Information Retrieval List Digest 377 (October 21, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-377 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 October 21, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 39 Issue 377 ***************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Perspecta: Linguistic Engineer Job 2. The Manchester Metropolitan U.: Research Lecturer, NLP III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. JASIS October TOC 2. Book Announcement: Computation and Human Experience 3. "More than Screen Deep" -- Informative Reading 4. ASIS Bulletin October TOC 5. Washington Update 10/03/97 6. Context and Conceptual Fuzzy Filtering on the WWW B. Meetings 1. IATUL 1998 2. Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems 3. ISKO '98 4. CIA-98 Cooperative Information Agents C. Miscellaneous 1. US grad students: Summer Programs in Japan and Korea ***************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. =46r: A. Deitz Re: Perspecta: Linguistic Engineer Job Computational Linguistic Engineer (www.perspecta.com) =46unctional Profile: The person filling this position will design, develop, and integrate linguistic processing algorithms for Prospecta's proprietary client/server technology. Key Selection Criteria: --advanced degree in CS or Computational Linguistics --expert knowledge in contemporary natural language processing: -empirical and experimental /theoretical methods -statistical and knowledge-based approaches -superficial processing and deep parsing/semantic analysis --experience with knowledge representation issues, developing semantic networks/ontologies --very strong algorithm design and implementation skills --experience with machine translation --experience with summarization --experience with morphological processing --industry/product experience --well versed in object-oriented design/programming, C++, Java --Windows, Unix literacy --Self-motivated, creative, "Can-do" engineer who knows how to complete projects on time in a high intensity start-up environment The Founding of Perspecta=AE: Perspecta was founded in January 1996 by Earl Rennison, Lisa Strausfeld, and Nicolas Saint-Arnaud, alumni of the MIT Media Lab, and technology industry leaders Steve Holtzman and Nicholas Negroponte. Prior to founding Perspecta, the founders developed revolutionary new ways of representing and navigating through large volumes of information through their work in the Visible Language Workshop at the Media Lab. Through their work, Rennison and Strausfeld painted a visionary picture of the future of information organization and navigation with their Galaxy of News, =46inancial Viewpoints, and The Millennium Project which received worldwide recognition, won international awards, and provided the foundation for other research projects, both in and out of the Media Lab. =46or further details please contact Andrew Deitz 415-788-7800 (ph 415-788-7710 (fax adeitz@ji.com (email ********** II.2. =46r: effie@ccl.umist.ac.uk Re: The Manchester Metropolitan U.: Research Lecturer, NLP THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY =46aculty of Science and Engineering Department of Computing & Mathematics Post of Research Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Applications are invited for one fixed-term Research Lecturer post, with restricted teaching, in the Department of Computing & Mathematics. Applicants should be able to take an active part in the further development of research in a fast-rising 3A department, and have a track record or show strong potential in Natural Language Processing, especially in the areas of statistical language learning, knowledge/lexical acquisition from corpora, but other areas are also welcome. The posts are for at least 4 years. Prospective applicants can have informal discussions with the Head of Department by telephone on (0161) 247-1500, or by email at S.Oakey@doc.mmu.ac.uk. Email applications are encouraged. =46or more information on the NLP group see http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/RESEARCH/nlpgp/nlpgp.html or contact Dr. Sophia Ananiadou in S.Ananiadou@doc.mmu.ac.uk. RESEARCH: The Department obtained a 3A rating in the 1996 RAE. This represents a rapid expansion in research, and the intention is to continue this strong development. The strategy for doing this has been to complement existing staff with new researchers. We are now looking to continue the strategic development with new researchers who are enthusiastic and dynamic, and who are interested in helping us to keep moving up the RAE grades. The Department has five research groups, which entered in the 1996 RAE, earning the 3A grade. The five groups are Logic and Computation; Natural Language Processing; Information Systems; Multimedia and Computer Aided Learning; and Distributed Systems. TEACHING DUTIES: Teaching loads for this post are about 2 hours of lectures plus laboratories and tutorials to bring the total class contact to about 6 hours per week. Preferred teaching areas include natural language processing, discrete mathematics, artificial intelligence, programming but other areas are also welcome. The actual subject areas for teaching are