Information Retrieval List Digest 226 (September 26) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-226 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 September 26, 1994 Volume XI, Number 33 Issue 226 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. CADCM Special Section: Digital Libraries B. Meetings 1. SSR '95 2. BISFAI '95 3. SIGIR '95 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Clifford.Lynch Re: CACM Special Section on Digital Libraries Call for Submissions for CACM Special Section on Digital Libraries TOPIC: Digital libraries are a key component of the emerging international information highway. In 1994 there have been a series of workshops to discuss issues related to this integrated approach to provide usable information and data, including text, hypertext, multimedia, hypermedia and knowledge bases, to large groups of users. Major projects are reaching maturity, and new efforts have begun on large-scale research and implementation efforts. CACM will cover this emerging field with a Special Section in 1995. Of particular interest are: HCI issues, intellectual property rights, systems, applications of digital libraries (e.g., to education), and other topics of interest to policy makers, developers and users. SUBMISSIONS DUE: October 15, 1994 SPECIAL SECTION TO APPEAR: April 1995 (in time for CHI'95) SPECIAL ISSUE ORGANIZERS: Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech Richard Furuta, Texas A&M Univ. John Leggett, Texas A&M Univ. Robert Akscyn, Knowledge Systems Inc. SUBMISSION TOPICS & FORMS: Short Articles: Submitters are encouraged to provide a short sidebar-type article that can fit in 1/2 to 1 page of CACM. This is especially suitable for reports on: prototype systems, government or commercially sponsored initiatives, newly funded projects, or short commentaries. Long Articles: Articles about significant projects that have achieved important results are encouraged, especially if they deal with issues from the viewpoint of users, publishers, and developers. Case studies and research articles that are relevant to future development of digital libraries are also of interest. A total of approximately 5 such articles, each about 5,000 words long, will be selected. SUBMISSION ADDRESS: Electronic Submissions to: fox@vt.edu Paper Submissions to: Dr. Edward A. Fox Dept. of Computer Science 562 McBryde Hall VPI&SU (Virginia Tech) Blacksburg VA 24061-0106 USA Additional Contact Information: Phone +1 703 231-5113 FAX +1 703 231-6075 SUBMISSION DETAILS: 1) Either an electronic or a paper submission is acceptable in a style similar to that of current CACM articles. 2) Submissions should be double spaced with 12 point or larger fonts and have no more than 7000 words. 3) Electronic submissions can be sent in PostScript or PDF formats, printable on standard laser printers and viewable with ghostview or Acrobat tools. Submissions that do not meet these criteria will be returned. 4) Please advise if you are willing to have your submission considered for publication in another ACM periodical (e.g., TOIS) if it is not deemed suitable for CACM, or if space becomes filled. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Scott Henninger Re: SSR '95 CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, AND PANEL SESSIONS Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR'95) Sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT Seattle, Washington, USA April 28-30, 1995 SSR'95 is the 1995 biyearly Symposium on Software Reusability that is conducted in affiliation with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-17). The objective of this symposium is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners in the areas related to software reusability to exchange research results, development activities, and application experience reports. Unpublished and original state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice papers relevant to the symposium themes, as well as panel and tutorial proposals, are solicited. RELEVANT TOPICS INCLUDE: - Application Generators - Automatic Programming - Case Studies and Experience Reports - Component Repositories - Domain Analysis and Engineering - Domain Specific Kits - Industrial Experience and Assessment - Interface Issues in Software Parts Technology - Management of Uncertainty in Software Reuse - Module Interface/Interconnection Languages - Program Transformation - Parameterized Programming - Quantification of Reuse Potential and Measurement of Reuse - Re-engineering - Reverse Engineering - Reuse Environments - Software Classification and Identification. Also, the reusability aspects of the following areas: -- AI and Expert Systems -- CASE Tools -- Economic Issues and Software Trade -- Management and Policy Issues -- Mega Programming -- Network Information Services -- Object-Oriented Analysis, Programming, and Design -- Software Case Based Reasoning -- Version/Configuration Management. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Several categories of papers will be considered for presentation and publication including: (1) Original and unpublished research articles, (2) Reports of applications in business, government, industry, arts, sciences, and engineering, (3) Reports of successful reuse technology transfer to new problem domains, and (4) Position papers of on-going research efforts with preliminary results, substantial reuse experiences underway, or significant reuse experiments in progress. All papers should clearly indicate what is new and significant about the presented work in comparison to the existing related body of work. The submitted papers must primarily consist of material not previously presented in or currently awaiting acceptance to another formal forum. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM/SSR'95 Proceedings to be printed by the ACM Press. Authors who feel their manuscripts can benefit a more general audience are encouraged to submit their papers to ICSE. ICSE-17 and SSR will cooperate in scheduling overlapping papers and sessions in a way convenient for those participants intending to attend both meetings. - Submit 6 copies of the manuscript to the Symposium Program Chair. - The body of the paper should not exceed 6,000 words (approximately 20 double-spaced pages). Position papers should not exceed 3,000 words (approximately 10 double-spaced pages). - A separate cover sheet should be enclosed containing the title of the paper, the author(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including the e-mail address and fax number, if available) to which correspondence should be sent. - Panel and tutorial proposals must include a three-page abstract of the topics, including an outline, and a copy of the resume/vita of the participant(s). IMPORTANT DATES: November 14, 1994: PAPER, TUTORIAL, AND PANEL SESSION SUBMISSION January 16, 1995: AUTHOR NOTIFICATION February 27, 1995: FINAL VERSION OF PAPER FOR MORE INFORMATION: GENERAL CHAIR Mansour Zand Computer Science Department 245 Durham Science Center University of Nebraska-Omaha Omaha, NE 68182-0500 Tel: 402-554-2847 Fax: 402-554-2975 E-mail: zand@unocss.unomaha.edu PROGRAM CHAIR Mansur Samadzadeh Computer Science Department Oklahoma State University 219 MS Building Stillwater, OK 74078 Tel: 405-744-5674 or 405-744-5668 Fax: 405-744-9097 E-mail: samad@a.cs.okstate.edu ASIA CHAIR Sadahiro Isoda Toyohashi University of Technology Tenpaku-cho, Toyohashi-shi, 441 Japan Tel: +81-532-47-0111 Fax: +81-532-47-5301 E-mail: isoda@tutkie.tut.ac.jp EUROPE CHAIR Jean-Marc Morel PC: B2-122 Software Development Methodology Bull S.A. Rue Jean-Jaures, BP 68 F-78340, Les Clayes-Sous-Bois, France Tel: +33-1-3080-7448 Fax: +33-1-3080-7078 E-mail: J.M.Morel@frcl.bull.fr ********** III.B.2. Fr: Ariel J. Frank Re: BISFAI '95 ****** Call for Papers ****** BISFAI '95 The Fourth Bar-Ilan Symposium on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Commemorating The Scientific Works of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) June 20-22, 1995 Ramat-Gan and Jerusalem, Israel Organized by Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan and Hebrew University, Jerusalem in cooperation with Israel Association for Artificial Intelligence The Association for Mathematics of Language Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics The focus of BISFAI '95 will be on Natural Languages and Artificial Intelligence Philosophical and Computational Aspects The Symposium will, however, retain its broad scope, and welcomes high quality research papers in various areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, automated reasoning, knowledge representation, neural nets, etc. Distinguished Invited Speakers (include): -- Robert Berwick (MIT) -- Hans Kamp (Stuttgart University) -- Sergei Nirenburg (NMSU) -- Naftaly Tishby (Hebrew University) -- Hans Uszkoreit (Saarlandes University) PAPER SUBMISSION: Submit three copies of extended abstract (4-10 pages), or full paper, by 1st February 1995, to: Dr. Moshe Koppel, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel. E-mail: koppel@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20th March 