Information Retrieval List Digest 459 (June 14, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-459.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 14, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 23 Issue 459 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information 2. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] E-COMMERCE SPOTLIGHTED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT B. Meetings 1. ACM DL'99: Advance Program 2. IEEE Vis'99 - Hot Topics: Final CFParticipation 3. "Corpora and NLP" (ACIDCA'2000 Session): CFPapers 4. UM99: Last Update 5. CIA-99: CFParticipation 6. THAI-ETIS Symposium: Final CFParticipation 7. GECCO-99: Conference Schedule C. Miscellaneous 1. SIGIR99: CFVolunteers IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. DARPA: CFProposals for Translingual Information Access 2. Pew Learning and Technology Program D. Miscellaneous 1. Guide to Good Practice: RFProposals ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Marian Dworaczek Re: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information The June 1st, 1999 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" is available at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. Over 900 titles were identified and indexed in great detail for this project. Thousands of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) were added to various entries. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated. Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM Marian Dworaczek Head, Acqusitions Department and Head, Technical Services University of Saskatchewan Libraries Phone: (306) 966-6016 Fax: (306) 966-5919 http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze ********** III.A.2. Fr: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] E-COMMERCE SPOTLIGHTED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies http://www.educause.edu EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JUNE 11, 1999 ***IN THIS ISSUE*** E-COMMERCE FOCUS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK IN DC 1. CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE BILL TURNS ON STATE PREEMPTION ISSUE 2. FTC RELEASES RESULTS OF INTERNATIONAL WEB SURVEY COMPETITION IN DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION BEGINS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.B.1. Fr: James C. French Re: ACM DL'99: Advance Program ADVANCE PROGRAM FOURTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DL '99) SPONSORED BY ACM SIGIR AND ACM SIGWEB AUGUST 11-14, 1999 Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina 200 Marina Boulevard Berkeley, California 93710 USA 1-800-333-333 or 1-800-243-0625 Conference Web site: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/ General Chair: Neil C. Rowe, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (rowe@cs.nps.navy.mil) Program Chair: Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech (fox@cs.vt.edu) Publicity Chair: James C. French, University of Virginia (french@virginia.edu) Tutorials Chair: Gene Golovchinksy, Xerox FX Palo Alto Lab (gene@pal.xerox.com) Workshops Chair: Robert B. Allen, University of Maryland (rba@glue.umd.edu) Posters/Exhibits Chair: Jonathan Furner, UCLA (jfurner@ucla.edu) Treasurer: Michael Freeston, University of California, Santa Barbara (freeston@alexandria.ucsb.edu) Schedule Wednesday, August 11, 1999: Tutorials Registration 8-8:30 Morning Tutorials (8:30-12): T1: "Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Part 1)", Ian Witten (University of Waikato), ihw@rata.cs.waikato.ac.nz T2: "Multilingual Information Access", Judith Klavans (Columbia University) and Peter Schauble (Eurospider Information Technology AG), schauble@eurospider.ch T3: "XML, RDF, and Metadata for the Web", Neel Sundaresan (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose), neel@almaden.ibm.com 12-1:30: Lunch and Tutorial Registration Afternoon Tutorials (1:30-4): T4: "Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Part 2)", Edward Fox (Virginia Tech), fox@vt.edu T5: "Thesauri for Knowledge-Based Assistance in Searching Digital Libraries", Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland), ds52@umail.umd.edu T6: "Searching from Multiple Text Sources in the Internet", Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Weiyi Meng (State University of New York at Binghamton), meng@panda.cs.binghamton.edu 5-7 Opening Reception Thursday, August 12, 1999: General Sessions 8-9 Registration 9-10:10 Session 1, Chair: Neil Rowe - Welcome - Keynote - David Levy, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 10:10-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Session 2 - Testbeds, Chair: Henry Gladney P1: "The Computing Research Repository: Promoting the Rapid Dissemination and Archiving of Computer Science Research", Joseph Y. Halpern and Carl Lagoze (Cornell University) P2: "VARIATIONS: A Digital Music Library System at Indiana University", Jon W. Dunn and Constance A. Mayer (Indiana University) P3: "A Digital Library for Authors: Recent Progress of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations", Constantinos Phanouriou, Neill A. Kipp, Ohm Sornil, Paul Mather, and Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech) P4: "A Prototype Implementation of Archival Intermemory", Yuan Chen (NEC Research Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology), Jan Edler (NEC Research Institute), Andrew Goldberg (Intertrust Corporation), Allan Gottlieb (NEC Research Institute and New York University), Sumeet Sobti (University of Washington), and Peter Yianilos (NEC Research Institute) 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3 Session 3a - IR / Multimedia, Chair: Edie Rasmussen P5: "Semantic Indexing for a Complete Subject Discipline", Yi-Ming Chung, Qin He, Kevin Powell, and Bruce Schatz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) P6: "Summarization and Selection of Information Sources Using Automated Classification", R. Dolin, D. Agrawal, and A. El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara) P7: "Vocal Access to a Newspaper Archive: Design Issues and Preliminary Investigation", Fabio Crestani (University of California, Berkeley) P8: "Multimedia Description Framework (MDF) for Content Description of Audio/Video Documents", Michael J. Hu and Ye Jian (Nanyang Technological University) 1:30-3 Session 3b - User / Social Issues, Chair: Cliff McKnight P9: "Introducing a digital library reading appliance into a reading group", Catherine C. Marshall, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky, and Bill N. Schilit (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) P10: "Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing", Wei Ding (University of Maryland, College Park), Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland, College Park) P11: "Making Digital Libraries Go: Comparing Use Across Genres", Ann Bishop (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 3-3:30 Break 3:30-5 Session 4, Chair: Sugimoto Shigeo Panel 1: "Visions for a Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, Engineering Technology Education (SMETE)" Chair: Alice Agogino (University of California, Berkeley) Panelists: William Y. Arms, Edward A. Fox, Frank Wattenberg, and Flora McMartin 7-10 Reception with posters and demonstrations Friday, August 13, 1999: General Sessions 8:30-10:00 Session 5 - Links / Citations and User Interfaces, Chair: Nick Belkin P12: "A System For Automatic Personalized Tracking of Scientific Literature on the Web", Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence, and C. Lee Giles (NEC Research Institute) P13: "Topic-Based Browsing Within a Digital Library Using Keyphrases", Steve Jones and Gordon Paynter (University of Waikato) P14: "A Scrollbar-based Visualization for Document Navigation", Donald Byrd (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) P15: "Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?", Tammara T.A. Combs and Benjamin B. Bederson (University of Maryland, College Park) 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Session 6 - Multimedia, Chair: Robert Allen P16: "Learnable Visual Keywords for Image Classification", Joo-Hwee Lim (Kent Ridge Digital Labs) P17: "A New Ranking Principle for Multimedia Information Retrieval", Martin Wechsler and Peter Schauble (Eurospider Information Technology AG) P18: "Musical Information Retrieval using Melodic Surface", M. Melucci and N. Orio (University of Padova) P19: "Towards a Digital Library of Popular Music", David Bainbridge, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Ian H. Witten, Lloyd A. Smith, and Rodger J. McNab (University of Waikato and Rutgers University) 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Session 7 - Multiple Collections/Sources, Chair: Jose Luis Borbinha P20: "Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in Federated Digital Libraries", Naomi Dushay (Cornell University), James C. French (University of Virginia), and Carl Lagoze (Cornell University) P21: "A Patent Search and Classification System", Leah S. Larkey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) P22: "Digital Library Technology for Locating and Accessing Scientific Data", Robert E. McGrath, Joe Futrelle, Ray Plante (NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Damien Guillaume (Universite Louis-Pasteur) P23: "User Preferences When Searching Individual and Integrated Full-text Databases", Soyeon Park (Rutgers University) 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-5:00 Session 8, Chair: Edward Fox - Bush Award Presentation for Best Paper, by Robert Akscyn - Panel 2: "Digital Library Futures"; Chair: Barry Leiner (CNRI) 5:00-7:00 Final Reception Saturday, August 14, 1999: Full-Day Workshops W1: "Networked Knowledge Organization Systems", Linda L. Hill (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Gail Hodge (Information Intl. Assoc.), lhill@alexandria.ucsb.edu; see http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/nhos/DL99workshop.html W2: "Organizing Web Space", Robert Wilensky (University of California, Berkeley), Katsumi Tanaka (Kobe University), and Yoshinori Hara (NEC USA),hara@ccrl.sj.nec.com; see http://www.ccrl.neclab.com/dl99ww/ W3: "Multilingual Information Discovery and Access", Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland) and Carol Peters (IEI-CNR, Pisa), joint with SIGIR'99, oard@glue.umd.edu; see http://www.clis.umd.edu/conferences/midas.html W4: "D-Lib Forum Working Group on Metrics for Digital Libraries", Barry Leiner (CNRI), bleiner@cnri.reston.va.us; see http://www.dlib.org/metrics W5: "Second Summit on International Cooperation in Digital Libraries", Robert Akscyn (KSI, Inc.) and Ian Witten (University of Waikato), rma@ks.com; see http://www.ks.com/idla/ ********** III.B.2. Fr: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de (Dirk Bartz) Re: IEEE Vis'99 - Hot Topics: Final CFParticipation F I N A L C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers Demonstration Proposals Creative Application Lab Vis99 IEEE Visualization 1999 Celebrating Ten Years Call for Participation October 24 - October 29, 1999 San Francisco Airport Hyatt San Francisco, California http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99 http://davinci.informatik.uni-kl.de/vis99/ THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC. IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH For further information on the conference or symposia contact: Steve Bryson, Conference Co-Chair, NASA Ames Research Center - +1-650-604-4524 - Fax: +1-650-604-3957 - bryson@nas.nasa.gov Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Conference Co-Chair, Lockheed Martin/US EPA Scientific Visualization Center - +1-919-541-0207 - Fax: +1-919-541-0056 - trhyne@vislab.epa.gov See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information and submission details at http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99 Conference Topics: Visualization Algorithms: Volume Rendering, Flow Visualization, Isosurfaces, Compression, Vector and Tensor