IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.27, Issue 463

[Nancy Gusack Crawford <nancy.gusack@ucop.edu>]

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
July 19, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 27
Issue 463

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III. NOTICES
     B. Meetings
        1. Electronic Records Conference
        2. GL'99 Conference Update
        3. CoopIS'99 Programme
        4. NASIG 2000 CFPapers
        5. 2nd Annual E-Book Workshop

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III. NOTICES

III.B.1.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org>
Re: Electronic Records Cconference

Arizona State University Sponsors Conference for Electronic Records
Preservation

A conference designed to address one of the most complex and important
challenges facing higher education today will be held Oct. 7-8 at the
Hilton Pavilion in Mesa, Arizona, sponsored by Arizona State University.

The ASU Conference Preservation and Access for Electronic College and
University Records will combine the knowledge of a wide range of experts to
discuss viable solutions for the management, creation, retention and
disposition of electronic records. The goal is to help participants survey
the new frontier of paperless records and better understand the issues and
challenges facing faculty and administrators in the next century.

Featured keynote speaker is Clifford Lynch, Executive Dir. of the Coalition
for Networked Information. Dr. Lynch will explore national and
international efforts to preserve and make available electronic resources
and the vast potential for collaborative projects within higher education
communities.

Virtually every program and planning decision made today - from student
information systems and online courses, to web-based manuals, recruitment
and research efforts -- involves creating and managing electronic records.
At the same time, the legal and political tides are dramatically shifting.
Changes in copyright law, legal discovery practices and state and federal
records are continually redefining how educational institutions operate.

Efforts to improve business systems and increase access through process
re-engineering raise considerable questions about records once considered
vital to any organization. Pressures for increased access to student
transcripts, research products and Internet curriculum further complicate
this issue. Yet, without reliable electronic records, colleges and
universities cannot improve efficiency and can incur significant risks.

Conference presenters include:
Helen Samuels, Special Assistant, Office of the Provost,
   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tim McGovern, Sr. Project Manager, Massachusetts Institute
   of Technology
Phil Bantin, University Archivist, Indiana University
Anne Gilliland-Swetland, Dept. of Information Studies,
   University of California at Los Angeles
Robert Morley, Associate Registrar, University of Southern
   California
Steven McDonald, Associate Legal Counsel, Ohio State
   University

The registration deadline is September 15, 1999. For more information,
conference updates or registration forms, please visit our web site:
http://www.asu.edu/it/events/ecure/. To obtain registration materials by
mail write to: Maria Phalen, Archives and Manuscripts, P.O. Box 871006,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1006.

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III.B.2.
Fr: ARL-List-Manager <arllmgr@arl.org>
Re: GL'99 Conference Update

July 14, 1999

Dear Colleague,

I sincerely hope to meet you at the Fourth International Conference on Grey
Literature this October in Washington D.C.

If you are already registered for GL'99, but have not yet completed the
registration fee, please do so before August 1st. After this date, a
surcharge of US$ 30 will be added to the conference fee.

With kind regards,
Dr. Dominic Farace
Program and Conference Director

FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, 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

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III.B.3.
Fr: John A. Keane <jak@co.umist.ac.uk>
Re: CoopIS'99 Programme

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Fourth IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
(CoopIS'99)
In cooperation with VLDB'99)
Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2-4, 1999
Conference Web Page: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/events/coopis99.html
or our mirror site:
http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/coopis99

CoopIS is the premier conference in the area of large-scale distributed
collaborative information systems and draws on several interdisciplinary
research activities. The conference has grown in stature over the years and
regularly draws a number of well-known researchers. This is the sixth
Conference in the series and the fourth conference organized by the
International Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS). The
conference includes two keynote addresses from well known researchers, two
panels, one industrial session, one tutorial, and 29 outstanding research
papers. Edinburgh is an exciting and vibrant city and you will be visiting
it at the peak of its festival season. It offers an outstanding range of
museums, art exhibits, concerts, and other tourist attraction and this all
combined with a lot of unique culture.

Program

DAY 1 (Sept 2)

8:45-9:00 OPENING

9:00-10:00 SESSION 1: Invited Talk
"Negotiating Agents for Corporate-Wide Business Process Management",
Nick Jennings

10:15-12:15 SESSION 2: Integration & Interoperability
"Detection of heterogeneities in a multiple text database environment",
W. Meng, C. Yu, K. Liu

"A unified graph-based framework for deriving nominal interscheme
properties, type conflicts and object cluster similarities",
L. Palopoli, D. Sacca', G. Terracina, D. Ursino

"Access Keys Warehouse: a new approach to the development of cooperative
information systems",
F. Arcieri, E. Cappadozzi, P. Naggar, E. Nardelli, M. Talamo

"Discovering view expressions",
Z. Kedad, M. Bouzeghoub

13:45-5:15 SESSION 3: Collaboration
"Event Composition in Time-Dependent Distributed Systems",
C. Liebig, M. Cilia, A. Buchmann

"Providing Customized Process and Situation Awareness in the
Collaboration Management Infrastructure",
D. Baker, D. Georgakopoulos, H. Schuster, A.R. Cassandra, A. Cichocki

"Modeling Interactions based on Consistent Patterns",
S. Srinivas, M. Spiliopoulou

15:30-17:00 SESSION 4: Workflow Exceptions & Versioning
"Dynamic Workflow Schema Evolution based on Workflow Type Versioning and
Workflow Migration",
M.Kradolfer, A. Geppert

"Generic Workflow Models: How to handle dynamic change and capture
management information",
W.M.P. van der Aalst

"Modeling and Managing Exceptional Behaviors in Commercial Workflow
Management Systems",
F. Casati, G. Pozzi

17:15-18:15 SESSION 5: Panel
"Annotations: Digital Post-Its as an Information Model?"
Chairs: Arnon Rosenthal, Scott Renner

DAY 2 (Sept 3)

9:00-10:00 SESSION 6: Tutorial
"Web-based Information Access",
T. Catarci

10:15-12:15 SESSION 7: Web Information Systems
"Constructing a personal web map with anytime control of web robots",
S. Yamada and N. Nagino

"Looking at the Web through XML glasses",
A. Sahuguet, F. Azavant

"Learning Response Times for WebSources: A Comparison of a Web-based
prediction tool (WebPT) and a neural network",
L. Bright, L. Raschid, V. Zadorozhny, T. Zhan

"A Comprehensive Framework for Querying and Integrating WWW data and
services", O. Shmueli, D. Konopnicki

13:45-15:15 SESSION 8: E-Commerce
"E-Commerce Bargain-Hunting with an unBun Model",
R. Yahalom, S.E. Madnick

"A Formal Yet Practical Approach to Electronic Commerce",
L. Leiba, O. Shmueli, Y. Sagiv, D. Konopnicki

"A Distributed OLAP Infrastructure for E-Commerce",
Q. Chen, U. Dayal, M. Hsu

15:30-17:00 SESSION9: Workflow Modelling
"A case for increasing flexibility in workflow systems: modeling and
implementation",
J. Tang

"Conceptual Workflow Schemas",
K. Meyer-Wegener, M. Boehm

"Cooperative Support for Office Work in the Insurance Business", A.
Margelisch, U. Reimer, M. Staudt, T. Vetterli

17:15-18:15 SESSION 10: Panel
"Data Warehouse Quality Issues"
Chair: Yannis Vassiliou

DAY 3 (Sept 4)

9:00-10:00 SESSION 11: Invited Talk
"Models and Tools for Designing Data-Intensive WEB Applications",
Stefano Ceri

10:15-12:15 SESSION 12: Mediators & Query Processing
"Selectively materializing data in mediators by analyzing user queries",
N. Ashish, C.A. Knoblock, C. Shahabi

"Using Fagin's Algorithm for Merging Ranked Results in distributed
multimedia information system",
E.L. Wimmers, L.M. Haas, M. Tork Roth, C. Braendli

"Conflict Tolerant Queries in AURORA",
L. Ling Yan, T. Ozsu

"Optimizing queries in distributed and composable mediators",
V. Josifovski, T. Katchaounov, T. Risch

13:45-15:15 SESSION 13: Agents
"The identification of missing resource information agents",
M. Minock, M. Rusinkiewicz, B. Perry

"Information Aggregation and Agent Interaction Patterns in InfoSleuth",
B. Perry, M. Taylor, A. Unruh

"ROPE: Role Oriented Programming Environment for Multiagent Systems",
M. Becht, T. Gurzki, J. Klarmann, M. Muscholl

15:30-17:00 SESSION 14: Industry Session: CoopIS Technologies and
Applications

17:15-18:15 SESSION 15: Workflow Transactions
"Modelling Extensions for Concurrent Workflow Coordination",
A.P. Barros, A.H.M. ter Hofstede

"Semantics and Architecture of Global Transaction Support in Workflow
Environments",
P. Grefen, J. Vonk, E. Boertjes, P. Apers

John Keane
Department of Computation
UMIST, PO Box 88
M60 1QD, Manchester, UK
Phone: +44 (0161) 200 3334
FAX : +44 (0161) 200 3364
E-mail: jak@co.umist.ac.uk

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III.B.4.
Fr: Margaret Mering <mvm@unllib.unl.edu>
Re: NASIG 2000 CFPapers

15TH ANNUAL NASIG CONFERENCE (June 22-25, 2000)
CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND PRECONFERENCES
http://www.nasig.org/public/NASIG2000.html

Making Waves: New Serials Landscapes in a Sea of Change

The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG), an organization that
serves the interests of U.S., Canadian and Mexican members of the serials
community, will hold its 15th Annual Conference June 22-25, 2000, on the
campus of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).  UCSD is one of
the most highly regarded public universities in the U.S. and is especially
known for its science programs. The campus is situated on a park-like
1200-acre site high on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean at La
Jolla. Long famed as a vacation and retirement community, the city boasts
truly outstanding beaches and coves, restaurants, art galleries, golf
courses, and other attractions.

