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MERCI, MERCI, MERCI ) ********************************************************************* Call for Participation 11th Intl. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages ********************************************* Tutorials Sept. 5 - 6, 1995 ---- Paper sessions Sept. 6 - 9, 1995 University at Darmstadt, Germany General Chairs: Allen L. Ambler, University of Kansas, USA Takayuki Dan Kimura, Washington Univ. St. Louis, USA Programme Chair: Hans-Juergen Hoffmann, Univ. at Darmstadt, Germany The Symposium continues the previous annual workshops and symposia on Visual Languages 1984, 1986, 1987, ... 1993, 1994. The focus of the symposium series is an interest in multi-dimensional, multi-sensorial man-machine communication, particularly when such com- munication is for the purpose of defining tasks, whether in the sense of programming or querying or operating. The means of achieving such definition of tasks can include text description, visual manipulation, visual image recognition, handwriting recognition, voice recognition, physical gestures and other technologies. While, historically, visual technologies have dominated the Symposium on Visual Languages, we would like to encourage submissions employing other multi-dimensional or multi-sensorial technologies, particularly when combined with visual technologies. For 1995 the following list of topics gives ideas of emphasis: Visual, iconic, and multimodal languages for programming and querying, Visual languages "in-the-large", Application domains - Visual languages and geographic information systems (GIS), - Visual languages and architecture / design, - Diagrammatical reasoning / spatial reasoning, - Visual languages for end-user programming, - Visual languages in groupware applications, - Visual languages to support tele-communication, - ... (you invent them, let's talk about!), Iconic languages, Foundations of visual languages, Metalevel modelling of visual languages, Tools for specification of and reasoning about languages of the kind considered, Application of intelligence to enhance language communication, including logical deduction to interpret visual, iconic, and multimodal interactions, Empirical studies and evaluations, usability studies, reports on applications, Multimodal interaction techniques (3D, voice, pen-based, eye tracking, ...) in visual environments, Integration of visual approaches with multimedia, Animation, Implementation issues, Environments for visual, iconic, and multimodal operations, editing, visualization, animation etc. What are "Visual Languages"? See http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/computing.visual.html to get an idea to this frequently asked question. Information board ----------------- Send E-mail to vl95@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de or look into WWW http://www.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/vl95/ Deadline for submission of contributions for review --------------------------------------------------- April 7, 1995 ************* Technical papers, maximum 8 pages in IEEE publications format Poster abstracts, maximum 2 pages in IEEE publications format Proposals for demonstrations, panels, and tutorials. For details of submission (preferred electronically) contact Dirk Koschorek koschorek@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Contributions covering any aspects of visual languages may be well supported by short video-clips, live demonstrations and the like; ask koschorek@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de for planning your "performance". Further important dates ----------------------- Deadline of submissions for review April 7, 1995 Notification to authors of acceptance May 15, 1995 Final camera-ready manuscripts of accepted papers June 9, 1995 Contact ------- Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Hoffmann University at Darmstadt Department of Computer Science Alexanderstr. 