Visualization, Sonification, etc. Visualization Techniques: Information Visualization, Databases, Human Perception, Human Factors, Multi-Variate Visualization, Virtual Reality, etc. Visualization Applications: Archaeology, Astrophysics, Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry, Education, Electronics, Environment, Finance, Mathematics, Mechanics, Molecular Biology, Physics, Virtual Reality, WWW, Java, VRML, HTML, AVS, Data Explorer, Iris Explorer, Khoros, etc. IMPORTANT DATES June 15: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics and Demonstration proposals due July 1: InfoVis '99 Late Breaking Hot Topics papers due July 15: Final Conference papers, final InfoVis '99 papers, and PVG '99 papers due to publisher August 1: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics selections announced August 21: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics final papers due to publisher August 31: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics video submissions due September 25: Close of Early Registration October 24: Conference Commences October 25: InfoVis '99 and PVG '99 Commence Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers (due June 15, 1999) Submissions will be accepted on Late Breaking Hot Topics that pertain to all areas of Visualization. These submissions must be original, may show work in progress, and may not exceed 2500 words or a maximum of 4 pages including images. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to accompany the paper are recommended; the video will be included in the conference video proceedings. Accepted papers will be published and distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to submit a revised paper. Submissions will be done electronically. Submission details can be found at the conference web site or by contracting Craig Wittenbrink at craig_wittenbrink@hpl.hp.com.Videotapes should be sent to Craig M. Wittenbrink, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, MS3U-4, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1126, USA - +1-650.857.2329 - Fax: +1.650.852.3791 Demonstration Proposals (due June 15, 1999) Visualization '99 is a unique opportunity to present your products or research to visualization experts from a wide variety of fields. We invite demonstrations of commercial hardware, software, integrated systems, peripherals, literature, as well as academic research. We encourage demonstrators to have technical representatives in attendance. For more information on participating in Visualization '99 demonstrations, contact Upul Obeysekare at obey@ctc.com Creative Applications Lab (due July 15, 1999) The Creative Applications Lab (CAL) is designed to let Visualization '99 attendees run their software to show off their latest work. CAL will have a variety of computers available. For details on participating in the CAL, see the conference web site or contact Kelly Gaither at +1-601-325-2067 - kelly@erc.msstate.edu Dirk Bartz University of Tuebingen Phone: +49-7071/29-76361 Email: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de Fax: +49-7071/29-5466 WWW: http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/~bartz ********** III.B.3. Fr: Richard Evans Re: "Corpora and NLP" (ACIDCA'2000 Session): CFPapers "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 session Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000 Organised by: University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS) Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia) Sponsored by: IEEE SMC co-sponsored by: TSS Supported by: Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific Research and Technology (SERST) General The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for the design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications but also for their evaluation. "Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000, visit http://www.chez.com/acidca2000) . The session "Corpora and NLP" will be organised as a workshop with its own Proceedings and Programme Committee. The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP. Main Topics We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following topics: * Lexicography * Lexical knowledge acquisition * Part of Speech Tagging * Unknown word guessing * Term recognition * Morphological Analysis * Robust Parsing * Word Sense Disambiguation * Anaphora Resolution * Discourse segmentation * Machine Translation * Agreement Error Correction * Spelling and Grammar Correction * Information Extraction * Automatic Abstracting * Text Categorisation * Speech processing * Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications * Corpus annotation * Evaluation Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus processing techniques are welcome. Honorary Chairs Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific and Technological Research Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia) Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley General Chairs Adel Alimi, National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS) Lamia Belguith Hadrich, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS) Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS) Submission Guidelines Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures, tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature title, author's name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following address : ACIDCA'2000 (Corpora & NLP Session) Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe, BP 120, 3049 Sfax Tunisia In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk and copied to l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings. Schedule Paper Submission Due: 1 October 1999 Notification of Acceptance: 10 December 1999 Camera-ready Paper Due: 10 January 1999 "Corpora and NLP" Session: 22-24 March 2000 Further information Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants to attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as the exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call for Papers. There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials will be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are finalised. ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories: Best Paper, Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper. The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers. The call for papers is is also available at: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/NLP_Session.html This is the "Corpora and NLP" web site and any important information will be available at this site too. For any Information Please contact : Lamia Belguith e-mail: l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn Fax: (216) 4 296 229 ********** III.B.4. Fr: Judy Kay Re: UM99: Last Update UM99 is almost upon us. The Canadian Rockies are about to provide the perfect venue for multi-disciplinary study of user modelling. The Programme is exciting with a core of invited talks and full paper. This is complemented by the forward looking and innovative work to be discussed in short papers, posters and workshops. We look forward to seeing you and hope you will encourage colleagues to join registrants from 15 countries. For more information, please mail asap or check out the web site http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/ Hope to see you at Banff, JJJ Jim, Judy, Julita Greer, Kay, Vassileva ********** III.B.5. Fr: Matthias Klusch Re: CIA-99: CFParticipation SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Third International Workshop CIA-99 on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS July 31 - August 2, 1999 Uppsala, Sweden http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html The workshop is co-sponsored by ESPRIT Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing Daimler-Chrysler AG, R&T Berlin, Germany Deutsche Telekom Berkom GmbH, Germany Active Online Systems, London, UK George Mason University, USA Uppsala University, Sweden INVITED SPEAKERS Walt Truszkowski (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA) Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan) Pat Langley (Daimler-Chrysler AG, R&T, USA) Amit Sheth (Georgia University, USA) Mike P. Papazoglou (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Michael Wellman (University of Michigan, USA) Michael C. Lewis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Alexander Brodsky (George Mason University, USA) Erol Gelenbe (Duke University, USA) REGISTRATION Please register for the CIA-99 workshop using the form available at http://www.docs.uu.se/~tschudin/cia99/ The regular registration fee amounts to 170 USD (160 EUR, 1400 SEK). We offer a reduced fee of 145 USD for members of the ESPRIT Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing AgentLink (http://www.agentlink.org). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of the workshop will be published in July 1999. M. Klusch, O. Shehory, and G. Weiss (Eds.), Cooperative Information Agents III Proceedings 3rd International Workshop CIA-99 Springer Publisher, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 1652. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM SATURDAY, July 31, 1999 8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening of the Workshop Session 1: Information Discovery and Management on the Internet 9:00 - 9:45 Invited Talk: Agent Technology from a NASA Perspective Walt Truszkowski (USA) 9:45 - 10:30 Invited Talk: Autonomous Search for Information in an Unknown Environment Erol Gelenbe (USA) Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:45 Invited Talk: Agent-Based Optimal Constraint Management in Distributed Information Environments Alexander Brodsky and Samuel Varas (USA) LUNCH BREAK Parallel Sessions 2 & 3 Session 2: Information Agents on the Internet - Prototypes, Systems and Applications (1) 14:00 - 14:30 A Multi-Agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance Catholijn M. Jonker, Remco A. Lam, and Jan Treur (Netherlands) 14:30 - 15:00 Formation of Cooperative Behavior among Information Agents in Web Repository Change Monitoring Service Santi Saeyor and Mitsuru Ishizuka (Japan) 15:00 - 15:30 Open Discussion Session 3: Information Agents on the Internet - Prototypes, Systems and Applications (2) 14:00 - 14:30 GETESS - Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts Steffen Staab, Christian Braun, Ilvio Bruder, et al. (Germany) 14:30 - 15:00 An Agent-Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering Colm O'Riordan and Humphrey Sorensen (Ireland) 15:00 - 15:30 Open Discussion Coffee Break Session 4: Communication and Collaboration 16:00 - 16:30 Inter-Agent Communication in Cooperative Information Agent-Based Systems Hassan Gomaa (USA) 16:30 - 17:00 Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork: An Initial Empirical Investigation David G. Sullivan, Alyssa Glass, Barbara J. Grosz, and Sarit Kraus (USA, Israel) 17:00 - 17:30 A Similarity Evaluation Technique for Cooperative Problem Solving with a Group of Agents Seppo Puuronen and Vagan Terziyan (Finland) 17:30 - 18:00 A Computational Model for a Cooperating Agent System Misbah Deen (UK) SUNDAY, August 1, 1999 Session 5: Mobile Information Agents 8:30 - 9:00 Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to Implementation C. Hanachi, N. Hameurlain, and C. Sibertin-Blanc (France) 9:00 - 9:30 Maintaining Specialized Search Engines through Mobile Filter Agents W. Theilmann and K. Rothermel (Germany) 9:30 - 10:00 Execution Monitoring in Adaptive Mobile Agents W. Vieira and L.M. Camarinha-Matos (Portugal) 10:00 - 10:30 Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented Communication Yasuhiko Kitamura, Yasuhiro Mawarimichi, and Shoji Tatsumi (Japan) Coffee Break Session 6: Rational Information Agents for Electronic Business 11:00 - 11:45 Invited Talk: Agents and Automated Commerce on the Internet Michael Wellman (USA) 11:45 - 12:30 Invited Talk: The Role of Agent Technology in Business to Business Electronic Commerce Mike P. Papazoglou (Netherlands) Lunch Break 14:00 - 