Information Retrieval List Digest 444 (March 1, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-444.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 1, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 8 Issue 444 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Lexis-Nexis, OH: Consulting Research Scientist, IR 2. UC Irvine: Engineering and CS Librarian 3. UM, Baltimore: Assoc. Staff Position: Health Sciences & Human Services III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. D-Lib Magazine (February 1999) Available 2. Museum Educational Site License (MESL) Reports B. Meetings 1. TOOLS USA '99 - Last Call for Submissions 2. CFP: Machine Learning and Intelligent Agents (ACAI-99)- EXTENDED DEADLINE 3. Last CFP: AIMDM'99 Workshop: Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 4. Technical Workshop on IR and Knowledge Discovery 5. HICSS Minitrack: Digital Document Understanding and Visualization ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Ashwin G. Rao Re: Lexis-Nexis, OH: Consulting Research Scientist, IR CONSULTING RESEARCH SCIENTIST IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL LEXIS-NEXIS is a world leader in providing enhanced information services and management tools and helping legal, government, and business professionals collect, manage and use information productively. Having positioned our organization at the forefront of the industry, our employees' imagination and initiative are now setting the standards for technology excellence as we move into the 21st century. We now have an excellent opportunity for an information retrieval professional in our Applied Research organization. This position provides assistance and input to senior management regarding advanced search technology opportunities and risks; develops and leads large multi-functional research activities to solve complex research problems, design and recommend advanced search solutions and serve as a senior source of expertise. We are seeking candidates with significant research experience in distributed search, multimedia search, information resource discovery, text data mining, intelligent agents and/or question-answering systems. Must have strong software development experience in commercial and/or research languages; excellent knowledge of Windows, UNIX and Mainframe operating environments; and experience in the development and deployment of complex, very large scale applications for text search and retrieval. LEXIS-NEXIS, a division of Reed Elsevier, is headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio. We offer an excellent compensation, benefit package, and provide a work environment that encourages creativity and provides career and personal growth opportunities. LEXIS-NEXIS is an equal opportunity employer. To be considered, please forward your resume to: Resumes.sh@lexis-nexis.com Human Resources - SH LEXIS-NEXIS POB 933 Dayton, OH 45401 ********** II.2. Fr: Julia Gelfand Re: UC Irvine: Engineering and CS Librarian ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE LIBRARIAN (search reopened with expanded salary range) The Libraries at the University of California, Irvine invite applications for the position of Engineering & Computer Science Librarian. *Duties and Responsibilities* The Engineering and Computer Science Librarian is a member of the team-based Science Library Research and Instructional Services Department. The primary reporting line is to the Head of the Department; as a bibliographer, also reports to the Head of Collection Development. As a Research and Instructional Services librarian, shares responsibilities for general reference and instructional services. These responsibilities include reference desk service (including weekend and evening service); research consultation; electronic reference service; and online searching. Provides specialized reference and instructional services for engineering and computer science. Develops and maintains a variety of printed and electronic guides to specialized library resources in Engineering and Computer Science. Maintains a close working relationship with other science and medical librarians and actively participates in departmental/divisional team activities. As a bibliographer, develops and manages collections in electrical and computer engineering, materials science, mechanical and aerospace engineering, civil and environmental engineering, chemical and biochemical engineering, information and computer science, and a developing collection in biomedical engineering. Manages collection budget for each area. Serves as liaison librarian to the four departments in the School of Engineering and to the Department of Information and Computer Science. Works closely with colleagues who serve the Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Environmental Sciences and the College of Medicine. Actively participates in the Engineering/Medicine/Sciences bibliographers team and the Bibliographers Group. Works closely with Acquisitions, Cataloging and Preservation departments. Maintains close working relations with major vendors and publishers in primary collecting areas. *Qualifications* Required: -M.L.S. from an ALA-accredited library school. -At least one year of successful experience in an academic, scientific/technical or research library, preferably in