Information Retrieval List Digest 445 (March 8, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-445.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 8, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 9 Issue 445 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. ACLU: Internet Advocacy Position III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Version 23, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2. JASIS, Volume 50, #4 3. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 3-05-99 4. Computer Journal: Special issue on Clustering & Classification 5. Museums and the Web 99 Papers Online B. Meetings 1. European Evaluation of Language Systems (EELS) Conference 2. 34th Colloquium of Linguistics 3. Information Retrieval Specialist Group Colloquium 4. The Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology C. Miscellaneous 1. OCLC Institute Course Offerings IV. PROJECTS D. Research 1. Library Management Internet Research Register ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Richard Hill Re: FW: ACLU: Internet Advocacy Position POSITION AVAILABLE Global Liberty Internet Campaign Organizer Information Technology Researcher and Writer The American Civil Liberties Union in New York City invites applications for the combined position of Organizer for the ACLU's work in connection with an international campaign for liberty on the Internet and researcher and writer on information technology issues. The successful applicant will work under the supervision of the ACLU Associate Director. Specific Responsibilities: The ACLU was one of the founding members of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) a coalition of nongovernmental organizations from around the world who have joined together to advocate for the application of internationally recognized principles of civil liberties on the global Internet. In connection with the ACLU's participation in GILC, the Organizer/Researcher will be responsible for: · editing the on-line and print versions of a newsletter on the international aspects of Internet Liberty; · assisting in the organization of International conferences; · assisting in the organization of online campaigns and recruiting new members organizations and maintaining GILC records. · such other duties as may be assigned. As a researcher and writer on information technology issues, the staff member will be responsible for preparing memorandums, public policy reports and speeches on the civil liberties implications of information technologies including the Internet, electronic data bases and electronic surveillance. Qualifications: Applicants must have a strong interest in civil liberties and technology issues. All applicants must have a college degree, experience in online research and communications; knowledge of electronic publishing tools and demonstrated superior writing and editing skills. An advanced degree in a relevant discipline (Law, Journalism, Information Technology, etc.) and fluency in one or more nonEnglish languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Russian or Spanish) is preferred, but not required. Salary and Benefits: Salary based on experience within the parameters of the ACLU salary scale. The salary range for this position is $32,960 to $38,368. Excellent health and welfare benefits provided. Applications: The deadline for applications is March 18, 1999. Submit letter of application, resume and short writing sample to: Department GILC 125 Broad Street - 18th Fl New York, New York 10004 or email to Barrys@aclu.org. THE ACLU IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER AND ENCOURAGES WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, AND LESBIANS AND GAY MEN TO APPLY. Barry Steinhardt 212 549 2508 (v) Associate Director 212 549 2656 (f) American Civil Liberties Union Barrys@aclu.org 125 Broad Street New York, NY 10004 http://www.aclu.org ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 23, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 23 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 900 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues . The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 190 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques* 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. ********** III.A.2. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS, Volume 50, #4 Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS VOLUME 50, NUMBER 4 [Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues. Below the contents of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" has been cut into the Table of Contents as well as material from the introduction to the special section.] CONTENTS Editorial In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 287 In Memoriam Robert R. Korfhage Edie Rasmussen, Christine L. Borgman, Donald Kraft, and Kai A. Olsen 288 Topic Issue: The National Information Infrastructure Guest Editors: Patricia D. Fletcher and John Carlo Bertot Introduction Patricia D. Fletcher and John Carlo Bertot 295 Catching a Ride on the NII: The Federal Policy Vehicles Paving the Information Highway Patricia D. Fletcher and Lisa K. Westerback 299 Better Funding for Government IT: Views from the Front Line Jerry Mechling 305 Descriptive Assessment of Information Policy Initiatives: The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) as an Example Charles R. McClure, William E. Moen, and John Carlo Bertot 314 And the Last Shall Be First: Recordkeeping Policies and the NII Margaret Hedstrom and David Wallace 331 Government Information: From Inaccessibility to Your Desktop and Back Again J. Timothy Sprehe 340 Crossing the Threshold: Practical Foundations for Government Services on the World Wide Web Sharon S. Dawes, Theresa A. Pardo, and Ann DiCaterino 346 Government's Role in Reducing ``Year-2000'' Risks Leon A. Kappelman, Jerry L. Johnson, and Kathy Rosmond 354 Research The Value of Interdisciplinarity: A Study Based on the Design of Internet Search Engines Susan Davis Herring 358 Information Science and Information Policy: The Use of Constant Dollars and other Indicators to Manage Research Investments Albert Henderson 366 Brief Communication Impact of Information Needs an Organizational Design M. E. Burke and Karen Tulett 380 Book Reviews 382 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The ASIS home page contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts as above from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date. The John Wiley Interscience site includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents and abstracts. Registered users of the interscience site have access to the full text of these issues and to preprints. We are still working on restoring access for ASIS members as "registered users." 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: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 3-05-99 EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies http://www.educause.edu EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- MARCH 5, 1999 ***IN THIS ISSUE*** INTERNET CAUCUS PLANS "FOUNDATIONAL" INTERNET LEGISLATION HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR QUESTIONS NSF DIRECTOR ON IT2 CONTENT FILTERING AND THE E-RATE: WITNESS CALLS FOR SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE TO APPROVE "VIRTUAL SEAT BELT" FOR THE INTERNET SENATOR CONRAD BURNS TO KEYNOTE NETWORKING '99 CONFERENCE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update" 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 e-mail to listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname" in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" command 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 at gsern@educause.edu. ********** III.A.4. Fr: Fionn Murtagh Re: Computer Journal: Special issue on Clustering & Classification Special issue on "Clustering and Classification", The Computer Journal, Volume 41, Number 8, 1998 F. Murtagh, "Special issue editorial: clustering and classification", 517 B. Birkin, "Least-squares structuring, clustering and data processing issues", 518 Y.H. Li and A.K. Jain, "Classification of text documents", 537 V.J. Gillet, D.J. Wild, P. Willett and J. Bradshaw, "Similarity and dissimilarity methods for processing chemical structure databases", 547 R. Oka, "Spotting method for classification of real world data", 559 L. Hubert, P. Arabie and J. Meulman, "The representation of symmetric proximity data: dimensions and classifications", 566 C. Fraley and A.E. Raftery, "How many clusters? Which clustering method? Answers via model-based cluster analysis", 578 D.I. Witter and M.W. Berry, "Downdating the latent semantic indexing model for conceptual information retrieval", 589 C.S. Wallace, "Intrinsic classification of spatially correlated data", 602 ********** III.A.5. Fr: Jennifer Trant Re: Museums and the Web 99 Papers Online Museums and the Web March 11-14, 1999 New Orleans, Louisiana http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ The majority of the papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 99 -- over 40 presentations from speakers in 18 countries -- are now available on the conference web site http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ This collection offers an unique overview of the issues and opportunities facing museums and museology as we move our programs and projects online. Browse the speakers list to see links to papers and abstracts. J. Trant and D. Bearman mw99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web New Orleans, Louisiana Archives & Museum Informatics March 11-14, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ********** III.B.1. Fr: Marc Blasband Re: EELS Conference EELS European Evaluation of Language Systems Natural language systems open new perspectives for computer users and therefore, user-friendliness gets a totally new dimension. Language is the new frontier. Language Engineering (LE) offers a broad and easy contact between users and computer applications. However, user companies are used to purchasing more conventional software systems. It is essential for these companies to know that LE requires non-conventional evaluation methods and provides non-conventional benefits. The Directorate General XIII (telecommunications, Information market and Exploitation of Research) of the European Commission has subsidized the development of language technology and has also led the development of basic methods necessary for developing language technology. Additionally, the Commission has supported the deployment of this technology, more specifically, how to determine its adequacy for industrial requirements. As part of that effort, the EAGLES evaluation group has extended the standards developed by ISO (international Organisation for Standardisation) for the software engineering industry to fit the special needs of natural language applications. EAGLES has achieved significant success in developing a framework that can support the evaluation of products and systems using language. Theoretical work has been complemented by the practical application of the framework to specific LE projects, and LE products with diverse characteristics and functions. Together with the EAGLES evaluation group and the European Commission, Compuleer is organising a two-day conference: EELS (European Evaluation of Language Systems). The purpose of EELS is to transfer the results from the research laboratories to the industrial world, specifically to the quality assurance specialists. At this conference the EAGLES results will be presented: a customisable framework to produce tailored evaluations. A workshop will describe a practical application of the framework to the industrial deployment of a spoken dialogue system (ARISE) in a railways call centre. Problems that participants experience when evaluating language systems can be handled in the evaluation clinic. A description of the problems/questions should be submitted by the participants beforehand. The purpose of EELS is to provide the attendants with the tools to determine if a language system satisfies their needs. EELS will contribute to the successful deployment of LE technology on the market. EELS: European Evaluation of Language Systems Date: 12 and 13 April 1999 Location: De Klepperman in Hoevenlaken, The Netherlands Costs: 1000 EURO for two days (incl. attendance at the conference, documentation and accommodation) More information: Compuleer Mr. Marc Blasband Egelinglaan 16a 3705 TC Zeist The Netherlands tel./fax: +31 (0)30 6992343 e-mail: cplr@worldonline.nl URL: www.eelsconference.com (under construction) Compuleer Egelinglaan 16A 3705 TC ZEIST Tel/Fax +31 30 6992343 e-mail: cplr@worldonline.nl ********** III.B.2. Fr: Reinhard Rapp Re: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS September 7-10, 1999 University of Mainz, Germany FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999. The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes 10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference. The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the conference with Peter Lang-Verlag. In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a specific field for audiences with a different focus of research. We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to theold city of Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle on Thursday, September 9. On the way, we will stop in Speyer, whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of the UNESCO's world cultural heritage. Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the attention of interested colleagues. More information can be found on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber Dr. Reinhard Rapp IMPORTANT DATES May 31, 1999 - Submission of abstracts - Conference registration (reduced rate) - Registration for tutorials & excursion - Hotel reservation Nov. 30, 1999 - Submission of full papers for the proceedings PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Date Morning Afternoon Evening Tue, Sept. 7 Tutorials Tutorials Germersheim Guided Tour Wed, Sept. 8 Opening & Papers Reception Papers Thu, Sept. 9 Papers Excursion to Heidelberg and Speyer Fri, Sept. 10 Papers & (Departure) Conference End TUTORIALS Time Tutorial Language 9.00-12.30 Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural Language Parsing, Part 1 English 9.00-12.30 Christian Otto: Sprachtech- German nologie fuer das Internet 14.00-17.30 Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural Language Parsing, Part 2 English Maschinelle Uebersetzung German The Tutorials take place during the first full day of the conference (Sept. 7, 1999). Therefore, the official opening is on the second day. For each tutorial, a description can be found at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ CONFERENCE ADDRESS Please send all correspondence to the following address: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp rapp@usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de Universitaet Mainz, FASK Phone: (+49) 7274 / 508-457 D-76711 Germersheim Fax: (+49) 7274 / 508-429 Germany ********** III.B.3. Fr: Monica Landoni Re: Information Retrieval Specialist Group Colloquium Programme for IRSG99 Information Retrieval Specialist Group Colloquium http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/irsg/ IRSG99 Programme: Monday 19 APRIL 1999 0900 - 0930 Registration 0930 - 1030 Welcome from Local Chair and Keynote Speaker (Ab Helderman) 1030 - 1100 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS 1100 - 1130 Regions of relevance: approaches to measurement for enhanced precision, H. Greisdorf and A. Spink, University of North Texas 1130 - 1200 User Interface Issues for Browsing Digital Video, H. Lee and A. Smeaton, Dublin 1200 - 1230 IR and the dialectic of meaning, Clare Thornley, Information Science, Strathclyde 1230 - 1400 LUNCH BREAK 1400 - 1430 Normalisation and matching in the DORO system, C.H.A. Koster, University of Nijmegen 1430 - 15 The Automatic Generation of Templates for Automatic Abstracting, M. P. Oakes and C. D. Paice, Lancaster 1500 - 1530 Sequence Models for automatic highlighting and surface information extraction, M. Amini, H. Zaragoza and P. Gallinari, University of Paris 1530 - 1600 COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS 1600 - 1630 Document clustering for mediated information access, Gheorghe Muresan, D.J. Harper and M. Mechkour, Robert Gordon Univeristy, Aberdeen 1630 - 1700 Clustering information retrieval search outputs, Y. Kural, S. Robertson, S. Jones, City University 19.00 COLLOQUIUM DINNER at HOTEL SCHOOL Tuesday 20 April 0930 - 1000 An empirical study of memory and information retrieval with a spatial user interface, C. Chennawasin, J. Cole and C. Chen, Brunel University 1000 - 1030 How do people organise their photographs? K. Rodden, University of Cambridge 1030 - 1100 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS 1100 - 1130 Improving index structures for structured document retrieval, H. Meuss and C. Strohmaier, Centre for Information and Language Processing, Munich 1130 - 1200 A two-time model for video content representation and retrieval, N. Fatemi and P Mulhem, Clips, Grenoble and School of Computing, Singapore 1200 - 12.30 Using metadata to extract context and organizations around WWW pages, B. Doan and M. Beigbeder, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne 1230 - 1400 LUNCH BREAK 1400 - 1500 AGM meeting (tbc) 1500 - 1600 BCS Committee meeting (tbc) See you in Glasgow! Monica Landoni Dr. Monica Landoni, Lecturer Dept. of Information Science, University of Strathclyde Livingstone Tower 26 Richmond Street Glasgow G1 1XH Tel: (+44) 0141 548-4949 Fax: (+44) 0141 553 1393 email: monica@dis.strath.ac.uk ********** III.B.4. Fr: info@pap.com Re: The Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology The Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology Monday 19th April - Wednesday 21st April 1999 Commonwealth Institute, London, UK http://www.practical-applications.co.uk/PAAM99 PAAM99 is sponsored and supported to date by: AgentLink, Agent Society, CompulogNet, FIPA, IF Computer, LPA, Intelligence in Industry, PC AI Registration http://www.practical-applications.co.uk/PAAM99/registration.html For information on tutorials, invited speakers, papers and registration please us the following links Tutorial Abstracts http://www.practical-applications.co.uk/PAAM99/tutorials.html Invited Speaker Abstracts http://www.practical-applications.co.uk/PAAM99/invited_speakers.html Paper Abstracts http://www.practical-applications.co.uk/PAAM99/abstracts.html PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Monday 19th April Tutorials Morning session: 9.30am - 1.00pm Afternoon session: 2.00pm - 5.30pm Agents-While-You-Wait: A Participatory Exercise in Preliminary Design of an Agent-Based Application Dr H. Van Dyke Parunak, Center for Electronic Commerce, USA 9.30am - 1.00pm Intelligent Information Agents on the Internet Dr. Matthias Klusch, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany Dr. Peter Edwards, University of Aberdeen, UK 2.00pm - 5.30pm Building Intentional Agents Dr Anand S. Rao, Mitchell Madison Group,Australia Tuesday 20th April 8.45: Introductory Remarks 9.00am - 10.00am: Invited Speaker Dr H. Van Dyke