14:30 An Agency-Based Framework for Electronic Business Larry Kerschberg and Sonali Banerjee (USA) 14:30 - 15:00 Secure Agent-Mediated Auctionlike Negotiation Protocol for Internet Retail Commerce X.F. Wang, X. Yi, K.Y. Lam, C.Q. Zhang, and E. Okamoto (Singapore, Australia) Coffee Break Session 7: Service Mediation and Negotiation 15:30 - 16:15 Invited Talk: Information Brokering in Digital Media Amit Sheth (USA) 16:15 - 16:30 Break 16:30 - 17:00 Arbitration and Matchmaking for Agents with Conflicting Interests Thomas Tesch and Peter Fankhauser (Germany) 17:00 - 17:30 Enabling Integrative Negotiations by Adaptive Software Agents Wolfgang Benn, Otmar Goerlitz, and Ralf Neubert (Germany) 17:30 - 18:00 Open Discussion MONDAY, august 2, 1999 Session 8: Adaptive, Personal Assistance 9:00 - 9:45 Invited Talk: An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Destination Advice Pat Langley (USA) 9:45 - 10:30 Invited Talk: Anticipation, Delegation, and Demonstration: Why Talking to Agents is Hard Michael C. Lewis (USA) Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:30 A Cooperative Comprehension-Assistant for Intranet-Based Information Environments Ludger van Elst 11:30 - 12:15 Invited Talk: Digital City Kyoto: Towards A Social Information Infrastructure Toru Ishida (Japan) 12:15 - 12:30 Closing of the Workshop from 13:00 Direct Shuttle to Stockholm Conference Center 18:00 Opening of IJCAI-99 Conference at Stockholm Conference Center ORGANIZATION & CONTACT General Chair Matthias Klusch (DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Germany) Co-Chairs Onn Shehory (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Gerhard Weiss (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA) For more information please visit the CIA-99 Web page http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html or contact Dr. Matthias Klusch DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany Phone: +49-681-302-5297 Fax: +49-681-302-2235 email: klusch@dfki.de http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/ ********** III.B.6. Fr: G. A. Lanzarone Re: THAI-ETIS Symposium: Final CFParticipation Last Call for Participation THAI-ETIS EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON TELEMATICS, HYPERMEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE NEW PROFESSIONS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY Varese, Italy, June 21-22 1999 This two-day Symposium is organised jointly by the Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria at Varese and the European Consortium of the THAIland project (Telematics, Hypermedia and Artificial Intelligence). Members of the Consortium are the Universities appearing as affiliations of the program committee members listed below. The THAIland project is concerned with preparing a Master-level curriculum that focuses on the artist-engineer of the future, from either a technical/information systems or media background, developing specialists who will make a valid contribution to the growing telematics "content" sector. OBJECTIVES The aim of the Symposium is to bring together experts from different areas of computer science, artificial intelligence and other disciplines, both from the academic environment and from public/private enterprise, who have a common interest in exploring the new employment opportunities that arise from the recent trends in ICT: the interdisciplinary professions combining creative and technological capabilities in producing content material for the Information Society and the type of education and training needed to qualify for these innovative positions. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chris Hutchison, Kingston University (U.K.) (Co-Chairman) Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone, University of Insubria at Varese (Italy) (Co-Chairman) Phillip Burrel, Southbank University (U.K.) Ulises Cortes, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain) Matti Hamalainen, Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology (Finland) Daniele Herin, University of Montpellier II (France) Veli-Pekka Liflander, Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology (Finland) Daniele Marini, University of Milan (Italy) Wolf Paprotte', Munster University (Germany) Ramon Sanguesa, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain) Christian Wolf, University of Leipzig (Germany) SYMPOSIUM VENUE The Symposium will be held in the city of Varese in northern Italy, which can be reached in 30 minutes by car from the new Milan airport, Malpensa 2000. Consult the Internet for the site of the Varese province to navigate in four languages through this interesting area: http://www.provincia.va.it even before coming to the Symposium. Related events A related workshop will take place after the symposium, in the days June 23-25. An exhibition will take place in the same site during the whole week June 21-25 on projects, products and demonstrations on all the topics covered by the symposium. Web site of the symposium and the related events: http://andromeda.varbio.unimi.it/~VA_99/ Contact address: Prof. Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone Insubria University Faculty of Sciences at Varese Director of the Undergraduate Curriculum in Computer Science Via Ravasi, 2 I-21100 Varese (Italy) Tel.: 0332-250.207 Fax: 0332-281308 E-mail: lanzarone@mail.varbio.unimi.it Program June 21, Monday 9:30-9:45 Welcome address by the Rector of Insubria University 9:45-10:45 Keynote speaker Chris Stuart Hutchison Kingston University "The Unlimited Dream Machine" 10:45-11:00 Coffee break Session A: CULTURE THROUGH COMPUTING AND NEW PROFESSIONS Chairperson: Wolf Paprotte' 11:00-11:30 Marco Jennarelli Insubria University at Varese (Italy) "A new Humanism: scientific research and new professions in humanities computing" 11:30-12:00 Sadhna Jain, Simon Clarke, Paul Newland and Michele-Anne Dauppe University of Portsmouth (U.K.) "Communication design in contemporary digital culture. EMMA a case study" 12:00-12:30 Round table discussion Chairperson and Introduction: Ramon Sanguesa Participants: - keynote speaker - speakers of session A 12:30-14 lunch Session B: EDUCATION WITHOUT DISTANCES Chairperson: Merja Bauters 14:00-14:30 Marijana Lomic And Zoran Putnik University of Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) "On creation of educational software based on a dynamic learning model" 14:30-15:00 Giovanni Adorni, Dario Bianchi and Agostino Poggi University of Parma (Italy) "Teleteaching experiences with a 'scalable' architecture" 15:00-15:30 Vito Leonardo Plantamura, Paola Plantamura and Enrica Gentile University of Bari (Italy) "Videoconferencing for distance learning but learning without distance" 15:30-16:00 Aurora Vizcaino, Manuel Prieto Castilla-Mancha University (Spain) "Collaborative learning. Student modelling" 16:00-16:15 coffee break 16:15-17:00 Round table discussion Chairperson and Introduction: Ulises Cortes Participants: - speakers of session B - Luca Maria Gambardella IDSIA - Dalle Molle Institute of Studies on Artificial Intelligence Lugano (Switzerland) 18:00 Vernissage of the exhibition 19:00 Welcome cocktail offered by the Municipality of Varese 20:30 Gala Dinner June 22, Tuesday 9:30-10:30 Invited speaker Flavio Argentesi European Commission Joint Research Centre - IHCP "IT evolution, new professions and new education" Session C: METAPHORS FOR DIGITAL DOCUMENTS Chairperson: Christian Wolf 10:30-11:00 Monica Landoni and Forbes Gibb University of Strathclyde - Glasgow "The importance of visual rhetoric in the design and production of electronic books: the visual book experience" 11:00-11:15 Coffee break 11:15-11:45 Stefano A. Cerri, Vincenzo Loia, Michel Quaggetto "Complex display specification via Java constraints: interactive Web-based technical manuals" University of Milano & University of Salerno (Italy) Pierre & Marie Curie University - Paris (France) 11:45-12:30 Round table discussion Chairperson and Introduction: Christian Wolff Participants: - speakers of session B - Goffredo Haus, University of Milan (Italy) - Julian Padget, University of Bath (UK) 12:30-14 lunch Session D: TRAWLING THROUGH THE WEB Chairperson: Daniele Herin 14:00-14:30 David Inman South Bank University (U.K.) "A multilingual, agent based approach to finding content on the Web" 14:30-15 Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Gulli, Fabrizio Sebastiani University of Pisa (Italy) "Theseus: Categorization by Context" 15:00-15:30 Stefano A. Cerri, Vincenzo Loia, Pierluigi Fontanesi, Alberto Bettinelli University of Milano & University of Salerno (Italy) "Serendipitous acquisition of Web knowledge by agents in the context of human learning 15:30-15:45 coffee break 15:45-16:30 Round table discussion Chairperson and Introduction: Phillip Burrel Participants: - speakers of session B 16:30 Closing session ********** III.B.7. Fr: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Re: GECCO-99: Conference Schedule The conference schedule for the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) to be held 13-17 July 1999 (Tuesday-Saturday) at the Omni Rosen Hotel in Orlando, Florida is now posted at http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/. The conference brings together 235 parallel papers, 3 invited talks, 24 free tutorials, 15 workshops, 105 poster papers, a large number of late-breaking papers, a 70th birthday party celebration for John Holland, and much, much more. Conference attendees will receive as part of their registration a two-volume, 2000-page conference proceedings, admission to all tutorials, all exhibits, all workshops, and all paper sessions (at no extra charge)copies of all tutorial handouts, copies of all workshop and late-breaking papers, a GECCO souvenir, and admission to all conference receptions. In addition, if you register before June 15, 1999 you receive a price break on registration over that charged at the door. For a registration form, see the web site http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/ or email gecco@aaai.org. I hope to see you in Orlando, Florida for what promises to be a special event in the evolution of the growing field of genetic and evolutionary computation. Dave Goldberg GECCO-99 Conference Chair ********** III.C.1. Fr: Mark Evan Rorvig PhD Re: SIGIR99: CFVolunteers The SIGIR99 Organizing Committee is again requesting student volunteers. As a volunteer at SIGIR99 you will be entitled to free conference registration. Typically, volunteers stuff bags, monitor equipment items and rooms, take tickets at tutorials and workshops, assist the ACM registration person, follow through on arrangements for poster sessions, bus transportation, and like matters. If you would like to volunteer, you should visit . Mark E. Rorvig, Ph.D. Off. Tel.: 940-565-2445 Associate Professor Hm. Tel.: 940-484-8445 School of Library and Fax: 940-565-3101 Information Sciences mrorvig@jove.acs.unt.edu University of North Texas http://archive.lis.unt.edu:2025/resume/ P.O. Box 311068 Denton, Texas 76203-1068 ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Ellen Voorhees Re: DARPA Soliciting Proposals for Translingual Information Access The Information Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced it is soliciting proposals for research on machine translation and algorithms for Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization (TIDES). The TIDES program goal is to dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to perform cross-lingual retrieval, information extraction, summarization and interpretation, and machine translation of a new language. More information regarding how to repond to the solicitation can be found at http://www.darpa.mil/baa/BAA99-26.htm Ellen Voorhees NIST ********** IV.C.2. Fr: Clifford Lynch Re: Pew Learning and Technology Program THE PEW LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM The Pew Learning and Technology Program is an $8.8-million, four-year effort to place the national discussion about the impact that new technologies are having on the nation's campuses in the context of student learning and ways to achieve this learning cost-effectively. The Program has three areas of work: 1) The Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign is a $6 million institutional grant program that will support efforts of colleges and universities to redesign their instructional approaches using technology to achieve cost savings as well as quality enhancements. Redesign projects will focus on large-enrollment, introductory courses, which have the potential of impacting significant numbers of students and generating substantial cost savings. The program expects to award 30 - 35 grants over three years (approximately 10 awards per year) with an average award of $200,000. 