Information Retrieval List Digest 413 (July 7, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-413.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 July 7, 1998 Volume XV, Number 26 Issue 413 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. U. College, Dublin: LIS Lectureship 2. Catholic U.: Faculty Position: LIS III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. FARNET's Washington Update 6/23/98 2. IJEM: Call for Papers: Converging Media/Insurance and Electronic Commerce B. Meetings 1. TKE '99 - 2nd Call for Papers 2. Mid Year '99 Call for Participation 3. NLP+IA 98 /TAL+AI 98 Registration Information C. Miscellaneous 1. MSc Courses on Neural Networks, Natural language processing, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Engineering, CBR, Retrieval, and more IV. PROJECTS D. Research 1. NSF/CISE US-Brazil Collaborative Research ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Mary A. Burke Re: U. College, Dublin: LIS Lectureship UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Department of Library and Information Studies ASSISTANT LECTURER Permanent Post (Ref: 100/98) Applications are invited for the above full-time permanent post. The appointee will be required to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduat= e teaching on a range of Library and Information Studies programmes. The successful applicant should have a research track record which is commensurate with age and experience and the motivation to continue this research. Experience on the staff of a library or information agency is also desirable. Applications will be considered from candidates with expertise within a broad definition of Library and Information Studies. The following areas = of specialisation are particularly welcome: Cataloguing and databases Electronic library systems Information resources Information technology Library management Subject classification and indexing. The appointment will be made at the level of Assistant Lecturer. The current salary scale is: IR=A315,628 - IR=A325,223 (permanent - new e= ntrants) Entry point on the scale will be in accordance with qualifications and experience. Closing date: Not later than 5.00 p.m. on Thursday, 23 July 1998. Prior to application, further information (including application procedur= e) should be obtained from the Personnel Office, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (quoting above reference number). Telephone enquiries: (353 1) 706 1645 and (353 1) 706 1436. Fax: (353 1) 269 2472. Email: acadrec@listserv.hea.ie Further details about the Department of Library and Information Studies are available at http://www.ucd.ie/~lis UCD is an equal opportunities employer ********** II.2. Fr: HSIEHYEE@CUA.EDU Re: Catholic U.: Faculty Position: LIS Faculty Position Announcement School of Library and Information Science Catholic University of America The Catholic University of America, located in Washington, DC, seeks a full-time tenure track faculty member for the ALA-accredited School of Library and Information Science. Candidates for this position will have expertise and experience in the development, organization, and management of special collections. Emphasi= s on one or more of the following areas is preferred: film, sound recording= , video, map, print, photo, and electronic resources; rare books; manuscripts; and archival documents. Candidates should be knowledgeable about the application of the latest technology to all aspects of collections. The successful candidate will teach in the core curriculum a= nd other courses that relate to collections. The ability to carry out a research and publication agenda, a commitment = to teaching, the potential for leadership in professional and scholarly organizations, and the desire to work with a collegial community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni are necessary. Requirements for consideration include an earned doctorate in library/information science = or related specialty as well as an MLS and/or substantial experience in libraries, archives, or other information service environments. The School, which grants the Master of Science in Library Science, serves 300 full- and part-time students on the Washington campus, at the Library of Congress, and at three sites in Virginia. The Catholic University of America is sponsored by the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States a= s a national university and center of instruction and research. Members and associates of the faculties are expected to respect the religious commitment and mission of the University and to be supportive of its aims and ideals, whatever their personal religious backgrounds and affiliation= s might be. The University's faculties are composed of teachers from divers= e backgrounds and religious traditions. The Catholic University of America has affirmative action, equal opportunity, and no smoking in the workplac= e policies. Appointment will be at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Appointment is for 8-1/2 months, with additional contracts available for summer teaching. For consideration, submit a letter, curriculum vita, research agenda, and names of three references to Elizabeth S. Aversa, Dean, School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University = of America, Washington, DC 20064 or fax materials to 202-319- 5574. Review o= f applications will begin immediately and continue until the vacancy is filled. Members of the School's Committee on Appointments and Promotions invite inquiries at the upcoming conferences of ALA, SLA, and AALL and wi= ll arrange to meet interested parties at the conference locations. Please contact the Dean's assistant at 202-319-5085 in advance of the conference to make an appointment. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Garret Sern Re: FARNET's Washington Update 6/23/98 FARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JUNE 23, 1998 FARNET (http://www.farnet.org) is a non-profit public interest Internetworking organization with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. IN THIS ISSUE: House Commerce Subcommittee approves WIPO legislation with amendments; further details to be worked out before full Committee markup House Judiciary Committee approves 3-year moratorium on Internat taxes; floor vote expected soon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CN= I) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Upda= te or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Ser= n at garret@farnet.org. ********** III.A.2. Fr: Dorian Selz Re: IJEM: Call for Papers: Converging Media/Insurance and Electronic Commerce Electronic Markets is a key forum for advancing the understanding and practice of electronic markets and commerce (http://www.electronicmarkets.org/). The fourth issue of 1998 (Vol.8 - No.4) will be dedicated to two topics: Converging Media and Insurance and Electronic Commerce. A recent study by the U.S. Departement of Commerce on the Emerging Digita= l Economy shows that investments in IT now represents over 45 percent of al= l business equipment investment. This clearly shows that the Digital Age is not a fiction of the IT-Industry anymore. Electronic Commerce has in fact become a natural way of doing business for many companies. This is especially true in two industries: Media and Insurance. MEDIA CONVERGENCE: Some 3000 Newspapers have online businesses today, 800 TV stations in the U.S. alone make use of a web site. In the upcoming iss= ue of IJEM we would like to adress some of the issues related to the phenomenon of Media Convergence. General Aspects: - what are the drivers behind the development? - what implications does it have on traditional media? - who will be the winners/losers? - where is the industry headed? Business Aspects: - how to make the new media profitable. - canibalization of your own existing media. - an opportunity for effective advertising? Process Aspects: - In which way does the new medium alter the means of information distribution? - Have the media just converged or has there been a fusion to create something entirely new? Transaction Aspects: - which systems of IT are specific for the new field? - how can can payment systems be integrated in the converged media? INSURANCE AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: "Banking is essential, banks are not" = is a famous quote by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The same could be said about Insurances. A study by Forrester Research states that Internet sale= s of personal Insurance will grow from today's $39.1 M to a projected $1.1 = B in 2001, changing the way insurance is seen today. Again, we are aiming at discussing the implications of EC on the insuranc= e industry looking at it from different angles: General Aspects: - Is the insurance industry prepared to take on the challenge? - Will IT fuel competition in the insurance industry? Business Aspects: - does the current legal system provide a sufficient frame work for insurance based on EC? - what effect will EC have on premiums? Process Aspects: - Is Internet a possibility on having a closer client/insurer- relationship? Papers which deal with more than one of these or other topics are more th= an welcome. We understand that you are engaged in some of the issues stated above. We would therefore like to encourage your contribution to The International Journal of Electronic Markets. Your experience in both research and work should provide our readers with interesting insights on these rapidly changing industries. Your article should be of a maximum length of about 5 A4 sized pages, including figures, tables, references, etc. (ca. 2000- 2500 words). It should include a brief description of yourself and your current research focus / work package. The deadline for submissions will be September 15, 1998. The issue will b= e published in late November. Check our Website at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/ section Contributo= rs for further details. I annexed a brief introduction to the Journal. Please feel free to contac= t me anytime to answer your questions. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Best regards, Dorian Selz Executive Editor ********** III.B.1. Fr: Peter Sandrini Re: TKE '99 - 2nd Call for Papers Second Call for Papers TKE '99 Multimedia and Content for a New Millennium 5th International Congress on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Innsbruck (Austria) 24-28 August 1999 organized by Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW) International Information Centre for Terminology (Infoterm) International Network for Terminology (TermNet) OBJECTIVES OF THE CONGRESS: On behalf of the Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer - Gesellschaft f=FCr Terminologie und Wissenstrans= fer (GTW) we are pleased to announce the 5th International Congress on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering TKE '99 which will be held on the campus of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, between 24-28 August 1999. In continuation of the first four TKE Congresses in Trier (1987 and 1990)= , Cologne (1993) and Vienna (1996), TKE'99 will address world-wide interest= s in the interdisciplinary methods of Terminology Science, Information Science and Computer Science. It should furthermore help to achieve the "universal availability of information and knowledge" via computerized methods, multimedia content-oriented net applications and other tools, op= en new horizons for more efficient applications based upon this integration = of methodologies and elicit the interest and participation of experts workin= g in the fields that are gradually drawing nearer from the point of theory and methodology such as * Terminology research * Knowledge engineering * Language engineering * Computational philosophy * Classification theory * Information & documentation * Computer-assisted instruction/learning * Computerized terminography * Specialized translation * Technical writing. We welcome submissions of papers describing substantial, original and unpublished research contributions in these fields. TKE '99 will be divid= ed into 8 sections concentrating on the following areas of research: * Knowledge Theory and Terminology * Knowledge Data Management * Multimedia and Content * Language Engineering and Terminology * Documentation and Terminology * World Wide Web and Terminology * Multilingualism and Terminology * Specialist Communication and Terminology. Authors will be asked to identify the sections to which their submissions correspond. Contributions that do not fall into any of the above areas bu= t are nevertheless relevant to the field are also welcome. The working language of the Congress is English. This refers to the written contributions as well as to their oral presentations. Authors are asked t= o provide an abstract (approx. 2 pages) of their papers to the programme organizer (Peter Sandrini, Innsbruck) by 15 October 1998 at the latest. T= he title page is to show the title of the paper, the author's name, address, phone number and fax number, and the section to which he/she is planning = to contribute. The abstracts should be sent preferably by e-mail (a submissi= on form is available on the TKE home page: http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at), by ma= il (4 copies) or by fax. Abstracts undergo a reviewing process carried out b= y the Programming Committee and the section organizers. By the end of November 1998 the authors will be informed about the acceptance of their papers. There will be time until February 1999 to submit a full paper in = A4 camera-ready format and on floppy disk (approx. 10 pages for the session papers and 15 pages for the keynotes), which will be processed for publication in the proceedings and printed prior to the Congress. The proceedings will be available for the participants at the beginning of th= e Congress. WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS: Proposals for Workshops and/or tutorials within the framework of the Congress are welcomed and should be sent as soon as possible to the programme organizer. DEADLINES: Abstracts 15 October 1998 Reviewing process November 1998 Acceptance of the papers December 1998 Full papers 15 February 1998 Deadline for cheaper registration 30 June 1999 Congress 24 - 26 August 1999 Workshops/Tutorials 7 - 28 August 1999 Please send your submissions by - Email to Peter.Sandrini@uibk.ac.at - Web form at http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at - mail to the address of the GTW - fax to 0043 512 507 2966 ********** III.B.2. Fr: Richard Hill Re: Mid Year '99 Call for Participation Call for Participation EVALUATING AND USING NETWORKED INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES ASIS 1999 Mid-Year Conference May 24 -26, 1999, Pasadena, California Program Chairs: Charles McClure, Syracuse University. cmcclure@mailbox.syr.edu John Carlo Bertot, State University of New York at Albany. jcbertot@cnsunix.albany.edu Access to and use of networked information resources and services over th= e Internet continues to explode with new and innovative applications as wel= l as in new and unforeseen applications. The development and provision of these innovative services is hindered by our limited knowledge of users a= nd uses of networks, as well as by the lack of ongoing evaluation and assessment of networked resources. To a large degree, there is limited knowledge about users and uses of the network, nor is there much ongoing evaluation and assessment of networked information services and resources. Thus, the primary goals of the conference are to: * Identify what we know and don't know about use and evaluation of networked resources and services. * Propose strategies to improve our knowledge about use and evaluation of networked resources and services. * Provide a forum for attendees to share their knowledge, offer viewpoints, and debate differen= t opinions regarding the use and evaluation of networked resources and services. Together, the increased use and provision of networks and networked information services, creates the need for understanding the dimensions o= f