Information Retrieval List Digest 390 (January 26, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-390.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 January 26, 1998 Volume XV, Number 4 Issue 390 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. University of Western Ontario: Ass't. Professor, Multimedia/ Web Site Production and Theory III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. IEEE Expert: Special Issue on Applications of Intelligent Information Retrieval 2. Version 15, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 3. IEEE Internet Computing 4. JASIS Special Issue on Individual Differences in Virtual Environments B. Meetings 1. IRSG98: Discovering new worlds of IR 2. Reminder: CFP for Coling-ACL'98 Workshop 3. Registration Reminder ELSNET in Wonderland 4. Hypertext Functionality and the WWW C. Miscellaneous 1. Release of CoreLex: Ontology, Lexical Semantic Database and Tagset Organized Around Systematic Polysemy and Underspecification IV. PROJECTS D. Research 1. CIC Launches Z39.50 Project 2. NSF/CISE/IIS Proposal Submission Target Date: 2/15/98 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. =46r: Yuri Quintana Re: University of Western Ontario: Ass't. Professor, Multimedia/ Web Site Production and Theory The Faculty of Communications and Open Learning and the Department of Visual Arts invite applications for a one-year, full-time limited term faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Multimedia/Web Site Production and Theory. This position is a joint appointment between the two units. The successful candidate will have an MA, MFA ,or MSc in multimedia production and theory or a related discipline, and an active record in multimedia production. The ideal candidate for the joint appointment will combine a critical understanding of the forms of popular culture with knowledge of the developments in multimedia theory and production. Proven experience in all aspects of production (graphics, sound, animation, text) is necessary. Teaching experience is an important asset. The successful candidate will work collaboratively to develop and teach courses in multimedia and web site production and theory within existing programs in Visual Arts. At the same time, the successful candidate will strengthen the area of multimedia/web site production within the Faculty of Communications and Open Learning, a faculty that takes as its scholarly domain the role and impact of information, media, and communications in the lives of individuals and in society. Letters of application, curriculum vitae, examples of recent work, and names of three referees should be received by April 15, 1998, addressed to the Co-chair of the Appointments Committee: Dr. Madeline Lennon, Chair Department of Visual Arts The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B8. Positions are subject to budget approval. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada. The University of Western Ontario is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the workplace, and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including women, members of visible minorities, aboriginal persons and persons with disabilities. Madeline Lennon, Chair, Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario London Ontario N6A 5B7 (519) 661-3440 =46AX: (519) 661-2020 mlennon@julian.uwo.ca ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. =46r: Jan Pedersen Re: IEEE Expert: Special Issue on Applications of Intelligent Information Retrieval IEEE EXPERT Call for Articles Special Issue on Applications of Intelligent Information Retrieval Guest Editors: Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University Jan Pedersen, Verity Inc. Intelligent information retrieval, the problem of delivering truly relevant documents matching user needs, has become increasingly central in recent years thanks to the dramatically growing amounts of online textual data. Addressing this problem calls for synergy between information retrieval and artificial intelligence, including machine learning. This special issue is seeking submissions that present creative approaches to solving intelligent information retrieval problems using AI or ML techniques, including but not limited to the following topics: Text data mining: structure/pattern discovery (hierarchical, relational, etc.); template filling, text categorization and summarization; automated thesaurus creation. Translingual and multimedia retrieval: indexing and retrieval from audio and video sources, including IR on speech recognized transcripts and feature-based representations of image data; learnable query/document transformations across languages and media. Intelligent user interaction: adaptable user profiling, query formulation, and search space navigation. Experimental articles that present significant evaluated results in the areas of new applications or engineering performance, as well as theoretical advances are encouraged. The focus of this special issue is more on significant systems with potential real-world applications, rather