Information Retrieval List Digest 421 (September 8, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-421.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 September 8, 1998 Volume XV, Number 35 Issue 421 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Unique NLP 2. Agent-based, Automated Cataloging II. JOBS 1. Vienna U. of Technology: CS, Full University Professor III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Information Media: Conservation and Technology B. Meetings 1. IEEE Visualization 98 2. Konvens98 3. Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM98) 4. SIGIR '99 5. CSCW89 Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking IV. PROJECTS D. Research 1. Metadata Working Group ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Philip A. Bralich Re: Agent-based, Automated Cataloging _Agent-based, Automated Cataloging_ In a recent review of the potential application of Agent technologies for Collection Development and E-Serials I consider the possibility of using appropriate Intelligent Software Agents for 'automated' cataloging of e-publications. To expand on this issue (and to have sufficient background information on= a future article (1999) on the Agent-based, Automated Cataloging), I am greatly interested in learning of any commerical or experimental efforts to automate various processes associated with the Cataloging function. I am aware of work on the application of Expert Systems for cataloging as well as Micheal Heaney's work on 'Object-Oriented Cataloging' and early 1990s thinking on this topic. I a= m also aware of the Scorpion project at OCLC that seeks to classify and assign subject headings to electronic resources. [For information on Scorpion and other related OCLC research project see: http://www.oclc.org:5047/oclc/research/publications/publications.html] For a good overview of Intelligent Software Agents, Interested Folk are invited to visit my LibraryAgents(sm) project that provides links to key Intelligent Software Agent resources at the following URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Agents.htm I am been inspired to consider the concept of Agent-based, Automated Cataloging in part from my readings on Intelligent Software Agents [We are building one of the most comprehensive colllections here at ISU in this area] and the expansion of the Library of Congress Electronic Cataloging in Publication (ECIP) program and the the current Beta Test by LC of a Web version of its Cataloger's Desktop and Classification Plus [http://lcweb.loc.gov/cds/betareq.html] As always, Any and All citations, sources, queries, questions, comments, critiques, etc., OR speculation about the possibilities, are Most Welcome Joy! Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian and Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ ****************************************************************** I. JOBS II.1. Fr: Silvia Miksch Re: Vienna U. of Technology: CS, Full University Professor FULL UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR IN THE FIELD OF INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE OF THE VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY The Department of Computer Science of the Vienna University of Technology is seeking candidates for the tenured track position at the full university professor level in the field of Interactive Systems at the Institute of Software Technology (expected appointment: in the yea 2000). The person to be appointed should represent essential areas in teaching a= nd in research of the design and the implementation of interactive multi-med= ia systems. The main emphasis should, for example, be on innovative interactive (multi-media) techniques and methods to design and to impleme= nt information systems, on techniques and methods to visualize static and dynamic knowledge and information, on new media, and on hard- and softwar= e architectures of interactive systems. The applicant's research activities should show explicit consideration and integration of usability aspects. Besides the outstanding scientific qualification (habilitation or adequat= e comparable achievement), we expect teaching and project experience as wel= l as a high profile in international research. Leadership experience and teamwork are considered important. Obligatory and optional courses within computer science and information systems are to be given by the applicant in German or English. The University of Technology in Vienna seeks to increase the number of women among its research and teaching staff. For this reason, equally qualified female applicants will be given preference. Applications (including CV, list of publications and projects, selected publications) should be directed until October 31, 1998 to: The Dean, Technisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakult=E4t der Technischen Universit=E4t= Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, A-1060 Wien. NEW Phone-number since Sept, 1, 1998 Silvia Miksch silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ Department of Computer Science Institute of Software Technology (IFS) +43-1-58801-18824 Resselgasse 3/188 +43-1-58801-18801 (phone-sec) A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe +43-1-504 05 32 (fax) ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Pedro H=EDpola Re: Information Media: Conservation and Technology The next special topic issue of IWE is scheduled to come out in December 1998 on "Information media: conservation and technology". IWE editors will be pleased to receive contributions. Further information for contributors is available upon request. El Profesional de la Informacion (formerly Information World en Espanol) is a monthly journal addressed to Spanish language information professionals (ISSN: 0899-3408). Launched in 1992 by Learned Information (Oxford, UK), IWE is now publishe= d by Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers (Lisse, The Netherlands). http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/iwe.html The IWE team also created in 1993 IweTel, the main email list in Spanish for information professionals (more than 2,100 subscribers). http://www.rediris.es/list/info/iwetel.html Tomas Baiget and Pedro Hipola IWE editors IWE editors: iwe@sarenet.es IWE suscriptions: orders@swets.nl Advertising in IWE: akeefer@arrakis.es ********** III.B.1. Fr: Dr. David Ebert Re: IEEE Visualization 98 IEEE Visualization 98 October 18 - 23, 1998 Sheraton Imperial Hotel Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/vis98) (Advanced Registration Deadline: September 25, 1998) --- Don't Delay, Register NOW !! --- Visualization is a vital research and applications frontier shared by a variety of science, medical, engineering, business, and entertainment fields. The ninth IEEE Visualization conference focuses on interdisciplinary methods. It supports collaboration among developers and users of visualization methods across all of science, engineering, medicine, and commerce. The conference week will include tutorials, symposia, and mini-workshops Sunday through Tuesday, and papers, panels, case studies, and late- breaking hot topics presentations Wednesday through Friday. The deadline for conference and hotel advance registration is September 25th. For more information see the IEEE Visualization 98 web site at: http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/vis98 A few additional items have been added since the release of the IEEE Visualization 98 Advance Program. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Graphics & Imaging Cluster will host an open house on Thursday evening of Vis 98. For more information see: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~glasgow/VIS98.html. The Information Visualization 98 Symposium has now announced the keynote and capstone speakers. George Robertson of Microsoft will provide the Keynote Address on Monday, October 19th and Edward Tufte will provide the Capstone Address on Tuesday, October 20th. The keynote speaker for the Volume Visualization 98 Symposium will be Jim Foley. His address will be on Monday, October 19th. The keynote speaker for the main Visualization 98 Conference will be Pat Hanrahan of Stanford University. His address will open IEEE Visualizatio= n 98 on Wednesday, October 21st. The conference climaxes with a Capstone Address by Turner Whitted, of Microsoft Research, on October 23rd, 1998. We hope you will join us in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina for IE= EE Visualization 98. ********** III.B.2. Fr: Bernhard Schroeder Re: Konvens98 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION KONVENS 98 Computer, Linguistik und Phonetik zwischen Sprache und Sprechen Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech 4. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache- 4th Conference on Natural Language Processing Oct. 5-7, 1998 University of Bonn, Germany http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 Organized by: Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV)(responsible in 1998) Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI), FA 1.3 "Natuerliche Sprache" Informationstechnische Gesellschaft/Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Akustik (ITG/DEGA) Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Artificial Intelligence (OeGAI) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Subjects of the conference are all areas of language processing dealing with language in its written or spoken form. Special attention will be paid to approaches focussing on the structural and the phonological/phonetic aspects of computer-aided/based language research and aimed at bridging the gap between both aspects. Conference languages are German and English. PROGRAMME Monday, Oct., 5 1998 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Tutorials: Christian Otto: Sprachtechnologie fuer das Internet Thomas Portele, Bernhard Schroeder: Fokus aus prosodischer und semantischer Sicht (Participants of the conference who would like to attend one of the tutorials are asked to send a short message to the conference office (konvens98@uni-bonn.de) until Sept., 25.) 