Information Retrieval List Digest 425 (October 5, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-425.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 October 5, 1998 Volume XV, Number 39 Issue 425 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. TeleSec/Corestaff: Reburbish Flood-damaged Collecting III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE 9/21/98 B. Meetings 1. Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for IS 2. TWLT14: Language technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval 3. Konvens98 4. UK Academy for Information Systems Annual Conference 1999 5. ICE-98 C. Miscellaneous 1. NSF Names New Director for CISE ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: mbaldridge Re: TeleSec/Corestaff: Reburbish Flood-damaged Collecting TeleSec/Corestaff is recruiting for a position in Ft. Collins, Colorado f= or Boston Associates. The position will be temporary; two to four years in duration. We seek someone with several years of technical services background to manage a project refurbishing a collection damaged by flood= .. There will be repairs, binding preparation, database work on the Sage system and general supervision of the project. The salary will be $40-60,000 and arrangements will be made for airfare for qualified candidates. For consideration or more information please call Mandy Baldridge (301) 929-2665 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE 9/21/98 EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- SEPTEMBER 21, 1998 IN THIS ISSUE: HOUSE AUTHORIZES NGI FUNDING FOR NEXT TWO YEARS; $60M INTELLECTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUND THREATENED BY SEN. LOTT, FINANCE COMMITTEE ADMINISTRATION BACKS OFF KEY ESCROW FOR ENCRYPTION ________________________________________________________________________ Written from EDUCAUSE's Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Updat= e" is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies. Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending an e-mail to listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname" in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" comma= nd to the same address. If you would like more information about the Update = or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern a= t gsern@educause.edu. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Mounia Lalmas Re: Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for IS WORKSHOP ON LOGICAL AND UNCERTAINTY MODELS FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS University College London (UCL) London, England 5-6 July 1999 The purpose of the workshop is to promote discussion and interaction amon= g members of the Information Systems community with research interests in logical and uncertainty models for the treatment of semi-structured and unstructured information. We are particularly interested in experiences dealing with unstructured or poorly structured information, since we believe that a very large part of the information that will be available = in future will be of this nature. The workshop aims at being an international forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applicative results. Papers describing application experiences are particularly encouraged. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Fabio Crestani - University of Glasgow, Scotland Mounia Lalmas - Queen Mary & Westfield College, England PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Peter Bruza - Queensland University of Technology, Australia Theo Huibers - DOXiS, The Netherlands Carlo Meghini - IEI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Adrian Muller - IBM, Germany Jian-Yun Nie - University of Montreal, Canada Iadh Ounis - IMAG, Grenoble, France Gabriella Pasi - ITIM-CNR, Milan, Italy TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are solicited dealing with, but not limited to= , the following areas: Information Retrieval Information Filtering Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Hypermedia Digital Libraries where information is modelled and/or managed using any of, but not limite= d to, the following approaches: Probabilistic Theory Non-standard Logics Default Reasoning Fuzzy Methods Non-monotonic Logics Knowledge Acquisition Theory of Evidence Meta Logics Knowledge Representation Belief Networks Situation Theory Machine Learning Possibility Theory Multivalued Logics Inductive Methods Rough Sets Description Logics Abductive Methods Approximate Reasoning Belief Revision Relevance Theory SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit original papers of at most 10 pages by e-mail to one of the email addresses below, using "LUMIS= 99 Submission" as the subject line. Please submit the paper in postscript. There is no particular format for the submission, but the cover page shou= ld include title, authors, and the coordinates of the corresponding author. Authors should also indicate in the first page which of the thematic area= s best describes the content of the paper (if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the topic of the paper). To be considered, submissions must be received no later than February 12. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by March 1= 2. All accepted contributions will be published in a public report of the Queen Mary & Westfield College (to be confirmed). The format guidelines f= or the final paper version will be announced later. Final camera-ready copie= s of accepted papers will be due by May 1st 1999. A number of selected papers, whose final version will have to be received by April 12, will be published in the ECSQARU'99 conference proceedings. CORRESPONDENCE: Direct correspondence, inquiries and submissions relating to this workshop should be addressed to: Fabio Crestani, Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland. Email: fabio@dcs.gla.ac.uk Mounia Lalmas (until January 1999), Informatik VI, University of Dortmund, Dortmund D-44 227, Germany. Email: mounia@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de WORKSHOP HOMEPAGE: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/lumis99 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of papers 12 February 1999 Notification of acceptance 12 March 1999 Final submissions 12 April 1999 (for selected papers) Final submissions 1 May 1999 (for accepted papers) Workshop 5-6 July 1999 ********** III.B.2. Fr: Thijs Westerveld Re: TWLT14: Language technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval 14TH TWENTE WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IN MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL December 7-8 1998, University of Twente, The Netherlands PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION On 7 and 8 December 1998, the fourteenth international Twente Workshop on Language Technology (TWLT14) will take place at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. The topic of this workshop will be "Language Technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval" TWLT14 will focus on the increasingly important role of human language technology in the indexing and accessing of written and spoken documents, video material and/or images, and on the role of language technology for cross-language retrieval and information extraction. The workshop will address the role of language and speech processing both in terms of existing approaches and implementations, in terms of theoretical foundations, and/or emerging directions of research. Program: Monday 7 December 09:00 Registration 10:00 Opening Session 1: Cross-language IR 10:15 Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI (Multilinguality/MULINEX) 10:45 Paul Buitelaar / Klaus Netter, DFKI (MIETTA) 11:15 Break 11:30 Franciska de Jong / Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente (Twenty-One) 12:00 David Hull, XEROX Grenoble (CLIR) 12:30 Lunch Session 2: NLP, IE/IR and Multimedia 14:00 Arjen de Vries, University of Twente (Querying Multimedia Databases) 14:30 Doug Appelt, SRI (NL+ IE) 15:00 Break + Demos 16:00 Paul van der Vet, University of Twente (Domain Modelling) 16:30 Karen Sparck-Jones, Cambridge University (NL+IR) 17:30 Drinks Tuesday 8 December Session 3: Video and Image Processing 09:00 Stanley Peters, Stanford University (Tools and methods) 09:30 Andres Salway/ Khursid Ahmad, University of Surrey (Video Indexing) 10:00 Wim van Bruxvoort, VDA (subtitle processing/Pop-Eye/Olive) 10:30 Break 11:00 Istar Buscher, SWR (Euromedia) 11:30 Arnold Smeulders (Language and Image Processing) 12:00 Kees van Deemter (Picture Retrieval) 12:30 Lunch Session 4: Speech retrieval 14:00 Martin Wechsler, ETH Zurich 14:30 Steve Renals, University of Sheffield (THISL) 15:00 Wessel Kraaij / Joop van Gent , TNO-TPD (Das+) 15:30 Break 16:00 Closing Session The regular workshop fee is Dfl. 175,- and covers a copy of the proceedings, lunches, coffee and tea during the breaks, and an informal reception. Students may apply for a reduced fee. The workshop secratariat can make hotel reservations. More information on the workshop as well as a registration form can be Found at http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt14.html TWLT14 is organised in cooperation with the PARLEVINK- project of the University of Twente by: Klaus Netter - DFKI, Germany email: netter@dfki.de Franciska de Jong - University of Twente, Computer Science Department email: fdejong@cs.utwente.nl Djoerd Hiemstra - University of Twente, Computer Science Department email: hiemstra@cs.utwente.nl For further information please contact the organisers, preferably by emai= l, or otherwise via the workshop secretariat: Department of Computer Science/PARLEVINK University of Twente Phone: +31 53 4893680 P.O. Box 217, Fax: +31 53 4893503 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands ********** III.B.3. 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 (Participants of the conference who would like to attend the tutorial are asked to send a short message to the conference office (konvens98@uni-bonn.de).) 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 - 5:30 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 5:00-6:00 p.m. Poster Forum *** 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 N.N. 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. LOCAL ORGANIZERS Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders Dr. Thomas Portele Dr. Bernhard Schroeder PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Dr. Ernst Buchberger, Wien (OeGAI) Dr. Stefan Busemann, Saarbruecken (GI) Prof. Dr. Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld (DGfS) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoeppner, Duisburg (GI) Prof. Dr. Roland Hausser, Erlangen (GLDV) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess, Bonn (ITG/DEGA) Prof. Dr. R. Hoffmann, Dresden (ITG/DEGA) Dr. Tibor Kiss, Heidelberg (DGfS) Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders, Bonn (GLDV) Dr. Harald Trost (OeGAI) 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 fro= m the main railway station. WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 (Participants of the conference who would like to attend the tutorial are asked to send a short message to the conference office (konvens98@uni-bonn.de.) ********** III.B.4. Fr: Chris Kimble Re: UK Academy for Information Systems Annual Conference 1999 The following information concerns details of the Research methodology and philosophical aspects of IS Research track for the forthcomming UK Academy for Information Systems Annual Conference. Note that the submission date for this track is later than for the rest = of the conference. Reply to: ukais99@cs.york.ac.uk http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~lsb/ukais99 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Call for Papers: UK Academy for Information Systems Annual Conference Track 4: Research methodology and philosophical aspects of IS Research. Information systems are a relatively new area of study, with a wide rang= e of reference disciplines from computer and information science through t= o management science, sociology and organisational studies. Although the question of the philosophical underpinnings of the field, an= d the efficacy of different research approaches, has been discussed in previous years, the debate has recently become more vigorous with a spate of publications addressing this area. The aim of this track is to bring together researchers representing different perspectives on IS philosophy and research, to debate some of the fundamental questions that have been raised and to look to the futur= e of IS research. The questions the track will address include: =B7 Should Information Systems be viewed as a discipline? =B7 Should we draw the 'boundaries' for the field? =B7 If we should draw boundaries, where should they be drawn? =B7 What are the 'legitimate' theoretical underpinnings of the field? =B7 Does the field need a paradigmatic consensus to develop effectively? =B7 What is an appropriate research focus for our work? =B7 Can we identify appropriate methods for the field? =B7What place does methodological pluralism play in IS research? Particularly welcomed are papers (3,000 - 5,000 words) that introduce new or different theoretical perspectives, question existing orthodoxy or whi= ch put forward as exemplars of particular philosophical or theoretical positions. We will also welcome short 'discussion' papers (2,000 -3,000 words) outlining a particular perspective or position. Papers for this track are due by 20 October. All papers for this track should follow the conference submission guidelines and be clearly marked 'Track 4: Research methodology and philosophical aspects of IS research'. Further information on the UKAIS Conference can be found at: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~lsb/ukais99/ Reviewing will be blind and by at least three people. Reviewers include: David Allen Sheffield University, Richard Beeby University of Paisley, David Ellis Sheffield University, Bob Galliers Warwick University, Lucas Introna London School of Economics, John Kawalek Sheffield Hallam University, Enid Mumford Manchester Business School, Hugh Preston University of Aberystwyth, Frank Stowell De Montfort University, Christine Urquart University of Aberystwyth, Geoff Walsham Cambridge University, Edgar Whitley London School of Economics. This track is co-ordinated by David Allen (d.k.allen@sheffield.ac.uk) ********** III.B.5. Fr: ramesh@csi.forth.gr Re: ICE-98 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION ECONOMIES ICE-98 http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ICE-98 (FOR REGISTRATION) http://www.ibm.com/iac/events-ice98-conference.html October 25-28, 1998 The Mill House Hotel Charleston, SC, USA Sponsor: IBM (Institute for Advanced Commerce, IAC) Co-sponsor: ACM MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL CHAIR PROF. YECHIAM YEMINI The economy of the 21-st century is widely expected to depend substantial= ly on an increasing range of information products and services. The economic= s of physical goods will need to be substantially extended to incorporate these information goods. There is a substantial long-term need to develop fundamental technology infrastructures to support this information econom= y, and to understand the fundamental laws governing this economy. Already at present, the lack of effective market infrastructures, pricing and paymen= t mechanisms presents difficult bottlenecks and challenges in the evolution of global network information products and services. These have attracted= a rapidly growing community of information system builders and economists. The goal of this first ICE conference is to establish a lead forum for th= is community to share research knowledge. CONFERENCE THEME: Today's Internetworked world enables electronic, commercial interactions between tens of thousands of organizations and te= ns of millions of individuals. This creates a vast, dynamic and heterogeneou= s market economy of information and computation services and resources. The scale and dynamics of this system fundamentally changes the way engineers= , economists, corporations and governments think about the structure of computing systems and the economy itself. In the same way that the networ= k is the computer, it is increasingly the case that the economy is the netw= ork. The First International Conference of Information Systems and Economies will bring together researchers and scientists to form a community to discuss and share leading research on: * information and computation economies * networking and economics * economic models for managing networked computing systems There has been a recent explosive growth in research projects and papers = in these areas, and this conference will bring together the leading researchers from these fields for the first time. The conference will als= o serve as the starting point for creating an electronic community and web linking the various researchers and projects from academia, industry and government. CONFERENCE COMMITTEES General Chair Yechiam Yemini: DCC Lab, Columbia University http://www.cs.columbia.edu/dcc/ (yemini@cs.columbia.edu) Program Chairs Don Ferguson: IBM Research (dff@us.ibm.com) Jeff MacKie-Mason: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Department of Economics (jmm@umich.edu) For more information on the conference, please contact the program chairs or the organizing chairs. ADVANCE PROGRAM