than preliminary, nonscalable demonstrations. Authors should submit six hard copies of their articles (draft) by May 1, 1998 to Guest Editor Yiming Yang. Please also send an electronic title page (title, authors, email, abstract, and keywords) as well as a postscript version of the manuscript to yiming@cs.cmu.edu. The submission deadline for final versions is October 1, 1998. Yiming Yang Language Technology Institute & CS Department Cyert Hall 260 Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 Phone: 412-268-1364; Fax: 412-268-6298; yiming@cs.cmu.edu Secretary: Jen Potter, 412-268-2623 =46ull publication guidelines are available at http://computer.org/pubs/expert/edguide.htm. ********** III.A.2. =46r: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 15, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 15 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 600 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 160 = KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. =46ax: (713) 743-9811. ********** III.A.3. =46r: Junindar Singh Re: IEEE Internet Computing IEEE Internet Computing http://computer.org/internet/ IEEE Internet Computing is beginning its second year of publication in 1998. IEEE Internet Computing publishes a variety of technical papers dealing with a range of topics. The 1997 issues covered topics such as including electronic commerce, manufacturing, concurrent engineering, search and indexing techniques, access control, intranets, supercomputing, Java, and agents. There will be special issues in 1998 on mobile computing, architecture of the web, embedded systems, search technologies, software engineering, and data security. These are just the themes of the special issues; each issue will also include other contributed articles. IEEE Internet Computing was in 1997 the largest circulating optional publication of the IEEE Computer Society (second only to Computer, which is included in the society membership dues). We hope to maintain a reasonably large circulation in 1998 and beyond. You probably want to read what the other techies are reading As an IEEE Internet Computing author, you can reach a large number of technical readers. You have all the benefits of a peer reviewed publication with additional assistance from professional editors. To submit, please read and follow the author guidelines. For a special issue, contact its editors. For a regular paper, submit to any member of the editorial board. IEEE Internet Computing has a quick turnaround. Munindar Singh Associate Editor-In-Chief ********** III.A.4. =46r: Dr Chaomei Chen Re: JASIS Special Issue on Individual Differences in Virtual Environments JASIS Special Topic Issue Individual Differences in Virtual Environments The next Special Topics Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), to be scheduled for late 1999 (vol. 50), will be on the topic of Individual Differences in Virtual Environments. The guest editors for this issue will be Dr. Chaomei Chen of Brunel University, Dr. Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research,and Dr. Robert Macredie of Brunel University. The increasingly widespread use of virtual reality, visualisation and simulation modelling techniques has highlighted the need for a better understanding of a number of fundamental issues concerning human users in a virtual environment. There is an urgent need for in-depth empirical studies and methodologies for assessing the effectiveness and usability of a wide variety of virtual environments in this context. For example, what are the predominant human factors concerning the design of a virtual environment? What is the role of individual differences in the use of a virtual environment? How do we assess the effectiveness and usability of a virtual reality application? How do we account for users' cognitive and behavioural experiences in a virtual world? The aim of this special issue is to stimulate inter-disciplinary interests in issues concerning human users in the design, use, and evaluation of a virtual environment. Specific topics of interest for this Special Topic Issue include, but are not limited to, the following: individual differences in virtual environments,including spatial ability and cognitive styles; learning in virtual environments, including cognitive models, spatial memory, incidental learning, categorisation and abstraction abilities; usability and evaluation methodologies; user preferences and satisfaction; multi-user virtual environments, 3D interactive systems, spatial hypermedia; visualisation and simulation in virtual environments; analysis and modelling of user behaviour, search strategies and navigation heuristics; automated virtual environment generation and transformation; semantic structures and spatial structures in virtual environments. Original papers relating to research in, but not restricted to, these topics are are invited for consideration for the special issue. Inquiries (by voice, fax, or email) and manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to Dr Chen at the address below or (by email) to the other guest editors at: marycz@microsoft.com, or robert.macredie@brunel.ac.uk. Manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to: Dr Chaomei Chen Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University Uxbridge UB8 3PH UNITED KINGDOM Voice: (+44) 1895 274-000 ext 2569 or (+44) 1895 203080 =46ax: (+44) 1895 251-686 Email: chaomei.chen@brunel.ac.uk The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this special issue is September 30, 1998. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees, and those accepted will be published in a special issue of _JASIS_. Original artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web, as is further information about _JASIS_, at http://www.asis.org/. ********** III.B.1 =46r: Mark D Dunlop Re: IRSG98: Discovering new worlds of IR IRSG 98 Discovering new worlds of IR Grenoble, France 25-27 March 1998 THE 20TH BCS COLLOQUIUM ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ** Registration is now open. ** Celebrating our 20th anniversary, the IRSG is widening the scope of the colloquium and holding it outside the UK for the first time. IRSG98 aims to bring together IR researchers in an informal atmosphere and to promote young researchers and new research. PAPERS: Papers describing work in progress or completed work have been invited on any topic related to IR. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: hypermedia; multimedia retrieval; distributed network systems; natural language processing; formal models of IR; interface issues in IR; IR in library systems; networked IR; evaluation and testing; implementation issues in IR. A final list of papers will be available as soon as the refereeing process is completed (Priority will be given to papers submitted and presented by students). SPONSORSHIP: Considerable funds are available through CEPIS:EIRSG to assist young researchers attend IRSG98. See our web pages for more details and on-line application form. =46OR COMPLETE INFORMATION http://irsg.eu.org/colloq/ Dr Mark D Dunlop phone:+44 (0)141 330 6035 IRSG98 Programme Chair fax:+44 (0)141 330 4913 Computing Science University of Glasgow mailto:chair.irsg@bcs.org.uk Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland ********** III.B.2 =46r: Inderjeet Mani Re: Reminder: CFP for Coling-ACL'98 Workshop Call for papers Coling-ACL '98 workshop "The Computational Treatment of Nominals" August 16, 1998 Universit=C8 de Montr=C8al Montr=C8al/Canada http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~federica/workshops/coling/call.html This workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are interested in the study of the computational properties of nominals and noun phrases. The focus is on representational questions as they relate directly to NLP requirements and applications. Understanding the properties of the nominal system is extremely important since nouns and nominalizations are used extensively by both people and systems: searching and communicating with either a telegraphic or a more expressive language involves heavy use of nominal forms. A number of NLP applications, ranging from "intelligent" key-word search to text summarization and information extraction, among others, not only require some way of recognizing nominal forms, but also require at least a shallow understanding of the semantic information that nouns carry. It is therefore of great interest to consider what impact representing semantic knowledge at a finer level of granularity would have towards enhancing a system's performance. Submissions are invited on one or more of the following topics: * Representation of nominals: o design of noun ontologies for use in lexical semantics and machine translation o ambiguity, polysemy, vagueness, and underspecification in the semantics of nominals o identifying the minimal requirements for lexical representations * Representational issues in the acquisition of knowledge: o from corpora o from MRDs o syntactic and morphological bootstrapping o semantic boostrapping (role of prepositions, arguments, etc.) * Role of representations for the interpretation of nominals: o techniques for recovering implicit information in nominals o interpretation and generation of nominals in descriptions of events and abstract objects in discourse o recovering implicit semantic relations in nominal compounds o defining implicit semantic relations between nominalizations and the forms they are derived from Submission Information: * Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. * Maximum length is 8 pages (single-spaced) including figures and references. * Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). * Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. * LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by COLING-ACL'98: http://coling acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty * Authors should send 5 copies in either electronic (PostScript or Latex) or hard-copy format to: Federica Busa Computer Science Department Volen Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 