Information Retrieval List Digest 162 (May 11, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-162 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 May 11, 1993 Volume X, Number 18 Issue 162 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Final Program: Conference on Understanding Images 2. ACM Multimedia '93 3. Central European Conference & Exhibition for Academic Libraries & Information 4. ISCIS VIII: The 8th International Symposium on Computer & Information Sciences II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Retrieval Studies ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Dr. Francis T. Marchese Re: Final Program for Conference on Understanding Images Final Program Announcement for the Conference on Understanding Images Friday & Saturday, May 21-22, 1993 The Pace Downtown Theater, 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038 In Hypermdia, multimedia and virtual reality systems vast amounts of information confront the observer or participant. Yet, image construction, transmission, reception, decipherment, and ultimate understanding are complex tasks strongly influenced by physiology, education, and culture. The purpose of this conference is to bring together a breadth of dispciplines, including physical, biological, computational sciences, technology, art, psychology, philosophy, and education, to define and discuss the issues essential to image understanding within the computer graphics context. PROGRAM SCHEDULE: 8:00am-8:30am Registration 8:30am-9:00am Continental breakfast 9:00am-9:15am Opening Address - Dr. Susan M. Merritt, dean, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace Univ. 9:15am-10:00am "Designing Technology: A Challenge for All Designers" 10:00am-10:30am "Photographic Interpretation" Tom Hubbard, School of Journalism, Ohio State Univ. 10:30am-11:00am *Break* 11:00am-11:45am "Composing and Understanding Spatial Images" Les M. Sztandera, Electrical Engineering Dept., Univ. of Toledo 11:45am-12:30pm "Some Speculations about Graphic Communication" Barbara Tversky, Psychology Dept., Stanford Univ. 12:30pm-2:00pm *Lunch Buffet* 2:00pm-2:45pm "Automating Procedures for Generating Chinese Characters John Loustau and Jong-Ding Wang, Math and Stat Dept. Hunter College 2:45pm-3:30pm "Implementation of Collaborative Multimedia Technologies in Urban Planning Situations" Michael J. Shiffer, Computer Resource Laboratories, MIT 3:30pm-4:00pm *Break* 4:00pm-4:45pm "Gesture Translation: Using Conventional Musical Instruments in Unconventional Ways" Robert Williams, Computer Science Dept., Pace Univ. 4:45pm-5:30pm "The Ruling Effect of Contours, Surface Markings and Background in Perception of Shape from Shading" Xiaoping Hu and Narenda Ahuja, Beckmann Institute and Dept. of ECE, Univ. of Illinois Saturday, May 22, 1993 8:30am-9:00am Contintental Breakfast 9:00am-9:45am "Visualization for the Document Space" Xia Lin, Law Library, Pace Univ. 9:45am-10:30am "Visual Language" Judson Rosebush, Judson Rosebush Company, NYC 10:30am-11:00am *Break* 11:00am-11:45am "Neuromusic" Matthew Witten and Robert Wyatt, Univ. of Texas and Center for High Performance Computing 11:45am-12:30pm "Masaccio's Bag of Tricks" Marc de Mey, Univ. of Ghent 12:30pm-2:00pm *Lunch Buffet* 2:00pm-2:45pm "Is Alligator Skin More Wrinkled Than Tree Bark? The Role of Texture in Object Description" A. Ravishankar Rao, IBM Watson Research Center and Nalini Bhushan, Philosophy dept., Smith College 2:45pm-3:30pm "Universality and Variability in Human Visual Information Processing" Beverely J. Jones, School of Architecture and Applied Arts, Univ. of Oregon 3:30pm-4:00pm *Break* 4:00pm-4:45pm "Aesthetics and Nature: The Manufacturing of an Authoritative Voice in Scientific Visualization" Mark Bajuk, NCSA, Univ. of Illinois 4:45pm-5:30pm "The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality" 5:30pm-6:15pm "Sonic Issues" Rory Stuart, NYNEX FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION CONTACT: DR. FRANCIS T. MARCHESE COMPUTER SCIENCE Dept. NYC/ACM SIGGRAPH CONFERENCE 1 PACE PLAZA ROOM T-1704 NEW YORK, NY 10038 VOICE: 212-346-1803 FAX: 212-346-1933 EMAIL: MARCHESF@PACEVM.BITNET ********** I.A.2. Fr: ACMMultimedia Conference 93 Re: ACM Multimedia'93 - Advance Program ACM MULTIMEDIA 93 FIRST ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA (co-located with SIGGRAPH 93) (SIGBIO, SIGCHI, SIGCOMM, SIGGRAPH, SIGIR, SIGLINK, and SIGOIS) 1-6 August 1993, Anaheim, California, MONDAY, 2 AUGUST 1993: COURSES Designing Multimedia Environments for Children Multimedia Systems: A Guided Tour Concept of Color, Video, and Compression TUESDAY, 3 AUGUST 1993: COURSES Survey of Formal Standards for Multimedia Systems Copyright Protection for Software, Graphics, and Multimedia Multimedia and Multimodal Parsing , Structured Design of Hypermedia Applications , Large Multimedia Databases WEDNESDAY, 4 AUGUST 1993 Keynote Session: Chair: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UC Santa Cruz SRI Int'l Keynote Speaker: Trip Hawkins, President and CEO, The 3DO Company. COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS: Optimistic Strategies for Large-Scale Dissemination of Multimedia Information, MCAM: An Application Layer Protocol for Movie Control, Access, and Management, Synchronous Bandwidth Allocation in FDDI Networks. PANEL: DIGITAL LIBRARIES OF THE FUTURE Compression and Coding, Real-Time Software-Based Video Coder for Multimedia Communication Systems, Performance of a Software MPEG Video Decoder, Transform Coding of Arbitrarily-Shaped Image Segments. CONTENT-BASED RETRIEVAL: Salient Video Stills: Content and Context Preserved, Facial Image Retrieval, Identification, and Inference System, A Multimedia Mineral Retrieval System. THURSDAY, 5 AUGUST 1993 Communication Systems, High-Bandwidth Multimedia Conferencing through a Long-Haul Packet Network, Media Scaling with HeiTS, A Multimedia Client to the IBM LAN Server, The Vidboard: A Video Capture and Processing Peripheral for a Distributed Multimedia System. HYPERMEDIA: An Introduction to the Future MHEG International Standard for Hypermedia Object Interchange, HyOctane: A HyTime Engine for an MMIS, Open Architecture for Multimedia Documents. MEDIA SYNCHRONIZATION: A Synchronization and Communication Model for Distributed Multimedia Objects, Synchronization Models for Multimedia Presentation with User Participation, Specification of Multimedia Composition and a Visual Programming Environment. PANEL: NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA EMERGING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES MULTIMEDIA TOOLKITS: Toolkit for Shared Hypermedia on a Distributed Object Oriented Architecture, CMIFed: A Presentation Environment for Portable Hypermedia Documents, Programming the Multimodal Interface. DELAY-SENSITIVE RETRIEVAL: Multimedia Network File Servers: Multi-Channel Delay Sensitive Data Retrieval, Optimization of the grouped Sweeping Scheduling (GSS) with Heterogeneous Multimedia Streams, Disk Scheduling in a Multimedia I/O System. USING VIDEO IN GROUP COLLABORATION: What Video Can and Can't Do for Collaboration, Where We Were: Making and Using Near-Synchronous, Pre-narrative Video, Architectures for Multi-Source Multi-User Video Compositing. VIDEO PROCESSING: Projection Detecting Filter for Video Cut Detection, MPEGTool: An X Window Based MPEG Encoder and Statistics Tool, Image Processing on Compressed Data for Large Video Databases. PANEL: MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING FRIDAY, 6 AUGUST 1993 NETWORK PERFORMANCE: Analysis of Video Conferencing on a Token Ring Local Area Network, Algorithms and Performance Evaluation of the Xphone Multimedia Communication System, A Performance Analysis of the IBM Subsystem Control Block, Architecture in a Video Conferencing Environment. AUTHORING: Object Composition and playback Model for Handling Multimedia Data, Structured Multimedia Authoring, A Multimedia Testbed. DOCUMENTS: Synchronization in the MAEstro Multimedia Authoring Environment, Automatic Temporal layout Mechanisms, CircusTalk: An Orchestration Service for Distributed Multimedia. PANEL: THE FUTURE OF VIDEO DIAL TONE VIDEO SERVERS: News On-Demand for Multimedia Networks, Streaming RAID: A Disk Storage System for Video and Audio Files, Multi-resolution Video Representation for Parallel Disk Arrays. INFORMATION ACCESS: Panoramic Overviews for navigational Real-World Scenes, Design of an Information Skimming Space, Phoneshell: The Telephone as a Computer Terminal. COLLABORATION SYSTEMS: CECED: A System for Informal Multimedia Collaboration, Collaborative Multimedia Scientific Design in SHASTRA, The BERKOM Multimedia Collaboration Service. SUPPORT FOR VIDEO APPLICATIONS: Integrating Video into an Application Framework, VideoScheme: A Programmable Video Editing System for Automation and Media Recognition, A Digital On-Demand Video Service Supporting Content-Based Queries. FOR COMPLETE REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION, contact: SIGGRAPH 93 Conference Management at 401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago IL 60611, 1.312.321.6830, 1.312.321.6876 (FAX), or multimedia93@siggraph.org. The complete advance program is available over the Internet via anonymous ftp to siggraph.org (128.248.245.250). ********** I.A.3. Fr: Dr Algirdas Pakstas Re: Central European Conference & Exhibition for Academic Libraries & Informatics CENTRAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES AND INFORMATICS VILNIUS, LITHUANIA 27-29 September, 1993 EMPOWERING USERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY The patrons of academic libraries constitute the core of the country intellectual power present and future. The development of their countries depends largely on them. Academic libraries of Central and Eastern Europe thus may well become the centres of promotion of new technologies in information infrastructure. An academic library implementing new technologies today will produce thousands of empowered users in the 21st century. Three main themes of the Conference are: 1. New Technologies in Libraries. 2. Status of Academic Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe. 3. Implementation of New Technologies. Theme of concurrent sessions will depend on Your suggestions and abstracts You will send. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for Central and Eastern Europe libraries to get acquainted with new technologies in libraries and companies providing them, to review different projects of library automation, to discuss problems of Central and Eastern Europe libraries with an expectation of future collaboration and possible joint ventures. The major event will be the exhibition, where companies from USA and Europe will demonstrate their latest achievements in information technology. YOUR PAPERS ARE WELCOME! Announcement Papers on the topics of the Conference are invited. Prospective speakers are invited to submit an abstract of 300 words in English. Please mail Abstract by July 31, 1993 to: Vida Maceviciene, Vilnius Technical University Library Ausros Vartu 7a 2600 Vilnius Lithuania Fax: (3702) 765 210 E-mail: Vida.Maceviciene@AIA.VTU.LT Authors will be notified of their acceptance by August 31. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION CONTACT VILNIUS, LITHUIANIA: VIDA.MACEVICIENE@AIA.VTU.LT AND, PLEASE, BE PATIENT BECAUSE SOMETIMES THIS E-MAIL CONNECTION CAN BE OUT OF ORDER... :-( ********** I.A.4. Fr: Ugur Halici Re: CFP ISCIS PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ISCIS VIII THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES November 3 to 5, 1993, Antalya, Turkey ISCIS VIII is the eighth of a series of meetings which have brought together computer scientists and engineers from more than twenty countries. This year's conference will be held near the beautiful Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, in a region rich in natural as well as archeological and historical sites. RESEARCH PAPERS ARE SOUGHT IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: * Theory of Computer Science * Computer Architecture and Systems * Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks * Parallel Architectures and Processing * Computer Graphics and Image Processing * Computational Mathematics * Operations Research Applications * Databases * Performance Evaluation * Software Engineering * Computer Networks PAPER SUBMISSION: Please submit five copies (one camera ready original and four copies). Full papers are limited to 8 pages and short communications are limited to 4 pages on 210mm x 297 mm (A4) or 8-1/2" x 11" (letter size) white paper with one inch margins on all four sides, only the first page should have a two inch margin at the top. Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete title of the paper, author(s), affiliation(s), mailing and e-mail address(es) followed by the the abstract, not to exceed 15 lines, and then followed by the text. In an accompanying letter, the following should be included: full title of the paper, names, mailing addresses, tel.& fax. no and e-mail address of the author(s) and the presenter indicating if he/she is a student, technical session names to be selected from the list of topics given above. The paper in camera ready form and the acompanying letter should be sent by postal mail only, so as to arrive by June 20, 1993 to : ISCIS VIII Attn Drs L. Gun and R. Onvural IBM P.O. Box 12195 E95/B 673 Research Triangle Park, NC 27719, USA Accepted papers shall be published in the conference proceedings. Selected papers from ISCIS VIII will be published in a special issue of the Information Sciences journal (North Holland) POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Submit a camera ready 1 page extended abstract with an accompanying letter by July 30, 1993 to the address given above. INFORMATION: For sample writing format, and further information and announcements contact : ISCIS VIII, METU Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng. 06531 Ankara, Turkey Tel: (90 4) 210 10 00 Ext: 2301 Fax: (90 4) 210 12 61 Email: iscis@trmetu.bitnet (internet) iscis@vm.cc.metu.edu.tr ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: Bill Hersh Re: Retrieval Studies I am looking for retrieval evaluation studies that compare traditional (i.e., Boolean, with human and/or simple title-abstract indexing) systems with automated (i.e., either SMART-like and/or incorporating natural language processing methods) systems. I know there are a lot of retrieval evaluation studies comparing traditional systems with other traditional systems. And likewise there are many evaluation studies comparing automated systems with other automated systems. But are there any studies comparing traditional systems versus automated systems? I am especially interested in studies where real users were involved (as opposed to batch runs in a laboratory). I know of the Cranfield work and Salton's 1971 MEDLARS-SMART comparison, but those are with very small collections and without real users. I also know of the full-text work of Tenopir and Ro, but I did not see any direct comparisons of the traditional and automated approaches. Bill Hersh Oregon Health Sciences University hersh@ohsu.edu ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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