10 D-64282 Darmstadt Tel.: intl+49+6151+163410 Fax: intl+49+6151+166648 E-Mail: hoffmann@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Programme Committee ------------------- Alberto Del Bimbo, Italy Meera Blattner, USA Margaret Burnett, USA Wayne Citrin, USA Isabel Cruz, USA Tim Dudley, Canada Stephen G. Eick, USA Ephraim Glinert, USA Volker Haarslev, Germany Masahito Hirakawa, Japan Chris M. Holt, United Kingdom Robert Laurini, France Satoshi Matsuoka, Japan Bernd Meyer, Germany Lisa Neal, USA Kai Olsen, Norway Joerg Poswig, Germany Alex Quilici, Hawaii Stefan Schiffer, Austria Omid Sojoodi, USA John Stasko, USA Gerd Szwillus, Germany Steven L. Tanimoto, USA Juergen F. H. Winkler, Germany Special responsibilities ------------------------ Volker Haarslev, Publications Dirk Koschorek, Local arrangements Gerd Szwillus, Tutorials Juergen Winkler, Demonstrations / Posters ======================================================================== -- vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Hoffmann Technische Hochschule Darmstadt / University at Darmstadt (Germany) FB Informatik, FG PU / Dept. of Computer Science Alexanderstr. 10 D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany Tel. 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IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages VL'95 =================================================== Preliminary Programme ---------------------- (as of August 3, 1995) More comfortable access to this Programme with registration and housing information, area map and other details see http://www.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/vl95/ Information included in this E-mail message: * Preliminary Programme of Tutorials & Symposium * Registration form (tutorials, symposium, and supplements) For registration please send the form with your data filled-in to vl95-registration@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de We prefer to get your registration through WWW, address see above. * Hotel accomodation * How to reach Darmstadt? * Airline fares from North America * Programme for accompanying persons * Post-symposium tour to Heidelberg The Symposium on Visual Languages VL`95 is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, TC on Multimedia Computing in cooperation with German Chapter of the ACM, GI, Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, FG 2.1.2, Interactive Systems, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Dept. of Computer Languages, Unit Programming Languages and Compilers (FG PU), IEEE German Section, Computer Chapter. Corporate Sponsors (as of beginning of July 1995) are: Deutsche Bundespost AG, Telekom Hessische Elektrizitaets-AG HEAG, Darmstadt IBM Deutschland GmbH Carl Schenck AG, Darmstadt Siemens AG, Zweigniederlassung Frankfurt am Main / Munich Software AG, Darmstadt 11th Intl. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (tutorials) ============================================= Tuesday Sept. 5, 1995 ----------------------- 14:00 pm Tutorial I (with one break) Greg McKaskle, Rahman Jamal, Omid Sojoodi, Natl. Instruments: LabVIEW - Visual Programming using Structured Dataflow 18:00 pm end Wednesday Sept. 6, 1995 ----------------------- (in parallel:) || 8:30 am Tutorial II (with one break) || Philip Cox, Pictorius Inc.: || Prograph CPX: Visual Programming Applied to || Industrial Software development || 12:30 am end & || 8:30 am Tutorial III(with one break) || Gitta Kienegger-Domik, Univ. - GH Paderborn: || Fundamentals of Computer Visualization || 12:30 am end 11th Intl. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (regular sessions) ============================================= Note: There may be changes in the order of presentation due to specific requirements for visual aids/computer usage by some authors for their presentation. Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1995 ------------------------ 14:00 pm Opening of symposium Ephraim Glinert, Chair 14:15 pm Keynote I George Bosworth, Digitalk Inc. (topic under negotiation) 15:15 pm Henry Lieberman, MIT, Cambridge The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design 15:45 pm Break Allen Ambler, Chair 16:00 pm Richard Robinson, Devin Cook, Steven Tanimoto, Univ. of Washington, Seattle Programming Agents with Visual Rules (presented by Ephraim Glinert) 16:30 pm Hui Liu, Univ. of Jyvaeskylae A Visual Interface For Querying a CASE Repository 16:50 pm Short break Margaret Burnett, Chair 17:00 pm Hugh Glaser, Trevor J. Smedley, Univ. of Southampton & Tech. Univ. of Nova Scotia Psh -- The Next Generation of Command Line Interfaces 17:30 pm Yuichi Koike, Yasuyuki Maeda, Yoshiyuki Koseki, NEC Corp., Kawasaki Improving Readability of Iconic Programs with Multiple View Object Representation 17:50 pm Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, Piero Mussio, Univ. di Roma & Univ. di Bari Formalising Visual Languages 18:10 pm end 19:15 pm Musical Surprise and 19:30 pm Get-together Thursday Sept. 7, 1995 ----------------------- 8:30 am Panel I "3-D