********************************************************************** SIG-IRList Digest (ISSN 1064-6965) May, 2003 ********************************************************************** I. NOTICES A. PUBLICATIONS 1. Proceedings of ECIR-03 B. MEETINGS 1. Call for Participation: ESSIR2004 - 4th European School in IR 2. Call for Papers: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2003 3. Conference Registration Announcement: JCDL '03 - 3rd Annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 4. Call for Papers: JCDL '04 - Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 5. Call for Participation: NAACL-Supported Two-Week Summer School in Human Language Technologies 6. Call for Papers: ICDM '03 - The Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 7. Call for Participation: SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Terabyte-Scale Collections 8. Call for Papers: EURALEX 2004 - The 11th EURALEX International Congress 9. Call for Participation: OTC-03 - Third Workshop on Operational Text Classification 10. Call for Papers: RCDL 2003 - Fifth National Russian Research Conference on Digital Libraries 11. Call for Papers: ACM SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in IR 12. Call for Participation: SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Implicit Measures of User Interests and Preferences 13. Call for Papers: ACM CIKM 2003 - 12th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 14. Accepted Papers: VLDB 2003 II. JOBS 1. Microsoft Research Cambridge - Postdoctoral Research 2. National Center for Data Mining - Postdoctoral Research ********************************************************************** I. PUBLICATIONS I.A.1. From: Fabrizio Sebastiani A limited number of copies of the Proceedings of ECIR-03, which has taken place a few days ago, are on sale at the discount price of 40.00 Euro (a 43% discount with respect to the Springer Verlag retail price of 70.00 Euro). Those interested in purchasing these copies please fill up the form at http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/Proceedings_purchase.pdf and fax it to the fax numbers marked on the fax form. Fabrizio Sebastiani General Chair of ECIR-03 ********************************************************************** I. MEETINGS I.B.1. From: "Catherine Berrut" ESSIR2003 4th European School in Information Retrieval Call for participation August 31st-September 5th - 2003 location : Aussois (Savoie) - France This four and a half day course will give participants a high level exposure on the core subjects related to Information Retrieval (IR), including: * Theoretical models for IR, * Structured and Web Document Indexing and Retrieval, * Multimedia Document Indexing and Retrieval, * Multilingual Document Indexing and Retrieval, * User Interaction, * Evaluation. The lecturers of ESSIR 2003 are the leading researchers in the field of IR in Europe. ESSIR'03 is the fourth European School in Information Retrieval. The first one, ESSIR was organised by the University of Padova (Prof. Maristella Agosti) and was held in Bressanone, Italy, in 1990. The second ESSIR was organised by the University of Glasgow (Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen) and held in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1995, in conjunction with the BCS Colloquium in Information Retrieval, a IRIDES project meeting, and the final MIRO workshop. The third ESSIR was organised by Dr. Gabriela Pasi, Prof. Maristella Agosti and Dr. Fabio Crestani, and took place in Varenna, Italy, in 2000. Program and registration are available on the web site : http://www-clips.imag.fr/mrim/essir03/ ********************************************************************** I.B.2. From: "Ethan V. Munson" Call for Papers ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2003 Grenoble, France, November 20-22, 2003 Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB and INRIA in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGIR http://www.documentengineering.org Documents are one of the centerpieces of globally interconnected systems that store information drawn from many media and deliver that information as active documents that adapt to the needs of their users. A document may be stored in final presentation form or it may be generated on-the-fly, undergoing substantial transformations in the process. Documents, that may include extensive hyperlinks, also make available structured collections of information on which to anchor automated reasoning, such as promoted through the Semantic Web. Furthermore, document technologies like XML are having a profound impact on data modeling in general because of the way they bridge and integrate a variety of paradigms (database, knowledge representation, and structured document). The Symposium on Document Engineering is an academic conference devoted to the dissemination of research on models, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. DocEng 2003, the third annual meeting, seeks high-quality, original papers and panels that address the theory, design, development, and evaluation of computer systems that support the creation, analysis, distribution and, interaction with documents in any medium. Conceptual topics and technologies relevant to the symposium include (but are not limited to): Document standards, models, representation languages Document authoring tools and systems Document presentation (typography, formatting, layout) Document synchronization and temporal aspects Document structure and content analysis Document categorization and classification Document internationalization Integrating documents with other digital artifacts Document engineering life cycle and processes Document workflow and cooperation Document engineering in the large Document storage, indexing, and retrieval Automatically generated documents Adaptive documents Performance of document systems Markup languages (SGML, XML) Style sheet systems and languages (CSS, XSL, DSSSL) Structured multimedia (MPEG-4, SMIL, MHEG, HyTime) Metadata (MPEG-7, RDF) Document database systems and XQL Optical character recognition Type representations (Adobe Type 1, Truetype) Page description languages (PostScript, PDF) Electronic books (E-book) and digital paper Applications of constraint systems for document engineering Document transformation (XSLT) Document services on wireless networks (WAP) Document linking standards (XLink, XPath, XPointer) Document APIs (SAX, DOM) Important dates =============== Full Papers Panel Proposals Short Papers Abstracts due: May 27, 2003 May 27, 2003 --- Papers due: June 6, 2003 June 6, 2003 August 20, 2003 Acceptance notice by: July 18, 2003 July 18, 2003 Sept. 5, 2003 Revised versions due: Sept. 12, 2003 Sept. 12, 2003 Sept. 12, 2003 Organizing committee ==================== Cecile Roisin (General Co-Chair) cecile.roisin@inrialpes.fr Ethan V. Munson (General Co-Chair) munson@uwm.edu Christine Vanoirbeek (Program Chair) christine.vanoirbeek@epfl.ch Submission information ====================== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Authors may submit full papers (up to 10 pages length) or short papers (up to 3 pages in length). Full papers should describe complete works of original research. Short papers provide an opportunity to report on research in progress, to present novel positions on document engineering, or to demonstrate exciting new systems. Full paper presentations will be 30 minutes in length, while short papers will be presented in 15 minutes. Panel organizers are invited to submit panel proposals. A panel should bring together a variety of expert voices on a topic of considerable interest. The topic may be interesting because it is controversial, because it is of great importance to society or to the field, or because it leads us to think about future directions for document engineering. A panel proposal may be up to three pages in length. It should describe the topic of the panel and why it will be interesting to the symposium's participants. It should also list the panelists, briefly describing their expertise and should note whether any panelist's participation is tentative. (Note: panelists are expected to register for the symposium.) Detailed submission information will be found on the Document Engineering Web site at http://www.documentengineering.org Program Committee ================= Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Liverpool, UK Stephen Arnold, Chiron Corporation, USA David Brailsford, University of Nottingham, UK Les Carr, University of Southampton, UK Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University, USA Jon Herlocker, Oregon State University, USA Roger Hersch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Janying Hu, Avaya Labs Research, USA Rolf Ingold, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Peter King, University of Manitoba, Canada Hakon Lie, Opera Software, Norway Robert Morris, University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA Ethan V. Munson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Jocelyne Nanard, Universite de Montpelier, France Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Markus Noga, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany Francois Paradis, University of Waikato, New Zealand Tom Phelps, University of California Berkeley, USA Maria da Graca Pimentel, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil B. Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Steve Probets, Loughborough University, UK Vincent Quint, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Samuel Rebelsky, Grinnell College, USA Cecile Roisin, Universite Pierre Mendes-France and INRIA, France Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, Netherlands Greg Shreve, Kent State University Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, W3C, USA George Thiruvathukal, Loyola University, USA Christine Vanoirbeek, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Anne-Marie Vercoustre, CSIRO, Australia Jean-Yves Vion-Dury, Xerox Research Center Europe, France Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales, Australia Derick Wood, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong http://www.documentengineering.org ********************************************************************** I.B.3. From: Marianne Afifi Dear Colleagues, The Third Annual IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '03) is being held at Rice University in Houston, Texas from 27 - 31 May 2003. JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all types of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; digital preservation and archiving; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. The conference offers a range of tutorials, workshops, paper presentations, posters, and demos. Please visit the JCDL '03 website at http://www.rice.edu/jcdl03/ to view the full program for the conference and to register for the conference, tutorials, and/or workshops. We hope to see you there!! Tutorials and workshops can also be attended independent of the full conference. For a complete listing please consult the JCDL '03 website. Tutorials include: -- Overview of Digital Libraries -- How to Build a Digital Library Using Open-Source Software -- Usability Evaluation of Digital Libraries -- How to Build a Geospatial Digital Library -- Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries I & II -- XML -- Open Content Licenses and Copyright Workshops include: -- Cross-Cultural Usability for Digital Libraries -- International Workshop on Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis (IVIRA) -- Building a Meaningful Web: From Traditional Knowledge Organization Systems to New Semantic Tools The 6th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop -- OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop JCDL '03 is generously sponsored by: Association for Computing Machinery -- Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) -- Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Web (ACM SIGWEB) Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE Computer Society) --Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL) In cooperation with: -- The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) -- Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) -- Delos Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries -- Rice University Geneva Henry, Conference Chair, ghenry@rice.edu Cathy Marshall, Program Chair, cathymar@microsoft.com ********************************************************************** I.B.4. From: "Lim Ee Peng" Call for Papers: JCDL 2004 ========================== Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2004 Global Reach and Diverse Impact June 7-11, 2004 Tucson, Arizona, USA http://www.jcdl2004.org/ Jointly sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Web (ACM SIGWEB)and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL) In cooperation with The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Coalition for Networked Information DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries," including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; digital preservation and archiving; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. The intended community for this conference includes those interested in aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; system design; implementation; interface design; human-computer interaction; performance evaluation; usability evaluation; collection development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated theoretical topics. Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of disciplines and professions involved in digital library research and practice, including computer science, electrical engineering, information science, information systems, librarianship, archival science and practice, museum studies and practices, technology, education, medicine, intelligence analysis, social sciences, and humanities. All domains - academia, government, industry, and others - are encouraged to participate as presenters or attendees. CONFERENCE THEME: GLOBAL REACH AND DIVERSE IMPACT In addition to the listed digital library research topics, JCDL 2004 encourages submission of papers that illustrate digital library's global reach and diverse impact. Examples include (but are not limited to): major national or cross-regional digital library projects; case studies exemplifying successful international collaboration and impact; innovative cultural preservation and dissemination projects aimed at preserving unique and indigenous knowledge; the development and use of digital library technologies for national (and international) security; digital library research for intelligence and security informatics; digital library techniques, content, and services based on cyberinfrastructure; digital library research for enhancing e-learning and education; and other novel and high-impact digital library projects. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- January 15, 2004: Full papers, panel, and tutorial proposals due February 10, 2004: Short papers, posters, proposals for workshops and demonstrations due March 31, 2004: Final submissions due PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Full and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Papers must be in English with a limit of 10 pages (approximately 5000 words) for full papers and 2 pages for short papers. All papers must be original contributions (i.e., not have been previously published or currently under review for publication elsewhere). All contributions are to be submitted in electronic form via the JCDL conference web site, following ACM format guidelines and using the template provided (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Preferred submission formats are PDF or Microsoft Word. The conference will award the Vannevar Bush Award to the best full paper. PANELS, POSTERS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS ----------------------------------- Panels and posters provide opportunities to present work-in-progress, late-breaking results, or other efforts that would benefit from discussion with the community. Successful panel proposals should involve a controversial or emerging topic and articulate and entertaining panelists. Panel proposals must consist of a title, a 1-page extended abstract explaining the topic and goals of the session along with a list of titles of individual presentations and/or viewpoints and contact information for the organizer, moderator, and panelists. Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, a 1-page extended abstract, and contact information for the authors. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference and may include additional materials, space permitting. Abstracts of panels and posters will appear in the proceedings. Demonstrations will allow attendees to have first-hand views of innovative digital libraries technology and applications and to talk informally with system developers and researchers. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, a 1-page extended abstract, and contact information for the authors. Abstracts of demonstrations will appear in the proceedings. All contributions are to be submitted in electronic form via the JCDL conference web site. TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS ----------------------- Proposals for tutorials and workshops are also solicited. Tutorials are intended to present a single topic in detail over either a half-day or a full day. Tutorial proposals should include: a tutorial title; an abstract (1-2 paragraphs, to be used in conference programs); a description or topical outline of tutorial (1-2 paragraphs, to be used for evaluation); duration (half- or full-day); expected number of participants; target audience, including level of experience (introductory, intermediate, advanced); learning objectives; a brief biographical sketch of the presenter(s); and contact information for the presenter(s). Tutorial proposals should be emailed directly to the tutorial chair. For further information please contact the tutorial chair. Workshops are intended to draw together communities of interest in a new or emerging issue and provide a forum for discussion and exploration. Submissions should include: a workshop title and short description; a statement of objectives for the workshop; a topical outline for the workshop; identification of the expected audience; a description of the planned format, duration (half- or full-day), and expected number of attendees; information about how the attendees will be identified, notified of the workshop, and, if necessary, selected from among applicants; as well as contact and biographical information about the organizers. Finally, if a workshop has been held previously, information about the earlier sessions should be provided -- dates, locations, outcomes, attendance, etc. Workshop proposals should be emailed directly to the workshop chair. For further information please contact the workshop chair. CONFERENCE LOCATION ------------------- JCDL 2004 will be held in Tucson, Arizona on June 7-11, 2003. Warmed by an abundance of desert sunshine, the meeting will be held in a rejuvenating resort environment inspired by the beauty of its pristine natural surroundings. Home to an amazing variety of birds, plants and wildlife, Tucson is an ideal choice for nature lovers, families, or those simply seeking a serene escape from daily pressures. It also is an inspiring setting for productive professional meetings. Outdoor enthusiasts may enjoy horseback riding, hiking, biking, birding and swimming, plus golf nearby. Weather in early June in Tucson is warm, but comfortable and pleasant. The Hilton El Conquistado will be the JCDL 2004 conference hotel. It is a 4-Star, 4-Diamond resort nested at the base of the Catalina Mountains. It features 428 newly renovated guest rooms with upscale southwestern décor and private balconies with gorgeous mountain views. There are additional 90 rooms (also Hilton) available nearby for overflow guests. This hotel has a spacious, open lobby that is perfect for networking. Many activities including horseback riding, jeep tours, and bicycle rentals, are available on site. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, hchen@eller.arizona.edu Howard Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon University, wactlar@cmu.edu Ching-chih Chen, Simmons College, chingchih.chen@simmons.edu Program Co-Chairs: Mike Christel, Carnegie Mellon University, christel@cs.cmu.edu Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, aseplim@ntu.edu.sg Treasurer: Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona, zeng@eller.arizona.edu Tutorial Chair: Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, assfoo@ntu.edu.sg Workshop Chair: Hsueh-hua Chen, National Taiwan University, sherry@ccms.ntu.edu.tw Panel Chair: Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, giles@ist.psu.edu Poster and Demo Chair: Christopher Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, yang@se.cuhk.edu.hk Publicity Co-Chairs: Stuart Weibel, OCLC, weibel@oclc.org Su-shing Chen, University of Florida, suchen@cise.ufl.edu Shalini Urs, University of Mysore, shaliniurs@hotmail.com Mohan Tanniru, University of Arizona, mtanniru@eller.arizona.edu Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Kurt Fenstermacher, University of Arizona, kurtf@eller.arizona.edu Edward A. Fox, Virginia Institute of Technology, fox@vt.edu Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Kathy Larson, University of Arizona, larsonca@u.library.arizona.edu Jeanett McCray, University of Arizona, mccray@ahsl.arizona.edu Student Volunteer Coordinator: Byron Marshall, University of Arizona, byronm@eller.arizona.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Robert M. Akscyn, Knowledge Systems Robert B. Allen, University of Maryland William Arms, Cornell University Thomas Baker, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University Ann Blandford, University College of London, UK José Luis Borbinha, National Library of Portugal Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles Donatella Castelli, Italian National Research Council, Italy Chao-chen Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Zhaoneng Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea Gobinda Chowdhury, University of Strathclyde, UK Beth Davis-Brown, Library of Congress Susan Dumais, Microsoft Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany Dave Fulker, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University C. Lee Giles, Penn State University Geneva Henry, Rice University William Hersh, Oregon Health & Science University Sally Howe, National Coordination Office for Information Technology R&D, USA Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Judith Klavans, Columbia University Traugott Koch, Netlab, Lund University, Sweden Don Kraft, Louisiana State University Carl Lagoze, Cornell University Ray Larson, University of California, Berkeley John Leggett, Texas A&M University David Levy, University of Washington Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Corporation Alexa T. McCray, National Library of Medicine, USA Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University Cliff McKnight, Loughborough University, UK Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputing Center Sung Hyun Myaeng, Information & Communications University (ICU), Korea Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer-IPSI, Germany Liddy Nevile, University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Nevill-Manning, Google Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands T.B. Rajashekar, Indian Institute of Science, India Edie Rasmussen, University of Pittsburgh Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services Alfredo Sanchez, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico Frank M. Shipman, Texas A&M University Ingeborg Sølvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Costantino Thanos, CNR-ISTI, Italy Shalini Urs, University of Mysore, India Nancy Van House, University of California, Berkeley Stuart Weibel, OCLC Office of Research Ian Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand Jianzhong Wu, Shanghai Library, China Jerome Yen, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China ********************************************************************** I.B.5. From: Priscilla Rasmussen CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NAACL-Supported Two-Week Summer School in Human Language Technologies The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) is offering an exciting summer school opportunity for a limited number of graduate and undergraduate students interested in the field of Human Language Technology. The summer school will be held June 30-July 11 at The Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) at Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with the pre-workshop classes of the CLSP 2003 Summer Workshop on Language Engineering. Five to ten students will be selected to attend two weeks of lectures and hands-on laboratories that will include general introductions to the major areas of study within the field of Human Language Technology (e.g. Natural Language Processing, Automatic Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval) as well as sessions on specialized research topics of current interest in the field. In addition to providing summer school registration fees for all selected attendees, we also anticipate providing a limited number of scholarships to cover additional costs (in particular, travel expenses to the workshop venue and/or accommodation for the full duration). We hope to be able to cover the full cost of these two items for at least some students, and partial costs for others. If you are a graduate student, please ask your advisor to contribute to the funding. Preference for funding will be given to students attending North American institutions.=A0 Students are expected to attend both weeks of the summer school.=A0 APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS are available at http://www.naacl.org/, which also has information on applying for SCHOLARSHIP funds. =20 The application deadline is May 1, 2003. For questions about the summer school program, please contact one of the following NAACL Executive Board members: Owen Rambow (rambow@cs.columbia.edu) Claire Cardie (cardie@cs.cornell.edu) Diane Litman (litman@cs.upitt.edu) Dragomir Radev (radev@umich.edu) ********************************************************************** I.B.6 From: ICDM '03: The Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ================================================================ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Melbourne, Florida, USA November 19 - 22, 2003 http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html Call for Papers *************** (Papers Due: June 10, 2003) Invited Speakers ================ - Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University, USA - Usama M. Fayyad, digiMine.com, USA - Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland - Gene W. Myers, University of California, Berkeley, USA - Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '03) provides a leading international forum for the sharing of original research results and practical development experiences among researchers and application developers from different data mining related areas such as machine learning, automated scientific discovery, statistics, pattern recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, and knowledge-based systems. The conference seeks solutions to challenging problems facing the development of data mining systems, and shapes future directions of research by promoting high quality, novel and daring research findings. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and the tutorial program will cover emerging data mining technologies and the state-of-the-art of data mining developments. Topics of Interest ================== Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - Foundations of data mining - Data mining and machine learning algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and association analysis), and in new areas - Mining text and semi-structured data, and mining temporal, spatial and multimedia data - Data and knowledge representation for data mining - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature transformation - Post-processing of data mining results - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty management for data mining - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining - Human-machine interaction and visualization in data mining, and visual data mining - High performance and distributed data mining - Pattern recognition and scientific discovery - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining results - Process-centric data mining and models of data mining process - Security, privacy and social impact of data mining - Data mining applications in electronic commerce, bioinformatics, computer security, Web intelligence, intelligent learning database systems, finance, marketing, healthcare, telecommunications, and other fields Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards ================================================== High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful and supportive reviews. There are two types of paper submissions for IEEE ICDM '03: (1) research-track submissions and (2) industry-track submissions. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please use the Submission Form at the ICDM '03 webpage to submit your paper. For research-track submissions, papers should be limited to a maximum of 6,000 words (approximately 20 A4 pages), and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. For industry-track submissions, please make sure that the following conditions are met: (a) Papers cannot exceed 3,000 words, (b) At least one author of each industry-track paper should be from an industrial company, and the paper should be about industrial or other real-world applications of data mining, AND (c) a description of how the application has been conceived, developed and deployed must be provided. (Papers that present interesting data mining applications but do not qualify as industry-track submissions according to the these criteria can be submitted to the research track.) The conference will provide an opportunity for the authors of accepted industry-track papers to showcase their efforts in front of the world's finest data miners via a software demonstration. All papers submitted to the industry track will also be reviewed by the Program Committee, and each accepted industry-track paper will be allocated 4 pages in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '03 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais.html) by Springer-Verlag. IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Papers from the industry track and application-oriented papers from the research track will both be considered for the best application award. Important Dates =============== May 15, 2003 Workshop proposals due June 10, 2003 Research-track paper submissions Industry-track paper submissions Tutorial proposals June 30, 2003 Panel proposals due August 15, 2003 Paper acceptance notices September 10, 2003 Final camera-readies November 19, 2003 Workshops Tutorials November 20-22, 2003 Conference All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference home page at http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html Conference Chair: ================= Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin - Madison (shavlik@cs.wisc.edu) Program Committee Chairs: ========================= Xindong Wu, University of Vermont (xwu@cs.uvm.edu) Alex Tuzhilin, New York University (atuzhili@stern.nyu.edu) Vice Chairs: ============ Christopher W. Clifton, Purdue University, USA Douglas H. Fisher, Vanderbilt University, USA Paolo Frasconi, Universit di Firenze, Italy Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Rajeev Rastogi, Lucent, USA Michele Sebag, Universite Paris-Sud, France Dale Schuurmans, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Industry Track Chair: ===================== Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (bayardo@almaden.ibm.com) Panels Chair: ============= Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University (nick@cs.dal.ca) Workshops Chair: ================ David Page, University of Wisconsin - Madison (page@biostat.wisc.edu) Tutorials Chair: ================ Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University (ester@cs.sfu.ca) Publicity Chair: ================ Balaji Padmanabhan, University of Pennsylvania (balaji@wharton.upenn.edu) Local Arrangements Chair: ========================= Philip Chan, Florida Institute of Technology (pkc@cs.fit.edu) Web Master: =========== Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology (zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp) ICDM Steering Committee ======================= Xindong Wu (Chair), University of Vermont, USA Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Further Information =================== Professor Xindong Wu (ICDM 2003) Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, 351 Votey Building, Burlington, VT 05405, USA Phone: +1-802-656-7839 Fax: +1-802-656-0696 E-mail: xwu@cs.uvm.edu ********************************************************************** I.B.7. From: Ian Soboroff Call for Participation SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Terabyte-Scale Collections August 1, 2003 Toronto, Canada Organizers: Ian Soboroff, NIST, USA (ian.soboroff@nist.gov) Ellen Voorhees, NIST, USA (ellen.voorhees@nist.gov) Nick Craswell, CSIRO, Australia (nick.craswell@csiro.au) Early retrieval test collections were small, allowing relevance judgments to be based on an exhaustive examination of the documents, but limiting the general applicability of the findings. Karen Sparck Jones and Keith van Rijsbergen proposed a way of building significantly larger test collections by using pooling, a procedure adopted and subsequently validated by TREC. Now TREC-sized collections (several gigabytes of text and a few million documents) are small for some realistic tasks, but current pooling practices do not scale to substantially larger document sets. The goal of this workshop is to develop an evaluation methodology for terabyte-scale document collections. In particular, we will assume the existence of a collection of several hundred million web pages, and investigate methods for reliably evaluating retrieval tasks on such a collection. Search tasks currently evaluated using large web collections, such as known-item and high-precision searching, focus on the needs of the common web searcher but also arise from our inability to measure recall on very large collections. Good estimates of the total set of relevant documents are critical to the reliability and reusability of test collections as we now use them, but it would take hundreds of different systems, hundreds of relevance assessors, and years of effort to produce a terabyte-sized collection with completeness of judgments comparable to a typical TREC collection. Hence, new evaluation methodologies and ways of building test collections are needed to scale retrieval experiments to the next level. The workshop will focus on discussions among workshop participants rather than paper presentations. The morning session will begin with an introduction and three or four brief focus talks. These presentations will necessarily depend on who attends, but we expect topics to include building realistic web collections, the recall problem in large collections, and novel evaluation methodologies. The workshop will then break out into small groups to discuss each of these facets and how they might be made to work in practice. After lunch, each of the break-out groups will report back to the workshop. Finally, we will brainstorm a proposal for a new Very Large Corpus track to be held at TREC 2004. Those wishing to participate should submit a short (1-2 page) position paper describing their thoughts on very large evaluations and terabyte-sized test collections. The workshop is limited to 25 attendees who will be selected by the organizing committee based on their position papers. Submissions may be sent via e-mail in PDF or PostScript format to Ian Soboroff . DATES -- Submissions due: June 2, 2003 Acceptance notification: June 13, 2003 Workshop: August 1, 2003 ********************************************************************** I.B.8. From: "Geoffrey Williams" EURALEX 2004 First Call for Papers The 11th EURALEX International Congress will be held in Lorient, France, from the 6 to the 10th July, 2004. The Congess organizers are the Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient. The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, scholars, and others interested in dictionaries of all types. The programme will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software demonstrations, pre-congress tutorials and specialized workshops, a book and software exhibition, and social events for participants and their guests. Topics Papers, posters, and software demonstrations are invited on all topics of lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields, which are the main focus of the congress: 1.. Computational Lexicography and Lexicology. 2.. The Dictionary-Making Process. 3.. Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects. 4.. Bilingual Lexicography. 5.. Lexicography for Specialised Languages - Terminology and Terminography. 6.. Historical and Scholarly Lexicography and Etymology. 7.. Dictionary Use. 8.. Phraseology and Collocation. 9.. Lexicological Issues of Lexicographical Relevance. 10.. Other topics. The main topics are not meant to exclude any lexicographic topic. Papers, posters, and demonstrations that are relevant to the congress, but which do not fit into any of the categories 1-9, will be reviewed nonetheless and considered for presentation. Papers Individual presentations should be timed for 30 minutes, and will be followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Short papers and project notes There will be opportunities for short papers and project notes. These will be allowed 20 minutes with a 10-minute discussion period. There are no restrictions on language of presentations, but unfortunately it is not possible to offer interpretation. Software demonstrations We are particularly interested in well-prepared software demonstrations, presentations of electronic dictionaries, corpora, tools, etc. These demonstrations will be allowed a 20-minute time slot at the congress (they may possibly be presented twice). Technical facilities will be available. Posters A poster session is planned. Appropriate facilities will be provided on the Congress site. Submissions Submissions may be one of the following types: Contributed papers, Software demonstrations, Posters. All submissions will be reviewed by two or three members of the referees panel. The programme will be selected by the programme committee. Submissions proposing software demonstrations should include a description of the functions, underlying approach and implementation of the software, possibly an indication of a URL, and hardware/software requirements. Authors should send five hard copies before 30th October 2003. Email submission may be used in addition, but the hardcopy submission in five copies is mandatory. Format Contributed Papers: 6-8 pages, double-spaced; Software Demonstrations: 4 pages, double-spaced; Posters: 1-2 pages, double-spaced; Front page: a.. Title of the paper/software demonstration/poster; b.. Name(s), affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s); c.. Abstract (10-15 lines); d.. In the top right corner: indication of the topic category. If your paper does not fit into any of the main categories, please use 10. Authors whose submissions are accepted will receive a style guide for the preparation of the (electronic) final version of the paper to be published in the Proceedings immediately before the congress. Contributed papers will be allowed up to 10 pages: papers relating to Software Demonstrations c. 5 pages, in a separate section of the Proceedings. Important Dates 30th October 2003: Deadline for receipt of preliminary versions of papers by congress organisers. 1st February 2004: Despatch of notifications of acceptance/rejection. 