IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.34, Issue 470

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
September 13, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 34
Issue 470

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  I. QUERIES
        1. Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates
 II. JOBS
        1. CSU, Long Beach, CA: Library Services Specialist
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. A Very Interesting Web Site: Network Flows
        2. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] -- September 13, 1999
     B. Meetings
        1. DIMACS Workshiop on the Management of Digital Intellectual
           Property: CFParticipation
        2. New Paradigms in Information Visualisation + Manipulation:
           CFPapers 
        3. International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems:
           Theory and Applications: CFPapers
        4. Open Forum on Metadata Registries: CFParticipation

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I. QUERIES

I.1.
Fr: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Re: Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates

_Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates_

I am greatly interested in learning of other electronic journals that have
integrated or incorporated a multimedia component within their issues for
listing in _M-Bed(sm)_, my Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic
Journals. M-Bed(sm) is available at 

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm

Common types of multimedia include audio and video files as well as
two-dimensional and 3-D models, and supplemental datasets.

As a adjunct to the registry, I have also compiled a General Bibliography
of key works on Web multimedia that include Web sites as well as recent and
forthcoming books and articles that I believe will be of interest to a wide
audience.

As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, queries, critiques,
questions, etc. etc. regarding multimedia e-journals or candidate book
titles about multimedia on the Web are Most Welcome.

Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian 
Iowa State University 
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu 

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II. JOBS

II.1.
Fr: Sandy Heft <sandy.heft@SONOMA.EDU>
Re: California State University: Library Services Specialist

LIBRARY SERVICES SPECIALIST
(Administrator I)
Systemwide Library Initiatives

The California State University, Office of the Chancellor, is seeking an
experienced library professional to participate in the development and
administration of leading-edge systemwide library projects.

Under general direction of the Director of Library Initiatives, the Library
Services Specialist will: work with campus library liaisons and vendors to
update and monitor quality control of the Unified Information Access System
union catalog database; interface with CSU Database Management Task Force,
library liaisons and vendors to resolve problems and conflicts; recommend
and oversee standards for data storage and access in partnership with
committees and task forces; and recommend, develop, implement and evaluate
new services and database enhancements. The Library Services Specialist
will also support other projects of the CSU Library Resources Initiative by
coordinating project-related task forces and committees; communicating
project status; organizing project-related training and development; and
participating in systemwide technical and administrative committees and
project planning and evaluation.

This position requires: Bachelor's degree; experience with integrated
library automation systems as well as MARC format cataloging and
applications; effective oral and written communication skills; and the
ability to work independently as a team-member of a large, complex
organization in a changing technological environment. Master of Library
Science degree or equivalent preferred.

Priority will be given to resumes received in Personnel Services by
September 24, 1999. An attractive compensation package is offered along
with salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.  Please send
resume, cover letter and salary history to: California State University,
Office of the Chancellor, 401 Golden Shore, Long Beach, CA, 90802-4210,
Attn: Personnel Services-Ref#: SLI-1V or via e-mail to jobs@calstate.edu.
The California State University, Office of the Chancellor, is an Equal
Employment/Affirmative Action/ADA employer.

Sandy Heft
Technical Services Librarian
Ruben Salazar Library
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
707-664-2528
707-664-2876 (FAX)

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III. Notices

III.A.1.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Re: A Very Interesting Web Site: Network Flows


One of the most interesting web sites I've seen lately is at
<http://mappa.mundi.net/>.  This is well worth taking a look at --  Carl
Malamud, who has been a pioneer in a number of fascinating network-related
projects, including getting the SEC Edgar database  on the Web for public
access and early work in Internet radio  broadcasting, is involved in this
as part of his work on  visualizing network flows. 

Clifford

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III.A.2.
Fr: EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] -- September 13, 1999

EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education through Information Technologies
http://www.educause.edu

***IN THIS ISSUE***

FEDERAL FUNDING FOR IT RESEARCH
House Passes NSF Appropriations - Conference May Bring Adjustments -- PITAC
Plans Next Steps

BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT
CEO Summit on Rural Telecommunications

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update"
is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association
dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies.

Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to
listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname"
in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" command
to the same address. If you would like more information about the Update or
would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at
gsern@educause.edu.

To view past Washington Updates, please refer to the EDUCAUSE Washington
Update archives at http://www.educause.edu/pub/wu/.

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III.B.1.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Re: DIMACS Workshiop on the Management of Digital Intellectual Property:
    CFParticipation

DIMACS Workshop on the Management of Digital IP
April 17-18, 2000
Rutgers, New Jersey

Critical to the development of e-commerce is the management of digital
intellectual property (IP). Technology has challenged the status quo of IP
management in many ways. Widespread use of personal computers and Internet
communication creates vast opportunities for producers, distributors, and
consumers of digital works of all forms, but it also threatens to render
copying and modification of these works completely uncontrollable. DIMACS
will sponsor a two-day series of technical talks and "position statements"
on the design, development, and deployment of IP-management technology that
strikes the right balance between the need to control copying and
modification and the desire to foster innovative uses of digital works that
have been enabled by computing and communication advances.

Speakers are encouraged to address all technical, legal, and business
aspects of digital IP management. Companies offering relevant products and
services are encouraged to participate and to submit abstracts or papers
outlining their approach. 

Topics appropriate for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

     * Intellectual property protection.
     * Anti piracy techniques.
     * Legal issues in the protection of digital rights.
     * New business models for managing digital rights.
     * Passive content protection, e.g. watermarking, tracing traitors.
     * Active content protection, e.g. software tamper resistance.
     * Hardware solutions to content protection.

WORKSHOP URL: http://crypto.stanford.edu/DIMACS/

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Authors are strongly encouraged to send their submission electronically. 
Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter
and 4 copies of a submission (double-sided copies preferred) to the postal
address below. Submissions must be received on or before January 17, 2000
(or postmarked by January 5, 2000, and sent via airmail or courier). The
cover letter should contain the submission's title and the names and
affiliations of the authors and should identify the contact author
including e-mail and postal addresses. 

Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract or a full-length paper or
position statement.

(1)  Abstract submissions should contain a title, list of authors, and
     an abstract describing the proposed talk. The abstract should
     indicate whether the authors intend to submit a full-length paper
     in case the abstract is accepted.

(2)  Full-length submissions should begin with a title, list of authors, 
     and a short abstract. The introduction should summarize the
     contributions of the work at a level appropriate for a
     non-specialist reader. The submission should be at most 12 pages
     excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices,
     using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. The organizers 
     do not guarantee that they will read appendices; so submissions 
     should be intelligible without them.

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by February
14, 2000.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
We will decide whether to publish proceedings for the workshop based on the
number of full-length submissions. If the number and quality  of
full-length submissions are sufficient, proceedings will be  published by
the American Mathematical Society as a volume in the  DIMACS series. 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
(1) Paul Kocher, Cryptography Research.
(2) Stuart Haber, InterTrust.
(3) Narayanan Shivakumar, Univ. Washington
(4) Paul Callas, Kroll-O'Gara

DATES:
      SUBMISSION: January 17, 2000
      ACCEPTANCE: February 14, 2000
      Pre-PROCEEDINGS VERSION: March 24, 2000

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
      Dan Boneh, Stanford University, USA
      Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs -- Research
      Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft Research

ADDRESS FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
      dabo@cs.stanford.edu

ADDRESS FOR NON-ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
      Dan Boneh, DIMACS workshop,
      Gates 475,
      Stanford, CA, 94304-9045
      U.S.A
      Phone: (1) 650-725-3897
      Fax:   (1) 650-725-4671
      E-mail: dabo@cs.stanford.edu

STIPENDS: A limited number of stipends are available to those unable to
obtain funding to attend the workshop. Students giving talks at the
workshop are encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for
stipends should be addressed to Joan Feigenbaum at jf@research.att.com or
973 360-8442.

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III.B.2.
Fr: Chris Shaw <cdshaw@cs.uregina.ca>
Re: New Paradigms in Information Visualisation + Manipulation:
    CFPapers

Workshop on New Paradigms in Information
Visualization and Manipulation
November 5-6, 1999
Kansas City, Missouri

In Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM'99)

http://www.cs.umbc.edu/conferences/cikm/npiv/npiv99cfp.html

The CIKM'99 Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and
Manipulation will be a forum for presentation and discussion of new ideas
and techniques for accessing, visualizing and manipulating information.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

   * visualization of multidimensional information spaces;
   * visualization of large, dynamic information collections;
   * shared virtual environments and simulations;
   * dynamic data visualization;
   * applications of virtual reality, including VRML;
   * multi-modal information displays;
   * applications of Internet tools such as MUDs, MOOs, and IRCs;
   * document and corpus metrics;
   * visual data mining and knowledge discovery;
   * Web or network-based visualization;
   * applications in document analysis;
   * software and hardware architectures to support information
     visualization;
   * and social interaction in multi-user information visualization
     systems.

We are particularly interested in reports of work in progress,
implementation techniques, and practical experience with visualization of
information collections of all sizes. A significant portion of the workshop
agenda will be devoted to discussion of pending research questions, and
directions for future work in this area.

Prospective participants are invited (but not required) to submit position
papers. The suggested maximum length is four pages. The position papers
will be reviewed by the organizing committee, and accepted papers will
appear in the workshop proceedings. The accepted papers will be selected
for informal presentation at the workshop. Accepted papers that were
submitted electronically will be available via WWW by early November.

Final Proceedings will be published by ACM Press after the workshop.

Mail papers in either ASCII or HTML to ebert@cs.umbc.edu by September 15,
1999. We prefer e-mail submissions, but authors who lack e-mail access may
send papers to Dr. David Ebert, Department of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore,
MD 21250 USA. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's
affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of
multiple authors, please indicate which author is responsible for
correspondence.