Interaction + Multimodality = Expressiveness ?" Meera Blattner, Jose Encarnacao, Hideki Koike, Henry Lieberman et al. Hans-Juergen Hoffmann, Chair 9:30 am John C. Grundy, John G. Hosking Univ. of Waikato & Univ. of Auckland ViTABaL: A Visual Language Supporting Design by Tool Abstraction 10:00 am Break Alberto del Bimbo, Chair 10:15 am Elisabeth Freeman, David Gelernter, Suresh Jagannathan, Yale Univ. In Search of a Simple Visual Vocabulary 10:45 am Michael Goedecke, Sorin A. Huss, Kai Morich, Techn. Hochschule Darmstadt Automatic parallelization of the visual data-flow language Cantata for efficient characterization of analog circuit behavior 11:05 am Trevor J. Smedley, Techn. Univ.of Nova Scotia A High-Level Visual Language for the Graphical Description of Digital Circuits 11:25 am Break Enrico Vicario, Chair 11:40 am Sarah Douglas, Christopher Hundhausen, Donna McKeown, Univ. of Oregon Toward Empirically-Based Software Visualization Languages 12:00 am Hideki Koike, Manuba Aida, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Tokyo A Bottom-Up Approach for Visualizing Program Behavior 12:20 pm Sitt Sen Chok, Kim Marriott, Monash Univ. Victoria Automatic Construction of User Interfaces from Constraint Multiset Grammar 12:40 pm Edward Miller, Motoji Kado, Masahito Hirakawa, Tadao Ichikawa, Hiroshima Univ. HI-VISUAL as a User-Customizable Visual Programming Environment 13:00 pm end 13:00 pm Luncheon (Rest. Bockshaut) 14:00 pm Posters Jrgen Winkler, Chair (order of presentation still under negotiation!) - Dietrich Fahrenholtz, Volker Haarslev, Univ. Hamburg Visualization of Strand Processes, - Winfried H. Graf, Stefan Neurohr DFKI GmbH, Saarbruecken Constraint-Based Layout in Visual Program Design - Massimo Paltrinieri, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris A Visual Environment for Constraint Programming - Thomas Kunstmann, Martin Frisch, Robert Mueller, Techn. Hochschule Darmstadt A Declarative Programming Environment Based on Constraints - Fabrizio Capobianco, Mauro Mosconi, Lorenzo Pagnin Univ. di Pavia Progressive HTTP-based Querying of Remote Databases within the Marmotta Iconic VQS - Paul Carlson, Margaret M. Burnett, Oregon State Univ. Integrating Algorithm Animation into a Declarative Visual Programming Language - Blaise Muganga, Francois Pacull, Karim R. Mazouni, Armel-David Wolff, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Visual Programming of Fault-tolerant Distributed Applications - Dan Vodislav, CEDRIC Paris Visual Programming for Animation in User Interfaces 16:00 pm end 16:00 pm Break (in parallel:) || Wayne Citrin, Chair || 16:15 pm Atsushi Sugiura, Yoshiyuki Koseki || NEC Corp., Kawasaki || Creating Database Queries by Demonstration || 16:35 pm Jun'ichi Miyao, Shi-Kuo Chang, || Hiroshima Univ & Univ. of Pittsburgh || A Framework of a Visual Language with || Dynamic Specification || 16:55 pm Georg Lehrenfeld, Wolfgang Mueller, Christoph Tahedl || Heinz Nixdorf Inst. & Cadlab, Paderborn || Transforming SDL Diagrams Into a Complete Visual || Representation || 17:15 pm Volker Haarslev, Univ. Hamburg || Formal Semantics of Visual Languages Using || Spatial Reasoning & || Bernd Meyer, Chair || 16:15 pm Joseph J. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State Univ. || Ludwig2: Decoupling Program Representations || From Processing Models || 16:35 pm Jim Gindling, Andri Ioannidou, Jennifer Loh, || Olav Lokkebo, Alexander Repenning || Univ. of Colorado || LEGOsheets: A Rule-Based Programming, Simulation || and Manipulation Environment for the || LEGO Programmable Brick || 16:55 pm Takayuki Dan Kimura, Washington Univ. || Object-oriented Dataflow || 17:15 pm Allison Woodruff, Michael Stonebraker || Univ. of California at Berkeley || Buffering of Intermediate Results in Dataflow || Diagrams 17:45 pm end 17:45 pm Demonstrations --EARLY BOOKINGS NECESSARY ! __ Demonstrations are open for all participants on computers which we may provide (IBM PC with MS DOS, MS Windows or LINUX; SUN Sparc Stations with SUN OS 4.1.3) or on their own computers (may be over Internet access). Additionally, there are plans (as of end of May, 1995) to have presentations of - VisualAge by IBM, Germany - MindMap by IBD, Germany, - GIS-Tool from SmallWorld - .. - ..... by TH Darmstadt - .. 19:45 pm end Friday Sept. 8, 1995 ----------------------- 8:30 am Panel II "Visual Interaction: pros & cons" Allen Ambler, Dan Kimura, Stefano Levialdi et al. Dirk Koschorek, Chair 9:30 am Wayne Citrin, Richard Hall, Benjamin Zorn, Univ. of Colorado Programming with Visual Expressions 10:00 am Break Masahito Hirakawa, Chair 10:15 am Mark Minas, Gerhard Viehstaedt, Univ. Erlangen/Nuernberg DiaGen: A Generator for Diagram Editors Providing Direct Manipulation and Execution of Diagrams 10:45 am Artur Serrano, Univ. of Glasgow The Use of Semantic Constraints on Diagram Editors 11:05 am Jacopo Maria Corridoni, Alberto Del Bimbo, Dario Lucarella, Univ. di Firenze & Univ. di Brescia & ENEL, Milano Navigation and Visualization of Movies Content 11:25 am Short Break (in parallel:) || Volker Haarslev, Chair || 11:35 pm Alexander Repenning, Univ. of Colorado || Bending the Rules: Steps toward Semantically || enriched Graphical Rewrite Rules || 11:55 pm Susan M. Uskudarli, T. B. Dinesh, CWI Amsterdam || Towards a Visual Programming Environment Generator || for Algebraic Specifications || 12:15 pm Rahman Jamal, Lothar Wenzel, || Natl. Instruments, Munich & BASF-AG, Ludwigshafen || The Applicability of Visual Programming to || Large Real-World Applications || 12:35 pm Joaquim A. P. Jorge, Ephraim P. Glinert, || INESC Lisboa & Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. || Online Parsing of Visual Languages Using || Adjacency Grammars & || Meera Blattner, Chair || 11:35 pm Takeo Igarashi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Toshiyuki Masui, || Univ. of Tokyo & SHARP Corp. || Adaptive Recognition of Implicit Structures in || Human-Organized Layouts || 11:55 pm Juergen Landauer, Masahito Hirakawa, || Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg & Hiroshima Univ. || Visual AWK: A Model for Text Processing || by Demonstration || 12:15 pm Masami Hagiya, Tomoki Shiratori, Univ. of Tokyo || Programming by Example in Computing-as-Editing || Paradigm || 12:35 pm David G. Hendry, Robert Gordon Univ., Aberdeen || Display-Based Problems in Spreadsheets: || A Critical Incident and a Design Remedy 13:05 pm end 13:05 pm Lunch break 14:00 pm Departure by bus to Mainz 15:00 pm Keynote II Eva Hanebutt-Benz, Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz Word and image in the book in medieaval and early renaissance times Guided tour in Gutenberg Museum 17:15 pm end -- optional continuation -- (or individual return to Darmstadt by train) 17:30 pm Departure by bus to Bingen 18:30 pm Boarding Rhine river ship in Bingen 19:30 pm Arrival in Lorch (Rheingau) 20:00 pm Banquet and wine tasting 22:30 pm return to Darmstadt by bus 23:30 pm arrival in Darmstadt -- end of optional continuation -- Saturday Sept. 9, 1995 ----------------------- Stefano Levialdi, Chair 8:30 am Keynote III Werner Kuhn, Techn. Univ. Vienna Pictures that show us the Way: Geographic Information Systems and Visual Languages 9:30 am Jan Rekers, Andy Schuerr, Leiden Univ. & RWTH Aachen A Graph Grammar approach to Graphical Parsing 10:00 am Break Dan Kimura, Chair 10:15 am Alberto Del Bimbo, Luigi Rella, Enrico Vicario, Univ. di Firenze & Univ. di Brescia Visual Specification of Branching Time Temporal Logic 10:45 am Da-Qian Zhang, Kang Zhang, Macquarie Univ., Australia A Visual Programming Environment for Distributed Systems 11:05 am Martin Erwig, Bernd Meyer, Fernuniversitaet Hagen Heterogeneous Visual Languages - Integrating Visual and Textual Programming - 11:25 am Short break Joerg Poswig, Chair 11:35 am Andy Schuerr, Andreas Winter, Albert Zuendorf, RWTH Aachen & Univ.-GH-Paderborn Visual Programming with Graph Rewriting Systems 12:05 am Paolo Bottoni, Marzia Mariotto, Piero Mussio, Gabriele Biella, Univ. di Roma & CNR Milano & Univ. di Milano The Design of Anthropocentric Cooperative Visual Environments 12:25 pm Guijun Wang, Allen Ambler, Univ. of Kansas Invocation Polymorphism 12:45 pm Closing of symposium, awards 13:15 pm end ========================================================================= Registration ============ --------------------------------- | REGISTRATION FORM for VL'95 | --------------------------------- to be sent to vl95-registration@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Note: We prefer to get your registration through WWW, http://www.