Information Retrieval List Digest 213 (May 16) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-213 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 May 16, 1994 Volume XI, Number 20 Issue 213 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES A. Requests for Information 1. Large-Scale Server Information Needed III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. Summer School on Advanced Braodband Communication 2. '94 Workshop: Digital Libraries: Current Issues IV. PROJECTS A. Abstracts 1. IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.A.1. Fr: Bob Powell Re: Large-Scale Server Information Needed I am seeking information about commercial hardware and/or software suppliers for large-scale IR servers. Who has turn-key solutions for servers that support thousands or tens of thousands of users? Thanks, Bob ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.B.1. From: quemada@dit.upm.es (Juan Quemada Vives) Subject: Summer School on Advanced Braodband Communication Second International Summer School on Advanced Broadband Communications ATM Enabling the 21st Century Organisation. Madrid, Aveiro, July 11-15, 1994 The RACE project BRAIN is pleased to announce its "Second International Summer School on Advanced Broadband Communications (ABC)". Following the success of the last year's first distributed Summer School on ABC, this edition will feature new advances in subject matter and use of ATM technologies in a distance education network. This year, participants will explore the contribution of broadband technologies to the world of enterprise and corporate communications. Examining broadband communication requirements with strong emphasis in * Broadband technologies * Telecommunications/IT technologies * System integration aspects * The range of decision making factors * Potential applications, this Summer School will allow its participants to gain the knowledge required to assist the migration of organisations towards broadband networking platforms. Each day proposes a coherent theme relating to aspects of business user views of advanced communications leading to a team-based problem-solving "syndicate" sessions using CSCW. The Summer School will provide perspectives of these networking technologies from both the large corporate user to the small and medium-sized enterprise. The syndicate sessions will be based on realistic case studies such as: airline reservation systems; residential business user access to travel information; LAN interconnection for banking; transnational brodband services provision; network for aerospace industry supporting all aspects of design, training, financial,... In addition the Summer School will provide demonstrations of project results. This includes: RACE projects, such as EUROBRIDGE, EXPLOIT, CIO, IBER, PREPARE, CATALYST, RAMA,..; PLANBA projects such as EDUBA, RAL-ATM, etc. LOCATIONS AND INTERCONNECTION: At least four sites will be united in Summer School '94 using a European Community sponsored ISABEL-IBER 34 Mbit/s ATM advanced network: * ETSI Telecomunicacion, Madrid-Spain (Central Site) * University of Aveiro, Aveiro-Portugal * CET, Aveiro-Portugal * TIDSA, Madrid-Spain. A Multimedia Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) tele-education application will join lecture rooms at different physical sites into a unified virtual lecture room where lecturers and participants join together in a unique, interactive educational experience. Although more sites will join to SS'94, open registration will only exist at the ETSI Telecomunicacion of the Technical University of Madrid in Spain and at the Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal. In addition to ISABEL-IBER interconnecting RIA of Telecom Portugal and RECIBA of Telefonica, it will be used the CIBELES (Telefonica) infrastructure and the PLANBA ATM LAN at the ETSI Telecomunicacion in Madrid, as well as the campus-wide ROBL broadband network of the University of Aveiro. Additional feasibility studies are underway with RACE projects CATALYST, EXPLOIT, BETEUS and the Spanish National tele-education satellite project ETSIT to broadcast SS'94 to sites in Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany and possibly other European countries. OBJECTIVES: Business Communication - either for large corporations or small and medium enterprises (SMEs) - is considered as the main driving force for the short term introduction of IBC (Integrated Broadband Communications). These requirements will have a strong impact in the strategy of most PNOs, equipment suppliers, users, ... This year the Summer School (SS'94) is targeted at training public operators and suppliers for their new role in competitive business with major responsabilities in meeting user needs within SMEs and corporate communications. The Summer School also aims at assisting user organisations to frame the relevant issues for the potential development of broadband communications applications and be in a position to address implementation issues & supplier relationships. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: The 1994 Summer School is targeted at any person requiring a comprehensive overview of Advanced Broadband Communications focussed on corporate needs and SMEs. In particular: * Telecommunications/IT managers of medium/large enterprises * Telecommunication engineers of public operators * Senior communications/IT staff * Telecommunication consultants * Software suppliers of communication applications. * Researchers interested in the field of broadband communications. PROGRAMME: To achieve SS'94 goals each day will present a coherent theme related to the business user's view of advanced communications for corporate needs and SMEs. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT Secretariats: Dept Ing. Telematica (SS'94) Dept. Electronica e Telecomunicacoes ETSI Telecomunicacion Universidade de Aveiro (SS'94) E-28040 Madrid, Spain 3800 AVEIRO, Portugal tel: +34 1 3367332, fax: ..333 Tel: +351.34.391937, fax: ..941 email: SS94@dit.upm.es ********** III.B.2. Fr: Timothy Finin Re: '94 Workshop: Digital Libraries: Current Issues Preliminary Program 1994 Workshop on Digital Libraries: Current Issues Ackerson Hall Rutgers University 180 University Ave, Newark, NJ Wednesday, May 18, 7:00pm - 9:30pm - Reception Thursday, May 19, 8:30am - 5:00pm Friday, May 20 8:30am - 5:00pm SPONSORS: Rutgers University, Purdue University, Bellcore, and AT&T IN COOPERATION WITH: NIST and NSF FOR INFORMATION, CONTACT: URL: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/conferences/dl/ OBJECTIVE: The aim of the workshop is to provide an international forum to discuss evolving research issues and applications in digital libraries. Invited speakers from industry, universities, and government will present their experiences and vision for the future. The invited presentations will include the following. * "NASA Program in Digital Libraries", Milton Halem, Chief of Space Data and Computing Division, NASA * "NSF Program in Digital Libraries", Ron Ashany, Program Director, NSF * "The RightPages Service: AT&T's Image-Based Electronic Library", Suzanne Gordon, AT&T Bell Laboratories * "Digital Libraries: A View From the World of Libraries", Willem Scholten Chief Scientist, Future InfoSystems Inc. * "A Digital Library Connecting Envision, KMS, and Mosaic with Interfaces, Communications and Data Interchange", Edward A. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute * "Optimizing Hybrid Wide Area Network in Support of Digital Libraries", William Steele, Director, Business Development, GTE * "Electronic Commerce on Internet", Marty Tenenbaum, President of EIT * "Electronic Libraries and Electronic Journals", Michael Lesk, Bellcore * "Digital Libraries for K-12 Education", Miriam Masullo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center "Advanced Research Needs for Digital Libraries", Gio Wiederhold, ARPA SESSION#1: GOVERMENT & INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY EFFORTS: *"Key Issues for the Design of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France Image and Sound Digital Library ", P. Aigrain, University Paul Sabatier, France *"The Munich Metropolitan Area High-Speed Network of Digital Libraries in OMNIS/Myriad", R. Bayer, P. Vogel and H. Goettsch, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany *"Developing the Scientific-Technical Digital Library at a National Laboratory", L. E. Stackpole and R. D. Atkinson, Naval Research Laboratory *"Implementation of a Digital Library Model in Singapore", TAN BENG TING, Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, Singapore. SESSION#2: COMMUNICATION ISSUES: *"Communication Issues in Wide Area Networks for Digital Libraries", B. Bhargava, S. Goel, S. Li and E. Pitoura, Purdue University *"Engineering Universal Access to Digital Libraries", S. Naqvi, M.M. Tsangaris and Y. Saraiya, Bellcore SESSION#3: TECHNOLOGIES I *"Towards Intelligent Trainable Tools for the Automated Analysis, Cataloging, and Searching of Digital Image Libraries: A Machine Learning Approach", U. Fayyad and P. Smyth, California Institute of Technology *"Navigation, Information Retrieval and Visualization of Data and Information", N. Gershon, M. Zemankova, W. Ruh, T. Polger, A. Kleiboemer, and M. Josephs, The MITRE Corp. *"Integrating Natural Language with Large Dataspace Visualization", Ira Smotroff, The MITRE Corp. *"Compression and Full-Text Indexing for Digital Libraries", I.H. Witten, A. Moffat and T. C. Bell, University of Calgary, University of Melbourne and University of Canterbury, New Zealand SESSION#4: TECHNOLOGIES II *"Making of Document Images with Codewords to Deter Illicit Dissemination", J. Brassil, S. Low, N. Maxemchuk, and L. O'Gorman, AT&T Bell Laboratories *"Integration of Corpus Linguistics and Object-Oriented Database Technology for Fine-grained Analysis of Electronic Document", R. P. Futrelle Edinburgh University *"Document Recognition for a Digital Library", S. Srihari, S. Lam and J. Hull State University of New York at Buffalo SESSION#5: VIDEO *"Parallel Tape Arrays for Video Storage Server", Tzi-cker Chiueh, State University of NY at Stony Brook *"Distributed Video Management in Digital Libraries", D. Rotem and L. Zhao, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and The College of William and Mary *"Development of A Video Database System", H. Zhang, S. Smoliar, J. Wu, C. Low, and A. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore SESSION#6: APPLICATIONS I *"Adaptive Access for a Digital Library of Corporate Information", R. Krishnan and D. Steier, Carnegie Mellon University and Price Waterhouse Technology Centre *"Personalized Interactive Medical Libraries", Stanley B. Zdonik, Brown University *"An Architectural Framework for a Medical Database Digital Library", K. G. Perez-Lopez, A. Sood, O. Frieder and B. Krasner George Mason University SESSION#7: APPLICATIONS II *"The Humanities Scholar and the Digital Library", S. Hockey, Rutgers University *"A Dynamic, Online Library for Historical Documents", D. McDermott, D. Gelernter and D. Waters, Yale University *"Likely Future from the Unlikely Past: Historical Perspective on Libraries in Relation to Lifelong Learning", W. J. Gilmore-Lehne Richard Stockton College "The Intelligent Digital Library", E. Liddy, Syracuse University ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.A.1. Fr: Susanne M. Humphrey Re: Selected IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being related to Information Retrieval (IR), resulting from a computer search, using BRS Information Technologies, of the Dissertation Abstracts Online database produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). Included are UMI order number, title, author, degree, year, institution; number of pages, one or more Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) subject descriptors chosen by the author, and abstract. Unless otherwise specified, paper or microform copies of dissertations may be ordered from University Microfilms International, Dissertation Copies, Post Office Box 1764, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; telephone for U.S. (except Michigan, Hawaii, Alaska): 1-800-521-3042, for Canada: 1-800-268-6090. Price lists and other ordering and shipping information are in the introduction to the published DAI. An alternate source for copies is sometimes provided. Dissertation titles and abstracts contained here are published with permission of University Microfilms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts International (copyright by University Microfilms International), and may not be reproduced without their prior permission. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG93-28562. AU VASCONCELOS, MARIA JOSE. TI MODELING SPATIAL DYNAMIC ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES WITH DEVS-SCHEME AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS. IN The University of Arizona Ph.D. 1993, 169 pages. SO DAI v54(05), SecB, pp2303. DE Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife. AB The objective of this work is to introduce and illustrate the potential of discrete event, hierarchical modular models for simulating spatial dynamic ecological processes in geographic information systems (GIS). The knowledge based discrete-event simulation environment (DEVS-Scheme) associates stand-alone discrete event models with spatial locations represented in a GIS data base, and couples those models in a coherent manner. The dynamic models can then process spatially distributed information available in a GIS data base, and update it through time. The models also can receive external updated information at any moment, due to the continuous time nature of discrete event specifications. The proposed approach facilitates the representation of reality at several levels of resolution, with model components organized in a hierarchical structure and information flow implemented in the form of message passing. These capabilities are illustrated with two applications. The first is a multi-scale spatial succession model of a wet sclerophyllous forest subject to recurrent fires, and the second is a fire growth model. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG93-23766. AU COHILL, ANDREW MICHAEL. TI PATTERNMAKERS AND TOOLBUILDERS: THE DESIGN OF INFORMATION STRUCTURES IN THE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE. IN Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ph.D. 1993 168 pages. SO DAI v54(05), SecA, pp1569. DE Architecture. Computer Science. Information Science. AB This paper discusses the results of a study of architects at work, where the focus of attention was on the information used during the life of a design project. What became apparent during this study was that the business management of the project, and the artifacts associated with that phase of work, often overwhelmed the actual design effort in terms of time and attention. A phenomenological approach to data collection was used; the author observed architects at work in two different offices over a period of several months, and assisted in the day to day work of each office. Sketches, photos, informal interviews and discussions, and extensive notes provided a rich set of data about work life in architectural practice. Structuralism was the primary analysis tool used to identify key elements of the data and their meaning in professional practice. A model was developed of the kinds of information used to manage a design project. This model includes not only the data used in project management documents, but also categorizes each piece of information according to its current level of use. The document model identifies eight primary attributes for every document, and an object-oriented class hierarchy for documents provides for the inheritance of the base attributes as well as providing additional attributes in various sub-classes to facilitate modeling specific kinds of documents like letters, memos, notes, faxes, contracts, and construction drawings. Finally, a Design Project Manager with a complete set of document manipulation, storage, and retrieval tools was defined. These information tools have specific behaviors based on the patterns of document and information use observed in the subject offices. The results suggest that the productivity of architects may be enhanced by a set of small, carefully designed information tools that help architects deal more easily with the complexity of managing design projects. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG93-27134. AU PERKINS, ANGELA LOUISE. TI THE BOSTON AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: AN INTERPRETATION USING INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA. IN Harvard University DR.DES. 1993, 278 pages. SO DAI v54(05), SecA, pp1571. DE Architecture. Education, Technology. History, Black. AB Interactive multimedia is a promising tool for expressing the various aspects of historic sites. This thesis has used interactive multimedia as a tool for interpreting. The Black Heritage Trail, a National Historic Site, located at Beacon Hill, Boston Massachusetts, was used as the model for the interactive publication. The interactive techniques developed allowed elements, traditionally interpreted separately, to be available in a single publication. At the core of interactivity is the capacity to reference and link to more information about a subject. This thesis presents the user with an icon-based interface which accesses information in the form of images, text, movies and sound. As the user interfaces with the publication by referencing and linking information, important relationships are established among people and places of 19th century Boston and those who lived on Beacon Hill. Based on the experience of developing this model an effective style was designed for interpretations of historic sites using interactive multimedia. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG93-28175. AU HU, JIANYING. TI FEATURE EXTRACTION AND INDEXING TECHNIQUES FOR PICTORIAL DATABASE RETRIEVAL. IN State University of New York at Stony Brook Ph.D. 1993, 105 pages. SO DAI v54(05), SecB, pp2596. DE Computer Science. AB How to achieve efficient curvilinear object retrieval is one of the key problems in content-based pictorial database retrieval. We present a general methodology based on the idea of separating the task into several hierarchical levels. Fast candidate screening procedures at higher levels on more abstract representations serve as filters to reduce the searching space for the lower level, more expensive matching operations. The top level of such candidate screening procedures is an indexing procedure which operates on index vectors composed of numbers of high-level features of various types. The multi-level candidate screening process proceeds along hierarchical representations of curvilinear objects based on high-level shape features. A set of methods for curve description, curvilinear feature recovery and high-level shape feature extraction have been developed to facilitate the bottom-up construction of such representations. The high-level features to be extracted and used to construct the hierarchical representations depend on each particular application. General guidelines for feature selection, derived from information theory, are provided. The implementation of the general methodology in two distinct applications, road network matching and cursive handwriting recognition, showed encouraging results. Particularly, classification using index vectors composed of numbers of high-level features of various types proves to be a very promising technique for efficient and effective candidate screening. ********************************************************** 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@UCOP.EDU Send submissions to IRLIST to: IR-L@UCOP.EDU Or send subscription requests and submissions to: NANCY.GUSACK@UCOP.EDU Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch clifford.lynch@ucop.edu Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Mary Engle mary.engle@ucop.edu The IRLIST Archives is now set up for anonymous FTP, as well as via the LISTSERV. Using anonymous FTP via the host dla.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., /pub/irl/1993). Using LISTSERV, send the message INDEX IR-L to LISTSERV@UCOP.EDU. To get a specific issue listed in the Index, send the message GET IR-L LOGYYMM, where YY is the year and MM is the numeric month in which the issue was mailed, to LISTSERV@UCOP.EDU. You will receive the issues for the entire month you have requested. These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. Contact Nancy Gusack or Mary Engle for more information on IRLIST. THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN IRLIST DO NOT REPRESENT THOSE OF THE EDITORS OR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. AUTHORS ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTENTS OF THEIR SUBMISSIONS TO IRLIST.