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IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.23, Issue 467
IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965
August 23, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 31
Issue 467
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I. QUERIES
1. Web Usability Study
2. Management of Plug-Ins for MultiMedia E-Journals
3. Reply to I.2. Management of Plug-Ins for MultiMedia
E-Journals
4. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
5. Reply to I.4. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
6. Reply to I.5. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
7. Reply to I.4. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
8. Reply to I.7. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
9. Reply to I.8. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
10. Reply to Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
II. JOBS
1. Rutgers U.: Faculty Position: Information Science
2. Thomas Jefferson U.: Scott Memorial Library: Collection
Management Librarian
III. NOTICES
A. Publications
1. Journal Special Issue on Information Agents: CFPapers
2. Special Issue of Instance Selection for DMKD Journal:
Last CFPapers
3. JASIS Table of Contents. Vol 50, # 12
4. Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide (updated)
B. Meetings
1. ANLP/NAACL 2000: CFPapers
2. CoopIS'99: Programme
C. Miscellaneous
1. Oregon Health Sciences U.: Distance Learning for
Medical Informatics
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I. QUERIES
I.1.
Fr: Ruth Wilson <ruth.m.wilson@strath.ac.uk>
Re: Web Usability Study
I am a Postgraduate student in the Department of Information Science,
University of Strathclyde, writing a dissertation on the usability of
scientific textbooks on the Web.
I am seeking participants for a study which involves visiting a Web site,
performing some tasks and answering several questions, and which should not
take more than 15 minutes to complete.
If you would like to participate, all the relevant details can be found at
the following URL:
http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/students/ruth/formb.html
Thank you for your time,
Ruth Wilson
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I.2.
Fr: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Re: Management of Plug-Ins for MultiMedia E-Journals
_Management of Plug-Ins_
As part of my overview/review of the Ramifications of Multimedia in
Electronic Journals, I am greatly interested in learning about the
management of the installations of plug-ins / helper applications to
support the Multimedia in these journals in academic and research
libraries/ institutions.
I am interested in managing the plug-ins / helper applications for any and
all types of multimedia found in these e-journals, notably, audio, video,
animation, VRML, and animation., as well the management of plug-ins in
general.
For examples, see my M-Bed(sm) registry of embedded multimedia electronic
journals at:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm
Are the plug-ins installed and/or maintained from a central server, or are
they installed machine-by-machine? Otherwise?
In general, what are the issues faced in installing and maintaining such
plug-ins? The associated costs? Policy issues?
As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, questions, or critiques are
Most Welcome!
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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I.3.
Fr: Thea Bergere <t.bergere@mindspring.com>
Re: Reply to I.2. Management of Plug-Ins for MultiMedia E-Journals
Dear Gerry,
There are many kinds of files that web browsers cannot display, such as
animation, sound, video - for these you need helper applications and
plug-ins. You must configure your browser to launch these helper
applications and plug-ins whenever you click on an object that needs them
in order to be viewed, such as a sound or animation file that the browser
can't run or play.
A web browser displays information on your computer by interpreting the
HTML that is used to build the home pages on the Web. Home pages usually
display graphics, sound, multimedia files, links, files that can be
downloaded, and other internet resources. The coding in the HTML files
tells your browser how to display the text, graphics, links, multimedia
files, etc. on the home page. The HTML that your browser loads to display
the home page doesn't actually have the graphics, sound, multimedia files
and other resources on it. Instead, it contains HTML references to those
graphics and files. Your browser uses those references to find the files
on the server and then display them on the home page. The web browser also
interprets HTML tags as links to other Web sites or resources, such as
graphics, multimedia files, newsgroups, or files to download. Depending on
the link it will perform different functions.
Good luck with the project.
Sincerely,
Thea Bergere
<t.bergere@mindspring.com>
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I.4.
Fr: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Re: Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
_Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals_
I recently searched the OCLC database for bibliographic records for each of
the titles in my registry of multimedia electronic journals, M-Bed(sm).
M-Bed(sm) is available at:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm
Of the 41 titles currently listed, 34 had records. Of these, only five (5)
-- less than 15% of those with records -- had a mention of the availability
of a multimedia component in the record!! To say the least I was surprised
and quite perplexed that a major component of such journals has been
completely ignored in a vast majority of cases.
I am further perplexed that while a number of records make note of the need
for the Acrobat plug-in there is no mention of the other plug-ins required
for using the associated multimedia.
>From this brief survey, I've concluded that catalogers in general are not
aware of the multimedia dimensions of such journals and that journals such
as these would be difficult to identify due to the lack of standard and
uniform description of the multimedia.
This raises several issues, namely the current status of standard
terminology within the cataloging community for such multimedia, the
appropriate location with the catalog record (the five records which
mentioned multimedia did so in the 516, 520, 538 MARC fields) and the
appropriate General Material Designation (GMD) for such 'publications'. In
this case, all had 'Computer file' as the GMD. Would it be more appropriate
to use 'Interactive Media' as the GMD for multimedia e-journals? [This
approach would be an extension of the _Guidelines for Bibliographic
Description of Interactive Media_ published by the
American Library Association in 1994 and authored by the Interactive
Multimedia Guidelines Review Task Force chaired by Laurel Jizba, now of
Portland State University]
I'd very much appreciate my colleagues thoughts and reactions to my
observations and conclusions regarding the cataloging of multimedia
electronic e-journals (or any other issues that this posting may inspire
regarding multimedia e-journals).
As Always, Any and All comments, contributions, questions, queries,
critiques, etc. etc. are Most Welcome!
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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I.5.