15th March 2004: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers for inclusion in the Proceedings. Contact address Congress Organizers EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Faculté de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France Email : elx2004@univ-ubs.fr Website : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004 The information at this location will be kept up to date. Programme Committee: Geoffrey Williams (F), Anna Braasch (DK), Frantisek Cermák (CZ), Krista Varantola (FIN) Henri Béjoint (F). Reviewers will include the above, the members of the EURALEX Executive Board, and additional experts. Pre-EURALEX tutorials: Pre-EURALEX tutorials will be organised. Topics will be announced later. Exhibitions: A book and software exhibition will be organised in the coffee break area of the Congress site. Walk-up-and-use software demonstrations (without presentation, not included in the Proceedings) may be given there; however, participants should bring their own transportable PCs or laptops as there will be no technical support. Registration: Fees will be announced later. An early subscription bonus, as well as a reduction for EURALEX members, will be offered. A late fee will apply. Accommodation: This will be organised directly by the Tourist Office of Lorient. Block reservations will be made in the centre of Lorient. The University is about 30 minutes on foot from the centre or 10 minutes by bus. Low budget accommodation will be provided as well. Information can be obtained from the Congress Organisers or from: Office du Tourisme du Pays de Lorient Maison de la Mer Quai de Rohan 56100 LORIENT Telephone: (33) 2 97 21 00 52. Fax: (33) 2 97 21 06 65 Email: contact@lorient-tourisme.com PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM FOR EURALEX 2004 To receive the second circular in September 2003, please complete and return this form (or a copy from the EURALEX web site) as soon as possible, and before 31 July 2003, to the following address. Alternatively you can email elx2004@univ-ubs.fr. Congress Organizers EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Faculté de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France NAME INSTITUTION DEPARTMENT STREET ZIP/POSTCODE CITY COUNTRY TELEPHONE EMAIL PLEASE TICK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING [ ] I wish to present a paper at the Congress [ ] I wish to present a software demonstration at the Congress [ ] I wish to present a poster at the Congress [ ] I do not wish to present a paper/demonstration/poster at the Congress ACCOMODATION PREFERENCES (Price Range) [ ] 4 star 107-258 Euros [ ] 3 star 76-99 Euros [ ] 2 star 46-68 Euros [ ] 1 star 32-38 Euros [ ] Youth Hostel ********************************************************************** I.B.9. From: "Dave Lewis" CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Third Workshop on Operational Text Classification (OTC-03) August 27, 2003 Washington, DC (co-located with KDD 2003 Conference) The OTC workshops feature talks and discussion by developers and users of text classification in a range of real-world settings. The 2003 workshop particularly encourages presentations on uses of text classification in text & data mining. However, ALL applications of text classification are of interest, including controlled vocabulary and web directory indexing, construction of specialized information feeds, information security, help desk automation, content filtering (e.g. spam, pornography), and alerting. Prospective speakers should submit an abstract (maximum 750 words) to otc2003submit@daviddlewis.com by June 8, 2003. Visit http://www.daviddlewis.com/events/otc2003 for more information, or write otc2003info@daviddlewis.com. ********************************************************************** I.B.10 From: "RCDL'2003 Organizing Committee" Submission server for RCDL'2003 is open. Deadline for submission is May 10, 2003. Please, follow instructions from http://rcdl2003.spbu.ru/en/contributions.html to submit a paper for consideration. Best regards, RCDL'2003 Organizing Committee. ================================================================ First Call for Papers RCDL 2003 Fifth National Russian Research Conference on Digital Libraries Saint-Petersburg, Russia, October 29-31, 2003 http://www.rcdl2003.spbu.ru Aims and Audience ================= Digital libraries (DL) that one day will evolve to full fledged knowledge repositories can be seen as complex information systems with many technical, practical and social issues. Building and deployment of such systems require contribution from numerous scientific disciplines. The purpose of this conference series is to stimulate evolvement of the Russian digital libraries community and encourage research in this field. RCDL brings Russian scientific and application communities contributing to DL field together and provides an open forum for exchange of experience, ideas and results as well as stimulates communication and cooperation between experts in the field. We welcome contributions and participation from all interested in relevant aspects of digital libraries including researchers, developers, practitioners, students, postgraduates, policy makers and users. Participation is sought from all parts of the world stimulating international collaboration in the digital library field. Attention will be paid to progress of digital libraries research and application projects funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and other programs. Several collocated pre- and post-conference workshops are expected. Being major Russian event in the digital libraries field RCDL attracts increasing attention from foreign participants and helps to improve international collaboration. Relevant Topics =============== The conference topics include but are not limited to: - Models and standards for information and metainformation representation (including thesauri and ontologies) in DL. - Methods and tools for data discovery, extraction analysis and retrieval in DL (including audio-visual and mixed data). - Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, and metainformation integration. - DL architectures. Mobile computing and agents related to digital libraries. - Human aspects of DL (interaction with and collaboration in DL, personalization, data visualization (rendering) and analysis of data, intellectual property, user communities). DL and changes in information consumption processes. - Multilingual data access and multilingual data service. - DL, DL prototypes and digital collections for science, education, culture, health care and management. Deployment and promotion of digital libraries. - Digital collections in traditional libraries, museums, archives, information centers. - Advanced technologies of digital collection building, storage and system maintenance. - Evaluation: metrics, testbeds, results. - Digital collection cataloging, indexing, annotating, recommendation, maintenance of integrity and consistency. - DL security and information protection. - Grid technologies and digital libraries, data grid. Call for Contributions ====================== Submissions are invited for full papers and workshops that clearly demonstrate their relevance to Digital Libraries. All papers must be original contributions and not previously published nor currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Extended abstracts are required at the submission stage. Submitted abstracts should be at least 5 pages long (2500 words) and full version of papers must be with a limit of 10 pages (5000 words). Submissions can be either in Russian or in English. All contributions will be thoroughly peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings as full papers. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. On submission authors should indicate one of the two directions to which their submission belongs - "Core technologies" or "Practical application and experience". "Core technologies" direction is dedicated for research papers that compare or present new architectures, methods and technologies for digital libraries. These papers will be evaluated on the base of originality, technical quality, and demonstrated relation to prior research. Second direction is dedicated to papers reporting on building real-world Digital Libraries and collections. Program committee solicits submissions covering development of innovative digital libraries, novel applications of digital libraries technology, experience in applying recent research advances to practical cases and deployment of digital libraries. Such papers should be grounded on prior research, theory, or implementation, clearly indicating the new contributions of the work. Both extended abstracts and full papers are accepted only electronically in Postscript, PDF or RTF formats. Please, access submission server from http://rcdl2003.spbu.ru/ru/contributions.html. Full papers format requirements will be made available at the conference website. Important Dates =============== March 31, 2003 Workshop proposals due May 10, 2003 Submissions of extended abstracts due June 20, 2003 Notification of acceptance August 20, 2003 Camera ready papers due Venue ===== The northern capital of Russia, Saint-Petersburg (http://www.spb.ru) is one of the most beautiful cities of the world. Several architectural ensembles, created by Russian and European artists, contribute to unique architectural appearance of the city. Hundreds of museums, including Hermitage (http://www.hermitage.ru) and the Russian Museum (http://www.rusmuseum.ru), host several world-famous collections of pictures and fine arts. Several theatres, including Mariinsky opera and ballet theatre (http://www.mariinsky.ru), concert halls, classical philharmonic and jazz philharmonic halls are also working in Saint-Petersburg. In 2003 Saint-Petersburg celebrates its 300th anniversary. Extended renovation program is expected to be completed before the official celebration in May, 2003. Several cultural events, such as festivals and exhibitions, will be held in Saint-Petersburg during the year 2003 (http://www.spb300.com). An increased number of visitors is expected. The conference will be hosted by Saint-Petersburg State University (http://www.spbu.ru) - the oldest and one of the largest universities of Russia. Conference Organization ======================= Program Committee Co-Chairs: Oleg Siountiourenko, Russian Foundation for Basic Research Leonid Kalinichenko, Institute for Problems of Informatics, RAS Boris Novikov, Saint-Petersburg University Program Committee: Jose Luis Borbinha, BN/IST/INESC, Portugal Vasily Bunakov, State Research Center, Institute for High Energy Physics Olga Dluzhnevskaya, Institute of Astronomy, RAS Boris Dobroff, Moscow State University Anatolii Fedotov, United Institute of Computer Science SB, RAS Elza Gousseva, Moscow