negotiable, but are heavily based on the explorations conducted at interview. STAFF FACILITIES: Staff normally share a room with one other member of the academic staff (smoking is not allowed in staff rooms). Each has his/her own PC running Windows or Linux (or both), and this is connected to the departmental network via the university backbone. APPLICATIONS: Prospective applicants can have informal discussions with the Head of Department (Steve Oakey) by telephone on (0161) 247 1500 (email S.Oakey@doc.mmu.ac.uk). Please note that applications for this post should include your CV and any supporting material (e.g. one or two indicative research papers). ***************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. =46r: Richard Hill Re: JASIS October TOC JASIS (v. 48 #10) Journal of the American Society for Information Science VOLUME 48, NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 1997 In This Issue; Bert R. Boyce, 865 IN MEMORIAM Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, 1931---1996; Mike Nelson, 866 RESEARCH Design and Implementation of Automatic Indexing for Information Retrieval with Arabic Documents; Ismail Hmeidi, Ghassan Kanaan, and Martha Evens, 867 Information Using Likeness Measures; Martin Fricke, 882 Types and Levels of Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research in the Sciences; Jian Qin, F. W. Lancaster, and Bryce Allen, 893 Measuring the Impact of Information on Development: A LISREL-Based Study of Small Businesses in Shanghai; Liwen Qiu Vaughan and Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, 917 Clustering and Classification of Large Document Bases in a Parallel Environment; Anthony S. Ruocco and Ophir Frieder, 932 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS =46ractional Counting of Multiauthored Publications: Consequences for the Impact of Authors; G. Van Hooydonk, 944 Structural Modeling of Network Systems in Citation Analysis; Dang Yaru, 946 The Diffusion of Scientific Journals Analyzed through Citations; Pedro Alvarez and Antonio Pulgarin, 953 BOOK REVIEWS Information Systems Development and Data Modeling: Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations, by Rudy Hirschheim, Heinz K. Klein, and Kalle Lyytinen; Peter Aiken, 959 Symbolic Projection for Image Information Retrieval and Spatial Reasoning, by Shi-Kuo Chang and Erland Jungert; Geoffrey Z. Liu, 960 LETTTERS TO THE EDITOR Richard Hill Executive Director, American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 =46AX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill@asis.org http://www.asis.org ********** III.A.2. =46r: Jozsef A Toth Re: BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Computation and Human Experience Computation and Human Experience Philip E. Agre Cambridge University Press, 1997 http://www.cup.org/ ********** III.A.3. =46r: Maria Zemankova Re: "More than Screen Deep" -- informative reading More than Screen Deep: Toward Every-Citizen Interfaces to the Nation's Information Infrastructure. Information Infrastructure Steering Committee, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1997 ISBN 0-309-06357-4 http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/screen/ Copies of this report (paperback book, 433 pages) are available from National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Lockbox 285, Washington, D.C. 20055; (800)624-6242 or (202)334-3313 (in the Washington metropolitan area); Internet, http://www.nap.edu ********** III.A.4. =46r: Richard Hill Re: October ASIS Bulletin TOC Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science Table of Contents October/November 1997 Volume 24, No. 1 Cover Stories: Organizing Internet Resources: Metadata and the Web 4 Introduction: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis and Allyson Carlyle, guest editors 6 Cataloging Internet Resources: Survey and Prospectus: Erik Jul 9 The Dublin Core: A Simple Content Description Model for Electronic Resources: Stuart Weibel 12 Uniform Resource Identifiers and the Effort to Bring Bibliographic Control to the Web: An Overview of Current Progress: Ray Schwartz 14 Options for Organizing Electronic Resources: The Coexistence of Metadata: Sherry L. Vellucci 18 Metadata in Australia: Carmel Maguire 21 GEM: Using Metadata to Enhance Internet Retrieval by K-12 Teachers: Stuart A. Sutton and Sam G. Oh 24 From Book Classification to Knowledge Organization: Improving Internet Resource Description and Discovery: Diane Vizine-Goetz 28 Scorpion Helps Catalog the Web: Keith Shafer DEPARTMENT: 2 Inside ASIS ********** III.A.5. =46r: Garret Sern Re: Washington Update 10/03/97 =46ARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- OCTOBER 3, 1997 IN THIS ISSUE: House Science Committee on basic research holds hearings on Internet domain names >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =46arnet hosts meeting of state networks Written from FARNET's Washington office, "FARNET's Washington Update" is a service to FARNET members and other interested subscribers. We gratefully acknowledge EDUCOM's NTTF and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. ********** III.A.6. =46r: Stanley Rice Re: Context and Conceptual Fuzzy Filtering