Information Retrieval List Digest 471 (September 20, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-471.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 September 20, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 35 Issue 471 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Gatesource: Director of Ontologies III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. JASS Journal: Special Issue 2. Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging 3. Press Release: "GL-Compendium" B. Meetings 1. ICCI2000: CFPapers 2. "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 Session: 2nd CFPapers 3. DM: Second International Conference on DATA MINING 2000: CFPapers 4. ICEIS 2000: CFPapers IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. Pew Grant Award Announcement ****************************************************************** II. JOBS Fr: Kent Clizbe Re: Gatesource: Director of Ontologies Opportunities for specialists in Knowledge Representation and categorization schema continue to expand as eCommerce applications grow. In addition to the below position, the same company will have positions for ontologists with less experience, and specialized knowledge in a variety of fields. There are also other ontology-related position still available. For immediate consideration, please email your resume, or call: Kent Clizbe kent@gatesource.com 703-222-6627 www.gatesource.com Director of Ontologies Join the Internet's leading creator and operator of vertical trade communities, leveraging the interactive features and global reach of the Internet to create multi-national, targeted business-to-business communities. These narrowly focused web sites attract buyers and sellers from around the world by catering to individuals with similar professional interests. Responsibilities / Qualities -Develop and implement schema for classifying and describing items across multiple domains. -Develop automatic classification methods and play the lead role. -Work with SME's in over 50 industries. -Work with domain experts inside the company. -Hire and manage a small group of Ontologists. -Establish yourself as the company "Expert" -With system engineers, leverage ontology work performed. -Establish ontology "maintenance" procedures. -Create a team environment in Ontology group with a "get it done" attitude. -Work under tight deadlines. -Be open to new ways of thinking. -Possess knowledge base of industry available tools. -Applicable area of expertise. -Able to interface and deal with a wide variety of people. -Goal driven. You offer: -A proven track record developing timely and usable solutions to complex problems -2+ years experience building ontologies for commercial use -Ability to lead a team and a company to implement and improve schema. -Experience building ontologies and knowledge representation systems. -Software development experience Experience in eCommerce -Effective oral and written communication. Required: -Ph.D. or Masters in Linguistics or equivalent experience. -2+ years experience as an ontologist. -Knowledge of computational classification methodologies. -Ability to lead and work with a team. We offer: -Competitive compensation package in a fast paced environment. -Opportunity to work for a leading edge internet company. -Opportunity for advancement. -Casual work environment and flexible hours. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Nikitas Assimakopoulos Re: JASS Journal: Special Issue JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches [ JASS ] http://www.unipi.gr/jass/ Special Issue on "Applications of Electronic Commerce Systems" The electronic commerce is now well recognised as a key enabler of global electronic markets where small and large enterprises compete as equal players. Electronic commerce systems are based on the service-centric internet is producing profound changes in enterprise culture in general, and in particular in areas associated with the business-to-business and business-to-consumer environments. The special issue will focus on applications of electronic commerce systems, and papers should present analytically the electronic commerce practical problem. In addition to it, papers that address aspects of transaction processes and models including issues related to the legal, regulatory and standards frameworks for these systems will be welcome. Papers should be presented according to the "Guidelines for Contributors", the details of which can be found at the web site: http://www.unipi.gr/jass/. Submission deadline: 31 January, 2000. Expected publication date: 31 August, 2000. All the submissions for this special issue must be sent to the Guest Editor. Guest Editor : Narayana Jayaram, School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, Watford Road, Northwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP, ENGLAND. E-mail: jayaramn@westminster.ac.uk n.jayaram@computer.org n.jayaram@acm.org Phone: +44 171 911 5000 ext 4203, Fax:+44 171 911 5906 In the meantime, we would like to inform you that one of our scopes for JASS is to have Special Issues on a specific Application Domain of Systems Sciences. For the next year we are going to have two special issues. You may propose to us an area related to JASS in which I expect you will act as the "Guest Editor" under, of course, the general operating rules of JASS. ********** III.A.2. Fr: Jean Veronis Re: Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 9 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis Syntactic Wordclass Tagging edited by Hans van Halteren Dept. of Language and Speech University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands This book provides an in-depth discussion of the field of syntactic wordclass tagging, i.e. the annotation of the words in a text with tags indicating their syntactic properties. Represented are the viewpoints of the two main groups who take an interest in tagging: the users of tagged text and the developers of tagging software. The book starts out by examining the field foremost from the user's point of view. After a brief historical overview, the nature and uses of tagging are discussed and current practice is described. Here the user will find what tagging is and the software developer what it is the user wants. The book then switches to the other point of view and continues with a detailed explanation of the most common computational techniques for automatically tagging large amounts of text. Here the software developer finds information needed for the implementation of a tagger while the user gains insight into the possibilities and impossibilities of automatic tagging and how computer-provided tags should be interpreted. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1 August 1999, 300 pp. NLG 280.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00 Contents and Contributors Preface. Contributing Authors. Part I: The User's View. 1. Orientation; A. Voutilainen. 2. A Short History of Tagging; A. Voutilainen. 3. The Use of Tagging; G. Leech, N. Smith. 4. Tagsets; J. Cloeren. 5. Standards for Tagsets; G. Leech, A. Wilson. 6. Performance of Taggers; H. van Halteren. 7. Selection and Operation of Taggers; H. van Halteren. Part II: The Implementer's View. 8. Automatic Taggers: An Introduction; H. van Halteren, A. Voutilainen. 9. Tokenization; G. Grefenstette. 10. Lexicons for Tagging; A. Schiller, L. Karttunen. 11. Standardization in the Lexicon; M. Monachini, N. Calzolari. 12. Morphological Analysis; K. Oflazer. 13. Tagging Unknown Words; E. Brill. 14. Hand-Crafted Rules; A. Voutilainen. 15. Corpus-Based Rules; E. Brill. 16. Hidden Markov Models; M. El-Beze, B. Merialdo. 17. Machine Learning Approaches; W. Daelemans. Appendix A: Example tagsets. References. Index PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999 Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999 Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB ********** III.A.3. Fr: GreyNet Re: Press Release: "GL-Compendium" PRESS RELEASE PRESSEINFORMATION COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE Amsterdam, 17 September 1999 G L - C o m p e n d i u m A Netbased Directory of Grey Literature Collections On September 1st 1999, the European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation (EAGLE), signed an agreement with GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service for permission to use their SIGLE Subject Classification Scheme within the GL-Compendium Project. The agreement was signed by Dr. David Wood, President of EAGLE and Mr. Andrew Smith, Chair of the EAGLE Technical Committee. "The Association looks forward to the opportunities which this venture may present for further raising awareness about EAGLE and SIGLE (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe) and to exploring the possibilities for developing our co-operation." Last month, Dr. Dominic Farace, Head of GreyNet, submitted together with MCB University Press the GL-Compendium proposal: One of the initial problems encountered in the search for information is finding the right source(s) to enable further searching. Internet access to special collections of grey literature, regardless of the type of documents or the subject areas covered, will no doubt both challenge and enable librarians and researchers alike. The challenge to become aware of the very existence of these collections and the subsequent ability to access them worldwide. The GL-Compendium, a unique networked resource in and for grey literature, will not only act to control information overflow but will, at the same time, confront and deal with information underuse. This grey literature netbased directory, which we call the GL Compendium, will be multidisciplinary in scope, providing a standardised, descriptive, hyperlinked record produced, edited, and updated electronically with the support of state-of-the-art software and classification tools developed and maintained specifically for scientific and technical grey literature. The partners in this new and unique venture, as well as their roles and responsibilities constitute the remainder of this proposal." To access the full-text: http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet/GL-Compendium.htm At GL'99, the Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature scheduled on 4-5 October 1999 in Washington D.C., GreyNet will provide a Product and Service Review covering the GL-Compendium Project. Dates will be targeted for distribution & retrieval of this Netbased Directory of Grey Literature Collections. See, http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet/GL'99.htm FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GL-COMPENDIUM AND GL'99 CONTACT: GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service Koninginneweg 201 1075 CR Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel/Fax : 31-20-671.1818 Email : greynet@inter.nl.net URL : http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet ********** III.B.1. Fr: Almulla M. Re: ICCI2000: CFPapers The Tenth International Conference on Computing and Information ICCI '2000, Kuwait, November 18-21, 2000 Home Page: http://mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~icci2000 North America Mirror Site: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icci-00/ organized and sponsored by Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait Keynote Speaker (*): Tim Berners-Lee, the Father of the World Wide Web CALL FOR PAPERS ICCI '2000 will provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present new results in research, development, and applications in computing and information. Since 1989, ICCI conferences have attracted participants from over 40 different countries. ICCI '2000 will consist of four streams ranging from theoretical computer science to applied software systems. It will provide a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization and interdisciplinary information exchange. Stream A: Theory. Data Theory and Logic. Information and Coding Theory. Algorithms. Theory of Computation. Chair: Monty Newborn, newborn@opus.cs.mcgill.ca Stream B: Distribution and Parallelism. Distributed Computing and Communications. Concurrency and Parallelism. Chair: Albert Zomaya, zomaya@ee.uwa.edu.au Stream C: Systems and Development. Database Systems. Software Engineering and CASE Methodologies. Expert Systems. Chair: Hans Loeper, Loeper@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw Stream D: Data and Knowledge Engineering. AI Methodologies. User Interfaces. Data Mining. Approximate Reasoning. Chair: Susan Craw, smc@scms.rgu.ac.uk Stream E: Networking and Internet. Information Exploration on the World Wide Web. Mobile Computing. Chair: Richard Lai, lai@cs.latrobe.edu.au Papers for any of the above streams are welcome. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical correctness, quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers are expected to be published in the conference proceedings by an international publisher. A selected number of ICCI 2000 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the "Journal of Computing and Information" and "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag. Proposals for tutorials, workshops and panel sessions are also invited. All paper submissions (by e-mail or in hardcopy) and proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials should be sent to the Program Committee Chair at the following address. Xindong Wu (xwu@kais.mines.edu) Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois Street Golden, Colorado 80401, USA Phone: +1-303-273-3874 Fax: +1-303-273-3875 Please reply to this email with your name and email now to receive more information in due time. Important Dates January 15, 2000 Proposals for panels, tutorials and workshops March 1, 2000 Paper submissions May 1, 2000 Acceptance notices July 1, 2000 Final camera-readies November 18-21, 2000 Conference Organization General Chair: Waldemar W. Koczkodaj, Laurentian University, Canada. E-mail: icci@nickel.laurentian.ca; URL: http://www.cs.laurentian.ca/faculty/wkoczkodaj.html Organizing Committee Chair: Mohammed Almulla, Kuwait University, Kuwait. E-mail: almulla@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw; URL: http://www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~almulla/ Program Committee Chair: Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA. E-mail: xwu@kais.mines.edu; URL: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/ General inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee Chair at Mohammed Almulla Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Kuwait University P.O.Box 5969 Safat, 13060, Kuwait Telephone: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 5303 or 5624 Fax: (965) 481-7201 E-mail: almulla@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw (*) pending confirmation ********** III.B.2. Fr: Richard Evans Re: "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 Session: 2nd CFPapers 'Corpora and NLP' Extended submission deadline 20 October 1999* "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 session Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000 Under the auspices of ELRA 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 in fact 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 that 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: 20 October 1999 **extended deadline** 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 web site of the session is: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/NLP_Session.html If you have any further queries, please contact: Lamia Belguith e-mail: l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn Fax: (216) 4 296 229 ********** III.B.3. Fr: Alessandro Zanasi Re: DM: Second International Conference on DATA MINING 2000: CFPapers CALL FOR PAPERS - DATA MINING 2000 Second International Conference on DATA MINING 5 - 7 July 2000 