Information Retrieval List Digest 472 (September 27, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-472.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 September 27, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 36 Issue 472 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. JASIS 50:13: TOC 2. Information Agents - Theory & Applications: Journal CFPapers C. Miscellaneous 1. EDUCAUSE PKI White Paper ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS 50:13: TOC Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS. VOLUME 50, NUMBER 13 November 1999 [Note: at the bottom of this message are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues. Below the contents of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" as well as material from Zorana Ercegovac's introduction to the special section has been added to the Table of Contents.] EDITORIAL In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 1163 Special Topic Issue: Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards Guest Editor: Zorana Ercegovac Introduction Zorana Ercegovac 1165 Conceptual Design and Deployment of a Metadata Framework for Educational Resources on the Internet Stuart A. Sutton 1182 Metadata Elements for Object Description and Representation: A Case Report from a Digitized Historical Fashion Collection Project Marcia Lei Zeng 1193 A Comparison of the Two Traditions of Metadata Development Kathleen Burnett, Kwong Bor Ng, and Soyeon Park 1209 Use of Metadata Vocabularies in Data Retrieval Edwin M. Cortez 1218 Research The Ecological Approach to Text Visualization James A. Wise 1224 A Hybrid Method for Abstracting Newspaper Articles James Liu, Yan Wu, and Lina Zhou 1234 Formal Features of Cyberspace: Relationships between Web Page Complexity and Site Traffic Erik P. Bucy, Annie Lang, Robert F. Potter, and Maria Elizabeth Grabe 1246 Book Reviews Understanding Information Retrieval Interactions: Theoretical and Practical Implications, by Carol A. Hert Sue Myburgh 1257 Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age, by Kathleen L. Spitzer with Michael B. Eisenberg and Carrie A. Lowe Cheryl Knott Malone 1257 Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The Flow of Ideas Within and Among Disciplines, by Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk Jack Andersen 1259 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." ********** III.A.2. Fr: Matthias Klusch Re: Information Agents - Theory & Applications: Journal CFPapers 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Special Double Issue of the International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/JCISspecial.html Guest Editor: Matthias Klusch Deduction and Multi-Agent Systems Lab German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Ltd., Germany IMPORTANT DATES - Submission of Manuscripts: November 25, 1999 - Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2000 - Publication of Special Issue due: End of the year 2000 SCOPE & TOPICS This special double issue of the International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems is devoted to advances in theory and applications of intelligent information agents. Roughly speaking, an information agent is a computational software entity that has access to one or multiple, heterogeneous and geographically distributed information sources; it pro-actively searches for and maintains relevant information on behalf of users or other agents preferably in a just-in-time fashion. Such an agent is supposed to satisfy one or multiple of following requirements: * Information acquisition and management, i.e., it may monitor, update, and provide transparent access to one or many different information sources, retrieve, extract, analyze and filter data (including semi-structured or even unstructured data). * Information synthesis and presentation, that is, it is able to integrate heterogeneous data and to provide unified (and multi-dimensional) views on data. * Intelligent user assistance by being able, for example to dynamically adapt to user preferences, any kind of changes in information and network environment. It may provide convenient individual interactive assistance for everyday business on the Internet such as a life-like character, recommend sources and future work steps, etc. In other words, the agent helps to manage and overcome the difficulties associated with information overload. In part, there are many approaches and implemented solutions available from advanced databases, knowledge bases and distributed information systems technology to meet some of these demands. The effective and efficient access to information on the Internet and Web has become a critical research area. Information agents technology emerged as part of the more general intelligent software agent technology around seven years ago mainly as a response to the increasing challenges of the cyberspace from both, the technological and human user perspective. It is an inherently interdisciplinary technology encompassing approaches, methods and tools from different research disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Database and Knowledge Base Systems, Distributed Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Cognitive Sciences and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Today, it can be seen as one of the key technologies for the actual and future Internet and worldwide Web. Topics are but not limited to: * Architectures of (Systems of) Information Agents General and specific architectures of information agents in different settings and environments. Approaches for communication and collaboration between (systems) of information agents. Service matchmaking and brokering. Inter-Agent Communication languages. * Advanced Database and Knowledge-Base Technology Interoperability in large-scaled, and uncertain information environments. Application of Techniques for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in open, distributed and dynamically changing environments. * Methods of Adaptation and Learning for Systems of Information Agents Methods for automated uncertain reasoning for information agents. Computation and action under uncertainty and limited resources. Performance and measurement of adaptation of single agent or multiagent systems in uncertain information environments. * Mobility and Issues of Security in the Internet Architectures, Environments and Languages for Mobile and Secure Information Agents and Servers. Secure agent execution and protection of data servers from malicious agents. Cooperating Information Agents in wearable computers, hand-held and/or satellite-based control devices. * Rational Information Agents and Electronic Commerce Agent-Based Marketplaces, Coalition Formation, Auctions, Negotiations Economic models of cooperative problem solving among rational information agents in open information environments. Methods for prevention and detection of lying rational information agents. Electronic Commerce with incomplete and uncertain informations. Standards for privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for agent-mediated deals. * Human-Agent Interaction Synthetic Agents, believable avatars, and 3-D multimedia-based representation of user information spaces in the Internet. Models and Implementation of Advanced Interfaces for conversation and dialogue among Information Agents and Users. * Systems and Applications Systems and Applications of multiple collaborating Information Agents on the Internet. PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT The length of the contribution should not exceed 22 pages. For guidelines on manuscript preparation see the Web site of the International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems at: http://www.wspc.com.sg/journals/ijcis/ijcis.html SUBMISSION Manuscripts are to be submitted by (electronic) mail to the Guest Editor (see below). Authors may suggest the appropriate persons to review/referee their paper, however, the Editor need not necessarily take up the suggestion. Authors may request that their identity be kept unknown to the referee. Camera-ready manuscripts are to be prepared according to the instructions provided, preferably using LATEX or TEX. Please submit your manuscript by E-Mail (printable POSTSCRIPT - A4 format- AND the original text file) to klusch@dfki.de OR Mail (5 Hard Copies) to Matthias Klusch DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany Phone: +49-681-302 5297 Fax: +49-681-302 2235 http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/ ********** III.C.1. Fr: Clifford Lynch Re: EDUCAUSE PKI White Paper EDUCAUSE has released a white paper resulting from the August EDUCAUSE/NSF summit meeting on public key infrastructure for higher education. A PDF version may be downloaded from: http://www.educause.edu/netatedu ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, California Digital Library, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. Send subscription requests and submissions to: nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Editorial Staff: Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. 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