Fr: Bernhard Eversberg <EV@buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de>
Re: Reply to I.4. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
First of all, one has to *become* aware of the new dimensions an e-journal
has taken on. Nobody can go to every e-journal site every day and monitor
the changes that occur and new services implemented overnight. (As well as
changes in URLs, as goes without saying - a big enough headache.)
You are all invited to look at the e-journal listings we have set up and
revise at least one a week, at
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/CoOL
You get a table of some 45 subject areas, like "PY Physik" or "ME Medizin"
(headlines in German). On each of the subject pages, there's a link to
"E-Zeitschriften". On each of those pages, you can search for
"multimedia". All titles on Gerry's list are contained, in fact we took the
trouble to make sure we have them all.
Further, we have a database, free for downloading, of some 15.000 titles,
not all with URLs but containing all titles in the ISI and OCLC FirstSearch
services as well. This is at
http://www.alcarta.com/elcarta.htm
Among other downloadables, you find the EJO database. It requires windows
95, 98 or NT.
Good luck, B.E.
Bernhard Eversberg
Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329,
D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
e-mail B.Eversberg@tu-bs.de
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I.6.
Fr: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Re: Reply to I.5. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
Hi Bernhard
Yes! My hope is that is more and more of my colleagues will become aware of
the increasing use of multimedia in general and its growing use in e-journals.
My observations here relate to the original cataloging of e-journals that
are established with a multimedia component with the first issue.
[With changes, one would hope that the various link checkers might be of
some value here (but perhaps not) [?]].
I am *so* pleased to know that you have informed others of this resource!
>You get a table of some 45 subject areas, like "PY
>Physik" or "ME Medizin" (headlines in German). On
>each of the subject pages, there's a link to "E-
>Zeitschriften". On each of those pages, you
>can search for "multimedia".
This is a *very* nice feature!
Thanks for your interest in my work! [:-)]
Thanks again for your response!
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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I.7.
Fr: Mark Leggott <m.leggott@uwinnipeg.ca>
Re: Reply to I.4. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
I'm not sure noting the exact nature of the content is wise. Since any
given journal/author may choose to incorporate a wide range of multimedia
types (QTVR, MOV, Flash, etc.) in an individual article or an "issue" of
articles, you may be trying to pin-point a moving target. You may have 2
different media media types in one issue, 7 in the next and 1 after that.
How do you deal with that in a note?
I suspect many mention Acrobat since the articles themselves are stored in
this format, and any additional multimedia components would be incorporated
into this "metafile". How would you describe Java-based multimedia
components? Do you need to? What about journals that use the SMIL standard
and are able to provide more intelligent media handling?
Maybe a statement referring to the existence of multimedia content would
suffice? Most current browsers are able to recognize standard media types
and point to the appropriate plugin for downloading at viewing time.
I suspect many workstations used for creating these records would be
incapable of viewing/testing the multimedia content even if they knew it
was there. I also suspect that many cataloguers (and librarians in general)
are unaware of some of these advanced media extensions because of the
general lack of appropriate hardware and software and time to play...
I think the change in GMD would be a useful approach at this point, as it
deals with the need for some identification, but avoids the pitfalls of a
higher level of specificity as per the above comments. I think it also
points out the short-comings of the MARC record as a descriptor for digital
resources, and the need for movement on integrating emerging metadata
standards into library systems (and building new library systems).
The ultimate goal should be for the bib record to describe the "container"
(e.g., the journal) and its location(s), the "data" (e.g., the journal
article) to describe itself, and "viewer" (e.g. a web-based opac interface)
to use this to render the display. That way the bib record does not have to
be everything to everyone.
In order to do this effectively we need to step out of the MARC black box
we have sealed ourselves in and jump into the Web/Metadata sandbox, or we
will fail to deliver these new resources to our users.
Mark Leggott - University Librarian
University of Winnipeg
m.leggott@uwinnipeg.ca
204-786-9801 783-8910 (FAX)
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I.8.
Fr: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Re: Reply to I.7. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
Hi Mark
You raise an interesting point here. However, it seems that at present from
my superficial review of the _M-Bed(sm)_ multimedia journals that
individual journals limit the multimedia that can be used.
You raise a host of related issues and possible solutions. Would a link to
the appropriate page of a given e-journal to its multimedia types and
required plug-ins be possible within the bibliographic record? Would it
unreasonable, impractical, unrealistic to lobby publishers to create such a
standard page? It seems to me that it would help to promote a fuller use
of their publication.
Acrobat is *one* of two (or three options) in many cases in these journals.
HTML and HTML with augmented multimedia are typically the others, although
PostsScript seems to be common as well.
My personal conclusion about the choice of noting Acrobat is that we still
have a 'print/paper' mind set and unconsciously see only the paper analog
version [Is this an unreasonable conclusion?]
*The* basic issue: What is to described and how should we describe it? It
also raises the issue of the multiple roles that a bibliographic/surrogate
record has taken on, e.g. information about preservation.
Some of the bib records for the multimedia e-journals note for example that
the journal exists in HTML format and that it is available via the World
Wide Web. Is this necessary? Is it necessary to note the Java requirement?
I would say 'Yes' to both questions.
I just became aware of SMIL ('smile') two weeks ago and am glad you mention
it. To me, SMIL -- the Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language -- holds great potential for multimedia presentation
[Readers may wish to review the W3C site for details about SMIL at
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/]
> Maybe a statement referring to the existence of multimedia content
> would suffice?
A statement referring to the existence of multimedia content is *the*
question! *Is* it sufficient? Here again, it depends on what role the
record should play.
Does/ Can / Should a library allow its users to download and install any
and all plug-ins? Or, should the library have a policy. The IUPUI
University Library Policy on the Deployment of Internet Plug-ins for
Library Scholar's Workstations at
<http://andretti.iupui.edu/toolbox/scholarplug.html>
could serve as a model for other libraries.
