IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.35, Issue 471

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
September 20, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 35
Issue 471

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 II. JOBS
        1. Gatesource: Director of Ontologies
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. JASS Journal: Special Issue
        2. Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
        3. Press Release: "GL-Compendium"
     B. Meetings
        1. ICCI2000: CFPapers
        2. "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 Session: 2nd CFPapers
        3. DM: Second International Conference on DATA MINING 2000:
           CFPapers
        4. ICEIS 2000: CFPapers
 IV. PROJECTS
     C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships
        1. Pew Grant Award Announcement

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II. JOBS

Fr: Kent Clizbe <kent@gatesource.com>
Re: Gatesource: Director of Ontologies

Opportunities for specialists in Knowledge Representation and
categorization schema continue to expand as eCommerce applications grow.
In addition to the below position, the same company will have positions for
ontologists with less experience, and specialized knowledge in a variety of
fields.  There are also other ontology-related position still available.

For immediate consideration, please email your resume, or call:

Kent Clizbe
kent@gatesource.com
703-222-6627
www.gatesource.com

Director of Ontologies

Join the Internet's leading creator and operator of vertical  trade
communities, leveraging the interactive features and global reach of the
Internet to create multi-national, targeted business-to-business
communities. These narrowly focused web sites attract buyers and sellers
from around the world by catering to individuals with similar professional
interests.

Responsibilities / Qualities
-Develop and implement schema for classifying and describing items
 across multiple domains.
-Develop automatic classification methods and play the lead role.
-Work with SME's in over 50 industries.
-Work with domain experts inside the company.
-Hire and manage a small group of Ontologists.
-Establish yourself as the company "Expert"
-With system engineers, leverage ontology work performed.
-Establish ontology "maintenance" procedures.
-Create a team environment in Ontology group with a "get it done"
 attitude.
-Work under tight deadlines.
-Be open to new ways of thinking.
-Possess knowledge base of industry available tools.
-Applicable area of expertise.
-Able to interface and deal with a wide variety of people.
-Goal driven.

You offer:

-A proven track record developing timely and usable solutions to complex
problems
-2+ years experience building ontologies for commercial use
-Ability to lead a team and a company to implement and improve schema.
-Experience building ontologies and knowledge representation systems.
-Software development experience
Experience in eCommerce
-Effective oral and written communication.

Required:

-Ph.D. or Masters in Linguistics or equivalent experience.
-2+ years experience as an ontologist.
-Knowledge of computational classification methodologies.
-Ability to lead and work with a team.

We offer:

-Competitive compensation package in a fast paced environment.
-Opportunity to work for a leading edge internet company.
-Opportunity for advancement.
-Casual work environment and flexible hours.

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Nikitas Assimakopoulos <assinik@unipi.gr>
Re: JASS Journal: Special Issue

JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES
Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches
[ JASS ]
http://www.unipi.gr/jass/

Special Issue on "Applications of Electronic Commerce Systems"

The electronic commerce is now well recognised as a key enabler of global
electronic markets where small and large enterprises compete as equal
players.  Electronic commerce systems are based on the service-centric
internet is producing profound changes in enterprise culture in general,
and in particular in areas associated with the business-to-business and
business-to-consumer environments. The special issue will focus on
applications of electronic commerce systems, and papers should present
analytically the electronic commerce practical problem. In addition to it,
papers that address aspects of transaction processes and models including
issues related to the legal, regulatory and standards frameworks for these
systems will be welcome. 

Papers should be presented according to the "Guidelines for  Contributors",
the details of which can be found at the web site: http://www.unipi.gr/jass/.

Submission deadline: 31 January, 2000.
Expected publication date: 31 August, 2000.

All the submissions for this special issue must be sent to the Guest Editor.

Guest Editor :
Narayana Jayaram,
School of Computer Science, University of Westminster,
Watford Road, Northwick Park,
Harrow HA1 3TP,
ENGLAND.