collection development and/or reference, or an advanced degree in engineering, computer science or a physical science. -Demonstrated experience with various electronic information and bibliographic resources relevant to the applied sciences. -Excellent communication skills. -Ability to work effectively in a team and in a dynamically changing environment. -Ability to work cooperatively and effectively with all elements of a culturally diverse community. -Broad interest in the sciences. -Commitment to working with both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as with faculty. -Ability to interact appropriately with the local professional community. -In-depth understanding of advanced scholarly research needs and methods. -Ability to meet the UC criteria for advancement and promotion of librarians. Preferred: -Subject background gained either through academic training or experience in engineering, computer science or the physical sciences. -Working knowledge of patents, standards, technical report literature. -Demonstrated successful experience in providing public services, preferably in an academic, technical or special library environment. -Demonstrated ability to engage in successful instruction efforts, preferably with experience in preparing, providing and evaluating effective library instruction. -Knowledge of publishing patterns and the organization, accessibility, and bibliography of the relevant literature. -Experience in providing assistance with relevant government information. Desired: -Evidence of potential for leadership and for taking initiative. -Familiarity with current and evolving technologies of publication. -Experience with web page development and maintenance. -Reading knowledge of at least one foreign language. *Science Library Research and Instructional Services Department* This Department is the primary research and information center of the Science Library, supporting research and teaching in the Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Information & Computer Science, the Health and Medical Sciences. The Department's services include a reference desk open 51 hours each week, a research consultation service, electronic reference service, online searching, and a wide range of instructional programs and courses on electronic and print resources, and research methodology to support course-related activity. The Reference Collection consists of 22,000 volumes and there is a growing collection of electronic resources available in the Reference Room and the Interactive Learning Center. The Department operates in a team-based environment and the staff consists of eight librarians, four fte library assistants, and student assistants. *Collections* Collections is responsible for the librarywide development and management of collections under the administration and coordination of the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Access Services. In addition to 15 bibliographers who are responsible for supporting the collection, liaison, and service needs of UCI's academic programs, Collections includes three Government Information librarians with collection development responsibilities, the Southeast Asian Archive Librarian, and the Head of Special Collections & University Archives. Most Collections librarians are located in departments throughout the Libraries and are responsible for both collections and services in their specialized disciplines. Each Collections librarian is a member of one of three discipline-based pods (a.k.a. teams) as well as of the Collections-wide Bibliographers Group. *The Libraries* The UCI Libraries consist of the Main Library, the Science Library, and the Medical Center Library. The Main Library primarily serves the Schools of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Social Ecology, the Graduate School of Management, the Department of Education, and Studies. The Science Library primarily serves the College of Medicine and the Schools of Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and the Department of Information and Computer Science. The Medical Center Library serves the UCI Medical Center, located in Orange, 12 miles from the main campus. The UCI Libraries' organization includes the use of teams in conjunction with departments. The library collection, supported by a budget of $4.5 million, consists of approximately 2 million volumes and 19,000 current serial titles, and an aggressively expanding electronic resources collection. In addition to the local INNOPAC integrated library system, the Libraries participate in the University of California MELVYL System. The University of California recently launched the California Digital Library (CDL) and included in the CDL is the Science, Technology and Industry Collection (STIC) initiative. *University of California, Irvine* One of nine University of California campuses, the University of California, Irvine, is nestled in 1,489 acres of coastal foothills, five miles from the Pacific Ocean between San Diego and Los Angeles. The present enrollment is 18,209 students with a faculty of approximately 1,000 including the Medical School. The current student population numbers 14,571 undergraduates, 2,540 graduate students, and 1,098 health sciences students; a 15% increase in student enrollment by the year 2005 is planned. Ethnic/minority