Return-Path: kqml-owner@cs.umbc.edu Received: from algol.cs.umbc.edu (root@algol.cs.umbc.edu [130.85.100.2]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id CAA29446 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 02:40:11 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by algol.cs.umbc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA14618 for kqml-outgoing; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:02:13 -0400 From: Timothy Finin Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:01:49 -0400 Message-Id: <199508172201.SAA08888@cujo.cs.umbc.edu> To: agents@sun.com, kqml@cs.umbc.edu, srkb@cs.umbc.edu, interlingua@isi.edu, agentalk@cslab.kecl.ntt.jp, ii_chi@acm.org, cg@cs.umn.edu, maamaw@imag.fr, ontolingua@HPP.Stanford.EDU, huhns@mcc.com Subject: CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, Call for Papers Sender: owner-kqml@cs.umbc.edu Precedence: bulk Call for Papers CIKM WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS December 1-2, 1995 Omni Inner Harbor Hotel Baltimore, Maryland, USA held in conjunction with the Fourth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'95) Sponsored by ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR In cooperation with NASA, Bellcore, NSF, AAAI*, IEEE Computer Society*, SIGLINK, CACS/USL, UMBC The CIKM95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents will bring together a small number of researchers who are working on or interested in exploring the use of agent-oriented paradigms in information systems. A partial list of topics relevant to the workshop is: o agent communication and messaging languages o agent programming and scripting languages o agent theories and architectures o interaction and coordination protocols (negotiation, partial global planning etc.) o learning agents and trainable agents o information mediators and agent-based middleware o the role of shared ontologies in agent systems o agent-human interfaces o information filtering, retrieval, gathering and monitoring o resource discovery by and for agents o integrated agent testbeds o applications of agent technology to digital libraries, electronic commerce, education, command and control, information filtering, data mining, etc. FORMAT: The workshop will consist of invited talks, individual presentations, and group discussion. If you wish to present your work, please submit five copies of a paper (up to 5000 words) or extended abstract (up to 2000 words). To participate, please submit a short position paper. All submissions should include an email address. Graduate students who are engaged in a relevant research project are encouraged to participate. An informal proceedings will be compiled from the extended abstracts and research statements and distributed at the workshop. Participants will be encouraged to submit in advance electronic material or URLs for an online "proceedings" to be made available on the web. The workshop will begin on Friday afternoon, December 1 and run through 5:00pm December 2. There will be a joint reception for all of the CIKM workshops on Friday evening. FOR MORE INFORMATION: To get more information on the workshop and to register your interest, send email to iiaw-info@cs.umbc.edu. You can also find current information at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/iia/. To get more information on CIKM95 and to register your interest, send email to cikm-info@cs.umbc.edu. You can also find current information at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~cikm/. SUBMISSIONS: Papers, extended abstracts and position papers should be submitted in electronic form -- HTML source is preferred; otherwise postscript or ASCII. If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy will be accepted. Email electronic submissions to: IIAW@CS.UMBC.EDU. FTP electronic submissions to FTP.CS.UMBC.EDU in pub/iiaw/incoming. Mail hardcopy to: CIKM95 IIA Workshop, CSEE Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 5401 Wilkens Ave., Baltimore MD 21228-5398. Please submit material so that it arrives on or before September 22, 1995. Invitations to participate will be sent by October 20, and final copies of workshop papers will be due on November 17. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partial) Yigal Arens (USC/ISI) Edmund Durfee (Michigan) Tim Finin (Maryland) CO-CHAIR (finin@umbc.edu) Benjamin Grossof (IBM) Michael Huhns (South Carolina) Yannis Labrou (Maryland) James Mayfield (Maryland) CO-CHAIR (mayfield@umbc.edu) Don McKay (Loral) Daniella Rus (Dartmuth) _______________________________________________________________________ Send mail to majordomo@cs.umbc.edu to subscribe/unsubscribe to the kqml mailing list. Send a message with the body "help" for more information. Archives are at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/mail/ Return-Path: Veronique.Benzaken@lri.fr Received: from lri.lri.fr (benzaken@lri.lri.fr [129.175.15.1]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.7.1/8.6.4) with ESMTP id LAA29293; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:47:15 +0100 (MET) Received: (benzaken@localhost) by lri.lri.fr (8.6.12/general) id KAA24196 ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 10:05:16 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 10:05:16 +0100 From: Veronique.Benzaken@lri.fr (Veronique Benzaken) Message-Id: <199511270905.KAA24196@lri.lri.fr> To: bd3@lri.lri.fr Subject: ACM' CIKM Bonjour, R. Laurini communique: ******************************************************************************** ACM CIKM'95 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AND ADVANCE PROGRAM ******************************************************************************* Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM '95 November 28 - December 2, 1995 OMNI Inner Harbor Hotel Baltimore, Maryland, USA Sponsored by: ACM SIGART and SIGIR in cooperation with AAAI, ACM SIGLINK, Bellcore, CACS/USL, NASA, NSF and UMBC The Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '95) will provide an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. CIKM'95 will bring together leading researchers and developers in a wide variety of scientific areas, with a common interest in improving information and knowledge management technologies. The CIKM conferences have become an effective and established forum for the discussion and dissemination of original and fundamental advances in the area, and to foster close international collaboration between the database, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence communities. An important part of the conference is the Workshops Program which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives. The conference will feature keynote addresses, invited talks, presentation of technical papers, workshops, panels and social events. Several preconference tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, November 28. TENTATIVE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Tuesday, November 28 -------------------- 5:30 am - 7:00 pm Registration and check-in 8:00 am - 12:00 noon Tutorials (see descriptions following this schedule) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch (included in tutorial fee) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Tutorials (see descriptions following this schedule) Wednesday, November 29 ---------------------- 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration and check-in 8:40 am - 9:00 am Opening session: 9:00 am - 10:00 am Plenary Openning Address: Paul Young Assistant Director, National Science Foundation(NSF) Current Trends in NSF Research in Computing Information and Communications 10:15 am - 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions: 1) Data Mining 2) Indexing 3) Invited talk: Research Problems in Data Warehousing Jennifer Widom, Stanford University Applications of Neural Nets to Databases Harold Zsu, CACS/USL 11:45 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Plenary Address: An Overview of the TSIMMIS System Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions: 1) Parallelism Mobile Environments 2) Interoperability 3) Query Processing 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Plenary Address: Enhancing Performance of Interoperable Database Systems and the Role of Materialized Views Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland College Park 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Conference Reception Thursday, November 30 --------------------- 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration and check-in 9:00 am - 10:00 am Plenary address: Performance Evaluation Issues in Generalization Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 10:15 am - 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions: 1) Information Retrieval I 2) Query Optimization 3) Invited Talks: Mining Knowledge at Multiple Concept Levels J.W. Han, Simon Fraser University, CA Designing Electronic Catalogs for Business Value Arie Segev, UC Berkeley 11:45 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Plenary address: User-Centered Interfaces and Tools A National Focus Area Gary Strong, National Science Foundation 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions: 1) Distribution 2) Information Retrieval II 3) Uncertainty Invited Talk: Marc Damashek, U.S. Department of Defense 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Plenary Address:Intelligent Integration of Information (I3C) Program Dave Gunning, ARPA 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Banquet Dinner Plenary Banquet Address: Milton Halem Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, Earth and Space Sciences Directorate, NASA NASA PARC'S for Communicating Knowledge: Public Access Resource Center Friday, December 1 ------------------ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration and check-in 9:00 am - 10:00 am Plenary Address: Research Directions in Database Security Teresa Lunt, SRI/ARPA 10:15 am - 11:45 noon Concurrent Sessions: 1) Collaboration and Workflow 2) Object Oriented and Rule Languages 3) Invited Talks 11:45 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Plenary Address: An Extensible Knowledge Base Management System for Supporting Rule Based Interoperability among\Heterogenous Systems Stanley Su, University of Florida 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions: 1) Temporal and Spatial 2) Knowledge Base Reasoning and Representation 3) Scientific and Design DBS 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Plenary Closing Panel Chair: Larry Reeker, National Science Foundation Funding Predictions and Research Challenges in Information and Knowledge Management 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Concurrent Workshop Sessions (GIS and Intelligent Agents only) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Maryland Science Center Tour and Reception (included in conference and workshop fee) Saturday, December 2 -------------------- 9:00 am - 10:30 am Concurrent Workshop Sessions* 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Concurrent Workshop Sessions* 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch (included in workshop fee) 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Concurrent Workshop Sessions* 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Concurrent Workshop Sessions* *See Workshop descriptions on following pages. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS ------------------------ Optional pre-conference tutorials will be held on Tuesday, November 28, 1995. The fee for the following tutorials is $200 each which includes lunch. Register for TWO tutorials at the special fee of $375. Indicate your choice by number on the registration form. #1 Digital Libraries - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon --------------------------------------------- Instructor: Professor Edward A. Fox, Department of Computer Science, Associate Director for Research, Computing Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA This tutorial will review current efforts in digital libraries and will include experience with building a digital library in computer science and applying it to education, application of information storage and retrieval, hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia technologies and requirements, architectures, design approaches, systems and projects. #2 Distributed Data and Object Management - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon ------------------------------------------------------------------ Instructor: M. Tamer Ozsu, Department of Computing Science, University of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The main objective of this tutorial is to provide an in-depth presentation of distributed data and object management technologies. The fundamental distributed data management techniques will be reviewed, their incarnation in object-oriented systems will be discussed as well as the particular problems of distributed object systems. This tutorial will also highlight the open problems and discuss the emerging standards in this area. #3 Task-Oriented User Interface Development - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon --------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructor: Chris Stary, Department for Information Systems, University of Technology, Vienna This tutorial puts user interface design and task-oriented software development into the perspective of task-oriented user interfaces. The objective is to close the knowledge gap between developers and researchers who have already gained conceptual and practical experiences with task-oriented system development methods and those who have to seek advice from project to project since each user interface seems to be unique in its complexity, requirements and constraints. #4 Index Multimedia Databases - 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. ------------------------------------------------ Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, ATT&T Bell Laboratories, and University of Maryland College Park, Maryland This tutorial surveys state-of-the-art methods for storing and retrieving multimedia data from large databases. Records may consist of formatted fields, text, images, voice, animation, etc. A sample query may be AD in a collection of 2-d color images, find images that are similar to a sunset photograph. The idea is to use feature extraction functions which map an image into a point in feature space so that spatial access methods (SAMs) can be used to accelerate the search. This tutorial will examine the properties of good feature extraction functions, highlight subtle problems, and give solutions. #5 Multidatabase Systems - 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. ------------------------------------------- Instructor: A. R. Hurson, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania This tutorial explores issues associated with multidatabases and presents the current status if work in the field. It covers a wide range of theoretical, conceptual, and practical topics and addresses the needs of a wide range of audiences including researchers, database designers, practitioners, and users of database systems. #6 A Rule-Based Approach to ER Modeling for Relational Database and Object-Oriented Database Design - 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructor: Dr. Il-Yeol Song, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Entity-Relationship (ER) model and its accompanying ER diagrams are widely used for database modeling and design. Many resources, however, provide only a definition of each modeling component and examples of the pre-built ER diagrams. Beginners in data modeling have a great deal of difficulty learning how to approach a given problem. This tutorial presents step-by-step guidelines a set of decision rules useful in building ER diagrams, and a case study problem. The tutorial will present a set of rules for translating ER diagrams, compare and contrast various approaches, and synthesize recent research results of translating ER diagrams into object-oriented schema for object-oriented database design. WORKSHOPS --------- The fee for the following workshops is $225 each which includes lunch. 1- Geographic Information Systems - Friday, December 1, 4:30 pm - Saturday, December 2, 4:30 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In recent years computer processing of Earth observations through geographic information systems has attracted a great deal of attention from the industrial and research world. This workshop will provide a forum for disseminating original and fundamental research results in the areas of theoretical foundations, design, implementation and applications of GIS, as well as experience reports from application specialists. 2- Intelligent Information Agents - Friday, December 1, 4:30 pm - Saturday, December 2, 4:30 pm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop will bring together researchers who are working on or interested in exploring the use of agent-oriented paradigms in information systems. Some of the topics relevant to this workshop include: agent communications and messaging languages; agent programming and scripting languages; security, privacy and authentication in agent systems; agent collaboration and integration; learning agents and trainable agents; information mediators and facilitators; agent-human interfaces; agents on the World Wide Web; information filtering, retrieval, gathering and monitoring; and applications in digital libraries, electronic commerce, education, etc. 3- New Paradigms for Information Systems - Saturday, December 2, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop will focus on the increasing variety of interfaces between information systems and users. Topics relevant to this workshop include: virtual