Information Retrieval List Digest 434 (December 7, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-434.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 December 7, 1998 Volume XV, Number 48 Issue 434 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. CAMS Data Engineering Laboratory, Paris: Research Assistant: AI/NLP 2, Telesec Corestaff: Beltsville, MD Special Library: Assistant Project Manager III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Web Site Search Tools 2. JASIS, Volume 50, Number 1 Table of Contents 3. Special Issue of the Journal for Global Information B. Meetings 1. NJ/ASIS Distinguished Lectureship Colloquium 2. Mira Conference on IR Evaluation 3. Second Meeting of the AgentLink SIG on Intelligent Information Agents 4. ICML-99 Call For Papers 5. IJCAI-99 Workshop: Text Mining: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications IJCAI-99 Workshop 6. Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF KDI CFP -- Updated, IMPORTANT CHANGES ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk Re: CAMS Data Engineering Laboratory, Paris: Research Assistant: AI/NLP The CAMS Data Engineering Laboratory (CNRS UMR No. 17) wishes to appoint a Research Assistant (junior level) to work on the CONCERTO Esprit project (P29159, sponsored by the European Commission). This project is concerned with the conceptual indexing, querying and retrieval of digital documents. The appointment will be on a fixed short-term contract of 20 months (15/1/1999 - 15/9/2000) remunerated at an appropriate point on the relevant CNRS salary scale. Duties will involve being responsible for carrying out software design work, programming and data management associated with the elaboration of conceptual annotations to be added to textual documents, in order to facilitate indexing and intelligent retrieval. Source documents will be drawn equally from material available on WWW and in classic databases. Conceptual annotations will represent the semantic contents of source documents, even if only partially. REQUIRED: French nationality, or national of one of the current member states of the European Union. Degree in computer science or closely related area of at least Maitrise (Masters) level. DESIRABLE KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCE: Experience of software design and development in an object-oriented framework, experience of implementation in Java (C/C++) in a Windows/NT environment. Good knowledge of English, i.e. at least a) ability to write the first draft of a report directly in English; b) ability to make a simple presentation and to actively participate in collaborative project meetings. Competence in knowledge representation (symbolic approaches) and, if possible, in computational linguistics. SALARY: The gross monthly starting salary for a CNRS Research Assistant is around FF11,490, corresponding to a net monthly salary of about FF9,770. The post is a full time one, 169 hours/month. It could be a suitable post for a candidate to carry out doctoral work on problems of conceptual annotation of WWW material. LOCATION: Paris, 6e arrondissement METHOD OF APPLICATION: Send by e-mail to : * a 1-page letter stating motivation for applying * a detailed CV as a Word/RTF, Word 6 ou PostScript attachment. Do Not Reply to jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk. ********** II.2. Fr: mbaldridge Re: Telesec Corestaff: Beltsville, MD Special Library: Assistant Project Manager Telesec Corestaff Library Staffing Services has an opening for: Assistant Project Manager Where: Large special library in Beltsville, MD. Salary: Low 30s Full-time Responsible for supervising employees, maintaining productivity levels and quality control. Work in circulation, ILL and stacks. Will maintain and develop statistical databases. Must understand library methodologies. Must be flexible and enjoy working in a fast-paced, production environment. Excellent opportunity for MLS student. Excellent benefits. MLS not required. If you would like more information about this position, please call Tamara Ewald at 301-949-4097 or fax your resume to 301-949-8729 or e-mail to tewald@telesec.com For other exciting job opportunities in libraries, please check out our web page at www.corestaff.com. Look for Searchlines and apply for positions on-line. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Avi Rappoport Re: Web Site Search Tools Searchtools.com is the complete guide to web site indexing and local search engines. It includes a web administrator's guide to choosing a site search tool, listings of overview articles, reviews, product reports for search engines running on Java, Mac, Perl, Unix and Windows, background topics on information retrieval, intranets, meta data, and more. ********** III.A.2. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS, Volume 50, Number 1 Table of Contents Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) VOLUME 50, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1999 CONTENTS EDITORIAL The Coming of the Millenium and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) Donald H. Kraft 1 In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 4 Special Topic Issue: Youth Issues in Information Science Guest Editors: Mary K. Chelton and Nancy P. Thomas Introduction: Why a Special Topic Issue on Youth Issues? Mary K. Chelton and Nancy P. Thomas 7 Utilization of Heroin Information by Adolescent Girls in Australia: A Cognitive Analysis Ross J. Todd 10 A Visit to the Information Mall: Web Searching Behavior of High School Students Raya Fidel, Rachel K. Davies, Mary H. Douglass, Jenny K. Holder, Carla J. Hopkins, Elisabeth J. Kushner, Bryan K. Miyagishima, and Christina D. Toney 24 Barriers to Adolescents' Information Seeking for Career Decision Making Heidi E. Julien 38 RESEARCH A Re-Unification of Two Competing Models for Document Retrieval David Bodoff 49 Exploiting Parallelism in a Structural Scientific Discovery System to Improve Scalability Gehad M. Galal, Diane J. Cook, and Lawrence B. Holder 65 Inner-City Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Survey of Their Information Use Environment John Agada 74 Boolean Search: Current State and Perspectives Valery I. Frants, Jacob Shapiro, Isak Taksa, and Vladimir G.Voiskunskii 86 The ASIS home page contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts as above from from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date. The full text of JASIS is available from 1986 (Volume 37) to date at where one must register but for which there is no charge. This site includes the full text of JASIS and other Wiley journals. You may also set up a personal home page which allows you to: * Browse the Wiley InterScience collection * Search across the entire content of Wiley InterScience journals * Add your own notes and comments to individual articles * Store sets of search criteria for the searches you perform most often * Go directly to the home page of your favorite Wiley journal * Create and maintain your personal reading list To view the JASIS articles full text, one must click on the "view articles" button at the top of the Title/Abstract page. The complete sequence, after logging on and going to the JASIS page is: 1) select issue to view; 2) select title of article; 3) select the "view article" button at the top of the page above the abstract. The article will then appear in Adobe Acrobat. American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 495-0900 FAX (301) 495-0810 http://www.asis.org ********** III.A.3. Fr: Pattee Fletcher Re: Special Issue of the Journal for Global Information CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of the JOURNAL for Global Information Management LIBRARIES AND THE INTERNET: AN INTERNATIONAL AGENDA. Patricia Diamond Fletcher, ed. We are soliciting research papers for a special issue of the Journal for Global Information Management. The goal of this special issue is to provide an international picture of the issues to and the responses by libraries to providing services and information on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Public, academic, school, business, and other special libraries will be the subject of the discourse. Current research on effectiveness of library networks and on the potential directions for libraries in a networked environment will be presented to share library best practices, policy, and services. Cross-cultural library issues are solicited. Topics can include: - Development of Internet services in libraries - Special populations for Internet services - Budgeting, accounting, and funding Internet services - Policy issues - Training and staffing issues - Global libraries - Collection development and dissemination - Providing for the information "have-nots" - International copyright - Transborder data flow Important Deadlines: January 10, 1999 -- submissions from authors due to editor***** March 31 -- papers due back to editor from reviewers April 15 -- papers returned to authors for final editing June 1 -- papers due to publisher for Fall issue inclusion Guidelines for submission can be found at the JGIM website: http://www.idea-group.com/jgim.htm Direct all inquiries and submissions to: Patricia Diamond Fletcher, Ph.D. Department of Information Systems 1000 Hilltop Circle The University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore, MD, USA 21250 410-455-3154 410-455-1073 (fax) SEE ALSO: the "Call for Chapters" for World Libraries on the Information Superhighway (Idea Group Publishing). Papers submitted for the above special issue of JGIM may also be considered - if received in time - for inclusion in the book. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Greg Paris Re: NJ/ASIS Distinguished Lectureship Colloquium New Jersey Chapter of the American Society for Information Science Distinguished Lectureship Dr. Michael Lesk Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation (U.S.) Visiting Professor in Computer Science, University College London Thursday, December 10, 1998 Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey Introduction: The New Jersey Chapter of the American Society for Information Science (NJ/ASIS) proudly announces Dr. Michael Lesk as the recipient of its fourteenth annual Distinguished Lectureship Award. The New Jersey Chapter established this award in 1985 to honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of information science. Due to the stature of the awardees, this award has become nationally and internationally known over the past decade. You are cordially invited to attend the events surrounding the presentation of this year's award. Additional information about this colloquium may be found on the NJ/ASIS web site at either URL: http://scils.rutgers.edu/nj-asis http://scils.rutgers.edu/nj-asis/colloq98.html 2:00-4:00 Colloquium: "How Much Information is there