2:00 p.m. Opening 2:30-4:00 p.m. Section 1: Prosody Kai Alter, K. Steinhauer, A. D. Friederici, J. Matiasek, H. Pirker: Exploiting Syntactic Dependencies for German Prosody: Evidence from Speech Production and Perception Erhard Rank, Hannes Pirker: Realization of Prosody in a Speech Synthesizer for German Maria Wolters, Petra Wagner: Focus Perception and Prominence 2:30-4:00 p.m. Workshop: Evaluation of the linguistic performance of commercial machine translation systems Part 1: Results of the evaluation of commercial machine translation systems Rita Nuebel, Uta Seewald: Zur Relevanz linguistisch orientierter Evaluationen -- Grundlagen des vom AK "Maschinelle Uebersetzung" der GLDV initiierten Evaluationsverfahrens Stephan Mehl, Martin Volk: Zur Problematik der maschinellen uebersetzung von Nebensaetzen zwischen den Sprachen Englisch und Deutsch Ulrike Ulrich: Probleme bei der maschinellen Uebersetzung mit domaenentypischen sprachlichen Phaenomenen von appellativen Texten mit kommerzieller Intention (Internetseiten der Hotelbranche) 4:15-4:45 p.m. Workshop: Part 1 (continued) Rita Nuebel: Phaenomenspezifische Evaluation maschineller Uebersetzung am Beispiel von Koordinationen Workshop Part 2: Methods and tools of MT evaluation Judith Klein, Sabine Lehmann: MUe-Evaluation mit DIET Joerg Schuetz: Blueprint: Evaluation im Usability Lab 4:30-6:00 p.m. Section 2: Grammar Engineering Brigitte Krenn: A Representation Scheme and Database for German Support-Verb Constructions Jonas Kuhn: Towards Data-intensive Testing and Applications of a Broad Coverage LFG Grammar -- Partial Target Specifications As a Filter on Parser Output Stefan Mehl, Hagen Langer, Martin Volk: Statistische Verfahren zur Zuordnung von Praepositionalphrasen 6:15 p.m. Plenary Session Manfred Pinkal: Von der Sprachphilosophie zur Sprachtechnologie -- Stand und Perspektiven der semantischen Verarbeitung 7:30 p.m. Reception Tuesday, Oct., 6 1998 09:00-10:30 a.m. Section 3: Speech Recognition/Synthesis Thomas Portele: Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion for Speech Synthesis Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel: Das Projekt GlobalPhone: Multilinguale Spracherkennung Christian-M. Westendorf, M. Wolff: Automatische Generierung von Aussprachewoerterbuechern aus Signaldaten 09:00-10:30 a.m. Workshop Part 3: Results of the evaluation of commercial machine translation systems Uta Seewald: Textsortenspezifische Evaluation maschineller Uebersetzung am Beispiel von Instruktionstexten Martin Volk: Probleme bei der maschinellen Uebersetzung von idiomatischen Wendungen Jutta Marx: Bewertung von MT-Systemen aus Benutzersicht: Evaluierung im Projekt MIROSLAV 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 Plenary Session Gerrit Bloothooft: A European Masters in Language and Speech 12:00-1:00 p.m. Presentation of Posters Posters see below 2:00-3:00 p.m. Section 4: Parsing Hagen Langer: Experimente mit verallgemeinerten Lookahead-Algorithmen Stefan Riezler: Statistical Inference and Probabilistic Modeling for Constraint-Based NLP 2:00-3:00 p.m. Workshop Part 4: Reports from industrial users Carmen Andres Lange: Erfahrungen mit Logos Ursula Bernhard: Bemerkungen zur Evaluation maschineller Uebersetzungssysteme aus Anwendersicht 3:30-5:00 p.m. Section 5: Dialogue and Semantics Bernd Ludwig, Guenther Goerz, Heinrich Niemann: User Models, Dialog Structure, and Intentions in Spoken Dialog Manfred Stede, Stefan Haas, Uwe Kuessner: Understanding and Tracking Temporal Descriptions in Dialogue Bernhard Schroeder: Unifikation hoeherer Ordnung und strikte syntaktische Abhaengigkeit 3:30-6:00 p.m. Workshop Teil 5: Evaluation from provider and user perspective Margaret King: Evaluation Design: the EAGLES Framework Juergen Kinscher: Vor- und Nachteile elektronischer Uebersetzungshilfen und Uebersetzungsprogramme, von der Textbausteinsammlung bis zur automatischen Voll|bersetzung Hans Haller: Maschinelle (Roh-)Uebersetzung als Vorlage bei einer Fachtextuebersetzung: Bericht |ber ein Experiment Rita Nuebel, Uta Seewald: Resuemee und Ausblick auf weitere Evaluationsaktivitaeten Wednesday, Oct., 7 1998 9:00-10:30 a.m. Section 6: Grammar and Tagging Kordula De Kuthy, Walt Detmar Meurers: Reducing the Complexity of a Theory of Unbounded Dependencies: Evidence Against Remnant Movement in German Stefan Langer: Zur Morphologie und Semantik von Nominalkomposita Martin Volk, Gerold Schneider: Comparing a Statistical and a Rule-based Tagger for German 9:00-10:30 a.m. Section 7: Translation and Generation Munpyo Hong: Treating the Multiple-Subject Construction in a Constraint-based MT-System Juergen Wedekind: Probleme der ambiguitaetserhaltenden Generierung 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 Section 8: Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Reinhard Rapp: Das Kontiguitaetsprinzip und die Simulation des Assoziierens auf mehrere Stimuluswoerter Adrian P. Simpson: Characterizing the Formant Movements of German Dipthongs in Spontaneous Speech 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 Section 9: Information Retrieval Michael Hess: Antwortextraktion ueber beschraenkten Bereichen T. Kemp, M. Weber, P. Geutner, J. Guertler, P. Scheytt, M. Schmidt, B. Tomaz, M. Westphal: Automatische Erstellung einer Video-Datenbank: das View4You-System 12.00 (noon) Plenary Session Helmut Schnelle: Sprache im Gehirn 13.00 p.m. Closing Session POSTERS Istvan S. Batori, Krisztian Nemeth, Holger Puttkammer: Lautrepraesentation in etymologischen Woerterbuechern anhand der Uralischen Etymologischen DatenBasis Gregor Buechel: Ein WWW-gef|hrtes System zur datenbankgestuetzten Segmentierung von Satzteilen und