reality markup language (VRML); applications of Internet tools such as MUDs, MOOs, and IRCs;' and techniques of scientific visualization and their application to information visualization. REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION ---------------------------------- Conference participants are encouraged to register in advance of the conference. The pre-registration deadline is November 14, 1995. Late registration fees must be paid after November 14, 1995 and on-site at the conference. Registration includes coffee breaks, the conference banquet, the conference reception, and the reception and trip to the Maryland Science Center. Four easy ways to register: 1) Phone (410) 455-2336 with credit card information; 2) FAX (410) 455-1074 with credit card information; 3) Mail check made out to ACM-CIKM95 to: UMBC Continuing Education, 5401 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398; 4) E-Mail: KATHLEEN_VIRDEN@UMBCADMN.BITNET. You are not officially registered until payment has been received. All fees must be paid in U.S. dollars. REFUND POLICY ------------- Refunds, less a $25 processing fee, will be given only if requested in writing three days before the start of the conference. No refunds will be granted after the conference begins. FEE SCHEDULE ------------ ACM MEMBER ACM NON-MEMBER STUDENT Early / Late Early / Late Early / Late Conference $305 / $355 $355 / $405 $205 / $230 One Tutorial $200 / $225 $200 / $225 $200 / $225 Two Tutorials $375 / $425 $375 / $425 $375 / $425 One Day Workshop $185 / $205 $210 / $230 $100 / $125 Day and A Half $225 / $250 $270 / $300 $135 / $150 Workshop LODGING ------- The Conference Center is The Omni Hotel, 101 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Reservations at the special conference rate can be made by calling 1-800-THE-OMNI and mentioning the CIKM '95 Conference. After October 28, 1995, reservations will be accepted on a space available basis. If you are using a Purchase Order for payment of housing, the P.O. number should be sent to Credit Manager, Omni Hotel, at least 30 days before your arrival. OMNI Rates: $75 - Single or Double. Extra person in the room is $20. Rates are subject to 12% Baltimore City and Maryland State taxes. Non-smoking rooms are available. Check-in is at 3:00 p.m. MEALS ----- Beverages and snacks will be offered during the morning and afternoon breaks. During the conference, lunch is on your own. There is a joint workshop luncheon on Saturday and a tutorial luncheon on Tuesday. The Conference Reception Wednesday, November 29 and the Workshop Reception Friday December 1 will feature hor'doeuvres, beverages, and a cash bar. The conference banquet is scheduled for Thursday, November 30. WELCOME TO BALTIMORE -------------------- Baltimore, a city full of life, offers a wealth of events to please a diversity of tastes. Downtown Baltimore and the famous Inner Harbor is located just a short walk on the overhead bridges from the Omni Conference site. A stroll around the Harbor will yield an evening of people-watching, shopping, and endless options for fantastic food from elegant dining to colorful outdoor cafes to an array of ethnic eateries. November in Baltimore also provides opportunities to take in a play or concert, or visit an exhibit. Area maps and a complete listing of Baltimore events and restaurants will be given to you when you check-in at the conference. MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER ----------------------- The Maryland Science Center's Museum and Davis Planetarium has been reserved on Friday, December 1, 1995. Shuttle bus service will be available for the short trip to Baltimore's Inner Harbor where a reception will greet conferees. Tour the Science Center Museum on your own where you will have the opportunity to push, pull, turn, and electrify hundreds of innovative hands-on exhibits. Part of the evening will be spent blasting off on a fantastic journey to another world in the Davis Planetarium. This will be a memorable event! TRANSPORTATION -------------- If you are arriving by plane, BWI ground transportation is located on the lower airport level near the baggage claim area. You can reach the Omni Hotel via: 1) BWI Ground Transportation (round trip $12; one way $8); 2) BWI Limousine Service; 3) BWI Taxi Service (approximately $15). If you are arriving by car: From Interstate 95, take exit 53, Route 395 to Pratt Street. Turn right and continue three blocks to Charles Street. Turn left and proceed three blocks to Fayette Street. Turn left. The Omni Hotel is on your left. From Interstate 83, exit at St. Paul Street. Continue south on St. Paul to Fayette Street. Turn right and proceed three blocks to the Omni Hotel. Parking: The Omni Inner Harbor Hotel parking garage rate for hotel guests is $9.00 per 24 hours. Additional parking information will be sent with your conference confirmation. INFORMATION ----------- If you have any questions about your registration, please call UMBC Continuing Education at (410) 455-2336, or FAX (410) 455-1074. ON-LINE INFORMATION ------------------- Complete information on CIKM '95 is available on-line at the following World Wide Web and email locations: email: cikm95@cacs.usl.edu www: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/conferences/cikm/ www: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~randal/cikm95.html Contact Dr. Niki Pissinou, Program Co-Chair at (318)482-6604,-5791(fax); or Dr. E. K. Park, Program Co-Chair at (410)293-6806, eun@usna.navy.mil for CIKM 95 program related matters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIKM '95 Conference - Registration Form Name: Ms.__ Mr.__ Dr.__ Prof.