III.B.1.
Fr: David Carmel <carmel@il.ibm.com>
Re: CoopIS'2000: CFPapers
Call for Papers - CoopIS'2000
Fifth IFCIS International Conference on
Cooperative Information Systems
In Cooperation with VLDB'2000
Neptune Hotel
Eilat, Israel, September 6-8, 2000
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/coopis2000.html
CoopIS is the leading conference for system cooperation. Cooperation
among systems has gained substantial importance in recent years:
electronic commerce, virtual enterprises, and the middleware paradigm are
just some examples of this area. Several levels of cooperation are
present:
* The subject matter is the foundation and implementation of cooperation
among systems.
* The CoopIS area is a meeting of disciplines which provide concepts and
techniques. The relevant disciplines are: collaborative work, distributed
databases, distributed computing, electronic commerce, human-computer
interaction, multi-agent systems, information retrieval, and workflow
systems.
* The CoopIS series provides a forum for well-known researchers, that are
drawn from the stature and the tradition of these conference series, and
has a leading role in shaping the future of the cooperative information
systems area. Opportunities for informal meetings between the conference
delegates will be enhanced with a series of social events, including
pre-conference exploration of Eilat, in-conference tour of the
surrounding desert, and post-conference excursion that will enable easy
connection for those continuing to VLDB'2000 in Cairo.
CoopIS'2000 is the seventh conference in the series and the fifth
conference organized by the International Foundation on Cooperative
Information Systems (IFCIS). It is sponsored by the International
Foundation in Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS), and the IBM
Research Laboratory in Haifa (other sponsors pending). It replaces the
erstwhile international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase
Systems (IMS) and the conference series on Cooperative Information
Systems (CoopIS & ICICIS).
The conference will be held in Eilat, A resort town and bustling port,
combining sea and desert, Eilat lies at Israel's southernmost tip. Sixty
minutes by plane from Tel-Aviv, Eilat is situated between the wondrous
scenery of the deep azure Red Sea and the multitude Edom Mountains and is
a paradise for sea-sports fans.
Important dates:
Submission Intention Notice
Deadline
March 13, 2000
Paper Submission
Deadline
March 27, 2000
Acceptance
Notification
May 29, 2000
Final Version
Due
June 26, 2000
Early registration
deadline
July 31, 2000
The
Conference
September 6-8, 2000
Who should submit papers ?
Papers are solicited in two categories: regular research papers and
industrial experience papers. The category should be clearly identified.
Regular research papers should contain original research concepts and
results in one or more technologies relevant to cooperative information
systems. Industrial experience papers should describe technical or key
business issues and lessons learned in developing, applying, and
deploying relevant technologies, highlighting aspects of cooperation and
interoperation. Submitted papers should not be longer than 5000 words.
Submissions should be unpublished and should not be under consideration
by another conference or journal. A few papers will be selected for
publication, after appropriate expansion and review, in the International
Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. One of the main themes will
be information services in the 21st century, and we particularly welcome
papers related to this theme. We also encourage the submission of all
topics related to cooperative information systems, including (but not
limited to) the following:
* Agent Technology
* Business Intelligence Frameworks
* Business Process Modeling
* Communication infrastructure for collaboration
* Computer-supported Cooperative work
* Cooperative Information System Architectures
* Cooperative Information System foundations
* Cooperative Transactions
* Cooperative Transactions
* Digital Libraries
* Distributed Problem Solving
* Distributed GIS
* Distributed Multimedia Systems
* Distributed Object Management
* Distributed Warehousing and mining
* Electronic Commerce
* Enterprise Knowledge management
* Event Based Systems
* Engineering Distributed systems
* Federated and Multi-database systems
* Human-Computer Interaction for cooperation
* Information Filtering
* Information Resource Discovery
* Information Retrieval
* Information, Data and knowledge Modeling
* Integration and Interoperability
* Legacy Data Access and Management
* Mediators, Wrappers
* Middleware Technology
* Meta-data and Repositories
* Multi-agent Systems
* Mobile Computing for Cooperation
* Organizational Aspects of Cooperative
* Semantic Interoperability Systems (including virtual organizations)
* Web-based Information Systems
* Web-based Services
* Workflow Systems
Papers Submission
Papers will be submitted in an electronic fashion (Postscript or PDF
files) to both program chairs. A pre-submission intention notice to both
program chairs with the paper's authors, title, and classification is
requested.
The CoopIS'2000 team:
General Chairs
Avigdor Gal
Michele Missikoff
Rutgers University, USA IASI-CNR,
Italy
E-mail: avigal@rci.rutgers.edu E-mail:
missikoff@iasi.rm.cnr.it
Program Chairs
Opher Etzion
Peter Scheuermann
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Northwestern
University, USA
Israel
E-mail: opher@il.ibm.com E-mail:
peters@ece.nwu.edu
Publicity and Proceedings Chair
David Carmel
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel
E-mail: carmel@il.ibm.com
Organization Chairs
David Botzer
Tova Berger
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, IBM Research
Laboratory in Haifa,
Israel Israel
E-mail: botzer@il.ibm.com E-mail:
tova@il.ibm.com
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III.B.2.
