Information Retrieval List Digest 147 (January 19, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-147 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 January 19, 1993 Volume X, Number 3 Issue 147 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. 9th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2. British Computer Society Information Retrieval Group 1993 Annual Conference 3. 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Personal Library Software 2. Harvard University, JFK School of Government 3. Wright State University Libraries ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Timothy Finin Re: 9th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for App The advance program and registration information for CAIA-93 (the 9th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications) is now available. The conference will be held March 1-5, 1993 at the Disney Yacht Club & Beach Club Resort Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA. To get the advance program and registration information by email, send a message to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU. For additional information, contact: CAIA'93 Registration, IEEE Computer Society, 1730 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1992 Voice:202-371-1013; Fax:202-728-0884, email:M.KABZA@COMPMAIL.COM. ********** I.A.2. Fr: David Heckerman Re: British Computer Society Information Retrieval Group 1993 Annual Conference Ninth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence July 9-11, 1993, Washington D.C. Call for Papers The ninth annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence will be devoted to methods for reasoning under uncertainty as applied to problems in artificial intelligence. The conference's scope covers the full range of approaches to automated and interactive reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, including both qualitative and numeric methods. We seek papers on fundamental theoretical issues, on computational techniques uncertain reasoning. Topics of interest include: - Foundations of uncertainty concepts - Representations of uncertain knowledge and their semantics - Knowledge acquisition - Construction of uncertainty models from data - Uncertainty in machine learning - Automated planning and decision making under uncertainty - Algorithms for uncertain inference - Pooling of uncertain evidence - Belief updating and inconsistency handling in uncertain knowledge bases - Explanation and summarization of uncertain information - Control of reasoning and real-time architectures This year, we hope to attract more contributions that emphasize real-world applications of uncertain reasoning. Questions of particular interest include: - Why was it necessary to represent uncertainty in your domain? - What kind of uncertainties does your application address? - Why did you decide to use your particular uncertainty formalism? - What theoretical problems, if any, did you encounter? - What practical problems did you encounter? - Did users of your system find the results or recommendations useful? - Did the introduction of your system lead to improvements in reasoning or decision making? - What methods were used to validate the effectiveness of the systems? Papers will be carefully refereed for originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Papers may be accepted for presentation in plenary or poster sessions. Some key applications oriented work may be presented both in a plenary session and in a poster session where more technical details can be discussed. All accepted papers will be included in the published proceedings. Outstanding student papers may be selected for special distinction. Five copies of each paper should be sent to one of the Program Co-Chairs by February 5, 1993. The first page should include a descriptive title, the names, addresses, and student status of all authors, a brief abstract, and salient keywords or other topic indicators. Acceptance notices will be sent by March 29, 1993. Final camera-ready papers, incorporating reviewers' suggestions, will be due approximately five weeks later. There will be an eight-page limit on proceedings papers, with a few extra pages available for a fee. Program Co-Chairs (paper submissions): David Heckerman Department of Computer Science, UCLA Boelter Hall, Room 3531 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 tel: (310) 825-2695, fax: (310) 825-2273 email: heckerman@cs.ucla.edu Abe Mamdani Deptartment of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary & Westfield College Mile End Road London E1 4NS tel: +44-71-975-5341, fax: +44-81-981-0259 e-mail: e.h.mamdani@qmw.ac.uk General Co-Chair (conference inquiries): Michael P. Wellman Department of EECS, University of Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tel: (313) 764-6894, fax: (313) 763-1260 email: wellman@engin.umich.edu ********** I.A.3. Fr: Enabling Technology Workshop Re: 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises Call for Papers 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE) Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) with sponsorships from IEEE Computer Society and AAAI is conducting a workshop on April 20-22, 1993 in Morgantown, WV. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies are sought in the following areas: Virtual Team Support Environments Information Sharing in Distributed Systems Enterprise modeling Process Capture and Characterization Process Re-engineering Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and Team Coordination Requirements, Constraints, Workflow Tracking and Management tools Networked Collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing on Local and Wide Area Networks Capturing design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise Integration Frameworks INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS: Papers should be no more than 20 typewritten, double spaced, single-sided pages including all text figures and references. Papers should have a title page that includes the title of the paper; full name, affiliation, physical address, electronic address, and tele- phone number of all authors; authors are encouraged to write a 300 word abstract; and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper's content. You can submit postscript files electronically as well. Deadlines Four (4) Copies of the full paper Jan 22, 1993 Notification of Decisions March 1, 1993 Final Version of the Paper April 1, 1993 Authors of accepted papers will be invited to attend this three day workshop on Enabling technologies. Papers submitted to this workshop will be published as proceedings (in book form) by IEEE Computer press in early summer. Workshop Chair: Dr. Ramana Reddy, CERC Program Chair: Dr. V. Jagannathan, CERC Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: V. "juggy" Jagannathan Concurrent Engineering Research Center Drawer 2000 P.O. Box 6506 West Virginia University 886 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone : Office: 304-293-7226 Extension: 170 Fax: 304-293-7541 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu ********************************************************** III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS III.1. Fr: Lawrence E. Fitzpatrick Re: Personal Library Software Personal Library Software (A small, growing company selling commercial software, located outside of Washington, D.C.) In a hurry? Use the table below to see if your skills match our needs. If you score more than 8 or 9 points, please consider us. Point value Skills 4 XVT toolkit programming 4 Solid C++ knowledge (>1 year) 4 QA/Release management experience 4 High-end software testing (e.g. can write test programs) 3 Solid Data Structure knowledge 3 graphical user interface design/programming 2 Object Oriented programming 2 X/Motif or X/Open Windows programming 2 Information Retrieval 2 C 2 knowledge of database internals 2 Macintosh programming 2 MS-Windows programming 2 Good verbal skills 1 Good writing skills 1 Eiffel 1 SmallTalk About the jobs: There are 4 main tracks at Personal Library Software that are currently hiring: 1. Database internals programmers, using C++ to create/maintain our highly portable full-text database engine. 