E-mail:  jayaramn@westminster.ac.uk
           n.jayaram@computer.org
           n.jayaram@acm.org
Phone: +44 171 911 5000 ext 4203, Fax:+44 171 911 5906

In the meantime, we would like to inform you that one of our scopes for
JASS is to have Special Issues on a specific Application Domain of Systems
Sciences. For the next year we are going to have two special issues. You
may propose to us an area related to JASS in which I expect you will act as
the "Guest Editor" under, of course, the general operating rules of JASS.

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III.A.2.
Fr: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis@newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Re: Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 9

Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis
Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
edited by
Hans van Halteren
Dept. of Language and Speech
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

This book provides an in-depth discussion of the field of syntactic
wordclass tagging, i.e. the annotation of the words in a text with tags
indicating their syntactic properties. Represented are the viewpoints of
the two main groups who take an interest in tagging: the users of tagged
text and the developers of tagging software. 

The book starts out by examining the field foremost from the user's point
of view. After a brief historical overview, the nature and uses of tagging
are discussed and current practice is described. Here the user will find
what tagging is and the software developer what it is the user wants. 

The book then switches to the other point of view and continues with a
detailed explanation of the most common computational techniques for
automatically tagging large amounts of text. Here the software developer
finds information needed for the implementation of a tagger while the user
gains insight into the possibilities and impossibilities of automatic
tagging and how computer-provided tags should be interpreted.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1
August 1999, 300 pp.
NLG 280.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00

Contents and Contributors

Preface.
Contributing Authors.

Part I: The User's View.

1. Orientation; A. Voutilainen.
2. A Short History of Tagging; A. Voutilainen.
3. The Use of Tagging; G. Leech, N. Smith.
4. Tagsets; J. Cloeren.
5. Standards for Tagsets; G. Leech, A. Wilson.
6. Performance of Taggers; H. van Halteren.
7. Selection and Operation of Taggers; H. van Halteren.

Part II: The Implementer's View.

8. Automatic Taggers: An Introduction; H. van Halteren, A. Voutilainen.
9. Tokenization; G. Grefenstette.
10. Lexicons for Tagging; A. Schiller, L. Karttunen.
11. Standardization in the Lexicon; M. Monachini, N. Calzolari.
12. Morphological Analysis; K. Oflazer.
13. Tagging Unknown Words; E. Brill. 
14. Hand-Crafted Rules; A. Voutilainen.
15. Corpus-Based Rules; E. Brill.
16. Hidden Markov Models; M. El-Beze, B. Merialdo.
17. Machine Learning Approaches; W. Daelemans.

Appendix A: Example tagsets.
References.
Index

                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES

   Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
             Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

   Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
             Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997

   Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
             Thierry Dutoit
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 

   Volume 4: Exploring textual data
             Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997

   Volume 5: Time Map Phonology:
             Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition
             Julie Carson-Berndsen
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997

   Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
             Lexical Knowledge Bases

   Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
             Tomek Strzalkowski
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999

   Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics
             Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999

Check the series Web page for order information:

http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB

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III.A.3.
Fr: GreyNet <Dominic.Farace@inter.nl.net>
Re: Press Release: "GL-Compendium"

PRESS RELEASE
PRESSEINFORMATION
COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE

Amsterdam, 17 September 1999
G L - C o m p e n d i u m
A Netbased Directory of Grey Literature Collections

On September 1st 1999, the European Association for Grey Literature
Exploitation (EAGLE), signed an agreement with GreyNet, Grey Literature
Network Service for permission to use their SIGLE Subject Classification
Scheme within the GL-Compendium Project. The agreement was signed by Dr.
David Wood, President of EAGLE and Mr. Andrew Smith, Chair of the
EAGLE Technical Committee.

  "The Association looks forward to the opportunities which
   this venture may present for further raising awareness
   about EAGLE and SIGLE (System for Information on Grey
   Literature in Europe) and to exploring the possibilities
   for developing our co-operation."

Last month, Dr. Dominic Farace, Head of GreyNet, submitted together with
MCB University Press the GL-Compendium proposal:

One of the initial problems encountered in the search for information is
finding the right source(s) to enable further searching. Internet access to
special collections of grey literature, regardless of the type of documents
or the subject areas covered, will no doubt both challenge and enable
librarians and researchers alike. The challenge to become aware of the very
existence of these collections and the subsequent ability to access them
worldwide. The GL-Compendium, a unique networked resource  in and for grey
literature, will not only act to control information  overflow but will, at
the same time, confront and deal with information underuse.