Parunak, Center for Electronic Commerce, USA Blue-Collar Agents: Experiences and Issues in the Development and Deployment of Industrial Agent-Based Systems 10.00am - 10.30am: Coffee Track A 10.30am - 12.30pm: Agents for Managing Internet Communities A Distributed Agent Based-Platform for Internet Users Communities C. Bothorel, H. Thomas, France Telecom CNET, France CASMIR: Information Retrieval based on Collaborative User Profiling B. Berney Manchester Metropolitan University. UK E. Ferneley, Salford University, UK Making Recommender Systems Work for Organizations N.S. Glance, D. Arregui, M. Dardenne, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France A General Evaluation of a Software Process in Developing and Deploying a Multi-agent System for Public Service Access P. Charlton, Y. Arafa, E. Mamdani, Imperial College London, UK. P. Fehin, Digital Equipment Ireland Ltd., Galway Ireland R. McGuigan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland R. Richardson, Broadcom Eireann Research LTD, Dublin, Ireland Track B 10.30am - 12.30pm: Agent Architectures, Frameworks and Platforms I JADE - A FIPA-compliant Agent Framework F. Bellifemine,CSELT - Torino, Italy G. Rimassa, A. Poggi, DII - University of Parma, Italy Jinni: Intelligent Mobile Agent Programming at the Intersection of Java and Prolog P. Tarau, University of North Texas, USA A Lightweight Agent Framework for Interactive Multi-agent Applications M. Kindborg, J. Aberg, N. Shahmehri, Linkoping University, Sweden Object Oriented Design based Agent Modeling G. Satapathy, S.R.T. Kumara, Pennsylvania State University, USA 12.30pm - 1.30pm: Lunch Track A 1.30pm - 3.00pm: Agents for Network Management Network Management based on Mobile Agents using Programmable Tuple Spaces G. Cabri, L. Leonardi, F. Zambonelli, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy A Multi-Agent Approach for Distributed Broadband Network Management A. L. G. Hayzelden, J. Bigham, Z. Luo, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK Spending Less Time in Internet Traffic Jams M. Addis, P. Allen, Y. Cheng, M. Hall, M. Stairmand, The Parallel Applications Centre, UK W. Hall, D. DeRoure, Univesity of Southampton, UK Track B 1.30pm - 3.00pm: Agent-based support for Electronic Commerce An Agent-based Architecture for an Electronic Market Place M. Albers, C. M. Jonker, M. Karami, J. Treur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Agent-Based Enterprise Integration N. M. Berry, C. M. Pancerella, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Managing Usage-Based Pricing in a Future Telecommunication Market J. Altmann, P. Varaiya, EECS, University of California, USA 3.00pm - 3.30pm: Coffee 3.30pm - 4.30pm: Invited Speaker Dr Anand S. Rao, Mitchell Madison Group, Australia Intelligent Agents in the 'New' Economy 4.30pm: European Commission Report Leonardo Flores, European Commission, Brussels 6.00pm: Evening Drinks reception Wednesday 21st April 9.00am - 10am: Invited Speaker Dr. Barry Crabtree, BT Labs, UK. What Chance Software Agents? 10.00am - 10.30am: Coffee Track A 10.30am - 12.30pm: Agent-oriented Information Management Systems I SportsFinder: hard on way - An Information Agent to Extract Sports Results from the World Wide Web H. Lu, L. Sterling, A. Wyatt, University of Melbourne, Australia Intelligent Web Agents for Information Retrieval and Classification A.M. Carminelli, R. Cobalti, DEEI-University of Trieste, Italy G. Vercelli, DISA-University of Genova, Italy A Multiagent System for Navigation Assistance and Information Finding S. El-Beltagy, D. De Roure, W. Hall, Univesity of Southampton, UK A Multi-agent System for Information Management to Establish Telecooperation and Online Diagnostics with Integrated Maintenance Strategy Planning of a Steelworks C. Kanty, H. Husemann, H-D. Kochs, University of Duisburg, Germany Track B 10.30am - 12.30pm: Agents for Production Planning and Resource Management ProPlanT: A Multi-Agent System for Operative Planning of Production T. Hazdra, M. Pechoucek, CTU Prague, Czech Republic Transportation Scheduling and simulation in a Railroad Scenario: A Multi-Agent Approach J. Lind, K. Fischer, DFKI GmbH , Germany J. Bocker, University of Hannover, Germany B. Zirkler, Deutsche Bahn AG, Germany Contracting Tasks between Autonomous Resources: An application to dynamic scheduling of manufacturing orders P. Sousa, C. Ramos, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP/IPP), Portugal J. Neves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal The HOMEBOTS System and Field Test: A Multi-Commodity Market for Predictive Power Load Management F. Ygge, EnerSearch AB, Sweden H. Akkermans, Erik Boertje, Free University Amsterdam VUA, A. Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden Marko Krejic, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby HK-R, Sweden 12.30pm - 1.30pm: Lunch Track A 1.30pm - 2.30pm: Agent Architectures, Frameworks and Platforms II A model for Asynchronous Internet Computing and its Applications N. Antonopoulos, G. Aggelou, University of Surrey, UK Mobile Agent Architecture for Agent Warehouse Chi Hung Chi, Wei Peng Chionh, Sim John, National University of Singapore Track B 1.30pm - 2.30pm: Agent-oriented Information Management Systems II Configuring a Personal Communications Agent R. Liscano, J.F. Meech, R. Impey, National Research Council, Canada An Agent-Oriented Information System for Simulating the Dispersion of Radioactive Particles A. Grohman, R. Kopetzky, University of Stuttgart, Germany 2.30pm - 3.30pm: Panel Discussion: Chair - Dr. Mike Wooldridge, QMW College, London. Barriers to the Industrial Takeup of Agent Technology 3.30pm - 4.00pm: Coffee 4.00pm - 5.00pm: Invited Speaker Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA Agents, Actions, and Uncertainty ********** III.C.1. Fr: Amy Lytle Re: OCLC Institute Course Offerings The OCLC Institute is pleased to announce the latest additions to our Spring, 1999 calendar. Continuity and Innovation in Resource Sharing (NEW!) May 5-7 Dublin, OH Knowledge Access Management for Reference Librarians (NEW!) May 10-12 Dublin, OH Knowledge Access Management March 15-17 Puerto Rico (with SOLINET) April 21-23 Dublin, OH June 16-18 Indianapolis, IN (with INCOLSA) July 14-16 Washington D.C. (AALL Pre-Conference with CAPCON) Using Metadata for Knowledge Management March 29-31 Dublin, OH April 26-27 Washington D.C. (with FEDLINK) May 3-5 Dublin, OH May 24-26 Buffalo, NY (with SUNY/OCLC) June 7-9 Dublin, OH Technology Planning in a Time of Rapid Change March 18-19 Dallas, TX (with AMIGOS) April 28 (1 day) Atlanta, GA (with SOLINET) In addition, look for OCLC Institute seminars at the 5th Nordic Conference for Medical and Health Libraries, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 1-2, 1999, as an SLA Pre-Conference June 6 in Minneapolis, MN, and as a Pre-Conference seminar at the ALA Annual in New Orleans on June 25. For more information and to register online for any seminars please see the Institute's home page: http://oclc.org/institute, or contact Amy Lytle, Event Coordinator, at (800) 848-5878 x 5212 or lytlea@oclc.org. Thank you, Amy Lytle Event Coordinator OCLC Institute ****************************************************************** IV. RESEARCH IV.D.1. Fr: Tracey Cogan Re: Library Management Internet Research Register REGISTER YOUR RESEARCH WITH NEW ON-LINE REGISTER AVAILABLE FROM MARCH 1999 Library Management Internet research register Library Management would like to offer you the opportunity of registering details of research projects on which you or your organization/institution are working, for publication in a searchable, browsable on-line database from March 1999. The database will be available to all those organisations which subscribe to the full-service Library Management; all registrants; and members of selected professional associations/institutes. The service will be a comprehensive database that will be international in coverage. Editorial objectives The research register will report on current research worldwide, and research completed during the past six months, which focuses on any aspect of the management and library and information services. Research may be linked to an academic course of study or project, be independent, or organization-based/in-house. The register aims to maintain a sound balance between theory and practice. Entries that report on applied research are, therefore, particularly welcome. Benefits of registering your research A research register provides the scholarly community with pre-publication information and the potential for further networking. It provides the practitioner community with early information on new areas for application and development. It also allows the researcher to: Make sure that you are not duplicating research already under way Identify possible research methodologies Identify peers for collaborative research projects Identify possible sources of funding for research Identify types of research under way, e.g. theoretical, applied research, case study Identify areas where research is needed The research register will build up into a resource enabling the history of research in a particular area, to be tracked. Why Internet? An on-line research register has functional possibilities not achievable with either print or CD-ROM format. It is possible for an online facility to be "live", i.e., updated on a continuous basis, and make hyperlinks to the location of publications that have resulted from research. The host journal The journal hosting the research register is Library Management, published by MCB University Press (UK). 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