Faculty Positions
in Computer Science
Project Leader and
Information Scientist
Okapi Pack is Now
Available Again
Lecture Notes in
Computer Science
Library and
Information Science Research
ACM Transactions
on Internet Technology
Workshop on
Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications NLPBA 2002
19th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING 2002
2nd International
Workshop on Web Dynamics
WWW2002 Workshop
On Mobile Search
ACM Transactions
on Internet Technology
Semantic Web Meets
Language Resources
Text Retrieval
Conference –TREC02
Beyond
PARSEVAL -Towards Improved Evaluation
Measures for Parsing Systems
Using Semantics
for Information Retrieval and Filtering
Language Resources
for Translation Work and Research
Human Language
Technologies (HLT) 2002
Ontologies and
Lexical Knowledge Bases OntoLex 2002
5th Annual CLUK
Research Colloquium CLUK'5
Student Research
Workshop at ACL-02
PAKDD 2002
Workshop on Text Mining
Intelligent
Information Management at NASA Ames Research Centre
Electronic
Resource Preservation and Access NETwork ERPANET
University of Vermont
Position 1: Associate or Assistant Professor.
Candidates in networking and systems, software
engineering, programming languages, human-computer interaction or
parallel/distributed computing are most sought. Candidates in any area of computer science will be considered
seriously. Our faculty are involved in
the forefront of research in knowledge and data engineering, software
engineering, and computational sciences.
We are seeking to complement and further strengthen our existing
research and teaching activities in these areas.
Position 2: Assistant Professor in COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY.
A new concentration in computational biology has been established in the
Colleges of Medicine, Agricultural and Life Sciences, Engineering and
Mathematics, and Arts and Sciences.
Candidates with research interests or experience in computational
biology or bioinformatics are invited to apply. Through a major Department of Energy grant that commenced in July
2000, the startup package includes summer support, seed research grant, and
reduced teaching obligations.
Candidates for either position should have a strong research record, hold a
doctorate in Computer Science or a closely related field, and have broad
teaching abilities and interests.
Current teaching responsibilities typically consist of three computer
science courses per year with average enrollments of 25 students. These responsibilities will be reduced to
two courses per year for the first two years for successful position 2
candidates. Please send a letter of
interest indicating the position sought, a curriculum vita, a statement of
teaching experience and interests, a statement of research interests and
aspirations to, and arrange for at least three letters of reference to be sent
to:
Chair, Faculty Search, Position (1 or 2),
Department of Computer Science,
University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT 05405.
Complete applications received by January 21, 2002 will be fully
considered. For more information about
the Department and the University please see:
http://www.cs.uvm.edu
Or send email to:
cssearch@cs.uvm.edu.
The University of Vermont is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer
and encourages applications from women and members of minority groups.
Computational Linguistics Department
Saarland University
Computational Linguist Or Computer Scientist
Two immediate openings for computational linguists or computer scientists in
the project COLLATE
(http://collate.dfki.de
In this project, we perform basic research in the areas of
Information Extraction,
Information Retrieval,
Dialogues for information access and acquisition.
There is one opening for a project leader and one opening for a research
scientist.
Required qualifications:
Degree (master or PhD) in computational linguistics, computer science, or
related discipline
Additional qualifications:
Experience in corpus-based methods in language technology
Programming skills
Experience in information retrieval, preferably including connectivity-based
methods (Kleinberg algorithm)
Experience in information extraction
Experience with large-vocabulary speech recognition software
Knowledge of semantic web approaches
Good knowledge of German (project leader)
Project management experience (project leader)
The project is carried out in the Computational Linguistics Department (http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/)
and the Computer
Science Department of Saarland University. There is a close cooperation with
the German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence, where a competence center in language technology is being
established.
Depending on age, family status and qualification, the annual gross salary ranges
between 36400 and 65000 Euro.