State University of Culture and Arts Nikolai Kalenov, Library for Natural Sciences, RAS Victor Kapustin, Interdisciplinary Centre, Saint-Petersburg State University Mikhail Kogalovsky, Market Economy Institute, RAS Nikolai Kolchanov, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch, RAS Efim Kudashev, Space Research Institute, RAS Victor Lebedev, IAMR KRC RAS Vladimir Litvin, California Institute of Technology, USA Jean-Yves Le Meur, CERN Igor Nekrestyanov, Saint-Petersburg State University Joseph Romanovsky, Saint-Petersburg State University Vladimir Serebryakov, Computing Centre of RAS Ilya Segalovich, Yandex, Moscow Vladislav Shirikov, Joint Institute Nuclear Research Guennadi Sigovtsev, Petrozavodsk State University Alexandr Tomilin, Institute of System Programming, RAS Alex Ushakov, Unversity of California of Santa Barbara Vladimir Vdovitsin, IAMR KRC RAS Vladimir Voevodin, Research Computing Center MSU Victor Zakharov, Institute of Informatics Problems, RAS Sergei Znamenskii, Program System Institute, RAS Organizing Committee Chairs: Vladimir Troyan, Saint-Petersburg University Boris Novikov, Saint-Petersburg University Organizing Committee: Dmitry Barashev, Saint-Petersburg State University Vladimir Dobrynin, Saint-Petersburg State University Igor Kuralenok, Saint-Petersburg State University Elena Mihailova, Saint-Petersburg State University Igor Nekrestyanov, Saint-Petersburg State University Ekaterina Pavlova, Saint-Petersburg State University Elena Tolkacheva, Saint-Petersburg State University European Coordinator: Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece Details ======= Further details and latest news will be available at the conference web site http://www.rcdl2003.spbu.ru. Contact ======= Boris Novikov Address: Research Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics of Saint- Petersburg University Universitetsky prospekt, 28. Saint-Petersburg, 198504 Phone: +7-812-428-4206 Fax: +7-812-428-7039 E-mail: rcdl2003@meta.math.spbu.ru * Version for printing: http://www.rcdl2003.spbu.ru/rcdl2003-cfp-en.pdf ********************************************************************** I.B.11. From: Dominich Sándor ACM SIGIR 2003 WORKSHOP ON MATHEMATICAL/FORMAL METHODS IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL MF/IR 2003 August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada OBJECTIVE The previous three workshops (ACM SIGIR 2000 MF/IR 2000, Athens, Greece, ACM SIGIR 2001 MF/IR 2001, New Orleans, USA, and ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2002, Tampere, Finland) showed that the mathematical/formal results achieved in Information Retrieval (IR) could be organized into a coherent theoretical framework, that they brought new knowledge to IR, and that mathematical/formal research in IR can stand as a specialized research area of IR. The purpose of the MF/IR 2003 workshop is, on the one hand, to continue and enhance the results obtained so far, and on the other hand, to present, discuss, analyze, the newer/newest results. Therefore MF/IR 2003 aims at promoting discussion and interaction among those with theoretical and applicative research interests in mathematical/formal aspects of Information Retrieval, and also at being a forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applicative results (e.g., foundational issues; description and/or integration of models; retrieval applications; mathematical/formal techniques, properties and structures in IR; existing and/or new theories and theoretical aspects). There will be paper presentations, and it is planned to have an invited speaker. Although the presentations will follow a conference style, interaction and discussion shall be of primary importance. The presentations will be followed by a Discussion Panel, since this form of interaction has been very successful in the previous MF/IR workshops. Due to high interest in this workshop in previous years, paper presentations will be selected on a peer review basis, just as in previous workshops. TOPICS OF INTEREST Contributions are solicited dealing with, but not limited to, the following areas: Digital Libraries Evaluation Hypermedia Indexing and Retrieval Information Filtering Information Mining Information Retrieval Link Analysis Semantic Web and Ontologies User Modeling, User Tasks, and Context World Wide Web Retrieval where the different entities involved (e.g., documents, queries, relevance, effectiveness, users, etc.) are modeled using any of, but not necessarily limited to, the following approaches: Algebra Artificial Intelligence Boolean Logic Classical Sets Complexity Theory Euclidean Geometry Functional Analysis Fuzzy Logic Fuzzy Sets Graph Theory Information Theory Linear Space Matroid Theory Metric Spaces Non-Euclidean Geometries Non-standard Logics Probability Quantum Logic Quantum Mechanics Recursion Theory Rough Sets Similarity Functions Statistical Mechanics Theory of Computation Theory of Uncertainty Topology Vectors WORKSHOP CHAIRS · Sandor Dominich (University of Veszprem, Hungary) · Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, England, U.K.) · Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.) PROGRAM COMMITTEE · Peter Bruza (Distr. Sys. Tech. Centre, Queensland, Australia) · Steven Cater (Kettering University, U.S.A.) · Fabio Crestani (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) · Leo Egghe (Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium) · Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg, Germany) · Donald H. Kraft (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.) · Eduard Hoenkamp (University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands) · Theo Huibers (KPMG Bus. Adv. Serv., the Netherlands) · David Losada (University of Madrid, Spain) · Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada) · Gabriella Pasi (ITIM-CNR, Milan, Italy) · Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, U.S.A.) · Michael Wong (University of Regina, Canada) SUBMISSION Submitted papers should be of at most 15 normal (A4) pages in length. Please submit the paper in PDF or PS by e-mail to the following e-mail address dominich@dcs.vein.hu using "MF/IR 2003 Submission" as the e-mail subject line. The format for the paper should follow a usual format in IR publishing. All submissions will be reviewed by two referees. All accepted papers will be made available in a printed and/or electronic proceedings. It is planned that a selected number of accepted papers, once expanded and revised, will be included in a post-workshop journal issue. CORRESPONDENCE Direct correspondence, inquires and submissions relating to this workshop should be addressed to: Sandor Dominich, e-mail: dominich@dcs.vein.hu IMPORTANT DATES Submission (paper, summary): 1 June 2003 Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2003 Final submission: 30 June 2003 Workshop: 1 August 2003 FURTHER INFORMATION Further information can be found on the SIGIR 2003 Web pages http://www.sigir2003.org/. ********************************************************************** I.B.12. From: "Susan Dumais" SIGIR 2003: Workshop on Implicit Measures of User Interests and Preferences Organizers: Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research Krishna Bharat, Google Thorsen Joachims, Cornell University Andreas Weigend, Amazon Important Dates: June 2, 2003 - Position statements and abstract submissions due June 16, 2003 - Notification of acceptance July 7, 2003 - Final notebook statements and abstracts due Aug 1, 2003 - Workshop NOTE: All people wishing to attend the workshop must submit a position statement before June 2, 2003. Submission details below. Workshop Overview The goal of the workshop on Implicit Measures is to explore how various implicit measures of user interests can be used in information retrieval and filtering applications where it is difficult to obtain explicit user feedback. Since this is the first workshop on this topic at SIGIR, we encourage participation from people with different backgrounds and perspectives including predictive modeling, experimental analysis, and applications development. Applications from information retrieval, collaborative filtering, e-commerce, user modeling, and human-computer interaction are encouraged. As an outcome of the workshop we hope to identify key theoretical modeling issues, systematize engineering principles and best practices, and spark new research directions. In most information retrieval or filtering applications, it is difficult to get explicit feedback from users about the relevance of the results, the appropriateness of the presentation, and more generally about the quality of their experience. Yet explicit judgments are assumed by researchers for many activities like the tuning and selection of ranking algorithms, information combination, user modeling, information presentation, etc. This workshop will explore how implicit measures of user interest (such as dwell time, click through, and user activities like annotation, printing, and purchasing) can be used to develop predictive models for a variety of purposes. Example uses in the context of information retrieval include: improved ranking and relevance assessment (e.g., the extent to which implicit measures can be used to evaluate the quality of systems, ranking algorithms and recommendations, or as input to relevance feedback algorithms); personalization in search, filtering or presentation; personalization in the large considering both individual and aggregate data; browsing or searching agents; automatic hyperlink generation; and adaptive web site design. An examination of theoretical issues such as modeling approaches (Bayesian techniques and other predictive models), gold standards for user behavior (e.g., relevance judgments, purchases), combining implicit and explicit preferences, and biases introduced by reliance on implicit measures are also encouraged. We encourage presentation and participation from both researchers who are interested in theoretical issues, and practitioners who have deployed systems that make use of implicit indicators of user interest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Novel techniques for collecting and using user activity data Information retrieval or collaborative filtering applications that use implicit indicators of interest (e.g., buying, usage or reading patterns) rather than ratings from users Integrating information about individual and aggregate group behaviors for search or collaborative filtering Adaptive web presentation and content selection based on inferred preferences (e.g., surfing assistants, intelligent agents, personalize web pages and sites) Practical issues in deployment of personalized systems (e.g., how do users react; are users confused by non-repeatability; how can users manage state) Personal profiles and feedback influencing search results Merging ranking from multiple sources using implicit usage information Search or relevance evaluation with implicit measures Modeling the evolution of interests and preference over time or task Effective predictive modeling techniques Limitations and biases encountered when relying on implicit measures Privacy issues Planned Activities: Planned activities include invited talks or introductory overviews in key areas, short talks grouped by topic along with substantial discussion periods. The workshop will also include a closing discussion on lessons learned, open issues, and potential follow-ups. Submission Process for Participants Two kinds of participation are solicited: Attendees: Attendance by researchers and practitioners with interests in implicit measures. Presenters: Presentations about predictive modeling techniques or experiences with systems that have used implicit measures of user interest, preferences, etc. All applicants must submit a short position statement (maximum 250 words) describing their background and interest in implicit measures of user interest and preferences. Participants who would like to present should submit an abstract (maximum 750 words) in addition detailing the major points and/or results they would present during a talk. Submissions of both kinds will be reviewed by the program committee and invitations issued. Workshop attendance will be limited to presenters and attendees selected by the committee based on their submissions. Submissions are due on June 2, 2003 (5pm PST). Email your submissions (ascii or pdf preferred) to Susan Dumais, sdumais@microsoft.com. A notebook of participants position statements and presentation descriptions will be distributed to all attendees. A summary of workshop activities and emerging issues and trends will be prepared for the SIGIR Forum by the organizers. Workshop Web Site: http://research.microsoft.com/~sdumais/SIGIR2003/SIGIR2003-ImplicitWork shop.htm ********************************************************************** I.B.13. From: Padmini Srinivasan ACM CIKM 2003 Call For Papers 12th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'03) November, 3-8 2003 Hotel Inter-Continental New Orleans, LA, USA Web site: http://www.cikm.org/2003 Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS (pending approval) Since 1992, CIKM has brought together leading researchers and developers from several areas of information and knowledge management, database management systems (DBMS) and information retrieval (IR). We continue this tradition of collaboration between information and knowledge management. Only the highest caliber papers submitted to CIKM 2003 will be accepted. We have a special interest in papers that bridge the areas of databases and information retrieval. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Data and Knowledge Sharing Interactive Data Exploration Data Mining Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Discovery Information Filtering and Summarization IR Effectiveness and Efficiency Information Visualization Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data Information Classification Data Warehouses Intelligent Mediators OLAP Data Management in Mobile Environments Distributed Object Management KM Applications for Wireless Infrastructures Digital Libraries Data Communications Heterogeneous and Distributed Systems Multimedia Databases Hypertext and Hypermedia Knowledge Management Semi-Structured Data Management Collaborative Applications Query Processing Management of data streams Data processing in sensor networks Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. At least one author will be required to attend the conference to present the paper. Electronic submission of manuscripts is required, preferably in PDF. Detailed instructions for electronic submission, will be available at our website: http://www.cikm.org/2003. Interested individuals are also invited to submit proposals for tutorials. (Please check the bottom of this page for further instructions on tutorials). Important Dates: May 20, 2003 Electronic abstract due May 28, 2003 Full paper submission due, Tutorial proposals due Aug. 5, 2003 Notification of acceptance Sept. 3, 2003 Camera ready copy due CIKM'03 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Don Kraft, LSU Honorary Chair: Charles Nicholas, UMBC Treasurer: Eun-Kyo Park, UMKC Registration Chair: Yugyung Lee, UMKC Program Chair (IR): Ophir Frieder, IIT Program Chair (DB): Joachim Hammer, University of Florida Program Chair (KM): Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska - Omaha Program Chair (Industry): Len Seligman, Mitre Proceedings Chair: Nazli Goharian, IIT Workshop Chair: Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University Exhibits and Corporate Sponsors: David Grossman, IIT Tutorials Chair: Allison Powell, CNRI Publicity Chair: Padmini Srinivasan, University of Iowa Local Arrangements Chair: Erin V. Collier, Tulane University Local Arrangements Assistant Chair: Carol Barry, LSU Webmaster (Information Architect): Gigi Phillips, LSU Guidelines for tutorials: CIKM 2003 will begin with a day of tutorials held on November 3. The Program Committee solicits proposals for half day (3 hour session) tutorials. Tutorial proposals should include both a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should include: - tutorial title, - intended audience (introductory, intermediate or advanced), - tutorial objective, - names of instructors and a one-paragraph biography for each instructor, describing qualifications and experience. The extended abstract should include a description of the information to be covered and course materials to be provided. The extended abstract should not exceed 5 pages. Please send proposals to the tutorials chair, Allison Powell (cikm03_tutorials@yahoo.com) before May 28, 2003. ********************************************************************** I.B.14. From: "Einat Amitay" VLDB 2003 CONFERENCE, Berlin, Germany - ACCEPTED PAPERS OF ALL THREE TRACKS Below is a list of the research papers of the "CORE" track, the "Infrastructure for Information System" track, and the "Industrial Applications & Experience" track that have been accepted for the VLDB 2003 conference in Berlin, Germany, September 9-12, 2003. The final titles and author lists might be subject to change and will be posted after the Camera Ready copy due in mid/end June, 2003. Thanks to all the authors, PC members, and reviewers. Special thanks to my Co-Chairs Pat Selinger, Serge Abiteboul, and Mike Carey for their excellent and timely work. The organizing team for VLDB 2003 looks forward to seeing you in Berlin in September!! Please do not respond to this message with updates/changes. Johann-Christoph Freytag VLDB 2003 Technical Program Chair ACCEPTED PAPERS: (84 accepted out of 547 submissions) ----------------------------------------------------- #113 Querying the Internet with PIER Authors: Ryan Huebsch, Joseph Hellerstein, Nick Lanham, Boon Thau Loo, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica #119 Tuple Routing Strategies for Distributed Eddies Authors: Feng Tian, David DeWitt #135 Path Queries on Compressed XML Authors: Christoph Koch, Peter Buneman, Martin Grohe #144 Continuous K-Nearest Neighbor Queries for Continuously Moving Points with Updates Authors: Glenn Iwerks, Hanan Samet, Ken Smith #159 The TPR*-Tree: An Optimized Spatio-Temporal Access Method for Predictive Queries Authors: Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Jimeng Sun #162 Table Compression In Oracle Authors: Meikel Poess, Dmitry Potapov #164 Phrase Matching in XML Authors: Sihem Amer-Yahia, Mary Fernandez, Divesh Srivastava, Yu Xu #172 Locking Protocols for Materialized Aggregate Join Views Authors: gang luo, jeffrey naughton, curt ellmann, michael watzke #176 Merging Models Based on Given Correspondences Authors: Rachel Pottinger, Philip Bernstein #178 Processing Sliding Window Multi-Joins in Continuous Queries over Data Streams Authors: Lukasz Golab, M. Tamer Ozsu #194 Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases Authors: Dimitris Papadias, Jun Zhang, Nikos Mamoulis, Yufei Tao #206 Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps Authors: Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen, Jens Teubner #220 Improving Performance with Bulk-Inserts in Oracle R-Trees Authors: Ning An, Ravi Kothuri, Siva Ravada #221 Efficient Processing of Expressive Node-Selecting Queries on XML Data in Secondary Storage: A Tree Automata-based Approach Authors: Christoph Koch #238 Covering Indexes for XML Queries: Bisim-Sim=Negation Authors: Prakash Ramanan #244 Complex Queries over Web Repositories Authors: Sriram Raghavan, Hector Garcia-Molina #268 Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly Uncooperative Local Systems Authors: Clement Yu, George Philip, Weiyi Meng #269 Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases Authors: Ihab Ilyas, Walid Aref, Ahmed Elmagarmid #275 SASH: A Self-Adaptive Histogram Set for Dynamically Changing Workloads Authors: Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Jeffrey Vitter #279 Efficient Query Processing for Multi-Dimensionally Clustered Tables in DB2 Authors: Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Sriram Padmanabhan, Timothy Malkemus, Tony Lai, Leslie Cranston, Matthew Huras #282 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases Authors: Vagelis Hristidis, Luis Gravano, Yannis Papakonstantinou #283 Operator Scheduling in a Data Stream Manager Authors: Donald Carney, Ugur Cetintemel, Stan Zdonik, Alex Rasin, Mitch Cherniack, Michael Stonebraker #286 Controlling Access to Published Data Using Cryptography Authors: Gerome Miklau, Dan Suciu #287 Balancing Performance and