2. Graphical User Interface programmers, using C++, XVT, native SDKs, and our database engine to create/maintain products for the Macintosh, MS-Windows (3.x and NT), and X-Windows. 3. Quality Assurance/Release management personnel capable of creating automated test scripts and programs. 4. Customer Support people capable of supporting end-user products, primarily on the phone. All products are designed using object-oriented techniques and currently implemented in C++. Knowledge of C++ is not strictly required if you strong OOP experience and a desire to learn C++. PLS products are sold on PCs, Macs, Vaxs, and UNIX platforms. We develop on PCs, Macs, and Suns in-house. ABOUT THE COMPANY: Personal Library Software (PLS) is a rapidly growing company that sells Information Retrieval software to a wide variety of domestic and international customers. Our products are sophisticated and lead the market in several areas. (I know, everyone says this, but it's really true!) PLS is located in Rockville, Maryland, and has been in business since 1983. ABOUT THE CULTURE: PLS is a fast-paced, informal company. Jeans and sneakers are fine 93% of the time. PLS is small and substantial growth is possible for good people. Excellence is expected and well rewarded. Point of Contact: Bruce Mount Director Of Product Development Personal Library Software 2400 Research Blvd., Suite 350 Rockville, MD 20850-3235 Contact methods (in order of preference): e-mail: bruce@pls.com OR ...uunet!plsparc!bruce Fax: (301) 963-9738 Applelink: PLS Voice: (301) 990-1155 Personal Library Software (PLS) is an equal opportunity employer offering employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual preference, national origin, age, species, or home planet. PLS provides Equal Employment Opportunity to Handicapped individuals, disabled veterans, cetaceans, and any other sentient being that knows how to develop software. ********** III.2. Fr: Brian Kahin Re: JFK School of Government, Harvard U. Project Coordinator Information Infrastructure Project JOB DESCRIPTION: Project Coordinator, Information Infrastructure Project, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Reports to Project Director; manages mailings, workshops, conferences, and publications; conducts library and online research; supervises student research assistants; manages office with limited secretarial support; assists director in sponsor relations, report writing, event planning, course preparation, development, and administration. The position requires excellent writing, editing, and interpersonal skills, familiarity with common computer applications, ability to work under pressure, attention to detail, and ability and willingness to perform a wide variety of functions as needed. Demonstrated knowledge of economics, computer technology, law, public policy, telecommunications, and/or specific project areas is required. Familiarity with the Internet and computer networking is especially important. Bachelor's degree and minimum of 3 years graduate work or job experience preferred. Salary variable depending on experience. This is a temporary position until Dec. 31, 1993, but may be extended depending on the availability of funds. Harvard University is affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Applications should be received no later than January 20. Interviews will be held and hiring will begin ASAP. Please mail resume and letter of interest to: Sofia Borcic John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 John F. Kennedy St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-1140 Fax: 617-495-1972 or by email to: Brian Kahin Director, Information Infrastructure Project kahin@hulaw1.harvard.edu No telephone calls please. ********** III.3. Fr: Chris Watson Re: Wright State University Wright State University Libraries Reference and Internet Services Librarian Wright State University is seeking an energetic and creative individual to serve in a key role within a dynamic and innovative environment. Responsibilities: Responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge and expertise in all aspects of the Internet, including access, resources, and interfaces. Develop and deliver Internet training for librarians and university faculty. Promote the use of Internet resources as part of the libraries' program to deliver electronic information. Provide general reference services at the academic and health sciences libraries on a regular schedule including rotating weekend and evening hours. Participate in professional activities, professional development, and continuing education. Qualifications: Required: ALA-accredited M.L.S. or Master's degree in a related computer or information science field. Preferred: Reference experience in an academic or health sciences library; Internet training and demonstrated experience; bibliographic instruction experience; knowledge of microcomputer applications in a networked environment; and, demonstrated ability to work closely and proactively with students, faculty, and colleagues. Salary: $24,003-34,070. Full postings available on request. Review of applications will begin February 1, 1993. ENVIRONMENT: Wright State University enrolls 17,000 students and offers a comprehensive program of study including doctorates in five fields. The Dayton metro area with 1 million people features a wide diversity of cultural and recreational activities and a rich quality of life. Wright State is the central hardware site for OhioLINK and is one of the first libraries to implement this state-wide system. The Library is planning a remote storage facility to be opened in 1994 and to be operated jointly with the University of Cincinnati and Miami University. Wright State is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and affirmative action and specifically encourages applications from members of underrepresented groups. APPLICATION: Send letter of application indicating position title, resume and names of 3 current references to: Chris Watson, Head of Administrative Services, Wright State University Libraries, Dayton, OH 45435. Interviews will be available at ALA Midwinter Conference. ********************************************************** 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 calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu or calur@uccmvsa.bitnet Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.bitnet Mary Engle meeur@uccmvsa.bitnet The IRLIST Archives will be set up for anonymous FTP, and the address will be announced in future issues. 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