Yes, indeed, if the cataloger's workstation is not fully configured they
will be unable to do view or test the multimedia content. This is a
significant issue that will certainly need to be addressed.
As librarians I believe we have the responsibility to be aware of these
developments and to provide leadership and opportunities for our users.
This *is* the Information Age, isn't it? And we are Information
Specialists, aren't we? Why should we limit our professional knowledge to
text-based phenomena?
The actual recommendation is the GMD 'interactive multimedia' [Please
excuse the typo].
Your point about the short-comings of MARC records and the need for
integrating metadata standards does raise other issues, e.g., how do we
integrate two different systems in one OPAC?
I like your last point here and its implications: Let the hardware/system
handle the multimedia seamlessly
Another point of view would be that the bib record becomes more than just a
describer but takes on other roles, e.g. link to full-text [e.g., 856].
We do need to re-think MARC in light of the multimedia issues and the like.
Thanks again for your interest, your thoughtful observations and remarks,
and your time.
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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I.9.
Fr: Tony Barry <tonyb@dynamite.com.au>
Re: Reply to I.8. Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
Commercial print journals with electronic equivalents certainly. I'm not
so sure that this applies to electronic only "journals"
If you can link to the page for the journal where any responsible web site
will indicate what is needed why clutter the bibliographical record? The
needed information will normally only be one or two clicks away.
The entire idea of a "journal" with "issues" is a print mind set. If the
journal is multimedia in _can't_ have a print equivalent.
It seems to me that the bibliographic/surrogate record was in the catalogue
in such detail so that a decision could be made as to whether it was
worthwhile to go and find the item on the shelves. If the item is a click
away and then on the screen there is no need for a detailed surrogate (if
you don't have to pay for access). If you do have to pay then you will want
more information. I am convinced however that the future for "journals"
which charge end users and libraries for access is bleak. I'm with Harnard
on this on. Authors and their organisations or professional societies are
more likely to carry the funding in anelectronic world.
You need a pretty old browser to find one that does not support Java. I
often turn Java off as few sites providing useful information require it
and I find helpful messages as to the functionality I am missing and
sometimes a link to where I can update.
If you are going to say anything about Java being needed in the record you
need to indicate which version and which implementation e.g., an "enhanced"
Microsoft version which breaks Netscape. You would also need to put in
requirements for javascript, jscript, etc. Why bother to add this to the
record when a link to the site provides the information?
And XML, MathML, ChemML, with and without RDF which may or may not
encapsulate Cublin Core which may specify AACRII for names or something
else, MESH or LC for subjects or something else etc.
My view is that records need hold far less than they did before as they can
link to where the information can be obtained. For instance do you need a
full bibliographical record if one click gives you the actual document?
We can expect users to have their own equipment and not fiddle with the
libraries. On the other hand the library should install any helper or
plugin which might be needed.
I increasingly wonder if it isn't the complexity of the MARC record
That is holding us back.
That's why the browser was invented, to pull together the protocols --ftp,
gopher, http and telnet (wais and z39.50 are there to but have never got of
the groups other than wais as a helper application) and the formats through
MIME tagging
Once the 856 link is there you potentially have not just the full text but
all the details that might be in the bib record.
It's not just MARC it's also the catalogue. As more and more material is
on the "shelves" of the internet should we catalogue them at considerable
expense or find them through another for of database and consider the
bibliographical entries in the catalogue as just legacy data which we
access like any other database on the internet?
Tony
phone +61 2 6241 7659
mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/Tony.Barry
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I.10.
Fr: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Re: Reply to Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
This is a response to my recent posting on the "Cataloging of
Multimedia E-Journals".
It raises a number of related issues that were included in my post and
reports on a significant study that I believe will be of interest to other
lists and their members. The response below has been re-posted with
permission from Deborah Woodyard, PADI / Digital Preservation National
Library of Australia
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
Gerry and list members,
We conducted a similar survey in 1996, but from a different angle, we
didn't have the titles we wanted information on but wanted to find material
in our collection that contained computer disk components (see 5.2.2 in
"Physical format electronic publications in the National Library of
Australia: report on a preservation survey"
http://www.nla.gov.au./nla/staffpaper/cwebb6.html). Your reaction to your
survey results sound very familiar to me. I was surprised at the difficulty
we had obtaining detailed information from the catalogue records about the
electronic components.
The collation field in the ILMS record for 400 items was checked for the
size and number of disks included in a publication - basic information
required for preservation management. Only 238 gave complete details. And
this did not include checking the system requirements recorded. This
information was not required under existing cataloguing guidelines for
disks accompanying print materials, but a few local practices have now been
modified and the result would be improved.
This has highlighted the gap that may exist between information needed for
current bibliographic access and that needed for long term management,
raising questions about how and where the latter should be recorded.
I am pleased to see the cataloguing rules are being updated gradually.
See: Task Force on the Harmonization of ISBD(ER) and AACR2 Final Report
(Penultimate Draft): Executive Summary revised 14 June 1999:
http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/aacrer/tf-harm21.htm. And more
current Internet cataloguing guidelines available linked from the PADI web
site at: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/internet.html#cat
Please excuse my possible ignorance of matters obvious to librarians, but
Gerry's message inspired me to share my experience.
Deborah
Deborah Woodyard
PADI / Digital Preservation
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA
mailto:dwoodyar@nla.gov.au
ph: +61 2 6262 1366
PADI: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/
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II. JOBS
II.1.
Fr: Nicholas J. Belkin <nick@belkin.rutgers.edu>
Re: Rutgers U.: Faculty Position: Information Science
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Department of Library and Information Science
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (TENURE TRACK)
Information Science
The Department of Library and Information Science seeks applications for a
tenure track position to begin Fall 2000. Applicants will be expected to
have teaching and research expertise in one or more of the following
general areas:
information retrieval
digital libraries
human-computer interaction and interfaces in information systems
information behavior in distributed electronic environments
The Department of Library and Information Science seeks a dynamic scholar
to build upon its internationally recognized program of research and
teaching in information science, one of three areas targeted for strategic
expansion at Rutgers. The Rutgers commitment has already made possible the
establishment of the Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries
(RDLDL), which supports interdisciplinary research and Ph.D.-level study in
the basic sciences and technologies relevant to digital libraries.
Qualifications for this position include: a Doctorate in library and
information science, or in computer science or other area related to this
position description with a strong interest in and knowledge of information
science and information science education. Applicants are expected to have
evidence of experience in teaching and research; knowledge of state of the
art technologies for information access, retrieval, visualization,
organization and dissemination; a commitment to the development of
technological systems in support of human needs; and, the desire and
ability to work within an interdisciplinary environment. Applicants should
be prepared to participate in and direct substantial research projects in
areas of relevance to this position.
The School of Communication, Information and Library Studies is a
multi-disciplinary professional school comprising three departments:
Communication, Journalism/Mass Media, and Library and Information Science.
Faculty in the LIS Department participate in the Masters Program in Library
Service (MLS), the Masters Program in Communication and Information Studies
(MCIS), and the school-wide interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in
Communication, Information and Library Studies. Undergraduate offerings are
in the planning stage. The successful applicant will have the opportunity
to participate in all of these programs. For further information about the
Department's and School's research and teaching programs, see our web site
at http://www.scils.rutgers.edu.
Applications, consisting of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and names and
contact addresses of three references, should be sent to:
Nicholas J. Belkin
Chair, Information Science Search
Department of Library and Information Science
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies
Rutgers University
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071 USA
or by email at nick@belkin.rutgers.edu (as ASCII, or attached pdf or
Word rtf file). Applications will be accepted up to 15 January 2000, or
until the position is filled.
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey is an affirmative action, equal
opportunity employer with a strong commitment to the diversity of faculty,
staff, and student body.
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II.2.
Fr: Diana Zinnato <Diana.Zinnato@mail.tju.edu>
Re: Thomas Jefferson U.: Scott Memorial Library: Collection
Management Librarian
COLLECTION MANAGEMENT LIBRARIAN (search re-opened)
The Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University seeks energetic
and creative applicants for the position of Collection Management
Librarian. Working in a highly automated environment under the direction of
the Director of Collection Management, this individual will play a
leadership role in all aspects of serials and interlibrary loan management.
The incumbent will manage all serials-related work for a collection of
2,200 titles including ordering and receiving using the SIRSI serials
control module, binding and in-house preservation activities and the
supervision of 2 technicians in this area. The CML will lead the Library's
initiative to greatly increase its number of electronic journal
subscriptions next year. Additionally, they will oversee collection
evaluation, space monitoring, journal holdings reporting and inventories.
The CML is also responsible for the coordination of all interlibrary loan
(ILL) activities supervising 3 technicians in this area. Responsibilities
include evaluating ILL policies and procedures to effect efficient and
cost-effective operations and overseeing the implementation of various ILL
technologies including OCLC, DOCLINE, and Ariel.
Some reference desk service is also required.
Requirements for this position are an accredited MLS, a minimum of 3 years
professional experience in serials work, preferably in an academic library,
supervisory experience, a working knowledge of an ILS serials module, the
use of OCLC or other automated systems for ILL. Salary minimum is $34,000.
Knowledge of the current trends in serials control, especially electronic
journal publishing is highly desirable. The successful candidate must
thrive in a dynamic environment, have effective written and oral
communication and problem-solving skills and be able to collaborate on team
projects.
Thomas Jefferson University is an academic health center located in
center-city Philadelphia. Scott Memorial Library is a department of
Academic Information Services and Research (AISR) which is comprised of the
Library, Medical Media Services and the Office of Academic Computing. AISR
has a staff of 64 FTE employees and an annual operating budget of $4
million. You are invited to visit JEFFLINE, AISR's information management
resource at http://jeffline.tju.edu/ for more information. The University
offers excellent flexible benefits including tuition reimbursement.
Qualified candidates should send a letter of application, their resume, and
the names and phone numbers of three references to: Doug Block, Business
Manager, Scott Memorial Library, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Walnut
St., Philadelphia, PA 19107-5587. Screening of applications will begin on
September 7, 1999.
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III. NOTICES
III.A.1.
Fr: Matthias Klusch <klusch@dfki.de>
Re: Journal Special Issue on Information Agents: CFPapers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of the International Journal on
Cooperative Information Systems
INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS:
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Guest Editor:
Matthias Klusch
Deduction and Multi-Agent Systems Lab
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Ltd., Germany
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/JCISspecial.html
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 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 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
XOR
Mail (5 Hard Copies) to
Matthias Klusch
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany.
Dr. Matthias Klusch
DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd.
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
Phone: +49-681-302 5297
Fax: +49-681-302 2235
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/
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III.A.2.
Fr: Hiroshi Motoda <motoda@ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp>
Re: Special Issue of Instance Selection for DMKD Journal: Last CFPapers
Last Call for Papers - INSTANCE SELECTION
A Special Issue of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~liuh/dmkd.html
Due date: 18 Sept 1999, electronic submission
INTRODUCTION
Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) is growing rapidly as computer
technologies advance. However, no matter how powerful computers are now or
will be in the future, KDD researchers and practitioners must consider how
to manage ever-growing data which is, ironically, due to the extensive use
of computers and ease of data collection with computers. Many different
approaches have been used to address the data explosion issue. Algorithm
scale-up is one and data reduction is another. Instance, example, or tuple
selection is about algorithms that select or search for a representative
portion of data that can fulfill a KDD task as if the whole data is used.
