IRList Digest Saturday, 7 January 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 4 Today's Topics: Address - Giorgio Brajnik Interest - Natural language processing and IR Call for Papers - INTERFACES: systems and people working together - 4th Int'l Symposium on Computer and Inf. Sciences Announcement - Electronic Publishing '90 News addresses are Internet: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtcc1.bitnet (replaces foxea@vtvax3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: FRI, 23-DEC-88 10:34 N From: Subject: change of email address Please note that my email address changes from: brajnik%uduniv.infnet@iboinfn.bitnet to: brajnik%uduniv.infn.it@icineca2.bitnet Giorgio Brajnik Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Universita' di Udine Via Zanon, 6 I-33100 UDINE - ITALY ph: (432) 29.57.16 fax: (432) 29.08.82 email: BRAJNIK%UDUNIV.INFN.IT@ICINECA2.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Dec 88 09:00:27 PST From: sundheim@trout.nosc.mil (Beth M. Sundheim) Subject: interest in natural language processing and IR .. I'm working in the area of natural language processing and would like to become more familiar with the work in IR. Thank you, Beth Sundheim sundheim@nosc.mil ------------------------------ Subject: Call for Papers Date: Mon, 12 Dec 88 17:35:57 -0500 From: mitchell%community-chest.mitre.org@gateway.mitre.org ***** CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION ***** 28th Annual Technical Symposium of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the ACM INTERFACES: Systems and People Working Together National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland - August 24, 1989 No computer is an island. Increasingly, systems are being tied together to improve their value to the organizations they serve. This symposium will explore the theoretical and practical issues in interfacing systems and in enabling people to use them effectively. *** SOME TOPICS OF INTEREST FOR SUBMITTED PAPERS *** * HUMAN FACTORS * User interfaces Meeting the needs of handicapped users Conquering complexity Designing systems for people Intelligent assistants The human dimension of information interchange * SYSTEMS INTEGRATION * Communications networks Distributed databases Data standardization System fault tolerance Communications standards (e.g. GOSIP) * STRATEGIC SYSTEMS * Decision support systems Embedding expert systems in information systems Strategic info systems Computer Aided Logistics Support (CALS) * SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION * Quality control and testing Designing a system of systems System management Conversion and implementation strategies Software tools and CASE Identifying requirements thru prototyping * ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR APPLICATIONS PORTABILITY * Ada Database management Open software Open protocol technology Operating systems (e.g., POSIX) ==> DON'T BE LIMITED BY OUR SUGGESTIONS - MAKE YOUR OWN! Both experienced and first-time authors are encouraged to present their work. Papers will be refereed. A length of 10 to 20 double-spaced pages is suggested. Those presenting a paper are entitled to register for the symposium at the early advance registration rate. To propose special sessions or noncommercial demonstrations, please send three copies of an extended abstract to the Program Chairman at the address below. Note: A paper must include the name, mailing address, and telephone number of each author or other presenter. Authors of accepted papers must transfer copyright to ACM for material published in the Proceedings (excepting papers that cannot be copyrighted under Government regulations). The ACM policy on prior publication was revised in 1987. A complete statement of the policy appears in the November 1987 issue of Communications of the ACM. In part it states that "republication of a paper, possibly revised, that has been disseminated via a proceedings or newsletter is permitted if the editor of the journal to which it has been submitted judges that there is significant additional benefit to be gained from republication." *** SCHEDULE *** March 2, 1989 Please send five copies of your paper to the Program Chairman: Dr. Milton S. Hess American Management Systems, Inc. 1525 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22209 April 13, 1989 Acceptance notification June 22, 1989 Final camera ready papers are due August 24, 1989 Presentation at the symposium If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact: Symposium General Chairman: Charles E. Youman, The MITRE Corporation, (703) 883-6349 (voice), (703) 883-6308 (FAX), or youman@mitre.org (internet). Program Chairman: Dr. Milton Hess, American Management Systems, Inc., (703) 841-5942 (voice) or (703) 841-7045 (FAX). NIST Liaison: Ms. Elizabeth Lennon, National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards), (301) 975-2832 (voice) or (301) 948-1784 (FAX). ------------------------------ DATE: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 15:00:29 GMT FROM: A05133@TRMETU.BITNET SUBJECT: CALL FOR PAPERS PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES (I S C I S IV) October 30 to November 1, 1989 Cesme, Izmir, Turkey Organizing Committee B.Epir (Chair, Ankara), E. Basar (Izmir), S. Erdogan (San Diego), E. Gelenbe (Conference Chair, Paris), F.P. Genc (Ankara), H. Guran (Ankara), A.R. Kaylan (Istanbul), O. Manas (Izmir), A. Saatci (Ankara), G. Stamon (Paris), O. Tosun (Istanbul), N. Yucel (Istanbul) Programme Committee A. Dogac (Chair, Ankara), E. Arkun (Ankara), O. Babaoglu (Bologna), S. Bilgen (Ankara), U.Caglayan (Istanbul), J.L. Delhaye (Montpellier), J.M. Fourneau (Orsay), E. Gelenbe (Paris), M. Nivat (paris), E. Orhun (Izmir), E. Ozkarahan (Erie, Penn.), J.F. Perrot (Paris), G. Serazzi (Milano) Sponsored by the Middle East Technical University (ODTU, Ankara) Departments of Computer Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering, TAEAGE - TUBITAK Topics (Istanbul) Programme Committee A. Dogac (Chair, Ankara), E. Arkun (Ankara), O. Babaoglu (Bologna), S. Bilgen (Ankara), U.Caglayan (Istanbul), J.L. Delhaye (Montpellier), J.M. Fourneau (Orsay), E. Gelenbe (Paris), M. Nivat (paris), E. Orhun Computer architectures, systems and networks, databases, modelling and performance evaluation, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, software engineering, neural networks and adaptive systems, parallel processing and concurrency, supercomputers, computer aided instruction and intelligent tutoring systems, CAD/CAM and robotics, flexible manufacturing systems, image processing and pattern recognition Paper Submission Full papers (research, development or survey), limited to 10 pages, should be submitted before April 25, 1989 to Dr. Asuman Dogac Computer Engineering Department Middle East Technical University 06531 Ankara, Turkey Please return the following form THROUGH ORDINARY MAIL. NAME: ADDRESS: Please keep me informed about ISCIS IV ( ) I plan to submit a paper ( ) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Dec 88 23:43:42 EST From: Richard Furuta Message-Id: <8812110443.AA16195@mimsy.umd.edu> To: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu Subject: Preliminary Announcement/Electronic Publishing '90 Status: RO Preliminary Conference Announcement EP90---Electronic Publishing '90 EP90, an international conference on electronic publishing, document manipulation, and typography, will be held in mid-September, 1990, in the Washington, DC area on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards). An associated exhibition will provide an opportunity for participants to see commercial and research systems in action. EP90, ``Electronic Publishing '90,'' will be the third in a series of international conferences established to bring together researchers in all areas of electronic publishing systems. The conferences are viewed as a series, but each has been sponsored by a separate national organization. EP86, held in Nottingham, England, was sponsored by the British Computer Society. EP88, held in Nice, France, was sponsored by INRIA, the French national research organization. Although the conference series is relatively new, the results presented at the earlier sessions have already been influential in setting the tone and standards for quality in research in the area. The results have received wide dissemination---the proceedings from EP86 and EP88 have been published by Cambridge University Press, and we also plan to publish the proceedings from EP90 in book form. As with its predecessors, EP90 will adopt a broad definition of ``electronic publishing.'' In short, electronic publishing will be taken to encompass all aspects of computer-assisted preparation, presentation, transmittal, storage, and retrieval of documents. The scope of the conference also includes the design of the related computer systems, the design of their components, and the theory that underlies such systems. Both linear and non-linear documents are appropriate subjects for discussion. The conference definitely will be oriented to new ideas and techniques, although careful presentation of important earlier results inadequately described in the open literature is also appropriate. Papers should present previously unpublished original research results and should be well-grounded in experience. A partial list of topics includes: - Document preparation systems: design, concepts, and experience. - Document component identification and manipulation. - Hypertext systems, particularly those that provide additional insights on the characteristics of these systems. - Font design and use: design and evaluation of computer-based tools, techniques and goals, visual issues. - Representations specialized for electronic display: fonts, presentations, etc. - Page description languages. - Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of document preparation systems. - Critical analyses of proposed and established international standards. Experience with standards. - Managing the complexities introduced by scale. Scaling up to large documents. - Hardware-environment issues: Printers, displays, networks, workstations. - Distributed document manipulation systems (in the sense of distributed processing). - Specialized documents (e.g., catalogs, programs, manuals, and proposals), with insight into how they differ from generic documents. - Text and document recognition (recognition of physical and/or logical structure from a printed document). - Heterogeneous target reader populations (e.g., multi-lingual). - Application of database technology to document preparation - Integration of documentation tools with other tools, e.g., CASE, CAD-CAM. The chair of the conference is Dr. Peter R. King of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba and the program chair is Dr. Richard Furuta of the Department of Computer Science at the College Park campus of the University of Maryland. The exhibition chair is Debra Adams of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. The local arrangements and publicity chair is Dr. Lawrence A. Welsch of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The program committee will be announced at a later date. To be placed on the conference mailing list, please fill out the form below and mail it to Lawrence A. Welsch/EP90 National Institute of Standards and Technology/TECH B266 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 U.S.A. or electronically to ep90@asl.icst.nbs.gov on the Internet. Please check as many as apply: ( ) I wish to receive registration information for EP90 ( ) I wish to receive information for authors ( ) I wish to receive information for exhibitors Name: Address: