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NL-KR Digest Mon Jan 2 11:47:43 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 4
Today's Topics:
CFP: IJCAI95 WS on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Aug 95, Montreal
Announcement: ISCO3/IFIP WG 8.1-FRISCO Consol Info Sys, Mar 95, Marburg
Position: HCI Research Programmer at OGI, Portland Oregon
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 94 15:36:52 +0100
From: ligozat@limsi.fr (Gerard Ligozat)
To: ln@frmop11.cnusc.fr, nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com, ontology@pdadr1.pd.cnr.it
Subject: CFP: IJCAI95 WS on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Aug 95, Montreal
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WORKSHOP ON SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL REASONING
AN IJCAI-95 WORKSHOP
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Frank D. Anger Hans W. Guesgen Gerard Ligozat
Computer Science Dept. Computer Science Dept. LIMSI, Universite Paris XI
University of W. Florida University of Auckland P.O. Box 133
Pensacola, FL 32514, USA Auckland, New Zealand 91403 Orsay, France
(904) 474-3022 (+64) (9) 373-7599 (+33) (1) 69 85 80 18
fax: (904) 474-3129 fax: (+64) (9) 373-7453 fax: (+33) (1) 69 85 80 88
fdang@dcs106.dcsnod.uwf.edu hans@cs.aukuni.ac.nz ligozat@limsi.fr
The organizers solicit participation in this second IJCAI workshop on
spatial and temporal issues in representation and reasoning. Despite
many obvious differences, techniques applied in both temporal and spatial
aspects of problem domains are often very similar: constraint propagation,
relation algebra, granularity control, and others. Even applications,
such as planning and path finding, are often closely related.
Although research on spatial and temporal reasoning had sustained
a steady current in major AI conferences for decades, the past few
years have witnessed a surge of interest in the field, as recent
workshops on the subject testify.
Artificial intelligence has been described as composed of models, systems,
and algorithms. Research on representing and reasoning about space and
time has put forward a number of models and systems, with comparatively
few results about the existence, properties, and feasibility of general
methods and algorithms. The organizers, therefore, feel that time is
now ripe for building on the existing results to make spatio-temporal
research into a field with a systematic body of knowledge, methods,
methodologies, and results.
The Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning focuses on major
problems facing the developers and users of temporal and spatial
models in all areas of AI and in computer science. The organizers seek
to establish a solid space-time bridge among the researchers in
disciplines where spatio-temporal issues are a key concern. Special
attention will be given to three general questions:
1. Commonality and differences between spatial and temporal reasoning.
2. Commonality and differences between temporal models across
applications. Likewise for spatial models.
3. Comparison of model logics, axiomatic systems, cognitive models,
and other approaches to modelling space and time.
Papers should represent current results, survey the interactions between
two or more areas of spatial and temporal research, or take a position
on proposed research directions that can have significant impact on one
or more of the relevant fields. Contributions representing an advance
toward the synthesis between spatial and temporal aspects, theoretic
and applied issues and different approaches will be favored.
The workshop will also provide an opportunity for discussing the
following topics:
1. Issues of REPRESENTATION of temporal and spatial knowledge.
2. Techniques for AUTOMATED REASONING about time and space,
including combinations of temporal and spatial reasoning into
one reasoning formalism.
3. ASSIMILATION of temporal and spatial facts into an existing
knowledge base.
4. INTEGRATION of different kinds of temporal and spatial knowledge
(qualitative and quantitative, propositional and depictional, etc.)
5. APPLICATIONS of temporal and spatial reasoning to concurrent
and distributed systems, planning, databases, robotics, neural
networks, language understanding, sequencing and scheduling.
6. Issues of COMPLEXITY and FEASIBILITY in spatial and temporal
reasoning.
WORKSHOP FORMAT: The opportunity for interaction and exchange among the
participants will be maximized. Using a varied format of invited
presentations, keynote address, panel, and open discussion,
participants are expected to become involved in the discussion,
potentially leading to new insights about the interfaces between
space and time, AI and Systems, and other related domains.