__ ____________________________________ Affiliatiion: _________________________________________________________ Position:______________________________________________________________ Address:_______________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip:__________________________Country_____________________ Phone: ________________________________ Fax: __________________________ E-mail: ____________________________ ACM membership number (required for member rate):______________________ ______ I will be attending the Conference Banquet (included in conf. fee) ______ I will be attending the Conference Reception (included in conf. fee) ______ Please check if you are a conference presenter FEES (in US dollars): Conference registration: _____ $305 ACM member, through Nov. 15; $355, after Nov. 15 _____ $355 Non-member, through Nov. 15; $405, after Nov. 15 _____ $205 Student, through Nov. 15; $230 after Nov. 15 Workshop registration: One day Workshop: New Paradigms for Information Systems _____ $185 ACM member, through Nov. 15; $205 after Nov. 15 _____ $210 Non-member, through Nov. 15; $230 after Nov. 15 _____ $100 Student, through Nov. 15; $125 after Nov. 15 One and half day Workshop: Geographic Information Systems _____ $225 ACM member, through Nov. 15; $250 after Nov. 15 _____ $270 Non-members, through Nov. 15; $300 after Nov. 15 _____ $135 Students, through Nov. 15; $150 after Nov. 15 One and half day Workshop: Intelligent Agents _____ $225 ACM member, through Nov. 15; $250 after Nov. 15 _____ $270 Non-members, through Nov. 15; $300 after Nov. 15 _____ $135 Students, through Nov. 15; $150 after Nov. 15 Pre-Conference Tutorials: (See topics and descriptions on previous pages.) _____ Tutorial #1 - $200 through Nov. 15; $225 after Nov. 15 _____ Tutorial #2 - $200 through Nov. 15; $225 after Nov. 15 _____ Tutorial #3 - $200 through Nov. 15; $225 after Nov. 15 _____ Tutorial #4 - $200 through Nov. 15; $225 after Nov. 15 _____ Tutorial #5 - $200 through Nov. 15; $225 after Nov. 15 _____ Tutorial #6 - $200 through Nov. 15; $225 after Nov. 15 _____ Tutorials (any two) - $375 through Nov. 15; $425 after Nov. 15 (Please check your choices above.) _____ Additional Conference Reception Tickets - $30 each _____ Additional Conference Banquet tickets - $40 each _____ Additional tickets for reception and visit to Maryland Science Centerand Davis Planetarium - $40 each _____ Additional copy of proceedings - $40 Total fees enclosed: US$_____________________ Check method of payment:___ Check (payable to ACM-CIKM95) ___ Company P.O.* (Only from organizations in USA) ___ Credit Card: Visa__; MasterCard__; American Express__; Card # ________________________________Exp. Date ___________________ Signature __________________________________________________________ Date _______________________ *If you are using a company Purchase Order, you must include a P.O.# and contact person authorizing the P.O. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== C I K M '9 5 A D V A N C E T E C H N I C A L P R O G R A M ======================================================================== FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT November 29 - December 2, 1995 Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR in cooperation with NASA, Bellcore NSF, AAAI, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGLINK, CACS/USL, UMBC The advance technical program, workshop information, registration form, information on Baltimore, plus other useful stuff can be found at one of the following Web sites: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~randal/CIKM95.html http://www.cs.umbc.edu/conferences/cikm/ ******************************************************************************** Wednesday, November 29 ******************************************************************************** 9:00 -10:00am Plenary Opening Address Current Trends in NSF Research in Computing Information and Communications Paul Young, Assistant Director Directorate for Information Science & Engineering National Science Foundation 10:00-10:15am Coffee Break 10:15-11:45am Three Parallel Sessions (1,2,3) ------------------------------------------------ Session 1: Data Mining Chair: Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1. Efficient Parallel and Data Mining for Association Rules Jong Soo Park, Ming-Syan Chen, Philip S. Yu 2. The Role of Domain Knowledge in Data Mining Sarabjot S. Anand, David A. Bell, John G. Hughes 3. Using Linguistic and Discourse Structures to Derive Topics Francois Paradis Session 2: Indexing Chair: Christos Faloutsos, University of Maryland, College Park 1. The Index Suggestion Problem for Object Database Applications Eric Hughes, Marianne Winslett 2. Enhanced Nested-Inherited Index for OODBMS E. Bertino, S. Salerno, B. Shidlovsky 3. A New Parallel Signature File Method for Efficient Information Retrieval Jeong-Ki Kim, Jae Woo Chang Session 3: Invited Talks 1. Research Problems in Data Warehousing Jennifer Widom, Stanford University 2. Applications of Neural Nets To Databases Harold Zsu, USL 11:45-1:00pm Lunch 1:00 -2:00pm Plenary Address An Overview of the TSIMMIS System Hector-Garcia Molina, Stanford University 2:00-2:15pm Coffee Break 2:15-4:15pm Three Parallel Sessions (4,5,6) -------------------------------------------- Session 4A: Parallelism Chair: Mike Mulder, National Science Foundation 1. Run-Time Parallelization of Sequential Database Programs N. R. Soparkar, P. Krzyzanowski, H. V. Jagadish, A. Asthana 2. Parallel Execution of Integrity Constraint Checks Uwe Herzog, Ralf Schaarschmidt Session 4B: Mobile Environments Chair: Milton Halem, National Aeronautics Space Administration 1. An Efficient and Reliable Reservation Algorithm for Mobile Transactions Ahmed Elmagarmid, Jin Jing, Omran Bukhres 2. Data Broadcasting Strategies over Multiple Unreliable Wireless Channels Hong V. Leong, A. Si Session 5: Interoperability Chair : Bill Wong, DISA/CFS 1. The Distributed Interoperable Object Model and its Application to Large-scale Interoperable Database Systems Ling Liu, Calton Pu 2. A Semantic Meta-Modeling Approach to Schema Transformation Mike P. Papazoglou, Nick Russell 3. The Semantic Matrix Model (SMM): A Knowledge Based Solution to Semantic Homogeneity in Multidatabases K.I. Dash, A.R. Hurson 4. A Configurable Approach for Object Sharing Among Multidatabase Systems Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou Session 6: Query Processing Chair: Louiqua Rachid, University of Maryland, College Park 1. PERF Join: An Alternative to Two-way Semijoin and Bloomjoin Zhe Li, Kenneth A. Ross 2. Computation of Partial Query Results Using An Adaptive Stratified Sampling Technique Augustine C. Ikeji, Farshad Fotouhi 3. Semantic Query Processing in Object-Oriented Databases Using Deductive Approach S.U. Yoon, I.Y. Song, E.K. Park 4. Query Processing for Knowledge Bases Using Join Indices Adel Shrufi, Thodoros Topaloglou 4:15-4:30pm Coffee Break 4:30-5:30pm Plenary Address Enhancing Performance of Interoperable Database Systems and the Role of Materialized Views Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland, College Park 7:00-9:00pm Conference Reception ******************************************************************************** Thursday, November 30 ******************************************************************************** 9:00-10:00am Plenary Address Performance Evaluation Issues in Generalization Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 10:00-10:15am Coffee Break 10:15-11:45am Three Parallel Sessions (7,8,9) Session 7: Information Retrieval I Chair: Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University 1. On the Update of Term Weights in Dynamic Information Retrieval Systems Charles L. Viles, James C. French 2. SortTables: A Browser for a Digital Library William C. Wake, Edward A. Fox 3. Dynamic Retrieval of Remote Digital Objects Yongcheng Li, Varna Puvvada Session 8: Query Optimization Chair: Nick Bourbakis, SUNY, Binghamton 1. An Extensible Query Optimizer for an Objectbase Management System M. Tamer Ozsu, Adriana Munoz, Duane Szafron 2. Scheduling and Mapping for Parallel Execution of Extended SQl Queries A. Hameurlain, F. Morvan Session 9: Invited Talks 1. Mining Knowledge at Multiple Concept Levels J.W. Han, Simon Fraser University 2. Designing Electronic Catalogs For Bussiness Valuie Arie Segev, UC Berkeley 11:45-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-2:00pm: Plenary Address User-Centered Interfaces and Tools: A National Focus Area Gary Strong, National Science Foundation 11:45-1:00pm Coffee Break 2:15-4:15pm Three Parallel Sessions (10,11,12) ---------------------------------------------- Session 10: Distribution Chair: Tamer Ozsu, University of Alberta 1. A Distributed Deadlock Detection and Resolution Algorithm Based on A Hybrid Wait-for Graph and Probe Generation Scheme Young Chul Park, Peter Scheuermann, Hsiang Lung Tung 2. Error Propagation in Distributed Databases O. Haase, A. Henrich 3. Experimental Evaluation of Dynamic Data Allocation Strategies in A Distributed Database with Changing Workloads Anna Brunstrom, Scott T. Leutenegger, Rahul Simha 4. Using Speculation to Reduce Server Load and Service Time on the WWW Azer Bestavros 5. Detection and Resolution of Deadlocks in Distributed Database Systems Kia Makki, Niki Pissinou Session 11: Information Retrieval II Chair: Ed Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University 1. An Intelligent Agent for High-Precision Text Filtering Adrian O'Riordan, H. Sorensen 2. Automatic Thesaurus Construction Using Bayesian Networks Young C. Park, Young S. Han, Key-Sun Choi 3. Learning Subjective Relevance to Facilitate Information Access James R. Chen, Nathalie Mathe 4. An Extensible Classifier for Semi-Structured Documents Markus Tresch, Allen Luniewski Session 12: Uncertainty Chair: Larry Reeker, National Science Foundation 1. Semantics of an Extended Relational Model for Managing Uncertain Information V.S. Alagar, J.N. Said, F. Sadri 2. Taxonomic and Uncertain Integrity Constraints in Object-Oriented Databases - the TOP Approach Thomas Lukasiewicz, Werner Kiebling, Gerhard Kostler, Ulrich Guntzer 4:15-4:30pm Break 4:30-5:30pm Plenary Address Intelligent Integration of Information (I3C) Program Dave Gunning, ARPA 7:00-11:00PM Banquet Dinner 8:45-9:45PM Plenary Banquet Address NASA PARC's for Communicating Knowledge: Public Access Resource Center Milton Halem, Chief, Space Data and Computing Division Space and Earth Sciences Directorate, NASA ******************************************************************************** Friday, December 1 ******************************************************************************** 9:00-10:00am Plenary Address Research Directions in Database Security Teresa Lunt, SRI/ARPA 10:00-10:15am Coffee Break 10:15-11:45am Three Parallel Sessions (13,14,15) ------------------------------------------------ Session 13: Collaboration and Workflow Chair: Betty Cheng, Michigan State University 1. Transaction-oriented Work-flow Concepts in Inter-Organizational Environments Jian Tang, Jari Veijalainen 2. Consortium: A Framework for Transaction Collaborative Environments Kourmajian V., Dargahi R., Fowler J., Baker D. 3. MessageWorld: A New Approach to Facilitating Asynchronous Group Communications Daniel A. Ross, Jeremy J. Bornstein, Kevin Tiene Session 14: Object Oriented Techniques and Rule Languages Chair: K. Vanapipat, CACS, USL 1. Effective Clustering of Objects Stored by Linear Hashing Jukka Teuhola 2. On Isolation, Concurrency, and the Venus Rule Language Stephen Correl, Daniel P. Mirankar 3. Towards Supporting Hard Schema Changes in TSE Young-Gook Ra, Elke A. Rundensteiner Session 15: Invited Talks 1. Knowledge-Based Architecture for Software Evolutionary Design Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago 2. Unambiguous Reconstitution of Text from N-Grams Alone Marc Damashek, U.S. Department of Defense 11:45-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-2:00pm Plenary Address An Extensible Knowledge Base Management System for Supporting Rule Based Interoperability among Heterogeneous Systems Stanley Su, University of Florida 2:00-2:15pm Coffee Break 2:15-4:15pm Three Parallel Sessions (16,17,18) ---------------------------------------------- Session 16: Temporal and Spatial Issues Chair: Moshe Vardi, Rice University 1. Experimenting with Temporal Relational Databases Iqbal A. Goralwalla, Abdullah U. Tansel, M. Tamer Ozsu 2. Algebraic Query Languages on Temporal Databases with Multiple Granularities X. Sean Wang 3. A General Method for Spatial Reasoning in Spatial Databases Alia I. Abdelmoty, Baher A. El-Geresy 4. On the Generation of Aggregated Random Spatial Regions Yannis Manolopoulos, Enrico Nardelli, Guido Proietti, Michael Vassilakopoulos Session 17: Knowledge Based Reasoning and Representation Chair: J. Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology 1. Using Resolution for Extending KL-ONE-type Languages Tanel Tammet 2. Levels of Reasoning as the Basis for a Formalisation of Argumentation Andrew Stranieri, John Zeleznikow 3. A Declarative Formalization of Knowledge Translation Sasa Buvac, Richard Fikes 4. Application of Knowledge Base Design Techniques to Genetic Markers Mark Graves Session 18: Scientific and Design Databases Chair: Ophir Frieder, George Mason University 1. Information Synthesis in Statistical Databases Wee-Keong NG, Chinya V. Ravishankar 2. Long-Duration Transaction Support in Design Databases Waldemar Wieczerzycki 3. The Characteristics of Digital Video and Considerations of Designing Video Databases Chueh-Wei Chang, Keh-Feng Lin, Suh-Yin Lee 4:15-4:30pm Break 4:30-5:30pm Plenary Closing Panel Chair Larry Reeker, National Science Foundation} Funding Predictions and Research Challenges in Information and Knowledge Management Session: Workshops ******************************************************************************** Saturday, December 2 Workshop Program Highlights ******************************************************************************** Advances in Geographic Information Systems Patrick Bergougnoux, Kia Makki Intelligent Agents Tim Finin, James Mayfield New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation Russell Turner ======================================================================== C I K M '9 5 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ======================================================================== CIKM'95 will bring together leading researchers and developers in a wide variety of scientific areas, with a common interest in improving information and knowledge management technologies. Its objective is to provide an effective and established forum for the discussion and dissemination of original and fundamental recent advances in the area, and to foster close international collaboration between the database, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence communities. SCOPE ~~~~~ The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of theoretical foundations, design, implementation, and applications of information and knowledge management. We solicit the submission of papers that address novel, challenging and innovative results. We also solicit short papers that challenge the field with new technologies or applications and open new horizons of research. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas as they relate to information and knowledge management: Mobile Databases & Wireless Computing Digital Libraries Knowledge Resource Discovery Multimedia Information Representation & Modeling Modeling Database Dynamics Information Structures & Interaction Hypertext & Hypermedia Distributed Object Management Query Languages Transaction and Workflow Management Data and Knowledge Sharing Heterogeneous & Distributed Systems High Performance Algorithms Design Techniques for Object Databases Intelligent Agents & Network Mediators Temporal/Spatial Databases Active and Extensible Databases Engineering, Scientific and Design Databases Intelligent Search and Data Mining Time, Event Management & Monitoring User & Application Interfaces Consistency, Integrity and Security Tuning, Benchmarking & Performance New Experimental, Commercial & Educational Systems Integrating Databases & Information Retrieval Cooperating & Interoperable Federated Systems Parallelism & Distribution Object Storage and Servers Imprecise & Uncertain Information SUBMISSION ~~~~~~~~~~ Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers that may be submitted for consideration include those that have not previously been published in another forum, or are not currently being published or reviewed by another journal or conference. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. The program committee reserves the right to accept a submission as long, short or poster presentation. Of particular interest are papers that address experiences with concrete applications. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, special issues of journals containing extended versions of outstanding papers from the conference have been planned. Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers and postal address. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings should also be included. Seven copies of the manuscript should be submitted by May 1, 1995 to: Dr. Niki Pissinou & Dr. Avi Silberschatz c/o CIKM'95 The Center for Advanced Computer Studies 2 Rex Street, P.O. Box 44330 Lafayette, LA 70504, USA e-mail: cikm95@cacs.usl.edu, Tel: (318) 482-6604, Fax: (318) 482-5791 For more information about the conference (as opposed to paper submissions) please contact Dr. Charles Nicholas at nicholas@cs.umbc.edu or Tel: (410) 455-2594. IMPORTANT DATES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paper submission deadline : May 1, 1995 Notification of acceptance : June 28, 1995 Camera ready papers due : July 31, 1995 WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An important part of the conference is the workshop program, which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives. Proposals are solicited for organizing workshops and tutorials. Please send your proposal by