students represent about 70% of the undergraduate student body. The University offers 29 doctoral programs in addition to the M.D. UCI is ranked nationally in the top fifty universities; several doctoral programs are ranked in the top 25. UCI is member of the Association of American Universities (AAU). Librarians at the University of California, Irvine are academic appointees and receive potential career status at the time of their initial appointment. Librarians are periodically subject to peer review for merit increases based on the following criteria: 1) professional competence and quality of service within the Library; 2) professional activity outside the Library; 3) university and public service; and 4) research and other creative activity. They are entitled to two days per month of annual leave, one day per month sick leave, reductions in incidental fees, and all other perquisites granted to non-faculty academic personnel. The University has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of group life and health insurance plans. Benefits are equal to approximately 40% of salary. *Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience within a range of $33,732 - $56,844 (Assistant Librarian II - Librarian II). *Deadline for Applications: Applications received by March 15, 1999 will receive first consideration, but applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. *To Apply: Qualified applicants who wish to be considered for this position should send their letters of application, complete resumes, and the names of three references to: Judy Kaufman, Assistant University Librarian, Personnel and Administration, UC Irvine, P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557. e-mail: kaufman@uci.edu; voice (949) 824-4716; confidential fax (949) 824-1288. Upon application, candidates should be in possession of proof of their legal right to employment in the U.S. In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, verification of legal right to work will be required between the time of final selection and hiring, and is absolutely essential in ultimately being hired. This position description is listed at http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~vacancy/, with links to the UCI Libraries Home Page and to additional websites featuring campus and community information. *MELVYL is a registered trademark of the Regents of the University of California. THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE THROUGH DIVERSITY. ********** II.3. Fr: Beverly Gresehover Re: UM, Baltimore: Assoc. Staff Position: Health Sciences & Human Services ASSOCIATE STAFF POSITION Health Sciences & Human Services Library Department University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland POSITION TITLE: Circulation Librarian (Associate Librarian II) POSITION DESCRIPTION: An exciting opportunity exists in our beautiful new professional library to lead and manage the Circulation Department of 13 full and part-time employees. Reporting to the Assistant Director for Access Services, you will oversee the daily operations of the department including circulation services, course reserve services, circulation billing, stack maintenance, in-house photocopying, and building operations for evenings and weekends. Responsibilities also include: * Hiring, training, supervising, scheduling and evaluating staff; * Setting and maintaining standards of excellence for the circulation department with establishment and compliance of policies and procedures; * Overseeing copyright compliance; * Overseeingcollection control; * Participating in the development of short and long-term goals for Circulation; * Effectively using new technologies in the delivery of circulation services. QUALIFICATIONS: Requires an MLS from an ALA accredited library school and 2 years' circulation experience and 3 years supervisory experience. Must have excellent written and oral communications skills; must have excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, must have excellent computer skills and the ability to plan, oversee and automate circulation services. The preferred candidate will have experience in an academic or health sciences library; experience with the DRA circulation subsystem; experience with electronic reserves systems and knowledge of copyright compliance in an academic library environment. Involvement in professional activities a definite plus. SALARY: to $35,100 SUBMIT RESUME TO: JD000992 University Of Maryland, Baltimore Office of Human Resource Services 737 W. Lombard Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Richard Hill Re: D-Lib Magazine (February 1999) Available The February 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at . The UK Office for Library and Information Networking maintains a mirror site for D-Lib Magazine at: ; the Australian National University Sunsite maintains a mirror at ; and a new mirror site has been added at the State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen at . Please note: Because of an injury to one of the authors of the story, E commerce Catalog Construction, by Thibadeau, et al., final editing of this story took place after the initial release. The definitive version was released on February 16, 1999, and the mirror sites may not have the definitive version in