ATTENDANCE: Around 40 participants will be selected to attend the workshop,
contributing and participating in discussions. Accepted papers
will be included in the Workshop Working Notes to be distributed
by IJCAI. Publication of a book based on the working notes is
intended. Participants are advised that they MUST REGISTER
FOR THE IJCAI CONFERENCE and pay the corresponding fees as well
as a US$50 workshop fee.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Electronic submissions are solicited in Tex,
Latex, or PostScript format. The papers, starting with title,
authors' names, addresses, phone and fax numbers, and email
addresses, followed by keywords, and concluding with relevant
bibliographic references, should fit on 4 to 10 single-spaced
typewritten 8.5 x 11 inch pages, in the form of an extended
abstract or complete research, survey, or position paper.
Selection of participants will be based on relevance to the
indicated focus of the workshop, clarity of the work submitted,
and the strength of the research.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 10, 1995
NOTIFICATION DATE: April 7, 1995
FINAL DATE FOR CAMERA-READY COPIES: April 24, 1995
SUBMIT TO:
Frank D. Anger
Dept of Computer Science
University of W. Florida
Pensacola, FL 32514 USA
(904)474-3022; fax: (904)474-3129
email: fdang@dcs106.dcsnod.uwf.edu
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From: ef@cs.kun.nl
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 10:26:57 +0100
To: MEMBERS@IS.COMM.WORLD
Subject: Announcement: ISCO3/IFIP WG 8.1-FRISCO Consol Info Sys, Mar 95, Marburg
* * ** C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N * * **
* *** Including Call for Posters and Registration Form * ***
International Working Conference on
I N F O R M A T I O N S Y S T E M C O N C E P T S
TOWARDS A CONSOLIDATION OF VIEWS
(ISCO3)
Organised by:
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
Working Group 8.1
(Design and Evaluation of Information Systems)
In co-operation with:
The German Society for Informatics
(Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e.V., GI)
Working Group 2.5.2
(Fachgruppe EMISA)
University of Marburg/Lahn, Germany
28-30 March 1995
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LOCATION
========
The conference will be held in the ancient, idyllic university town
of Marburg in the geographical centre of Germany. It will be hosted
by the more than 400 years old university founded by Landgraf
Philipp. All plenary sessions will take place at the Alte Aula, the
university's most representative lecture hall situated in the centre
of Marburg.
THEME
=====
In the field of Information Systems widely diverging views abound.
Whilst it is acknowledged that there may be good reasons for applying
different views or modelling paradigms to different sorts of
information systems, most of these differences are unmotivated and
generally not well justified; they are the historical products of
different research cultures and schools of thought. Even more
regrettable are the differences caused by one school ignoring the
work of others, or resulting from deliberate "productdifferentiation"
by method and tool vendors in the information system field.
For the future of our field, it is desirable to encourage a
harmonisation of views. The current work of the IFIP WG 8.1 Task
Group FRISCO ("FRamework of Information System Concepts") is a major
step in this direction. After the successful ISCO conferences in
Namur (An In-depth Analysis) and Alexandria (Improving the
Understanding), this third ISCO conference is being organised with
harmonised convergence as its prime aim.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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* FRISCO Presentation (Tuesday morning)
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The conference will start with a report on the work done by the task
group since ISCO2. (B. Nilsson, Sweden)
* Topics and Selected Papers
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(Dates, times and discussants to be announced)
General Issues and Problems in the Information System Field
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The discipline of information systems: Let many flowers bloom!
