Information Retrieval List Digest 409 (June 8, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-409.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 8, 1998 Volume XV, Number 23 Issue 409 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. UMLS for LCSH 2. Response to UMLS for LCSH II. JOBS 1. U. Albany: Assistant Director, Technical Services & Systems 2. MITRE, Massachusetts: Library Systems Analyst III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Reminder of DFP Deadline: Information Retrieval B. Meetings 1. CaNew'98 - Call for Papers 2. BISCA-98 3. COMPUTERM Workshop at COLING-ACL'98 4. CIA98 IV. PROJECTS D. Research 1. NSF Digital Government Program Announcement ****************************************************************** I.QUERIES I.2. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: UMLS for LCSH UMLS for LCSH I am greatly interested in learning about any current or pending research that seeks to apply the Unified Medical Language System [UMLS] model for the creation of knowledge-bases and metathesaurus for Medical Vocabularie= s to the Library of Congress Subject Headings, or other controlled vocabularies. The UMLS was initiated more than ten years by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to enhance access to biomedical literature. As part of this effort, a "Metathesaurus" was created to integrate several medical vocabularies. The "Metathesaurus" "is organized by concept or meaning. Alternate names for the same concept (synonyms, lexical variants, and translations) are linked together. Each Metathesaurus concept has attributes that help to define its meaning, e.g., the semantic type(s) or categories to which it belongs, its position in the hierarchical contexts from various source vocabularies, and, for many concepts, a definition. A number of relationships between different concepts are represented. Some of these relationships are derived from the source vocabularies; others are create= d during the construction of the Metathesaurus. Most inter-concept relationships in the Metathesaurus link concepts that are similar along some dimension. The Metathesaurus also includes use information, includin= g the names of selected databases in which the concept appears, and, for MeSH=AE terms, information about the qualifiers that have been applied to= the terms in MEDLINE=AE. Information on the co-occurrence of concepts in MEDL= INE and in some other information sources is also included." Additional information the "Metathesaurus" is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umlsmeta.html Background information about the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project as well as other part of the UMLS effort is accessible from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umls.html The free Internet Grateful Med [Yep, Grateful _Med_] [http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/] makes uses of the Metathesaurus for the Medlin= e dfatabase as does OMNI, the e-Lib Web clearinghouse of Medical Web resources [http://omni.library.nottingham.ac.uk/umls/] In addition to learning about formal actual or planned applications of the UMLS model to LCSH (or a segment of LCSH), I would also appreciate hearing speculation about the possibilities of such an application to the LCSH domain. As Always, Any and All citations, sources, contributions, critiques, questions, concerns, comments, or queries are Most Welcome! Joy! Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ ********** I.2. Fr: Marcia J. Bates Re: Response to UMLS/LCSH Gerry and any interested others, In response to your query regarding UMLS and LCSH, I proposed clustering related terms to aid searchers in retrieval as long ago as 1985 in print. The easiest-to-access article of mine on this is "Subject Access in Onlin= e Catalogs: A Design Model," in Journal of ASIS Nov. 1986. NLM has been developing UMLS on formal linguistic principles. I've been more intereste= d in discovering empirically what helps people in searching in practice. Th= e way our minds work in practice is not necessarily along lines of formal linguistic relationships--though that can be one way to help people. I urged giving people a lot of different ways to identify terms and topics for searching. As a consultant, I subsequently designed and oversaw the development of a real system based on these principles that was implemented at the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power for their multi-million item automated records management system, and its10,000 staff members The design of the search interface and thesaurus is described in close to its final form in= a Proceedings of ASIS article in the 1990 volume. California's disastrous early-90's depression precluded formal testing of the system. The DWP had huge cutbacks and I had to stop being a researcher for a while and become Chair of my Dept. at UCLA. Finally, and most relevant to your query, the (then) Council on Library Resources in Washington, DC gave me a grant to apply these ideas to LCSH = in 1994. The report from that project is called "Expanded Entry Vocabulary f= or the