Please send applications and enquiries to:
Hans Uszkoreit (uszkoreit@coli.uni-sb.de )
and
Gregor Erbach (erbach@coli.uni-sb.de)
We are please to announce that Okapi
Pack is now available again, after an absence of many
months due to a fire which destroyed our web server earlier on this year. A
temporary site has been set up while we await the delivery of our new web
server. The URL is:
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/OKAPI-PACK/
We will circulate the new URL when the new CISR web server has been
set up.
Best regards
Andrew MacFarlane
Dr. A. MacFarlane, Lecturer,
Centre for Interactive Systems Research, Dept.
Of Information Science, Room 420D,
College
Building, City University,
Northampton Square, LONDON EC1V OHB
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7040 8386
Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8584
URL:
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/
Table of Contents:
LNCS 1921:
S.W. Liddle, H.C. Mayr, B. Thalheim (Eds.):
Conceptual Modeling for E-Business and the Web
ER 2000 Workshops on Conceptual Modeling Approaches for E-Business and The
World Wide Web and Conceptual Modeling,
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 2000. Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1921.htm
LNCS 1875:
K. Bauknecht, S. Kumar Madria, G. Pernul (Eds.):
Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
First International Conference, EC-Web 2000, London, UK, September 2000.
Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1875.htm
LNCS 1748:
H.V. Leong, W.-C. Lee, B. Li, L. Yin (Eds.):
Mobile Data Access
First International Conference, MDA'99, Hong Kong, China, December 1999.
Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1748.htm
LNCS 1686:
H.E. Bal, B. Belkhouche, L. Cardelli (Eds.):
Internet Programming Languages
ICCL'98 Workshop, Chicago, IL, USA, May 1998. Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1686.htm
Journal: Library and Information Science Research
ISSN: 0740-8188
Volume: 23
Issue: 4
Date: Winter 2001
Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/07459
Table of Contents:
Introduction to the special issue: Everyday life information-seeking
research
A. Spink, C. Cole
pp 301-304
Health discussions on the Internet - A study of knowledge communication through
citations
M. Wikgren
pp 305-317
Gaining access to everyday life information seeking
R.F. Carey, L.E.F. McKechnie, P.J. McKenzie
pp 319-334
A model for understanding and affecting cancer genetics information seeking
J.D. Johnson, J.E. Andrews, S. Allard
pp 335-349
Using everyday life information seeking to explain organizational behaviour
M.-L. Huotari, E. Chatman
pp 351-366
About the authors
pp 367-369
Full text via ScienceDirect :
Editorial Peer Review, Its Strengths and Weaknesses - by Ann C.
Weller. Medford, NJ: Information Today, for the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, 2001. ASIST Monograph Series. 360
pp. $35.60 ASIST members, $44.50 nonmembers (hardcover) ISBN
1-57387-100-1.
M.D. White
pp 371-372
Identifying and Analyzing User Needs: A Complete Handbook and
Ready-to-use Assessment Workbook with Disk - By Lynn Westbrook. New
York: Neal-Schuman, 2001. 307 pp. $75.00 (paperback); ISBN
1-55570-388-7.
V.L. Pungitore
pp 373-374
Intelligent Technologies in Library and Information Service
Applications - By F. W. Lancaster and Amy Warner. Medford, NJ:
Information Today, for the American Society for Information Science
and Technology, 2001. ASIST Monograph Series. 214 pp. $31.60; ASIST
members, $39.50 nonmembers (hardcover). ISBN 1-57387-103-6.
G. Benot
pp 374-376
Acknowledgments
pp 377
Contents Index Volume 23, 2001
pp 381-389
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The December 2001 issue of D-Lib Magazine http://www.dlib.org/ is now
available.
The table of contents is at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december01/12contents.html.
