institute. We are launching the Institute with a showcase laboratory in the Boyd Orr Building in 1994. * To establish new internationally-respected research groups, broadening our base from the existing five. This strategy is discussed in more detail in Section 2. Teaching strategy Our teaching strategy is: * To maintain and develop our present excellence in teaching. We attained a rating of "excellent" in the 1994 SHEFC Quality Assessment. * To embrace the rapid rate of change within the discipline. In particular, we will launch a new BSc Software Engineering degree programme, and a taught MSc Advanced Information Systems. We will also consider a possible new degree programme in Informatics. * To incrqease our student numbers from about 400 to 450 FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total by 1998-99. This and the previous point imply a significant expansion in space and teaching staff. * To encourage collaboration with other departments. Teaching strategy is discussed in more detail in Section 3. IT strategy Our IT strategy is: * To provide all our users (staff and students) with state-of-the-art equipment. * To provide a defined level of provision for each group of students and staff, ranging from 0.5 workstation per FTE for level-1 and level-2 undergraduates to 1 workstation per person for postgraduates and staff. * To upgrade the equipment of at least one major group of users each year, and to roll over all equipment on a 3-4 year cycle. IT strategy is discussed in more detail in Section 4. Industrial strategy Our industrial strategy is: * To continue to strengthen and develop our Industrial Association. * To exploit our industrial links to fund our research, especially PhD students, and to strengthen the new Software Engineering degree programme. Industrial strategy is discussed in more detail in Section 5. 4 The Appointment The appointment will be subject to the whole powers and conditions of any Act of Parliament, Ordinances, and Law affecting the University. Subject to such Acts, the Professor will hold office until the end of the academic year in which he/she attains the age of 65 years. The appointment is a whole-time appointment, the Professor undertaking to accept paid outside work only with the prior consent of the University Court. This provision does not apply to examinerships and such other appointments as are incidental to the ordinary course of University business. The Professor will be a member of the Senate and of the Faculty of Science. Salary will be on the professorial scale, and paid monthly in arrears. The successful applicant will be eligible to join the Universities' Superannuation Scheme and the Universities' Supplementary Dependants' Pension Scheme. Further information regarding these schemes is available from the Superannuation Officer, who is also prepared to advise on questions relating to the transfer of superannuation benefits. The University of Glasgow is an equal opportunities employer. Applications must be sent to the Academic Personnel Office, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, not later than 25 November 1994. Each application should consist of three copies (one copy in the case of an overseas applicant) of the following: * a statement of the applicant's qualifications and experience, * 1-2 pages assessing the applicant's career so far, and how it is expected to develop within the Department if the applicant is successful, * the names and addresses of three referees, together with a brief note of the applicant's state of health. Please quote reference number 8092/1. Interviews are expected to take place on 22 February 1995. Those who are short-listed for interview will be required to make a research presentation and to meet with members of the Department; this meeting may also be attended by members of the Appointing Committee. The views of the Department are conveyed to the Appointing Committee by the Dean of Science. Informal enquiries may be made to: Dr David Watt Head of Department Department of Computing Science 9-17 Lilybank Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland Tel: +44 141 330 4470 Fax: +44 141 330 4913 E-mail: daw@dcs.gla.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER 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 to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld if your address is going to change send an unsubscribe request from the old address (before the change) send a subscribe request from the new address (after the change) to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ami@aviv.isse.gmu.edu Tue Nov 1 09:31:16 CST 1994 >From ami@aviv.isse.gmu.edu Tue Nov 1 09:31:11 1994 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by fyvie.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 1 Nov 94 09:31:11 -0600 Received: from aviv.isse.gmu.edu by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 1 Nov 94 09:31:09 -0600 Received: by aviv.isse.gmu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06526; Tue, 1 Nov 94 10:31:20 EST Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 10:31:20 EST From: ami@aviv.isse.gmu.edu (Amihai Motro) Message-Id: <9411011531.AA06526@aviv.isse.gmu.edu> To: dbworld Subject: CFP NGITS-95 *** Reminder *** Papers would be evaluated on the basis of extended abstracts. Deadline for Extended Abstracts: 31 December 1994 So that we may prepare for the workshop, we encourage you to inform us of your intention to submit as soon as possible. Program Chairs: Ami Motro ngits@isse.gmu.edu Moshe Tennenholtz ngits@ie.technion.ac.il ______________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers NGITS '95 The Second International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems 27 - 29 June 1995 Hotel Carlton, Naharia, ISRAEL Supported by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the Neaman Institute As information technology advances, requirements of and expectations from information systems change rapidly. This requires researchers and developers to continuously focus on the next generation of information systems. The NGITS Workshop provides an international forum for discussing issues and solutions related exclusively to next generation information systems and the technologies that would make them possible. These issues include, but are not limited to: o Data and knowledge base challenges: advanced models and languages, data integrity and quality, management of uncertainty and inconsistency, information security and privacy, management of spatial and temporal data o Software architectures for information systems: object-orientation, agent-orientation, extensibility, groupware, software repositories, application generators o Integration: intelligent integration