This grey literature netbased directory, which we call the GL Compendium,
will be multidisciplinary in scope, providing a standardised, descriptive,
hyperlinked record produced, edited, and updated electronically with the
support of state-of-the-art software and classification tools developed and
maintained specifically for scientific and technical grey literature. The
partners in this new and unique venture, as well as their roles and
responsibilities constitute the remainder of this proposal." To access the
full-text:  http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet/GL-Compendium.htm

At GL'99, the Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature scheduled
on 4-5 October 1999 in Washington D.C., GreyNet will provide a Product and
Service Review covering the GL-Compendium Project. Dates will be targeted
for distribution & retrieval of this Netbased Directory of Grey Literature
Collections. See, http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet/GL'99.htm

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GL-COMPENDIUM AND GL'99 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.1.
Fr: Almulla M. <almulla@sci.kuniv.edu.kw>
Re: ICCI2000: CFPapers

The Tenth International Conference on Computing and Information
ICCI '2000, Kuwait, November 18-21, 2000

Home Page: http://mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~icci2000
North America Mirror Site: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icci-00/

organized and sponsored by
Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Keynote Speaker (*): Tim Berners-Lee, the Father of the World Wide Web

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

ICCI '2000 will provide an international forum for researchers and
practitioners to present new results in research, development, and
applications in computing and information. Since 1989, ICCI conferences
have attracted participants from over 40 different countries. ICCI '2000
will consist of four streams ranging from theoretical computer science to
applied software systems. It will provide a unique opportunity for
cross-fertilization and interdisciplinary information exchange.

     Stream A: Theory. Data Theory and Logic. Information and Coding
     Theory. Algorithms. Theory of Computation.  
     Chair: Monty Newborn, newborn@opus.cs.mcgill.ca

     Stream B: Distribution and Parallelism. Distributed Computing and
     Communications. Concurrency and Parallelism.  
     Chair: Albert Zomaya, zomaya@ee.uwa.edu.au

     Stream C: Systems and Development. Database Systems. Software
     Engineering and CASE Methodologies. Expert Systems.
     Chair: Hans Loeper, Loeper@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw

     Stream D: Data and Knowledge Engineering. AI Methodologies.  User
     Interfaces.  Data Mining.  Approximate Reasoning.
     Chair: Susan Craw, smc@scms.rgu.ac.uk

     Stream E: Networking and Internet. Information Exploration on the
     World Wide Web. Mobile Computing. 
     Chair: Richard Lai, lai@cs.latrobe.edu.au

Papers for any of the above streams are welcome. All submitted papers will
be reviewed on the basis of technical correctness, quality, relevance,
originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers are expected to be
published in the conference proceedings by an international publisher. A
selected number of ICCI 2000 accepted papers will be expanded and revised
for possible inclusion in the "Journal of Computing and Information" and
"Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by
Springer-Verlag.

Proposals for tutorials, workshops and panel sessions are also invited. All
paper submissions (by e-mail or in hardcopy) and proposals for  panels,
workshops and tutorials should be sent to the Program Committee Chair at
the following address.

     Xindong Wu (xwu@kais.mines.edu) 
     Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences 
     Colorado School of Mines 
     1500 Illinois Street 
     Golden, Colorado 80401, USA 
     Phone: +1-303-273-3874 
     Fax: +1-303-273-3875 

Please reply to this email with your name and email now to receive more
information in due time.