2) The Pew Symposia in Learning and Technology will conduct an ongoing national conversation about issues related to the intersection of learning and technology. It will marshal the thinking of acknowledged experts and frame the issues in ways that are useful to the higher education community as it incorporates uses of technology into the academic program. The program will convene two invitational symposia per year from 1999 through 2002 and produce monographs based on those discussions from a public-interest perspective. 3) The Pew Learning and Technology Program Newsletter is an electronic newsletter that will be published quarterly beginning September 1999. It will highlight ongoing examples of redesigned learning environments using technology and examine issues related to their development and implementation. To have your name added to the Pew Learning and Technology Program electronic mailing list, which ensures that you receive the newsletter, periodic updates and information about this new effort, send an email message (with subject line left blank) to listproc@lists.rpi.edu. In the body of the message, type SUB PLTP-L your name. The Pew Learning and Technology Program is coordinated by the newly created Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute led by its executive director, Dr. Carol A. Twigg. The Center's mission is to serve as a source of expertise and support for those in and around higher education who wish to transform their academic practices to make them more accessible, more effective and more productive by taking advantage of the capabilities of information technology. For further information, please see the Center Web site at . If you have any problems accessing the site, please contact Abbie Basile at or 518-276-8323. ********** IV.D.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: v The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is seeking a consultant to assist with a Guide to Good Practice project. CNI was a co-founder of NINCH and works closely with it on its current projects. NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 1, 1999 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/rfprfp.html June 1, 1999 INTRODUCTION The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is undertaking a project to review and evaluate current practice in the digital networking of cultural heritage resources in order to publish a Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. The Guide will be published in print and electronic form. A NINCH Working Group on Best Practices has outlined the scope and purpose of the Guide. It will divide into two sections: one on the capture and creation of digital cultural heritage resources; the other on the management and maintenance of that digital data. The Guide will encompass all genres. To encourage broadest use of digital resources, the Guide will focus on object-types (e.g., manuscripts, paintings, performance documentations, etc.,) going beyond the limited perspectives of institution types or disciplines (e.g,. museums or history). The primary audience will be institutions or researchers preparing to create and manage digital cultural heritage resources with little extensive knowledge of current technical and information standards, metadata and best practices. Funders will be an important secondary audience, for whom the Guide could provide a set of key criteria for assessing the fundability of digital projects. The Working Group will proceed by commissioning a survey of the field to discover and define exemplary practice. The survey will include interviews with practitioners and reviews of published guidelines and projects that demonstrate good practice; it should also reveal areas for which good practice still needs to be developed and documented. The Working Group will announce a call for nominations of practitioners and projects to be considered by the survey. As a starting point, the Working Group has created an initial definition of good practice consisting of six principles each of which has a set of evaluative criteria, by which to judge current practice . The Working Group has built into the process a stage in which it may refine and extend these criteria as a result of the survey. The survey is not intended to be a comprehensive review of current practice; its purpose is to gather material, experiences and opinions for the writing of the Guide. The Working Group proposes to hire a consultant or consultants to conduct the Survey and write the Guide in close consultation with the Working Group. Those responding may address one or both parts of this project: the Survey (Phase 1) and the Guide (Phase 2). This RFP is also available at: http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/rfprfp.html CONTENTS OF GUIDE The following prospectus outlines the intended contents of the Guide: GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE Table of Contents 1. PREFACE Establishes the scope and context of the Guide and summarily discusses contingent issues not covered in detail. 2. GUIDE TO THE CREATION AND CAPTURE OF DIGITAL RESOURCES AND METADATA. This section will include but not be limited to the following: * an overview of principles and general issues common to all formats; * a detailed discussion of the issues and techniques pertaining to digitizing specific types of original formats and creating appropriate metadata; * a discussion of the different strategies to be considered with particular digital materials for particular uses and audiences. 