and interchange of information, interoperability and cooperation among heterogeneous information systems, information mediation and brokering, standardization o AI techniques: knowledge management, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge discovery, information extraction and filtering, coordination technologies and agent architectures o Human-computer interaction: advanced user interfaces, human-computer cooperation o The impact of new technologies: multi-media, mobile computing, very high speed networks, etc. o Challenging applications: services and tools to support information infrastructure ("information super-highways"), digital libraries, large scientific and geographical databases, health care (medical) information systems, information systems for advanced manufacturing We solicit contributions of three kinds: * Full research papers * Short position papers * Proposals for panel discussions All contributions must emphasize their relevance to issues of next generation information technologies and systems, and must be addressed to an audience of diverse background and interests. The category of "research papers" is intended for technical papers describing research accomplishments. The category "position papers" is intended for papers that discuss new challenges and visionary solutions. Proposals for panels should include an abstract of the subject and likely participants. The workshop will feature paper sessions, panel discussions and talks by invited speakers. All accepted papers will appear in a workshop proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. ________________________ Program Committee Chairs ________________________ Ami Motro Moshe Tennenholtz Department of Information and Faculty of Industrial Engineering Software Systems Engineering and Management George Mason University Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Fairfax, Virginia 20030 Haifa, 32000 USA ISRAEL ngits@isse.gmu.edu ngits@ie.technion.ac.il _______________________ Information For Authors _______________________ For research papers authors should submit extended abstracts of 2000 words or less; the full papers that will appear in the proceedings are limited to 5000 words. Position papers are limited to 2000 words. We shall attempt to handle the submission and review processes by electronic mail and request that you submit your contributions by mailing a PostScript version of your paper to BOTH co-chairs at the above e-mail addresses. Otherwise, please send 3 copies of your paper to BOTH co-chairs at the above postal addresses. The organizers request advance notification of your intention to submit a paper: please send an e-mail message to both co-chairs giving the names of the authors and the title or subject of the submission. _______________ Important dates _______________ 31 October 1994 Intent-to-submit statements due 31 December 1994 Extended abstracts (for full papers), position papers, and panel proposals due 28 February 1995 Notification of acceptance 15 April 1995 Camera-ready manuscripts due 27-29 June 1995 The workshop _________________________ Location and Travel Funds _________________________ The workshop will take place in Naharia, a picturesque resort town on the Mediterranean sea, 30 kilometers north of Haifa. Limited travel funds will be available to assist some of the participants. ______________ General Chairs ______________ Opher Etzion Arie Segev Technion - Israel Institute of University of California at Berkeley Technology and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories ISRAEL USA __________________ Program Committee _________________ Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France Ron Ashany, National Science Foundation, USA Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel Dan Berry, Technion, Israel Elisa Bertino, U. Milano, Italy Yitzhak Birk, Technion, Israel Yuri Breitbart, U. Kentucky, USA Alex Brodsky, George Mason U., USA Peter Buneman, U. Pennsylvania, USA Wesley Chu, U. California, Los Angeles, USA Alessandro D'Atri, U. L'Aquila, Italy Ed Durfee, U. Michigan, USA Dov Dori, Technion, Israel Oren Etzioni, U. Washington, USA Christos Faloutsos, U. Maryland, USA Mark Fox, U. Toronto, Canada Ophir Frieder, George Mason U., USA Les Gasser, U. Southern California, USA Yossi Gil, Technion, Israel Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers U., USA Alfons Kemper, U. Passau, Germany Fred Lochovsky, U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Dennis McLeod, U. Southern California, USA John Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories, USA Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew U., Israel Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, USA Amit Sheth, U. Georgia, Athens, USA Peretz Shoval, Ben Gurion U., Israel Avi Silberschatz, U. Texas, Austin and AT&T Bell Labs, USA Ouri Wolfson, U. Illinois, Chicago, USA ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER 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 to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld if your address is going to change send an unsubscribe request from the old address (before the change) send a subscribe request from the new address (after the change) to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From wudds@cs.concordia.ca Tue Nov 1 09:56:58 CST 1994 >From wudds@cs.concordia.ca Tue Nov 1 09:56:53 1994 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by fyvie.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 1 Nov 94 09:56:53 -0600 Received: from Clyde.Concordia.CA by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 1 Nov 94 09:56:48 -0600 Received: from cs.concordia.ca (90@manitou.cs.concordia.ca [132.205.4.3]) by clyde.concordia.ca (8.6.7/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA28267 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 1994 10:56:42 -0500 Received: from vidya.cs.concordia.ca by manitou.cs.concordia.ca id aa19377; 1 Nov 94 15:56 GMT To: dbworld Subject: Call for Attendance: Workshop on Uncertainty in DBs and Deductive Systems Date: Tue, 01 Nov 94 10:56:21 -0500 From: WORKSHOP ON UNCERTAINTY IN DATABASES AND DEDUCTIVE SYSTEMS Message-Id: <9411011556.aa19377@manitou.cs.concordia.ca> Our apologies if you receive this posting more than once! ------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Uncertainty in Databases and Deductive Systems ------------------------------------------------------------ A Postconference Workshop to be held immediately following International Logic Programming Symposium Sheraton Inn, Ithaca, NY, USA November 17, 1994 PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION ------------------------------------ Many real-life applications (e.g., diagnostic applications, data mining, image and scientific databases, legal and military applications) require an ability to represent, manage, and reason with uncertain knowledge. Numerous formalisms for dealing with uncertainty have been studied over the years, several of which are in the context of logic programming and deductive databases. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers working in all aspects of this area, in an informal setting and to promote intensive discussions. This workshop is held in conjunction with the 1994 International Logic Programming Symposium (ILPS'94), which will take place in Ithaca, NY from November 13 to November 17, 1994. Ithaca, NY is a small city, the home of Cornell University, a leading research center in many branches of science, engineering, and the arts. Program Committee: ----------------- Melvin Fitting CUNY, Bronx, USA Jiawei Han Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, Canada Michael Kifer SUNY, Stony Brook, USA Laks V.S. Lakshmanan Concordia U., Montreal, Canada Raymond Ng U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Fereidoon Sadri University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA Carlo Zaniolo UCLA, Los Angeles, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORKSHOP PROGRAM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, November 17, 1994. WELCOME/INTRODUCTORY REMARKS (2:00-2:15 pm) LATTICE-THEORETIC FORMALISMS (2:15-3:30 pm) Combining Explicit Negation and Negation by Failure P. Ruet and F. Fages Thomson-LCR, LIENS-CNRS, France Algebraic Semantics for Knowledge-Based Logic Programs B. Mobasher, D. Pigozzi, and G. Slutzki Univ of Minnesota, Iowa State Univ, USA IMPERFECT INFORMATION AND UPDATES (3:30-4:45 pm) Consistency Preserving Updates N. Bidoit, S. Cerrito, and Ch. Froidevaux Universite de Paris, France A General Approach to Managing Imperfect Information in Deductive Databases S. Parsons and J. Fox Advanced Computation Lab, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK NON-MONOTONIC REASONING (4:45-5:30 pm) Annotated Non-monotonic Rule Systems A. Nerode, J.B. Remmel, and V.S. Subrahmanian Cornell Univ, UC at San Deigo, Univ of Maryland, USA BREAK (5:30-7:00 pm) TIME AND OBJECTS (7:00-8:15 pm) Uncertainty in Valid Time Databases V. Kouramajian and R. Elmasri Wichita State Univ, Univ of Texas at Arlington, USA TOP Database Model: Taxonomy, Object-Orientation, and Probability W. Kiessling, T. Lukasiewicz, G. Koestler, and U. Guntzer Univ Augsburg, Univ Tubingen, Germany PERFORMANCE AND COMPLEXITY (8:15-9:45 pm) Fuzzy Diision for Regular Relational Databases P. Bosc and H. Prade and Prade IRISA/ENSSAT, IRIT UPS, France Sandbag Based Uncertainty: Progress and Problems R.L. Read, D.S. Fussel, and A. Silberschatz Univ of Texas, Austin, USA Computing Bounds on Aggregate Operations over Uncertain Sets R.L. Read, D.S. Fussel, and A. Silberschatz Univ of Texas, Austin, USA APPLICATIONS (9:45-11:00 pm) On the Functionality of Dependencies A. Rajasekhar and D. Keen Univ. of Kentucky, Pikeville College, USA Information Retrieval is a Non-monotonic Reasoning Activity A. Hunter Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK SUMMARY AND GOOD NIGHT! (11:00-11:15 pm) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSPORTATION TO ITHACA, NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ithaca is serviced by two major airlines, USAir and Continental. The airport is located approximately 2 miles from the location of the conference, the Sheraton Inn. Other major airlines are available through the Syracuse Airport, 50 miles north of Ithaca; Rochester Airport, 80 miles north-west of Ithaca. Transportation from Syracuse and Rochester to Ithaca is limited. Special discount fares have been arranged with both USAir and Continental Airlines for those attending ILPS'94. Both airlines are offering 10% off regular coach fares and 5% off lowest published excursion fares. Travel arrangements may be made through: Mickie Tsapis, Beam Travel, 134 East Seneca Street, Ithaca, NY 14850, 1-800-404-2326, Fax: 607-277-3141. Please mention the travel is in conjunction with ILPS (International Logic Programming Symposium). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSPORTATION FROM AIRPORT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For those arriving at the Ithaca/Tompkins County Airport free hotel ground transportation may be obtained by calling the hotel using the courtesy telephone located near the baggage area, or you may take the Ithaca Airline Limousine service that meets each flight, cost is $5.00. The Sheraton Inn is located approximately 2 miles from the airport. If you arrive at the Syracuse Airport (approximately 50 miles north of Ithaca), the only transportation available is taxi, which will cost approximately $65.00. Rental cars are available for transportation from Rochester, Syracuse, and Ithaca airports. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HOTEL INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ILPS'94 as well as WUDDS'94 will be held at the Sheraton Inn, Ithaca, New York. The Sheraton Inn & Conference Center offers the most modern and complete facilitiies in the area. In addition to the superior accommodations, comprehensive meeting and banquet facilities, the hotel features an indoor, heated swimming pool, saunas, and a fine restaurant. Cornell Transit buses make hourly stops at the hotel with stops at numerous Cornell Campus locations. The Sheraton is located within easy walking distance of three shopping malls and several restaurants. Hotel reservations may be made by filling out the form at the end of this program and mailing or faxing it to the hotel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP REGISTRATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The conference fee for early registration (before OCTOBER 17) for members of the ALP or its affiliates will be US$350. The fee for early registration for non-members will be US$375. After October 17 late registration will cost members US$385, and non-members US$410. The early registration fee for students is US$150, and the late fee is US$165. The student fee does not include the banquet, but banquet tickets can be purchased for US$50 each. For ILPS'94 registrants, the workshop registration fee is US$20, per workshop. For workshop ONLy registrants, the fee is US$60. In all cases, the payment must be sent to the address indicated in the registration form below. Participants paying full or student registrations are given one year's free automatic membership to the Association for Logic Programming. You may wish to join your local affiliated society in Britain (ALP-UK), =46rance (AFCET), Germany (ALP/G), or Italy (GULP). If you do, please indicate your desire on the registration form, so information can be forwarded to your society. There is a registration form appended to this message. If you wish to register by e-mail, please complete the form and send it by e-mail to: ilps@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu. E-mail registrations must be paid for by either VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, AMERICAN EXPRESS, or DINERS CLUB at time of e-mail registration. All members of ALP, ACM, IEEE, SIGART, and SIGMOD are eligible for discount registration fee. Members must include the membership/organization number (one affiliation only) in order to receive the discount. All students must submit proof of student status either by submitting a photocopy of student identification or a letter from their institution. Refund Policy: Written requests or e-mail requests for refunds must be received by the Conference co-ordinator Valerie Kaine by November 1. Refunds are subject to a $50 processing fee. Those who do not request a refund by the deadline will be billed in full. The Conference Registration Fee includes: Admission to the entire conference program including technical sessions, and poster sessions, a copy of the proceedings of the conference, the reception on Sunday evening, tour of Johnson Art Museum (see restrictions on registration form), Piano Concert, and the Banquet. The student fee does not include the banquet. Extra banquet tickets are available at US$50. The post-conference workshops will cost US$20 for each workshop attended. People not registered at the conference can register for US$60 per workshop. The following is the list of workshops available. W1: Uncertainty in Databases and Deductive Systems (WUDDS'94) W2: Constraints and Databases W3: Constraint Languages/Systems and Problem Modelling W4: Implementation Techniques for Logic Programming Languages W5: Design and Implementation of Parallel Logic Programming Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STUDENT CERTIFICATE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All those desiring a student discount for registration must return this certificate with their registration form. I certify that ____________________________________ (Print name of student) is a full-time student at ______________________________ (Name of university) and eligible for the student conference rate. ____________________________________ (Signature) ____________________________________ (Printed name) ____________________________________ (Title/Position) Certificate must be signed by the thesis advisor or department head. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION FORM: ILPS'94 and post-ILPS Workshops ------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Logic Programming Symposium, November 13-17, 1994 Ithaca, New York, USA __________________________________________________________________ Please mail to: Mathematical Sciences Institute Tel: (+1) 607-255-8005 Attn: ILPS'94 FAX: (+1) 607-255-9003 409 College Ave. Ithaca, NY 14850, USA E-mail: ilps@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu _____________________________________________________________ Name: _________________________________________ Affiliation:____________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________ Telephone: __________________ FAX: _________________________ Membership organization & number: ___________ E-mail: __________________________________ Dietary Restrictions: Vegetarian ___________________ Other (specify) ______________________________________ Other special needs:_____________________________________________ Check the social activities you plan to attend: (All are included in the full registration fee. Student registration does not include the Banquet. Additional Banquet tickets may be purchased for $50.00) The following information is needed for proper planning of the events. ___ Opening Reception Nov. 13 ___ Tour of Art Museum Nov 15. (Limited to first 60) ___ Piano Concert Nov. 15 ___ Banquet Nov 16. Select entree: ___ Prime Rib ___ Salmon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Presenters indicate audio-visual requirements: ___ Overhead Projector ___ Chalk Board ___ Other (state) __________________________ Note: There will be a Sun Sparcstation with color screen available for software demonstrations. Please notify conference registration office to reserve time on the computer. Conference Fees: Before October 17 After October 17 Member US$350 US$385 NonMember US$375 US$410 Student US$150 US$165 Workshop Fees: Each workshop: US$20. Workshop only participants: US$60 per workshop. Please check the appropriate workshop(s).: W1 ______ W2 _______ W3 _______ W4 _______ W5 _______ Total Payment: US $ _________________________ Payment can be made by check drawn on a US bank or money order in American dollars. Please make checks payable to Cornell University: ILPS'94. You can also pay by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, or Diners Club. Cardholder's name: ______________________________ Type of card and Number: ______________________________ Expiration Date: _____________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- HOTEL REGISTRATION INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reservations should be made with the Sheraton Inn Ithaca Tel# 607-257-2000 Attn: Roseann Kuti FAX # 607-257-3998 One Sheraton Drive Ithaca, NY 14850 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Adam, Rutgers University Yelena Yesha, NIST/UMBC Program Committee: ----------------- Shirley Hurwitz, NIST David Jefferson, NIST Shamim Naqvi, Bellcore, Ana-Lena Neches USC/ISI Amit Sheth, University of Georgia Jay Tenebaum, EIT Steve Trus, NIST Mary Brady, NIST 9:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS --------------- Dr. Robert Neches, Program Manager for Intelligent Services for NII, ARPA. 10:00 BREAK ----- 10:15 SESSION 1 --------- Session Chair: Mary Brady o A Smart catalog and Brokering Architecture for Electronic Commerce Arthur M. Keller Michael R. Genesereth Mustafa A. Syed (Stanford Center for Information Technology) o Developing an Internet Presence with On-line Electronic Catalogs William T. Wong (Enterprise Integration Technologies) Arthur M. Keller (Stanford Center for Information Technology) o The Information Superhighway and Electronic Commerce: Effects of Electronic Markets Robert Benjamin Rolf Wigand (Syracuse University) 11:30 BREAK 11:45 SESSION 2 --------- Session Chair: A. Dutta (George Mason University) o The Information Marketplace: Issues and Challenges Steve Laufmann (U S West Technologies, Colorado) o Temporal Reasoning as a Benefit to Automated Workflow Ira Haimowitz Glenn S. Fields (General Electric