Data Freshness in Web Database Servers Authors: Alexandros Labrinidis, Nick Roussopoulos #302 BHUNT: Automatic Discovery of Fuzzy Algebraic Constraints in Relational Data Authors: Peter Haas, Paul Brown #312 A Framework for Clustering Evolving Data Streams Authors: Charu Aggarwal, Jiawei Han, Jianyong Wang, Philip Yu #318 Buffering Accesses to Memory-Resident Index Structures Authors: Jingren Zhou, Kenneth Ross #320 Adaptive, Hands-Off Stream Mining Authors: Spiros Papadimitriou, Anthony Brockwell, Christos Faloutsos #326 Query Processing for High-Volume XML Message Brokering Authors: yanlei diao, Michael Franklin #329 Efficient Mining of XML Query Patterns for Caching Authors: Liang-Huai Yang, Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu #341 Supporting Frequent Updates in R-Trees: A Bottom-Up Approach Authors: Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu, Christian S. Jensen, Keng Lik Teo #346 XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML Authors: Sara Cohen, Jonathan Mamou, Yaron Kanza, Yehoshua Sagiv #357 COMBI-Operator: Database Support for Data Mining Applications Authors: Alexander Hinneburg, Wolfgang Lehner, Dirk Habich #359 Systematic Development of Data Mining-Based Data Quality Tools Authors: Dominik Lübbers, Udo Grimmer, Matthias Jarke #361 VIPAS: Virtual Link Powered Authority Search in the Web Authors: Ming-Syan Chen, Chi-Chun Lin #382 AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions Authors: Arvind Hulgeri, S Sudarshan #384 On the minimization of Xpath queries Authors: Sergio Flesca, Filippo Furfaro, Elio Masciari #388 Capturing Global Transactions from Multiple Recovery Log Files in a Partitioned Database System Authors: Chengfei Liu, Bruce Lindsay, Serge Bourbonnais, Elizabeth Hamel, Tuong Truong, Jens Stankiewitz #397 Holistic Twig Joins on Indexed XML Documents Authors: Haifeng Jiang, Wei Wang, Hongjun Lu #402 Multiscale Histograms: Summarizing Topological Relations in Large Spatial Datasets Authors: Xuemin Lin, Qing Liu, Yidong Yuan, Xiaofang Zhou #408 On the Costs of Multilingualism Authors: A Kumaran, Jayant Haritsa #417 Estimating the Output Cardinality of Partial Preaggregation with a Measure of Clusteredness Authors: Sven Helmer, Thomas Neumann, Guido Moerkotte #427 A Regression-Based Temporal Pattern Mining Scheme for Data Streams Authors: Wei-Guang Teng, Ming-Syan Chen, Philip Yu #431 Maximizing the Output Rate of Multi-Way Join Queries over Streaming Information Sources Authors: Stratis Viglas, jeffrey naughton, Josef Burger #445 Scheduling for shared window joins over data streams Authors: Moustafa Hammad, Michael Franklin, Walid Aref, Ahmed Elmagarmid #460 Checks and Balances: Monitoring Data Quality Problems in Network Traffic Databases Authors: Flip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan, Yunyue Zhu #461 A Dependability Benchmark for OLTP Application Environments Authors: Marco Vieira, Henrique Madeira #474 A Shrinking-Based Approach for Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis Authors: Yong Shi, Yuqing Song, Aidong Zhang #475 Coarse-Grained Optimization: Techniques for Rewriting SQL Statement Sequences Authors: Tobias Kraft, Holger Schwarz, Ralf Rantzau, Bernhard Mitschang #486 3XNF: Redundancy eliminating XML storage in relations Authors: yi chen, Susan Davidson, Yifeng Zheng #487 An Efficient and Resilient Approach to Filtering and Disseminating Dynamic Data Authors: Shetal Shah, Shyamshankar Dharmarajan, Krithi Ramamritham #495 The ND-Tree: A Dynamic Indexing Technique for Multidimensional Non-ordered Discrete Data Spaces Authors: Gang Qian, Qiang Zhu, Qiang Xue, Sakti Pramanik #496 A Complete and High-performance XQuery Engine for Streaming Data Authors: Daniela Florescu, Chris Hillary, Donald Kossmann, Paul Lucas, Fabio Riccardi, Till Westmann, Michael Carey, Arvind Sundararajan, Geetika Agrawal #498 OASIS: An Online and Accurate Technique for Local-alignment Searches on Biological Sequences Authors: Colin Meek, Jignesh Patel, Shruti Kasetty #508 AQuery: Query Language for Ordered Data, Optimization Techniques, and Experiments Authors: Alberto Lerner, Dennis Shasha #523 Finding Hierarchical Heavy Hitters in Data Streams Authors: Graham Cormode, Flip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan, Divesh Srivastava #528 Temporal Slicing in the Evaluation of XML Queries Authors: Dengfeng Gao, Richard Snodgrass #531 WISE-Integrator: An Automatic Integrator of Web Search Interfaces for E-Commerce Authors: Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Zonghuan Wu #535 Efficient Approximation Of Optimization Queries Under Parametric Aggregation Constraints Authors: Nick Koudas, Sudipto Guha, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Divesh Srivastava, Michail Vlachos #536 MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage Authors: Alin Deutsch, Val Tannen #544 The Generalized Pre-Grouping Transformation: Aggregate-Query Optimization in the Presence of Dependencies Authors: Aris Tsois, Timos Sellis #551 Integrated Data Management for Mobile Services in the Real World Authors: Christian Hage, Christian S. Jensen, Torben Bach Pedersen, Laurynas Speicys, Igor Timko #553 Tabular Placement of Relational Data on MEMS-based Storage Devices Authors: Hailing Yu, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi #558 Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique Authors: Richard Hankins, Jignesh Patel #569 Lachesis: Robust Database Storage Management Based on Device-specific Performance Characteristics Authors: Jiri Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory Ganger #580 Making Sampling Robust with APA Authors: Christopher Jermaine #585 Projecting XML Documents Authors: Amélie Marian, Jerome Simeon #586 Memory Requirements for Query Execution in Highly Constrained Devices Authors: Nicolas Anciaux, Luc Bouganim, Philippe Pucheral #601 Cache Tables: Paving the Way for an Adaptive Database Cache Authors: Mehmet Altinel, Christof Bornhoevd, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, C. Mohan, Hamid Pirahesh, Berthold Reinwald #613 Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager Authors: Nesime Tatbul, Ugur Cetintemel, Stan Zdonik, Mitch Cherniack, Michael Stonebraker #615 Mixed Mode XML Query Processing Authors: Alan Halverson, Josef Burger, Ameet Kini, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Ajith Nagaraja Rao, Feng Tian, Stratis Viglas, Yuan Wang, jeffrey naughton, David DeWitt #617 Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration Authors: Dong Xin, Jiawei Han, Xiaolei Li, Benjamin W. Wah #619 Composing Mappings Among Data Sources Authors: Jayant Madhavan, Alon Halevy #625 From Tree Patterns to Generalized Tree Patterns: On Efficient Evaluation of XQuery Authors: Zhimin Chen , H.V. Jagadish, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Stelios Paparizos #629 Data Bubbles for Non-Vector Data: Speeding-up Hierarchical Clustering in Arbitrary Metric Spaces Authors: Jianjun Zhou, Joerg Sander #634 Avoiding Ordering and Grouping During Query Processing Authors: Xiaoyu Wang, Mitch Cherniack #670 Locating Data Sources in Large Distributed Systems Authors: Leonidas Galanis, Yuan Wang, Shawn R Jeffery, David DeWitt #675 Privacy-Preserving Indexing of Documents on the Network Authors: Mayank Bawa, Roberto Bayardo Jr., Rakesh Agrawal #681 XML Schemas in Oracle XML DB Authors: Ravi Murthy, Sandeepan Banerjee #687 Mapping Adaptation under Evolving Schemas Authors: Yannis Velegrakis, Renee J. Miller, Lucian Popa #688 Optimized Query Execution in Large Search Engines with Global Page Ordering Authors: Xiaohui Long, Torsten Suel #695 Primitives for Workload Summarization Authors: Surajit Chaudhuri, Prasanna Ganesan, Vivek Narasayya #699 Statistics on Views Authors: Cesar Galindo-Legaria, Milind Joshi, Florian Waas, Ming-Chuan Wu #717 A Platform Based on the Multi-dimensional Data Model for Analysis of Bio- Molecular Structures Authors: Srinath Srinivasa, Sujit Kumar ********************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. From: Stephen Robertson Postdoctoral Research Positions at Microsoft Research Cambridge Computer vision, machine learning, and information retrieval Applications are invited for postdoctoral research positions at Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC) in the fields of computer vision, machine learning and information retrieval. These positions are for just under two years starting from a mutually agreeable date, generally no later than 1 January 2004. Applicants must have completed the requirements for a PhD, including submission of their thesis, prior to joining MSRC. Postdoctoral researchers receive a competitive salary, together with a benefits package, and will be eligible for relocation expenses. MSRC is Microsoft's European research laboratory, and is housed in a brand new purpose-designed building on Cambridge University's West Cambridge site, adjacent to the Computer Science and Physics departments, and close to the Mathematics departments and to the centre of town. It currently employs 65 researchers of many different nationalities working in a broad range of areas including computer vision, machine learning, information retrieval, hardware devices, programming languages, security, systems, networking and distributed computing. MSRC provides a vibrant research environment with an open publications policy and with close links to Cambridge University and many other academic institutions across Europe. Further information about the lab can be found at: http://www.research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/cambridge/ The closing date for applications is 9 May 2003. To apply please send a full CV (including a list of publications) in PDF, Postscript or Word format, together with the names and contact details for 3 referees, to: cambhr@microsoft.com with the subject line "Application for postdoctoral research position". ********************************************************************** II.2. From: Shirley Connelly POSTDOCTORAL POSITION at the National Center for Data Mining is available immediately to conduct research in data mining or data intensive computing. Preference will be given to candidates working in bioinformatics or a closely related field. 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