on the WWW Simple non-numerical approaches recommended--immediately suited to the Internet and intranets. (No money involved.) Meta-functions suited to WWW, news groups, & SIG collections. Try an AltaVista or Infoseek search for +FUZzy* (sic) URLs FOR RELATED MATERIALS: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/ (home page) http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/accessit.htm (materials) http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/xmatches.htm (profile matches) http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/darwin.htm (pre/post shift) SOME TOPICS INTRODUCED (LINKS MADE IN ACCESSIT.HTM): - Role of SIG contexts in Conceptual Media Filtering - Increasing relevant access, with non-numeric fuzzy filters - Conceptual retrievals from visual and audio files - Linguistic variables, SIG "pidgins" and meta-attributes - Filtering agents, and voice-activated queries - Thematic profile matching, the near-future of marketing - Diagnostic analyses (symptom/remedy correlations) - Commercial development potentials for filtering products. Reactions are welcome. Stan Rice THEMATICS: Conceptual & Marketing Access to Text and Media AUTOSPEC, Inc. Santa Cruz, CA. Stan Rice Voice: (408) 457-1430 E-mail: autospec@cruzio.com WWW: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/ ********** III.B.1. =46r: Terry Kuny Re: IATUL 1998 Annual Conference IATUL 1998 ANNUAL CONFERENCE JUNE 1-7 1998 UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA =46IRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS The Challenge to be relevant in the 21st Century: The Board of the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) and the South African technological university library community take great pleasure in inviting you to Pretoria to take part in the 1998 IATUL Conference. This conference, which will be the first for the African continent, will provide you with the wonderful opportunity to experience the beauty and hospitality of South Africa. The conference also offers you a week of valuable information, discussion, networking and reflection on a topic which is crucial for our survival and well-being, namely: The challenge to be relevant in the 21st century. The aim of the conference is: * to provide a forum for representatives from developed and developing countries to share views and gain perspectives with regard to the challenges facing library and information services in the 21st century; * to promote the networking essential for African and other developing countries as they strive to ensure access to the world-wide wealth of information; and * to present an opportunity for experiencing South Africa as a gateway to Southern Africa. You are invited to submit a proposal for a * paper (deadline: November 15, 1997) * panel session (deadline: November 15, 1997) * poster session (deadline: January 1, 1998) * round table discussion (deadline: February 1, 1998) Upon acceptance of proposals, participants will be required to forward a full copy of their presentation in paper and electronic format by May 1, 1998 The following topics and sub-topics for presentation and discussions are envisaged: -Linking up with megatrends: * Megatrends (large social, economic, political and technological changes) which may alter the conditions of our lives * Consumer trends * The future of higher education, research and scholarly communication * The future of libraries -Riding the technology wave: * Maturation of the information society * Digital libraries and information services * Internet: information source and marketing mechanism * The demise of power bases * Mainstreaming the developing world -Doing more with less: * Strategic partnerships and alliances * How to avoid being bypassed * Organizational solutions * Beating the competition * Services management * Selling information services * Alternative sources of funding * New teaching and learning models and their impact on information services * Electronic classrooms * Information services to remote users -How to remain relevant and stay in business: * Our clients and their needs * Assessments of outcomes * Performance measurement * Inventing new roles for information services * Selling information and/or cost recovery * Serving the community: information literacy for all * Serving empowered consumers More information on the topics for presentation and discussion, the format of the papers and selection criteria is available on the home page of the 1998 IATUL Conference: http://educate.lib.chalmers.se/IATUL/conf98.html Please direct all enquiries about participation to Monica Hammes at hammes@acinfo.up.ac.za ********** III.B.2. =46r: Robert V. Williams Re: Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems Call for Papers The American Society for Information Science (ASIS), the ASIS Special Interest Group/History and Foundations of Information Science (SIG/HFIS), and the Chemical Heritage Foundation announce a call for papers for the Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems, to be held Oct. 23-25, 1998 (immediately prior to the annual meeting of ASIS) in Pittsburgh, PA. This conference will explore the history and heritage of the nature, development, and