Corp. Research and development, NY) o Computer-integrated Logistics and the Redesign of Inter-organizational Relations Stefan Klein and Stefan Zbornik (Institute of Information Management University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) 1:00 LUNCH ----- 2:00 SESSION 3 -------- Session Chair: Steve Trus (NIST) o The Standardization of Flexible EDI Messages Ken Steel (University of Melbourne, Australia) o Changes in the EDI Interchange Agreements Andreas Mitrakas (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) o Machine-Negotiated Ontology-Based EDI Fritz Lehmann (GRANDAI Software, California o Advanced EDI Security within a Workflow Environment Hitesh Tewari Maurice McCourt Donald O'Mahony (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) 3:40 BREAK ----- 3:50- PANEL : Examples of Electronic Commerce Services on the Internet 5:15 and Discussions of Electronic Commerce Bottlenecks. Panelists: Don Brown (PartNet), Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual), Randy Vandenbrink (HP), Bill Pickard (Washington Software Association), Anna-Lena Neches (FAST), Jeffrey Ritter (Ohio Supercomputer Center) ============================================================================= REGISTRATION FORM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please complete this form (TYPE or PRINT), and return with your payment to: Dr. E.K. Park Computer Science Department U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis, MD 21402 U.S.A. Tel: (410) 293-6806 Fax: (410) 293-2686. Your paper title, if any:_____________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Paper authors:___________________________________________________________ First Name:_________________________ Last Name:_______________________________ Title (Dr/Mr/Ms/Prof.):_____________ Position:________________________________ Company/Univ.:_______________________________ Dept.:__________________________ Address:______________________________________________________________________ City:_________________________ State:_____________ Zip/Postal Code:___________ Country:_______________________________ Phone:________________________________ Fax:_________________________________ E-mail:_________________________________ Payment in U.S. dollars ONLY (check drawn on a U.S. bank or International Money Order) is enclosed for the following (Please Check). ADVANCE (Received by October 31, 1994.): ========================================== Reg. Fee ACM/AAAI ______Member($290.00) ______Non-Member($340.00) ______Student ($190.00) Workshop ______Member($150.00) ______Non-Member($150.00) ______Student($75.00) Please circle your workshop preferences (fee is for EACH workshop): 1. GIS 2. Electronic Commerce 3. Intelligent Agents 4. Hypertext LATE/ONSITE (Received AFTER October 31, 1994): ================================================ Reg. Fee ACM/AAAI ______Member($340.00) ______Non-Member($390.00) ______Student($220.00) Workshop ______Member($180.00) ______Non-Member($180.00) ______Student($100.00) Please circle your workshop preferences (fee is for EACH workshop): 1. GIS 2. Electronic Commerce 3. Intelligent Agents 4. Hypertext Reg. Fee : choose category $_______________ Workshop Fee for each: choose category $_______________ Extra Page Charge:(U.S. $100.00 per page) $_______________ Extra Conf. Reception Tickets: ($30/ea) $_______________ Extra Workshop Reception Tickets:($30/ea) $_______________ Extra Conf. Banquet Tickets: ($40/ea) $_______________ Total Amount Enclosed: U.S. $_____________________ ACM/AAAI membership number (required for member rate):_____________________ Signature:_____________________________________ Date:______________________ PS: Acknowledgement of receipt of the registration form with payment will be sent out only by e-mail if you provide your e-mail address. Conference materials including receipts and proceedings can be picked up at the registration desk on site. Note that CIKM-94 will be held at NIST and Hilton Hotel is about 1 mile away from NIST. Transportation from Hilton/NIST/Hilton will be available for CIKM-94/Workshop attendees. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Information for Authors Four copies of papers should be submitted to the conference organiser by Friday 6th January 1995. Postscript or Latex email submissions are acceptable. Submission Details Please send FOUR hard copies of each paper to: Carole Goble BNCOD13 Organising Chair Department of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0) 61 275 6195 fax: +44 (0) 61 275 6932 Alternatively, postscript or latex via email to: bncod@cs.man.ac.uk WWW Full details can be found on the web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/events/bncod.html or a postscript version of the Call For Papers can be obtained via ftp from: //scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/pub/bncod13/cfp-leaf.ps ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER 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 to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld if your address is going to change send an unsubscribe request from the old address (before the change) send a subscribe request from the new address (after the change) to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From pam@cs.ust.hk Tue Nov 1 19:46:41 CST 1994 >From pam@cs.ust.hk Tue Nov 1 19:46:38 1994 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by fyvie.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 1 Nov 94 19:46:38 -0600 Received: from cssu43.cs.ust.hk by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 1 Nov 94 19:45:21 -0600 Received: by cssu43.cs.ust.hk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20979; Wed, 2 Nov 94 09:45:11 HKT Date: Wed, 2 Nov 94 09:45:11 HKT From: pam@cs.ust.hk (Dr. Pamela A. Drew) Message-Id: <9411020145.AA20979@cs.ust.hk> To: dbworld Subject: HKUST FACULTY POSITIONS THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Department of Computer Science The Department of Computer Science will have at least 10 faculty positions open AT ALL LEVELS for the 1995-96 academic year. Applications for senior-level positions are particularly solicited. The department began its first classes in October, 1991. It currently has 41 faculty members recruited from major universities and research institutions around the world and 430 undergraduate and 95 postgraduate students. We have active research groups in the areas of artificial intelligence, computer engineering, data and knowledge base management, software technology, and theoretical computer science. We are looking for new faculty with research interests in these areas as well as in the areas of Chinese (or multi-lingual) computing, natural language processing, neural networks, and robotics. Research funding is available through government agencies and industry-sponsored research institutes at the university, such as the Hong Kong Telecom Institute of Information Technology and the Sino Software Research Centre. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is a publicly-funded research university. It has Schools of Science, Engineering, Business & Management, and Humanities and Social Science. It is located on a new, well-equipped coastal campus overlooking the spectacular Clear Water Bay. Students admitted to the department rank among the top 10% of Hong Kong's secondary school graduates. The medium of instruction is English. Salary and benefits are competitive. Initial appointments will normally be on a three-year contract which is renewable subject to mutual agreement. A gratuity of an amount equal to 25% of the total basic salary received will be payable upon contract completion. Shorter-term visiting positions are also available for senior applicants. Applicants should have an earned Ph.D. and high potential in teaching and research. Senior applicants must have exceptional research records. Applications/nominations should be sent with a curriculum vitae together with names of at least three references to: Prof. Vincent Y. Shen, Head Department of Computer Science The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon HONG KONG Fax No. : (852) 358-2679 E-mail : vshen@cs.ust.hk Applications will be evaluated immediately upon receipt. Maximum consideration will be given to applications received by December 31, 1994. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER 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 to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld if your address is going to change send an unsubscribe request from the old address (before the change) send a subscribe request from the new address (after the change) to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From troels@ruc.dk Wed Nov 2 05:24:30 CST 1994 >From troels@ruc.dk Wed Nov 2 05:24:24 1994 Received: from emma.ruc.dk by fyvie.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 2 Nov 94 05:24:24 -0600 Received: from by emma.ruc.dk (4.1/JBA-1.18) id AB27860; Wed, 2 Nov 94 12:25:02 +0100 X-Sender: troels@pops.ruc.dk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 12:25:04 +0100 To: dbworld From: troels@ruc.dk (Troels Andreasen) Subject: FQAS'94 Workshop on Flexible Query-Answering Systems, Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FQAS'94 Workshop on Flexible Query-Answering Systems November,14-15, 1994 Roskilde University, Denmark NOTICE: The schedule is changed to two days: November, 14-15. We have a limited number of tickets available for non-authors INTRODUCTION As the amount of information which is on-line accessible from information bases, services, and networks increases, so does the demand for effective inquiring systems that are both easy to use and flexible in answering the users' needs. At the one extreme we have traditional database querying languages, at the other we natural language dialogues. As a model for a flexible query-answering system, we may consider the human expert which has expertise in the domain of interest, and in answering to users' needs, and which, among other thing, are cooperative in answering. The FQAS workshop provides a forum for discussing issues and solutions related to such inquiring systems, which we cover under the term 'flexible query-answering systems'. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Henrik Legind Larsen (general chair), Email: hll@dat.ruc.dk Troels Andreasen (program chair), Email: troels@dat.ruc.dk Lars Baekgaard (program chair), Email: larsb@iesd.auc.dk LOCATION The workshop will take place at Hotel Prindsen in the centre of Roskilde, located 30 km West of Copenhagen and only 30 minutes from Copenhagen centre by train. REGISTRATION The fee for participation (covering proceeding, and lunch) is 600 DKR (about 100 USD), to be paid at registration (upon arrival). We arrange a workshop dinner at November 14. Separate payment, 250 DKR, is required for the dinner. Participants are suggested to stay at Hotel Prindsen. Single 595 DKR., Double 690 DKR. Don't hesitate to contact us on alternate accomodation or any other question you may have. Email or fax the filled-in form (below) to at the latest, November 7: Troels Andreasen Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, bldg. 20.1, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark Email: troels@ruc.dk phone: +45 46 75 77 81 +(direct dial) 2132 fax: +45 46 75 42 01 REGISTRATION FORM ---------------------------------------------------------------- FQAS'94 Workshop on Flexible Query-Answering Systems November,14-15, 1994 Roskilde University, Denmark Personal Information Title Last Name: First name, middle name Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: .............................................. Institution/Company : Address : City : Country : Postal code : Phone: E-mail : Fax : Conference dinner : Yes/No Hotel Reservation Hotel Prindsen Algade 13 DK-4000 Roskilde Phone: +45 42 35 80 10 Fax: +45 42 35 81 10 Date & Time of arrival : November 1994 Date of departure : November 1994 I prefer to arrange Hotel Reservation directly: Yes/No ---------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Monday, November 14 9:00-9:15: Opening 9:15-11:00: Tutorial: Prof. Amihai Motro, USA: "Intelligent query answering" 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-12:30: Tutorial: Prof. Ronald R. Yager, USA: "Methods of Aggregation in Information Systems". 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Technical sessions 15:30-16:00: Coffee break 16:00-18:00: Panel discussion: "Query-answering systems in the information society - challenges for research and industry" Tuesday, November 15 9:00-10:00: Invited speaker: Prof. Patrick Bosc, France: "Fuzzy relations, ill-known values and the relational division" 10:00-10:30: Coffee break 10:30-12:00: Technical sessions 12:00-13:30: Lunch 13:30-15:00: Technical sessions 15:00-15:30: Coffee break 15:30-17:00: Technical sessions 17:00-17:15: Closing ---------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop is supported by SNF (Danish National Science Foundation), RUC (Roskilde University) and AIS a/s (Adaptive Information Systems a/s). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER 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 to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld if your address is going to change send an unsubscribe request from the old address (before the change) send a subscribe request from the new address (after the change) to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr Wed Nov 2 09:47:44 CST 1994 >From Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr Wed Nov 2 09:47:39 1994 Received: from soleil.uvsq.fr by fyvie.