Information Retrieval List Digest 171 (July 20, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-171 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 July 20, 1993 Volume X, Number 27 Issue 171 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Hypertext 93: Call for Demos & Posters 2. SIGIR 94: Call for Papers 3. First World Congress on Computational Medicine, Public Health and Biotechnology II. QUERIES A. Questions/Answers 1. Clustering and CLUSTAN 2. Hypertext Systems 3. Single-User MS-DOS Low-Level DB Software Wanted IV. PROJECT WORK D. Miscellaneous 1. BALT-INFO Project ********************************************************** I. NOTCES I.A.1. Fr: william@atc.boeing.com Re: Hypertext'93: Last Call HYPERTEXT'93 CALL FOR DEMOS & POSTERS 1993 ACM Conference on Hypertext Seattle, Washington, USA November 14-18, 1993 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT: Monday, August 2, 1993 Last call!!: There is still time to submit a demonstration or a poster for presentation at Hypertext'93. Posters and demos allow researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best presented in conversation. Poster and demo sessions permit a more direct, one-on-one exchange of ideas. Demos are an effective way to present a hypertext technique or application that is embodied in a working system. Please indicate hardware and software requirements. Posters are an effective way to present hypertext ideas, methods, techniques, and empirical findings. Posters can also be used to describe working systems when supporting hardware/software is unnecessary or unavailable. Because of the interactive nature of poster and demo presentations, presenters should be available at all times during each of the sessions. In general, this will mean that only one submission will be accepted per presenter. This is not a trade show exhibit. Presenters should be directly involved in the work being presented rather than marketing or sales people. Demo Proposals: The proposal should include a two- to three-page description of * the problem * what was done * why the work is important. * how the demo will illustrate your work. * hardware/software/electrical or other special requirements for your demo. Please provide cover information: * the title, * the name and affiliation of the presenter(s) * complete address (including telephone, fax, email) for the presenter to whom correspondence should be addressed. * indicate the role(s) that the presenter(s) took in the work being presented. * Please indicate hardware and software requirements, including electrical * also include a 100-word summary for inclusion in a program description if the proposal is accepted.. Send submissions by email or surface mail (please no faxes) to: William Jones Demonstration Session Chair Boeing Computer Services P.O. Box 24346, MS 7L-44 Seattle, WA 98124-0346 USA phone: 206 865 3319 email: william@atc.boeing.com (Please send electronic submissions postScript, RTF or ASCII format). Poster Proposals. The proposal should include an EXTENDED abstract of at most two pages emphasizing: * the problem, * what was done, and * why the work is important. Please provide cover information: * the title, * the name and affiliation of the presenters(s), * a few keyword phrases, * complete contact address for the presenter to whom correspondence should be addressed. (including telephone, fax, e-mail) E-mail and fax submissions will be accepted. E-mail submissions are PREFERRED over paper which is preferred over fax. PostScript and RTF are okay. LaTeX, troff, Scribe, Word, WP, etc. are not. Send submissions to: Gary Perlman Poster Session Chair Computer & Information Science 228 Bolz Hall, Ohio State University 2036 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1277 phone: +01-614-292-2566, fax: +01-614-292-2911 email: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu ********** I.A.2. Fr: asmeaton@ca.dcu.ie Re: SIGIR'94 Conference, Dublin, Ireland, Call for papers C A L L F O R P A P E R S 17th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval -- SIGIR'94 Sponsored by Dublin City University in cooperation with ACM, BCS-IRSG, GI, AICA-GLIR, CEPIS-EIRSG and ICS The SIGIR'94 conference will take place in Dublin. Ireland, from 3rd to 6th July, 1994. This conference is a forum for the exchange of ideas and reporting of work done in areas related to information retrieval and covers information retrieval theory, user interface issues, multimedia, natural language processing, advanced techniques implementations and system issues, networked information retrieval, applications and many other areas. Program co-chairs are Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen (Glasgow U.) and Prof. W Bruce Croft (UMass). Contributions to the conference can be in the form of papers, panels, tutorials or workshops. The deadlines for submission are 6 January 1994 (papers) and 14 february 1994 (others). For a copy of the full call for papers send e-mail to sigir-cfp@ca.dcu.ie or contact the conference chair. Full details on submission formats for papers, panels, tutorials or workshops may be obtained by sending e-mail to sigir-format@ca.dcu.ie or contacting the general conference chair. To be added to the mailing list send e-mail to sigir-info@ca.dcu.ie. Conference Chair Dr Alan Smeaton Tel: +353 - 1 - 7045262 School of Computer Applications Fax: +353 - 1 - 7045442 Dublin City University, e-mail: asmeaton@ca.dcu.ie Glasnevin, Dublin 9, IRELAND ********** I.A.3. Fr: mwitten@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu Re: Computational Health Preliminary Announcement FIRST WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL MEDICINE, PUBLIC HEALTH AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 24-28 April 1994 Hyatt Regency Hotel Austin, Texas CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: With increasing frequency, computational