Cambridge University, UK Organised by Wessex Institute of Technology, Southampton, UK http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2000/data2000/ CONFERENCE DIRECTORS N Ebecken - COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil C A Brebbia - Wessex Institute of Technology, UK A Weigend - New York University, USA INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE M Costantino - London, UK M Mattoso - COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil L Sucharov - Wessex Institute of Technology, UK M Quafafou - Inst de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes, France R Tsaih - National Chengchi University, Taiwan B Wuthrich - University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong A Zanasi - IBM Italy S.p.A., Italy N Zhong - Yamaguchi University, Japan H G Zimmermann - Siemens AG, Germany OBJECTIVES Data mining is a promising and relatively new area of current research and development that can provide important advantages to the users. It can yield substantial knowledge from data primarily gathered for a wide range of quite different applications. Financial institutions have derived considerable benefits from its application and other industries and disciplines are now applying the methodology to increasing effect. The second International Conference on Data Mining will provide an international forum for the sharing of original research results and practical development experiences among researchers and applications developers from different areas such as computer experts, statisticians, knowledge acquisition specialists, data analysts, IT consultants, data visualisation experts, and users and developers in business and industry. The Conference aims to bring together the participants from academic and research, industry and government organisations. The meeting will allow participants to learn about the many different applications of data mining and how the techniques can help in their own field. LOCATION AND DATES The Conference will be held from 5 - 7 July 2000. New Hall, with its established gardens and many old trees, provides a tranquil setting with easy access from the motorway and ample parking - yet is only ten minutes walk from the heart of Cambridge. It is an international and cosmopolitan college which enjoys new links with Japan through the presence within its grounds of the Kaetsu Educational and Cultural Centre. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of the conference will be published to a high standard by WIT Press and will be available to delegates at the Conference. The Proceedings will also be distributed worldwide through the international book trade. MINI-DISPLAY FACILITIES Mini exhibition facilities will be available for those firms or organisations wishing to display products, services, hardware software, literature relating to the theme of the conference. Please contact the Conference Secretariat for details. TIME SCHEDULE Return Reply Form: As soon as possible Submit Abstract: As soon as possible Submit Final Manuscript: 7 March 2000 CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the topics outlined and others falling within the scope of the Meeting Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted by mail, fax or Email as soon as possible and no later than 23 November 1999. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. The final acceptance will be based on the fulllength paper. The author must attend the conference to present the paper, if accepted. Each submitted paper is subject to a separate registration. TOPICS Applications of Data Mining in Science, Engineering, Business, Industry, Medicine Data Warehousing and Databases Internet Applications Fraud Detection and Prevention Data Mining as a Tool for Marketing and Sales Support Managing Data Mining Projects Data Mining Software Data Discovery Data Mining Methodologies Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Multi-database Mining Machine Learning Methods Neural Networks and Decision Trees Genetic Algorithms in Data Mining Parallel and Distributed Techniques Market Basket Analysis Visualisation in Data Mining Statistically Based Tools Clustering and Classification Techniques Tools for Pattern Discovery Prediction of Future Trends with Historical Data Case Studies Conference Secretariat - DATA MINING 2000 Wessex Institute of Technology Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst Southampton, SO40 7AA Telephone: 44 (0) 23 80 293223 Fax: 44 (0) 23 80 292853 Email: wit@wessex.ac.uk Alessandro ZANASI Market Intelligence IBM Global Services, South Region Tel.:+39-0514136726 (with answering machine)/+39-337285470 (mobile) Fax:+39-051406052 ********** III.B.4. Fr: Joaquim Filipe Re: ICEIS 2000: CFPapers 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2000) Stafford UK 4-7 July 2000 http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis/ IMPORTANT: All accepted papers published in proceedings with ISBN (paper+cdrom) Selected papers will be published in a book by a leading publisher. Submission deadline: 31st January 2000 Main Topic Areas: 1. ENTERPRISE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 3. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION 4. INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE This international conference is organised by the School of Computing at Staffordshire University, UK and the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of the Instituto Politecnico, Setubal, Portugal. SCOPE The purpose of this 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Enterprise Computing, including Enterprise Database Applications, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Decision Support Systems, Systems Analysis and Specification, and Internet and Electronic Commerce. ICEIS focuses on real world applications therefore authors should highlight the benefits of Information Technology for industry and services. Ideas on how to solve business problems, using IT, will arise from the conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICEIS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. We are building on the success achieved by ICEIS'99 with more than 350 delegates, 8 VIPs and a book published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (in press). Please check http://www.est.ips.pt/iceis where you will find more information concerning ICEIS'99. TOPIC AREAS / CONFERENCE TRACKS Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the list is not exhaustive. Papers should address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable. 1. ENTERPRISE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 3. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION 4. INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Distinguished invited speakers who already confirmed their participation as keynote speakers: - Prof. John Mylopoulos (Canada) - Prof. Ronald Stamper (Netherlands) - Prof. Colin Theaker (UK) AREA 1: Enterprise Database Technology and its Applications (a) Object-Oriented Database Systems (b) Object-Oriented Database Systems (c) Database Management (d) Distributed Database Applications (e) Performance Analysis (f) Enterprise-Wide Client-Server Architecture (g) Database Security and Transaction Support (h) Internet-enabled Databases (i) Query Processing and Optimisation (j) Graphical User Interfaces (k) Data Warehouses (l) Statistical Applications and Data Mining (m) Information Classification (n) Multimedia Database Applications AREA 2: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems (a) Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (b) Expert Systems (c) Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic (d) Applications of Neural Networks, Neural Networks or Genetic Algorithms (e) Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems (f) Intelligent User Interfaces (g) Applications of Pattern Recognition to Robotics and Vision Systems (h) Bayesian Networks (i) Decision Support Systems in E-Commerce (j) Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages (k) Agent-Oriented Programming (l) Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications (m) Testbeds and Development Environments (n) Intelligent Tutoring Systems AREA 3: Systems Analysis and Specification (a) Systems Engineering Methodologies (b) Information Engineering Methodologies (c) Semiotics in Computing (d) Requirements Analysis (e) Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations (f) CASE Tools for System Development (g) Modelling of Distributed Systems (h) Systems Integration: Modelling Concepts and Information Integration Tools (i) Organisational Issues on Systems Integration (j) Legacy Systems Integration (k) Re-engineering AREA 4: Internet and Electronic Commerce (a) Languages and Protocols (b) Internet/ Intranet Distributed Computing (c) CASE Tools for Internet Computing Systems (d) Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications (e) Network Implementation Choices (e.g.. SGML/SML) (f) Internet/Intranet Based Systems for Business Processes and E- Commerce (g) Object Orientation In Internet and Distributed Computing (h) Internet and Collaborative Computing (i) Software Agents: Agent-Based Modelling and Agent-Based Programming (j) Agent-Based Systems for Business Applications and E-Commerce (k) Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce (l) Security, Privacy, Freedom of Information And Other Social and Ethical Issues The papers will be reviewed by the International Programme Committee. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit a paper in English of up to 5,000 words, both by e-mail (attached file in an accepted format - see below) and surface mail (2 printed copies) to the conference secretariat (see address below). Papers received after the deadline may be returned unopened. The programme committee will review all papers and the first author of each paper will be notified of acceptance, by email. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Authors must also indicate the topic area to which the paper is submitted. Due to space limitations in the Proceedings, the maximum number of pages for each paper is limited to 5 (five). If absolutely needed, it is possible to increase the total number of pages up to 8 pages. However, for each page in excess of 5 the authors must pay an additional fee of £50 for each excess page. Format of the paper: Submitted papers should be formatted for A4 size paper, and must be written in English, and carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Papers should be submitted in a 2-column format; each column should be 7.5cm wide, with a space of 0.8cm between the columns. The text should be in Times New Roman, 11pt, justified and single spaced. There should be no headers/footers and no page numbers. Margins requirements are as follows: Top: 3.3 cm; Bottom: 4.2cm; Left 2.6cm; Right: 2.6cm. The title, author, affiliation(s), contact details, abstract and list of keywords should be justified and single spaced in a single column across the width of the printable area. The paper should include: (a) The title: 14 pt bold type, centered over two columns, and in upper case. (b) Authors and affiliations (incl. full address and e-mail) should all be 11 pt, centered, under the title. Authors (bold) and affiliation/contact details (italic) should be centered. For multiple authors use a superscript to indicate affiliation/contact details. (c) Abstract: maximum 200 words, 11pt. (d) Keywords: maximum of five, under abstract, separated by commas. (e) Headings should be numbered and in mixed case 12 pt. bold text. Generally two, and at most three levels of numbered headings should be used. (f) Figures should be numbered sequentially, with a 10 pt. caption centered immediately below. Figures should be placed in the main text, as close as possible to their first reference, and centered in a column or across the page if necessary. (g) Bibliographical references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper, before any appendices. Use 11 pt. single spaced text. References within the text, should be in the Harvard referencing style. Examples are given below: White, R., 1988. Advertising: what it is and how to do it. 2nd ed. London: McGraw Hill. Greco, A.J. and Swayne, L.D., 1992. Sales response of elderly customers to point-of-purchase advertising. Journal of Advertising Research, 32 (5), 43-63. Silver, K., 1989. Electronic mail: the new way to communicate. In: D.I. Raitt, ed. 9th international online information meeting, London 3-5 December 1988. Oxford: Learned Information, 323-330. For email submission, the only accepted formats are RTF, Postscript or PDF. Multiple submission: If a paper has been submitted to other conferences it may also be submitted to ICEIS as long as (1) it is not published or presented at other conferences, (2) the author clearly indicates on the paper the other places where it has been submitted, and (3) the author notifies the programme chair if he/she submits the paper to other conferences during the ICEIS review process. SUBMISSION OF TECHNICAL TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS OR EXHIBITS Any person interested in organising a tutorial, workshop, or exhibition should submit a proposal to the secretariat by e-mail (iceis-secretariat@staffs.ac.uk). These will be held on 3rd July 2000. Proposals should specify the topic and scope of the tutorial, the background knowledge expected of the participants, and a resumé of the instructor(s). Companies interested in presenting their products, showing documentation about them or demonstrating some application, are invited to contact the secretariat and make a reservation for a booth at the conference site. PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION All accepted papers whose authors confirm participation at the conference will be published in the ICEIS 2000 proceedings. A number of papers will be selected for publication in book format. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Submissions - 31st January 2000 Author Notification - 30th March 2000 Final Submissions - 30th April 2000 SECRETARIAT ICEIS 2000 Secretariat Staffordshire University School of Computing Beaconside, Stafford ST18 0AD, UK Fax: +44 1785 353561 E-mail: iceis-secretariat@staffs.ac.uk Web: http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis/ ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: Pew Grant Award Announcement Congratulations to the first recipients of the Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign. This message from Carol Twigg provides information on the institutions selected. Descriptions of the projects and information on applying for the next rounds of grants are available on the projects website (URL listed below). The Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign is pleased to announce the first of three rounds of grant awards. The purpose of this institutional grant program is to encourage 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 student numbers and generating substantial cost savings. The institutions that have received a $200,000 grant include: -- Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) -- Penn State University -- Rio Salado College (Maricopa Community College District) -- State University of New York at Buffalo -- University of Central Florida -- University of Colorado-Boulder -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- University of Southern Maine -- University of Wisconsin-Madison -- Virginia Tech Full descriptions of each project will be available on the program's Web site by the end of the month. For more information about how to apply for a grant in rounds 2 and 3, please see the program Web site . ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, California Digital Library, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. 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