Special Issue on Machine Learning for the Internet
Call For Papers
Submissions:
Authors are requested to send an intention of submission (with authors, title
and abstract) as an email message in plain text to:
acm-toit@dsi.unifi.it
by May 1, 2002. Then, papers must be submitted in electronic format
as an attachment to the same email address before May 15, 2002. Preferred
formats are PDF and PostScript (compressed with gzip or zip). Manuscripts must
not exceed 50 single-column, double-spaced pages (including figures and tables)
and must be written in English and set in 10 or 11 point font. Please do not
send papers directly to guest editors' email addresses.
Important Dates:
Intention of submission: May 1, 2002
Submission deadline: May 15, 2002
Notification: August 1, 2002
World Wide Web: Internet and Web
Information Systems (WWW Journal)
Volume 4, Number 1/2, 2001
Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISSN 1386 145X
http://www.wkap.nl/prod/j/1386-145X
Editors-In-Chief:
Marek Rusinkiewicz
Yahiko Kambayashi
Yanchun Zhang
Table of Contents:
LAURIN: A Distributed Digital Library of Newspaper Clipping
D. Calvanese, Tiziana Catarci and G. Santucci
(pp.5-20)
Data-Intensive Web Site: Design and Maintenance
Paolo Atzeni, Paolo Merialdo and Giansalvatore Mecca (pp.21-48)
A Conceptual Model and Rule-based Query Language for HTML
Mengzhi Liu and Tok Wang Ling
(pp.49-78)
Modelling and Manipulating Multidimentional Data in Semistructured
Databases
Raymond K. Wong, Franky Lam and Mehmet A. Orgun (pp.79-100)
XstorM: A scalable Storage Mapping Scheme for XML Data
Wen Qiang Wang, Mong Li Lee, Beng Chin Ooi and Kian-Lee Tan (pp.101-120)
A Web-based Knowledge Network for Supporting Emerging Internet applications
Minsoo Lee, Stanley Y. W. Su and Herman Lam
(pp.121-140)
8-9 March 2002
Nicosia, Cyprus
Call for Papers
http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/CFP.html
Organized by the Working Group 8 of EFMI on Natural Language
Understanding Held in conjunction with the EFMI Special Topics Spring
Conference
Important Deadlines:
Submission deadline: January 15, 2002
Notification Date: February 10, 2002
Camera-ready copy due: February 26, 2002
Workshop date: March 8-9, 2002
Website:
http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/
August 24 -- September 1, 2002
Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan
COLING 2002
Call for Workshop Proposals
August 31 -- September 1, 2002
Organized by:
Academia Sinica, ACLCLP and National Tsing Hua
University
Under the Auspices of:
The International Committee on Computational Linguistics
Important Dates
Workshop Proposals due: January 15th, 2002
Notification of acceptance of Proposals: February 15th, 2002
Workshops Date: August 31st -September 1st, 2002
Additional Conference Information
Please e-mail any inquiries on COLING2002 Conference
to: COLING02@sinica.edu.tw.
For additional information, see the web site for the conference:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
In conjunction with WWW 2002,
Honolulu, Hawaii, 7th May 2002
Call For Papers
Important dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2002
Deadline for submission of papers/demo proposals: 22 February 2002
Notification of acceptance: 22 March 2002
Camera-ready copy due: 5 April 2002
http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/webDyn2/
With the explosive use of the Internet,
there is an ever-increasing volume of Web data being
generated and warehoused in numerous Web sites. The vastness of accessible
on-line information has opened up a host of new opportunities, several of which
cannot be readily addressed using existing knowledge discovery and data
analysis methods. As a result, there has been a rapid growth in the field of
Web Analytics, which focuses on the development of new tools and technologies
for the analysis of Web data. A one-day workshop on Web Analytics is being held
in conjunction with SDM 2002 in Arlington, VA, to bring together researchers
from a variety of background and disciplines to discuss their work and findings
that could help extract valuable information from Web data. This workshop is a
follow-on to a successful Workshop on Web Mining held at SDM'01. This time we
shall concentrate usage of the web as reflected, for example, in web logs, as
well as on the hyperlink structure of the web. Papers solely concerned with
text analysis of web pages are referred to the Workshop on Text Mining being
held concurrently at SDM'02.
Submission guidelines are available at
http://www.lans.ece.utexas.edu/workshop_index2.htm.
Call for Papers and Participation
The dramatic increase in the use and availability of mobile devices such as
cellular phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) in the last few years
has resulted in the ability to access information anytime and anywhere. IDC, a
leading provider of technology intelligence, forecasts that by the end of 2002
there will be more wireless subscribers capable of Internet access than wired
Internet users. Yet, we are still far from the dream of having Web information
as conveniently accessible from a handheld device as it is from our desktop.
Existing information discovery mechanisms for searching and browsing the Web
are not well-suited to mobile devices which are limited in terms of processing
power and memory, screen real estate, input capabilities, networks and
bandwidth.
In this workshop, we will explore several issues involved in making mobile
search both practical and effective and investigate the various challenges
imposed in attempting to bring search to the mobile world. Topics may include:
Text entry assistance for mobile devices
Navigation paradigms suited for small mobile devices
Viewing results? transcoding and beyond
Location awareness and its relation to relevance
Performance issues in mobile search process
Content sources? all the Web vs. dedicated Wireless Web repositories
Vertical sites, topic-specific search, focused search
Supporting multiple devices, protocols, platforms, and form factors
Additional information is available at the Mobile Search Workshop Web page (http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/www2002-MobileSearch)
and questions can be sent directly to any of the organizers below.
Information about the workshop venue and local arrangements (hotel reservation
etc.) as well as the sponsoring conference can be found at the WW2002
Conference main Web page (http://www2002.org)
Submission Information:
Send by email to Aya Soffer ayas@il.ibm.com
For presentation: Short vita and position paper along with the intended track
(tutorial, research, demo, standards). Length: no more than 2000 words
(Postscript, or PDF).
For participation only: Statement of interest, (no more than 500 words).
Important Dates:
Submission: January 15, 2002
Notification: February 1,2002
Final Version: March 1, 2002
WWW2002 Conference: May 7-11, 2002
Mobile Search Workshop: May 7, 2002
Organizing Committee:
IBM Research in Haifa:
Yoelle Maarek - yoelle@il.ibm.com
Aya Soffer - ayas@il.ibm.com
Google Inc.:
Bay-Wei Chang - bay@google.co
Special Issue on
Machine Learning for the Internet
Call For Papers
Machine learning methods are becoming increasingly important for the development of several Internet related technologies. Tasks such as
intelligent searching, organizing, retrieving, and filtering information on the
Web are extremely challenging and still much too easy for humans than they are
for computers, except that humans are unable to scale up with the enormous
amount of available data. Explicit coding of rules in this domain is typically
very hard, and even if possible, would require exceptional coordination
efforts. In particular, the fast dynamics of the information available on the
Internet requires new approaches for indexing. The organization of information
in Internet portals is becoming hardly manageable by humans. The users' surfing
of the Internet can be made easier by personalized tools like search engines
optimised for a specific Web community or even for the single user. For example,
finding relevant documents by querying a search engine with a set of keywords
may be difficult unless a proper ranking scheme is used to order the results.
In this case, techniques based on user profiles, on topic selection and on the
use of the Web topology can help in defining authoritative sources of
information with respect to the given query and interests.
Searching, organizing and retrieving information from the Web poses new issues
that can be effectively tackled by applying machine learning techniques.
Learning algorithms can be used to devise new tools which improve the
accessibility to the information available on the Web. Learning is particularly
useful to automate those tasks in which it is quite easy to collect examples
while coding a set of explicit rules is impractical. For example, the fast
dynamics of the Internet can be faced by designing new specialized search tools
which cover only the parts of the Web related to a given topic. These search
tools focus their exploration only on the portion of the Web which contains the
information relevant for this topic. Moreover, learning-based search tools can
feature a very high precision in retrieving information and can reduce the need
for human efforts for many repetitive tasks (like organizing documents in Web
directories).