For more information on the CIKM'99 conference, please see the CIKM'99 Web
page: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/conferences/cikm/npiv/npiv99cfp.html

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline  September 15, 1999
Notification of acceptance October 13, 1999
Workshop date              November 5-6, 1999

Chris Shaw               University of Regina
cdshaw@cs.URegina.ca     Assistant Professor 
Acting Director          Institute for Computational Discovery, UofR
http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~cdshaw

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III.B.3.
Fr: Conference, AISTA2000 <AISTA2000@ise.canberra.edu.au>
Re: International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems:
    Theory and Applications: CFPapers

International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems:
Theory and Applications
AISTA'2000
2-4 February 2000
Canberra - Australia

http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/aista2000/index.htm

The International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems: Theory and
Applications - AISTA'2000 aims at bringing together theoreticians and
practitioners of intelligent systems from Australia and around the world to
exchange ideas, present their recent research and discuss possible
collaborations. 

The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory
sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of
intelligent systems techniques. For contributory sessions, papers are being
solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference.
Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

· Intelligent and Adaptive Control Systems 
Neural Network Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Genetic Algorithms &
Evolutionary Control, Adaptive and Optimal Control, Intelligent Control
Systems and Robotics, Intelligent Agents, Industrial Automation, Signal
Processing, Parallel Computing Applications in Identification and Control

· Hybrid Control Systems
Neural Genetic Systems, Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, Fuzzy Evolutionary
Systems, Fuzzy Expert Systems, Fuzzy Neural Systems, Hybrid Intelligent
Systems for Control and Optimisation

· Image Processing, Optimisation and Prediction 
Image Processing, Image Segmentation, Clustering, Classification, Knowledge
Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems, Time Series Analysis and
Prediction, System Identification

· Intelligent Decision Making 
Intelligent Databases and Information Retrieval, Case-Based Reasoning,
Decision Analysis, Dynamic Systems Modelling, Decision Support Systems,
Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning

Paper Submission
Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance,
correctness, relevance and clarity of presentation. Four copies of
manuscripts should be submitted to the following address:

AISTA'2000 Secretariat
School of Computing
University of Canberra
ACT 2601, Australia

The manuscripts should present original work, which has not been published
or being reviewed for other conferences.

Important Dates
24 September 1999     Deadline for submission of manuscripts

15 October 1999       Notification of acceptance

19 November1999       Deadline for camera-ready copies of 
                      accepted manuscripts

2-4 February 2000     Conference sessions

Special Sessions and Tutorials
Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The
conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All
proposals should be sent to the conference chair on or before 24 September
1999. AISTA'2000 will also include a special poster session devoted to
recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session
(3 pages limit) and may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date.

Invited Sessions
Keynote speakers from academia and industry will be addressing the main
issues of the conference.

Visits and social events
Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A
separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference.

Further Information
For further information either contact aista@canberra.edu.au or see the
conference homepage at:
http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/aista2000/index.htm

Organising Committee Chair:
Masoud Mohammadian
School of Computing
University of Canberra
ACT 2601, Australia

In cooperation with:
University of Canberra, Australia
IEEE Act Section, Australia
Australian Intelligent Cybernetic 
Systems, Australia

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III.B.4.
Fr: Stuart Gagnon <Gagnon.Stuart@epamail.epa.gov>
Re: Open Forum on Metadata Registries: CFParticipation

Call for Participation
Open Forum on Metadata Registries
January 2000

This is a call for participation in the SC 32/WG 2 Open Forum on Metadata
Registries, which will be held January 17-21, 2000 in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
USA. You are invited to register to attend. You may also participate by
contributing relevant papers or web links.

This is the fourth in a series of  international conferences on this topic.
Participants from private enterprise, government, academe and standards
organizations will explore the capabilities, uses, content, development and
operation of metadata registries, particularly those based on ISO/IEC
11179. Emphasis is on managing the content (semantics) of data that is
shared within and between organizations or disseminated via the World Wide Web

This Open Forum will highlight ongoing metadata registry efforts with
"tracks" that describe metadata management activities in the fields of
health care, environmental protection/cleanup, statistics & demographics
(e.g., census and labor/economic statistics), transportation, aeronautics &
space, geographic information, electronic commerce and emerging
technologies (e.g., XML, common business objects and object query interfaces).

In addition to a focus on managing metadata about data elements and
structures containing data elements (e.g., data models, data bases, EDI
messages, queries, reports, regulations, standards, etc.), special
attention will be given to managing basic semantics -- concepts and concept
structures: controlled vocabularies, dictionaries, thesauri, ontologies and
data element components such as value domains. Presentations will range
from use of metadata registries for data standardization/data documentation
to advanced uses including a demonstration of Intelligent Information
Services--an ontology-based agent system for accessing environmental data
in systems dispersed between US and European organizations.

For complete information, see:
http://www.nist.gov/openforum2000

The Open Forum is Organized by:
International Organization for Standardization / International
Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC)
         Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1)
         Subcommittee 32 - Data Management and Interchange (SC 32)
         Working Group 2 - Metadata (WG 2)

Please feel free to circulate this call for participation to any
distribution lists that you think appropriate.

Bruce Bargmeyer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
401 "M" Street, S.W., Mail Code 3408
Washington, DC 20460
Tel:202-260-5306, FAX: 202-401-8390

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