Information Retrieval List Digest 494 (March 6, 2000) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-494.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 6, 2000 Volume XVII, Number 10 Issue 494 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Special Issue of Information Research B. Meetings 1. Libraries in the Digital Age 2. [NET00] Networking 2000 3. Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems 4. TAPD2000, 2nd Workshop on Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction 5. Defining Information Architecture 6. AAAI-2000: AI for Web Search Workshop 7. TSD 2000: Submission Deadline March 10 8. CoopIS'2000 9. Americas Conference On Information Systems: Minitrack on Data Mining and IR C. Miscellaneous 1. IR-L Moves 2. jake-0.5 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Amanda Spink Re: Special Issue of Information Research A special issue of Information Research on "Web Research" is scheduled for publication in October. The issue will be edited by Dr. Amanda Spink - The Pennsylvania State University (Regional Editor for North America) and Dr. Dietmar Wolfram from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Anyone interested in submitting a paper should contact Dr.Spink (spink@ist.psu.edu) or Dr. Wolfram (dwolfram@csd.uwm.edu) as soon as possible,with a view to submitting a final version of their paper by 1st June 2000. Information Research can be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ircont.html Professor Tom Wilson Editor, Information Research Professor Tom Wilson & Editor, Information Research & Department of Information Studies & University of Sheffield & Sheffield S10 2TN, UK & Tel: +44-114-222-2642 & Fax: +44-114-278-0300 & e-mail: t.d.wilson@shef.ac.uk & ********** III.B.1. Fr: Tefko Saracevic Re: Libraries in the Digital Age ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION You are cordially invited to participate in the: Annual conference and course: LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) Theme 2000: POSITIONING LIBRARIES ON THE INTERNET AND USING INTERNET IN LIBRARIES 25-28 May, 2000 To be held at the: Inter-University Centre (http://www.hr/iuc\) Dubrovnik, Croatia. Dubrovnik, Croatia http://dubrovnik.laus.hr/ Course web site: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida Course email: lida@ffzg.hr. The general aim of the conference and course, this year and in the years to come, is to address the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital age, with an emphasis on examining contemporary problems, advances and solutions. Each year a different and ‘hot’ theme will be addressed. This year the theme of the course revolves on the complex relation between the Internet and libraries. The course is oriented toward professionals and researchers in librarianship, information science, and informatics, as well as from other disciplines interested in this topic. In particular, the course will be useful for practicing librarians and information scientists, for students of library and information science, and for system administrators, system operators, web page managers, and related personnel in library and information systems. The program will bring together well-known experts from Europe and the U.S. for lectures, discussions, and demonstrations. Among others, the topics covered will include concepts, methods, techniques, and research advances related to a variety of aspects of digital libraries; selection, organization and representation of digital resources; information networks; networked cooperation; services; access, users, and use; and the role and use of the Internet. The details of the program and information about lecturers can be found on the conference web page: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida Course directors: Tatjana Aparac, Ph.D Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, taparac@ffzg.hr http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/biblio/nastava/taparac.htm and Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University tefko@scils.rutgers.edu http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/tefko.html Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D. Professor II School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08903 U.S.A. Tel.: (732)932-8017 Fax: (732)932-2644 Email: tefko@scils.rutgers.edu http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/tefko.html ********** III.B.2. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: [NET00] Networking 2000 "Policy Issues for the New Millennium" EDUCAUSE Networking 2000 March 30-31, 2000 Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C. http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/mar2000/ REGISTER EARLY AND SAVE! Early registration ends Monday, March 6, 2000 Networking 2000 is the premier conference on federal policy affecting networking and information technology for higher education. Presentations and discussion focus on whether the 2000 elections will harbor any changes in federal IT policy, global approaches to deploying advanced networks, the public policy impact of applications, higher education's role in relation to the Internet and lifelong learning, industry perspectives on technology policy, and updates on the hottest topics in Washington telecommunications and Internet policy. Space is limited, so register soon. Conference fees are $275 for registrations postmarked on or before March 6 and $300 for registrations received after March 6. The online registration form is available at: http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/mar2000/ SPEAKERS Our speakers for this year's conference include: -- Bob Goodlatte, U.S. House of Representatives (R-Virginia) -- Mike McCurry, cochair, iAdvance -- Rory O'Connor, founding editor, National Journal's Technology Daily -- Walter