D.E. Avison, J. Nandhakumar (UK)
Limitations of information systems theory and practice
Ch. Avgerou, T. Cornford (UK)
Theories of meaning and different perspectives on information systems
P. Holm, K. Karlgren (Sweden)
A systems approach to information system development
L.D. Xu (USA)
Frameworks for Harmonising Information System Modelling Approaches
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A unifying framework for conceptual data modelling concepts
P.J.M. Frederiks, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, E. Lippe (Netherlands)
A metamodel transformation approach towards harmonisation in
information system modelling
J.L.H. Oei (Netherlands)
Fundamentals of Conceptual Modelling
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A semiotic approach to object abstraction
B.A. Calway (Australia)
The distinction between abstraction and realization:
Implicationsfor system descriptions and theoretical frameworks
J. Kaasboell (Norway)
Defining quality concepts for conceptual models
J. Krogstie, O.I. Lindland, G. Sidre (Norway)
Anything, everything and things playing roles
P. Lindgreen (Denmark)
Analysis and Improvements of Conceptual Modelling Approaches
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Multiple relationships: an analysis of their semantics and their
modelling
D.J. Flynn, D.R. Knight (UK), A.H.F. Laender (Brazil)
What's in a relationship? On distinguishing property holding and
object binding
S. Kelly (Finland)
English grammar as a sentence model for conceptual modelling using
NIAM
J.A. Sykes (Australia)
Business Modelling Issues and Approaches
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How should business professionals analyse information systems for
themselves?
S. Alter (USA)
Business model representations
A.A. Verrijn-Stuart (Netherlands)
Modelling Methods and Facilities
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A self-descriptive conceptual schema modelling facility, its
implementation and extension
M. Bjoern, H.K. Kim, R. Hotaka (Japan)
A user-centred method for the development of data-intensive dialogue
systems
B. Schewe, K.-D. Schewe (Germany)
Evolution of the Information System Field
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About a framework for information and information processing of
learning systems
M. Rauterberg (Switzerland)
From information systems to knowledge systems
G. Wagner (Germany)
POSTER SESSIONS
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In order to enrich the discussions, participants who will not
present a paper are invited to actively participate in the poster
sessions. An abstract not longer than two A4-pages about your poster
proposal, e.g. an approach to or ideas about some aspects of the
conference theme should be sent to the Program Committee Chairman:
Prof. Dr. E. D. Falkenberg
Department of Informatics, University of Nijmegen
Toernooiveld 1, NL - 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
E-mail: ef@cs.kun.nl Fax: +31-80-553450
Accepted poster abstracts will be included in the pre-prints.
Abstract due:
27 January 1995
Notification of acceptance or rejection:
6 February 1995
Poster in final form due:
28 March 1995 (at the beginning of the conference)
PANEL DISCUSSION (Thursday afternoon)
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How far harmonization?
(Panellists to be announced)
SOCIAL PROGRAM
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On Tuesday evening, a reception of the City Council of Marburg will
be organised at the City Hall of Marburg. On Wednesday evening, a
buffet dinner and chamber concert will be arranged in the
Fuerstensaal of Marburg Castle.
TUTORIAL ON OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION
======================================================
Prior to the conference (on Monday afternoon), there will be a
tutorial presented by Dr. James Odell (Odell & Associates, Ann Arbor,
USA) on Object Oriented Analysis and Specification. This is not part
of the conference and has to be booked separately (cf. attached
forms).
SCIENTIFIC SESSION OF IFIP WG 8.1
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On Friday 31 March, there will be an IFIP WG 8.1 scientific session
on the work of the FRISCO task group. Interested conference
participants are welcome as guests.
GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR
Antoni Olive, University of Catalunya, Spain
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:
Eckhard Falkenberg, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
F. van Assche, Belgium D. Avison, U.K.
P. Creasy, Australia W. Hesse, Germany
R. Hotaka, Japan M. Jarke, Germany
L. Kalinichenko, Russia P. Kerola, Finland
U. Lipeck, Germany P. Loucoupulos, U.K.
K. Lyytinen, Finland H.C. Mayr, Austria
B. Nilsson, Sweden J. Odell, U.S.A.
N. Prakash, India C. Rolland, France
H. Sol, Netherlands R. Stamper, Netherlands
R. Studer, Germany R. Traunmueller, Austria
T. Tse, Hong Kong A. Verrijn-Stuart, Netherlands
D. Vogel, U.S.A. K. Voss, Germany
Y. Wand, Canada S. Wrycza, Poland
ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps Universitaet Marburg, Germany
ORGANISING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Juergen Vaupel, Philipps Universitaet Marburg, Germany
Barbara Dinklage, Marlies Benner
ISCO3 Conference Secretariat
University of Marburg
Fb. 12; Fg. Informatik
Hans-Meerwein-Strasse
D - 35032 Marburg / Lahn
GERMANY
Email: isco3@informatik.uni-marburg.de
or: sek@informatik.uni-marburg.de
Phone: +49-(0)6421-2854-50/80
Fax: +49-(0)6421-285419
REGISTRATION
============
For registration, the attached email registration form is recommended.
Reduced fees apply for early registration (until 15 February 1994),
for IFIP and GI members, and for students. The registration fee
includes participation at all technical sessions, the reception,
dinner and concert, a set of paper pre-prints distributed at the
conference, and (except for student registrants) a copy of the
conference proceedings to be posted in summer 1995. For the tutorial
on Monday afternoon, an additional fee is required.
PAYMENT
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There are three options for payment:
* By credit card:
The following credit cards are accepted:
VISA, Eurocard/Mastercard
Please specify card type, number, expiry date and name of card
holder on the registration form.
* By bank transfer:
Please transfer to
Prof. Dr. W. Hesse, "ISCO-3 Tagung"
Sparkasse Marburg-Biedenkopf
Acc. No. 10 000 02 123
BLZ 533 500 00
* By eurocheque:
If the amount exceeds 400 DM, you have to send two cheques.
Please state "ISCO-3 Tagung, Juergen Vaupel" as recipient and
mark cheque "Not Negotiable" ("Zur Verrechnung").
TRANSPORT AND ACCOMMODATION
===========================
Marburg can be reached by plane through Frankfurt Airport and a
1-hour train ride from Frankfurt. There are good hourly train
connections from the North (through Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe) and South
(through Frankfurt/Main).
Marburg offers good accommodation facilities of all categories.
Accommodation will be organized by the Marburg Tourist Office. Please
use the attached form. Visitors coming by car are advised to avoid
the city centre hotels because of the lack of parking spots.
IMPORTANT DATES
===============
27 January 1995 Deadline for poster submission
15 February 1995 Deadline for early registration
28 March 1995 Deadline for late registration
TUTORIAL ON MONDAY, 27 MARCH
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Advanced Object-Oriented Analysis and Specification:
In the last few years, many books have appeared on the topic of
OO analysis and design. These books explore the basic issues and
techniques for developing systems using an OO approach.
This presentation begins by examining the fundamental notions common
to all OO approaches. Using this foundation, then, the following
topics will be discussed:
- event networks
- meta- and hypermodel construction
- business rules
- constraint specification
- power types
- a taxonomy of composition
About the speaker:
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James Odell provides consulting and training in object-oriented
analysis and design and the application of CASE technology. Since
1968, he has been heavily involved in developing better methods to
manage, understand, and express system requirements. He was one of
the early innovators of information engineering methodologies.
James Odell was formerly the principal consultant for KnowledgeWare
where he pioneered and taught the concepts of data modelling and
information strategy planning. Now, he is one of the first practical
implementors of object-oriented specification-consulting to major
companies worldwide. He is a very experienced and highly-regarded
educator.
He is a columnist for the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming
and has recently co-authored books with James Martin entitled
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (Prentice-Hall, 1992) and
Object-Oriented Methods: A Foundation (Prentice-Hall, 1994).