influence of all types of science information systems worldwide. Abstracts of papers to be submitted are due April 1, 1998, and authors of tentatively accepted papers will be notified promptly. =46ull acceptance will be based on receipt of the complete paper, which should be received no later than June 1, 1998. For accepted papers, several competitive scholarships will also be available for financial support for attendance and anyone wishing to apply for these should submit a completed paper by May 15, 1998. All submissions will be refereed by a panel of experts. All accepted papers will be published. Science information "systems" is broadly interpreted to include not only the history of specific systems and services developed for the sciences but also the ideas, concepts, and historical context affecting their development. Alternative presentation styles (such as videos, photographic exhibits, demonstration of information technologies) are encouraged. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: --history of information handling in various scientific disciplines (such as chemistry, biololgy, physics) --role of science information systems in scholarly communication --assessment of the influence of major conferences relating to 1948 Royal Society Scientific Information Conference and the 1958 International Conference on Scientific Information --contributions of specific individuals to the development of science information systems --pre-computer era science information retrieval systems --history of computer-based science information systems and technologies --development of major commercial science information systems (such as BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts Service, Engineering Index, ISI, Inc.) --history of the role of specific international organizations in the development of science information systems (such as CERN, FAO, FID, IAEA) Inquiries regarding the Conference should be addressed to: Robert V. Williams, Conference Chair College of Library and Information Science University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 USA Phone: 803-777-2324 =46ax: 803-777-7938 E-mail: bobwill@sc.edu ********** III.B.3. =46r: ISKO.conf Re: Fifth International ISKO Conference CfP Updated The International Society For Knowledge Organization =46IFTH INTERNATIONAL ISKO CONFERENCE Call for Papers The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will conduct its fifth International Conference (ISKO 5) in Lille, France, August 25-29 1998. The theme of the conference is Structures and Relations in Knowledge Organization The conference will focus on the role of relationships and emergent knowledge structures as represented in the human mind, in information handling tools--including classification schemes, thesauri, and indexing systems-and in computers and intelligent/ knowledge-based systems. Papers and panels addressing this theme from any of the following perspectives are invited : 1. Theory of knowledge organization: History, paradigms, philosophy, societal aspects, epistemology, division of the sciences. 2. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge organization: =46ormalization of structures and relations in and across linguistics, semiotics, cognitive sciences, computer science, artificial intelligence, etc. 3. Cognitive approaches to knowledge organization: Conceptual entities and inter-concept relations, category formation, classical and non-classical classifications and their use in information organization and retrieval, concept representation in knowledge-based systems, object-oriented analysis and design, types of relations. 4. Design of information systems: Structure and relations in indexing and retrieval languages, design of controlled vocabularies, terminology building and extraction tools, thesauri and metathesauri, multilingual thesauri, standardization of relationships, problems of compatibility. 5. The Comparative approach Common and particular relationships in different knowledge systems. 6. Linguistics in knowledge organization: Structure and relations in sublanguages/special purpose languages/technical writing, discourse structures and relations, intelligent text processing, natural language processing-based systems and their use in knowledge representation and extraction. 7. New technologies for knowledge organization: Structures and relations in the online environment, applications of classical and non-classical structures to computer-based indexing and retrieval systems, search engines, distributed and multilingual knowledge bases. 8. Conceptual modeling: Data modeling, knowledge modeling, user profile modeling. 