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IRList Digest Monday, 10 August 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 23
Today's Topics:
Call for Papers - 2nd Int'l Conf. on Expert Database Systems
Software Psychology Society - Fall 87 schedule, Potomac Chapter
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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 87 11:09 EST
From: <KERSCH@GMUVAX>
Subject: Call for Papers: Expert Database Systems Conference
(Please Distribute this Call for Papers to associates)
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Call for Papers and Participation
Second International Conference on Expert Database Systems
April 25-27, 1988
The Sheraton Premiere Hotel,
Tysons Corner, Virginia
Sponsored by:
George Mason University
In Cooperation With:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Association for Computing Machinery -- SIGART and SIGMOD
IEEE Computer Society -- T. C. on Data Base Engineering
Conference Objectives
The International Conference on Expert Database Systems has
established itself as a leading edge forum that explores the
theoretical and practical issues in making database systems
more intelligent and supportive of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) applications. Expert Database Systems represent the
confluence of R&D activities in Artificial Intelligence,
Database Management, Logic, Information Retrieval, and Fuzzy
Systems Theory. It is precisely this synergism among dis-
ciplines which makes the Conference both stimulating and
unique.
Expert Database Systems will play an ever-increasing role in
scientific, governmental and business applications. The key
is to provide expertise to all facets of database systems,
including:
% providing knowledge-based access to large shared databases
through intelligent user-interfaces and natural-language
question-answering facilities,
% endowing database systems with reasoning, planning, and
justification capabilities,
% defining new classes of knowledge/data models supporting
diverse viewpoints and capable of both temporal and spatial
reasoning,
% creating architectures to support both loose- and tight-
coupling of knowledge base and database systems,
% creating tools and techniques to support the specifica-
tion, manipulation, indexing, adaptation, and evolution of
large knowledge/data bases, and
% integrating AI and DB functional requirements into new
software and hardware environments for the specification,
prototyping, testing and debugging of knowledge/data based
applications.
In order to foster the interchange of ideas from these
diverse fields, the conference will be composed of tutorial
sessions, paper sessions, and panel discussions. Several
invited keynote lectures are planned.
Topics of Interest
The Program Committee invites original theoretical and
application papers (of approximately 5000 words) addressing
(but not limited to) the following areas:
Theory of Knowledge Bases (including knowledge representa-
------ -- --------- -----
tion, knowledge models, knowledge indexing and transforma-
tion, knowledge servers, and formal semantics of
knowledge/data bases).
Object-Oriented Systems (including object-oriented data
------ -------- -------
models, query languages, transaction management, version
control, and modeling applications for enterprises, CAD/CAM,
VLSI, Materials Properties knowledge/data bases, etc.).
Reasoning on Knowledge/Data Bases (including reasoning under
--------- -- --------- ---- -----
uncertainty, sensor fusion, non-monotonic reasoning, analog-
ical reasoning, deductive databases, logic-based query
languages, semantic query optimization and constraint-
directed reasoning).
Knowledge Management (including methodologies for knowledge
--------- ----------
acquisition, the knowledge engineering process, constraint
and rule management, knowledge-based requirements gathering
and specification, and knowledge administration).
Distributed Knowledge/Data Bases (including loosely- and
----------- --------- ---- -----
tightly-coupled architectures, intelligent query decomposi-
tion and processing, federated architectures, distributed
problem-solving, and blackboard techniques for distributed
control and problem solving).
Intelligent Database Interfaces (including expert system --
----------- -------- ----------
database communication, knowledge gateways, knowledgeable
user agents and browsers).
Natural Language Interaction (including question-answering,
------- -------- -----------
extended responses, cooperative behavior, explanation and
justification).
Conference proceedings will be available at the conference.
Please send five copies of papers by October 14, 1987 to
Professor Larry Kerschberg
Dept. of Information Systems and Systems Eng.
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
USA
Important Dates
Submission Deadline October 14, 1987
Acceptance Notification: December 15, 1987
Camera-Ready Version: February 1, 1988
Conference Dates: April 25-27, 1988
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EDS'88 Organizing Committee
Conference General Chairman
Edgar H. Sibley,
George Mason University
Program Chairman
Larry Kerschberg,
George Mason University
Program Committee
Robert Abarbanel, USA Matthew Morgenstern, USA
Hideo Aiso, Japan John Mylopoulos, Canada
Antonio Albano, Italy Sham Navathe, USA
Stephen J. Andriole, USA Erich Neuhold, FRG
Robert Balzer, USA Setsuo Ohsuga, Japan
Francois Bancilhon, France D. Stott Parker, Jr., USA
Don Batory, USA Alain Pirotte, Belgium
Alex Borgida, USA W. Don Potter, USA
Michael L. Brodie, USA Larry Reeker, USA
Janis Bubenko, Sweden Nick Roussopoulos, USA
Peter Buneman, USA Erik Sandewall, Sweden
Stefano Ceri, Italy Timos Sellis, USA
Umesh Dayal, USA John Miles Smith, USA
Mark Fox, USA Reid Smith, USA
Antonio L. Furtado, Brasil Arne Solvberg, Norway
Herve Gallaire, FRG John Sowa, USA
Barbara Hayes-Roth, USA Jacob Stein, USA
Yannis Ioannidis, USA Michael Stonebraker, USA
Sushil Jajodia, USA Adrian Walker, USA
Matthias Jarke, FRG Andrew B. Whinston, USA
Jonathan King, USA Gio Wiederhold, USA
Roger King, USA Eugene Wong, USA
Robert Meersman, Netherlands Carlo Zaniolo, USA
Tim H. Merrett, Canada
Tutorial and Panel Coordinator
Lucian Russell, USA
Conference Coordinator
Nancy D. Joyner, USA
Exhibits Coordinator
Diane Entner, USA
Publicity Chairman
Jorge Diaz-Herrera, USA
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 87 12:25:28 EST
From: Ben Shneiderman <ben@mimsy.umd.edu>
Subject: Fall Schedule for Potomac Chapter, Software Psychology Soc.
