IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 18, 1996 To: IRDIGEST@stubbs Volume XIII, Number 12 Issue 299 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure 2. ToC: NSF CISE Newsletter, March 1996 B. Meetings 1. SOFSEM96 2. CAUSE/CNI Regional Conference: "Networked Information: Challenges and Solutions" 3. HICSS-30: Call for Papers on Digital Documents in the Workplace ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000 The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000 NII 2000 Committee Computer Science and Telecommunications Board National Research Council The Unpredictable Certainty explores the national information infrastructure (NII) as the collection of all public and private information services. But how and when will the NII become a reality? The Unpredictable Certainty examines who will finance the NII; who will pay for ongoing services and how they will pay; and the underlying technologies, appliances, and services needed before the NII becomes a reality. The book reviews key features of important technologies; current levels of deployment in telephone, cable and broadcast television, and wireless systems; and the challenges for interconnection among different systems. It explores the challenge of open interfaces that stimulate new applications but also facilitate competition, the trend toward the separation of infrastructure from specific services, the tension between mature services and new contenders, the role of the Internet, and more. The roles that governments at different levels might play in fostering NII deployment are outlined. The final product of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, The Unpredictable Certainty was created by people who lead in the development, implementation, and marketing of the technologies and services that make up the information infrastructure. The NII 2000 Steering Committee blends executives from several industries with researchers; it combines insights into familiar communications and information businesses with insider perspectives on the Internet. This talented group organized and synthesized the products of a workshop, forum, and invited white papers. The white papers, quoted throughout The Unpredictable Certainty, will be published separately. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction and Summary Making Technology Work: Individual and Organized End Users Where is the Business Case Technology Options and Capabilities: What Does What, How Technology Choices: What are the Providers Deploying Public Policy and Private Action Bibliography Appendixes 6 X 9, 304 pages, paperbound, $24.95 (volume discounts available) Order from: National Academy Press 1/800-624-6242, amerchan@nas.edu, or www.nap.edu ********** III.A.2. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: ToC: NSF CISE Newsletter, March 1996 CISE NEWSLETTER NSF-96-62 March 1996 Paul Young, Assistant Director, NSF, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from Paul Young Announcement of CISE Web Site Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure Program National Coordination Office (NCO) Joins NSF Positions Available CISE Staff Special Note Access to NSF Publications ********** III.B.1. Fr: Jan Staudek Re: SOFSEM96 CALL FOR PAPERS SOFSEM'96 XXIII-rd Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics November 23 - November 30, 1996 Hotel Devet-skal, Milovy Czech Republic SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is an eight-day international seminar devoted to the theory and the practice of software systems. Its program consists of a series of invited talks given by prominent academic professionals and researchers. Contributed talks and posters of participants are also included in the program of SOFSEM. The working language is English. Invited talks and contributed talks are published by Springer-Verlag in the series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" and distributed at the seminar. Sofsem'96 is the 23rd in the series of Sofsem seminars held annually. It is intended to foster cooperation among people working in various areas of computer science. Its scientific program offers a unique opportunity to gain a relatively quick and representative overview about the selected parts of computer science, presented by top researchers. Its social program provides an optimal framework for discussions, meetings, contact establishing, and socializing. Especially suited for PhD students and young computer scientists. KEY NOTE ADDRESS: Kurt Bauknecht, the IFIP President, Institut fur Informatik, Universitat Zurich, Switzerland INVITED TALKS A. FUNDAMENTALS: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Polytechnic Univ. of Catalunha, Barcelona, Spain A Unified View Of String Matching Algorithms ................................................................ Friedhelm Mayer auf der Heide, University of Paderborn, Germany Communication in Parallel Systems ................................................................ Felipe Cucker, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, SPAIN Computing With Real Numbers ................................................................ Paul Vitanyi, CWI & University of Amsterdam Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications ................................................................ B. PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Object-Oriented Approaches to Flexibility in System Software ................................................................ Daniel Hagimont, INRIA Rhone-Alpes/ Bull-IMAG Systemes, France Arias: A Distributed Shared Memory System Integrated with Unix ................................................................ Jan Kleindienst, Frantisek Plasil, Petr Tuma, Charles University, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Rep. On the Role of Object Services in CORBA ................................................................ C. AI AND CONTROL SYSTEMS Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research,Redmond Washington, USA Decision-Theoretic Reasoning and the Human-Computer Interface: Advances in Embedded Intelligent Agents ................................................................ Mark Overmars, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Probabilistic Approaches to Motion Planning ................................................................ Dan Roth, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Learning in Order to Reason ................................................................ D. DATABASES AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep. Database Semantics In Heterogenous Environment ................................................................ Ken Robinson, RAL, Oxon, UK Business Case Processing - Rationale, Survey and Trends ................................................................ Arno Siebes, CWI, The Netherlands The KESO project: towards an inductive query language system. ................................................................ E. PROGRAMMING AND SE David Harel,The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Statecharts: Past, Present And Future ................................................................ Arie de Bruin, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands New Trends in Game Tree Search ................................................................ Jeremy Dick,B-Core, Oxford, UK VDM Through Pictures: A Visual Approach to Formal Specification ................................................................ Paul Klint, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Core Technologies for System Renovation ................................................................ F. SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND VISUALIZATION Henk A. van der Vorst,University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Iterative Methods For Nonsymmetric Systems ................................................................ Gitta Domik, University of Paderborn, Germany Computer Visualization SUBMISSIONS: The categories for submissions include Contributed Talks and Posters. Each submission should have a title giving the following information: - name, address, e-mail address, and phone number of each author; - specification of one of the authors as the contact person. Please send five printed copies or a postscript file for each submission. CONTRIBUTED TALKS: 8-page drafts in English are expected. A full camera-ready copy of contributed talks on current topics in Computer Science should be no longer than 8-pages. Presentation time for contributed talks is 25 minutes. Contributed talks will be included in the Proceedings of SOFSEM '96, published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag. The Organizing Committee will supply the authors of accepted contributed talks with a leaflet of detailed technical instructions and the LaTeX style file for the preparation of the camera-ready copy. POSTERS: We actively encourage poster describing work in progress. Final versions of two A4 page poster are expected. DEADLINES: Submission of the contributed talk/poster May 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance/rejection July 30, 1996 Camera-ready copy of the contributed talk Sept. 1, 1996 ADDRESS SUBMISSIONS, ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND ENQUIRES: Lenka Motyckova Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno Czech Republic e-mail: lenka@informatics.muni.cz EXHIBITIONS: Organizations and individuals are invited to participate with demonstrations of non-profit research results and literature exhibitions. Please submit a description of the demonstration and exhibitions to the address at the end of this page. It is the responsibility of the demonstrator to provide suitable equipment. Organizations are invited to submit exhibitions of commercial software systems, organisation profiles, literature exhibitions, etc. Exhibitors should contact the following address for further details: J. Staudek - SOFSEM '96 FI MU Brno Botanicka 68a 602 00 Brno Czech Republic phone: +42-5-4151 2354 FAX: +42-5-4121 2747 e-mail: staudek@fi.muni.cz FOR COMPLETE REGISTRATION INFORMATION, CONTACT: Z. Walletzka, SOFSEM '96 UVT MU, Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +42-5-4121 1646 fax: +42-5-4121 2747 e-mail: sofsem@ics.muni.cz ********** III.B.2. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: CAUSE/CNI Regional Conference: "Networked Information: Challenges and Solutions" CAUSE and the Coalition for Networked Information are pleased to announce a regional conference on "Networked Information: Challenges and Solutions" to be held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on May 30-31, 1996. General session speakers will be David Roselle, President, University of Delaware, speaking on "A Technological Tapestry: Weaving Electronic Resources into the Fabric of Campus Life" and Ira Fuchs, Vice President of Computing and Information Technology, Princeton University, speaking on "Totally Wired: Academia and Information Technology Move Toward the 21st Century." In a mix of plenary and concurrent sessions, speakers will explore a variety of issues from broad principles and from practical experience. Sessions will cover such topics as: -- Update on telecommunications legislation and national policy issues -- Developing a technical infrastructure for campus and community -- Networked information discovery and retrieval (NIDR) - what's new? -- Information content on the net - e-journals, multimedia -- Collaboration in networked information projects -- Using the network for teaching and learning -- User support for a networked campus -- Campus-community networking -- Networked administrative computing The conference chairs are Arnold Hirshon, Vice Provost for Information Resources, Lehigh University; Paul Mosher, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, University of Pennsylvania; and, Daniel A. Updegrove, Associate Vice Provost, Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to May 1, the registration fee is $150. for CAUSE members; $225. for nonmembers. Information on preconferences to be offered in connection with the program will be forthcoming. For a registration form and additional information, contact CAUSE at 303-939-0315 or conf@cause.colorado.edu or check out their site at: gopher://cause-gopher.colorado.edu/ http://cause-www.colorado.edu/ I hope that many of you will register for what promises to be an excellent program. Joan K. Lippincott, Assistant Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 296-5098 FAX: (202) 872-0884 Internet: joan@cni.org ********** III.B.3. Fr: Magid Igbaria