Library of Congress Subject Headings: Final Report," July 1994. CLIR should have copies; if not, I can provide them. Marcia Marcia J. Bates Professor 230 GSE&IS Building Dept. of Information Studies Graduate School of Education and Information Studies University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 USA Tel.: 310-206-9353 Fax: 310-206-4460 Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/facpage/bates.html ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Roger D. Gifford Re: U. Albany: Assistant Director, Technical Services & Systems POSITION: Assistant Director for Technical Services & Systems RESPONSIBILITIES: The Assistant Director for Technical Services and Syste= ms leads and administers the Technical Services Division, which consists of the following departments: Acquisitions; Cataloging; Database Maintenance= , Processing and Bindery; and Library Systems. Responsibilities include coordination to ensure the overall operational effectiveness of the division, planning, policy and budget development, fiscal management, and supervision of staff. The Assistant Director works in a collaborative mod= e with a team-centered approach to problem solving. As a member of the seni= or administrative group, the Assistant Director shares responsibility for developing and implementing the mission and goals and broad policy directions of the University Libraries and coordinating initiatives with other Assistant Directors and library managers. The Assistant Director participates in leading the dynamic process of change in the transition t= o the digital library in a networked research environment. Reports to the Dean and Director of Libraries. Research, publication and service to the Libraries, university and profession are expected to satisfy criteria for continuing appointment and promotion. QUALIFICATIONS: Graduate degree in librarianship from an ALA-accredited institution or foreign equivalent. Minimum of five years of providing successful leadership in progressively more demanding technical services management roles in research libraries. Must have broad knowledge and proven expertise in technical services operations in a medium or large research library. Must have thorough knowledge of library systems applications. Must demonstrate a vision for providing information service= s in a research environment that is responsive to current trends and anticipates future needs. Must demonstrate strong leadership, analytical, interpersonal, communication and supervisory skills, and an ability to manage change. Highly desirable: experience planning and administering library-wide information systems and related technology. SALARY: From $52,000, plus administrative stipend. Commensurate with education and experience. TERMS & BENEFITS: Twelve month appointment; sick leave and annual leave @ 1.25 days each per month; health insurance, major medical or Health Maintenance Organization. Social Security coverage. TIAA/CREF or New York State Teachers Retirement available (employee contribution rate =3D 3%). APPLY TO: Christine M. Travis Library Personnel Officer University Libraries - UL-112 University at Albany State University of New York 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222 DEADLINE: Review of letters of application and resumes will begin June 20= , 1998. Please include the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references that may be contacted. THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLO= YER ********** II.2. Fr: Susan A. Glenn Re: MITRE, Massachusetts: Library Systems Analyst Job Title: Library Systems Analyst (PEP 7) Description: Coordinates planning, implementation and maintenance of automated library applications and systems including: integrated on-line library systems, Web-based interfaces, text-retrieval systems, CD-ROM and optical systems, and records management systems. Gathers requirements for enhancements as well as new systems, analyzes options, evaluates COTS products, implements chosen solutions, arranges for on-going maintenance, and provides training to users. Demonstrates a high degree of independent judgment and initiative. Possesses strong leadership abilities, excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with MITRE's technical and management staff in addition to professional contacts outside of MITR= E. Demonstrated analytical abilities are required. Education/Experience Required: Graduate degree in library, information science, or computer sciences. Experience or education in information systems management and systems analysis. Three to five years experience with library services or information systems required. Request Number: R103-150(B) For more information about the MITRE Corporation view the web site at: http://www-i.mitre.org Send Resumes to: The MITRE Corporation Office of Human Resources P. O. Box 0857 Bedford, MA 01730-0857 Email: jobs@mitre.org (ASCII text only) FAX: (781)271-3402 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: K.L.Kwok Re: Reminder of DFP Deadline: Information Retrieval We like to remind potential authors of the approaching deadline of