sciences are being exploited as a means with which to investigate biomedical processes at all levels of complexity--from molecular to systemic to demographic. Computational instruments are now used, not only as exploratory tools but also as diagnostic and prognostic tools. The appearance of high performance computing environments has, to a great extent, removed the problem of increasing the biological reality of the mathematical models. For the first time in the history of the field, practical biological reality is finally within the grasp of the biomedical modeler. Mathematical complexity is no longer as serious an issue as speeds of computation are now of the order necessary to allow extremely large and complex computational models to be analyzed. Large memory machines are now routinely available. Additionally, high speed, efficient, highly optimized numerical algorithms are under constant development. As these algorithms are understood and improved upon, many of them are transferred from software implementation to an implementation in the hardware itself, thereby further enhancing the available computational speed of current hardware. The purpose of this congress is to bring together a transdisciplinary group of researchers in medicine, public health, computer science, mathematics, nursing, veterinary medicine, ecology, allied health, as well as numerous other disciplines, for the purposes of examining the grand challenge problems of the next decades. This will be a definitive meeting in that it will be the first World Congress of its type and will be held as a followup to the very well received Workshop On High Performance Computing In The Life Sciences and Medicine held by the University of Texas System Center For High Performance Computing in 1990. Young scientists are encouraged to attend and to present their work in this increasingly interesting discipline. Funding is being solicited from NSF, NIH, DOE, Darpa, EPA, and private foundations, as well as other sources to assist in travel support and in the offsetting of expenses for those unable to attend otherwise. Papers, poster presentations, tutorials, focused topic workshops, birds of a feather groups, demonstrations, and other suggestions are also solicited. CONFERENCE SCOPE AND TOPIC AREAS: The Congress has a broad scope. If you are not sure if your subject fits the Congress scope, contact the conference organizers at one of the addresses below. Subject areas include but are not limited to: *Visualization/Sonification *Computational Molecular Biology and Genetics *Computational Pharmacology, Pharmacodynamics, Drug Design *Computational Chemistry as Applied to Clinical Issues *Computational Cell Biology, Physiology, and Metabolism *Computational Physiology and Metabolism *Computational Demography, Epidemiology, and Statistics/Biostatistics *Computational Disease Modeling *Computational Biofluids *Computational Dentistry, Orthodontics, and Prosthetics *Computational Veterinary Medicine *Computational Allied Health Sciences *Computational Radiology *Computational Surgery *Computational Cardiology *Computational Nursing *Computational Models In Chiropractice *Computational Neurobiology and Neurophysiology *Computational Models of Psychiatric and Psychological Processes *Computational Biomechanics *Computational Models of Non-tradional Medicine *Computational Issues In Medical Instrumentation Design and Simulation *Ethical issues arising in the use of computational technology in medical diagnosis and simulation *The role of alternate reality methodologies and high performance environments in the medical and public health disciplines *Issues in the use of high performance computing environments in the teaching of health science curricula *The role of high performance environments for the handling of large medical datasets (high performance storage environments, high performance networking, high performance medical records manipulation and management, metadata structures and definitions) *Federal and private support for transdisciplinary research in computational medicine and public health TO CONTACT THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS for any reason use any of the following pathways: ELECTRONIC MAIL - compmed94@chpc.utexas.edu FAX (USA) - (512) 471-2445 PHONE (USA) - (512) 471-2472 GOPHER:log into the University of Texas System-CHPC select the Computational Medicine and Allied Health menu choice ANONYMOUS FTP: ftp.chpc.utexas.edu cd /pub/compmed94 POSTAL: Compmed 1994 University of Texas System CHPC Balcones Research Center, 1.154CMS 10100 Burnet Road Austin, Texas 78758-4497 SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: Authors must submit 5 copies of a single-page 50-100 word abstract clearly discussing the topic of their presentation. In addition, authors must clearly state their choice of poster, contributed paper, tutorial, exhibit, focused workshop, or birds of a feather group, along with a discussion of their presentation. Abstracts will be published as part of the preliminary conference material. To notify the congress organizing committee that you would like to participate and to be put on the congress mailing list, please contact the organizers xxx by any of the means listed above. If you wish to organize a contributed paper session, tutorial session, focused workshop, or birds of a feather group, please contact the conference director at mwitten@chpc.utexas.edu. *CONFERENCE DEADLINES: The following deadlines should be noted: 1 October 1993 - Notification of interest in participation and/or intent to organize a special session 1 November 1993 - Abstracts for talks/posters/ workshops/birds of a feather sessions/demonstrations 15 January 1994 - Notification of acceptance of abstract 15 February 1994 - Application for financial aid CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY DETAILS