below is the troff file for the next Software Psychology Society
announcement...Please carve it up into your format and circulate on
IRLIST.
. . .
I leave tomorrow AM for SF and then the conference in Hawaii...returning
Aug 30. Have fun...Ben
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SOFTWARE PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY
POTOMAC CHAPTER
VOLUME 12 NUMBER 1 FALL 1987
Note: All meetings will be held at the George Washington University's Marvin
Center (800 21st Street, N.W.) between 10:00 AM and noon. Coffee and doughnuts
will be provided by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci-
ences.
Send correspondence for this newsletter to: Software Psychology Society, c/o
Skip Williamson, Knowledge Systems, Inc., 5705 Stillwell Rd., Rockville, MD
20851.
September 11 Room 413-414
TWO PSYCHOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED INVENTIONS
FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Tom K. Landauer, Bell Communications Research
435 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960
Our goal has been to identify human performance obstacles in cognitive tasks
and then to invent computer-based tools to help overcome them. Two examples
of current projects will be described.
INFOSCALE: Traditional information retrieval methods rely on matches between
individual words in queries and documents or indexes. But individual words
are unreliable indicants of conceptual content. As a result, most desired
documents are not found, and most documents that are found are not desired.
We have been exploring a powerful statistical method, singular value decompo-
sition, as a way to characterize the semantic content of whole documents or
queries. Results are promising.
SUPERBOOK: The effective use of reference and instructional text is hampered
by the difficulty of searching for and displaying all and only those segments
of interest. We have been building a multi-windowed system that exploits
several methods for improved computer-aided search and display in an effort to
augment the utility of text.
October 9 Room 413-414
PERCEPTUAL AND COGNITIVE ASPECTS
OF IMAGE PROCESSING
James Howard, Jr., Human Performance Laboratory
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064
The use of high-resolution imagery has become widespread in a variety of
applications. Many interactive image processing algorithms have been
developed for enhancing and/or reconstructing imagery data, but relatively
little research has addressed the ability of human users to apply them effec-
tively. A program of research which addresses this need will be described.
Two complementary aspects of the interactive imaging problem will be examined.
First, the perceptual implications of frequency-domain image operators will be
considered for detection, classification, and search. These results relate to
previous findings which suggest an important role of spatial-frequency sensi-
tive channels on attention in human vision. Second, the user's strategy in
applying a set of operators will also be examined. Users appear to develop
stable strategies which can be described in terms of simple productions or
rule systems. The theoretical and practical implications of the results will
be reviewed.
November 13 Room 413-414
STRATEGIES FOR ESTABLISHING A USABILITY
TESTING LABORATORY IN A CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT
Patricia Shearer and Roxanne Smith, EDS Corporation
Usability Testing Laboratory, 225 Grandview Avenue (6-10), Camp Hill, PA 17011
The scope of a usability testing laboratory goes beyond the test room itself.
Establishing and operating a usability lab within a business environment
involves some interesting challenges. There are business politics to overcome
which make operations difficult. And acceptance of human factors and usabil-
ity testing doesn't always come easy.
There are many challenges in incorporating a usability testing laboratory into
a corporate environment. Strategies influencing EDS product developers to
include human factors concerns in the development process will be presented.
Application domains include forms design, data entry, pop-up menus, documenta-
tion, and error messages.
Finally, successful procedures for usability testing and findings as a result
of testing -- both product-related and organizational -- will be discussed.
December 11 Room 413-414
TOUCH SCREEN INTERFACES:
CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCERNS
Russ Benel, IBM Federal Systems Division
9201 Corporate Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850
Touch sensitive displays have been implemented commonly as the simple inter-
face to menu systems in information kiosks, but have the potential for use as
the main interface to complex systems. The human factors necessary to design
an optimal touch sensitive human computer interface have not been derived from
an extensive base of empirical research. The available standards appear to
have been developed originally for mechanical pushbutton switches. Decisions
of when and how to employ touch screens frequently have not been made on the
basis of user requirements. The interaction between touch technology type and
intended use is often ignored. This discussion will examine these issues and
suggest approaches. Reference will be made to empirical studies that have
been conducted.
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