3. GUIDE TO THE MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL DATA & METADATA A discussion of general issues in the management and maintenance of digital cultural heritage materials. These will include but not be limited to: * intellectual property and access management; * strategies for the storage, archiving, and long-term maintenance of large collections of digital data in accordance with newly-developed standards and technologies; * the documentation of all practice. The discussion will include links to web pages and projects that exemplify model practice and its documentation. The guide will also indicate the areas that need to develope good practice that is also well documented. 4. AFTERWORD The Afterword will concentrate on the range of potential uses of digital material. Focusing on model projects that exemplify best practice, as determined by the Working Group's evaluative criteria, it would examine the power of the medium to connect and re-combine material, and use digital objects in often unforeseen ways. SCHEDULE OF WORK An outline schedule of work would include: 1. Initial survey The consultant will commence by interviewing practitioners and reviewing projects drawn from an initial small pool of approximately ten practitioners and projects from diverse cultural communities, the criteria for evaluating practice established by the Working Group. 2. Submission of Report 1. The consultant will present initial findings in written form to the Working Group. 3. Working group review and project evaluation. The Working Group will discuss its response to the findings and make modifications to the evaluative criteria and survey method, as appropriate, with the consultant. 4. Main survey The consultant will proceed, interviewing practitioners, reviewing existing statements and guidelines on good practice and investigating exemplary projects nominated by an open call to the community, issued by the Working Group. 5. Submission of Report 2. The consultant will write a report on the survey findings, including a bibliography and/or other compilation of useful resources gathered through the survey, and present it to the Working Group for its review. 6. Working group review and project evaluation. The Working Group will review and evaluate the survey report. On the basis of the survey report, the Working Group will then review and make modifications to the proposed form and content of the Guide, as appropriate. This will complete Phase 1 of the project. If the Consultant has proposed to work only on Phase 1, his or her work will then be complete. If the Consultant has proposed to work on both Phase 1 and 2, his or her work may continue uninterrupted. If a Consultant has proposed to work only on Phase 2, his or her work will now commence. 7. Writing of the Guide A consultant will proceed to write the Guide, according to a timetable mutually agreed to by consultant and Working Group. 8. First Draft of Guide manuscript due. 9. Working group review and evaluation of guide manuscript draft 1. Consultant and Working Group will discuss a first draft of the Guide, after which the consultant will revise the Guide as needed. 10. Final Draft of Manuscript due. 11. Publication The Working Group will then proceed with making arrangements for the electronic and print publication of the Guide. SCHEDULE The Working Group expects to be able to hire a consultant in the Summer of 1999. Deadline for completion of the Guide manuscript will be by the Spring/Summer of 2000. QUALIFICATIONS Qualifications for a consultant include: * a working and/or practical knowledge of networking cultural heritage material and of the range of issues entailed; * proven research and analytic skills; * proven writing skills; in particular an ability to write about complex issues in a clear style; * a diplomatic manner; * the ability to work closely with a team; * the ability to post material to the project's website. SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS A grant is expected to be available in the range of $60,000-$100,000 for the completion of the consultant's portion of this work. The deadline for receipt of proposals is 5pm (EST) Monday June 21, 1999. Electronic proposals must be available at a URL; print proposals must be in ten copies. Components of a proposal shall include: * a narrative (maximum 5 pages) explaining how the project would be accomplished, including: >> detailed work plan (including, if more than one person will be working, the specific role of each); >> detail of resources for completing the project; * your qualifications for the project (including qualifications of others who would work with you); * budget (applicants are invited to submit variant budgets for variant levels of work); * resume (including resumes for others who would work with you); * names and telephone numbers of references (minimum of 3); * references to relevant writings by you and/or others who would work with you. URLs or paper proposals should be sent to: David Green, Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, 21 Dupont Circle, Washington, DC 20036; david@ninch.org. NINCH Working Group on Best Practices June 1, 1999 Kathe Albrecht (from May 24, 1999) American University/Visual Resources Association LeeEllen Friedland Library of Congress Peter Hirtle Cornell University Lorna Hughes New York University Kathy Jones Peabody Museum, Harvard University/American Association of Museums Mark Kornbluh H-Net Joan Lippincott Coalition for Networked Information Michael Neuman Georgetown University Thorny Staples National Museum of American Art (through 2/1/99) University of Virginia Library (from 2/1/99) Jennifer Trant (through May 24, 1999) Art Museum Image Consortium Don Waters/Rebecca Graham (through May 24, 1999) Digital Library Federation David L. 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