U.S.A. federica@cs.brandeis.edu Criteria for selection will include clarity, originality, relevance, and significance of results. Important Deadlines * Deadline for submission: March 15th, 1998 * Notification of authors: May 1st, 1998 * Final versions due: June 1, 1998 ********** III.B.3. =46r: Steven Krauwer Re: Registration Reminder ELSNET in Wonderland REMINDER TO REGISTER NB: REGISTRATION, MEALS AND ACCOMMODATION ARE NOW FREE FOR ALL ELSNET MEMBER SITE EMPLOYEES, IF REGISTERED BEFORE FEBRUARY 1st Conference Announcement ELSNET in Wonderland How can we turn ELSNET into a showcase of Language and Speech technology? March 25-27, 1998 ELSNET members are now invited to register for and submit contributions to "ELSNET in Wonderland", a two-day conference (lunch-to-lunch format) for the entire ELSNET community. "ELSNET in Wonderland" will consist of a mix of practical and theoretical discussions, plenary sessions, and small working group sessions. Day one will be devoted to 'visions and dreams': Given the current state of Language and Speech technology, * which available facilities could ELSNET offer in principle, for example via its web pages? * what are the main research problems to be addressed in order to facilitate and promote the implementation of L&S technology in the emerging Multilingual Information Society? Based on the outcome of the presentations and the discussions of day one, day two will focus on the following, more down-to-earth topics: * which of the facilities could be made available in practice during the lifetime of ELSNET? * can we, on the basis of our reflections on research issues, arrive at a concrete research plan? Conference results will include: * a number of concrete project proposals (pilot studies), leading to the implementation of new L&S technologies on ELSNET's web pages; * the identification of significant research strands for the future (e.g. in the Commission's Fifth Framework Programme); * identification of commercial or research systems resulting from EC funded projects, suitable for inclusion in a permanent electronicexhibition with the look and feel of a real exhibition (incollaboration with Linglink). Themes addressed include: * Training and Education * Multilinguality * Research Issues * Resources * Collaboration with Central and Eastern European countries * ELSNET's long term policies Participation: The conference is primarily intended for members of the ELSNET community (i.e. ELSNET member site employees). Participation by representatives of ELSNET's industrial member sites is especially encouraged, as this conference has both a practical and a research orientation. Registration: Registration is free for all ELSNET member site employees. The registration fee for others is 100 ECU. Participants registered before =46ebruary 1st will be guaranteed a place. Registration forms are available on our our WWW pages (http://www.elsnet.org/wonderland/form.html), or will be sent to you upon request. Contact: ELSNET, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands phone +31 30 253 6039, fax +31 30 253 6000 elsnet@let.ruu.nl http://www.elsnet.org Web site: http://www.elsnet.org/wonderland ********** III.B.4. =46r: Carolyn Watterscwatters@dragon.acadiau.ca Re: Hypertext Functionality and the WWW HTF IV Workshop - 7th Int. WWW Conference April 14th, 1998 - Brisbane (Australia) http://www.cs.unibo.it/~fabio/WWW7/HTFWorkshop.html DESCRIPTION: The "Hypertext Functionality and the WWW" workshop is the fourth workshop in a series on Hypertext Functionality (HTF)[1], which in the past were held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext Conferences. The first three HTF workshops concentrated on the ide ntification and organization of hypertext functionalities that could form the core of hypertext systems in a wide variety of application areas. This workshop will examine issues related to the incorporation of advanced hypertext functionality into web-bas ed applications. By "hypertext functionality" we mean much more than browsing by clicking on "goto" links from one node to another. The focus of the HTF series is on the identification of characteristics that define and describe the "hypertextuality" of software systems. For instance, it aims at describing new ways to view a system's knowledge and processes from a conceptual point of view, to let users access and navigate through the items of interest, to enhance the system's knowledge through comments and relationships, and to customize information and display to the individual users and their tasks. Work in the intersection of hypertext and software systems has grown significantly in volume, quality, and diversity over the past five years. This workshop intends to pursue an analysis of the use and user view of hypertext applications deployed on the web, i.e., how does the underlying Web architecture affect achieving a goal or completing a task. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: * models for web-supported hypertext * issues related to implementation of hypertext on the web * functionalities required to support tasks * engineering of hypertext functionality * conceptual and practical metaphors * scenarios of hypertext applications on the web. This workshop appreciates and fosters the overlap of interests of practitioners in the hypertext community, the WWW community, the MIS field, and the Open Hypermedia Systems (OHS) community. PARTICIPATING TO THE WORKSHOP: This workshop, HTF IV, will put the emphasis on hypertext functionality and the web. Prospective participants will be required to contribute positions or scenarios that clarify either how the web functions as a hypertext or how the web can be improved to support more sophisticated hypertext systems. This workshop will have as one of its goals a written report of the state of hypertext on the web and a broader and grander vision of hypertext on the web. We expect participants to be prepared to write as well as talk, and we will aim at combining their position statements and the workshop discussion into a final report. Those interested in participating are expected to submit a 3-5 pages position statement by February, 16th, 1998. Acceptable formats are plain text and valid HTML 3.2. Notification of acceptation will be sent by March, 2nd, 1998. Accepted participants are expected to register to the WWW conference by March 12th. This means that by March 12th they have to be registered for at least Tutorial/Workshop Day. Submission due: February 16, 1998 to: HTF@cs.unibo.it in: valid HTML 3.2 or plain text Acceptance on: March 2, 1998 Registration by: March 12, 1998 Final Copy due: March 20, 1998. WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: For updated information on registering to the workshop please check the page on the official conference site at http://www.webventures.com.au/javelin/jssi/www7/welcome.jhtml The cost of the Workshops is the same as any single-day registration. [1] Here and in the following we are using the term "hypertext" as a generic term that includes and is interchangeable with the term "hypermedia". ********** III.C.1. =46r: Paul Buitelaar Re: Release of CoreLex: Ontology, Lexical Semantic Database and Tagset Organized Around Systematic Polysemy and Underspecification Announcing the release of CoreLex An ONTOLOGY, LEXICAL SEMANTIC DATABASE and TAGSET for nouns, organized around SYSTEMATIC POLYSEMY and UNDERSPECIFICATION. CoreLex developed out of a thesis on systematic polysemy and underspecification of nouns, establishing an ontology and semantic database of 126 semantic types, covering around 40,000 nouns and defining a large number of systematic polysemous classes that are derived by a careful analysis of sense distributions in WordNet. The semantic types are underspecified representations based on Generative Lexicon theory and are used in an underspecified approach to semantic tagging, addressing two problems: sense enumeration (the difficulty of deciding the number of discrete senses), due to systematic polysemy; and multiple reference (NP's denoting more than one model-theoretic referent), due to underspecification. Semantic tags that are based on traditional, discrete senses tend to be too fine-grained for practical use. For instance, WordNet has, on the lowest level, around 60,000 different tags (synsets) for nouns alone. The CoreLex approach, on the other hand, offers a concise set of 126 tags that are inherently more coarse-grained, by taking into account systematic polysemy and underspecification. The CoreLex database is freely available for research purposes, including commercial ones. For more information on the database and on the thesis that describes its motivation, construction and use, see the CoreLex webpage: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~paulb/CoreLex/corelex.html ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.D.1. =46r: Joan K Lippincott Re: CIC Launches Z39.50 Project CIC INITIATES LARGE SCALE ASSESSMENT OF Z39.50 APPLICATIONS Champaign, IL, January 8, 1998 A ground-breaking assessment of the implementation and application of the Z39.50 standard across 13 major research libraries is expected to provide critical guidance to information specialists throughout the world. As part of the development of their Virtual Electronic Library initiative, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) has commissioned Mark Hinnebusch, Associate Director for the Florida Center for Library Automation and the Chair of the Z39.50 Implementers Group, to conduct the study. Z39.50 is an American national standard for information retrieval. It is formally known as ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995 - Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification. The standard enables remote querying of databases on remote servers, and is the technical foundation which allows users on any CIC campus to query the library catalogs of all other CIC universities using a standard web browser. "This undertaking by the CIC is an exciting and significant opportunity to prove the ability of Z39.50 to support wide area broadcast