Important Dates

January 15, 2000           Proposals for panels, tutorials and workshops
March 1, 2000              Paper submissions
May 1, 2000                Acceptance notices
July 1, 2000               Final camera-readies
November 18-21, 2000       Conference

Organization

     General Chair: Waldemar W. Koczkodaj, 
     Laurentian University, Canada.  
     E-mail: icci@nickel.laurentian.ca; 
     URL: http://www.cs.laurentian.ca/faculty/wkoczkodaj.html

     Organizing Committee Chair: Mohammed Almulla, 
     Kuwait University, Kuwait.  
     E-mail: almulla@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw;
     URL: http://www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~almulla/

     Program Committee Chair: Xindong Wu, 
     Colorado School of Mines, USA.
     E-mail: xwu@kais.mines.edu; 
     URL: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/

General inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee Chair at

     Mohammed Almulla 
     Department of Mathematics and Computer Science 
     Kuwait University 
     P.O.Box 5969 
     Safat, 13060, Kuwait 
     Telephone: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 5303 or 5624 
     Fax: (965) 481-7201 
     E-mail: almulla@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw

(*) pending confirmation

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III.B.2.
Fr: Richard Evans <in6087@wlv.ac.uk>
Re: "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 Session: 2nd CFPapers

'Corpora and NLP' Extended submission deadline 20 October 1999*

"Corpora and NLP"
ACIDCA'2000 session
Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000

Under the auspices of ELRA

Organised by:
University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)
Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)

Sponsored by:
IEEE SMC
co-sponsored by:
TSS

Supported by:
Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific
Research and Technology (SERST)

General
The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in a
number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for the
design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications but also
for their evaluation.

"Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part of
the International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence
for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and Industrial Systems
(ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000, visit
http://www.chez.com/acidca2000). The session "Corpora and NLP" will be in
fact a workshop with its own Proceedings and Programme Committee.

The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken
corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP.

Main Topics
We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following topics:
* Lexicography
* Lexical knowledge acquisition
* Part of Speech Tagging
* Unknown word guessing
* Term recognition
* Morphological Analysis
* Robust Parsing
* Word Sense Disambiguation
* Anaphora Resolution
* Discourse segmentation
* Machine Translation
* Agreement Error Correction
* Spelling and Grammar Correction
* Information Extraction
* Automatic Abstracting
* Text Categorisation
* Speech processing
* Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications
* Corpus annotation
* Evaluation

Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus processing
techniques are welcome.

Honorary Chairs
Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific and
Technological Research
Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT)-Tunisia
Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley

General Chairs
Adel Alimi,
National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)
Lamia Belguith Hadrich,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Submission Guidelines
Authors are requested to submit full-length papers that should be written
in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures, tables and
references. The first page of the papers should feature title, author's
name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract.

Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following address:
ACIDCA'2000 (Corpora & NLP Session)
Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe,
BP 120, 3049 Sfax
Tunisia

In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of
keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk and copied
to l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn

The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme Committee.

Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the
camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.

Schedule
Paper Submission Due:        20 October 1999 **extended deadline**
Notification of Acceptance:  10 December 1999
Camera-ready Paper Due:      10 January 1999
"Corpora and NLP" Session:   22-24 March 2000

Further information
Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants to
attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as the
exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call for
Papers.

There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials will
be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are finalised.

ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories: Best Paper,
Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper. The social programme will be
announced in the second call for papers.

The web site of the session is:
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/NLP_Session.html

If you have any further queries, please contact:
Lamia Belguith
e-mail: l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn
Fax: (216) 4 296 229

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III.B.3.
Fr: Alessandro Zanasi <zanasia@it.ibm.com>
Re: DM: Second International Conference on DATA MINING 2000: CFPapers

CALL FOR PAPERS  - DATA MINING 2000
Second International Conference on DATA MINING
5 - 7 July 2000
Cambridge University, UK

Organised by Wessex Institute of Technology, Southampton, UK

http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2000/data2000/

CONFERENCE DIRECTORS
N Ebecken - COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
C A Brebbia - Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
A Weigend - New York University, USA

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
M Costantino - London, UK
M Mattoso - COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
L Sucharov - Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
M Quafafou - Inst de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes, France
R Tsaih - National Chengchi University, Taiwan
B Wuthrich - University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
A Zanasi - IBM Italy S.p.A., Italy
N Zhong - Yamaguchi University, Japan
H G Zimmermann - Siemens AG, Germany

OBJECTIVES
Data mining is a promising and relatively new area of current research and
development that can provide important advantages to the users. It can
yield substantial knowledge from data primarily gathered for a wide range
of quite different applications. Financial institutions have derived
considerable benefits from its application and other industries and
disciplines are now applying the methodology to increasing effect.

The second International Conference on Data Mining will provide an
international forum for the sharing of original research results and
practical development experiences among researchers and applications
developers from different areas such as computer experts, statisticians,
knowledge acquisition specialists, data analysts, IT consultants, data
visualisation experts, and users and developers in business and industry.

The Conference aims to bring together the participants from academic and
research, industry and government organisations. The meeting will allow
participants to learn about the many different applications of data mining
and how the techniques can help in their own field.

LOCATION AND DATES
The Conference will be held from 5 - 7 July 2000.

New Hall, with its established gardens and many old trees, provides a
tranquil setting with easy access from the motorway and ample parking - yet
is only ten minutes walk from the heart of Cambridge. It is an
international and cosmopolitan college which enjoys new links with Japan
through the presence within its grounds of the Kaetsu Educational and
Cultural Centre.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of the conference will be published to a high standard by
WIT Press and will be available to delegates at the Conference. The
Proceedings will also be distributed worldwide through the international
book trade.

MINI-DISPLAY FACILITIES
Mini exhibition facilities will be available for those firms or
organisations wishing to display products, services, hardware software,
literature relating to the theme of the conference. Please contact the
 Conference Secretariat for details.

TIME SCHEDULE
Return Reply Form: As soon as possible
Submit Abstract: As soon as possible
Submit Final Manuscript: 7 March 2000

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited on the topics outlined and others falling within the
scope of the Meeting Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be
submitted by mail, fax or Email as soon as possible and no later than 23
November 1999. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and
conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. The final
acceptance will be based on the fulllength paper. The author must attend
the conference to present the paper, if accepted. Each submitted paper is
subject to a separate registration.

TOPICS
Applications of Data Mining in Science,
Engineering, Business, Industry, Medicine
Data Warehousing and Databases
Internet Applications
Fraud Detection and Prevention
Data Mining as a Tool for Marketing and Sales
Support
Managing Data Mining Projects
Data Mining Software
Data Discovery
Data Mining Methodologies
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Multi-database Mining
Machine Learning Methods
Neural Networks and Decision Trees
Genetic Algorithms in Data Mining
Parallel and Distributed Techniques
Market Basket Analysis
Visualisation in Data Mining
Statistically Based Tools
Clustering and Classification Techniques
Tools for Pattern Discovery
Prediction of Future Trends with Historical Data
Case Studies

Conference Secretariat  - DATA MINING 2000
Wessex Institute of Technology
Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst
Southampton, SO40 7AA
Telephone: 44 (0) 23 80 293223
Fax: 44 (0) 23 80 292853
Email: wit@wessex.ac.uk

Alessandro ZANASI
Market Intelligence
IBM Global Services, South Region
Tel.:+39-0514136726 (with answering machine)/+39-337285470 (mobile)
Fax:+39-051406052

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III.B.4.
Fr: Joaquim Filipe <jfilipe@est.ips.pt>
Re: ICEIS 2000: CFPapers

2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
(ICEIS 2000)
Stafford UK
4-7 July 2000
http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis/

IMPORTANT:
   All accepted papers published in proceedings with ISBN (paper+cdrom)
   Selected papers will be published in a book by a leading publisher.
   Submission deadline: 31st January 2000
   Main Topic Areas:
       1. ENTERPRISE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
       2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
       3. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION
       4. INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

This international conference is organised by the School of Computing at
Staffordshire University, UK and the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of the
Instituto Politecnico, Setubal, Portugal.

SCOPE
The purpose of this 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information
Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and
practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of
information systems. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering
different aspects of Enterprise Computing, including Enterprise Database
Applications, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Decision Support
Systems, Systems Analysis and Specification, and Internet  and Electronic
Commerce.

ICEIS focuses on real world applications therefore authors should highlight
the benefits of Information Technology for industry and services. Ideas on
how to solve business problems, using IT, will arise from the conference.
Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and
general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged.
Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed
below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors,
will be published in the Proceedings of ICEIS. Acceptance will be based on
quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster
sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations,
as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics,
are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their
products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are
invited to contact the conference secretariat.