in the World?" Rutgers University, Alexander Library Scholarly Communications Room (4th floor) 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 4:00-5:00 Reception SCILS Student Lounge (library level of adjacent SCILS Building) 5:30-6:30 Cocktail hour (cash bar) 6:30-7:45 Dinner SoHo on George (restuarant) 335 George Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 732-296-0533 7:45-8:00 Distinguished Lectureship Award Presentation 8:00-9:00 "Why Digital Libraries?" Distinguished Lectureship abstracts and details: Afternoon talk at Alexander Library, Rutgers University Michael Lesk, National Science Foundation, "How Much Information is there in the World?" Evening talk at SoHo on George, New Brunswick NJ, "Why Digital Libraries?" Biographical information: Dr. Michael Lesk has had a varied career. In the 1960's he worked on the SMART project and wrote much of their retrieval code and did many of the retrieval experiments, as well as obtaining a PhD in Chemical Physics. In the 1970's he worked in the group that built Unix and wrote Unix tools for word processing (tbl, refer), compiling (lex), and networking (uucp). In the 1980's he worked on geographic information retrieval systems and word-sense disambiguation, as well as managed a research group at Bellcore. In the 1990's he has been involved in the development of a large chemical information system, the CORE project, with Cornell, OCLC, ACS and CAS. He is now the Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation (U.S.), and Visiting Professor in Computer Science, University College London. Currently his interests range over digital libraries, library preservation, information retrieval and networks. He has recently written "Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes and Bucks" (Morgan Kaufmann, July 1997). Additional information is available at http://www.lesk.com Additional contact: Robert Krovetz (609-951-2773, krovetz@research.nj.nec.com) ********** III.B.2. Fr: Mark Dunlop Re: Mira Conference on IR Evaluation Final Mira Conference Glasgow, Scotland 14-16 April 1999 Deadline for Papers - 10 January 1999 Mira is a European Union funded working group looking at how information retrieval should accommodate interactivity and multimedia, and what the implications of these are for the evaluation of IR systems. This announcement forms (1) a call for papers to be published on the themes of the Mira working group and (2) an open call for attendance at the final conference of the Mira working group. Papers: Papers describing work in progress or completed work are invited on any topic affecting the area of IR evaluation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * The user in the evaluation process * The changing nature of IR tasks * Traditional evaluation methodologies * Field studies of (multimedia) IR in work domains * The relationship between Evaluation and IR design * A balanced approach to evaluation (software vs. user) * How interaction affects evaluation * The move from static to dynamic evaluation * The effects of new media on IR Authors are invited to submit camera-ready copies of their paper, in English, to be received no later than 10 January 1999. Papers should contain at most 7500 words and should be formatted in accordance with Springer-Verlag's Electronic Workshop guidelines. The submission should include two copies of the paper: one anonymous copy for refereeing and one full copy for publication in the draft proceedings. Papers will be refereed and, if accepted, will be published in the Electronic Workshops in Computing series, provided that the overall quality of papers is high enough. Accepted papers will also be included in the form submitted in draft proceedings that will be distributed to all Mira Conference attendees. Authors will then have until 16 May 1999 to revise their paper in light of referees' comments and feedback from the workshop itself. The final version of papers will then be included in an e-WIC publication. Authors should note that acceptance for publication in the proceedings does not guarantee presentation time at the conference. The Programme Committee will select a sub-set of papers for presentation to achieve a balance of topics discussed. However, all accepted papers will appear in both the draft and final proceedings (subject to referee comments). Please note: papers should not be submitted to the electronic Workshops in Computing editors directly! Initial submission is as camera ready - not electronic. Paper submissions should be sent to: Mira Conference Organisation Computing Science Department University of Glasgow 17 Lilybank Gardens Glasgow G12 8RZ Scotland Enquiries to: mailto:mira99@dcs.gla.ac.uk Phone: +44 141 330 4264 Fax: +44 141 330 3661 Conference: The conference will be designed to explore and exchange the best current thinking and opinion on the conference theme. With this in mind the preliminary programme plans an approximately equal mix of participatory demonstrations and exercises, discussion panels or debates on key questions, and selected invited papers. Demonstrations or exercises are currently planned on the following topics: * Photographic retrieval for journalists * How much consensus is found for relevance judgements? * Exploring the possibility of a multimedia test collection * Applying a multi-level evaluation framework to IR Panels are currently planned on the following topics: * The worth of the TREC