place at the time you receive this notice. Therefore, you may wish to see the definitive version at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february99/thibadeau/02thibadeau.html or check the mirror site later. In this month's issue, we have the review of a new MIT Press journal on markup languages, a project briefing on the D-Lib Test Suite (please be sure to follow the links from the overview to each testbed description), three stories, and an extensive "Clips and Pointers" section. CONTENTS Markup Languages: Theory & Practice C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and B. Tommie Usdin, eds. MIT Press, 1998 Reviewed by Martha Anderson Test Suite: Project Briefing William Y. Arms, Corporation for National Research Initiatives; Greg Janee, University of California, Santa Barbara; Carl Lagoze, Cornell University; William H. Mischo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ginger Ogle, University of California, Berkeley; and Scott Stevens, Carnegie Mellon University The CIC: Using Collaboration to Advance High Technology Initiatives Barbara McFadden Allen, CIC Center for Library Initiatives ICAAP eXtended Markup Language: Exploiting XML and Adding Value to the Journals Production Process Mike Sosteric, International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publication (ICAAP) E-commerce Catalog Construction: An Experiment with Programmable XML for Dynamic Documents Robert Thibadeau, Jorge Balderas, and Andrew Snyder, Carnegie Mellon University; and John Nestor, XML for All, Inc. Bonnie Wilson Managing Editor D-Lib Magazine 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.2. Fr: Clifford Lynch Re: Museum Educational Site License (MESL) Reports NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION STUDY NOW AVAILABLE Berkeley Mellon Study of MESL Project February 8, 1999 Press Release: Report: "The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data" Last year, the Getty Trust published its report on one of the most influential and seminal digital projects of recent years, the Museum Educational Site Licensing project. Initially created to discover and define acceptable terms and conditions for licensing the distribution of digital museum images in the educational community, it grew to encompass, and bring its participants to grapple with, in the words of Eleanor Fink (director of the sponsoring Getty Information Institute) "issues from content selection, image capture, and standards for recording and transmitting data to systems interface design, faculty and student training in new technology, software tool development, use and impact studies, economic analyses and intellectual property questions." The Getty issued its report in two volumes last year: "Delivering Digital Images: Cultural Heritage Resources for Education," from and "Images Online: Perspectives from the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project." (from . Now, a Mellon Foundation-financed economic study of the MESL project, conducted by the University of California at Berkeley has just been released. "The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data" examines MESL's cost centers in the distribution of a digital library of images and metadata. The findings, according to the release,"should be of interest to anyone contemplating image digitization or distribution, particularly to a scholarly audience. It should be of particular interest to those involved in funding and/or planning activities involving either analog or digital image distribution." David Green David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SPECIAL REPORT ON DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION STUDY IS NOW AVAILABLE This press release looks better viewed on a web browser at http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/99press-release.html A special report examining the costs of distributing digital images to the university community has just been released. "The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data" is the result of a 22-month UC Berkeley study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The MESL Project, sponsored by the Getty Information Institute, was the first attempt to create a collection of images and descriptive information from a variety of museums and deliver it digitally to university users of campus networks. The two-year experimental collaboration among seven museums and seven universities succeeded in distributing approximately 10,000 images for classroom use and individual research, primarily in the areas of cultural studies, art history, history, and photography. The Cost of Digital Image Distribution identifies, defines, and explores MESL's primary cost centers in the digital network distribution of images and accompanying text. It examines the processes and costs of analog slide libraries, and compares the analog and digital distribution systems. It also considers the intangible factors that can lead to the success or failure of digital distribution schemes, such as learning curve, ease or difficulty of maintenance, and faculty attitudes towards teaching with digital images. The findings presented in this report should be of interest to anyone contemplating image digitization or distribution, particularly to a scholarly audience. It should be of particular