We are building on the success achieved by ICEIS'99 with more than 350
delegates, 8 VIPs and a book published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (in
press). Please check http://www.est.ips.pt/iceis where you will find more
information concerning ICEIS'99.

TOPIC AREAS / CONFERENCE TRACKS
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the list is not exhaustive.
Papers should address one or more of the listed topics, although authors
should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also
acceptable.

 1. ENTERPRISE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
 3. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION
 4. INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

Distinguished invited speakers who already confirmed their participation as
keynote speakers:
- Prof. John Mylopoulos (Canada)
- Prof. Ronald Stamper (Netherlands)
- Prof. Colin Theaker (UK)

AREA 1: Enterprise Database Technology and its Applications
(a) Object-Oriented Database Systems
(b) Object-Oriented Database Systems
(c) Database Management
(d) Distributed Database Applications
(e) Performance Analysis
(f) Enterprise-Wide Client-Server Architecture
(g) Database Security and Transaction Support
(h) Internet-enabled Databases
(i) Query Processing and Optimisation
(j) Graphical User Interfaces
(k) Data Warehouses
(l) Statistical Applications and Data Mining
(m) Information Classification
(n) Multimedia Database Applications

AREA 2: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
(a) Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
(b) Expert Systems
(c) Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic
(d) Applications of Neural Networks, Neural Networks or Genetic
    Algorithms
(e) Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems
(f) Intelligent User Interfaces
(g) Applications of Pattern Recognition to Robotics and Vision Systems
(h) Bayesian Networks
(i) Decision Support Systems in E-Commerce
(j) Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages
(k) Agent-Oriented Programming
(l) Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence
    Applications
(m) Testbeds and Development Environments
(n) Intelligent Tutoring Systems

AREA 3: Systems Analysis and Specification
(a) Systems Engineering Methodologies
(b) Information Engineering Methodologies
(c) Semiotics in Computing
(d) Requirements Analysis
(e) Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations
(f) CASE Tools for System Development
(g) Modelling of Distributed Systems
(h) Systems Integration: Modelling Concepts and Information Integration
    Tools
(i) Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
(j) Legacy Systems Integration
(k) Re-engineering

AREA 4: Internet and Electronic Commerce
(a) Languages and Protocols
(b) Internet/ Intranet Distributed Computing
(c) CASE Tools for Internet Computing Systems
(d) Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications
(e) Network Implementation Choices (e.g.. SGML/SML)
(f) Internet/Intranet Based Systems for Business Processes and E-
    Commerce
(g) Object Orientation In Internet and Distributed Computing
(h) Internet and Collaborative Computing
(i) Software Agents: Agent-Based Modelling and Agent-Based Programming
(j) Agent-Based Systems for Business Applications and E-Commerce
(k) Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce
(l) Security, Privacy, Freedom of Information And Other Social and
    Ethical Issues

The papers will be reviewed by the International Programme Committee.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors should submit a paper in English of up to 5,000 words, both by
e-mail (attached file in an accepted format - see below) and surface mail
(2 printed copies) to the conference secretariat (see address below).
Papers received after the deadline may be returned unopened. The programme
committee will review all papers and the first author of each paper will be
notified of acceptance, by email. Each paper should clearly indicate the
nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains
or environments to which it is applicable. Authors must also indicate the
topic area to which the paper is submitted.

Due to space limitations in the Proceedings, the maximum number of pages
for each paper is limited to 5 (five). If absolutely needed, it is possible
to increase the total number of pages up to 8 pages. However, for each page
in excess of 5 the authors must pay an additional fee of £50 for each
excess page.

Format of the paper:
Submitted papers should be formatted for A4 size paper, and must be written
in English, and carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Papers
should be submitted in a 2-column format; each column should be 7.5cm wide,
with a space of 0.8cm between the columns. The text should be in Times New
Roman, 11pt, justified and single spaced. There should be no
headers/footers and no page numbers. Margins requirements are as follows:
Top: 3.3 cm; Bottom: 4.2cm; Left 2.6cm; Right: 2.6cm.

The title, author, affiliation(s), contact details, abstract and list of
keywords should be justified and single spaced in a single column across
the width of the printable area.

