C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N
C I K M 9 7
Sixth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
November 10-14, 1997, Monte Carlo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Sponsored by ACM, ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR
In cooperation with SIGLINK and SIGGROUP
http://enws396.eas.asu.edu/cikm97/cikm97.html
FROM THE GENERAL CHAIRS
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The Sixth International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM'97) will be an opportunity for people working in the
areas of database management, information retrieval, and artificial
intelligence to meet and discuss problems of mutual interest. The
CIKM conference, sponsored again this year by the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) and its Special Interest Groups on
Information Retrieval (SIGIR) and Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), is
an annual, international forum for the dissemination of original ideas
in information and knowledge management.
The distinguishing characteristic of the CIKM conference series is to
foster close collaboration between the database, information retrieval,
and artificial intelligence communities. Under the leadership of
Professors Forouzon Golshani and Kia Makki, the Program Committee has
selected an excellent set of papers.
We are pleased to again offer a program of tutorials at CIKM'97, and we
hope that many of you will take advantage of these opportunities for
professional development. CIKM'97 continues the conference's
tradition of workshops designed to present the newest developments in
areas of interest to our community.
This year's conference will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The wide
variety of entertainment offered by this great city are readily
accessible to CIKM'97 attendees. We look forward to seeing you at
CIKM'97 in November.
Charles Nicholas
Niki Pissinou
CIKM'97 General Chairs
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
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As usual, the CIKM'97 technical program consists of invited and peer
refereed technical papers intermixed with panels and surrounded by
tutorials and workshops. The invited talks address the important and
emerging issues in the development of next generation information
systems. The panels focus on some of the issues that are topics of
much current debate. The eight tutorials represent some of the hottest
R&D topics in the areas relavant to the theme of this year's
conference. The refereed technical papers (48) were selected from 156
submissions. An outline of the conference program is shown below, details
can be found in the advanced program section.
Monday, November 10: Tutorials
T1: "Models in Information Retrieval"
Fredric C. Gey, Univ. of California
T3: "Data Warehousing and OLAP for Decision Support: Foundations
and Techniques", Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Concordia Univ.,
Raymond Ng, Univ. British Columbia
T4: "Software Agents For Information Retrieval"
T. Finin, C. Nicholas and J. Mayfield, UMBC
T5: "Multimedia Database Systems"
V. S. Subrahmanian, Univ. of Maryland
6:30PM - 8:00PM CIKM'97 Reception at the hotel
Tuesday, November 11: TECHNICAL PROGRAM
09:00 - 10:15 Keynote Address, "New Times - New Customers"
Ross Park, Senior VP, Bull Worldwide Information Systems
10:15 - 10:30 Morning Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session A-1: Information Retrieval
Session B-1: Time in Information Systems
Session C-1: Transactions in Multidatabases
12:00 - 01:00 Lunch Break
01:00 - 02:30 Session A-2: Knowledge Based Systems
Session B-2: Video and Audio Systems
Session C-2: AI in Query Processing
02:30 - 02:45 Break
02:45 - 03:45 Session I-1: Invited Presentations
Session I-2: Invited Presentations
03:45 - 04:00 Break
04:00 - 05:30 Session A-3: Rule Analysis
Session B-3: Multimedia Information Systems
Session C-3: Panel
07:00 - 10:00 CIKM'97 Banquet at the hotel
Wednesday, November 12: TECHNICAL PROGRAM
09:00 - 10:15 Keynote address, "Relational Programs: An Approach
for Enhancing the Safety of AI-Based Control Systems"
Farokh B. Bastani, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TKDE,
University of Texas at Dallas
10:15 - 10:30 Morning Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session A-4: Data Mining
Session B-4: Databases I
Session C-4: Media Servers
12:00 - 01:00 Lunch Break
01:00 - 02:30 Session A-5: Panel
Session B-5: Query Processing
Session C-5: Information Processing
02:30 - 02:45 Break
02:45 - 03:45 Session I-3: Invited Presentations
Session I-4: Invited Presentations
03:45 - 04:00 Break
04:00 - 05:30 Session A-6: Search Algorithms
Session B-6: Databases II
Session C-6: Memory Management
Thursday, November 13: TUTORIAL and WORKSHOP
T6: "Information Security" Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University
W1: GIS'97 Workshop - Advances in Geographic Information Systems
W2: NPIVM'97 - New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation
06:30 - 8PM workshops reception at the hotel
Friday, November 14: Tutorials and Workshops
T8: Coordination Technology and Workflow Management (Morning, Nov. 14)
Frank von Martial, T-Mobil, Germany
T9: Object-oriented Enterprise Frameworks (Afternoon, Nov. 14)
Mohamed E. Fayad, University of Nevada
W1: GIS'97 - Advances in Geographic Information Systems
W2: NPIVM'97 - New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation
VENUE AND ACCOMMODATIONS
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ACM CIKM97 will be held at: Monte Carlo Hotel
3770 Las Vegas Boulevard, South
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 USA
Phone: (702) 730-7777
Fax: (702) 730-7250
Room Rate: $69.00. All room rates are net per room, per night, single
or double occupancy plus taxes for Nov. 9, 1997 through Nov. 13, 1997.