Beside accessing information, understanding and characterizing web structure
and usage is essential for future development and organization of new tools and
services. In spite of several recent efforts in measuring and producing
mathematical models of web connectivity, dynamics, and usage, no definitive
answers have emerged and learning may play a fundamental role for advancing our
understanding in this field.
Papers are invited on applications of machine learning to all aspects of
Internet technology. These include (but are not limited to):
Automated creation of web directories
Automatic extraction of information from Web pages
Automatic security management
Categorization of web pages
Design and improvement of web servers through prediction of request patterns
Focused crawling
Information retrieval for the design of thematic search engines
Models and laws that characterize the web structure
User modeling for the personalization of Web services
Submissions
Authors are requested to send an intention of submission (with authors, title
and abstract) as an email message in plain text to: acm-toit@dsi.unifi.it by May 1, 2002. Then, papers must be
submitted in electronic format as an attachment to the same email address
before May 15, 2002. Preferred formats are PDF and PostScript (compressed with
gzip or zip). Manuscripts must not exceed 50 single-column, double-spaced pages
(including figures and tables) and must be written in English and set in 10 or
11 point font. Please do not send papers directly to guest editors' email
addresses.
Important Dates
Intention of submission: May 1, 2002
Submission deadline: May 15, 2002
Notification: August 1, 2002
Guest editors
Gary William Flake
NEC Research Institute
4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540 (USA)
flake@research.nj.nec.com
Voice: +1 609-951-2795
http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/flake/
Paolo Frasconi
Dept. of Systems and Computer Science
University of Florence
Via di Santa Marta 3, I-50139 Firenze (Italy)
paolo@dsi.unifi.it
Voice: +39 055 4796 362
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/
C. Lee Giles
School of Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University
001 Thomas Building,
University Park, PA, 16802 (USA)
giles@ist.psu.edu
Voice: +1 814 865 7884
http://ist.psu.edu/giles/
Marco Maggini
Dept. of Information Engineering
University of Siena
Via Roma 56, I-53100 Siena (Italy)
maggini@dii.unisi.it
Voice: +39 0577 233696
http://www.dii.unisi.it/~maggini/
AAA102 Workshop on Semantic Web and Language
Held in conjunction with the
Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Call For Papers
Submissions:
Please send proposals in ASCII, postscript, pdf, or
word rtf format to:
aaai02-ws@cs.vassar.edu
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: March 15, 2002
Notification date: April 19, 2002
Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers: May 3, 2002
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/AAAI02-ws.html
January 2002 - November 2002
Call For Participation
Conducted by:
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
With support from:
Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA)
Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) workshop series encourages research in
information retrieval from large text applications by providing a large test
collection, uniform scoring procedures, and a forum for organizations interested
in comparing their results. Now in its
eleventh year, the conference has become the major experimental effort in the
field.
You are invited to participate in TREC 2002. TREC 2002 will consist of a set of
tasks known as "tracks". Each
track focuses on a particular subproblem or variant of the retrieval task.
Organizations may choose to participate in any or all of the tracks. The set of
tracks to be offered in TREC 2002 include: web-based retrieval; question
answering; cross-language retrieval; document filtering; interactive retrieval;
retrieval of digital video; and novelty detection.
Dissemination of TREC work and results other than in the (publicly available)
conference proceedings is welcomed, but the conditions of participation
preclude specific advertising claims based on TREC results. As before, the
workshop in November will be open only to participating groups that submit
results and to selected government personnel from sponsoring agencies.