interest to those involved in funding and/or planning activities involving either analog or digital image distribution. Major findings include: -It will be a long time before digital image repositories will be able to deliver the critical mass of images needed for instruction and research. Analog slide libraries and digital image repositories will necessarily coexist for many years. -The higher education community is enthusiastic about providing access to digital images and information from cultural heritage repositories. However, many impediments to widespread adoption must be dealt with--ranging from lack of comprehensive content and the absence of necessary tools to facilitate use, to inadequate recognition and support for faculty who adopt new technology in their teaching. -The anticipated shift from analog slide libraries to licensed digital images represents a shift from ownership to access through ongoing subscription. This shift is analogous to the changes that have taken place in university library collections. University administrators are concerned about controlling content costs and faculty are concerned about ongoing access to the images they use and need. Those university positions are at odds with those of museum image distribution consortia, who seek a consistent revenue stream and are reluctant to assure ongoing access without ongoing payment. For such image distribution schemes to work, both museums and universities have to see their common goals as outweighing their individual concerns. "The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data" Howard Besser, Principal Investigator; Robert Yamashita, Project Manager A report to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation--A Study of the Economics of Network Access to Visual Information: The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, Published by the School of Information Management and Systems, U.C. Berkeley, 1998 Available online at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon in both html and PDF format Paper copies of this report may also be ordered c/o Howard Besser, School of Information Management & Systems, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720-4600 Howard Besser Associate Professor UCLA Department of Information Studies address thru August 1999: School of Information Management & Systems 102 South Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 tel: (510)643-7365 office: (510)642-1464 fax: (510)642-5814 howard@sims.berkeley.edu http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~howard/ ********** III.B.1. Fr: Karen Ouellette Re: TOOLS USA '99 - Last Call for Submissions LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TOOLS USA '99 Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems "DELIVERING QUALITY SOFTWARE" Santa Barbara, Calif., August 1-5, 1999 Fess Parker's Double Tree Resort http://www.tools.com/usa Program Chair: Donald Firesmith, Storage Technology Corp., USA Tutorial Chair: Richard Riehle, AdaWorks, USA Workshop & Panel Chair: Gilda Pour, San Jose State University, USA Conference Chair: Bertrand Meyer, ISE, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nadia Adhami, Countrywide, USA Vasu Alagar, Concordia University, Canada Jan Bosch, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden Benjamin Brosgol, Aonix, USA Alistair Cockburn, Humans and Technology, USA Derek Coleman, Hewlett-Packard, USA Raimund K. Ege, Florida International University, USA Martin Griss, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Sydney, Australia Laura Hill, Sun Microsystems, USA Eric Jul, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Stuart Kent, University of Brighton, UK Reto Kramer, Cambridge Technology Partners, Switzerland Qiaoyun Li, Sony Electronics Inc., USA Robert Marcus, General Motors, USA John McGregor, Software Architects, USA James C. McKim, Rensselaer at Hartford, USA Christine Mingins, Monash University, Australia Michael Philippsen, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Reinhold Ploesch, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Bran Selic, ObjecTime Limited, Canada Frank Tip, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Jeffrey Voas, RST Corporation, USA TECHNICAL PAPERS TOOLS USA '99 is now soliciting papers on all aspects of object-oriented technology. All submitted papers will be refereed and judged by the International Program Committee, not only according to standards of technical quality but also on their usefulness to practitioners and applied researchers. TOOLS USA '99 will feature a special emphasis on issues relating to the challenges of ensuring the quality of delivered applications. Technical papers that report and assess advances and experiences in this area are expressly sought. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes: - Ensuring the quality of delivered applications throughout the life cycle - OO verification and testing techniques - Specification and modeling methods and techniques - Components, frameworks, and reuse - Distributed and intelligent objects and agents - Standardization of languages and methods - Management, migration, and training issues - Experience reports with OO technology In the first phase, an abstract of the paper must be submitted by electronic mail to tools-usa-abstracts@tools.com no later than February 26, 1999. Subsequently, the full paper, in the range of 10 to 20 double-spaced pages (10,000 to 20,000 words), should be submitted electronically to tools-usa-submissions@tools.com or in hard copy, to arrive no later than March 5, 1999. The proceedings of the 30th TOOLS Conference will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Final camera-ready versions of accepted papers will therefore be required to adhere to the IEEE publication format (guidelines available soon), and will contain no more than 10 pages. IMPORTANT DATES: Electronic abstract submission: February 26, 1999 Manuscript (electronic or hard-copy) submission: March 5, 1999 Notification of acceptance: April 12, 1999 Camera-ready papers due at IEEE: May 7, 1999 PROPOSALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO: Donald Firesmith TOOLS USA '99 Program Chair Storage Technology Corporation 2270 South 88th Street Louisville, Colorado 80028-5210 USA Phone: +1-303-661-5943 Donald_Firesmith@stortek.com (for contact only, see above for electronic submission addresses) TUTORIALS TOOLS USA '99 now is soliciting proposals for high quality tutorials. Topics of high potential interest in the OO field, and not yet covered in other conferences, are particularly sought for presentation at TOOL USA '99. Tutorials should be innovative, with a strong practical content, or based on significant industrial developments, and be of interest to a significant part of the software community. Tutorials are normally one half-day (three and a half hours including one break). Tutorial presenters are entitled to submit an article of a related topic (up to 10 pages), for inclusion in the TOOLS 30 Conference Proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society (upon Chair's approval). Please note that you must prepare tutorial notes for the participants. IMPORTANT DATES: Tutorial submission deadline: February 26, 1999 Notification of acceptance: March 22, 1999 Camera-ready article: May 7, 1999 Camera-ready notes: June 25, 1999 PROPOSALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO: Richard Riehle TOOLS USA '99 Tutorial Chair AdaWorks, USA tools-usa-tutorials@tools.com WORKSHOPS The purpose of a workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss focused issues that defy the object technology field today, in an atmosphere that encourages interaction, brainstorming, exchange of ideas, and problem solving. A workshop should have a well-defined theme, and a clearly defined target audience. All topics related to object technology are potential candidates for workshops. Workshops addressing the theme of "Quality Software" will be given special consideration. Workshops can be half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours) in length. Position papers will be included (upon Chair's approval) in the IEEE-published TOOLS Conference Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop submission deadline: February 26, 1999 Notification of acceptance: March 22, 1999 Camera-ready papers due at IEEE: May 7, 1999 PROPOSALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO: Gilda Pour TOOLS USA '99 Workshop & Panel Chair San Jose State University, USA gpour@email.sjsu.edu PANELS The objective of a panel is to stimulate discussion about ideas and issues of importance and interest to the object technology community today. A panel session will usually last 90 minutes and can be organized in various formats. It should involve 4-5 panelists, presenting before the TOOLS audience, their various viewpoints on a certain issue, followed by a question and answer period. Position papers will be included (upon Chair's approval) in the IEEE-published TOOLS Conference Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: Panel submission deadline: March 5, 1999 Notification of acceptance: March 19, 1999 Camera-ready papers due at IEEE: May 7, 1999 PROPOSALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO: Gilda Pour TOOLS USA '99 Workshop & Panel Chair San Jose State University, USA gpour@email.sjsu.edu ** See the complete online submission guidelines at: http://www.tools.com/usa/submissions.html ** FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TOOLS USA '99 OR ANY OTHER EVENTS IN THE TOOLS CONFERENCE SERIES, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT http://www.tools.com OR CONTACT US AT tools@tools.com ********** III.B.2. Fr: Zacharis Nick Re: CFP: Machine Learning and Intelligent Agents (ACAI-99)- EXTENDED DEADLINE EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15 March,1999 Call For Papers Workshop on Machine Learning and Intelligent Agents MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI'99) 5-16 July 1999, Chania, Greece (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99) European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) (http://www.eccai.org) & Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn) Workshop Background Machine Learning in single- and multi-agent systems is a relatively new but significant and promising topic in Artificial Intelligence. Intelligent agents and agent-based computer systems represent an important, fundamentally new way of dealing with many important software application problems for which mainstream computer science techniques offer no obvious solution in recent dynamic and