Monday Session 1: Artificial Agent Economies - Vulkan, N., and N. Jennings Efficient Mechanisms for the Supply of Services in Multi-Agent Environments - Preist, C., and M. van Tol Adaptive Agents in a Persistent Shout Double Auction - Mullen, T., and J. Breese Experiments in Designing Computational Economies for Mobile Users - Sairamesh, J. and J. Kephart Price Dynamics of Vertically Differentiated Information Markets - Tesauro, G., and J. Kephart Foresight-based pricing algorithms in an economy of software agents - Lukose, R., and B. Huberman Surfing as a Real Option Session 2: Network Pricing - Schnizlein, J. How Can Routers Help Internet Economics? - Ogino, N. Connection Establishment Protocol Based on Mutual Selection by Users and Network Providers - Stahl, D., A. Whinston, and K. Zhang A Simulation Study of Competitive Internet Pricing: AOL Flat Rates versus GSW Usage Prices - Courcoubetis, C., V. A. Siris, and G. D. Stamoulis Network control and usage-based charging: Is charging for volume adequate? Tuesday Session 1: Quality of Service Provision - Katchabaw, M., H. Lutfiyya, and M. Bauer Driving Resource Management With Application-Level Quality of Service Specifications - Lalis, S., C. Nikolaou, D. Papadakis, and M. Marazakis Market-driven Service Allocation in a QoS-capable Environment - Reininger, D., D. Raychaudhuri and M. Ott Market Based Bandwidth Allocation Policies for QoS Control in Boradband Networks - Park, K., M. Sitharam, and S. Chen Quality of Service Provision in Noncooperative Networks: Heterogenous Preferences, Multi-Dimensional QoS Vectors, and Burstiness - Fishburn, P., and A. Odlyzko Dynamic Behavior of Differential Pricing and Quality of Service Options for the Internet Session 2: Market-based System Control - Amir, Yair, Baruch Awerbuch, R. Sean Borgstrom A Cost-Benefit Framework for Online Management of a Metacomputing System - Regev, O. and N. Nisan The POPCORN Market - an Online Market for Computational Resources - Karaul, M., Y. Korilis, and A. Orda A Market-Based Architecture for Management of Geographically Dispersed, Replicated Web Servers - Anastasiadi, A., and S. Kapidakis, A Computational Economy for Dynamic Load Balancing and Data Replication - Yemini, Y., A. Dailianas, D. Florissi, and G. Huberman MarketNet: Market-Based Protection of Information Systems Wednesday - Panel on Information Economies - Invited Sessions 12.30 P.M. (End of Conference) ********** III.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF Names New Director for CISE The following document (pa984) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: NSF Names New Director of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Type: News Releases Subtype: Computer/Information Sciences, NSF-wide It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?pa984 Full text follows. Title: NSF Names New Director of Computer and Information Science and Engineering Date: September 29, 1998 PERSONNEL ANNOUNCEMENT Media contact: September 29, 1998 K. Lee Herring NSF PA 98-4 (703) 306-1070/kherring@nsf.gov NSF NAMES NEW DIRECTOR OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named University of Pennsylvania computer science and engineering professor Ruzena Bajcsy, Ph.D. to be Assistant Director for NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE). Bajcsy (pronounced "buy chee"= ) will assume her new position in December. She will replace Juris Hartmanis, who will have completed his term of service and return to Cornell University. Bajcsy is a pioneering researcher in machine perception, robotics and artificial intelligence. She is a professor both in the Computer and Information Science Department and in the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department and is a member of the Neuroscience Institute in the School of Medicine. She is also director of the university's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laborator= y, which she founded in 1978. Bajcsy has done seminal research in the areas of human-centered computer control, cognitive science, robotics, computerized radiological/medical image processing and artificial vision. She is highly regarded not only f= or her significant research contributions but also for her leadership in the creation of a world-class robotics lab, recognized worldwide as a premier= e research center. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering a= s well as the Institute of Medicine. Bajcsy is especially known for her wide-ranging, broad outlook on the field and cross-disciplinary talent an= d leadership, successfully bridging such diverse areas as robotics and artificial intelligence, engineering and cognitive science. Bajcsy received her master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Slovak Technical University in 1957 and 1967, respectively. She received a Ph.D. in computer science in 1972 from Stanford University, an= d since that time has been teaching and doing research at Penn's Department of Computer and Information Science. She began as an assistant professor and within 13 years became Chair of the department. Prior to the University of Pennsylvania, she taught during the 1950s and 1960s as an instructor and assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. She has served as advisor to ore than 20 Ph.D. recipients. As head of NSF's CISE directorate, Bajcsy will manage a budget of approximately $300 million annually. Bajcsy is the sixth person to be nam= ed to this position since the directorate was created in 1986. Her selection followed a national search chaired by Stanford University Dean of Engineering John Hennessy. ****************************************************************** 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. 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). 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