programme * What kind of relevance should we measure? * Interactive system performance depends on work context so standard test-beds are of no use * Many levels of evaluation are essential Programme Chair: Prof Keith van Rijsbergen Programme Committee: Dr Stephen Draper, Dr Mark Dunlop Local Organiser: Fiona Nixon This conference is organised and underwriten by the Mira working group on evaluation in information retrieval. Unlike previous meetings of Mira this conference is open to attendees without invitation, but a small registration fee will be charged. The conference will be held in Glasgow City Centre with a range of accommodation being available throughout the City - more details to follow. Enquiries to: mailto:mira99@dcs.gla.ac.uk Phone: +44 141 330 4264 Fax: +44 141 330 3661 Links... This call http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/mira/workshops/conference/cfp.html Mira home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/mira/ Previous Mira meetings http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/mira/workshops/ ********** III.B.3. Fr: Matthias Klusch Re: Second Meeting of the AgentLink Special Interest Group on Intelligent Information Agents Second Meeting of the AgentLink Special Interest Group on INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS April 21 & 22, 1999 London (UK) http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/SIGM2.html The main aim of this special interest group (SIG) is to promote collaborative projects and cross fertilisation of ideas between academic nodes with similar interests in the research area of INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS (I2A). This shall be done, e.g., by putting groups with related interests in touch with one-another, providing and disseminating information about work of national and international groups and projects in the I2A area, supporting workshops and conferences of interest. For more details about the I2A-SIG, please, see the SIG's home page in the Web, bookmark it and check back often for up-to-date informations: http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/i2a-SIG.html This SIG meeting is *not* an academic workshop. Topics concern SIG's further activities in European R&D of intelligent information agents, presentation and discussion of collaborative efforts and advances in R&D in the area. PARTICIPATION: The number of attendees of this meeting is limited to 40 persons. AgentLink SIG meetings are **by invitation only**, i.e., all participants have to confirm their attendance of the meeting, and have to be confirmed by the meeting chair. If you like to attend the meeting please send a STATEMENT OF INTEREST to arrive not later than JANUARY 15, 1999, including (1) your name, affiliation and full contact address (2) list of recent and ongoing collaborations and participation in national and European research programs or projects of your group/institute in R&D of intelligent information agents. Available I2A prototypes for demonstration at the meeting. (3) a short (update of the) report about your group (in plain text, pdf or postscript). You may check the following URL for reports on European R&D in intelligent information agents carried out by entities in the SIG: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~klusch/sig/reports.html by email (to klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) or mail (see address below). You may find more information on the I2A SIG's activities at: http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/i2aActiv.html Date & Location: The meeting will be held at APRIL 21 & 22, 1999, and will be co-located with the PAAM-99 conference in LONDON, UK. More detailed info will be available soon. The I2A SIG meeting is co-located with meetings of other SIGs of AgentLink. On April 23rd will be a plenary meeting of the AgentLink network, which everyone attending the SIG meeting is invited to attend. The plenary day will consist of Travel Funding: AgentLink (AL) will fund a *maximum* of one person from each AL member node to attend *each* SIG meeting, provided that these people are *actively participating* (e.g. by presenting something). AL will allow up to 2 people from each AL node to attend each SIG meeting (i.e., if 2 people attend a single SIG meeting, then at most one will be funded.) Note that travel support will *only* be available to AgentLink members. Please indicate your need to be funded not later than January 15, 1999 by email (to klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) or mail (see address below). You will be notified on acceptance or rejection of your request for travel support by email on February 10, 1999. About AgentLink: I2A SIG is part of AgentLink: Europe's ESPRIT funded Network of Excellence for agent-based computing. For further information about AgentLink and its activities (including how to join), see http://www.AgentLink.org/. Contact: For all inquiries concerning the I2A SIG/meeting please contact: Matthias Klusch Technical University of Chemnitz Strasse der Nationen 62 09111 Chemnitz, Germany. email: klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de phone: +49-371-531-1511 fax: +49-371-531-1530 ********** III.B.4. Fr: ICML-99 (16th Intl Conf on Machine Learning) Re: ICML-99 Call For Papers http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ICML99/cfp.html ICML-99 home page: http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ICML99/main.html