distributed nature of both data and applications. Topics to be covered during this workshop must be applications that concern the development of intelligent agent architectures that exhibit machine learning capabilities. These architectures must apply some learning strategy (learning from examples, from instruction, by discovery or analogy, etc.), some learning feedback method (supervised, reinforcement, unsupervised learning, etc.), and must be safely characterized as intelligent agent systems. Examples of topics: Single-agent or isolated Learning, multi-agent or interactive learning, Mutual learning, cooperative learning, collaborative learning, etc. Workshop Objectives The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with an active interest in machine learning problems in environments inhabited by single intelligent agents and/or shared by multiple intelligent agents. Also, this workshop will provide a forum for discussing existing approaches and results and developing new ideas and perspectives. Organizing Committee Prof. A. Panayotopoulos University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science Email: antonios@unipi.gr , Prof. J. Kontos Athens University of Economics and Business, Dept of Computer Science Email: jpk@aueb.gr , Ass. Prof. T. Panayiotopoulos, University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science Email: themisp@unipi.gr , Lecturer N. Sgouros, University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science Email: sgouros@unipi.gr , Mr. N. Zacharis University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science E-mail: nzach@unipi.gr Submission Format http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99/Workshops/Agents-Instructions. htm Organizational Issues Up to 10 accepted papers will be presented. The Workshop will take place during the afternoon sessions of ACAI-99, from 14:30 to 18:00. The exact date of the workshop will be finalized by the ACAI-99 organizing committee by the end of December 1998. Anyone registered for the main ACAI-99 event can also attend all the workshops. For the Workshop participants who will not be registered for the whole ACAI-99 there will be a fee of 100 Euros. Proceedings will be published as a technical report in collaboration with the ACAI-99 organization committee. Important Dates 15 March, 1999 Deadline for paper submission 30 March, 1999 Notification of acceptance 15 April, 1999 Deadline for final camera ready papers 5-16 July, 1999 The exact date will be finalized soon ********** III.B.3. Fr: Silvia Miksch Re: Last CFP: AIMDM'99 Workshop: Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care LAST CFP AIMDM'99 -- Call for Papers for the workshop Workshop: Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Knowledge-Based Information Management Sunday, June 20, 1999 Aalborg, Denmark during the Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making (AIMDM'99) in Aalborg, Denmark, June 20 - 24, 1999 (homepage of AIMDM http://www.miba.auc.dk/AIMDM99/) Important dates * Submission deadline: March 1, 1999 * Notification to authors: April 15, 1999 * Camera-ready paper: May 15, 1999 * Conference: June 20-24, 1999 * Workshop: June 20, 1999 The care of critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and during Anaesthesia is becoming increasingly complex. Clinicians are required to rapidly interpret and respond to a large number of clinical parameters, selecting appropriate treatment for the patient among many different options. New measurement technology has increased the demand for improved information management, as has the need to monitor and assess the quality of care provided. This workshop presents "State of the art" applications of information technology for clinicians, researchers and industry working in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. Workshop Topics: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * computational methods for intelligent data analysis (e.g., interpretation of time-ordered data) * quality control and assessment * clinical guidelines and protocols * effective and efficient monitoring (including intelligent alarming) * decision support * physiological modelling * planning and scheduling * uncertain and temporal reasoning * visualization In particular, we will ask the participants to address the following points: - what kind of support are the clinicians really expecting and asking for in ICUs and Anaesthesia - what are the people working in industry able to provide - what can the research community contribute to improve the information management - how can the different approaches and perspectives be combined - what are the (research) directions for the near future In addition Patient Data Management systems will be presented by representatives from industry. Submission of Papers: The workshop invites submission of full papers or structured abstracts written in English to the workshop chair, Silvia Miksch, preferably in electronic format (word, pdf or postscript) no later than March 1st 1999. * Full papers: These should not exceed 5000 words, or a maximum of 10 pages. Full papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format, details of which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, or by writing to the programme committee chair. * Structured abstracts: These