Please see the complete call for participation on the TREC home page
http://trec.nist.gov
Ellen Voorhees
TREC project manager
NIST
LREC 2002 Workshop
2nd June
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
Call for Papers
Important Dates
1 February 2002 deadline for receipt
of abstracts
22 February 2002 notification of acceptance
12 April 2002 camera-ready final
version for workshop proceedings
2 June 2002 workshop
http://let.dfki.uni-sb.de/BeyondPARSEVAL/
State of the Art and Future Research
Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain
2nd of June 2002
Held in conjunction with the
Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -LREC 2002
Call For Papers
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: February 15th 2002
Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 15th, 2002
Camera ready papers due: April 8th, 2002
Workshop: June 2nd, 2002
For Further Information
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html
An International Workshop preceding LREC 2002,
3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain - 28th May 2002
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LREC/LR4Trans.html
Catamaran Resort Hotel
San Diego, California
24-27 March 2002
Call for Demonstrations
Deadline: 7 January 2002
Please see the HLT2002 website at http://hlt2002.org for details on the
submission process, the call for papers and posters, and more details about the
conference. We look forward to
receiving your submissions!)
27th May 2002,
Las Palmas,
Canary Islands – Spain
Call for Papers
Important dates:
Deadline for workshop abstract submission 8th of February 2002
Notification of acceptance 8th of March 2002
Final version of paper for workshop proceedings 5th of April 2002
Workshop 27th of May 2002
Submissions:
Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics of the
workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 25 minutes long (20 minutes
for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). Each submission
should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail
address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 500
words, plain-text format) should be sent to:
Name: Wim Peters
Email: wim@dcs.shef.ac.uk
8-9 January 2002,
University of Leeds, UK
Last Call For Registration
Please register online BEFORE 20 DECEMBER (before Xmas!):
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cluk5
July 6-11, 2002
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Call for Papers
Submission deadline: February 22nd, 2002
Important Dates:
Paper registration deadline: February 15th, 2002
Paper submissions deadline: February 22nd, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 8th, 2002
Camera ready papers due: May 10th, 2002
Contact Information:
If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use:
acl02-student@coli.uni-sb.de
mailto:acl02-student@coli.uni-sb.de
An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs.
Alexander Koller (Co-Chair)
Department of Computational Linguistics
Universitنt des
Saarlandes
66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
E-mail: koller@coli.uni-sb.de
mailto:koller@coli.uni-sb.de
Phone: +49 681 302 4347
Fax: +49 681 302 4351
Gideon Mann (Co-Chair)
Department of Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
E-mail: gsm@cs.jhu.edu
mailto:gsm@cs.jhu.edu
Phone: +1 410 516 7052
Fax: +1 410 516 6134
http://www.acl02.org
Taipei, Taiwan, May 6, 2002
Workshop web site:
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~han/pakdd2002-text-mining.html
Conference web site:
http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/pakdd02
Other PAKDD workshops:
http://http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/pakdd-wk02.html
Important Dates:
Full paper submission: January 20, 2002
Author notification: February 20, 2002
Camera-ready copy due: March 8, 2002
Workshop: May 6, 2002
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Eui-Hong (Sam) Han
iXmatch Inc.
Southgate Plaza, Suite 401
5001 West 80th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55437-1115
Tel: (952) 842-7500 ext 106
Fax: (952) 842-7501
han@cs.umn.edu
We have new openings in the area of
Intelligent Information Management at NASA Ames
Research Centre. We are looking for a
research scientist, two research programmers, and a summer graduate student to
conduct research on topics such as information/knowledge sharing, automated
knowledge acquisition, semantic web, digital libraries, knowledge management,
and information integration.
The available positions are described below, as are the application procedures.
A general description of research on Intelligent Information Management at NASA
Ames can be found at:
http://sciencedesk.arc.nasa.gov/isig
If you know of anyone who might be interested in these positions,
please forward this message to her or him.
Thanks very much,
Rich Keller
Richard M. Keller, Ph.D.