Instance selection is directly related to data reduction and becomes
increasingly important in many KDD applications due to the need for
processing efficiency and/or storage efficiency. One of the major means of
instance selection is sampling whereby a sample is selected for testing and
analysis, and randomness is a key element in the process. Instance
selection also covers other methods that require search. Examples can be
found in density estimation - finding the representative instances (data
points) for each cluster, and boundary hunting - finding the critical
instances to form boundaries to differentiate data points of different
classes. Other important issues related to instance selection extend to
unwanted precision, focusing, concept drifts, noise/outlier removal, data
smoothing, etc.
OBJECTIVES
This special issue on instance selection brings researchers and
practitioners together to report new developments and applications, share
hard-learned experiences to avoid similar pitfalls, and shed light on the
future development of instance selection. Several critical questions are
interesting to practitioners in KDD, and practically useful in real-life
applications:
* What are the existing methods?
* Are they the same or just different names coined by
researchers in different fields?
* Are they application dependent or stand-alone?
* Are new methods needed?
* If there is no generic selection algorithm, are these
algorithms specific to tasks such as classification,
clustering, association, parallelization?
* Are there common and reusable components in instance selection
methods?
* How can we reconfigure some components of instance selection
for a particular task/application?
* What are the new challenging issues of instance selection in
the context of KDD?
Sensible answers to these questions can greatly advance the field of KDD in
handling large databases. This special issue hopes to answer these
questions and to provide an easy reference point for further research and
development.
COVERAGE
All aspects of instance selection will be considered: theories,
methodologies, algorithms, and applications. Also studied are issues such
as costs of selection, the gains and losses due to the selection, how to
balance the gains and losses, and when to use what.
Researchers and practitioners in KDD-related fields (Statistics, Databases,
Machine Learning, etc.) are encouraged to submit their work to this special
issue to share and exchange ideas and problems in any forms: survey,
research manuscript, experimental comparison, theoretical study, or report
on applications.
IMPORTANT DATES
18 September, 1999 - Submissions due
15 November, 1999 - Reviews due (mainly peer review and the
guest editors will review all the
submissions)
22 Janurary, 2000 - Revised papers due
13 February, 2000 - To Editor-in-Chief
FORMAT and PAGE LIMIT
Each submission should be no more than 25 pages, have a line spacing of
1.5, use no smaller than a 12pt font, and have at least a 1 inch margin on
each side.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Please direct any enquiries to the guest editors:
Huan Liu, liuh@comp.nus.edu.sg, National University of Singapore
Hiroshi Motoda, motoda@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp, Osaka University, Japan.
Please submit your work electronically (postscript file) to either guest
editor. If you have to submit it in hard copy, please discuss it with the
guest editors first.
INFORMATION about the JOURNAL
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1384-5810 Editors-in-Chief: Usama
Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Heikki Mannila.
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III.A.3.
Fr: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Re: JASIS Table of Contents. Vol 50, # 12
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS
VOLUME 50, NUMBER 12
[Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues.]
Special Topic Issue: the 50th Anniversary of the Journal of the American
Society for Information Science
Part 2: Paradigms, Models, and Methods of Information Science
Guest Editor: M. J. Bates
CONTENTS
The Invisible Substrate of Information Science
Marcia J. Bates
1043
Information Science
Tefko Saracevic
1051
Industrial Roots of Information Science
Donald A. Windsor
1064
Historial Note: The Start of a Stop List at Biological Abstracts
Barbara J. Flood
1066
Interaction in Information Retrieval: Trends Over Time
Pamela A. Savage-Knepshield and Nicholas J. Belkin
1067
Museum Informatics and Collaborative Technologies: The Emerging
Socio-Technological Dimension of Information Science in Museum Environments
Paul F. Marty
1083
Mapping the Dimensions of a Dynamic Field
Caroline Haythornthwaite, Geoffrey Bowker, Christine Jenkins, and W. Boyd
Rayward
1092
Information Science and Information Systems: Conjunct Subjects Disjunct
Disciplines
David Ellis, David Allen, and Tom Wilson
1095
Comparing Information Access Approaches
Matthew Chalmers
1108
The Rise of Ontologies or the Reinvention of Classification
Dagobert Soergel
1119
>From Retrieval to Communication: The Development, Use, and Consequences of
Digital Documentary Systems
Rob Kling and Holly Crawford
1121
More Research Needed: Informal Information-Seeking Behavior of Youth on the
Internet
Eliza T. Dresang
1123
An Information View of History
Julian Warner
1125
The Control and Direction of Professional Education
Bill Crowley
1127
Informing Information Science: The Case for Activity Theory
Mark A. Spasser
1136
Aligning Studies of Information Seeking and Use with Domain Analysis
Carole L. Palmer
1139
The Growth of Understanding in Information Science: Towards a Developmental
Model
Nigel Ford
1141
Information Science in 2010: A Loughborough University View
Ron Summers, Charles Oppenheim, Jack Meadows, Cliff McKnight, and Margaret
Kinnell
1153
The ASIS home page <http://www.asis.org> contains the Table of Contents and
brief abstracts as above from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date.
The John Wiley Interscience site <http://www.interscience.wiley.com>
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. We are still working on
restoring access for ASIS members as "registered users."
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.A.4.
Fr: Kathy Klemperer <klempjo@tiac.net>
Re: Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide (updated)
"Electronic Journals; A Selected Resource Guide" has just been revised and
updated on the HARRASSOWITZ website. This guide is an overview and summary
of issues relating to electronic journals, covering such topics as the
history of e-journals, technical standards, legal and business issues,
scholarly publishing issues, preservation, and archiving. Each section of
the Guide consists of an introductory discussion and a selected, annotated
bibliography of resources, most of which are available on the WWW. In
addition, there are pointers for maintaining current awareness in this area.
The revised version includes 28 new sites and articles, and a new section
called "The Cutting Edge."
HARRASSOWITZ is committed to maintaining this resource guide, and relevant
new resources and discussion topics will be added regularly.
The resource guide can be viewed at:
http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html
Katharina Klemperer
Library and Information Systems Consulting
37 Minuteman Rd, Acton MA 01720
klempjo@tiac.net
http://www.tiac.net/users/klempjo
978-266-1776
fax: 978-266-2977 (*call ahead*)
**********
III.B.1.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
Re: ANLP/NAACL 2000: CFPapers
Language Technology Joint Conference
Applied Natural Language Processing
and the
North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
General Conference Chair: Marie Meteer, BBN Technologies
CALL FOR PAPERS
Contents: 1. Overview
2. ANLP Call for Papers
3. NAACL Call for Papers
4. Format for Submissions
5. Deadlines
1. Overview
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to announce
that the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP) conference and the
first conference of the new North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL) will
be held jointly 29 April to 3 May 2000 in Seattle, Washington.
The joint conferences will offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and
researchers together to explore the full spectrum of computational
linguistics and natural language processing, from theory and methodology to
their application in commercial software.
For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the separate
Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements for
submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17 November
1999. See submission details below.
The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
standardization; tools, techniques, and resources contributing to the
development of complete end-to-end applications of NLP; evaluation of
system performance and related issues. In particular, submissions should be
directed to one of the following subject areas:
* Monolingual text processing systems
* Multilingual text processing systems
* Spoken language and multimodal systems
* Integrated NLP systems
* Tools and resources for developing NLP systems
* Evaluation of performance of complete NLP systems
The NAACL program committee invites papers on methodology, approaches,
algorithms, models, analyses and experiments in computational linguistics.
Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main areas:
* Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
* Semantics and the Lexicon
* Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology
* Generation and Summarization
* Spoken Language
* Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing
* Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction
* Multilingual Natural Language Processing
There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and
ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP, authors
should consider whether their paper focuses more on the methodology or the
end application of that methodology to solve a particular problem.
A paper accepted for presentation at either meeting must not be or have
been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. A
paper may not be submitted to both NAACL 2000 and ANLP 2000, but may be
submitted to other conferences provided that, if accepted, it is withdrawn
from all but one. Submission to other conferences should be indicated on
the paper.
Papers will not be exchanged between the two program committees. However,
in the final program, papers may be grouped or juxtaposed in related
sessions to highlight similarities and downplay artificial distinctions. We
also appreciate that it can be advantageous to view the same work from both
a theoretical/methodological perspective and an applied perspective; we
welcome paired submissions to NAACL and ANLP, though each submission needs
to make a significant contribution on its own.
Please acknowledge the related submissions and include their abstracts with
your submission, though decisions will be made independently and acceptance
of one does not guarantee acceptance of the other.
Original papers that do not easily fall within one of the suggested areas
are also invited. The submission should be directed to the chair of the
respective program committee, with the topic area slot in the submission
template empty.
2. ANLP Call for Papers
ANLP Call for Papers
Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference
29 April to 3 May 2000
Seattle, Washington
Program Committee Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University
The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
standardization; tools and resources contributing to the development of
complete end applications of NLP; evaluation of system performance and
related issues.
In particular, submissions should be directed to one of the following
subject areas:
Monolingual Text Processing Systems.
Area Chair: Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento Italy
Systems devoted to information retrieval, text data mining, information
extraction, text summarization and related applications.
Multilingual Text Processing Systems.
Area Chair: Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal, Canada
Systems devoted to machine translation, human-aided machine translation,
machine-aided human translation, cross-lingual information retrieval,
multi-document multilingual information extraction and summarization, text
data mining and related applications.
Spoken Language and Multimodal Systems.
Area Chair: Susann Luperfoy, IET Inc. and Georgetown University, USA Text
and dialog processing on telephony, workstation, and PDA platforms.
Integrated NLP Systems.
Area Chair: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information
Sciences Institute, USA
Combinations of multiple NLP applications; multimodal and multimedia
systems; adaptation and standardization of existing NLP systems, embedded
NLP systems and integration of legacy systems.
Tools and Resources for Developing NLP Systems.
Area Chair: Lynn Carlson, Department of Defense, USA
Development and content of descriptive resources, such as grammars and
lexicons of particular languages or sets of languages, ontologies,
processed corpora and others; the acquisition and quick ramp-up tools for
NLP systems; and methodologies for development and knowledge acquisition
for NLP systems and environments and tools for training developers of NLP
systems.
Evaluation of Performance of Complete NLP Systems.
Area Chair: John White, Lytton/PRC, USA
Methodologies, case studies and tools.
3. NAACL Call for Papers
NAACL Call for Papers
1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
29 April to 3 May 2000
Seattle, Washington
Program Committee Chair: Janyce Wiebe, New Mexico State University
For the general sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and
unpublished research contributions on all aspects of computational
linguistics methodology, enabling technologies, approaches, algorithms,
models, analyses, and experiments. See the separate Call for Student Papers
(to be announced) for requirements for submissions to the student sessions.
Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main areas, as follows.
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics.
Area Chair: Diane Litman, AT&T Research.