should be a maximum of one page A4 with the text fitting within a box 16 cm wide and 22 cm high. The title of the abstract should be in 12 point bold format with author details and main text being 12 point font, single line spaced, preferably in Times font. Abstracts should be structured with the following headings: Objective, methods, results and conclusions. (see instruction for authors for AIMDM'99 URL: http://www.miba.auc.dk/AIMDM99/html/contrib.htm) Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 15th 1999. Authors are requested to state their preference for oral presentation or poster. Abstracts and papers will appear as separate workshop notes. Submission Address: Silvia Miksch Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology (IFS) Resselgasse 3/188 A-1040 Vienna, Austria email: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at In addition a special issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) dedicated to Knowledge-Based Information Management in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia is planned, and will include a selection of the best papers from the workshop. Scientific committee: Silvia Miksch (Chair) (A) Steen Andreassen (DK) Michel Dojat (F) Jim Hunter (UK) Christian Popow(A) Steve Rees (DK) Per Thorgaard (DK). ********** III.B.4. Fr: F. Murtagh Re: Technical Workshop on IR and Knowledge Discovery A technical workshop on information retrieval and knowledge discovery from databases in astronomy will be held on June 21-23 1999 at Strasbourg Observatory, Strasbourg, France. The title is "From Information to Knowledge Using Astronomical Databases" and publication of selected papers in Computer Physics Communications (Elsevier) is planned. Further information is at http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~ccma/ir-kd.html Fionn Murtagh Prof. F. Murtagh School of Computer Science Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland Email f.murtagh@qub.ac.uk Tel +44 1232 274620, Fax +44 1232 683890, http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~F.Murtagh ********** III.B.5. Fr: James W. Cooper Re: HICSS Minitrack: Digital Document Understanding and Visualization Digital Document Understanding and Visualization Part of the Digital Documents Track of the Thirty-Third Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Maui, HI - January 4 - 7, 2000 http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/apahome3.htm The explosion of digital documents on the internet and in the workplace has led to an increasing need for computer systems that help us not only manage the documents but also manage our understanding of these documents and their relationships. When users are confronted with hard copy documents or unorganized digital documents, they look at main topic headers, skim the contents and so forth. The problem of how this can be done more effectively in an on-line environment is the main topic of this minitrack. Accordingly, this minitrack aims to bring together the multiplicity of research in various fields on how organizations, groups and individual users seek to understand and navigate through document collections and individual documents. How do organizations, work groups and individuals understand the contents of digital documents? This minitrack seeks papers on Tools and techniques, Software, Document visualization Human-computer interactions, Knowledge management, or Information retrieval focusing on how users understand the contents of digital documents. Possible areas for papers include summarization, categorization, and key-phrase clustering, user interfaces for understanding documents, and studies of how users access documents and intuit their contents without actually reading much of them. Papers from areas of computer science, information retrieval, psychology and sociology are all encouraged. Submit abstracts for guidance and final papers to James Cooper IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center P O Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 914-784-7285 jwcnmr@watson.ibm.com Deadlines: April 1, 1999: 300-word abstract submitted to track chairs or minitrack chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content. June 1, 1999: Full papers submitted to the appropriate minitrack chair. Aug. 31, 1999: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors. Oct. 1, 1999: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, sent to minitrack chair; author(s) must register by this time. Nov. 1, 1999: All other registrations must be received. Registrations received after this deadline may not be accepted due to space limitations. HICSS-33 consists of eight tracks: Collaboration Systems and Technology Track Digital Documents Track Emerging Technologies Track Information Technology in Health Care Track Internet and the Digital Economy Modeling Technologies and Intelligent Systems Organizational Systems and Technology Track Software Technology Track James W. Cooper Advanced Information Retrieval and Analysis IBM T J Watson Research Center jwcnmr@watson.ibm.com http://flahdo.watson.ibm.com/ http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jwcnmr/ ****************************************************************** 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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