zur Analyse praepositionaler Phrasen Karl Ulrich Goecke, Jan-Torsten Milde: Situations- und Aktionsbeschreibungen durch einen teilautonomen Montageroboter Johannes Heinecke, Ingo Schroeder: Multilevel Representation of the Robust Analysis of Language Alexandra Klein, Matthias E. Koelln, Soenke Ziesche: Towards Generating Dialogue Contributions Under Resource Constraints Jacques Koreman, Bistra Andreeva, William J. Barry: Die Abbildung akustischer Parameter auf phonetische Merkmale in der automatischen Spracherkennung Doris Muecke: CMC: Prosodische und extralinguistische Notationsformen in textbasierten Konferenzsystemen Sandro Pedrazzini, Pius ten Hacken: Centralized Lexeme Management and Distributed Dictionary Use in Word Manager Barbertje Streefkerk, Louis C.W. Pols: Prominence in Read Aloud Dutch Sentences as Marked by Naive Listeners Petra Wagner: Mutual Constraints at the Phonetics-Phonology-Interface EXHIBITION: Parallel to the conference there will be a book and industry exhibition. CONFERENCE OFFICE Gisela von Neffe Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik der Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Internet: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98/index.en.html Email: konvens98@uni-bonn.de Phone: +49-228-735638 Fax: +49-228-735639 LOCATION KONVENS 98 will take place at the University of Bonn's Central Building, which is situated in the city's centre, in walking distance from the main railway station. WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 (Participants of the conference who would like to attend one of the tutorials are asked to send a short message to the conference office (konvens98@uni-bonn.de) until Sept., 25.) ********** III.B.3. Fr: Ulrich Reimer Re: Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM98) The Second International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM98) 29-30 October, 1998 Basel, Switzerland http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm98.html Supported by SGAICO (Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science) and the Special Interest Group "Knowledge Engineering" of the German Informatics Society Sponsored by Swiss Life and UBS -- Call for Participation -- Conference Programme: Invited talks: Patricia Seemann (Group 21, Switzerland): Building an Intellectual Capital Strategy at the Corporate Level Matthias Jarke (Aachen University of Technology, Germany): Paper presentations: Aaltonen, P. / Ikaealko, H. / Ventae, M. (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland): Transfer of Knowledge from University to Client Organisations Alworth, D. / Frost, E. (OGCI Management, USA; BP Exploration, Inc., USA): A Practical Approach Bridging Individual Learning and Organizational Learning: A Look at Organizational Learning in the E&P Industry Apostolou, D. / Mentzas, G. (National Technical University of Athens, Greece): Managing Corporate Knowledge: A Comparative Analysis of Experiences in Consulting Firms Ballim, A. / Karacapilidis, N. (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland): Modeling Discourse Acts in Computer-Assisted Collaborative Decision Making Benjamins, R. / Fensel, D. / Gomez Perez, A. (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Technical University of Madrid, Spain): Knowledge Management through Ontologies Bettoni, M.C. / Ottiger, R. / Todesco, R. (Polytechnical of Basel, Switzerland): KnowPort: A Personal Knowledge Portfolio Tool Connor, D. (Xerox Professional Services, USA): Helping Clients Harness Knowledge to Drive Innovation Crossley, M. / Davies, N.J. / McGrath, A.J. / Rejman-Greene, M.A.Z. (BT Laboratories, UK): The Knowledge Garden Feldman, R. / Fresko, M. / Hirsh, H. / Aumann, Y. / Kinar, Y. / Liphstat, O. / Schler, Y. / Rajman, M. (Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Rutgers University, USA; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland): Knowledge Management: A Text Mining Approach Hollocks, B.W. (Bournemouth University, UK): The Role of Models in Leveraging Information Huber, H. (USU AG, Germany): Supporting Document Search by Collaboratively Maintained Search Knowledge Koivula, A. / Pankakoski, M. (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland): Knowledge Product and Management Consulting Koskiniemi, M.S. / Wilson, L.T. (Buckman Laboratories, USA; LearnerFirst, Inc., USA): Buckman Lab's Work Profiles Software Program Lehner, F. / Maier, R. / Klosa, O. (University of Regensburg, Germany): Organisational Memory Systems: Application of Advanced Database & Network Technologies in Organisations Lenz, M. (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany): Managing the Knowledge Contained in Technical Documents Lueg, C. (University of Zuerich, Switzerland): Considering Collaborative Filtering as Groupware: Experiences and Lessons Learned Macintosh, A. / Filby, I. / Kingston, J. / Tate, A. (University of Edinburgh, UK): Knowledge Asset Road Maps Mahe, S. / Rieu, Ch. (Lab. LLP/CESALP, France; KSB Pompes Guinard Energie, France): A Pull Approach to Knowledge Management: Using IS as a Knowledge Indicator to Help People Know when to Look for Knowledge Reuse Mentzas, G. / Apostolou, D. (National Technical University of Athens, Greece): Towards a Holistic Knowledge Leveraging