If you arrive on Nov. 8, 1997 (Saturday), the rate for the Saturday
is applied and it is $99.00.
Individuals to make their own reservations by calling 1-800-311-8999
(or 702-730-7777), and use the group name "CIKM97" to receive CIKM97
rate. Individuals are on their own for payment of room, tax and any
incidental charges. All reservations must be made prior to the
Cut-off date of October 11, 1997. All reservations must be guaranteed
for late arrival by a valid credit card or an advance deposit of
one night's room and tax. Check-in time is 3:00PM.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
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If you have any questions contact appropriate person:
on registrations (Dr. Park: ekpark@cstp.umkc.edu);
on technical programs (Program Chairs:
Dr. Forouzan Golshani at cikm97@arian.eas.asu.edu or
Dr. Kia Makki at kia@cs.unlv.edu);
on other conference related matters (General Chairs:
Dr. Charles Nicholas at nicholas@cs.umbc.edu or
Dr. Niki Pissinou at pissinou@cacs.usl.edu);
on GIS'97 (Dr. Laurini at laurini@ifhpserv.insa-lyon.fr);
on NPIVM'97 (Dr. David Ebert at ebert@cs.umbc.edu).
Please visit our WWW site for up-to-date CIKM97 program information and
related activities: http://www.arian.eas.asu.edu/cikm97/cikm97.html
REGISTRATION FORM
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ACM CIKM'97 and Workshops Registration Form
Sixth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
November 10 - 14, 1997, Monte Carlo Hotel, Las Vegas Nevada, USA
Sponsored* by ACM, ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR
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* TUTORIALS:
Half Day Tutorials (Monday, Nov. 10, 1997):
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T1. Models in Information Retrieval (Morning, Nov. 10)
Fredric C. Gey, Ph. D., University of California
T2. New Trends in Information Discovery on the Web (Morning, Nov. 10)
(CANCELED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Chaitanya Baru, Ph. D. Richard Marciano, Ph. D.
San Diego Supercomputer Center
T3. Data Warehousing and OLAP for Decision Support: Foundations and Techniques
(Afternoon, Nov. 10)
Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Associate Professor, Concordia University
Raymond Ng, Professor, Univ. British Columbia
T4. Software Agents For Information Retrieval (Afternoon, Nov. 10)
T. Finin, C. Nicholas and J. Mayfield, UMBC
One Day (Two Half Day) Tutorials (Monday, Nov. 10, 1997):
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T5. Multimedia Database Systems
V. S. Subrahmanian, Prof., University of Maryland
Half Day Tutorials (Thursday, Nov. 13, 1997):
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T6. Information Security (Morning, Nov 13)
F. Golshani, Prof. Arizona State University
One Day (Two Half Day) Tutorials (Thursday, Nov. 13, 1997):
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T7. OLAP and Statistical Databases (CANCELED !!!!!!!!!!!!!)
F. Olken, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Half Day Tutorials (Friday, Nov. 14, 1997):
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T8. Coordination Technology and Workflow Management (Morning, Nov. 14)
Frank von Martial, T-Mobil, Germany
T9. Object-oriented Enterprise Frameworks (Afternoon, Nov. 14)
Mohamed E. Fayad, University of Nevada
* WORKSHOPS:
W1: GIS'97 - Advances in Geographic Information Systems
W2: NPIVM'97 - New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation
** GIS'97 and NPIVM'97 will both be two-day workshops (on Nov. 13 - 14, 1997).
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ADVANCE PROGRAM (CIKM’97)
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Monday, November 10: TUTORIALS
Morning:
T1: Models in Information Retrieval, Fredric C. Gey, University of California
T3: Data Warehousing and OLAP for Decision Support: Foundations and Techniques
Laks V.S.Lakshmanan (Concordia Univ.), Raymond Ng (Univ. British Columbia)
Afternoon:
T2: New Trends in Information Discovery on the Web,
(CANCELED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Chaitanya Baru and Richard Marciano, San Diego Supercomputer Center
T4: Software Agents for Information Retrieval,
T. Finin, C. Nicholas and J. Mayfield, UMBC
Full-Day (Morning and Afternoon):
T5: Multimedia Database Systems, V. S. Subrahmanian, Univ. of Maryland
6:30PM - 8:00PM CIKM'97 Reception at the hotel
Tuesday, November 11: TECHNICAL PROGRAM
09:00 - 10:15 Keynote Address, "New Times - New Customers",Ross Park,
Senior Vice President, Bull Worldwide Information Systems
10:15 - 10:30 Morning Break
10:30 - 12:00
Session A-1: Information Retrieval
Chair: Stanley Su
1) "Block Addressing Indices for Approximate Text Retrieval" by Ricardo Baeza-
Yates and Gonzalo Navarro (U. of Chile)
2) "Applications of Approximate Word Matching in Information Retrieval"
by James C. French, Allison L. Powell (U of Virginia) and Eric Schulman
(National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
3) "Improving Relevance Feedback in the Vector Space Model" by Carol
Lundquist(George Mason Univ.), David A. Grossman (Office of Information
Technology) and Ophir Frieder (Florida Institute of Technology)
Session B-1: Time in Information Systems
Chair: Senad Busovaca
1) "Modeling Temporal Primitives: Back to Basics" by Iqbal A. Goralwalla, Yuri
Leontiev, M. Tarmer Ozsu and Duane Szafron (U of Alberta)
2) "A Framework for the Management of Past Experiences with Time-Extended
Situation" by Michel Jaczynski (INRIA)
3) "I-Regular expression: Regular Expression with Continuous Interval
Constraints" by Ken NAKAYAMA (Teikyo Heisei U.), Kazunori YAMAGUCHI, and
Satori KAWAI(The U. of Tokyo)
Session C-1: Transactions in Multidatabases
Chair: Frank Olken
1) "A Uniform Approach to Global Concurrency Control and Recovery in
Multidatabase Environments" by SangKeum Lee, Chong-Sun Hwang and WonGyn Lee
(Korea U.)
2) "Commit-Reordering Validation Scheme for Transaction Scheduling in Client-
Server Based Teleputing Systems:COREV" by Youngkon Lee and Songchun Moon
(KAIST)
3) "Global Nested Transaction Management for ODMG-Compliant Multi-Database
Systems" by Thomas Tesch, Jurgen Wasch (GMD-IPSI)
12:00 - 01:00 pm: Lunch Break
01:00 - 02:30
Session A-2: Knowledge Based Systems
Chair: Susan Gauch
1) "Efficient Global Probabilistic Deduction from Taxonomic and Probabilistic
Knowledge-Bases over Conjunctive Events" by Thomas Lukasiewicz (U. Gissen)
2) "Deep Knowledge Mining from Natural Language Text Sources" by Udo Hahn and
Klemens Schnattinger (Freiburg U.)
3) "Managing Information and Knowledge by Consistency-driven Pairwise
Comparisons" by Waldemar W. Koczkodaj (Laurentian U.) and Marian Orlowski
(Queensland U. of Technology)
Session B-2: Video and Audio Systems
Chair: Sharma Chakravarthy
1) "The Audio Web" by Daniel Barbara and Shamim A. Naqvi (Bellcore)
2) "Retrieving Video Data via Motion Tracks of Content Symbols"
by Tim T. Y. Wai and Arbee L. P. Chen (National Tsing Hua U.)
3) "Video Key Frame Extraction and Filtering: A Keyframe is not a Keyframe to
Everyone" by Nevenka Dimitrova, Thomas McGee, and Herman Elenbaas (Philips
Research)
Session C-2: AI in Query Processing
Chair: Marguerite Murphy
1) "Distributed Knowledge Revision / Integration" by Aldo Franco Dragoni and
Paolo Giorgini(U. of Ancona)
2) "Matching and Indexing Sequences of Different Lengths" by Tolga Bozkaya,
Nasser Yazdani, and Meral Ozsoyoglu(Case Western Reserve U.)
3) "The Update of Index Structures in Object-Oriented DBMS" by Andreas
Henrich(U. Gissen)
02:30 - 02:45 Break
02:45 - 03:45
Session I-1: Invited Presentation
Speaker: To be announced
Session I-2: Invited Presentations
Speaker: To be announced
03:45 - 04:00 Break
04:00 - 05:30
Session A-3: Rule Analysis
Chair: Niki Pissinou
1) "Evaluating Triggers Using Decision Trees" by Lance Obermeyer and Daniel P.
Miranker (The U. of Texas - Austin)
2) "Mining Association Rules with Adjustible Accuracy" with Jong Soo
Park(Sungshin Women's U.), Philip S. Yu(IBM), and Ming-Syan Chen(National
Taiwan U.)
3) "A Practical Approach to Static Analysis and Execution of Rules in Active
Databases" by Seung-Kyum Kim and Sharma Chakravarthy (U. of Florida)
Session B-3: Multimedia Information Systems
Chair: Max North
1) "A Spatial Match Representation Scheme for Indexing and Querying in Iconic
Image Databases" by Jae-Woo Chang, Yeon-Jung Kim, and Ki-Jin Chang (Chonbuk
National U.)
2) "Using a Sequential Index in Terrain-Aided Navigation" by Ling Lin, and Tore
Risch (Linkoping U.)
3) "Digital Information Retrieval" by Chabane DJERABA, Patrick FARGEAUD and
Henri BRIAND (IRIN)
Session C-3: Panel
Session Chair: To be announced.
07:00 - 10:00 CIKM'97 Banquet at the hotel
Wednesday, November 12 TECHNICAL PROGRAM
09:00 - 10:15 Keynote address: "Relational Programs: An Approach
for Enhancing the Safety of AI-Based Control Systems"
Farokh B. Bastani, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TKDE,
University of Texas at Dallas
10:15 - 10:30 Morning Break
10:30 - 12:00
Session A-4: Data Mining
Chair: Il-Yeol Song
1) "Generating Association Rules from Semi-Structured Documents Using a Concept
Hierarchy" by Lisa Singh, Peter Scheuermann and Bin Chen (North Western U.)
2) "Intensional Query Processing Using Data Mining Approaches" by S.C. Yoon
(Widener U.), I.Y. Song (Drexel U.) and E.K. Park (U. of Missouri)
3) "Mining Fuzzy Association Rules" by Keith C. C. Chan and Wai-Ho Au (The Hong
Kong Polytechnic U.)
Session B-4: Databases I
Chair: Nandit Soparkar
1) "Evaluating Document Retrieval in Patent Database: a preliminary report" by
Mark Osborn (GE), Mihnea Marinescu (New York U.), and Tomek Strzalkowski (GE)
2) "View Materialization Techniques for Complex Hierarchical Objects" by Matthew
C. Jones (U. of Michigan), and Elke A. Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic
Inst.)
3) "Assistant for an Information Database" by Michael Fruchtl, Dr. Jurgen
Kreuziger (SAP), and Michael Beigl (U. of Karlsruhe)
Session C-4: Media Servers
Chair: Kia Makki
1) "On Disk Caching of Web objects in Proxy Servers" by Charu C. Aggarwal and
Philip S. Yu(IBM)
2) "Experimental Evaluation of a Continuous Media File System (PFS)" by Wonjun
Lee, Difu Su, Duminda Wijesekera, Jaideep Srivastava (U. of Minnesota), and
Deepak R. Kenchammana-Hosekote (ITA)
3) "Analysis and Design of Server Informative WWW-sites" by Amir
M.Zarkesh(Viewlogic Systems), Jafar Adidi, Cyrus Shahabi (USC), Reza Sadri,
and Vishal Shah (UCLA)
12:00 - 01:00 Lunch Break
01:00 - 02:30
Session A-5: Panel
Chair:
Session B-5: Query Processing
Chair: Daniel P. Miranker
1) "A Framework for Global Optimization of Aggregate Queries" by Chengwen Liu
and Andrei Ursu (DePaul U.)
2) "An Analysis of Cardinality Constraints in Redundant Relationships" by James
Dullea and Il-Yeol Song (Drexel U.)
3) "A Corpus Analysis Approach for Automatic Query Expansion" by Susan Gauch
and Jianying Wang (U. of Kansas)
Session C-5: Information Processing
Chair: Charles Nicholas
1) "A distributed, graphical, topic-oriented document search system" by John
Light (Intel Corp.)
2) "Towards Maintaining Consistency of Spatial Databases" by " Alia I. Abdelmoty
and Chris B. Jones (U. of Glamorgan)
3) "Real-Time Transactions with Execution Histories: Priority Assignment and
Load Control" by Erdogan Dogdu and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve U.)
02:30 - 02:45 Break
02:45 - 03:45
Session I-3: Invited Presentation
"Interactive Information Visualization",
Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin--Madison, USA
Session I-4: Invited Presentations
Speaker : To be announced
03:45 - 04:00 Break
04:00 - 05:30
Session A-6: Search Algorithms
Chair : Peter Scheuermann
1) "Reducing Match Time Variance in Production Systems with HAL" by Pou-yung
Lee and Albert Mo Kim Cheng (U. of Houston)
2) "Discovering Similar Resources by Content Part-Linking" by Brad Perry and
Wesley W. Chu (UCLA)
3) "Learning Bayesian Belief Networks from Data: An Information Theory Based
Approach" by Jie Cheng, David A. Bell and Weiru Liu (U. of Ulster)
Session B-6: Databases II
Chair: Suk-Chung Yoon
1) "Incorporating Association Pattern and Operation Specification in ODMG's OQL"
by Vanja Josifovski and Stanley Y. W. Su (U. of Florida)
2) "Exploiting Enterprise Models for the Automatic Distribution of Corporate
Information" by Michael Wolverton (SRI International)
3) "Pharos: A Scalable Distributed Architecture for Locating Heterogeneous
Information Sources" by R. Dolin, D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi, and L. Dillon (U.
of California - Santa Barbara)
Session C-6: Memory Management
Chair: Lisa Khatib
1) "XmaS: An Extensible Main-Memory Storage System" by Jongho Park, Byoung Dae
Park, and Sang K. Cha (Seoul National U.)
2) "Contention Based Consistency Maintenance for Client Cache" by IlYoung
Chung, JongMin Lee, and Chong-Sun Hwang (Korea U.)
3) "Dealing with Partial Failures in Multiple Processor Primary-Backup Systems"
by Sharad Mehrotra, Kexiang Hu, and Simon Kaplan (U. of Illinois)
Thursday, November 13
TUTORIAL (Morning):
T6: "Information Security", Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University
GIS'97 Workshop - Advances in Geographic Information Systems
NPIVM'97 Workshop- New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation
Friday, November 14
TUTORIALS:
T8: Coordination Technology and Workflow Management (Morning, Nov. 14)
Frank von Martial, T-Mobil, Germany
T9: Object-oriented Enterprise Frameworks (Afternoon, Nov. 14)
Mohamed E. Fayad, University of Nevada
WORKSHOPS:
W1: GIS'97 - Advances in Geographic Information Systems
W2: NPIVM'97 - New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation
CIKM'97 TUTORIALS
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T1. TITLE: MODELS IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Fredric C. Gey, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Abstract:
Information retrieval algorithms have emerged as the key to
effective search of large collections of unstructured text
such as found on the Internet. Vector space algorithms are
used by Lycos and AltaVista, while Inktome uses a probabilistic
document retrieval algorithms.
The three major theoretical models in information retrieval
are Boolean/logic, vector space, and probabilistic. This tutorial
will explain the unique characteristics and problems of each
model and how each model has evolved along different lines
Modern variants of the basic models are explained.
The attendees of this tutorial will obtain a basic understanding
of the major theoretical models upon which modern text retrieval
software is based. The tutorial should provide each participant
with a starting point for further self-education.
About the Author:
Fredric Gey's research specializes in probabilistic document retrieval
using logistic regression techniques. He directs the UC Berkeley
entries to the TREC conferences, and has been designated as General
Chairman for SIGIR99 to be held at the University of California,
Berkeley, during the summer of 1999. He holds a PhD in Information
Science from UC Berkeley.
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T3. Title: Data Warehousing and OLAP for Decision
Support: Foundations and Techniques
Prof. Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada
Raymond Ng, Univ. British Columbia
Abstract:
Traditional (especially, relational) database technology is best suited
for robust and efficient On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) on
operational data. Decision support applications require efficient
support for complex analyses and pattern mining on historical data.
The technologies of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Data Mining
are evolving in this direction. Both technologies often require
(historical) data to be available in a separate dedicated Data Warehouse,
where data from multiple heterogeneous sources are assimilated, their
numerous conflicts reconciled, and integrated. Some of the major steps
involved in this process are (i) interoperating with heterogeneous data
sources, and (ii) supporting OLAP breed of "queries" and their efficient
processing. In this tutorial, we will discuss the state of the art,
limitations of the technologies as they exist today, as well as research
that has gone into laying the foundations for heterogeneous database
interoperability, multi-dimensional OLAP style analysis queries and their
efficient processing, key ingredients for realizing an effective Data
Warehousing/OLAP technology. The tutorial will cover pragmatic issues
as well as foundations and techniques.
About the Author:
Laks V. S. Lakshmanan is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, where he is
heading the Database Systems Research Group. He graduated from the Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and spent two years at the
University of Toronto as a post-doctoral fellow. His research covers
numerous aspects of relational, object-oriented, and deductive databases,
including multi-database interoperability, integration of heterogeneous
data sources (including semi-structured and unstructured ones, such as
the internet, spreadsheets, documents, etc.), multi-dimensional databases,
data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining. Recently, he was invited to
give a mini-course on the subject of Data Warehousing and OLAP at the
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, as well as at the Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore (March-April 1997).
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T4 : Software agents For Information Retrieval
Tim Finin, James Mayfield and Charles Nicholas
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Description:
This tutorial will provide an introduction to software agents concepts
and technologies and their potential applications in information
retrieval systems. The tutorial will be divided into three sections
of roughly one hour each followed by a short conclusion. The first
will present concepts which underlie the software agents paradigm and
illustrate them with a range of example applications. The second part
will cover agent software architectures, agent communication
languages, and cooperation protocols. The third segment will present
a number of examples of agent-based information retrieval systems and
discuss the techniques used in them. Course material will include
hardcopy of presentation slides and pointers to relevant Web
sites.
About the instructors:
Dr. Timothy Finin is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has
had over 25 years of experience in the applications of Artificial
Intelligence to problems in database and knowledge base systems,
intelligent information systems, expert systems, natural language
processing, intelligent interfaces and robotics. He is currently
working on the development of technology to support intelligent
information agents. Prior to joining the UMBC, he was a Technical
Director at the Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology, a
member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, and on
research staff of the MIT AI Lab. He holds an SB degree in EE from MIT
and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Finin
is the author of over eighty research publications and has received
research grants and contracts from a variety of sources. He has been
the past program chair and general chair of the IEEE Conference on
Artificial Intelligence for Applications, the general chair of the
first two ACM Conferences on Information and Knowledge Management and
will serve as the technical co-chair of Autonomous Agents-98. He is
currently on the editorial board of three journals and a member of the
AAAI executive council.
Dr. Charles Nicholas is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
He received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of
Michigan in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science
from The Ohio State University in 1982 and 1988, respectively. He has
been at UMBC since August 1988. Nicholas served as the general chair
of the fourth and fifth ACM Conferences on Information and Knowledge
Management and Co-Chair of the 1996 Principles of Document Processing
Workshop. His areas of interest include information retrieval,
electronic document processing, and software engineering.M
Dr. James Mayfield is an Associate Professor in the UMBC CSEE
Department currently on leave at the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory. He received the A.B. degree from Harvard
College in 1979. His Ph.D. degree in Computer Science was awarded by the
University of California at Berkeley in 1989. Mayfield's
dissertation, which was part of the Unix Consultant project, explored
how a consultant system can recognize the plans and goals of its users
based on their English queries, so as to more effectively address
their needs. Mayfield has organized four seminal workshops in the
area of "Natural Language text Retrieval", "Intelligent Hypertext
Systems" and "Intelligent Information Agents".
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T5. Multimedia Database Systems
Prof. V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Abstract:
Since the advent of the digital superhighway, there has been a vast
increase
both in the variety of media data disseminated across the Internet as well
as in the quantity of media data freely accessible across the Internet.
A Multimedia database consists of a distributed heterogeneous collection
of such data. The primary aim of this tutorial is to:
- Provide an introduction to scalable techniques for the storage, querying,
and retrieval of selected media types (images and video),
- Describe query languages and query processing techniques for the
retrieval of heterogeneous multimedia data,
- Develop the basic theory and technology required to implement continuous
media (video) servers on disk and tape,
- Develop techniques for the creation and delivery of distributed
multimedia presentations.