Call for Papers THE SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING June 27-30, 1999 Bled, Slovenia The Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-99) will be held at the Convention Center Festival Hall, Bled, Slovenia, from June 27 to June 30, 1999. ICML-99 will be co-located with the Ninth International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-99). Submissions are expected that describe empirical, theoretical, and cognitive-modeling research in all areas of machine learning. Submissions that present algorithms for novel learning tasks, interdisciplinary research involving machine learning, or innovative applications of machine learning techniques to challenging, real-world problems are especially encouraged. For application papers, novelty and lessons for the machine learning community are of particular interest. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the international programme committee. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Authors must submit four (4) hardcopies and an electronic version (PostScript) of each submission, as well as a copy of the title page via email. The mailing address for hardcopies is: Ivan Bratko & Saso Dzeroski / ICML-99 Jozef Stefan Institute Jamova 39 SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia (phone +386 61 177 3528 for use on express mail forms) Submissions must arrive by *** February 1, 1999 ***, acceptance decisions will be mailed by *** March 27, 1999 ***, and camera-ready copies will be due by *** April 19, 1999 ***. Electronic versions (PostScript, preferrably gzipped) should be emailed to icml99@ijs.si with a subject "postscript submission". We depend on the electronic versions in PostScript to cut mailing costs and speed-up the reviewing process. Submissions not accompanied by an electronic version will only be processed exceptionally, when the authors cannot produce such an electronic version and have explained this on the title page. A copy of the title page (plain ascii text) should also be emailed to icml99@ijs.si with a subject "title page" by *** January 28, 1999 *** (note the date). The title page should accompany each hardcopy submission, in addition to being sent through electronic mail. The title page, both the electronic and hardcopy versions, should be formatted as follows: Title: Authors with addresses: Abstract (250 word maximum): Keywords: Email address of contact author: Phone number of contact author: Electronic version: PostScript / None (please explain why not!) Multiple submission statement (if applicable): PLEASE SEND YOUR TITLE PAGE AS PLAIN ASCII. (Do NOT send PostScript, Latex, Microsoft Word, etc.) Submissions (including the title page, figures, tables, and references) must not exceed *** 16 pages ***. Please start the body of your paper on page 2, but you need not repeat the title, abstract, etc. on that page. Staple each copy of the paper *including the title page*. Two-sided printing is encouraged. Submissions must be formatted as follows: 12-point font (except for references, which can be formatted in a 10- or 11-point font), single-spaced (Baselineskip = 0.1875 inches or 0.4763 cm), a maximum per-page text width of 5.5 inches (14 cm), and a maximum per-page text height of 7.5 in (19 cm). For those using LaTeX, a style file and a sample source file are available through the on-line version of this call. In the interest of fairness, if a submission exceeds the length dictated by the above requirements, it will be rejected without review. Simultaneous submissions to multiple conferences are allowed, as long as this is clearly indicated on the cover page. Accepted papers will be published in the ICML'99 Proceedings, provided they are withdrawn from the other conferences. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: ICML-99 Workshops will take place on June 30 at Hotel Park. Workshop proposals should be submitted by *** January 10, 1999 *** to the workshop chair Dunja Mladenic at Dunja.Mladenic@ijs.si, cc: icml99@ijs.si, subject "icml99 workshop proposal". Acceptance decisions will be mailed by *** February 1, 1999 ***. Camera-ready proceedings from the workshop organizers are due *** June 1, 1999 ***. The proposals should not exceed three pages and should contain a title, organizer (with contact details), tentative program committee, workshop description and a draft call for papers for the workshop. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: ICML-99 Tutorials will take place in the afternoon of June 26 at Hotel Park. Tutorial proposals should be submitted by *** January 10, 1999 *** to the tutorial chair Blaz Zupan at Blaz.Zupan@ijs.si, cc: icml99@ijs.si, subject "icml99 tutorial proposal". Acceptance decisions will be mailed by *** February 1, 1999 ***. Camera-ready tutorial notes from the lecturers are due *** June 1, 1999 ***. The proposals should not exceed two pages and should contain a title, lecturer (with contact details), duration (hours), a description of the tutorial and a brief profile of the lecturer. ********** III.B.5. Fr: Ronen Feldman Re: IJCAI-99 Workshop: Text Mining: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications IJCAI-99 Workshop TEXT MINING: FOUNDATIONS, TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS Stockholm, Sweden August 2, 1999 The information age has made it easy to store large amounts of data. The proliferation of documents available