Infrastructure: The KNOWNET Approach Nakata, K. / Voss, A. / Juhnke, M. / Kreifelts, Th. (German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany): Collaborative Concept Extraction and Management Roepnack, A. / Schindler, M. / Schwan, Th. (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland): Concepts of the Enterprise Knowledge Medium Stanoevska, K. / Hombrecher, A. / Handschuh, S. / Schmid, B. (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland): Efficient Information Retrieval: Tools for Knowledge Management Struck, T. / Lindsay, J. / Baber, C. (University of Birmingham, UK): Evaluation of the Management of Knowledge in Cardiovascular Perfusion Using the KIPP-Model Wiig, K. (Knowledge Research Institute, Inc., USA): Perspectives on Introducing Knowledge Management into the Enterprise Wilson, O. / Sellens, C. (CMG, Ltd., UK): The CMG Knowledge Intranet For registration and further information see http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm98.html or contact Ulrich Reimer Swiss Life Information Systems Research Group Postfach CH-8022 Zurich, Switzerland Email: Ulrich.Reimer@swisslife.ch ********** III.B.4. Fr: Marti Hearst <hearst@sims.berkeley.edu> Re: SIGIR '99 ACM SIGIR '99 Preliminary Call for Participation UC Berkeley, CA, USA August 15-19, 1999 Paper submission deadline: January 4, 1999 More information at: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/conferences/sigir99 http://www.acm.org/sigir The Twenty-Second Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, will be held on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, August 15-19, 1999, with accommodation at nearby hotels. SIGIR is the premiere international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques = in information retrieval. In 1999, in addition to the standard core set of Information Retrieval topics, SIGIR strongly encourages contributions fro= m two major areas: Human Computer Interaction in Information Access and Multi-Media Retrieval. To receive SIGIR '99 announcements, send mail to: majordomo@sims.berkeley.edu containing the one line message: subscribe sigir99-announce Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality papers about original research in information systems, and theories, models, and implementation= s of IR systems. Topics traditionally relevant to SIGIR include but are not limited to: IR Theory including statistical and logical IR models, data fusion. Experimentation, including test collections, evaluation measures, scalability. Systems and Implementation Issues Natural Language Processing for the purposes of IR Filtering, Routing,and Text Classification. Applications, e.g., task-embedded IR, electronic publishing, digital libraries, text data mining. Topics relevant to the intersection of HCI and IR include, but are not limited to: Evaluation of human-computer interfaces for information access. Information seeking models and user interfaces for information access. Information structure for navigation and search. Topics relevant to Multi-Media IR include, but are not limited to: Content-based Indexing Strategies Query Formulation and Query Languages for MMIR Cross-Media and Mixed-Media Retrieval Results Analysis and Presentation for MMIR Test Collection Development and Evaluation for MMIR See Multi-Media IR for more information about relevant topics. Important Dates: January 4 Paper Submissions due February 15 Tutorial, demonstrations, panel, and workshop proposals due April 9 Notification of acceptance of papers May 1 Late-breaking and student poster submissions due August 15-19 SIGIR Conference General Chair: Fredric Gey gey@ucdata.berkeley.edu PC Chairs: Marti Hearst hearst@sims.berkeley.edu Richard Tong rtong@tcc.com Tutorials and Panels Chair: Sue Dumais sdumais@microsoft.com Posters, Demonstrations, and Workshops Chairs: TBA Full information: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/conferences/sigir99 ********** III.B.5. Fr: Gene Golovchinsky <gene@pal.xerox.com> Re: CSCW89 Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking CFP - Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking at CSCW '98 Submission deadline: Sept 15th! You are invited to submit position papers for a workshop on Collaborative and Co-operative Information Seeking in Digital Information Environments. This workshop is part of the 1998 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw98/) which will take plac= e in Seattle WA. Recent research suggests that much information seeking is a collaborative activity, rather an activity carried out by individuals working alone. Th= e goal of the workshop is to explore these collaborative aspects of information seeking and retrieval. In the workshop we wish to discuss current conceptions of collaborative a= nd cooperative information seeking activities, and to identify potential are= as for future research on the design and use of digital information spaces. = We wish to devote explicit consideration to the affordances which user interfaces/environments/systems must provide in order to effectively support and promote collaborative information seeking. We wish to explore the different kinds of support for collaboration, including asynchronous recommendation systems, and synchronous collaborative search and browsing activities by collocated and non-collocated participants. This workshop will be of interest to researchers concerned with the desig= n of user interfaces and systems for supporting information exploration and information seeking activities. This includes (but is not restricted to) user centered aspects of the design of systems for public use (e.g. publi= c digital libraries, the WWW), and of systems for use by task-oriented, focused work groups. Please see our web site at http://www.fxpal.com/CSCW98/ for more informat= ion. Position papers should be limited to 2000 words in length (not including references) and are due on September 15th. Notification of acceptance wil= l be October 1st. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. These should be sent to: Elizabeth Churchill FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc., 3400 Hillview Avenue, Building 4, Palo Alto, California 94304, UNITED STATES. Email: churchill@pal.xerox.com ********** III.B.4. Fr: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference <gecco@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu> Re: GECCO Call for Papers Dear Colleagues: I invite you to what promises to be a signal event in the development of the field of genetic and evolutionary computation (GEC), namely the Genet= ic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) to be held 14-17 July, 19= 99 in Orlando, Florida at the Omni Rosen Hotel. I have attached a call for papers and participation, and as you can see, the conference embodies the best of its constituent and cooperating conferences and workshops. After adjusting for overlap, we conservatively expect the attendance at GECCO to make it the largest single GEC event ev= er held, but we have made no compromises with quality or intimacy. Many of t= he best names in the field have signed onto six autonomous program policy committees ("demes"). Hundreds of the field's most recent and best author= s have signed up to review the large number of submissions expected, but as you will read below, extraordinary steps have been taken to respect the norms of traditional and emerging areas, both. A full slate of regular conference features together with over 21 free tutorials, bird-of-a-feath= er workshops, a special graduate student workshop, late-breaking papers, and guests and invited speakers make this a special event you will not want t= o miss. But a great conference is built first and foremost with great papers. Therefore, I urge you to mark the date Wednesday, January 27, 1999 on you= r calendar. This is the submission deadline for GECCO, and I hope you will consider sending us your latest and best results. Thank you, and I look hope to see you in Orlando. Sincerely, Dave Goldberg Chair, GECCO-99 GECCO-99 Call for Papers and Participation 1999 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/ 14-17 July, 1999 Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, Florida USA A Joint Meeting of the Eighth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-99) and the Fourth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-99) The 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) combines the longest running conference in evolutionary computation (ICGA= ) and the world's two largest GEC conferences (GP and ICGA) to create a unique opportunity to bring together the best in research in the growing field of genetic and evolutionary computation (GEC). Each paper submitted to the GECCO conference will be peer-reviewed by one of the six independent program committees specializing in various aspects of genetic and evolutionary computation. Each program committee consists = of a chair and policy members who are active researchers of published books and papers in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation. Each program policy committee establishes its own review criteria and policies and make the final decisions concerning papers submitted to it. These independent "demes" will help ensure that the review process respects the diverse traditions and norms of the various facets of genetic and evolutionary computation at the same time it guarantees the acceptance of work of the highest caliber. In addition, work that runs across the boundaries of two or more demes is also encouraged. The editor-in-chief will assign qualified reviewers for papers that combine the methods of different demes, or for papers that do not fit nicely in one of these categories (e.g., papers that pertain to GEC method, philosophy, or pedag= ogy). Mark your calendars now for what promises to be the largest, high-quality GEC event ever held. GENERAL CHAIR: David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, deg@uiuc.edu COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS GECCO-99 is a joint meeting of the Eighth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-99) and the Fourth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-99) and is held in cooperation with the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing (EvoNet), Evolution Artificielle, the International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES), International Society for Adaptive Behavior, International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization (ANTS 98), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) Steering Committee, and the American Associati= on for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Cooperation with other conferences an= d organizations is welcome (contact deg@uiuc.edu). TUTORIALS (Confirmed to date) Rik Belew, Artificial Life, Adaptive Behavior, and Agents Forrest H Bennett III, Analog Circuit Design via Genetic Programming Lawrence Davis, Real World Applications of GEC Kalyanmoy Deb, Messy Genetic Algorithms and Linkage Learning Ken DeJong, GEC: Comparing and Contrasting the Different Methodologies Marco Dorigo, Introduction to Ant Colony Optimization Stephanie Forrest, Immune System Modeling and Computation Max Garzon & Randy C. Murphy, Introduction to DNA Computing Tetsuya Higuchi, Evolvable Hardware John R. Koza, Introduction to Genetic Programming W. B. Langdon, Genetic Programming Data Structures Jean-Arcady Meyer, Introduction to Adaptive Behavior Peter Nordin, Machine Code Genetic Programming I. C. Parmee, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation in Design Guenter Rudolph, Theory of Evolution Strategies and Programming Hans-Paul Schwefel, Introduction to Evolution Strategies Lee Spector, Quantum Computation Leigh Tesfatsion & David McFadzean, Agent-Based Computational Economics Michael Vose, Genetic Algorithm Theory Darrell Whitley, Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks Stewart Wilson, Classifier Systems PRE-CONFERENCE GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP Graduate students working on GEC dissertations will be given the opportunity to submit their work for presentation at a workshop on Tuesda= y, July 13, 1999. Contact Una-May O-Reilly (unamay@ai.mit.edu), MIT AI Lab, Graduate Student Workshop Chair, for information. BIRD-OF-A-FEATHER WORKSHOPS Thematic workshops on a variety of topics will be held during the conference. Annie Wu (aswu@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil), Naval Research Laboratory AI Center, will chair the workshops and is seeking proposals f= or workshop topics. SUBMITTING PAPERS The deadline for arrival at the physical address of the AAAI of eight (8) paper copies of each submitted paper is Wednesday, January 27, 1999. Papers are to be in single-space, 10-point type on 8 1/2" x 11" pap= er with 1" margin at the top and 3/4" margin at left, right, and bottom. A4 paper may be used. Papers may not be submitted by e-mail or fax. Each paper is to contain all of the following 9 items, contained entirely within a maximum total of eight (8) pages, IN THIS ORDER: (1) the paper's category (chosen from one of the following alternatives: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolvable hardware, classifier systems, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, DNA and molecular computing, real-world applications, software, artificial life, adaptive behavior, agents, education, methodology, and philosophy), (2) title of paper, (3) author name(s), (4) author physical address(es), (5) author e-mail address(es), (6) author phone number(s), (7) a 50-200 word abstrac= t of the paper at the beginning of the paper, (8) the text of the paper (including all figures, tables, acknowledgments, and appendices, if any), and (9) bibliograph. Review criteria will include significance of the work, novelty, clarity, writing quality, and sufficiency of information to permit replication (if applicable). The first-named author (or other corresponding author designated by the authors at the time of submission) will be notified of acceptance or rejection (on approximately March 3, 1999). To avoid future problems and misunderstandings, it is preferred (but not required) that t= he format of submitted papers roughly follow the required format for final camera-ready papers. The required style for the final camera-ready papers will be posted on the GECCO WWW page (and will be substantially similar t= o that of the ICGA-97 and GP-98 conferences). Different numbers of pages ma= y be allocated to accepted papers based on the policies of the various separate program committees of the conference. The deadline for final camera-ready version of accepted papers will be announced (and will be approximately April 7, 1999). There will be two volumes for the conference proceedings books. By submitting a paper, the author(s) agree that, if their paper is accepted they will submit a final revised camera-ready version and that at least one author will attend and present each accepted paper at the conference. The material in papers mus= t represent substantially new work that has not been previously published b= y conferences, journals, or edited books in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation. GECCO permits a paper to be submitted to the GECCO conference that is substantially similar to a paper being contemporaneously submitted for review to another conference; however, by submitting a camera-ready final paper to the GECCO conference, the author= s agree that substantially the same material will not be published by anoth= er conference in the field (however, material may conceivably be later revis= ed and submitted to an EC journal or material may be submitted to a non-GEC conference, such as an applications conference). OPERATION The conference is operated by the International Society for genetic Algorithms, Inc., a Massachusetts not-for-profit corporation and Genetic Programming Conferences Inc.,a California not-for-profit corporation. SUPPORT The conference is supported with a major contribution from i2 Technologie= s, a leader in the use of genetic and evolutionary computation. For career opportunities see www.i2.com. Support has also been received from First Quadrant, L. P. (www.firstquadrant.com) and from Philips Laboratories, Philips North America Corporation (www.research.philips.com). IMPORTANT DATES January 27, 1999 Paper submission March 3. 