IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.36, Issue 472

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
September 27, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 36
Issue 472

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III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. JASIS 50:13: TOC
        2. Information Agents - Theory & Applications: Journal CFPapers
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. EDUCAUSE PKI White Paper

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Re: JASIS 50:13: TOC

Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS. VOLUME 50, NUMBER 13
November 1999

[Note: at the bottom of this message are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS
from past issues. Below the contents of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" as
well as material from Zorana Ercegovac's introduction to the special
section has been added to the Table of Contents.]

EDITORIAL

In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
1163

Special Topic Issue: Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards
Guest Editor: Zorana Ercegovac
Introduction
Zorana Ercegovac
1165

Conceptual Design and Deployment of a Metadata Framework for Educational
Resources on the Internet
Stuart A. Sutton
1182

Metadata Elements for Object Description and Representation: A Case Report
from a Digitized Historical Fashion Collection Project
Marcia Lei Zeng
1193

A Comparison of the Two Traditions of Metadata Development
Kathleen Burnett, Kwong Bor Ng, and Soyeon Park
1209

Use of Metadata Vocabularies in Data Retrieval
Edwin M. Cortez
1218

Research

The Ecological Approach to Text Visualization
James A. Wise
1224

A Hybrid Method for Abstracting Newspaper Articles
James Liu, Yan Wu, and Lina Zhou
1234

Formal Features of Cyberspace: Relationships between Web Page Complexity
and Site Traffic
Erik P. Bucy, Annie Lang, Robert F. Potter, and Maria Elizabeth Grabe
1246

Book Reviews
Understanding Information Retrieval Interactions: Theoretical and Practical
Implications, by Carol A. Hert
Sue Myburgh
1257

Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age, by Kathleen
L. Spitzer with Michael B. Eisenberg and Carrie A. Lowe
Cheryl Knott Malone
1257

Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The Flow of
Ideas Within and Among Disciplines, by Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk
Jack Andersen
1259

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 and to preprints. We are still
working on restoring access for ASIS members as "registered users."

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III.A.2.
Fr: Matthias Klusch <klusch@dfki.de>
Re: Information Agents - Theory & Applications: Journal CFPapers

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Double Issue of the International Journal on
Cooperative Information Systems
INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS:
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/JCISspecial.html

Guest Editor:
Matthias Klusch
Deduction and Multi-Agent Systems Lab
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Ltd., Germany

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 double 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
adapt 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

OR

Mail (5 Hard Copies) to

Matthias Klusch
DFKI GmbH
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.C.1.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Re: EDUCAUSE PKI White Paper

EDUCAUSE has released a white paper resulting from the August EDUCAUSE/NSF
summit meeting on public key infrastructure for higher education. A PDF
version may be downloaded from:

http://www.educause.edu/netatedu

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