on the Web, on corporate intranets, on news wires, and elsewhere is overwhelming. However, while the amount of data available to us is constantly increasing, our ability to absorb and process this information remains constant. Search engines only exacerbate the problem by making more and more documents available in a matter of a few key strokes; so-called "push" technology makes the problem even worse by constantly reminding us that we are failing to follow critical news, events, and trends. We experience information overload, missing important patterns even as they unfold before us. Text Mining is a new and exciting research area that tries to solve the information overload problem by using techniques from data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, natural-language understanding, case-based reasoning, statistics, and knowledge management to help people gain insight into large quantities of semi-structured or unstructured text. Text Mining typically involves preprocessing of a document collection (such as through text categorization or term extraction), storage and indexing of the intermediate representations, analysis of the intermediate representations (such as via distribution analysis, document clustering, trend analysis, and association rule discovery), and visualization of the results. Sample topics appropriate for this workshop include the development of efficient algorithms for very large document collections, tools for visualizing such document collections, the use of intelligent agents to perform text mining on the Internet, and the use information extraction to better capture the major themes of the documents. More generally, we solicit papers in all areas relevant to the problem of gaining insight into large collections of text, including, but not limited to, the following areas: * Association Rule Discovery from Document Collections * Document Representations * Information Extraction for Text Mining * Multi-lingual Text Mining * Storage Issues * Taxonomy Generation for Text Mining * Term Extraction * Text Categorization * Text Mining Applications * Text Mining on the Internet * Trend Analysis * Visualization Techniques Workshop presentations will be selected from among those submitting a ten-to-twelve-page paper on their work. Papers should be in postscript, PDF, HTML, or plain text format, and should be submitted by emailing a URL to feldman@cs.biu.ac.il that points to the submission. (Those for whom doing so would be a hardship should contact feldman@cs.biu.ac.il to arrange an alternative submission method.) Those wishing to attend without making a presentation should instead email feldman@cs.biu.ac.il a short (at most one page) summary of their interests. We also plan to have a demo session for research and commercial text mining systems, and those wishing to participate in this session should email feldman@cs.biu.ac.il a one-page description of their system/demo. * Submission deadline: 15 April 1999 * Acceptance decision notifications: 5 May 1999 * Camera-ready copy due: 15 May 1999 Program Committee: * Rakesh Agrawal (IBM, Almaden, USA) * Yonatan Aumann (Bar-Ilan University and Instinct Software, ISRAEL) * Usama Fayyad (Microsoft Research, USA) * Ronen Feldman, Co-Chair (Bar-Ilan University and Instinct Software,ISRAEL) * Marti Hearst, (UC Berkeley, USA) * Haym Hirsh, Co-Chair (Rutgers, USA) * Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany) * Yves Kodratoff (LRI, France) * Heikki Mannila (Microsoft Research, USA) * Martin Rajman (EPFL, Switzerland) * Ian Witten, (New Zealand) Send submissions to Ronen Feldman Director, Data Mining Laboratory Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, ISRAEL, 52900 (972) 3-5318629 (tel) (972) 3-5353325 (fax) Email: feldman@cs.biu.ac.il ********** III.B.6. Fr: Fabio Crestani Re: Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems 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 among 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 limited 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 "LUMIS99 Submission" as the subject line. Please submit the paper in postscript. There is no particular format for the submission, but the cover page should include title, authors, and the coordinates of the corresponding author. Authors should also indicate in the first page which of the thematic areas 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 12. All accepted contributions will be published in a public report of the Queen Mary & Westfield College (to be confirmed). The format guidelines for the final paper version will be announced later. Final camera-ready copies 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 ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF KDI CFP -- Updated, IMPORTANT CHANGES Updated information is now available on the NSF Online Document System for the following document (nsf9929): Title: Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI) Proposal Solicitation Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: Crosscutting Programs, NSF-wide FASTLANE is now required for the submission of both preproposals and full proposals. Please note the changes in the section on proposal submission. It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9929 ****************************************************************** 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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