About the Author:
V. S. Subrahmanian received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse
University in 1989. Since then, he has been on the faculty of the Computer
Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he
currently holds the rank of Associate Professor. He received the NSF
Young Investigator Award in 1993 and the Distinguished Young Scientist
Award from the Maryland Academy of Science in 1997. He has worked
extensively in knowledge bases, bringing together techniques in artificial
intelligence and databases. In particular, his work in the area of
non-monotonic deductive databases where he proposed well-received
declarative semantics, as well as efficient implementation paradigms has
been influential. He has also worked extensively in the handling of
uncertainty in deductive databases, showing how fuzzy and probabilistic
data may be neatly manipulated. Finally, he was worked extensively on
multimedia systems, and made fundamental contributions to scalable
implementation of such systems. More recently, he has been working on
the problem of integrated heterogeneous data and software located across
the Internet. He has proposed formal theoretical models for such
integrations, as well as led the HERMES project for heterogeneous
reasoning and mediator systems. Other implementation efforts he has led
include multimedia projects such as MACS for media data, AVIS (for video
data), and CHIMP for collaborative multimedia document presentation and
authoring.
Prof. Subrahmanian has over 80 published/accepted papers, including ones
in prestigious journals such as the Journal of the ACM, the ACM Trans. on
Databases, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information and
Computation, etc. He has edited two books, one on nonmonotonic reasoning
(MIT Press) and one on multimedia databases (Springer). He has co-authored
an advanced database textbook (Morgan Kaufman, 1997), and is currently
finishing a textbook on multimedia databases (Morgan Kaufman, Jan. 1998).
He has given invited talks and served on invited panels at various
conferences. In addition, he has served on the program committees of
various conferences. He is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions
on Knowledge and Data Engineering and AI Communications. He serves on
DARPA's Executive Advisory Council for the Advanced Logistics Program.
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T6 : Information Security
Forozan Golshani, Arizona State University
Abstract:
This intensive half-a-day course will present a tutorial of a variety of
topics relating to information security in the context of data access in a
distributed system and particularly through the Internet. Such issues as
data integrity (prevention of unauthorized alteration of data), data
authentication (verifying the claimed origin of the incoming data) and data
confidentiality (preventing of disclosure of data to unauthorized parties.)
Encryption techniques and standards will be discussed, particularly in the
context of secure network management. SNMP (Simple Network Management
Protocol) will be analyzed from security standpoint, and a better
alternative namely, SNMS (Secure Network Management System) will be
presented.
About the presenter:
Forouzan Golshani is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at
Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include multimedia
computing, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and database systems.
Prior to his current position, he was with the Department of Computing at
the Imperial College of the University of London in England until 1984. In
mid 1970s, he managed a successful computerization project for automating a
massive supply system. His industrial experience has been with Bull
Worldwide Information Systems, Intel Corp., Honeywell, Motorola, McDonnell
Douglas Helicopter Company, and Sperry. He has published over one hundred
technical articles in books, journals, and conference proceedings. Dr.
Golshani is a Senior Member of IEEE, past chair of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Computer Languages, a past IEEE Distinguished Speaker, and has
chaired five international conferences. He is an editor of IEEE
Multimedia, and serves on the editorial boards of a number of other
journals. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Warwick in England.
GIS'97: 5th ACM WORKSHOP ON GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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5th ACM WORKSHOP ON
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA
November 13-14, 1997
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Scope of the conference: The scope of this conference will be to regroup
all people carrying out researches in novel systems based on spatial data
and knowledge. The emphasis will be essentially targeted to the development
of generic principles and systems in computing based on those applications.
For cross-fertilizations and synergies between several applications can
help to develop new computing knowledge. It is organized within ACM CIKM'97,
the Sixth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management
Location: Monte Carlo Hotel, 3770 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas,
Nevada 89109 USA; Phone: (702) 730-7777
Preliminary Program
November 13, 1997
8:00 Registration desk open
9.00-9.30 Opening ceremony; Chairs: Kia Makki, Niki Pissinou and Robert Laurini
9.30-10.30 Keynote Speaker 1
"Smart Maps"
Max J. Egenhofer
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
and
Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering
Department of Computer Science
University of Maine
10.30-10.45 Break
10.45-12.15 Session 1: Query Processing 1; Chair:
- Relation-Based Similarity, Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong), Vasilis Delis (Greece)
- Using B+- Trees in a Two Disk-Single Processor Architecture to Efficiently Process
Inclusion Spatial Queries, Mario Nascimento (Brazil), Margaret Dunham (USA)
- Dynamic Map Synthesis Utilizing Extended Thesauruses and Reuse of Query
Generation Process, Kenichi Horikawa Masatoshi Arikawa, Hiroki Takakura,
Y:achiko Kambayashi (Japan)
12.15-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session 2: Terrain Modeling and Visualization; Chair: Silvia Gordillo
- VARIANT - Processing and Visualizing Terrains at Variable Resolution
Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo, Enrico Puppo (Italy)
- A Triangle-Based Surface Model for 3D-GIS J. Mark Ware, Christopher B. Jones (UK)
- Progessive TINs: Algorithms and Applications Anil Maheshwari,
Pat Morin, Jorg-Rudiger Sack (Canada)
3.30-4.00 Break
4.00-5.30 Session 3: Spatial Modeling; Chair:
- Generating the Architecture of GIS Applications with Design Patterns
Silvia Gordillo, F. Balaguer, F. Das Neves (Argentina)
- A Spatial Data Mining Method by Delaunay Triangulation In-Soo Kang,
Taewan Kim, Ki-Joune Li (Korea)
- Provably Correct and Complete Transaction Rules for GIS Gerhard Groger,
Lutz Plumer (Germany)
November 14, 1997
9.00-10.00 Key note speaker 2; Chair: Patrick Bergougnoux
"Earth System Science: Challenges for the Next-Generation GIS."
Alan Gaines, National Science Foundation (NSF)
10.00-10.30 Break
10.30-12.00 Session 3: Query Processing 2; Chair: Patrice Boursier
- Transaction Synchronization in Structures for Point Data,
Eleanna Kafeza, Thanasis Hadzilacos (Greece)
- Parallelizing the Refinement-Step of Spatial-Join, Sivakumar Ravada,
Shashi Shekhar (USA)
- Speeding up Bulk-Loading of Quadtrees, Gisli Hjaltason, Hanan Samet,
Yoram Sussmann (USA)
12.00-1.45pm Lunch
1.45-2.45 Session 4: Raster-based GIS; Chair :
- Towards Comprehensive Database Support for Geoscientific Raster Data,
N. Widmann, P. Baumann (Germany)
- Geographical Image Classification and Retrieval, G. Sheikoleslami,
A. Zhang, L. Bian (USA)
2.45-3.00 Break
3.00-4.45 Session 5: Data Integration and Applications; Chair : Ki Joune Li
- A Practical Solution to the Geospatial Data Barrier Problem,
Christian Larouche, Gilles Clement, Denis Goin, Paul Morin (Canada)
- Distributed Land-Cover Change Simulation Using PVM and MPI, MW Berry,
KS Minser (USA)
- Map Integration Judith van Putten, Frank van Wijngaarden,
Peter van Oosterom, Harry Uitemark (The Netherlands)
4.30-4.45 Break
4.45-5.30 Panel: GIS and the Web, Ki Joune Li (Korea), Robert Laurini
(France), Niki Pissinou (USA)
5.30 Closing ceremony
Organization
General Chairs
Nikki Pissinou, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
Kia Makki, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Patrick Bergougnoux, The University of Toulouse, France
Program Chairs
Robert Laurini, University of Lyon, France
William Campbell, NASA, Greenbelt, USA
Program Committe Members
Marc P. Armstrong, The University of Iowa, USA
Antonio Morais Arnaud, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Kirsi Artimo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Azzedine Boulmakoul, Mohammedia Hassan II Univ., Morocco
Patrice Boursier, University of Paris-Sud, France
John V. Carlis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
SK Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Nicholas Chrisman, University of Washington, Seattle USA
Bianca Falcidieno, IMA-CNR, Genua, Italy
Chris Gold, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Michael F. Goodchild, NCGIA, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Silvia Gordillo, La Plata University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oliver Gunther, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Henrich, University of Siegen, Germany
John R. Herring, Oracle Corporation, Virginia, USA
Erlang Jungert, FOA, Linkoping, Sweden
Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland
Werner Kuhn, University of Munster, Germany
Jacqueline Le Moigne, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, South Korea
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle Univ., Thessaloniki, Greece
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
Christine Parent, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lutz Plumer, University of Bonn, Germany
Elke A. Rundensteiner, Worcester Polyt. Inst. MA, USA
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA
Michel Scholl, CNAM, Paris, France
Shashi Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Timos Sellis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
Sylvie Servigne, INSA, Lyon, France
Terence R. Smith, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Nectaria Tryfona, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, South Korea
Michael F Worboys, Keele University, UK
If you have any questions contact appropriate person:
on registrations (Dr. Park: ekpark@cstp.umkc.edu); on technical
programs (Program Chair: Dr. Robert Laurini at robert.laurini@if.insa-lyon.fr);
on other conference and GIS97 related matters (General Chair:
Dr. Kia Makki at kia@cs.unlv.edu).
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