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* * * * * ISCO3 Registration Form * * * * *
to be returned to the Conference Secretariat:
isco3@informatik.uni-marburg.de
Name:________________________________________________________________
Title:_______________________________________________________________
Affiliation:_________________________________________________________
Address:_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Post Code:___________________________________________________________
Country:_____________________________________________________________
Phone:_______________________________________________________________
Fax:_________________________________________________________________
E-Mail:______________________________________________________________
Registration fee: (all prices in DM, please mark)
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Early Late
(until 15 February 95) (after 15 February 95)
Full registration 600 700
IFIP/GI member 500 600
Student 100 100
Tutorial on 27 March 100 150
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* Credit Card Data:
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Total Amount:________________________________________________________
Credit card type:____________________________________________________
Credit card number:__________________________________________________
Expiry date:_________________________________________________________
Address of cardholder:_______________________________________________
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: sgi!uunet.uu.net!church!pcohen (Phil Cohen)
Subject: Position: HCI Research Programmer at OGI, Portland Oregon
Date: 23 Dec 1994 00:28:52 GMT
WANTED IMMEDIATELY! Multitalented Research Programmer.
Center for Human-Computer Communication
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
The Center for Human-Computer Communication (CHCC) is looking for a unique
individual who wants to advance the state of the art in intelligent agent
architectures and multimodal user interfaces. The ideal candidate should be
fluent in a variety of systems, architectures and programming languages,
understand user interface tools, and most of all, be committed to making a
strong contribution to the next generation of user interfaces and intelligent systems.
Specifically, you should have the following:
EDUCATION: BA in Computer Science with substantial work experience, MS
preferred Coursework or work experience in AI, logic programming,
databases, natural language processing, and networking very desirable.
Experience with speech recognition handwriting recognition, and mapping
systems would also be a big plus
SKILLS: PC's: MS Windows and Visual Basic, OLE, Prolog, C, C++
Unix: X-Windows, C, C++, Prolog, shell and Perl scripts, Tcl and Tk
Mac: ToolBox programming, AppleScript, Commonlisp, C++, Prolog,
NewtonScript
TASK: You will be responsible for implementing an intelligent agent
architecture and multimodal user interface. The agent architecture will
allow distributed information resources operating on multiple platforms to
communicate and cooperate over the Internet in addressing users' needs.
Users will state those needs through a multimodal interface integrating
speech recognition, natural language processing, handwriting, gestures, and
direct manipulation. The architecture will span multiple platforms (PC's,
Unix, Macs, PDA's) and network bandwidths (from ATM to 2400 baud dial-up
lines). To maximize generality, it will take advantage of emerging
standards such as CORBA.
Salary and benefits will be competitive.
INSTITUTION: The Center for Human-Computer Communication is a newly formed
research center at OGI within the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering. We are a multidisciplinary group, including computer
scientists, psychologists, and linguists dedicated to advancing the science
and technology of human-computer and human-human communication. Research
support comes from ARPA, NSF, NASA, the State of Oregon, and a variety of
computer and telecommunications companies. A new usability and intelligent
systems laboratory includes Sun sparcstations, PC's, PowerMacs, and PDA's,
as well as state-of-the-art video recording and production equipment.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is one of the most
rapidly growing departments in the U.S., with 20 full-time professors, over
100 Ph.D. and M.S. students, and a departmental research budget exceeding
$6M per year. CSE's research is organized around a number of
Centers, including CHCC, the Center for Spoken Language Understanding, and
the Data Intensive Systems Center. In these areas of specialization, CSE is
the leading computer science department on the West Coast.
The Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology is located 12 miles
west of Portland, Oregon, and serves the high-technology educational needs
of Intel, Tektronix, Mentor Graphics, and other local corporations. The
Portland Metro area has a rapidly growing population (> 1.2M people), but
is still the most affordable major city on the West Coast. The city offers
the full range of cultural, culinary, and athletic opportunities to be
expected from a cosmopolitan center. For the outdoors enthusiast, excellent
skiing, windsurfing, sailing, hiking, beachcombing, etc. are within an
hour's drive.
Further information about CSE and OGI can be found on the web at:
http::www.cse.ogi.edu
Please reply with a resume, statement of interests and availability, as
well as names of three references to:
Phil Cohen (pcohen@cse.ogi.edu) (503)690-1326
Professor
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 91000
Portland, OR 97034
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