9. Universals of structures and relations in knowledge organization. Theoreticians, researchers and practitioners in the field of structures and relations in knowledge organization are invited to submit an abstract of 500 to 1000 words by December 1, 1997, to: Widad Mustafa Elhadi ISKO '5 Conference Chair UFR IDIST (Information Documentation, Information Scientifique et Technique)= , University Charles de Gaulle Lille 3 BP 149 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq =46rance Phone: 33 (0) 3 20 41 64 08 =46ax: 33 (0) 3 20 41 63 79 E-mail: isko.conf@univ-lille3.fr. An international program committee will select the papers for presentation, and authors will be notified by February 9, 1998. The deadline for submission of papers for the printed conference proceedings will be May 4, 1998. Authors are invited to send three printed copies of their abstracts to the above-mentioned address together with an electronic version which must imperatively be sent in an RTF format to the following e-mail address: isko.conf@univ-lille3.fr. The file's name should be the author's name and not mention "isko" in order to avoid same name file destruction. The abstract must include the authors name, institution , mailing and electronic addresses . Authors should suggest the topic area for which they consider their paper to be best suited. All papers must be in the English language for publication purposes. French speakers wishing to present their papers in French can do so, although we cannot guarantee that simultaneous translation facilities will be available. Organizers : UFR IDIST (Information Documentation, Information Scientifique et Technique) Universiti Charles De Gaulle Lille III & The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Conference Chair Widad Mustafa Elhadi, President of ISKO-France UFR IDIST (Information Documentation, Information Scientifique et Technique), University Charles De Gaulle Lille III ********** III.B.4. =46r: Matthias Klusch Re: CIA-98 Cooperative Information Agents COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS - Learning, Mobility, and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery in the Internet. July 3 - 8, 1998 Cite de Sciences - La Vilette, Paris (France) at the Agents' World Event 1998 http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia98.html The workshop is co-sponsored by . Daimler-Benz AG Research, Stuttgart (Germany) * Center for Information Systems Integration and Evolution George Mason University, Fairfax (USA) and supported by * Special Interest Groups on Database Systems, Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval of the German Society for Computer Science (GI) * Institute for Integrated Publications and Information Systems of the German National Research Center (GMD) INVITED SPEAKERS 1 Tuomas Sandholm (Washington University, USA) 2 Robert Tolksdorf (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) 3 Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 4 Sharma Chakravarthy (University of Florida, USA) 5 Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA) 6 Michael Huhns & Munindar Singh (University of South Carolina/North Carolina State University, USA) 7 Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, USA) SCOPE: The research and application area of cooperative information agents is of rapidly increasing importance. Information agents are computational software systems that have access to multiple, heterogeneous and geographically distributed information sources. The autonomous agents have to face up to the increasing complexity of modern information environments ranging from relatively simple in-house information systems, through large-scale multidatabase systems, to the visionary Infosphere in the Internet. One of the main tasks of the agents is an active search for relevant information in non-local domains on behalf of their users or other agents. This includes retrieving, analyzing, manipulating, and integrating information available from different information sources. The development of cooperative information agents requires expertise from several different research areas, especially AI, DAI, Databases, and CSCW. It is particularly important to investigate to what extent AI methods can be applied for information discovery by groups or teams of information agents in the Internet. This concerns, e.g., the use of efficient techniques from machine learning, evolutionary computing, and symbolic or numerical approaches for uncertain reasoning. Moreover, commercial aspects of information gathering in the Internet are becoming more and more relevant, e.g., agents are paid and have to pay for services. Thus, methods for rational, utility-based cooperation among the agents are needed. In addition, mobile information agents seems to be attractive for a flexible, and efficient information discovery in constrained environments. The interdisciplinary CIA workshop series covers the whole thematic range of cooperative information agents. Each workshop focus on a few selected themes being of particular relevance and actuality. The CIA-98 workshop will build on the success of CIA-97 ('DAI meets Databases'). TOPICS Workshop topics include but are not limited to o Architectures of Information Agents. o Agent-based Access to Heterogeneous Information Systems. o Construction and Use of Ontologies for Multiagent Information Gathering. o Learning, Interaction and Organization of Multiagent Systems for Information Discovery in changing Environments. o Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in large-scale Information Systems. o Communication among autonomous Information Agents. o Mobile Information Agents for the Internet. o Advanced Protocols for Negotiation and Electronic Commerce. Information Agents in Electronic Markets. o Collaborative Information Agents in distributed WWW applications. o Issues of Programming cooperative Information Agents for the Internet. o Multiagent Systems and Geographical Databases. o Game-theoretic and other microeconomic principles for rational Information Agents. o Security Aspects for Information Agents in the Internet. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for Paper Submission February 6, 1998 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection March 23, 1998 Deadline for camera-ready version April 10, 1998 The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as a volume in the series LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (LNCS subseries). - Mailserver: Send an e-mail message to svserv@vax.ntp.springer.de containing the line "get /tex/latex/llncs.zip" for the LaTeX style files. Sending "help" to the server prompts advice on how to interact with the mail server. The style files have to be unzipped and uu-decoded for use. - Ftp: The internet address is "trick.ntp.springer.de", the user id "ftp" or "anonymous". Please enter your e-mail address as password. The (above-mentioned) files reside in "/pub/tex/latex/llncs". =46or those not using the Springer LNCS style files: The paper must be formatted in A4 size using 10 point Times. (If Times is not available, please use one of the similar typefaces widely used in phototypesetting.) Printing area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm. With these settings, the interline distance should be arranged in such a way that some 42 to 45 lines occur on a full-text page. Papers not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review. Only original papers not submitted to any other workshop, conference or journal is acceptable. You can submit your contribution by Mail or Electronic Mail.It is recommended to submit your paper by electronic mail. If the receipt of your submission is not confirmed within one week, you are asked to resend it. Submission by Electronic Mail: Please send the Postscript file (A4 Size) of your contribution to klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Matthias Klusch, TU Chemnitz, Germany) or Submission by Mail: If you prefer to send hard-copies, please do not tack the pages of the paper together and submit three single-sided copies of your contribution to Gerhard Weiss Computer Science Department, Technical University of Munich 80290 Munich, Germany Up-To-Date INFORMATION about the workshop will be provided in the WWW at http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia98.html AGENTS' WORLD CONTEXT: Coordinated with CIA-98 will be held seven other international events at Agents' World (July 2-8, 1998, Cite de Science, Paris, France): ICMAS-98 Multi-Agent Systems Conference focusing on Multi-Agent Systems ATAL-98 Workshop on Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages IATA-98 Workshop on Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications CRW-98 Workshop on Collective Robotics ACW-98 Workshop on Agents in CommunityWare MABS-98 Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation Paris-98 Featuring Robocup'98 and FIRA RWC'98 International Competition between Soccer Robots Teams A tutorial programme for Agents' World is offered the day before (July 2, 1998). More detailed information about Agent's World is available on: http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/AgentsWorld =46OR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Matthias Klusch Institute for Computer Science, Technical University of Chemnitz Strasse der Nationen 62, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany Phone: +49-371-5311511 =46ax: +49-371-5311530 klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/ ********** III.C.1. =46r: Maria Zemankova Re: US grad students: Summer Programs in Japan and Korea The National Science Foundation (NSF), in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), welcomes applications to the 1998 Summer Programs in Japan and Korea. All qualified graduate students in science and engineering, including the biomedical, agricultural, and social sciences, are urged to apply. The postmark deadline for applications is December 1, 1997. The three summer programs (Summer Institute in Japan, Summer Institute in Korea, and the Monbusho Summer Program) provide participants first-hand experience in Japanese or Korean research environments, an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective countries, and language training. The primary goals of the programs are to introduce students to Japanese or Korean science and engineering in the context of a research laboratory and to initiate personal relationships that will better enable them to collaborate with Japanese or Korean counterparts in the future. Each of the three summer programs will last approximately eight weeks from late June 1998 to late August 1998. =46or more information on the Summer Programs, including eligibility requirements, program descriptions, and application materials, access the NSF/Tokyo Homepage (http://www.twics.com/~nsftokyo/summer98.html). 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