Managing Research Scientist, Information Sharing and Integration Group
Collaborative and Assistant Systems Area
Computational Sciences Division
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA
http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/people/keller
Research Openings in Intelligent Information Management at NASA Ames
Research Scientist in Intelligent Information Management
We are looking for a Ph.D. research scientist to conduct applied research and
development and provide technical leadership in the area of Intelligent
Information Management. Intially, the research scientist will participate in
ongoing funded projects. Longer term,
the candidate is expected to formulate new research proposals, secure funding
from NASA, provide leadership to manage project execution, and publish results.
A general description of projects in Intelligent Information Management at
NASA Ames can be found at:
http://sciencedesk.arc.nasa.gov/isig
Some basic requirements for the researcher position include:
A Ph.D. or equivalent in computer science or related fields.
U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
A minimum of five years experience performing research and development in
information technology applications.
Interest in a mix of applied research and development in the context of real
NASA applications and customers.
A more extensive description of this position is available at:
http://riacs.edu/employment/cim.htm
Application procedure:
See http://riacs.edu/employment/cim.htm
Research Programmer (ScienceDesk Project):
Work at a NASA research center in a stimulating university-like environment
with applications on the cutting edge of collaborative information
management. Tools developed will be
used to unite geographically-distributed science teams, creating a virtual
project space to support information-sharing, data acquisition from sensors,
and other collaborative science activities. This opportunity is a system design
and development position within an applied research group. There is considerable latitude and potential
for contribution and growth, depending on the skills of the individual.
Potential R&D tasks include development of components such as: 1) a novel
hypermedia information visualization module, 2) a knowledge acquisition module
to parse email using information retrieval techniques and establish concepts
within a semantic hypermedia space, 3) an agent-based architecture supporting
real-time scientific experimentation, and 4) a workflow recognition system
designed to infer and summarize user activities based on system usage patterns.
ScienceDesk Project research interests include:
Information/knowledge sharing systems, automated knowledge acquisition,
semantic web, digital libraries, knowledge management, information integration,
information visualization, information retrieval, collaboratories,
collaborative systems design, computer-supported cooperative work, and
human-agent collaboration.
Further information on this project can be found at:
http://sciencedesk.arc.nasa.gov/scidesk.
Education:
M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science.
Citizenship status:
US citizen or permanent resident ("green card")
Required Skills:
Applied research focus; desire to develop systems of use to NASA.
Significant backround (e.g., classwork, research project, system development)
in one or more of the project interest areas listed above.
Experience in designing and developing research systems.
At least two years Java development.
Strong Object-Oriented design skills.
Experience working with a team developing large-scale programs.
Experience developing web-based applications.
Application Procedure:
Send resume and statement of interest to Michael Redmon, QSS Group Inc.,
mredmon@email.arc.nasa.gov.
Research Programmer (Aviation Data Integration Project):
Job Description:
Work with a research team developing an intelligent middleware architecture
that would use explicitly represented, richly structured information about
client goals, access patterns and requirements as well as data source
characteristics to improve Quality of Service. Developed software is intended
to assist airline flight analysts who are conducting aviation investigations. To provide necessary information to
analysts, this project will be combining heterogeneous types of aviation data,
including "black box" flight data, weather data, radar data, airline
data, and manufacturer data. Work on
this position would involve participation in research and software development
activities.
Project research interests include:
Modelling the contents of information systems, flexible approaches to selecting
relevant data sources, design principles for ontologies used for integration,
advanced integration architectures, tools for supporting information
integration, languages for information integration, data warehousing, and
intelligent agents for optimising Quality of Service.
Further information on this project can be found at
http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/adip.
Education:
M. S. in Computer Science
Citizenship status:
US citizen or permanent resident ("green card")
Required Skills:
Applied research focus; desire to develop systems of use to NASA.
Significant backround (e.g., classwork, research project, system development)
in one or more of the project interest areas listed above.
Experience in designing and developing research systems.
At least two years C/C++ development experience.
Experience programming with Windows
Experience working with a team developing large-scale programs.
