Information Retrieval List Digest 106 (March 31, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-106 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1992 19:34:29 PST Reply-To: "Information Retrieval List" Sender: "Information Retrieval List" From: IRLIST Subject: IR-L Digest, Vol.IX, No.10, Issue 106 IRLIST Digest March 31, 1992 Volume IX, Number 10 Issue 106 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Neural Networks & Parallel Distributed Processing 5th Conference, April 9-11, 1992, Indiana University & Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana 2. La Tres Grande Bibliotheque & the Library of the Future April 10-12, 1992, University of California, Berkeley, California II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Optical hardware 2. Information retrieval puzzle 3. Dewey decimal ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: TEPPER@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU Re: PDP & NN5 Fifth NN & PDP CONFERENCE PROGRAM - April 9, 10 and 11,1992 The Fifth Conference on Neural Networks and Parallel Distributed Processing at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne will be held April 9, 10, and 11, 1992. Conference registration is $20 (on site). Students and members or employees of supporting organizations attend free. Some limited financial support might also be available to allow students to attend. Inquiries should be addressed to: US mail: Pr. Samir Sayegh Physics Department Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 email: sayegh@ipfwcvax.bitnet FAX: (219)481-6880 Voice:(219) 481-6306 OR 481-6157 All talks will be held in Kettler Hall, Room G46: Thursday, April 9, 6pm-9pm; Friday Morning & Afternoon (Tutorial Sessions), 8:30am-12pm & 1pm-4:30pm and Friday Evening 6pm-9pm; Saturday, 9am-12noon. Parking will be available near the Athletic Building or at any Blue A-B parking lots. Do not park in an Orange A lot or you may get a parking violation ticket. Special hotel rates (IPFW corporate rates) are available at Canterbury Green, which is a 5 minute drive from the campus. The number is (219) 485-9619. The Marriott Hotel also has corporate rates for IPFW and is about a 10 minute drive. Their number is (219) 484-0411. Another hotel with corporate rates for IPFW is Don Hall's Guesthouse (about 10 minutes away). Their number is (219) 489-2524. The following talks will be presented: Applications I - Thursday 6pm-7:30pm Nasser Ansari & Janusz A. Starzyk, Ohio University. DISTANCE FIELD APPROACH TO HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION Thomas L. Hemminger & Yoh-Han Pao, Case Western Reserve University. A REAL- TIME NEURAL-NET COMPUTING APPROACH TO THE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC TRANSIENTS Seibert L. Murphy & Samir I. Sayegh, Indiana-Purdue University. ANALYSIS OF THE CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE OF A BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK DESIGNED FOR ACOUSTIC SCREENING S. Keyvan, L. C. Rabelo, & A. Malkani, Ohio University. NUCLEAR DIAGNOSTIC MONITORING SYSTEM USING ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY J.L. Fleming & D.G. Hill, Armstrong Lab, Brooks AFB. STUDENT MODELING USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Biological and Cooperative Phenomena Optimization I - Thursday 7:50pm-9pm Ljubomir T. Citkusev & Ljubomir J., Buturovic, Boston University. NON- DERIVATIVE NETWORK FOR EARLY VISION Yalin Hu & Robert J. Jannarone, University of South Carolina. A NEUROCOMPUTING KERNEL ALGORITHM FOR REAL-TIME, CONTINUOUS COGNITIVE PROCESSING M.B. Khatri & P.G. Madhavan, Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis. ANN SIMULATION OF THE PLACE CELL PHENOMENON USING CUE SIZE RATIO Mark M. Millonas, University of Texas at Austin. CONNECTIONISM AND SWARM INTELLIGENCE Tutorials I - Friday 8:30am-11:45am Bill Frederick, Indiana-Purdue University. INTRODUCTION TO FUZZY LOGIC Helmut Heller, University of Illinois. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPUTER SYSTEMS Arun Jagota, SUNY-Buffalo. THE HOPFIELD NETWORK, ASSOCIATIVE MEMORIES, AND OPTIMIZATION Tutorials II - Friday 1:15pm-4:30pm Krzysztof J. Cios, University Of Toledo. SELF-GENERATING NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM : CID3 APPLICATION TO CARDIOLOGY Robert J. Jannarone, University of South Carolina. REAL-TIME NEUROCOMPUTING, AN INTRODUCTION Network Analysis I - Friday 6pm-7:30pm M.R. Banan & K.D. Hjelmstad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A SUPERVISED TRAINING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON LOCAL ADAPTATION, FUZZINESS, AND SIMULATION Pranab K. Das II, University of Texas at Austin. CHAOS IN A SYSTEM OF FEW NEURONS Arun Maskara & Andrew Noetzel, University Heights. FORCED LEARNING IN SIMPLE RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS Samir I. Sayegh, Indiana-Purdue University. SEQUENTIAL VS CUMULATIVE UPDATE: AN n EXPANSION D.A. Brown, P.L.N. Murthy, & L. Berke, The College of Wooster. SELF- ADAPTATION IN BACKPROPAGATION NETWORKS THROUGH VARIABLE DECOMPOSITION AND OUTPUT SET DECOMPOSITION Applications II - Friday 7:50pm-9pm Susith Fernando & Karan Watson, Texas A & M University. ANNs TO INCORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN HI FAULTS DETECTION D.K. Singh, G.V. Kudav, & T.T. Maxwell, Youngstown State University. FUNCTIONAL MAPPING OF SURFACE PRESSURES ON 2-D AUTOMOTIVE SHAPES BY NEURAL NETWORKS K. Hooks, A. Malkani, & L. C. Rabelo, Ohio University. APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN QUALITY CONTROL CHARTS B.E. Stephens & P.G. Madhavan, Purdue University at Indianapolis. SIMPLE NONLINEAR CURVE FITTING USING THE ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWOR Network Analysis II - Saturday 9am-10:30am Sandip Sen, University of Michigan. NOISE SENSITIVITY IN A SIMPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEM Xin Wang, University of Southern California. DYNAMICS OF DISCRETE-TIME RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS: PATTERN FORMATION AND EVOLUTION Zhenni Wang and Christine Di Massimo, University of Newcastle. A PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE CANONICAL STRUCTURE OF MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS Srikanth Radhakrishnan, Tulane University. PATTERN CLASSIFICATION USING THE HYBRID COULOMB ENERGY NETWORK Biological and Cooperative Phenomena Optimization II - Saturday 10:50am-12noon J. Wu, M. Penna, P.G. Madhavan, & L. Zheng, Purdue University at Indianapolis. COGNITIVE MAP BUILDING AND NAVIGATION C. Zhu, J. Wu, & Michael A. Penna, Purdue University at Indianapolis. USING THE NADEL TO SOLVE THE CORRESPONDENCE PROBLEM Arun Jagota, SUNY-Buffalo. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY OF ANALYZING A HOPFIELD-CLIQUE NETWORK Assaad Makki, & Pepe Siy, Wayne State University. OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS BY MODIFIED HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORKS ********* I.A.2. Fr:Doug Cutting Re: La Tres Grande Bibliotheque and the Library of the Future La Tres Grande Bibliotheque and the Library of the Future University of California, Berkeley April 10-12, 1992 What will be the fate of libraries in the 21st century? How will knowledge be stored, classified and made available in the future? In the past year, a proposal for a $1.3 billion dollar French National Library has generated intense public discussion in both the U. S. and abroad over the nature of libraries and their role in public life. A major international conference at the University of California, Berkeley, on "La Tres Grande Bibliotheque and the Future of the Library, April lO - April l2, will bring together officials in charge of the National Library Project in France, librarians, curators, architects, representatives of the electronics industry, historians, and futurologists of the library to discuss the sites, shapes and governance of knowledge at century's end. President Mitterrand of France has proclaimed that the last great public works project of his term will be the "library of the twenty-first century," a "completely new type of library placing all fields of knowledge at the disposition of all, using the most modern technology linked electronically to other European libraries and universities. The proposed "Tres Grande Bibliotheque, double the size of the current Bibliothegue Nationale and the most ambitious and costly cultural project undertaken in France since the end of World War II, has provoked debates among librarians, curators, architects, academicians, bureaucrats, businessmen, unions, politicians, scholars and the general public. The French Cultural Studies Program at U. C. Berkeley will bring these issues, which have been discussed primarily in the French, English, and German press, to an open forum on the future of the library both within France and internationally. Panels will include a "Presentation of the French Project," giving a description and history of the Bibliotheque de France and the problems of its transformation; "The Global Library," a discussion of the issues raised by library projects in Paris, New York, San Francisco and around the world; "The Future of the Library," an examination of information storage and access, the place and effects of document technology and architecture on preservation, scholarship, and public use; and "The Library in Public Life," a look at the relationship between libraries and other sites of cultural memory such as museums and archives, the place of the library in both the social life of a neighborhood and the civic life of a city and a nation, the question of access, and the relation between libraries and government. PROGRAM * All sessions to be held in the Auditorium on the Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley. * The conference will be bilingual. Both English and French- speaking participants will be accommodated through translation and summary. * The conference is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Katharine Streip, French Cultural Studies Program, (510) 643-5799. Friday, April 10: Opening Remarks (1:30-2:00) I. Afternoon _ Session (2:00-5:00): PRESENTATION OF THE FRENCH PROJECT - Roger Hahn, History Department, UC Berkeley, Chair and discussant - Dominique Jamet, President du Conseil d'Administration, Bibliotheque de France, "Histoire, philosophie, ambitions de la Bibliotheque de France" - Jean Gattegno, Delegue Scientifique, Bibliotheque de France and Gerard Grunberg, Head of Library Management, Bibliotheque de France: "Ce que sera Ia Bibliotheque de France" - Dominique Perrault, Architect of the Bibliotheque de France "Architecture de la Bibliotheque de France" Saturday, April ll: II. Morninq _ Session (9:30-12:30): THE GLOBAL LIBRARY - Dorothy Gregor, University Librarian, UC Berkeley Chair and discussant - Kenneth Dowlin, Librarian of the City of San Francisco "The San Francisco Library Project" - Cathy Simon, Principal, Simon Martin-Vague Wincklestein Morris, Architects and James Freed, of Pei, Cobb, and Freed Partners, Codesign Principals for the new San Francisco Main Library "The Architecture of the San Francisco Project" - William Walker, Associate Director, Science, Industry, Business Library, The New York Public Library, "The New Science, Industry, Business Library at The New York Public Library" - John Gage, Director, Science Office, Sun Microsystems "The Global Book" III. Afternoon Session (2:00-5:00): THE LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE - Yale Bronstein, School of Library and Information Studies, UC Berkeley, Chair and discussant - Goery Delacote, Director of the San Francisco Exploratorium "Les Non-Bibliotheques" - Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, "Libraries of the Future: The Places of Books" - Alain Giffard, Information Sciences, Biblioth&que de France "Technologies nouvelles de Ia lecture" * TECHNOLOGICAL ROUND TABLE (5:00-6:00) * Reception for the General Public (6:00-7:00): Clark Kerr Campus Sunday, April 12: Morning Session (10:00-1:00): THE LIBRARY IN PUBLIC LIFE - Philip Leighton, Stanford University Chair and discussant - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Administrateur of the Bibliotheque Nationale, "La Vie quotidienne d'un Administrateur de 1a Biblioth&que Nationale" - Jacqueline Sanson, Bibliotheque Nationale, "Transfert et continuite du patrimoine" - Aude Perrault, Architectural team, Biblioth&que de France "La Biblioth&que de France dans 1a ville de Paris" - Roger Chartier, Conseil Scientifique de la Bibliotheque de France, "La Bibliotheque sans murs: l5e au 21e siecle" ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: Tommy Williams Re: Optical hardware We are planning to buy a 3 1/2" 128 MB optical drive for faculty members to use as backup and to archive important documents, images, and data from Macintosh computers. Could someone who has dealt with these tell me: (1) What is the best mechanism (Sony, Ricoh, etc.) in terms of speed and reliability? (2) Which standard should I look for (ISO or IEEE) or is that even a valid question for the Mac market? (3) How the speeds of these drives compare to SyQuest or Bernoulli mechanisms? If there are enough responses to warrant, I will condense the information and re-post it in a few days. Your comments are appreciated. --Tommy Williams "Children picking up our bones (615) 343-0343 Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill" - Wallace Stevens ********** II.B.2. Fr: Alan Conway Re: Help! Information retrieval puzzle The problem is as follows: I have a set of documents (they are descriptions of projects being proposed or undertaken) which I want to store so that if someone is proposing a new project, or has an interest in a particular topic, they can find out what kind of related projects are on file. The solution seems to me to be to assign keywords to the documents and store them so that they can be retrieved by keyword. The documents are in various wordprocessor formats but could be converted to plain ASCII. An experienced programmer/hacker would be available to do a small amount of initial setting up of the system, but after that it must be easy enough to use and maintain for non computer experts. Specifically, I am looking for tools to run on an IBM PC clone (either free or commercial software) which will help with any of the following tasks: * Choosing a sensible set of keywords and assigning keywords to documents * Storing/retrieving documents by keyword * Dealing with the problem in some other way (all suggestions gratefully accepted) I would appreciate _any_ suggestions or pointers especially if someone has set up a similar system. Thanks, Alan. (aconway@vax1.tcd.ie) ********** II.B.3. Fr: Barry Smith Re: Dewey decimal? I am looking for a list of the Dewey Decimal numbers, broken down to the units digit. (ie 600 is bad, 610 is okay, but 611 is ideal) If anyone has an electronic list or can point me to a concise list I would appreciate it. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests to: LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET Send submissions to IRLIST to: IR-L@UCCVMA.BITNET Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch lynch@postgres.berkeley.edu or calur@uccmvsa.bitnet Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.bitnet Mary Engle engle@cmsa.berkeley.edu or meeur@uccmvsa.bitnet The IRLIST Archives will be set up for anonymous FTP, and the address will be announced in future issues. To access back issues presently, send the message INDEX IR-L to LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET. To get a specific issue listed in the Index, send the message GET IR-L LOG ***, where *** is the month and day on which the issue was mailed, to LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET. These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. Contact Nancy Gusack or Mary Engle for more information on IRLIST. The opinions expressed in IRLIST do not represent those of the editors or the University of California. Authors assume full responsibility for the contents of their submissions to IRLIST.