May 1, 1995 to Professor K. Makki, Workshop Tutorial Chair, Department of Computer Science, The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA (kia@unlv.edu, Tel: (702)895-4024, Fax: (702) 895-4156). GENERAL CHAIR: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C. Nicholas, UMBC PROGRAM CHAIRS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. Silberschatz, AT&T Bell Lb N. Pissinou, CACS, USL E.K. Park, Naval Academy PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. Aho, Bellcore P. Apers, U. Twente, Neth R. Ashany, NSF F. Bastani, U. of Houston P. Bergougnouxx, Univ. Toulouse E. Bertino, U. Milano, Italy N. Bourbakis, SUNY, Bingh. O. Bukhres, Purdue Univ. S.S. Chen, NSF B. Cheng, Michigan State U. K.S. Choi, KAIST, Korea K. Dittrich, Univ. Zurich A. Elmagarmid, Purdue Univ. O. Etzion, Technion-Israel C. Faloutsos, Univ. Maryland T. Finin, UMBC E. Fox, VPI State U. O. Frieder, George Mason U. H. Garcia-Molina, Standford U. M. Halem, NASA K. Humenik, Indiana J. Han, Simon Fraser, CA Y. Ioannidis, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison S. Jajodia, George Mason U. P. Kanellakis, Brown Univ. M. Liu, Ohio State Univ. D. Miranker, UT Austin J. Mylopoulos, U. of Toronto E. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, GR S. Oh, U. of Washington T. Ozsu, Univ. of Alberta, CA M. Papazouglou, QUT, AU C. Pu, Oregon Graduate Inst. V. Raghavan, CACS, USL L. Reeker, NSF C.V. Ramamoorthy, UC Berk. E. Rundensteiner, U. Michigan P. Scheuermann, Northw. U. A. Segev, UC Berkeley T. Sellis, Nat.Tech.Un. Athens S. Shappiro, SUNY Buffalo A. Sheth, U. of Georgia M. Singhal, Ohio State Univ. M. Stonebraker, UC Berkeley S. Su, Univ. of Florida J. Tsai, U. Illinois, Chicago J. Ullman, Stanford Univ. P. Valduriez, INRIA, FR M. Vardi, Rice Univ. A. Waksman, AFORSR M. Winslett, U. Illin., Urbana X. Wu, Monash Univ., AU C. Yu, U. of Illinois, Chicago P. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson L. Zhao, W & M, VA WORKSHOP TUTORIAL CHAIR: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ K. Makki, UNLV PUBLICITY CHAIR: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ R. Peters, U. Manitoba, CA REGISTRATION CHAIR: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I.Y. Song, Drexel Univ. LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C. Nicholas, UMBC CIKM STEERING COMMITTEE: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T. Finin, Humenik, Jefferson, C. Nicholas, E.K. Park. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- Return-Path: kqml-owner@cs.umbc.edu Received: from algol.cs.umbc.edu (daemon@algol.cs.umbc.edu [130.85.100.2]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.7.1/8.6.4) with SMTP id BAA15762 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 01:59:43 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by algol.cs.umbc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA01221 for kqml-outgoing; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 19:37:00 -0500 From: Timothy Finin Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 19:36:51 -0500 Message-Id: <199512060036.TAA18599@cujo.cs.umbc.edu> To: kqml@cs.umbc.edu, srkb@cs.umbc.edu, kif@cs.stanford.edu, cg@cs.umn.edu Subject: CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents Sender: owner-kqml@cs.umbc.edu Precedence: bulk The second CIKM workshop on Intelligent Information Agents was held last week in Baltimore as part of the Fourth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Approximately 75 people attended the workshop, listened to presentations and discussed the theory and practice of intelligent information agents. A complete record of the workshop, including papers, some presentations, and images can be found at . The workshop included a number of papers which talked about Knowledge Sharing technology and its applications, including these, all of which are available on the web: "Infomaster: A Virtual Information System". Donald F. Geddis, Michael R. Genesereth, Arthur M. Keller & Narinder P. Singh, Computer Science Department, Stanford University. CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995 "On Agent Domains, Agent Names and Proxy Agents". Tim Finin, Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu & Anupama Potluri , Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; Don McKay & Robin McEntire , Loral. CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995 "Secret Agents -- a Security Architecture for KQML". Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Tim Finin & James Mayfield , Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County. CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995 "The Cycic Friends Network: Getting Cyc agents to reason together". James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Rajkumar Narayanaswamy & Chetan Shah, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, William MacCartney & Keith Goolsbey, Cycorp., Austin, TX. CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995 "GIA: An Agent-Based Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems". Brant Cheikes, MITRE. CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995 "An Approach to Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Using Statistical Properties of Text to Guide Agent Search". Grace Crowder & Charles Nicholas, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398. CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995 "Task Planning Agents in the UMDL", Jose M. Vidal & Edmund H. Durfee, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Michigan, 1101 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2110. CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995. _______________________________________________________________________ Send mail to majordomo@cs.umbc.edu to subscribe/unsubscribe to the kqml mailing list. Send a message with the body "help" for more information. Archives are at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/mail/