electronic networks and the information services provided over such networks. This conference concentrates on exploring the various aspects o= f electronic network and networked information services to begin to develop the means through which to measure, assess, and classify electronic networking activities. We invite papers on a variety of topics broadly related to Evaluating and Using Networked Information Resources and Services, including (but not limited to) the following general topics: * Use * Evaluation * Measuremen= t * Theory * Technology * Social Implications and Impacts * Education * Policy. We encourage submissions across the commercial, public, academic, and governmental sectors. Further, we encourage submissions from National, organizational, and individual perspectives. While the program committee encourages submissions of empirical studies, we also encourage "opinion pieces," policy analyses, "best practice" reports, and conceptual papers. Persons considering submissions in areas related to, but not specifically mentioned in, the above topics should discuss them with the conference Chairpersons for additional guidance. To offer the most current information to conference attendees, initial submissions will first be comprised of abstracts of no more than 250 word= s and are due November 1, 1998. Practitioners are especially encouraged to submit abstracts and proposals for papers and sessions related to "best practices," case studies, and current activities related to use and evaluation of networked information services and resources. All conference attendees are asked to bring examples of user/use studies, and evaluation efforts that have been conducted in your organization. Other "handouts" that describe efforts to conduct use and user studies and evaluation efforts, data collection techniques and instruments, and other related items are also important information for attendees. Display tables will be made available for conference attendees to provide copies of such information. TYPES OF SUBMISSION: Contributed papers, technical session panels, and other presentations can be developed by individuals , by ASIS Special Interest Group (SIG), by collaboration among two or more SIGs, and/or oth= er organizations and individuals within or outside the ASIS community. To submit a proposal, send the title and a 250 word description, and the oth= er required information (see forms at http://www.asis.org/Conferences/sig-form.html#panels or http://www.asis.org/Conferences/papers.html#infoform) to my99@www.asis.org or to the address below. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged and should be submitted to my99@www.asis.org. If electronic submission is not possible, two paper copies should be sent as follows: Richard Hill ASIS Mid Year 1999 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 ********** III.B.3. Fr: Chadia Moghrabi Re: NLP+IA 98 /TAL+AI 98 Registration Information INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS NLP+IA 98 >>> Special accent on Computer assisted language learning <<< Conference internationale sur le traitement automatique des langues et ses applications industrielles TAL+AI 98 >>> Attention speciale portee a l'enseignement de la langue <<< AUGUST / aout 18-21, 1998 Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: English and French are the official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitt= ed texts. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'etude sur le traitement automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton and GETA-CLIPS in Grenoble. INVITED SPEAKERS: Margaret King: ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland. TALK ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION/Resources et evaluation linguistiques. Thierry Chanier: Universite Franche-Comte, France. Presentation sur le li= en entre l'enseignement de la langue et le TAL/ TALK ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CALL and NLP. MAKE SURE NOT TO MISS THEM...Soyez-la! PAPERS & POSTERS TO BE PRESENTED:(In no special order) Modeles humains dans un systeme multi-agents orientes apprentissage et detection-correction d'erreurs; Jacques Menezo; France Multilingual Lexical Resources for large-scale Text Generation. Cornelia = M. Verspoor, Vicente Uceda and Cecile Paris; Australia Speech and Language Interaction in a (Virtual) Cultural Theatre. A. van Hessen, A. Nijholt, et al.; Netherlands Un syst=E8me d'apprentissage assist=E9 par ordinateur de la g=E9n=E9ratio= n de phrases en Arabe. Riadh ZAAFRANI; France Structuring a network of lexical co-occurrences into topic representation= s by analyzing texts. Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau; France Producing NLP-based On-line Contentware. Francis Wolinski, Frantz Vichot, Olivier Gr=E9mont; France Integration of NLP Tools in an Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning Environment for Basque: IDAZKIDE. Diaz de Ilarraza, A. Maritxala= r, M. Maritxalar & M. Oronoz; Spain Using constraints for suppressing dead ends in grammars. Cyril Garde & Claude Lai; France Improving Tagging Accuracy by Using Voting Taggers L. M=E0rquez, L. Padr=F3= , H. Rodr=EDguez; Catalonia, Spain Translation examples browser: Japanese to English translation aid for new= s articles. Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Tanaka, Noriyoshi Uratani & Terumasa Ehara; Japan A Statistics-based Approach to Chinese Prepositional Phrase Disambiguatio= n. Kam-Fai WONG & Wen-Jie LI; Hong Kong Minori-Fra: Logiciel d'enseignement du Francais en milieu minoritaire. Chadia Moghrabi; Canada SAFRAN-Grammaire. Marie-Josee Hamel & Anne Vandeventer; UK & Suisse Learning Spanish and Catalan verbs Through EuroWordnet. M. Antonia Marti = & Roser Morante; Spain Error Diagnosis for Language Learning Systems. Wolfgang Menzel & Ingo Schroeder; Germany Computer-Assisted Writing System: Improving Readability with Respect to Information Structure. Nobo Komagata; USA =C9limination de la redondance dans la g=E9n=E9ration automatique de desc= riptions de comportement de syst=E8mes dynamiques. Nicole TOURIGNY et Laurence CAP= US; Canada Un Syst=E8me Automatique de diagnostic d'Erreurs pour l'ELAO. Anne Vandeventer; Suisse G=E9n=E9rer De Fa=E7on Automatique Des R=E9sum=E9s Gr=E2ce =C0 Des Exp=E9= riences Similaires. Laurence CAPUS et Nicole TOURIGNY; Canada A syntactic verification system for arabic texts based on a robust parse= r and using a large compressed lexicon. Riadh Ouersighni; France Natural Language Technology in Precision Content Retrieval. Jacek Ambrozi= ak and William A. Woods Ficus - un agent dictionaire coop=E9ratif extensible. Mathieu LAFOURCADE = & Jacques CHAUCHE; France A Two-Stage Model for Robust Parsing. Erik Oltmans; Netherlands Analyse morphologique et voyellation assist=E9e par ordinateur de la lan= gue arabe. Malek GHENIMA Ontologies-based relevant information retrieval. F.-Y. Villemin; France Delegating Actions from Texts in a Virtual Environment. Fabrice Tabordet = , Fabrice Pied , and Pierre Nugues; France An autonomous, web-based, multilingual corpus collection tool. Jim Cowie, Eugene Ludovik & Ron Zacharski; USA Probl=E8mes scientifiques int=E9ressants en traduction de parole. Christi= an Boitet; France Centering Theory and Resolving It in Business Texts. Gregory F. Roberts; = USA TR-AID: A Memory-based translation aid framework. Stelios Piperidis, Christos Malavazos, Ioannis Triantafyllou; Greece A Transformational Approach to NL Understanding in Dialogue Systems. Dann Netherlands Reluctantly Paraphrasing Text. Mark Dras; Australia Improving robust domain independent summarization. Jim Cowie, Eugene Ludovik, & Hugo Molijna-Salgado; USA Language Learning Data: Online Confusion. Lisa Harper and Florence Reeder= ; USA NLP and Radiology reports. Gees C Stein & Tomek Strzalkowski; USA BLAK, un assistant de d=E9couverte des caract=E8res chinois, fonctionneme= nt par acc=E8s dynamique =E0 des ressources lexicales vari=E9es. L. Fischer, G. Fafiotte; France Text Expansion Using Temporal and Causal Relations. Yllias Chali; Canada Automatic Generation of On-Line Help: A Practical Approcah. Cecile Paris and Keith Vander Linden; Australia &USA To Integrate Your Language web Tools - CALL Web CT. Sabine Siekmann; USA L'=E9dition lexicographique dans un syst=E8me g=E9n=E9rique de gestion de bases lexicales multilingues. G. S=E9rasset, M. Mangeot; France How the construction of a Computer System may influence language teaching practices: the communication situation variables. R. Lelouche, D. Huot; Canada Concordances avanc=E9es sur corpus sp=E9cialis=E9 pour l'enseignement de l'anglais technique. P.-Y. Foucou & N. K=FCbler; France Cross-linguistic Resources for MT Evaluation and Language Training. Lisa Hale Decrozant, Dr Clare R. Voss; USA NLP for text classification: the TREVI experience. R.Basili, M. V. Marabello, L. Mazzucchelli, &. M. T. Pazienza; Italy Dictionnaires =E9lectroniques et analyse morphologique. Jerzy Sitko; Fran= ce Integrating language generation and prosody control. Pierre Larey, Nadine bigouroux, & Guy P=C8rennou; France MULINEX Multilingual web search and anvigation. Joanne Capstick, Abdel Kader Diagne, Gregor Erbach, &. Hans Uszkoreit; Germany, Italy, France & Belgium Kurdish Language Technology and Planning. Siamak Rezaei Durroei; UK Intonation, vowel length, and 'well': Thhe intersection of phonology and discourse analysis and its effects on meaning interpretation in conversation. Jason Miller; USA Repr=E9sentation S=E9mantique Orient=E9e-Objets de Requ=E8tes en Langage = Naturel. Abdelmajid Benhamadou; Tunisia PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES: Tuesday August 18: Registration Wednesday August 19: Opening plenary session. Invited speaker (Thierry Chanier) Oral presentations Posters and demo sessions Thursday August 20: Oral presentations Invited speaker (Margaret King) Friday August 21: Oral presentations Closing plenary session EXHIBITS: Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration can still send a brief electronic description along with a specification = of physical requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number o= f chairs, etc.) to nlp+ia-98@imag.fr with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line. FOR MORE INFORMATION, see also : http://www.sciences.umoncton.ca/infoque/dinfo.htm ********** III.C.1. Fr: Stefan Wermter Re: MSc Courses on Neural Networks, Natural language processing, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Engineering, CBR, Retrieval, and more M.Sc. Knowledge Engineering (Applied Artificial Intelligence) Places Available for September 98 in both full time and part time modes Over the past decade the application of Artificial Intelligence technique= s have proven invaluable when tackling a range of business