Baer, RAND Corporation -- Jerry Berman, Center for Democracy and Technology -- George Brett, NLANR -- Robert Cannon, FCC (invited) -- Jeri Clausing, N.Y. Times - Cybertimes -- Dewayne Hendricks, CEO, Dandin Group -- Mary Kratz, UCAID SCHEDULE INFORMATION The meeting will kick off with a gala reception aboard the Odyssey III on Wednesday evening (boarding starts at 6 p.m., sailing starts at 7 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m.).The meeting will be held all day Thursday and Friday morning. For the complete and up-to-date schedule, see: http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/mar2000/ Networking 2000 participants are also encouraged to visit their congressional representatives while in Washington. Capitol Hill visits are being scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, March 29-30, subject to availability of your federal representative and their staff. Please see the registration form to sign up. MEETING LOCATION Renaissance Hotel 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, DC 800-468-3571 or 202-898-9000 Fax: 202-789-4213 http://www.renaissancehotels.com/WASRB/ SPONSORS: -- EDUCAUSE -- American Library Association -- Association of Research Libraries -- Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation -- Coalition for Networked Information -- Computing Research Association -- Corporation for Research and Educational Networking -- University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact EDUCAUSE Customer Service at 303-449-4430 or info@educause.edu, or see our Web site at: http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/mar2000/ ********** III.B.3. Fr: Peter Brusilovsky Re: Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems Call for Papers International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH2000) (sponsored by the European Commission: High Level Scientific Conference Program) 28-30 August 2000 ITC/IRST Trento, ITALY http://AH2000.itc.it/ Web-based application systems, as well as other complex hypermedia systems with a large variety of users, suffer from an inability to satisfy heterogeneous needs. A Web course presents the same static explanation of a concept to students with widely differing knowledge of the subject. A Web bookstore offers the same selection of bestsellers to customers with different reading preferences. A Web museum offers the same "guided tour" and the same narration to visitors with very different goals and interests. A remedy for the negative effects of the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach is to enhance a system's ability to adapt its own behavior to the goals, tasks, interests, and other features of individual users. Starting in the 1990s, many research teams began to investigate ways of modelling features of the users of hypermedia systems. This has led to a number of interesting adaptation techniques and adaptive hypermedia systems. The Web, with its clear demand for personalization, served as a real booster for this research area, providing both a challenge and an attractive platform. The AH2000 Conference continues from a series of successful workshops on the topic of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web applications. It will provide a forum in which researchers and practitioners with different backgrounds can exchange their complementary insights. The conference aims to promote a cross-fertilisation of ideas and highlight the prospects for future collaboration. Conference Scope Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - adaptive hypermedia systems and techniques - information filtering in the WWW context - adaptive IR systems with Web or hypermedia interfaces - intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW - Web recommender systems - personalized Web sites and services - adaptive Web-based collaboration systems - adaptive natural language generation in hypermedia and Web contexts - adaptive navigation support in large hyperspaces - adaptive presentation of non-textual content - empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web-based systems - Web data mining for personalization and adaptivity - personalization and adaptivity in E-commerce - user modeling in Web-based applications - intelligent Web agents for personalization and adaptivity - distributed adaptive applications on the WWW - acquisition and management of user models on the WWW - security and privacy aspects of user models on the WWW - methods, techniques, and tools for user modeling - Web metadata as a basis for user modeling - dealing with changing interests and preferences of Web users - user interfaces for all - usability aspects of adaptivity - Web servers for user models/profiles Conference Format The conference will run for three full days. It will include paper and poster sessions, invited talks and a doctoral consortium. The doctoral consortium will offer PhD students a chance to discuss their plans and the intermediate results of their research with more experienced participants (for further information, see the doctoral consortium). A proper space will be set up for demos of complete or experimental systems, both academical and industrial. The social program will include a welcome reception and a conference dinner. Proceedings and Submissions We invite three kinds of contributions: full papers, short papers, and doctoral consortium papers. Full and short papers should describe original and unpublished research work on adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web-based systems. Doctoral consortium papers could be submitted by doctoral students and should describe their research related to the conference topics. Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Verlag LNCS series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Please follow the publishers instructions that are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html to prepare your original contributions. The size of original submissions is limited to 10 pages for full papers, 3 pages for short papers, and 5 pages for doctoral consortium papers. All original submissions must be submitted via the Web as PDF, RTF, or postscript files. Each contribution should be submitted in a separate e-mail letter. The letter should include the URL of the contribution and the following data in plain ASCII: the title, author's name(s), affiliation, e-mail, home page URL, mailing address, phone number, and abstract, and up to five keywords. The subject of the e-mail letter should be "AH2000 paper submission". Full and short paper submissions should be sent to to the Program Chair (ah2000-papers@itc.it). Doctoral consortium paper submissions should be sent to the Doctoral Consortium Chairs (ah2000-dc@itc.it). If you are not able to place your submission on the Web, please, contact the respective chairs in advance. Upon acceptance of a contribution, the author(s) will be asked to transfer the copyright to the publisher. The LNCS series is now published both as printed books and in full-text electronic form. For each accepted paper the publisher therefore will need both hard copy printed pages and the source files as specified in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The instructions for sending final contributions will be provided separately. Grants The European Commission sponsors the conference (High Level Scientific Conference Program) and through IRST offers grants for two kind of attendees: - young researchers (< 35 years old), who are nationals of a Member State or an Associated State of European Union and active inside a Member State or an Associated State - researchers, who are nationals of a Member State or an Associated State of European Union and active outside a Member State or an Associated State The grants cover subsistence (hotel and lunches) and participation fees. Two pages of presentation of applicants' on-going work is requested and should be sent to ah2000-grants@itc.it. Information about the grant application and eligibility could be found on the conference home page http://AH2000.itc.it/. Please, contact Local Organization Chair (ah2000-grants@itc.it) if you have any questions about grants. Invited Speakers Elisabeth Andre (DFKI, Germany) Fiorella DeRosis (University of Bary, Italy) Alfred Kobsa (GMD, Germany) Michael Pazzani (University of California, Irvine, USA) Conference Committees General Chair Oliviero Stock (IRST Trento, Italy) Program Chair Peter Brusilovsky (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Important Dates - Submission of contributions: 15 March 2000 - Submission of grant application: 30 March 2000 - Notification of grant assignment: 25 April 2000 - Notification of paper acceptance: 25 April 2000 - Submission of final contributions: 25 May 2000 - Conference: 28-30 August 2000 Previous Meetings The International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems will join and continue two successful workshop series: the Workshops on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia and the Workshops on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web. Previous workshops in these series include: Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on WWW at 8th International Word Wide Web Conference and 7-th International Conference on User Modeling, UM'99 (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/asum99/) Second Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia at Ninth ACM International Hypertext Conference, Hypertext'98 (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/ah98/) Workshop "Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web" at 6th International Conference on User Modeling, UM'97 (http://zeus.gmd.de/UM97/index.html) Workshop "Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia" at 4th International Conference on User Modeling, UM'94 (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/ah94/) ********** III.B.4. Fr: Miguel A. Alonso Pardo Re: TAPD2000, 2nd Workshop on Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS TAPD 2000 2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction' September 19-21 2000 Vigo, Spain Sponsored by University of Vigo with the support of Caixa Vigo e Ourense http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/ Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in Vigo (Spain) in September, 2000. The conference will be previous to SEPLN 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/), the conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing. MOTIVATIONS: Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly redundant computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language Processing, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract Interpretation, and related to phenomena such as ambiguity, non-determinism or domain ordering. Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set rewriting, Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed whose key idea is to keep traces of computations to achieve computation sharing and loop detection. Tabulation also offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof strategies and to represent ambiguity by shared structures. The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these different approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation and tabular systems to potential users in different application areas such as natural language processing, picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete deduction techniques. TOPICS (not exclusive): -- Tabulation Techniques: Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming, Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms -- Applications: Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving -- Static Analysis: Improving tabular evaluation -- Parsing or resolution strategies. -- Efficiency issues: Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing), Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption). -- Shared structures (parse or proof forest): Formal analysis, representation and processing. WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as group discussions. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit before April 28 a 4-page position paper or abstract concerning a theoretical contribution or a system to be presented. Due to tight time constraints, submission and reviewing will be handled exclusively electronically (LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or ascii format). Submission should include the title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. The submissions must be sent to David S. Warren (warren@cs.sunysb.edu) in gziped encoded postscript. SCHEDULE: Submission of contributions: April 28, 2000 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2000 Final versions due: June 30, 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: David S. Warren -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US PUBLICATION: Papers accepted by the Program Committee must be presented at the conference and will appear in a proceedings volume. The format for camera-ready manuscripts will be available from the web page of the event. LOCATION: Auditorio del Centro Cultural Caixavigo e Ourense Marques de Valladares Vigo, Spain FURTHER INFORMATION: For further details consult http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/, or contact TAPD'2000 Secretariat Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática Campus as Lagoas, s/n 32004 Ourense Spain E-mail: tapd-secret@ei.uvigo.es Fax: +34 988 387001 ********** III.B.5. Fr: Richard Hill Re: Defining Information Architecture Defining Information Architecture Boston, Massachusetts April 7-9, 2000 Sponsored by ASIS DEADLILNE FOR DISCOUNT ON REGISTRATION IS MARCH 6. Register online at: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/index.html "Defining Information Architecture" Boston, April 7-9, 2000 sponsored by the American Society for Information Science (FAQ's below) * Explore definitions for Information Architecture with a panel of leading thinkers and practitioners. * Understand the types of expertise that should and will have an impact on Information Architecture. * Learn about the role that the Information Architect plays in different settings. * Meet your colleagues and build a broader community of information architects. The American Society for Information Science has assembled a compelling list of speakers (http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/speakers.html) representing many relevant perspectives: Anthropology * Data Modeling * Graphic Design * Meta-Data * Human Computer Interaction * Information Design * Information Retrieval * Interface Design * Markup Languages * Librarianship * Technical Communications * Usability Engineering Registration is $450 before 3/6/00, $550 after 3/6/00 (discounted for ASIS members), and includes continental breakfast and lunch. Attendance is limited, so please register soon. Visit http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/index.html FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions and Answers) Q: Who is this conference intended for? A: "Defining Information Architecture" will bring together practicing information architects (IAs), academics who see value in this emerging field, and students who are interested in becoming IAs. Some sample titles of those already registered include: Electronic Media Manager; Sr. Programmer Analyst; User Experience Architect; Knowledge Management Analyst; and Goddess of Information Architecture Registered attendees hail from such organizations as: AT&T; Bigstep.com; Compaq; DuPont; Harvard School of Design; iXL; Microsoft; Mitre; Polaroid; and Smithkline Beecham. Q: Many of the speakers aren't practicing IAs; why not? A: It's important to acknowledge that many established disciplines should contribute to the definition of Information Architecture And we want to probe how these different disciplines relate to Information Architecture, uncovering how, for example, principles of ethnography or usability engineering might improve to Information Architecture practice. Q: There aren't session titles listed in the program; why not? A: As Information Architecture is a relatively new field, a conventional conference replete with standard, loosely-related presentations doesn't fill the bill. Instead, this is the right time to answer questions that haven't been asked before. That's why we've asked speakers to address a common set of issues designed to future discussion and definition of Information Architecture in a spontaneous, flexible, and thought-provoking manner. It's an experimental approach, but one we feel makes sense for a young and emerging field. Q: If this conference is experimental, then why should I attend? A: It's your chance to participate in an important discussion, and help define your field. And the conference will make you a better IA by arming you with a broader perspective on the field, a better set vocabulary to discuss it, and a stronger case to make to your colleagues who may not understand the value of Information Architecture. Q: What sorts of practical knowledge will I get from attending? A: Although there are case studies on the program, this conference is not focused on how to practice Information Architecture; instead, we'll address what it is and who should be doing it. We're confident that the "how" aspects of Information Architecture will be addressed in more detail through your informal discussions with others