NASIG's annual conference provides a forum for librarians, publishers,
vendors, educators, binders, systems developers, and other serials
specialists to exchange views, present new ideas, proactively seek
solutions to common problems, and discuss current issues in the field.
Proceedings are published in both print and electronic formats, with the
electronic version made available to NASIG members on NASIGWeb
(http://www.nasig.org).

NASIG's Program Planning Committee invites proposals for preconference
programs, plenary papers, and workshops that relate to the conference theme
of Making Waves: New Serials Landscapes in a Sea of Change.

We seek proposals for plenary papers and preconference programs that deal
with the overarching issues (i.e., the big picture) in the serials
industry.  What are the forces effecting change? What role will current
players have in the production and dissemination of future serial
publications? Will there be new players and who might they be? What will a
serial *be* in five years? Will the changing serials landscape alter the
basic values and tenets of the library and information profession?

We are interested in plenary presentations that will examine the
reflective, visionary and practical aspects of the theme, and that analyze
emerging trends. Some examples include, but are not limited to:

Consolidation of the publishing industry
Mergers and acquisitions
Global commerce of information
Cataloging, organizing and accessing evolving forms of information
Strategic alliances and partnerships
Delivering digital content
Preserving and archiving digital formats for future generations: whose
   mission is it?
Standards for serials
Proactive methods to make waves in the scholarly communication process:
   Is SPARC the answer?
Blurring of the "borders" between creators/producers/providers of
   information
Authentication vs. anonymity: what is the impact of providing
   electronic access on the basic values of librarianship?

The Committee also invites workshop and preconference proposals that will
provide practical information and spark interest in unique and innovative
methods to help serialists make informed decisions and consider new options
in their workplaces. Typically, workshop leaders share their experience in
a collegial setting and facilitate discussion with those in attendance,
often explaining how they manage specific processes in their own
organizations.

Some examples include, but are not limited to:

Impact of system conversion on serialists
Trends for evaluating e-journals and other electronic products
New full text delivery options, such as pay per view
Innovative resource sharing
Managing staff and other resources in times of change
Reshaping roles in the workplace
New developments in serials cataloging: metadata, CORC, AACR2 revision
Combining multiple formats in one bibliographic record, implications
   for the future
Licensing arrangements
Research methods
Evaluating costs associated with the acquisition of free publications
What makes a consortium successful?
Copyright controversies and implications

NASIG invites members of the information community to submit proposals and
suggest topics/speakers. The Program Planning Committee reserves the right
to combine, blend, or refocus proposals to maximize program breadth and
relevance to our membership. As a result, not all presenters from proposals
submitted by teams may be invited to participate. Since proposals are
reviewed competitively, please include complete information for maximum
consideration:

name, address, telephone/fax numbers, and e-address of all presenters
   named in the proposal
program title
a 200-300 word abstract clearly explaining the proposal and, if
   appropriate, its relevance to the theme
a prioritized preference for the proposal: plenary, workshop or
   preconference

Proposals should be submitted, via e-mail if possible, no later than
August 15, 1999 to:

Meg Mering
NASIG Secretary
Principal Serials Cataloger
N209 Love Library
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln NE 68588-0410
Phone: 402-472-2517
Fax: 402-472-5131
Email: MVM@UNLLIB.UNL.EDU

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III.B.5.
Fr: Pat Harris < pharris@niso.org>
Re:  2nd Annual E-Book Workshop

On September 21-22, 1999 NISO and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology will jointly sponsor the 2nd annual Electronic-Book Workshop to
be held in Gaithersburg, Maryland on the NIST campus.  You are invited to
attend this special event.

Like the Internet, the Electronic Book is bound to redefine our
opportunities in the information industry and change how people read and
learn in the next century.  The Electronic Book Workshop will focus on the
technology surrounding the emerging electronic book products: the
standards, the content, the applications.  It will showcase all the major
companies and developers supporting the E-Book.

Attending this meeting will give you the insider's view of what's ahead.
It will be your chance to meet the people shaping the E-book business, to
meet the companies that are investing in this technology, and find out what
kinds of tools be a part of our information future.

You are invited to:
*Attend the Workshop: To register go to the Workshop website:

http://www.nist.gov/ebook99/

You can request a Workshop brochure by sending a message to
nisohq@niso.org, please put "E-Book Workshop info" in the subject line.
*Exhibit at the meeting: Tabletop exhibits will be featured on September
21.  This is a chance to tell the E-Book audience about your company's
products and services and connect with key players. For details on
exhibiting go to this url: http://www.niso.org/

Help NISO spread the word about this meeting by sharing this announcement
with your colleagues, co-workers, and friends.

Pat Harris, Executive Director
National Information Standards Organization
4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814
Telephone: 301-654-2512
Fax: 301-654-1721
Email: pharris@niso.org
url:  http://www.niso.org/

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