Fr: Roger Harris <rwsh@dircon.co.uk>
Re: MT 2000: Conference and CFPapers
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS
MT 2000
MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS
IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Exeter, United Kingdom
20-22 November 2000
The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group,
part of the British Computer Society
URL:
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm
The conference will take the form of invited keynote speakers plus
individual papers. Papers will be refereed by a programme committee. All
papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of
proceedings at the conference.
Selected papers will be published in book form soon after the conference.
There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity for poster
sessions.
Details of the time-table for submissions/reviewing, length and format of
papers, the membership of the programme committee, and of the cost will
be announced shortly and will be posted on our web-site at
III.B.6.
Fr: Mounia Lalmas <mounia@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Re: Searching for Information: Artificial Intelligence
and Information Retrieval Approaches
Searching for Information:
Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval Approaches
11-12 November 1999
IEE Scottish Engineering Centre
Glasgow, Scotland
Introduction
The amount of information available is currently growing at an incredible
rate - the growth of the Internet being a prime example. To fully exploit
this information, whether for business or leisure purposes, you need
techniques and tools that allow fast, effective and efficient access in
order to filter through the vast amounts of stored information.
The fields of information retrieval (IR) and, more recently, artificial
intelligence (AI) have been looking at this problem. The IR field has
developed successful methods to deal effectively with huge amounts of
information, whereas the AI field has developed methods to learn the
user's information needs, extract information from text, and represent
the semantics of information. All too often, however, both fields have
suffered from a lack of integration. Quite simply, each community is
often unaware of each others work.
Aims
This event will, for the first time, attempt to bridge the gap between
the fields of AI and IR. Over two days this Seminar will bring, from
academia and industry, some of the leading pioneers in both fields, (see
programme below), to provide a forum for sharing and combining
techniques, with the ultimate aim of improving the search process.
The event will include results of both theoretical and applied
experiments in using IR and AI techniques to seek information.
Participants will benefit from learning about the latest developments
across a broad range of activities.
Who Should Attend?
The event will not only be of interest to academics and post-graduate
students working in the field but also those involved in industrial and
commercial research. In addition - and just as importantly - the event
will be of direct relevance to people who are the end-users of search
systems.
Posters
To truly make this an interactive event, posters will be presented
describing late-breaking results, work in progress, or work that is best
presented interactively or graphically.
Programme
Thursday, 11 November
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.45 Opening and introduction
11.00 The issues of representations in AI, IR and NLP. Yorick Wilks
(University of Sheffield, UK)
11.45 Applying AI to the web. Dieter Fensel (University of
Karlsruhe,
Germany)
12.30 Lunch and poster session
14.00 How smart are current image retrieval techniques? John P
Eakins
(University of Northumbria at Newcastle,
UK)
14.45 A picture representing triumph or similar: classification
based
navigation and retrieval for picture
archives. Carole Goble
(University of Manchester, UK)
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Intelligent information retrieval agents. Theo Huibers (DOXiS,
The
Netherlands)
16.45 Personalised information objects. Marc Moens (Language
Technology
Group, UK)
17.30 CLOSE
Friday, 12 November
9.15 Opening and introduction
9.30 IR lessons for AI. Karen Sparck-Jones (University of Cambridge, UK)
10.15 Coffee
10.45 Reinforcement learning for information seeking. Susan Craw
(The
Robert Gordon University, UK)
11.30 Learning by examples as relevance feedback, and relevance
feedback
as learning by examples. Gianni Amati
(University of Glasgow, UK)
12.15 Lunch and poster session
13.30 Quantum logic: a new paradigm for IR. Keith van Rijsbergen
(University of Glasgow, UK)
14.15 Probabilistic retrieval: thresholding for automatic
filtering.
Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research Ltd,
UK)
15.00 Coffee
15.30 To be advised. Yves Chiaramella (Laboratoire CLIPS- IMAG, France)
16.15 Discussion
17.30 CLOSE
To receive a registration form for the event please contact the IEE
Events Office,Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL, tel: +44 (0)20 7344
5732/5733, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3633 or email: events@iee.org.uk.
Accommodation
For anyone requiring hotel accommodation, the IEE recommends that you
contact the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley Tourist Board for
information on +44 (0)141 221 0049.
Organisers
The Seminar has been organised by Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary &
Westfield
College), Alison Cawsey (Heriot-Watt University) and Keith van Rijsbergen
(University of Glasgow) - all members of IEE Informatics Professional
Group A4
(Artificial intelligence) - in association with the British Computer
Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group.
Web page: