Call for Participation
IEEE International Conference on the
Advances in Digital Libraries
May 7 - 9, 1997
Library of Congress
Washington, D. C.
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, CESDIS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
The National Library of Medicine, and The Library of Congress.
In Cooperation with: Columbia University, George Washington University,
Rutgers-Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity, The
University of Maryland - Baltimore County, and The University of Texas at Austin.
Advance Program - as of 2/21/97
Wednesday, May 7, 1997
9:00 a.m. Keynote 1: Robert Harriss, Director of Science Division, NASA
``Mission to Planet Earth''
Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University
10:15 a.m. Forum Discussion 1: Very Large Digital Libraries
Chair: Karen Moe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
EOSDIS - Large Scale Active Archives to Support Earth Observations from
Space. John Dalton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
The National Digital Library Program: Building an Institutional Capacity.
Laura Campbell, Library of Congress.
Opportunities, Challengs, and Solutions for High-Performance Biomedical
Digital Libraries. Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine.
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Keynote 2 : Peter House, Smithsonian Institution
Chair: Burt Edelson, George Washington University
2:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 1: Images in Digital Libraries
Chair: Terry Smith
Digital Image Indexing and Retrieval by Content using the Fractal Transform
for Multimedia Databases. Jean Michel Marie-Julie and Hassane Essafi, LETI,
DEIN - CEA, France.
Wavelet-Based Image Indexing Techniques with Partial Sketch Retrieval
Capability. James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein, Sha Xin Wei,
Stanford University.
Neural Fuzzy Agents that Learn a User's Preference Map. Sanya Mitaim and
Bart Kosko, University of Southern California.
Query by Templates: A generalized approach for visual query formulation for
text dominated databases. Arit Sengupta and Andrew Dillon, University of
Indiana.
4:00 p.m. Forum Discussion 2: Digital Libraries in Europe
Chair: Rudolf Bayer, Institut fuer Informatik, Germany
The Digital Collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France: An Experiment
on Internet. Daniel Renoult, French National Library.
The German National Bibliography 1601-1700: Digital Images in a
Cooperative Cataloging Project. Dr. Doerr, Bavarian State Library, VD17
Project.
Moving from the Digital to the Virtual Library: The Tilburg Experience. Dr.
Geleijnse, Tilburg Library, Netherlands.
Digital Library and Electronic Publishing Activites of German Professional
Societies. Albert Endres, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany.
Thursday, May 8, 1997
9:00 a.m. Keynote 3: Jay Sanders, M.D., President and CEO
Global Telecommunications Group, and American Telemedicine Association
"Future Health"
Chair: Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine
10:15 to 12:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 2: Digital Library Projects
Chair: Ron Musick, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Scalable Access within the Context of Digital Libraries. X. Cheng, R. Dolin, M.
Neary, S. Prabhakar, K. V. Ravi Kanth, D. Wu, D. Aggrawal, A. El Abbadi, M.
Freeston, A. Singh, T. Smith, and J. Su, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Columbia Digital News System: An Environment for Briefing and Search over
Multimedia Information. A. Aho, S.-F. Chang, K. McKeown, D. Radev, J.
Smith, and K. Zaman, Columbia University.
Continuing Medical Education to the Point of Care Using a Digital Library and
Intimate Computers. Michael P. D'Alessandro, Jeffrey R. Galvin, James J. Choi,
William E. Erkonen, and Louis G. Crist, University of Iowa.
A Framework for Supporting Quality-Based Multimedia Presentation in
Educational Digital Libraries. Aidong Zhang and Thomas V Johnson, SUNY,
Buffalo.
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Keynote 4: Bruce Lehman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
"Intellectual Property in the Digital Age"
Chair: Milton Halem, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 3: Technology for Digital Libraries
Chair: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Darmstady, Germany
Error Tolerant Document Structure Analysis. Bertin Klein and Peter
Frankhauser, GMD-IPSI, Germany.
A Relational Interface for Heterogeneous Information Sources. Ee-Peng Lim and
Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Assuring Security and Privacy for Digital Library Transactions on the Web:
Client and Server Security Policies. M. Winslett, N. Ching, V. Jones, and I.
Slepchin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
4:00 Forum Discussion 3: Content for the Digital Library:
What the Professional Societies Are Doing.
Chair: Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University
Mark Mandelbaum, ACM
Robert Care, IEEE
Jim Crowley, SIAM
Ian Butterworth, Imperial College and Academia Europaea
7:00 Banquet Invited Speaker: Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
"Communications and Information"
Chair: Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Friday, May 9, 1997
9:00 Keynote 5: Deanna Marcum, President, Research Library Associaton
and National Digital Library Federation
"The Current Agenda and Further Directions of the National Digital Library Federation"
Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University
10:15 Forum Discussion 4: Digital Libraries, Electronic Commerce, and Law
Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University
Technological Protocols as Law: Democracy vs. a Technological Priesthood.
Steve Jamar, Howard University.
Vision vs. Reality: The Digital Information Environment in College Libraries.
Sarah Pritchard, Smith College.
11:15 Forum Discussion 5: Making the Internet Safe for Electronic Commerce
Chair: Shamim Naqvi, Bellcore
Balancing Risks in Electronic Commerce. Rich DeMillo, Bellcore.
European Perspective on Internet Security. Brian Collins, Consultant on
Information Systems Security, UK.
European Perspective on Internet Security and Overcoming Barriers. Revital
Maron, THESEUS Institute, France.
Avi Silberschatz, Lucent Bell Labs.
12:45 Forum Wrap-up Discussion
Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University.
1:00 Adjourn
Any questions can be directed to Georgia Flanagan - georgia@cesdis.usra.edu.
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Hotel Information
IEEE International Conference on the
Advances in Digital Libraries
May 7 - 9, 1997
Library of Congress
Washington, D. C.
Hotel Information
For hotel reservation, please contact (say you're attending the ADL'97 Conference):
Washington National Airport Hilton
2399 Jefferson Davis HIghway
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Contact Information
IEEE International Conference on the
Advances in Digital Libraries
May 7 - 9, 1997
Library of Congress
Washington, D. C.
General Chair: Nabil Adam, adam@adam.rutgers.edu
201-648-5239
Program Chair: Alfred Aho, aho@cs.columbia.edu
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Any questions can be directed to Georgia Flanagan - georgia@cesdis.usra.edu.
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