Information Retrieval List Digest 199 (February 7, 1994) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-199 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 February 7, 1994 Volume XI, Number 6 Issue 199 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Workshop on IR and Genomics 2. ISMIS '94 3. WCNN '94 B. Publications 1. Information Systems: Special Issue C. Miscellaneous 1. RLG News Release II. QUERIES A. Questions/Answers 1. Informatics? ********************************************************** NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: John Guidi Re: Workshop on IR and Genomics CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Information Retrieval and Genomics May 2-4, 1994 Lister Hill Center Auditorium National Library of Medicine Bethesda, MD This workshop brings together researchers and developers in information retrieval (IR) technologies with scientists who are actively involved with research in genomics (genetics, molecular biology, and allied fields). People involved in informatics efforts that support these activities are especially encouraged to participate. A number of efforts are underway to create new, or to improve extant, resources that provide information on DNA sequences, genetic linkage, gene expression, phenotypic effects, comparative genetics, etc. There are a number of areas where IR can make further contributions in the development of these resources. Examples include, but are not limited to: efficient handling of unstructured text; interoperability of text and databases; navigational issues; indexing; linguistic analysis of sequences; motif identification; network access to singular and federated systems; user interface issues. The goals of this interdisciplinary workshop are to: 1) classify some of the problems that providers of genomic resources are faced with, and how these problems are currently being addressed. 2) provide feedback from the IR community as to the techniques currently being used by the genomics community to address their IR needs. 3) identify specific IR areas and topics that have potential and that require additional research. 4) provide a forum for real collaborations to develop among members of the IR and genomics communities. Participation in the workshop will be by invitation, based on electronic position papers submitted by prospective participants. Position papers should be one page in length and should consist of a description of research interests and/or practice related to the stated goals of the workshop. Some participants will be selected to give talks and participate in panel discussions at the workshop, based on their position papers. The position papers will be distributed as a collection at the workshop. Please submit position papers electronically to the address ir-genomics@jax.org; papers must be composed using the template at the end of this message. DEADLINES: March 2, 1994 - Deadline for receipt of electronic position papers. April 1, 1994 - Notification of acceptance. Conference Chairperson: Ed Fox (VPI & State University) Program Chairperson: John Guidi (The Jackson Laboratory) SPONSORSHIP: This workshop has been organized under the joint sponsorship of the Special Interest Groups on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) and Biology (SIGBIO) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Please be advised that there will be no financial support available for participant travel. The support of the National Library of Medicine, host of this workshop, is gratefully acknowledged. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, contact: John Guidi The Jackson Laboratory 600 Main Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500 phone: (207)288-3371 X-1391 fax: (207)288-5079 email: jng@jax.org ********** I.A.2 Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: (Reminder) CfP: 8th Int. Symp. on Methodologies for Intell. Syst. (ISMIS'94) !!!!! R E M I N D E R !!!!! Submission of Papers: March 1, 1994 **** C A L L F O R P A P E R S **** EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISMIS'94) Hilton Hotel at University Place Charlotte, North Carolina October 16-19, 1994 PURPOSE OF THE SYMPOSIUM: This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: * Approximate Reasoning * Evolutionary Computation * Intelligent Information Systems * Knowledge Representation and Integration * Learning and Adaptive Systems * Logic for Artificial Intelligence * Methodologies (modeling, design, validation, performance evaluation). In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g., digital libraries, human genome, global change, manufacturing, health care, etc. INVITED SPEAKERS Bill Campbell (NASA) Jaime Carbonell (CMU) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio-State Univ.) Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech.) Robert Meersman (Tilburg U., The Netherlands) ISMIS'94 SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Zbigniew W. Ras (UNC-Charlotte) Maria Zemankova (MITRE) PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit four copies of their manuscript (maximum 20 pages) to: Dr. Maria Zemankova MITRE Corp. 7525 Colshire Dr., MS Z267 McLean, VA 22102, USA e-mail: mzemanko@mitre.org fax: 703-883-3315 Submissions should include a separate title page (1 copy) specifying the title, all authors with their affiliations, abstract (100-200 words), up to 10 keywords (begin the keyword list with at least one of the ISMIS areas listed above); and the preferred address of the contact author, including a telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address (if available). If possible, the title page should be submitted via email (in plain text) to to facilitate submissions processing. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of Papers: March 1, 1994 Acceptance Notification: May 1, 1994 (Regular Session or Poster Session) Final Paper: July 1, 1994 PUBLICATION: Papers accepted for Regular Sessions will appear in proceedings published by Springer Verlag in Lecture Notes in AI series. Poster Session proceedings will be published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION CONTACT: Zbigniew W. Ras, ISMIS'94 Univ. of North Carolina Dept. of Computer Science Charlotte, N.C. 28223, USA e-mail: ras@mosaic.uncc.edu fax: 704-547-3516 ********** I.A.3. Fr: Morgan Downey <70712.3265@CompuServe.COM> Re: World Congress on Neural Networks 1994 WORLD CONGRESS ON NEURAL NETWORKS 1994 (WCNN '94) Annual Meeting of the International Neural Network Society Town and Country Hotel - San Diego, California, USA - June 4-9, 1994 Revised Call for Papers Due Date: Tuesday, February 15, 1994 The International Neural Network Society is pleased to announce that it can accept post-deadline papers and is inviting INNS members and non-members to submit papers for WCNN '94 by Tuesday, February 15, 1994. Papers will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee for acceptance and presentation format and will be published in the proceedings. INNS members can designate one paper that they have authored for automatic acceptance and publication in the proceedings. Papers submitted utilizing this deadline extension will not be eligible for revision. Papers previously accepted by journals, or publicly accessible Tech reports may be submitted for poster presentations. Submit three copies of the paper with a one page abstract of the talk which clearly cites the paper well enough to permit easy access to it. Only the abstract will be published. Submission Procedures (These procedures supersede the previously published Call for Papers information in the brochure.): o Six (6) copies (1 original, (5) copies) Do not fold or staple originals. o Six page limit in English. $20 per page for papers exceeding (6) pages (do not number pages). Checks for over length charges should be made out to INNS and must be included with submitted paper. o Format: camera-ready 8 1/2" x 11" white paper, 1" margins all aides, one column format, single spaced, in Times or similar type style of 10 points or larger, one side of paper only. Faxed copies are not acceptable. o Center at the top of first page: Full title of paper, author names(s), affiliation(s), and mailing address(es), followed by blank space, and abstract (us to 15 lines), and text. o Cover letter to accompany paper must include: full title of paper, corresponding author(s), and presenting author name, address, telephone and fax numbers, 1st and 2nd choices of Technical Session (see session topics), and INNS membership number if applicable. o Author agrees to the transfer of copyright to INNS for the conference proceedings. All submitted papers become the property of INNS. TO RECEIVE CONFERENCE BROCHURES AND REGISTRATION FORMS, HOTEL ACCOMMODATION FORMS, AND FURTHER CONGRESS INFORMATION, CONTACT THE INTERNATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY AT: International Neural Network Society 1250 24th Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20037 USA phone: 202-466-4667 fax: 202-466-2888 e-mail: 70712.3265@compuserve.com ********** I.B.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: Special Issue on Scientific Databases: New Deadline Below is the call for papers for the special issue on Scientific Databases of the Information Systems journal. Due to several requests for extensions of the deadline, the entire schedule has been shifted by a month. The new deadline for submission is April 1 (no joke)! ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Information Systems Special Issue on Scientific Databases Guest Editors Yannis Ioannidis Maria Zemankova University of Wisconsin - Madison MITRE Corporation yannis@cs.wisc.edu mzemanko@ciis.mitre.org Traditional techniques employed by scientists to manage their data, e.g., keeping data and software for its processing in files whose names are written in a notebook, are no longer adequate. Current scientific research requires mechanisms to acquire, analyze, validate, archive, and disseminate terabytes of complex multi-media data. The trend towards interdisciplinary research and international collaboration poses unprecedented challenges to both the data management community and the community of the domain scientists alike. Current database systems, however, do not provide the appropriate tools. For example, they are deficient in managing multi-media data, providing easy-to-use and intuitive user interfaces, supporting tertiary storage, performing data mining, allowing scientific collaboration, and managing scientific experiments. In view of the growing importance of database technology for all sciences, Information Systems is planning a special issue on `Scientific Databases' for early 1995. The goal is to collect papers on the recent important advances in scientific databases and put together a very strong issue on the subject. Theoretical papers should include a solid motivation for why the specific results are important to domain scientists and how they are going to influence the development of scientific database systems. Systems papers should describe either complete working systems that are being tested by domain scientists or specialized techniques that can significantly enhance the power of actual scientific database systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: System Architectures Managing Terabytes of Data Process Models Data Models Querying and Browsing User Interfaces Collaborative Work Data Visualization Image Data Data Compression Multi-media, Multi-source Data Integration Metadata Management Data Mining Uncertainty Management Experiment Management Scientific Collaboration Of specific interest are results that address issues arising in providing database support for one or more of the following scientific disciplines: Biological Sciences Chemistry Earth and Space Sciences Engineering Medicine Physics Social Sciences Papers should be at most 30 pages long, double-spaced, in font size at least 10. Five copies of each paper should be sent to the following address: Yannis Ioannidis Computer Sciences Department 1210 W. Dayton St. University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 USA yannis@cs.wisc.edu The following are the important dates related to this issue: Date Milestone ______________________________________________________________ 4/ 1/94 Deadline for submission of papers 7/15/94 Notification of 1st-round results 9/ 1/94 Deadline for submission of revised papers 11/15/94 Notification of final acceptance/rejection 12/ 1/94 Deadline for having final papers at the publisher ********** I.C.1. Fr: RLG Sales Associates Re: News Release from RLG RLG ANNOUNCES WORLD'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL Z39.50 SERVICE The PICA Centre for Library Automation (PICA) in the Netherlands and ISM Library Information Services (ISM), Canada, have agreed with The Research Libraries Group, Inc. to use Zephyr, RLG's Z39.50 service, giving their researchers across the globe full access to the riches of RLG's RLIN bibliographic database and CitaDel citation and document delivery service. In the future, RLG plans to offer its customers access to ISM's and PICA's databases. Although several Z39.50 servers are in the testing phase, Zephyr is among the first service to be put into production and, now, the first to enter major international alliances. Zephyr lets users of other online systems search RLIN and CitaDel files using the same commands they use to search their own local catalogs. Plus, it displays the information in the client's own, familiar formats. Even if the two systems run on different hardware, Zephyr makes the differences invisible. This makes Zephyr an ideal tool for making RLG's bibliographic resources available both to librarians for technical processing and to library patrons as a public service. "Zephyr," says Wayne E. Davison, director of RLG's Access Services group, "is going to change the way we do business in library automation more than anything that has come along in the last ten years." Putting Zephyr into production on an international scale is not only a major step forward for RLG, but a step toward the general acceptance of the Z39.50 protocol. ----------------------------------------- ISM Library Information Services, formerly Utlas (University of Toronto Library Automation Systems) International Canada, is a computer-based service organization for libraries and the information industry. The PICA Centre for Library Automation (PICA) is a cooperative organization of and on behalf of libraries and other information-supplying institutions. Its systems link hundreds of libraries in the Netherlands and Germany. For more information, please contact Bruce Washburn, bl.btw@rlg.stanford.edu. ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: Phil Clarke Re: Infomatics? Hi there! I was wondering, as I hear the phrases every few days: To what, exactly do infomatics and telematics refer, or are they meaningless buzzwords? 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