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/vl95/ +----------------+ | Identification | (your badge will exactly read as written here) +----------------+ First name _____________________________________________________ Last name _____________________________________________________ Job title _____________________________________________________ Organisation _____________________________________________________ Address _____________________________________________________ Address (cont.) _____________________________________________________ (include all country, city, area, and postal codes) E-mail address _____________________________________________________ (not included in badge) Phone number ________________________ (include country and area code) Fax number ________________________ (" " " " " ) +--------+ You are a | member | of Member number +--------+ +--------+ IEEE yes | | ______________________ +--------+ GI +--------+ (Gesell. yes | | ______________________ f. 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We have made arrangements with some of the hotels most of them very near to the conference site ( "Sechseck-Hall" of the University Technische Hochschule Darmstadt just in the city centre at the east side of Darmstadt Castle). If you want to choose the hotel by your own, please address your request to Verkehrsamt der Stadt Darmstadt, Luisenplatz 5, D-64283 Darmstadt, Phone intl+49+6151+132780, Fax intl+49+6151+132075. Hotel Weinmichel 40 Single rooms 186.- DM/night Schleiermacherstr. 10 - 12 some Double rooms 238.- DM/night Postbox 111562 D-64230 Darmstadt Phone intl+49+6151+29080 Block reservation til August 14 Fax intl+49+6151+23592 Conference Hotel of VL'95! 250 m / 800 feet to conference site Hotel Bockshaut 9 Single rooms 90.- DM/night Kirchstr. 7 - 9 1 Double room 140.- DM/night D-64283 Darmstadt Phone intl+49+6151+99670 Block reservation til August 1 Fax intl+49+6151+996767 250 m / 800 feet to conference site Parkhaus-Hotel 20 Single rooms 115.- DM/night Grafenstr. 31 D-64283 Darmstadt Phone intl+49+6151+28100 Block reservation ended August 1, Fax intl+49+6151+293908 however you may still try it 300 m / 1000 feet to conference site Hotel Prinz Heinrich 11 Single rooms 105.- DM/night Bleichstr. 48 20 Single rooms 118.- DM/night D-64293 Darmstadt Double rooms 175.- / 185.- DM/night Phone intl+49+6151+899888 Fax intl+49+6151+895901 Block reservation til August 14 1250 m / 4000 feet to conference site or 200 m / 800 feet to bus stop, two stops to Schloss/Castle Best Western Page-Hotel open number of Single and Double rooms, Eschollbruecker Str. 16 Single room 159.- DM/night D-64295 Darmstadt Double room 174.- DM/night Phone intl+49+6151+3850 Block reservation til August 1 Fax intl+49+6151+385100 Reservation through Best Western agencies possible! 200 m / 800 feet to tram stop, two stops to Luisenplatz change to bus for one stop more Schloss/Castle Please make your reservation directly with the hotel by yourself with identification VL`95. When the block reservation time is ----- over we cannot guarantee rooms available in the hotels mentioned (the most expensive hotel in Darmstadt -- Maritim-Rhein-Main-Hotel -- has always free rooms, single room rate 237.- DM/night! Hotels in the suburbs are cheaper, of course; however you have a 30 minute tram or bus ride to reach the conference site!) In Germany hotel prices include breakfast and taxes; only marginal tips. ======================================================================== How to reach Darmstadt? ======================= Darmstadt is a busy town with 140 000 population 30 km / 20 miles south of Frankfurt/Main and 45 km / 30 miles north of Heidelberg. Climate beginning September usually is warm and sunny, occasionally raining. By plane: Frankfurt Rhein/Main-International Airport (all major carriers, see special section with air fares!) Take on arrival direct bus to Darmstadt City Centre, the "HEAG Airliner", bus terminal, gate 14, opposite to arrival level in hall C (12.30 DM single fare) Bus leaves Airport: 5:15 am, 5:45 am, 6:15 am, ... 8:45 am, 9:45 am, 10:45 am, 11:45 am, 12:45 pm, 13:15 pm, 13:45 pm ... 19:45 pm, 20:45 pm, 21:45 pm, 22:45 pm (arrives in Darmstadt, Luisenplatz, 25 minutes later) By train: Darmstadt Main Station is stop of regional and many express trains (even by the famous German ICE Intercity Express Trains) on the line from Switzerland (Basel) to North Germany (Hamburg), from France (Paris/Metz through Saarbruecken) to East Germany (Berlin, Dresden), and from Netherland/Belgium (through Cologne) to Bavaria (Munich); it may be that you have to change the train in Heidelberg or Mannheim coming from the South/West or in Mainz/Frankfurt coming from the North/East. Take the bus in front of the Main Station (4 stops) to Schloss/Castle. Coming from the north or east it may be good to use the Railway Station at Frankfurt Airport (ICE-, EC-, IC-Station) and changing there to the "HEAG Airliner"-bus to Darmstadt Luisenplatz (see above, arriving by plane). By car: Highways A5/A67 from Mannheim/Heidelberg in the South and Frankfurt/ Mainz/Wiesbaden in the North, exit Darmstaedter Kreuz. Note: There are only rather limited parking facilities at the conference site! ========================================================================= Airline fares form North-America ================================ (quoted from a message by Prof. Ephraim Glinert) Birkmayer Travel is pleased to offer discounted airfares on USAir to attendees of VL'95. Savings vary from 5% off the lowest restricted fares up to 10% off unrestricted coach fares. USAir offers convenient daily nonstop service into Frankfurt from various hubs in the US. For more information or to make reservations, please call Birkmayer Travel directly and mention VL'95: Birkmayer Travel, Inc. 2 Third Street Troy, NY 12180 1 (800) 338 5735 (continental U.S. and Canada) 1 (518) 272 2650 (New York State and international) 1 (518) 272 7257 (fax) Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm EDT, Monday - Friday ========================================================================= Programme for accompanying persons ================================== (please ask for the details when you register for the symposium; guide, entrance fees and transportation fees to be paid separately depending on the number of participants) Wednesday, September 6, in the afternoon: Sightseeing in the city and short walk to the Mathildenhoehe, Hochzeits-Tower (our symposium logo!), Russian Chapel, Artists' Colony, Youth Style Museum, Lions Entrance to Rosenhoehe Don't miss the Get-together (musical surprise and meeting of your friends), 19:15 pm in the inner Castle-Yard of Darmstadt Castle Thursday, September 8, in the morning: State museum, Stefan Lochner (famous 15th century painting), altar-pieces, painted glas exhibition Thursday, September 8, in the afternoon: Visit to Frankenstein-Castle; view over the Rhine Valley, the skyline of Frankfurt; see Taunus and Odenwald from the top of the old watch tower; weather conditions permitting short walk in the forest down to Eberstadt, return to Darmstadt by tram. Friday no special programme (don't miss in the afternoon, starting 14:00 pm, the excursion to Mainz by bus with one of the keynote talks of the symposium by Dr. Hanebutt-Benz, Director of the world-famous Gutenberg-Museum on "Word and image in the book in medieaval and early renaissance times", the guided tour in the museum, and the Rhine river boat trip to Lorch, the banquet and wine tasting there -- booking of banquet tickets see above --) Saturday, September 9, in the morning no special programme; in the afternoon and evening Post-Symposium tour to Heidelberg -- see below -- ========================================================================= Post-Symposium tour to Heidelberg ================================= Saturday, September 9, assembling 15:00 pm at the Main Railway Station of Darmstadt (easy access by bus or tram), you see the German High- speed Train ICE coming through the station, transfer by regular train to Heidelberg Main Station (a 35 minute ride) and to Heidelberg Castle (about 30 minutes with bus and funicular). Guided Tour in the famous Renaissance Castle of Heidelberg (built 1476 - 1632 in three phases), view from the Palace-Gardens down to medieaval Heidelberg and Neckar valley. Strolling down and strolling around in the old city center and the university (founded 1386). "Vesper" (light evening meal) in an old student's inn. Return by train to Darmstadt (21:17 pm Heidel- berg Main Station, 21:50 pm arrival in Darmstadt). -- not part of the Symposium Programme, you pay just what it costs -- ========================================================================= -- vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Hoffmann Technische Hochschule Darmstadt / University at Darmstadt (Germany) FB Informatik, FG PU / Dept. of Computer Science Alexanderstr. 10 D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany Tel. (06151) 163410 / Phone +49+6151+163410 Fax (06151) 166648 / Fax +49+6151+166648 E-mail hoffmann@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Hoffmann Technische Hochschule Darmstadt / University at Darmstadt (Germany) FB Informatik, FG PU / Dept. of Computer Science Alexanderstr. 10 D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany Tel. (06151) 163410 / Phone +49+6151+163410 Fax (06151) 166648 / Fax +49+6151+166648 E-mail hoffmann@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^