June 3= 0, 1998 for the following CFP. Thank you. Journal: Information Retrieval Editors: Paul Kantor and Stephen Robertson Call-for-Paper of Special Issue: "Connectionism, Genetic Algorithms and Regression Techniques for IR" Guest Editors: Norbert Fuhr and Kui Lam Kwok In Artificial Intelligence, the competition between 'hard' symbolic, firs= t order logic based methods and 'soft' connectionist approaches to problems involving intelligent behavior is well-known. To a lesser extent, such a scenario has also been played out in the field of Information Retrieval (IR) between the the classical, well founded models and more heuristic ranking strategies. Soft approaches such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, regression techniques, etc. have strengths of flexibility, robustness and tolerance = of imprecision that are well recognized. In real-world commercial web searching or TREC large-scale IR experiments, statistical approaches are also found to be preferable. It is therefore of interest to see how the state-of-the-art soft computing techniques may be applicable to the conce= pt formation and matching problems in IR. Such then is the essence of this special issue call. Soft computing is a rapidly expanding field encompassing not only those disciplines mentioned before, but also important topics such as fuzzy log= ic and approximate reasoning, machine learning, belief propagation, and others. In order to limit the scope for this particular issue however, we have decided to focus on the topics as given in the title. Other related approaches may well be subjects of future issues. To borrow a page from the objectives of this journal, we list some soft computing methodologies that may be applicable to some IR tasks. We seek original papers - theoretical, experimental or practical - that deal with the intersection of these non- exhaustive lists of topics. Methodologies in Neural Network include but are not limited to: network models and architecture; feedforward or recurrent propagation modes; network learning - supervised or unsupervised and varied learning algorithms; objective functions, gradient descent and other optimization. Methodologies in Genetic Algorithms include but are not limited to: codin= g schemes; genetic operators; fitness functions, their derivative-free optimization, including other methods such as simulated annealing, random searching, evolutionary strategies. Regression methodologies include but are not limited to: model functions, parametrization, interpolation, error minimization. We prefer contributions which are applicable to at least reasonable-sized collectio= ns of texts. In addition, methods of scaling-up these various techniques including but not limited to parallel, distributed computation to handle very large, real-word IR environments will be of particular interest. IR tasks of interest include but are not limited to: retrieval modes such as ad-hoc, routing, filtering, document classification; representation issues such as optimal feature selection and weighting; issues in trainin= g such as learning from judged (relevance feedback) or unjudged items, positive or negative, sampling of items for training, generalization problems; optimal combination of representations or retrieval; correspondence of evaluation measures in IR and objective functions; term and document clustering or categorization, collection structural discover= y for retrieval, display, interaction or summarization. Submission Deadline: June 30, 1998 COMPLETE submission information can be found at http://www.wkap.nl/journals/ir Authors should submit six hard copies of their final manuscript to: Karen S. Cullen Information Revtrieval - Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park Norwell, Massachusetts 02061 U.S.A. Phone: 781-871-6600 Fax: 781-878-0449 E-mail: Karen @wkap.com ********** III.B.1. Fr: Joao Balsa da Silva Re: CaNew'98 - Call for Papers Call for Workshop Submissions/Participation CaNew'98: Causal Networks: from inference to data mining 3 October, 1998 A workshop held in conjunction with the sixth biennial Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence IBERAMIA'98 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ci=EAncias Sociais e HumanasOctober 5-9, 1998, Lisbon, Portu= gal. kindly supported by ACIA Workshop Information * What the Workshop is About * Instructions for Participants * Instruction for Submissions * Workshop Committee * Important Dates * Address for Submisssions and Further Information WHAT THE WORKSHOP IS ABOUT: Causality has a natural representation in the form of Directed Acyclic Graphs. Causal associations have been represente= d in the framework of Bayesian Networks and Possibilistic Causal Networks a= nd also by means of special logics. There is a growing interest both in defining more precisely the causal semantics equivalences of the existing representations as well as in developing efficient methods for reasoning and learning that could be used in practical applications. The workshop will focus on several topics on this area, basically in properties of causal networks related to