Empirical and knowledge-based approaches to discourse and dialogue;
Dialogue management in spoken dialogue systems; Discourse segmentation;
Anaphora resolution; Discourse parsing; Narrative understanding; Design,
evaluation, and use of discourse annotation schemes; Topic detection and
tracking; Intentional and relational discourse analysis; Robust discourse
processing; Methods for evaluating dialogue/discourse systems and their
components; Integration with other levels of linguistic processing.
Semantics and the Lexicon.
Area Chair: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto.
Semantic formalisms; Ontologies; Word-sense disambiguation; Event
recognition and categorization; Logics for natural language; Extracting
information from on-line dictionaries; Refining sense inventories;
Computational lexicography; Lexical resource development.
Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology.
Area Chair: Michael Collins, AT&T Research.
Grammar formalisms; Theoretical and empirical studies of parsing
algorithms; Finite-state methods; Representation of syntactic,
morphological, and phonological aspects of the lexicon; Robust and shallow
parsing; Syntax annotation schemes; Grammar induction; Formal properties of
symbolic and weighted/stochastic grammars.
Generation and Summarization.
Area Chair: Nancy Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Strategic generation for text and dialogue (text planning, argumentation
strategies, etc.); Tactical generation (sentence aggregation, lexical
choice, etc.); Multimodal and multimedia generation; Knowledge acquisition
and resources for generation and summarization; User-customized generation
and summarization; Evaluation methodologies for generation and
summarization; Application of generation, information extraction, and
information retrieval techniques to summarization.
Spoken Language.
Area Chair: Andreas Stolcke, SRI International.
Language modeling; Prosody; Speech annotation; Speech synthesis; Modeling
of spontaneous speech phenomena (disfluencies, discourse markers, etc.);
Comparative analyses of spoken and written language; Robust NLP for speech
recognition output; Higher-level knowledge sources (e.g., dialogue) for
speech recognition; Automatic segmentation of speech into sentences,
topics, discourse units, etc.; Integration of speech with other modalities
such as text and gesture; Methods for speech-to-speech translation.
Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing.
Area Chair: Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba.
Annotation, including automatic and semi-automatic methods, mapping between
schemes, analyzing and improving agreement, minimizing costs; Induction of
patterns and structures such as selectional frames and concept hierarchies;
Extraction of terms and collocations; Text mining and knowledge discovery
from text; Distributional similarity; Learning applied to NLP, including
bootstrapping, smoothing, and multi-strategy learning.
Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction.
Area Chair: Philip Resnik, University of Maryland.
Computational psycholinguistics; Models of human sentence processing,
language understanding, language generation, and language acquisition; Use
of natural language in human-computer interaction; Evaluation of interfaces
that use natural language (including multimodal and multimedia interfaces),
by field studies, laboratory experimentation, or analytical methods.
Multilingual Natural Language Processing.
Area Chair: Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute.
Methods addressing the research challenges of multilingual environments,
including cross-language divergences, producing fluent text, and dealing
with non-literal translation equivalents; Methods for machine translation
(direct, transfer, example-based, knowledge-based, interlingual,
statistical, etc.); Design of interlinguas; Multilingual lexicons; Lexical
acquisition for machine translation and cross-language information
retrieval; Machine-assisted translation; Multilingual generation; Alignment
of multilingual texts; Methods for exploiting parallel or comparable
corpora for natural language processing tasks.
Authors will be asked to identify the area or areas to which their
submission corresponds. Relevant papers not fitting precisely into any of
these areas are also welcome. All papers will be reviewed by at least three
experts.
There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and
ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP, authors
should consider whether their paper focuses more on the methodology or the
end application of that methodology to solve a particular problem.
4. Format for Submissions
Submissions must use the ACL latex style aclsub.sty or Microsoft Word style
ACL-submission.doc (both available from the conference web page) and may be
no more than 3,200 words in total length, exclusive of title page and
references. If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a
description of the required format will be available on the conference web
page. If you cannot access the conference web page, send email to
anlp-naacl2000@bbn.com with subject SUBSTYLE.
Reviewing will be blind. Thus, separate identification and title pages are
required.
The identification page should include the following. It should be sent in
a separate e-mail message from the body of the paper itself.
* Title
* Paper ID Code: see below
* Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses
* Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission
* Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
* Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP)
* Word Count, excluding title page and references
* Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list
* Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary
The title page should include:
* Title
* Paper ID Code: see below
* Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission
* Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
* Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP)
* Word Count, excluding title page and references
* Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list
* Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary
Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper itself.
Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... ") should be avoided. Instead, use
citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)....".
Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being
rejected without review.
SUBMISSION QUESTIONS
NAACL submission questions should be sent to:
naacl2000-program@nmsu.edu
Program Chair, NAACL 2000
Computing Research Laboratory
BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
ANLP submission questions should be sent to:
anlp2000-program@nmsu.edu
Program Chair, ANLP 2000
Computing Research Laboratory
BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
The calls for papers, style files, and information about tutorials,
workshops, and the student session will be available on the conference web
site. The conference web site will be reachable from the ACL Home Page,
www.aclweb.org, in the near future.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
1) Submission notification: You must submit a notification of submission by
filling out a form on the conference web page at least one week before the
submission deadline. This will return to you an email with an ID number
that should be included on the identification page, the title page and the
header of every page of the paper. Also, please use it on all
correspondence with the program committee chair. The form will be available
on the web after October 1.
2) Electronic submission: send the postscript or MS Word form of your
submission to: naacl2000-program@nmsu.edu or anlp2000-program@nmsu.edu
The Subject line should contain conference.submission_id.format, e.g.,
"naacl.100.ps" or "anlp.100.pdf" or "naacl.100.doc".
Please submit the identification page in a separate email.
Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be
e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt.