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 2 Nov 94 09:47:39 -0600 Received: from guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr (guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr [193.51.25.1]) by soleil.uvsq.fr (8.6.9/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id QAA24633 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 1994 16:47:35 +0100 Received: from [193.51.25.214] by guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr (8.6.8/jn931126) with SMTP; Wed, 2 Nov 1994 16:47:16 +0100 Message-Id: <199411021547.QAA24551@guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 16:48:54 +0100 To: dbworld From: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr (Elisabeth METAIS) Subject: Call for Papers N L D B ' 9 5 * First Workshop on Applications of NATURAL LANGUAGE to DATA BASES * Versailles, France, JUNE 28-29 1995 ________________________________ / C A L L F O R P A P E R S / ________________________________ This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, potential industrial and users, interested in various applications of natural language in the database field. The integration of databases and natural language has been for a long time an utopia. Since two decades, consulting databases or getting answers in natural language remain a dream for many users. This is nowadays an accessible convergent point for which a lot of researchers are focusing on. It is mainly due to the large progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage of real semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of the life cycle of the information system may be improved by using natural language techniques : database design (specification, validation, conflicts resolution), database query languages and consulting programs that use new software engineering research allowing natural language program specifications. TOPICS: Major Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: - Natural languages interfaces for database querying, - Natural language as a specification interface for database design, - Paraphrasing of database design conceptual schema in natural language, - Linguistic aspects of view integration, - Conceptual modelling and linguistic knowledge, - Use of linguistic tools and electronic dictionaries, - Textual databases, indexing and retrieval, - Generating texts from structured data, - Generation of natural language texts from formal specifications, - Semi-formal interfaces for interacting with databases, - Hypertext facilities for database querying. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairman: Mokrane Bouzeghoub PRiSM, University of Versailles, France Alain Bonnet Langage Naturel, France Janis Bubenko U. of Stockholm, Sweeden Hans Burg Vrije U., The Netherlands Corinne Cauvet U. of Paris I, France Josi Coch Erli, France Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau Essec, France Roland Dachelet Inria, France Christian Fluhr CEA, France Vladimir Fomichov Moscow State U., Russia Robert Goldstein U. of British Columbia, Canada Jon Atle Gulla GMD Darmstadt, Germany Henri Habrias U. of Nantes, France Jean-Nokl Meunier PRiSM, France Elisabeth Mitais U.of Paris VI, France Reinder van de Riet Vrije U., The Netherlands Arne Solvberg NTH Trondheim, Norway Veda Storey Rochester U., Canada ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chairwoman: Elisabeth Mitais PRiSM, University of Versailles, France Email: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr Christiane Boucher PRiSM, France Gilles Levreau PRiSM, France Jean-Nokl Meunier PRiSM, France Reinder van de Riet Vrije U., The Netherlands Corinne Sweeney AFCET, France FIRST SPONSORS: AFCET , University of Versailles, ERLI, ESSEC. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: To contribute, please submit 4 copies of an original paper which does not exceed 5000 words, including a short abstract, to the program committee chairman: Prof. Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Laboratoire PRiSM, Universiti de Versailles 45, av des Etats-Unis 78000 Versailles, France. IMPORTANTE DATES : PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1st, 1995 Notification of acceptance : March 30th, 1995 Camera-ready paper : May 15th, 1995 Elisabeth METAIS Laboratoire PRiSM Universite de Versailles 45, avenue des Etats-Unis 78000 VERSAILLES, FRANCE Tel: +33 (1) 39 25 40 53 Fax: +33 (1) 39 25 40 57 Email: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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We apologize if you receive this call for papers more than once. ===============================ASCII========================= Preliminary Call for Papers LOPSTR'95 Fifth International Workshop on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation 20--22 September 1995, Utrecht, the Netherlands LOPSTR'95 is the fifth in a series of annual workshops, after those in Manchester (1991 and 1992), Louvain-la-Neuve (1993), and Pisa (1994). This time the workshop will take place in Utrecht (the Netherlands) and it will be run in parallel with {\bf PLILP'95}, the Seventh International Symposium on Programming Languages, Implementations, Logics and Programs. LOPSTR and PLILP will share invited lectures and sessions of common interest. The two meetings will be organized by the Computer Science Department of Utrecht University. The aim of the workshop is to present recent work (including work in progress) and discuss new ideas and trends in the following fields: program synthesis, program transformation, program specialization, partial deduction all in the context of logic programming. Papers pointing out the relationships of the above topics with other topics in the field of automated program development, such as: automated deduction, constructive type theory, implementation techniques, inductive logic programming, meta-languages, program analysis, program specification, query optimization in deductive databases, software engineering, synthesis and transformation in the context of other programming languages, are welcomed. Papers describing automated systems for program development and overviews of recent work on the topics of interest are also solicited. Authors should submit 5 copies of an extended abstract to the following address by May 25, 1995: Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR Viale Manzoni, 30 I-00185 Roma, Italy Phone: +39 6 7716426, Fax: +39 6 7716461 E-mail: proietti@iasi.rm.cnr.it The submissions should include a return postal address and an e-mail address, if available. Submission of abstracts by e-mail is also accepted (LaTeX or Postscript). Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their abstracts for presentation at the workshop by July 20, 1995. The accepted abstracts will be collected into preliminary proceedings which will be available at the workshop. Extended abstracts can be completed into full papers and submitted after the workshop by October 15, 1995. Submitted papers will be reviewed for publication in the final proceedings (which are expected to be published by Springer-Verlag). Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their papers for the proceedings by December 1, 1995. Accepted papers must be received in camera-ready form by January 15, 1996. The extended abstract should be 5--8 page long (excluding references and appendices). The following aspects will be relevant for the evaluation of the submission: originality, clarity, significance, and correctness. In particular, the abstract should clearly point out the relationships with published work or submissions by the same authors and it should be understandable by a broad audience. Proofs may be added in appendix, if needed. Program Committee: A. Bossi (U. Calabria, Rende, Italy), D. Boulanger (K.U. Leuven, Belgium), Y. Deville (U.C. Louvain, Belgium), S. Debray (U. Arizona, Tucson, USA), L. Fribourg (LIENS-CNRS, Paris, France), N. Fuchs (U. Zurich, Switzerland), J. Gallagher (U. Bristol, UK), T. Mogensen (U. Copenhagen, Denmark), M. Proietti (IASI-CNR, Roma, Italy, chair), H. Seki (NIT, Nagoya, Japan), P. Tarau (U. Moncton, Canada), G. Wiggins (U. Edinburgh, UK) Organizing Committee: Doaitse Swierstra, Jeroen Fokker, Erik Meijer, Margje Punt (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) For more information please contact Maurizio Proietti or http://www.cs.ruu.nl/Home.html. ====================LATEX=========================================== % Document Type: LaTeX % Master File: lopstr95cfp.tex \documentstyle{article} \pagestyle{empty} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{2mm} \setlength{\textwidth}{16cm} \setlength{\textheight}{26cm} \setlength{\topmargin}{-10mm} \setlength{\parindent}{0mm} \setlength{\parskip}{5pt} \newcommand{\subtitle}[1]{ \par \vspace*{\parskip} \par {\large {\bf #1}} \par } \begin{document} \begin{center} {\large Preliminary Call for Papers }\\[.2cm] \fbox{ \begin{minipage}{13cm} \begin{center} \vspace*{.2cm} {\LARGE {\bf LOPSTR'95 }}\\[.1cm] {\Large Fifth International Workshop on }\\[.1cm] {\Large Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation }\\[.2cm] {\large 20--22 September 1995, Utrecht, the Netherlands }\\ \vspace*{.1cm} \end{center} \end{minipage} } \end{center} LOPSTR'95 is the fifth in a series of annual workshops, after those in Manchester (1991 and 1992), Louvain-la-Neuve (1993), and Pisa (1994). This time the workshop will take place in Utrecht (the Netherlands) and it will be run in parallel with {\bf PLILP'95}, the Seventh International Symposium on {\em Programming Languages, Implementations, Logics and Programs}. LOPSTR and PLILP will share invited lectures and sessions of common interest. The two meetings will be organized by the Computer Science Department of Utrecht University. The aim of the workshop is to present recent work (including work in progress) and discuss new ideas and trends in the following fields: {\it program synthesis, program transformation, program specialization, partial deduction} all in the context of logic programming. Papers pointing out the relationships of the above topics with other topics in the field of automated program development, such as: automated deduction, constructive type theory, implementation techniques, inductive logic programming, meta-languages, program analysis, program specification, query optimization in deductive databases, software engineering, synthesis and transformation in the context of other programming languages, are welcomed. Papers describing automated systems for program development and overviews of recent work on the topics of interest are also solicited. Authors should submit 5 copies of an {\bf extended abstract} to the following address by {\bf May 25, 1995}: \hspace*{2cm}Maurizio Proietti \\ \hspace*{2cm}IASI-CNR \\ \hspace*{2cm}Viale Manzoni, 30 \\ \hspace*{2cm}I-00185 Roma, Italy \\ \hspace*{2cm}Phone: +39 6 7716426, Fax: +39 6 7716461 \\ \hspace*{2cm}E-mail: {\tt proietti@iasi.rm.cnr.it} The submissions should include a return postal address and an e-mail address, if available. Submission of abstracts by e-mail is also accepted (LaTeX or Postscript). Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their abstracts for presentation at the workshop by {\bf July 20, 1995}. The accepted abstracts will be collected into preliminary proceedings which will be available at the workshop. {\it Extended abstracts can be completed into full papers and submitted after the workshop} by {\bf October 15, 1995}. Submitted papers will be reviewed for publication in the final proceedings (which are expected to be published by Springer-Verlag). Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their papers for the proceedings by {\bf December 1, 1995}. Accepted papers must be received in camera-ready form by {\bf January 15, 1996}. The extended abstract should be 5--8 page long (excluding references and appendices). The following aspects will be relevant for the evaluation of the submission: originality, clarity, significance, and correctness. In particular, the abstract should clearly point out the relationships with published work or submissions by the same authors and it should be understandable by a broad audience. Proofs may be added in appendix, if needed. \subtitle{Program Committee} %\hspace*{.7cm} \begin{tabular}{ @{} l l @{\hspace{1cm}} l l} A. Bossi & (U. Calabria, Rende, Italy) & J. Gallagher & (U. Bristol, UK) \\ D. Boulanger & (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) & T. Mogensen & (U. Copenhagen, Denmark)\\ Y. Deville & (U.C. Louvain, Belgium) & M. Proietti & (IASI-CNR, Roma, Italy) (chair) \\ S. Debray & (U. Arizona, Tucson, USA) & H. Seki & (NIT, Nagoya, Japan)\\ L. Fribourg & (LIENS-CNRS, Paris, France) & P. Tarau & (U. Moncton, Canada)\\ N. Fuchs & (U. Zurich, Switzerland) & G. Wiggins & (U. Edinburgh, UK) \end{tabular} \subtitle{\bf Organizing Committee} Doaitse Swierstra, Jeroen Fokker, Erik Meijer, Margje Punt (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)\\ For more information please contact Maurizio Proietti or {\tt http://www.cs.ruu.nl/Home.html}. \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGE WILL GO ONLY TO THE SENDER The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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