The paper should include:
(a) The title: 14 pt bold type, centered over two columns, and in upper case.
(b) Authors and affiliations (incl. full address and e-mail)  should all be
11 pt, centered, under the title. Authors (bold) and affiliation/contact
details (italic) should be centered.  For multiple authors use a
superscript to indicate affiliation/contact details.
(c) Abstract:  maximum 200 words, 11pt.
(d) Keywords: maximum of five, under abstract, separated by commas.
(e) Headings should be numbered and in mixed case 12 pt. bold text.
Generally two, and at most three levels of numbered headings should be used.
(f) Figures should be numbered sequentially, with a 10 pt. caption centered
immediately below. Figures should be placed in the main text, as close as
possible to their first reference, and centered in a column or across the
page if necessary.
(g) Bibliographical references should be listed alphabetically at the end
of the paper, before any appendices. Use 11 pt. single spaced text.
References within the text, should be in the Harvard referencing style.
Examples are given below:
White, R., 1988. Advertising: what it is and how to do it. 2nd ed. London:
McGraw Hill. Greco, A.J. and Swayne, L.D., 1992. Sales response of elderly
customers to point-of-purchase advertising. Journal of Advertising
Research, 32 (5), 43-63.

Silver, K., 1989. Electronic mail: the new way to communicate. In: D.I.
Raitt, ed. 9th international online information meeting, London 3-5
December 1988. Oxford: Learned Information, 323-330.

For email submission, the only accepted formats are RTF, Postscript or PDF.

Multiple submission:
If a paper has been submitted to other conferences it may also be submitted
to ICEIS as long as (1) it is not published or presented at other
conferences, (2) the author clearly indicates on the paper the other places
where it has been submitted, and (3) the author notifies the programme
chair if he/she submits the paper to other conferences during the ICEIS
review process.

SUBMISSION OF TECHNICAL TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS OR EXHIBITS
Any person interested in organising a tutorial, workshop, or exhibition
should submit a proposal to the secretariat by e-mail
(iceis-secretariat@staffs.ac.uk). These will be held on 3rd July 2000.
Proposals should specify the topic and scope of the tutorial, the
background knowledge expected of the participants, and a resumé of the
instructor(s). Companies interested in presenting their products, showing
documentation about them or demonstrating some application, are invited to
contact the secretariat and make a reservation for a booth at the
conference site.

PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION
All accepted papers whose authors confirm participation at the conference
will be published in the ICEIS 2000 proceedings. A number of papers will be
selected for publication in book format.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Paper Submissions - 31st January 2000
Author Notification - 30th March 2000
Final Submissions - 30th April 2000

SECRETARIAT
ICEIS 2000 Secretariat
Staffordshire University
School of Computing
Beaconside, Stafford ST18 0AD, UK

Fax: +44 1785 353561
E-mail: iceis-secretariat@staffs.ac.uk
Web: http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis/

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IV. PROJECTS

IV.C.1.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org>
Re: Pew Grant Award Announcement

Congratulations to the first recipients of the Pew Grant Program in Course
Redesign.  This message from Carol Twigg provides information on the
institutions selected.  Descriptions of the projects and information on
applying for the next rounds of grants are available on the projects
website (URL listed below).

The Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign is pleased to announce the first
of three rounds of grant awards.  The purpose of this institutional grant
program is to encourage colleges and universities  to redesign their
instructional approaches using technology to achieve cost savings as well
as quality enhancements.  Redesign projects will  focus on
large-enrollment, introductory courses, which have the  potential of
impacting significant student numbers and generating  substantial cost
savings. 

The institutions that have received a $200,000 grant include:

-- Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
-- Penn State University
-- Rio Salado College (Maricopa Community College District)
-- State University of New York at Buffalo
-- University of Central Florida
-- University of Colorado-Boulder
-- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-- University of Southern Maine
-- University of Wisconsin-Madison
-- Virginia Tech

Full descriptions of each project will be available on the program's Web
site by the end of the month. For more information about how to apply for a
grant in rounds 2 and 3, please see the program Web site
<http://www.center.rpi.edu/>.

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