at the conference, through the expanded personal networks you will develop through participation, and at future conferences. Q: I'm already an IA; what will I get out of attending? A: Besides some new ideas, you'll be getting context: context for your own work as an IA, and communal context that will come from meeting your peer group for perhaps the first time. Additionally, you will have a chance to take leadership in defining and guiding many newcomers to the field who will be at this conference. Q: I'm a student; what will I get out of attending? A: You'll be better prepared to discuss the field you're considering entering, and through meeting practicing IAs will greatly extend your network of professional contacts. Richard Hill American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 495-0900 FAX: (301) 495-0810 http://www.asis.org ********** III.B.6. Fr: Steve Lawerence Re: AAAI-2000: AI for Web Search Workshop Call for Papers/Participation AAAI-2000 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Web Search http://archive.org/kurt/aaai2000.html July 30, 2000, Austin, TX Paper submission deadline: 10 March 2000 The World Wide Web offers an immense diversity of knowledge; however, the Web's size, rapid growth, high diversity, and erratic organization often make it difficult to find information. AI techniques can be used for organizing, searching, and classifying information on the Web. A broad range of AI techniques are relevant including machine learning, autonomous agents, expert systems, knowledge representation, data mining, and natural language processing. Topics: Web keyword search - Topical clustering and classification of search results - Learning to suggest keywords - Ranking of results Improving search and browsing by learning from users - Using access information (e.g. collaborative filtering) - Personalized search and browsing Understanding Web structure and organization - Link analysis - Web site/page clustering - Computational complexity issues - Can optimal browsing be learned? Web page features - Feature extraction and knowledge representation for search - Use of Web page metadata Attendance: The workshop will be of interest to academics, graduate students, and industry researchers/engineers in the areas described above. Format: There will be invited speakers, and regular submitted paper presentations, and above all, extensive interactions and discussions among participants. Extensive discussions that we plan will encourage the right kind of interactive atmosphere during the workshop. Submissions from all disciplines related to using AI to find information on the Web are welcome. Speakers will be topically grouped, and presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion on each topic. In a final plenary session, directions for joint post-workshop efforts will be discussed. An opportunity to give demonstrations of research prototypes and techniques may be provided. To encourage discussions, accepted contributions and discussion topics will be published on the Web at http://archive.org/kurt/aaai2000.html before the workshop. As a consequence, the background of all participants will be known beforehand, so that presentations and discussions can focus on the technical questions. Participants will be encouraged to prepare questions for speakers. Submissions: Submissions should be between one and six pages and be formatted using the standard AAAI guidelines. Submissions of brief, concise papers presenting novel ideas are specifically encouraged. Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format (preferably as a MIME attachment to an ASCII cover letter) via e-mail to aaai2000@archive.org. Dates: 10 March 2000: Submissions due to aaai2000@archive.org. 24 March 2000: Notification e-mails sent. 26 April 2000: Camera ready papers due. 30 July 2000: Workshop takes place. Additional Information: See http://archive.org/kurt/aaai2000.html for additional details. Also see the AAAI 2000 homepage: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2000/aaai-iaai2000.html Steve Lawrence - http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/ http://csindex.com/ - 250,000+ computer science papers ********** III.B.7. Fr: Robert Batusek Re: TSD 2000: Submission Deadline March 10 TSD 2000 - CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2000) Brno, Czech Republic 13-16 September 2000 TSD Series TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number of participants and priority given to the active participants. The workshop program will include oral presentations and a poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised. The program will also involve short communications, reports about ongoing projects and industrial presentations. The latter types of contributions will not appear in the proceedings and the deadline for their submission will be announced later. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. TSD 2000 is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is applying for a grant from the European Committee (High Level Scientific Conference). If the application is successful the organizing committee would subsidize young researchers and participants from East Europe significantly. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit extended abstracts not exceeding 1000 words by March 10, 2000 to the e-mail address: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz Submission must also include the author(s) name, affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Acceptance of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers have to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the authors for Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions can be found at the www address: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html IMPORTANT DATES Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of extended abstracts: March 10, 2000 Notification of acceptance sent to the authors: April 30, 2000 Final papers (camera ready) and registration: May 30, 2000 Workshop date: September 13-16, 2000 The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last TSD workshop were published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and we anticipate the same format for TSD 2000. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the workshop is English. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to: Dana Komarkova TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanická 68a CZ-602 00 Brno Czech Republic telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359 fax: ++420 5 41 212 568 e-mail: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ Robert Batusek Ph. D. student xbatusek@fi.muni.cz Faculty of Informatics http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xbatusek Masaryk University Brno ********** III.B.8. Fr: carmel@il.ibm.com Re: CoopIS'2000 Call for Papers - CoopIS'2000 Fifth IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems In Cooperation with VLDB'2000 Neptune Hotel Eilat, Israel, September 6-8, 2000 http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/coopis2000.html What is CoopIS ? CoopIS is the leading conference for system cooperation. Cooperation among systems has gained substantial importance in recent years: electronic commerce, virtual enterprises, and the middleware paradigm are just some examples of this area. Several levels of cooperation are present: * The subject matter is the foundation and implementation of cooperation among systems. * The CoopIS area is a meeting of disciplines which provide concepts and techniques. The relevant disciplines are: collaborative work, distributed databases, distributed computing, electronic commerce, human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems, information retrieval, and workflow systems. * The CoopIS series provides a forum for well-known researchers, that are drawn from the stature and the tradition of these conference series, and has a leading role in shaping the future of the cooperative information systems area. Opportunities for informal meetings between the conference delegates will be enhanced with a series of social events, including pre-conference exploration of Eilat, in-conference tour of the surrounding desert, and post-conference excursion that will enable easy connection for those continuing to VLDB'2000 in Cairo. CoopIS'2000 is the seventh conference in the series and the fifth conference organized by the International Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS). It is sponsored by the International Foundation in Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS), and the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa (other sponsors pending). It replaces the erstwhile international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems (IMS) and the conference series on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS & ICIS). The conference will be held in Eilat, A resort town and bustling port, combining sea and desert, Eilat lies at Israel's southernmost tip. Sixty minutes by plane from Tel-Aviv, Eilat is situated between the wondrous scenery of the deep azure Red Sea and the multitude Edom Mountains and is a paradise for sea-sports fans. Important dates: Submission Intention Notice Deadline March 13,2000 Paper Submission Deadline March 27, 2000 Acceptance Notification May 29, 2000 Final Version Due June 26, 2000 Early registration deadline July 31, 2000 The Conference September 6-8, 2000 Who should submit papers ? Papers are solicited in two categories: regular research papers and industrial experience papers. The category should be clearly identified. Regular research papers should contain original research concepts and results in one or more technologies relevant to cooperative information systems. Industrial experience papers should describe technical or key business issues and lessons learned in developing, applying, and deploying relevant technologies, highlighting aspects of cooperation and interoperation. Submitted papers should not be longer than 5000 words. Submissions should be unpublished and should not be under consideration by another conference or journal. A few papers will be selected for publication, after appropriate expansion and review, in the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. One of the main themes will be information services in the 21st century, and we particularly welcome papers related to this theme. We also encourage the submission of all topics related to cooperative information systems, including (but not limited to) the following: * Agent Technology * Business Intelligence Frameworks * Business Process Modeling * Communication infrastructure for collaboration * Computer-supported Cooperative work * Cooperative Information System Architectures * Cooperative Information System foundations * Cooperative Transactions * Cooperative Transactions * Digital Libraries * Distributed Problem Solving * Distributed GIS * Distributed Multimedia Systems * Distributed Object Management * Distributed Warehousing and mining * Electronic Commerce * Enterprise Knowledge management * Event Based Systems * Engineering Distributed systems * Federated and Multi-database systems * Human-Computer Interaction for cooperation * Information Filtering * Information Resource Discovery * Information Retrieval * Information, Data and knowledge Modeling * Integration and Interoperability * Legacy Data Access and Management * Mediators, Wrappers * Middleware Technology * Meta-data and Repositories * Multi-agent Systems * Mobile Computing for Cooperation * Organizational Aspects of Cooperative * Semantic Interoperability Systems (including virtual organizations) * Web-based Information Systems * Web-based Services * Workflow Systems Papers Submission Papers will be submitted in an electronic fashion (Postscript or PD files) to both program chairs. A pre-submission intention notice to both program chairs with the paper's authors, title, and classification is requested. The CoopIS'2000 team: General Chairs Avigdor Gal Rutgers University, USA E-mail: avigal@rci.rutgers.edu Michele Missikoff IASI-CNR, Italy E-mail: missikoff@iasi.rm.cnr.it David Carmel Information Retrieval and Organization, IBM - HRL E-mail: carmel@il.ibm.com Phone: 972-4-8296223, Fax: 972-4-8296114 Address: IBM, Haifa Research Lab, Matam, Haifa 31905, Israel ********** III.B.9. Fr: Fred Gey Re: Americas Conference On Information Systems: Minitrack on Data Mining and IR AMCIS 2000 Americas Conference on Information Systems Long Beach, California August 10th - 13th, 2000 Call for Papers for the Mini Track "Data Mining and Information Retrieval in Business" With the advent of new technologies and business practices, including the explosion of electronic commerce and the trend toward mass personalization, businesses are searching for new ways to make sense of massive, and increasing, amounts of data. Data mining allows businesses to ascertain patterns in data that indicate consumer buying habits, competitor strategies, credit worthiness, incidence of fraud, and other information of strategic importance. This mini-track seeks to provide a forum for researchers to share investigations and ideas in the diverse field of data mining. Current research in data mining explores areas related to algorithm development and performance, the data mining process, and the impact of data mining on business practices, among others. Information Retrieval (IR) algorithms support computerized search of large document collections (i.e., millions of documents) to retrieve small subsets relevant to the user’s information needs. Examples are book searching in electronic bookstores and auctions, digital library catalogues and Internet search engines. IR Application areas include: cross language retrieval, speech/broadcast retrieval, text categorization, and text summarization. IR algorithms are subject to objective testing and evaluation for hundreds of queries on millions of documents (the TREC set and conferences, for example). Possible Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Mining of multimedia data, including image, video and sound data New/hybrid algorithms for data mining Performance evaluation of data mining methods Aligning data mining with task objectives and business strategy The impact of data mining on e-commerce strategies Mining of internet-based data Domain- and problem-specific data mining Data mining applications in industry Exploring the data mining process, including issues of data selection, cleaning and preprocessing, and interpretation of results Information Retrieval algorithms for electronic commerce and other applications Classifying the WWW with text categorization and clustering Analyzing WWW query logs for persistent patterns and query clusters Non-English language and cross-language information retrieval Text summarization and gisting Mini Track Co-Chairs William E. Spangler (*) West Virginia University (304) 293-7933 wspangle@wvu.edu H. Michael Chung California State University, Long Beach (562)985-7691 hmchung@csulb.edu Fredric C. Gey University of California, Berkeley (510) 642-6571 gey@ucdata.berkeley.edu ********** III.C.1. Fr: Nancy Gusack Crawford Re: IR-L Moves The IR-L Digest will be moving to CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) sometime this month. As soon as everything is in place, I will send out a change of address notice. My current address (nancy.gusack@ucop.edu) will be gone after Monday, March 13. My new IR-L address after that date will be nancy@cni.org. ********** III.C.2. Fr: Daniel Chudnov Re: jake-0.5 jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) is a reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online resources easier for library patrons and staff. It does so by managing online resource metadata with a database union list, title authority control, linking tools, and a local holdings layer. New in jake-0.5: * subjects -- 65% of x-ref'd titles have at least one of dewey, lc, or lcsh subject/class (Ben Steinberg) * localization -- now several ways exist to create local jake search pages that can (optionally) look for local holdings information * database lists with jakeids readily available for view or delimited text download * several bugfixes and minor ui tweaks We jump to 0.5 because the subjects and localization pieces are significant additions. Many thanks go to Ben for making the subjects appear. There is a new whitepaper explaining how localization works available here: http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/localize.pdf Please post any thoughts you have about how well the model described in this whitepaper might work for you to jake-list or jake-devel-list. The fine print: jake is free for use, copying, modification, or redistribution under the terms of the GNU GPL. You can try jake out here: http://jake.med.yale.edu/...and read more about how it works and how to use it where you are: http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/about.html Regards, -Dan Daniel Chudnov Systems Architect Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Yale University School of Medicine (203) 785-4347 jake-devel-list maillist - jake-devel-list@vectra.med.yale.edu http://vectra.med.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/jake-devel-list ****************************************************************** 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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