and engineering problems that cannot effectively be solved using traditional computer techniques. We have for the past few years been running an advanced M.Sc. in Knowled= ge Engineering (the practical application of Artificial Intelligence) to address these needs. Below are some of the highlights of this course. Application areas supported include: * Decision support systems * Hybrid information systems * Intelligent information storage and retrieval syste= ms * Intelligent tutoring systems * Intelligent database systems * Intellige= nt scheduling, planning or constraint based systems * Intelligent agents and the internet * Vision recognition systems * Automatic translation systems. Key topics covered include: * Neural Networks * Genetic Algorithms * Fuzz= y Logic * Case Based Reasoning * Knowledge Acquisition * Knowledge Representation * * KBS Design Methodologies Natural Language Processing * Expert Systems Admission onto the course is for those who already have a computing qualification or have significant computing experience. It was designed t= o enable graduates to act immediately as professional Knowledge Engineers developing Knowledge Based Systems while adhering to professional standar= ds and codes of conduct. While the course requires a good computing backgrou= nd it does not assume any prior AI experience. The course has been accredited by the British Computer Society and earns exemption from Part 2 of their entrance examinations (certain conditions apply). For more information on the course please contact Dr. Simon Kendal. Dr. Simon Kendal School of Computing and Information Systems St Peters Campus University of Sunderland Sunderland SR6 0DD Tel (0191) 5152756 Fax (0191) 5152781 Email s.kendal@sunderland.ac.uk ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.D.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF/CISE US-Brazil Collaborative Research: Proposals due 10/2/98 NSF-CNPq Collaborative Research Opportunities Announcement (NSF 98-139) http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf98139 (For the Portuguese announcement, please see http://www.cnpq.br/dpe/protem-cc/edital-nsf.htm) NSF Proposals Due: 10/2/98 (First Friday in October annually) NSF - CNPq Collaborative Research Opportunities for FY 1998 (CISE) The National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States and the Consel= ho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) of Brazil announce a pilot activity to support new efforts in international cooperative research in any CISE-related area where the efforts are likel= y to produce complementary and synergistic effects. Proposals from Brazilia= n researchers and research institutions are selected and administered by CNPq's ProTem Office (Programa Tematico Multiinstitucional em Ciencia da Computacao) and are subject to the standards for submission and review of that organization. Proposals to NSF from researchers at U.S. institutions will be subject to standard NSF review procedures outlined in the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) (NSF 98-2) and will be processed by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the initiative is to advance scientific and engineering knowledge through joint research efforts of investigators fro= m the United States of America and Brazil having complementary talents and interests, and to capitalize on the international character of modern scientific research and the ability to conduct collaboration at a distanc= e supported by computer network infrastructures. SCOPE AND TYPES OF SUPPORT: Projects supported in this collaborative initiative must include researchers and educators in institutions from bo= th countries in any of the CISE-supported disciplines. Corresponding proposa= ls are required from submitters in both countries for binational awards. It = is expected that the Brazilian and U.S. projects will have the same scope an= d duration but independent budgets. The roles of the participants from each country should be made explicit in the project description, emphasizing t= he complementary facilities and expertise and the mutual benefits gained through the international collaboration. This initiative is intended to support international collaborative activity; it is not meant to support US investigators in individual, non-collaborative research efforts. In general, NSF will only administer and support U.S. investigators, while CNPq will administer and cover cost= s incurred by Brazilian researchers. Awards can range up to $200,000 with a duration from one to three years; larger grants may be awarded under special circumstances if appropriate. NSF customarily does not pay indire= ct costs for grants awarded primarily for the support of travel or equipment. CISE estimates around 6 to 10 awards per year for the directorate. Cooperative proposals considered under this announcement may include new requests or supplements to funded projects. Proposals are accepted in all areas of scientific research currently supported or encouraged by the CIS= E Directorate of NSF. For further information, refer to the Grant Proposal Guide (NSF 98-2), and the WWW at http://www.cise.nsf.gov/. For further details, see: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf98139 Please direct further questions to . ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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