inference and learning methods. Participants are encouraged to submit descriptions of work in progress specially in the areas of learning and practical application but not limited to these ones. Topics: * Properties and expressiveness of causal networks o Conditional Independency relationships in causal networks o Relation to other causal formalizations + Causal theories + Default Logics o Expression in other formalisms * Learning methods o Identifying Causal Parameters o Dependence-based methods o Information-based methods o Hybrid methods o Comparative studies * Practical applications o Scaling up to large volumes of data o Data Mining o Applications to industry and services INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS: All workshop participants must register bo= th for the main IBERAMIA'98 conference and the workshop itself. We expect the number of participants to be around 20, and attendance will not be limited to active participants. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Interested authors may submit papers (max. = 12 pages) addressing issues that are clearly relevant to the workshop theme, including an additional brief (max. 1 page) description of their ongoing research projects as well as applications in the area. Also, authors planning to submit a contribution must contact as soon as possible to the Workshop Organizing Committee by e-mail. A provisional title must be provided. Authors should send a copy of their original manuscript to Workshop Organizing Committee by June 10, 1998. The length of each manuscript including figures should be limited to 12 pages typed double-spaced using font size 12. Each manuscript should start with an abstract of no more th= an 150 words and should include a list of five keywords. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two referees. Following the recommendations by the reviewers, authors of accepted papers will prepare= a presentation. Presentations will be grouped into sections to foster focused discussions. The workshop schedule will provide time for specific discussions directly after each presentation as well as for extended more general exchange of ideas between presentations and sessions. Some of the attendees will be asked to serve as session commentators who summarize an= d critically reflect on the presentations of a session. In addition to the camera ready paper for the Workshop Notes that will be distributed at the workshop, authors must prepare electronic versions of their papers to be made available prior to the workshop. The Workshop Proceedings will be published as a special issue of a releva= nt publication after the conference. In this case, authors will have the opportunity to revise and extend their contributions. IMPORTANT DATES: * June 10, 1998 Deadline for submission of papers * July 8, 1998 Authors notification of acceptance/rejection * July 15, 1998 Publication of final workshop program * September 8, 1998 Final revised camera-ready papers * October 3, 1998 Workshop at IBERAMIA 98 ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Proposals should be submitted via surface mail or electronically (in UNIX compatible postscript, html, or RTF) to Ulises Cort=E9s, at following address: Ulises Cort=E9s Dept. of Software Technical University of Catalonia Campus Nord-Edifici C5 C. Jordi Girona 1-3 08034 Barcelona Catalonia, Spain Tel.: + 34 3 401 70 16 Fax: + 34 3 401 70 14 e-mail: ia@lsi.upc.es Further information on IBERAMIA'98 is available at the IBERAMIA98 Homepag= e: http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/ The URL of this Workshop Homepage will be: http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/canew.html There exists a text and PostScript of this call. ********** III.B.2. Fr: Roberto Poli Re: BISCA-98 BISCA-98 Bolzano International School in Cognitive Analysis UNFOLDING PERCEPTUAL CONTINUA From ecology of perception to cognition Recent problems raised by artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences such as the perception of forms, the recognition of natural languages, th= e problems of common sense, na=EFve physics, and consequently the need for direct and non-propositional reference to the objects of experience (as cited, for example by scientists working in robotics) have opened new are= as of inquiry for psychophysics. BISCA-98 will analyze the morphogenesis of the perceptive fields of visio= n, sound and touch, starting from the microstructure of intuitive continua, and therefore from a semiology of primitives as boundaries, points, angle= s, blobs, pointers, denotators, local signs, etc. The lectures, which from a general point of view will adopt an ecological perspective on perception, will proceed along the parallel tracks of psychophysical experimental research and the conceptual development of a theory of the intentionality of consciousness Speakers of BISCA 1998 are: LILIANA ALBERTAZZI, The experimental phenomenology standpoint JAN J. KOENDERINCK, Multiply extended continua in vision GUERINO MAZZOLA, Grouping paradigms in music RUGGERO PIERANTONI, Sensory perception: touch and cognition GENERAL INFORMATION: 1. Attendance to the school will be limited to about 30 participants. 