AND ENVIRONMENT LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Austin, Texas, USA DATES: 24-28 April 1994 The 1st World Congress On Computational Medicine, Public Health, and Biotechnology will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Austin, Texas located in downtown Austin. The hotel is approximately 15 minutes from Robert Meuller Airport. Austin, the state capital, is renouned for its natural hill-country beauty and an active cultural scence. Several hiking and jogging trails are within walking distance of the hotel, as well as opportunities for a variety of aquatic sports. Live bands perform in various nightclubs around the city and at night spots along Sixth Street, offering a range of jazz, blues, country/Western, reggae, swing, and rock music. Day temperatures will be in the 80-90(degree F) range and fairly humid. Exhibitor and vendor presentations are also being planned. ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: John Kirriemuir Re: Clustering and CLUSTAN I am currently (attempting) to use CLUSTAN to cluster the output of a full-text document database search. Has anyone out there either: (1) Done any similar clustering research (i.e., attempting to cluster a relatively small, homogenous set of records. (2) Used CLUSTAN for this purpose (I'm especially interested if anyone has written routines to process CLUSTAN output into a meaningful and concise format). John Kirriemuir, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK ********** II.A.2. Fr: Dick Nelson Re: Hypertext sytems I'm looking for public domain hypertext systems to create an on-line help system. The platforms I'm interested in are Windows, Macintosh, and X Windows (Motif or Open Look). Could you send me a list of such systems and where they are available. Please respond with email since I don't subscribe to this list. Thanks Dick Nelson rpn@sps.com ********** II.A.3. Fr: Jeffrey Horn Re: Single-User MS-DOS Low-level DB Software Wanted I am looking for some free or cheap file manipulation libraries (in C or C++) that will run on an IBM PC (MS-DOS). I need to maintain local copies of portions of Ingres tables that have been "checked out" of a central server and transported to a local PC. I will need to do things like (1) Index Files (B+-tree and/or Hash) (2) "Join" tables (files) on some attribute. (3) Lookup information in tables. (4) Update/Insert into Tables. It would be nice to have some embedded query pre-processor, but native function calls would be great as well. Ideally, what I am looking for is a Single-user (no concurrency needed), stripped down version of Postgres that will run under MS-DOS. If anyone has an commercial solutions that work really well with this type of situation that would be great as well. Thanks for your help, Jeffrey Horn ********************************************************** IV. PROJECT WORK IV.D.1. Fr: Edis Bevan Re: BALT:3718 BALT-INFO project announced - Baltic Libraries linked BALT-INFO PROJECT GETS UNDER WAY The RFE/RL Research Institute is pleased to announce the creation of BALT-INFO. Funded in part by an IREX Special Project Grant, BALT-INFO is an electronic user's network using existing INTERNET resources to connect Baltic Area librarians and information specialists in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with their counterparts in the West. Our intent is to emphasize participation by Baltic users and to aid in improving the existing but inadequate communication links between major research libraries in the Baltic states. During its initial phase, BALT-INFO hopes to become an open forum for exchanging information about Baltic-related library resources and librarianship, as well as an electronic tool to help librarians find information about the Baltic. BALT-INFO is *not* intended to replace or overlap existing information distribution sources like the BALT-L discussion list. As BALT-INFO grows, it will welcome any interested researchers working in the field of Baltic Studies, in an attempt to electronically link information providers with information seekers. Every major research library in the Baltic, with the exception of the National Library of Latvia, has an email connection to BALT-INFO and to the INTERNET. (Full access to the INTERNET is relatively widespread in Estonia, less so in Latvia, and is only just beginning in Lithuania.) As an electronic network of Baltic librarians, BALT-INFO will help participating libraries exchange information and concerns related to acquisitions, cataloging, reference services, and any other aspect of librarianship. BALT-INFO will also try to help researchers locate Baltic-related bibliographic citations or library resources as well as attempt to answer relevant reference requests. BALT-INFO will also serve as a forum for announcing Baltic-related conferences, grants, and other possible funding sources for librarians and researchers in the field. Whenever possible, information about any identifiable Baltic-related INTERNET resources or databases will also be posted. The BALT-INFO Project will last for about one year (until September 30, 1994). During this time, IREX funding will be used to upgrade or establish INTERNET links for participating research libraries in the Baltic. IREX funding for INTERNET training has also been made available, and Dawn Mann of RFE-RL will conduct three three-day workshops (one each in Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius). She will also visit BALT-INFO participants in Tartu (Estonia) and Kaunas (Lithuania). If you are interested in being added to BALT-INFO's electronic mailing list or would like more information, please contact Dawn Mann via the INTERNET at MANND@RFERL.ORG Thank you. Life in Freedom Eesti Vabaks Bri/vu Latviju Lietuva Laisva ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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