information search and retrieval in a large, heavily used consortium," said Hinnebusch. "The success of this venture will be important not just to the CIC but also to the entire information retrieval industry." "Our efforts to implement the Virtual Electronic Library have been successful to date," said Sharon Hogan, University Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Chair of the CIC Library Directors, "but we will not realize the potential for a robust and flexible search utility for our 500,000 faculty, staff, and students without some fine-tuning to our Z39.50 applications." The project will result in a report that will document the Z39.50 situation in each of the CIC research libraries, an articulation, analysis, and description of the most significant problems, a checklist that technical staff can use in defining local attribute sets, and will include a recommendation about how the CIC libraries can generally improve the existing Z39.50-based services to their users. The report and recommendations will be available after May, 1998. Barbara McFadden Allen, Director of the CIC Center for Library Initiatives and Assistant Director of the CIC said, "Our efforts to implement a robust virtual catalog have been hindered by incompatibilities in the implementation of Z39.50 within the various automated systems used by our member libraries, and by similar variances in local indexing and search features. Through this study, we hope to answer many of the questions we have about the application of Z39.50, and influence the marketplace and our libraries to adopt common protocol." The CIC Virtual Electronic Library (VEL) -- a project supported by the United States Department of Education through a $1.2 million Title IIA grant -- aims to deploy a seamless search and request fulfillment system linking together all the information resources within the CIC. =46ounded in 1958, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), with headquarters in Champaign, Illinois, is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago. Member institutions include: the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, Indiana University, the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cooperative ventures at all levels have arisen, giving the CIC a thirty-eight year history of effective voluntary inter-institutional cooperation among these twelve independent universities. For more information about the CIC, consult their web site at http://www.cic.net/cic/. Barbara McFadden Allen Director, CIC Center for Library Initiatives, and Assistant Director of the CIC Committee on Institutional Cooperation 302 E. John / Suite 1705 / Champaign IL, 61820 Phone: (217) 333-8475 / Fax: (217) 244-7127 / Email: bmallen@uiuc.edu CIC Web Space: http://www.cic.net/cic/ ********** IV.D.2. =46r: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF/CISE/IIS Proposal Submission Target Date: 2/15/98 Please note that the upcoming proposal submission target date for all programs in the Division of Information and Intelligence Systems (IIS) [formerly "Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems"] is missing in the NSF Bulletin, January 1998, Vol. 25, No. 5 (http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?bul9801). IIS Programs (http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/): Computation and Social Systems (CSS) [formerly "Information Technology and Organizations"] Information and Data Management (IDM) [formerly "Database and Expert Systems"] Human Computer Interaction (HCI) [formerly "Interactive Systems"] Knowledge and Cognitive Systems (KCS) [formerly "Knowledge Models and Cognitive Systems" Robotics and Human Augmentation (RHA) [formerly "Robotics and Machine Intelligence Program"] Special Projects (SP) [New home of the Digital Libraries Initiative, and additional cross-divisional activities] have an upcoming proposal submission target date of Feb. 15, 1998. Yes, Feb. 15, 1998 is Sunday, but a target date is not a deadline! Proposals should be submitted close to the target date, i.e., within 2 weeks before or after the target date. The proposal review panels are coordinated with the target dates. Submitting proposals outside of the target date windows may result in processing delays. IIS Division has two target dates per year, Feb. 15 and Sept. 15, until further notice. (For more information, please see http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/targets.html). I am pleased to announce that the Division of Information and Intelligence Systems now has a new Division Director, Dr. Michael Lesk (see http://community.bellcore.com:80/lesk/, as our Web page did not get updated yet.) The January issue of the NSF Bulletin provides useful information on the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate reorganization and proposal deadlines or target dates in other NSF programs. To learn more about the CISE reorganization, please see http://www.cise.nsf.gov/ ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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