In extreme cases, an author unable to comply with the above submission
procedure should contact the program chair sufficiently before the
submission deadline so alternative arrangements can be made.
5. Deadlines
Submission notification deadline: 10-Nov-99
Paper submission deadline: 17-Nov-99
Notification of acceptance for papers: 01-Feb-00
Camera ready papers due: 12-Mar-00
Regular sessions begin: 01-May-00A
[Signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final
version.]
**********
III.B.2.
Fr: John A. Keane <jak@co.umist.ac.uk>
Re: CoopIS'99: Programme
FINAL 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 inter-disciplinary
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
Chair: Mike Papazoglou
9:00-10:00 SESSION 1: Invited Talk
Chair: Mike Papazoglou
"Negotiating Agents for Corporate-Wide Business Process Management"
Nick Jennings
10:15-12:15 SESSION 2: Integration & Interoperability
Chair: Stuart Madnick
"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
Chair: Arnie Rosenthal
"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
Chair: Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
"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
Chairs: Arnon Rosenthal, Scott Renner
"Annotations: Digital Post-Its as an Information Model?"
DAY 2 (Sept 3)
9:00-10:00 SESSION 6: Tutorial
Chair: Erich Neuhold
"Web-based Information Access", T. Catarci
10:15-12:15 SESSION 7: Web Information Systems
Chair: Maurizio Lenzerini
"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
Chair: Marek Rusinkiewicz
"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
Chair: Asuman Dogac
"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
Chair: Yannis Vassiliou
"Data Warehouse Quality Issues"
DAY 3 (Sept 4)
9:00-10:00 SESSION 11: Invited Talk
Chair: Umeshwar Dayal
"Models and Tools for Designing Data-Intensive WEB Applications", Stefano Ceri
10:15-12:15 SESSION 12: Mediators & Query Processing
Chair: Felix Saltor
"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
Chair: Laura Haas
"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 -16:30 SESSION 14: Workflow Transactions
Chair: Qiming Chen
"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
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III.C.1.
Fr: William Hersh <hersh@ohsu.edu>
Re: Oregon Health Sciences U.: Distance Learning for
Medical Informatics
A Program in Distance Learning for Medical Informatics at Oregon Health
Sciences University
The Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research (DMIOR) at Oregon
Health Sciences University (OHSU) is seeking individuals to participate in
a pilot distance learning offering of its course, Introduction to Medical
Informatics, in the fall of 1999.
This course is the first offering in a medical informatics distance
learning program under development at OHSU. Current plans call for one
three-hour courses to be offered in each of the three academic quarters of
the 1999-2000 academic year. A certification program (either master's
degree or certificate) will be initiated in the 2000-2001 academic year.
The first course to be offered will be Medical Informatics (MINF) 510,
Introduction to Medical Informatics, a graduate-level survey of medical
informatics. The existing on-campus course is taken by graduate students
in the OHSU medical informatics program as well as those of other
departments, such as public health and graduate nursing.
The distance learning version of MINF 510 will proceed in parallel with the
on-campus version of the course, running 11 weeks from Sept. 22 to Dec. 8.
The course software will be Web-based (using WebCT or CourseInfo) and
targeted to individuals with any type of Internet connection, including
modem. Learning activities will consist of weekly topics using the
following formats:
- Lectures using streaming audio plus PowerPoint delivered via RealPlayer
software
- Textbook reading assignments
- On-line homework assignments
- Asynchronous class discussion
- Synchronous "office hours"
The tentative list of topics to be covered includes:
- Medical data and its use
- Medical computing
- Medical decision-making and evidence-based medicine
- The electronic medical record
- Information retrieval and digital libraries
- Computer networks and the Internet
- Imaging and telemedicine
- Artificial intelligence and decision support
- Standards, security and confidentiality
- Nursing and consumer health informatics
A course term paper and open-book final examination will also be required.
We anticipate a commitment typical of a three-hour graduate course, which
will be about 6-12 hours per week.
Credit for the course will be through OHSU. A transcript will be issued
for those seeking to transfer credit to other institutions. Credit for
this course will be applicable to those who later enroll in degree programs
at OHSU. Standard in-state and out-of-state tuition rates will be charged.
Present plans include the offering of MINF 514, Information Retrieval and
Digital Libraries, in the winter term. Our plans for the spring term are
not set, but we are considering offering a repeat of MINF 510. Details of
the certification program will be announced in the fall of 1999.
OHSU is a national leader in medical informatics education. Current
on-campus programs include a Master of Science (M.S.) degree program and a
postdoctoral fellowship. The latter is funded by the National Library of
Medicine and the Department of Veteran's Affairs. Since its inception
three years ago, 30 individuals have enrolled and 10 have graduated from
the M.S. program. Graduates have gone on to take a variety of positions in
medical centers, industry, and academia. More information on the program
can be found at:
http://www.ohsu.edu/bicc-informatics/ms/
Enrollment in the fall quarter pilot course will be limited to
approximately twelve students. Participants must be eligible to take
graduate courses at OHSU, which means they must have a bachelor's degree.
Acceptance into this pilot program does not guarantee later acceptance into
any degree programs at OHSU.
If you are interested in taking the fall course, please contact the program
administrator as soon as possible:
Kelly Brougham
Administrator
Master of Science in Medical Informatics Program
Oregon Health Sciences University
Email (preferred): informat@ohsu.edu
Phone: 503-494-4563
Fax: 503-494-4551
You may also send email if you are interested in being on a mailing list of
(occasional) updates about the program.
More general questions should be directed to:
William Hersh
Associate Professor and Chief
Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research
Oregon Health Sciences University
Email (preferred): hersh@ohsu.edu
Phone: 503-494-4563
Fax: 503-494-4551
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