Information Retrieval List Digest 173 (August 3, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-173 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 August 3, 1993 Volume X, Number 29 Issue 173 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. CAIA '94 2. CIKM '93 3. 10th Annual Conference on Huge Uncertainty in AI A. Questions and Answers II. QUERIES A. Questions and Answers 1. SIGIR '93 Proceedings? B. Requests for Information 1. Simulation Package for Generating and Manipulating DAGs 2. IR Libraries/DLLs for DOS System III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. U. Maryland Computer Science Center ********************************************************** I. ANNOUNCEMENTS I.A.1. Fr: Timothy Finin Re: CAIA-94: 10th IEEE Conf. on AI for Applications (8/31 deadline) The 10th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications (CAIA-94) will be held at Marriott Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas on March 1-4, 1994. CAIA is devoted to advancing the application of AI techniques to real world problems. This year's conference will emphasize both the development of enabling AI technology and the issues involved in its integration into products and processes. We are also seeking innovative ideas for new application areas and new research and technology transfer paradigms. August 31, is the deadline for submission of papers and proposals for panels, tutorials and workshops. For general information on CAIA-94, including the full Call for Papers, send email to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU or try the Gopher server on GOPHER.CS.UMBC.EDU. For registration and additional conference information, contact: CAIA-94, IEEE Computer Society, 1730 Mass. Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-1903. Phone: 202-371-1013, Fax: 202-728-0884. ********** I.A.2. Fr: Timothy Finin Re: CIKM-93: 2nd Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM-93 -- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- CIKM-93 Second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November 1 - 5, 1993 Double Tree Hotel, Washington, DC, USA Sponsored by ACM (SIGART and SIGIR) and ISCA in cooperation with AAAI CIKM-93 will provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research on the management of information and knowledge. The scope of the conference will cover the integration of database technology, knowledge representation and reasoning, information retrieval, and techniques for locating and accessing relevant data and knowledge in very large, distributed information systems. CIKM-93 will include tutorials, invited talks, panel sessions, submitted papers and poster presentations. A partial list of invited speakers includes Mike Stonebraker (UC-Berkeley), Stefan Spaccapietra (EPFL, Switzerland), Gunter Schelagetev (Fern U., Germany), Don Tiedemann (AT&T), Arie Segev (UC-Berkeley), Mike Papazouglou (Queens U., Australia), Rafael Alonso (MITL), Nico Haberman (NSF), Nick Derchak (UNISYS), Neil Coulbourn (Waterloo), Robert F. Cramp and William J. Campbell (NASA/GSFC), Hans R. Hansen (Vienna U.), Jack Minker (Maryland), John Mitchell (DISA), Christine Parent (U. of For). For an automatic reply with more information (including advance program and registration & hotel info), send email to CIKM-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU or gopher to GOPHER.CS.UMBC.EDU. For general inquiries, contact: CIKM-93, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21228-5398, Email: cikm@cs.umbc.edu, Phone: 410-455-3000, Fax: 410-455-3969 ********** I.A.3. Fr: Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Re: 10th Annual Conference on Huge Uncertainty in AI Tenth Annual Conference on Huge Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence July 29-31, 1994, Seattle, Washington CALL FOR PAPERS Reasoning under uncertainty is pervasive in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. The Uncertainty in AI conference is the major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. We are seeking contributions both from researchers interested in advancing the technology and from practitioners who are using uncertainty techniques in applications. The tenth 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 representational issues, on computational techniques and on applications of uncertain reasoning, using traditional and alternative paradigms of uncertain reasoning. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): METHODS AND TECHNIQUES: Foundations of uncertainty concepts, representation languages for uncertain knowledge, knowledge acquisition, construction of uncertainty models from data, uncertainty in machine learning, automated planning and acting, uncertainty in ill-defined environments, decision making under uncertainty, algorithms for uncertain inference, empirical studies of reasoning strategies, pooling of uncertain evidence, belief updating and inconsistency handling, summarization of uncertain information, and control of reasoning and real-time architectures. REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS: 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 your system lead to improvements in reasoning or decision making? What methods were used to validate the effectiveness of the systems? What did you learn about what was or was not effective in your domain? Papers will be refereed for originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Application papers will be judged according to criteria appropriate for application papers, such as those related to the questions above. 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. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Five copies of complete papers (hardcopy only) should be sent to one of the Program Co-Chairs by February 1, 1994. The first page should include a descriptive title, the names, addresses (regular mail and email), and student status of all authors, a brief abstract, and salient keywords or other topic indicators. To aid in finding appropriate reviewers, the title, abstract and keywords should be e-mailed to sf uai94@cs.ubc.ca. Acceptance notices will be sent by March 31, 1994. Final camera-ready papers, incorporating reviewers' suggestions, will be due approximately four weeks later. There will be an eight-page limit on proceedings papers, with one extra page available for a fee. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS (paper submissions): Ramon L'opez de M'antaras Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC Cami de Santa Barbara 17300 Blanes, Spain Tel: +34-72-336101, Fax: +34-72-337806 e-mail: mantaras@ceab.es David Poole, Department of Computer Science, 2366 Main Mall, Room 201, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 Tel: +1 (604) 822-6254, Fax: +1 (604) 822-5485 email: poole@cs.ubc.ca GENERAL CHAIR (conference inquiries): David Heckerman One Microsoft Way Building 9S/1024 Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Tel: (206) 936-2662, Fax: (206) 644-1899 email: heckerma@microsoft.com ********** ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: David A. Cheslow Re: SIGIR '93 I have been trying for several weeks to obtain a copy of the SIGIR '93 proceedings. I am particularly interested in an article concerning content analysis that apparently was in the proceedings. Our secretary contacted ACM and they told her that the conference hasn't happened and the proceedings will not be available for a month. Can you help me? *NOT* an official document of the University of Michigan-Flint David A. Cheslow dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu School of Management, 344 CROB Phone: (313) 762-3309 University of Michigan - Flint Fax: (313) 762-3282 Flint, MI 48502-2186 ********** II.B.1. Fr: Aboalfazl Salimi (Abi) Re: Simulation Package for generating and manipulating DAGs Hello, I need to simulate some traversal and update operations on random Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structures. Is there any simulation package appropriate for such operations? What about any programs that you may have written to generate and manipulate such structures? I will appreciate any suggestions or comments that you can give me. Please send your replies to my e-mail address. Thanks a lot, Abi Salimi ********** II.B.2. Fr: John Robertson Re: IR libraries/DLLs for DOS system The project with which I am involved is looking for commercial C/C++ libraries which implement text retrieval processes. We currently have coded a simple routine that generates an inverted index using a stop list, but would like to add more powerful IR techniques to the system. The system is being built on a DOS platform under windows. Therefore the system can use either librarires or DLLs. The product does not need any interface functionality. A pointer to the company(s) marketing these products would be appreciated. Thank you John Robertson email - jrob@ee.uts.edu.au | Multimedia Authoring Systems phone - (+61 2) 3302767 | phone (+61 02) 2624777 fax - (+61 2) 3302435 | fax: (+61 02) 2624774 ********************************************************** III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS III.1. Fr: David Henry Re: Job Announcement--U. Maryland, Computer Science Center The University of Maryland at College Park Computer Science Center Announcement of Position Vacancy Position Title: Coordinator, Online Information Resources Category: Associate Staff, 12 months, full time, 40 hours per week RESPONSIBILITIES: The campus information online system provides information resources electronically that are useful to the College Park university community. This position will be responsible for the acquisition and organization of information resources that can be used by students, faculty, and staff in their educational and academic work. A major portion of the job will be providing leadership over how information should be organized for easy retrieval purposes. Other responsibilities include: ensuring the quality of the information, in terms of accuracy, timeliness, and usefulness; directing the information collection and entry process; and training and advising information providers who are responsible for placing their own information into the online system. The nature of information organization, resources, and retrieval as it applies to College Park's educational mission, requires an approach that is scholarly. The incumbent will work closely with a team of information providers and will participate in a steering committee composed of representatives from various divisions in the University. QUALIFICATIONS: To be eligible, the incumbent must have a minimum of a Master's Degree; an MLS is highly desirable. He or she must have at least three years' experience in the use of information and computing technology resources. Experience in organizational issues of information is required. Experience in managing an online information system within an academic environment is desirable. Working in an academic environment is highly desirable. Incumbent must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written; must work in a collegial manner with faculty, administrators, staff, and students; must be able to work in a team environment and also work independently. SALARY: Commensurate with experience. APPLICATIONS: To be assured of maximum consideration, applicant should apply by August 23. 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