1995. A final version of the accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume. Information on registration, accommodations, etc., will appear in future announcements, or contact: bisfai@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il Symposium Chair: M. Golumbic (Bar-Ilan U.) Program Co-Chairs: E. Shamir (Hebrew U.), M. Koppel (Bar-Ilan U.) FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Ariel J. Frank Deputy Chairperson, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 52900 Tel: (972-3-) 5318407/8, Fax: (972-3-) 5353325 AMIX (Israeli UNIX user group) former Chairperson Tel: (972-3-) 715770/2, Fax: (972-3-) 5744374 BITNET: ariel@bimacs (also F68388@barilan) INTERNET: ariel@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il ********** III.B.3. Fr: Raya Fidel Re: SIGIR '95 CALL FOR PAPERS SIGIR'95 18th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval The Sheraton, Seattle, WA, USA July 9 - July 13, 1995 Sponsored by ACM and in co-operation with: AICA-GLIR (Italy) BCS-IRSG (UK) CEPIS-EIRSG (Europe) DD (Denmark) GI (Germany) IPSJ (Japan) ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: SIGIR'95 is an international research conference on information retrieval theory, systems, and applications. The ACM SIGIR conference occurs annually, alternating between locations in North America and elsewhere (e.g., Europe). This conference will interest a broad spectrum of professionals including theoreticians, developers, publishers, researchers, educators, and designers of systems, interfaces, information bases, and related applications. TOPICS: Though we look for all good, innovative submissions in the broad field of information storage and retrieval (IR), the following list of topics may make clearer some of the areas that are of particular interest: 1. IR FUNDAMENTALS (focusing on one or combinations of the following): A. Types: text, hypertext, multimedia (including audio, images, video) B. Representations: source, conversions, storage, presentation C. Information structures, interaction, time-based issues D. Processing: indexing, analysis, compression, retrieval, rendering, publishing E. Systems: design, implementation, measures, evaluation, architectures, scalability, integration with DBMS F. Theories and models, evaluation G. Reasoning: logic, case-based H. Standards: SGML (and HTML), HyTime, MPEG, Z39.50, HTTP 2. USERS AND IR INTERACTION: A. Modeling, empirical studies B. Interface design, human-computer interaction, visualization C. IR tasks, including query formulation and expansion D. IR and information seeking behavior 3. IR AND COGNITIVE APPROACHES: A. Natural language processing, linguistic resources, multilingual systems B. Knowledge bases and their use C. Learning: genetic algorithms, neural nets D. Pattern matching, uncertainty, data fusion 4. DEDICATED IR APPLICATIONS: A. Digital libraries: architectures, prototypes, studies, issues B. Networked information (e.g., WAIS, WWW): infrastructure, tools, systems, protocols, collections, interfaces, case studies, intellectual property rights 5. EDUCATION IN IR: A. Curriculum, training B. Tools, systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS: Submissions to SIGIR'95 can be in the form of contributed papers, tutorials, panels, posters or demonstrations, and should be made to the relevant Chairs, as outlined below. With the exception of Papers and Posters, submissions may be made via email (ascii text). All submissions should include complete contact information for participants, including mail address, telephone, fax and email. IMPORTANT DATES Today: Email to be added to mailing list JAN. 6, 1995 Submission of papers to relevant Program Co-chair FEB. 10, 1995 Submission of proposals for tutorials, panels, demonstrations, posters, and workshops to the relevant Chair MAR. 10, 1995 Author notification APR. 3, 1995 Final manuscript due in camera ready and electronic forms FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Detailed information regarding submissions is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.u.washington.edu (/public/sigir95/cfp). Questions should be addressed to the Conference Chair or sigir95@u.washington.edu. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR: Raya Fidel GSLIS, FM-30 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195, USA fidelr@u.washington.edu Tel: +1-206-543-1888 Fax: +1-206-685-8049 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: (N and S America, Asia) (Europe, Africa, Australia) Edward A. 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