1999 Notification of acceptance (tentative date) April 7, 1999 Camera-ready version due (tentative date) July 13, 1999 Graduate student workshop July 14-17, 1999 GECCO-99 MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR GECCO-99 http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/ ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.D.1. Fr: Sally Morris <sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk> Re: Metadata Working Group The Metadata Working Group - an invitation For the past months, an international (mainly US/UK) group has been worki= ng on the question of what metadata (‘information about information’) is required in the digital environment to support unique identifiers, such as the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), and to make possible the electronic identification, retrieval and trading of intellectual property. Our work has focused on two key areas: describing the intellectual proper= ty (the ‘object’) itself, and describing the various different rights which users may have or may wish to acquire, and the terms and conditions under which these rights are available. Although the DOI itsel= f originated within the world of publishing, the issues raised by identifie= rs and their supporting metadata are common to all media, and we maintain close links with other industries, particularly music (which is well advanced in this area). We have developed an underlying model for metadat= a which we are now trying to refine. We are sponsored by EDItEUR, the UK based organisation that has been acti= ve in creating Edifact EDI messages for the publishing industry world-wide. EDItEUR is currently engaged in a Title Information Project that, when completed, will provide a rich ‘superset’ of descriptive metadata. We have also established relations with the Dublin Core communi= ty and with the BIBLINK project, both of which have developed specific subse= ts of descriptive metadata. We plan to continue this outreach to other group= s, both inside and outside the publishing world, working with them to identi= fy the most economical subsets for specific purposes. We will also maintain close ties with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) as it standardises various metadata schemes. On the rights metadata side, we are developing a detailed classification = of rights in the publishing context and are taking an active part in an international, European Union-funded research project to compare descriptive and rights metadata structures from different industries and = to develop a common basis for interoperability (INDECS). We are also commencing a real-world pilot, with a number of technology companies, to test the practicalities of our rights classification. In addition, we are actively supporting work on the identification and classification of user= s. The underlying aim which runs through all these activities is to ensure that the complete continuum of ways in which users or organisations with = to interact with others’ intellectual property - from finding it to using it - can be carried out seamlessly, conveniently and economically i= n the digital environment. To achieve this requires the development and adoption of common standards, so that computer systems can be completely interoperable. You can find papers describing our work at http://bic.org.uk/rights, including most importantly the minutes and papers of an enormously valuab= le workshop of the Metadata Working Group, held in New York on 18 and 19 Jun= e. One of the key conclusions of this workshop was that we needed more practical input from all the players in the information chain, particular= ly publishers and intermediaries (secondary publishers and librarians). We would therefore like to extend a warm invitation to your members to participate in our work. Discussions are carried on mostly via an e-mail listserv sponsored by the International DOI Foundation, and to which you can sign up via the DOI website (the June workshop was in fact the first face-to-face meeting of the whole group); in future we also plan an occasional newsletter. Smaller teams are delegated to work on specific projects. We should be very pleased to welcome more representatives of the ‘information value chain’ to our group. Please contact either of us if you are interested. Albert Simmons and Sally Morris (joint Chairs of the Metadata Working Gro= up) ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division = of Library Automation, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. 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. 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