Experience developing web-based applications.
Java and database experience a plus
Application Procedure:
Send resume and statement of interest to Michael Redmon, QSS Group Inc.,
mredmon@email.arc.nasa.gov.
Summer Graduate Student Research Program:
Graduate students with interests in Intelligent Information Management can
apply to spend the summer at NASA Ames Research Center.
Further information on this program can be found at:
http://www.riacs.edu/ssrp/SSRP2002.html
Application Procedure (by February 28, 2002):
See http://www.riacs.edu/ssrp/SSRP2002.html
RLG is very pleased to announce the
launch of a new initiative in digital preservation:
ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork). This is an exciting new effort funded by the
European Commission, that will create a European consortium whose role will be
to provide a virtual clearinghouse and knowledge-base on state-of-the-art
developments in digital preservation.
Additionally, the consortium will transfer expertise among individuals
and institutions as well as develop an online and physical community focused on
preservation.
The University of Glasgow (Dr Seamus Ross) and its partners the
Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Switzerland) (Niklaus Bütikofer),
Rijksarchiefdienst(Netherlands) (Hans Hofman), and the University of
Urbino (Italy) (Maria Guercio) will lead this initiative.
For more information, go to the project website at:
www.erpanet.org
Or
See below for further details.
Robin L. Dale
Program Officer
RLG
1200 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
USA
Email: robin.dale@notes.rlg.org
http://www.rlg.ac.uk/longterm/
What is ERPANET?
The ERPANET Project (an EU funded collaboration between HATII at the University
of Glasgow, Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Switzerland), Rijksarchiefdienst
(Netherlands), and the University of Urbino (Italy)) will make viable and
visible information, best practice, and skills development in the area of
digital preservation of cultural heritage and scientific objects. ERPANET will
bring together memory organisations (museums, libraries and archives), ICT and
software industry, research institutions, government organisations (including
local ones), entertainment and creative industries, and commercial sectors
(including for example pharmaceuticals, petro-chemical, and financial) to
address the challenges posed by the widespread use of digital technologies
including lack of awareness, fragmentation of knowledge and skills amongst the
stakeholder communities about how to handle existing preservation problems, and
how to plan effectively for the future and the need to identify and focus on
core research/problem areas. The
dominant feature of the ERPANET will be the provision of a virtual
clearinghouse and knowledge-base on state-of-the-art developments in digital
preservation, the transfer of that expertise among individuals and
institutions, and the development of an online and physical community focused
on preservation.
ERPANET will run, initially, for 36 months from the 1st of November. The
website, www.erpanet.org is now
available. 900,000 EUROS of this 1.2
million EURO project comes form the European Commission.
ERPANET has the following specific objectives:
1. To identify and raise awareness of
sources of information about the preservation of digital objects across the
broad spectrum of national and regional cultural and scientific heritage
activity in Europe.
2. To appraise and evaluate information
sources and documented developments in digital preservation on behalf of the
ERPANET user community; and to make available results of research, projects,
and best practice.
3. To provide an enquiry and advisory
service on digital preservation issues, practice, technology and developments.
4. To implement a suite of six thematic
workshops to bring together experts from a range of disciplines to address key
preservation issues (e.g. integrity and audit requirements, emulation and
migration) and to initiated associated thematic discussion.
5. To build during the EU-sponsored
phase a suite of eight training seminars based on best practice, and to
identify where and what further practitioner training and staff development is
required.
6. To develop a suite of tools,
guidelines, templates for prototype instruments and best practice testbeds and
case studies.
7. To stimulate further research on
digital preservation in key areas and encourage the development of standards
where gaps and opportunities have been identified.
8. To build ERPANET step-by-step into a
self-sustaining initiative supported by those individuals and organisations
which require access to digital preservation resources and information.
9. To stimulate ICT companies and
software developers to incorporate some of the preservation lessons into new
generations of software.