2. A hotel list will be sent upon notification of acceptance. Hotel costs in Bolzano range between 70,000 and 250,000 Italian Liras per day, full board. 3. Each speaker will give 4 lectures, with ample time for discussion. 4. All lectures will be in English. 5. A small number of boursaries are available to qualified students to meet the costs of participation. For more information write to Liliana Albertazzi: alberta@risc1.gelso.unitn.it and see the IMC web site: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm ********** III.B.3. Fr: Christian Jacquemin Re: COMPUTERM Workshop at COLING-ACL'98 ANNOUNCEMENT and PROGRAMME COMPUTERM'98 Workshop announcement First Workshop on Computational Terminology August 15, 1998 (just after COLING-ACL98) WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~lhommem/coling/computerm.html mailto: db@lli.univ-paris13.fr,jacquemin@limsi.fr,lhommem@ere.umontreal.ca CONTEXT: The workshop provides a forum to bring together researchers from the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in computational aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. REGISTRATION: The number of participants to the workshop is limited. It i= s advisable to pre-register as soon as possible: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Fees.html ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (TRAVEL, ACCOMODATION, TOURISM...): See the COLING-ACL98 conference main page at: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MainPage.html PAPER PRESENTATION SCHEDULE: (Preliminary) Opening address David Hull: "A practical approach to terminology alignmen= t" Akiko N. Aizawa, Kyo Kageura: "An approach to the automatic generation of multilingual keywords clusters" Ralf Brown: "Automatically-extracted thesauri for cross-language IR: When better is worse" First poster session Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan: "Building a prototype system for trends survey in= a knowledge extraction program" Anne Condamines, Josette Reyberolle "CTKB : A corpus-based approach to a terminological knowledge base" Toru Hisamitsu; Yoshiki Niwa: "Extraction of useful terms from parenthetical expressions by using simple rules and statistical measures = -- a comparative evaluation of bigram statistics" Paul Bowden, Lindsay Evett, Peter Halstead "Automatic acronym acquisition in a knowledge extraction program" Laura Davidson, Judy Kavanagh, Kristen Mackintosh, Ingrid Meyer, Douglas Skuce: "Semi-automaticextraction of knowledge-rich contexts from corpora: examples and issues" Second poster session Dekang Lin: "Extracting collocations from text corpora" Hiroshi Nakagawa, Tatsunori Mori: "Nested collocation and compound noun f= or term extraction" POSTERS: (Preliminary) Lee-Feng Chen, Min-Chan Chen, Chun-Liang Chen, Bo-Ren Bai: "Internet-base= d Chinese text corpus classification and domain-specific keyterm extraction= " Hongyan Jing, Evelyne Tzoukerman: "Improving retrieval with semantics and morphology" Kyo Kageura, Masaharu Yoshioka, Teruo Koyama, Toshihiko Nozue: "Towards a common testbed for corpus-based computational terminology" Diana Maynard, Sofia Ananiadou: "Acquiring contextual information for ter= m disambiguation" Michael P. Oakes, Chris D. Paice: "Term extraction for automatic abstract= ing" Antje Schmidt-Wigger: "Building consistent terminologies" Hinrich Schuetze: "HyperConDex -- A hypertext concordance as a back-of-the-rule index" ********** III.B.4. Fr: Gerhard Weiss Re: CIA98 Call for Registration & Participation 2nd International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA-98) Learning, Mobility, and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery in the Internet July 4 - 7, 1998, at Agents' World, in Paris, France http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia98.html Registration for CIA-98 workshop at Agents' World Conference: http://goma.univ-paris13.fr/AgentsWorld/regis.html Co-Sponsors of CIA-98 workshop: DAIMLER-BENZ AG, Stuttgart, Germany. George Mason University, Fairfax VA, USA. SATURDAY, JULY 4th Welcome Session 1: Cooperative Information Agents Systems and Applications Invited Contribution: What can Agents do in Industry, and Why? An Overview of Industrially-Oriented R&D at ITI CEC, Van Parunak, Scientific Fellow, ITI (USA) Invited Contribution: The InfoSleuth Agent System, Marian Nodine, MCC Corp. (USA) Invited Contribution: The Dynamics of the UMDL Service Market Society, Edmund Durfee, University of Michigan (USA) Agents for Hypermedia Information Discovery, V.S. Lazarou, K. Clark, Imperial College, London (UK) Trafficopter: A Distributed Collection System for Traffic Information, A. Moukas, P. Maes, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge (USA), K. Chandrinos, FORTH, Heraclion (Greece) Agent-Supported Information Retrieval for Tracking and Tracing, D. Deschner, O. Hofmann, S. Reinheimer, F. Bodendorf, University of Erlangen (Germany) Invited Contribution: Intelligent Agents for Web-based Information and Process Management Jrg P. Mller, Zuno Ltd., London (UK) SUNDAY, JULY 5th Session 2 Cooperative Information Agents Issues of Design, Querying and Communication Invited Contribution: Inducing Cooperation Among Information Systems, Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Florida, Gainesville (USA) Strategies for Querying Information Agents, P. Chalasani, S. Jha, O. Shehory, K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA) Invited Contribution: Toward Cross-Cultural Communication for Socially Intelligent Agents, Takashi Kido, NTT R&D Department (Japan) Session 3 Rational Collaboration and Electronic Commerce Cooperative vs. Competitive Multi-Agent Negotiations in Retail Electronic Commerce, R. Guttman, P. Maes, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge (USA) Enhancing Mobile Agents with Electronic Commerce Capabilities, H. Vogler, M.-L. Moschgarth, T. Kunkelmann, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) Dynamics of an Information-Filtering Economy, J.O. Kephart, J.E. Hanson, D.W. Levine, B.N. Grosof, J. Sairamesh, R.B. Segal, S. White, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York (USA) Open Discussion: "Electronic Commerce and Rational Information Agents - Challenges and Risks for Users and/or Vendors?'' MONDAY, JULY 6th Session 4 Adaptive and Collaborative Information Gathering Invited Contribution: Levels of Adaptation in Systems of Coordinating Information Agents, Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA) Invited Contribution: Adaptive Choice of Information Sources, Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa (USA) Agent Mediated Collaborative Web Page Filtering, S. Green, P. Cunningham, Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland), F.Somers, Broadcom Eireann Dublin (Ireland) Content-based Collaborative Information Filtering, Joaquin Delgado, Naohiro Ishii, Tomoki Ura, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan) Domain Experts for Information Retrieval in the World Wide Web, W. Theilmann, K. Rothermel, University of Stuttgart (Germany) Semantic Navigation Maps for Information Agents, W. Benn, O. Grlitz, Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany) TUESDAY, JULY 7th Invited Contribution: Multiagent Systems in Information-Rich Environments, Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina (USA), Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University (USA) Session 5 Mobile Information Agents in the Internet Invited Contribution: On Coordinating Information Agents and Mobility, Robert Tolksdorf, Technical University of Berlin (Germany) Mobile Information Agents on the Web, A. Gehrmeyr, Corporate Technology Siemens AG, Munich (Germany), J. Mller, Technical University of Freiberg (Germany), A. Schappert, Public Networks Siemens AG, Munich (Germany) Melding Abstractions with Mobile Agents, A. Corradi, M. Cremonini, C. Stefanelli, Universita di Bologna (Italy) Data-Security in Heterogeneous Agent Systems, P. Bonatti, Universa di Torino (Italy), S. Kraus, Bar-Ilan University (Israel), J. Salinas, Army Research Lab (USA), V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland (USA) Open Discussion: ''The Future of Adaptive and Mobile Information Agents - Travelling Bandits on the Information Highway, or Powerful Information Providers?'' ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.D.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF Digital Government Program Announcement: deadline 9/1/98 NEW!!! Program Announcement - Digital Government - NSF98-121 http://www.cise.nsf.gov/eia/DGProgAnnounce.html. National Science Foundation DIRECTORATE FOR COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DIVISION OF EXPERIMENTAL AND INTEGRATIVE ACTIVITIES DEADLINE: September 1 1998, March 1 each year thereafter Lawrence E. Brandt Program Director for Digital Government Division of Experimental and Integrative Activities, Suite 1160 National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington VA 22230 Phone - 703/306-1981 Fax - 703/306-0589 Internet - lbrandt@nsf.gov Home page - http://www.cise.nsf.gov/eia/staff/lbrandt/index.html NOTE: The Digital Government program provides "an immediate opportunity f= or the broad connection of information services providers and research communities", and I'd like to encourage you to get involved. I highly recommend your looking at the report "Toward a Digital Governmen= t in the 21st Century", by Herbert Schorr and Salvatore J. Stolfo (http://www.isi.edu/nsf/) that is referred to in the Digital Government program annoucement, as it provides good "pointers" and "triggers". ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests and submissions to: nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Editorial Staff: Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous FTP via the host ftp.cdl.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). Search or browse archived IR-L Digest issues on the Web at: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/irlist/ These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. Contact Nancy Gusack for more information on IRLIST. 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