rsb@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM (Richard S. Brice) (03/21/89)
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES
HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES - 23
Massive Databases and Ill-defined Objects
KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII - JANUARY 2-5
The Software Track of HICSS-23 will contain a session focusing on the
problems associated with searching through massive databases for ill-
defined objects, or objects that may be well-defined but whose
signatures are spread over large areas, arises in a broad spectrum of
disciplines. Example application areas include the sciences
(measurements from experiments, satellite data, genome structure,
simulations), engineering and design (wind tunnel test results, CAD
databases), business (financial transactions, cost accounting for
large enterprises), military (traces of battlefield simulations, SDI
model results analysis), demographics from census data, and so forth.
The goal of this style of data analysis is the discovery of high-
level, abstract knowledge from the low-level signature which the
databases usually contain. In most cases, any particular question
that an analyst may have about the high-level abstract objects which
are embedded in the databases can be answered today, given enough time
and money. A common method is to use existing programming tools to
create procedural application programs which compute or reason with
the low-level data. Such programs are seldom useful in answering a
question other than the one for which they were designed and are
always difficult to modify or validate. Still, this approach is
useful when the objects under study are well defined and the ad hoc
programs will be used freguently.
In many cases, the concepts to be discovered are only intuitively, and
often vaguely, understood and man-machine interaction is required to
help crystallize and firm-up the definitions. Under these
circumstances, ad hoc procedural programs will amost always provide
unacceptable results and numerous modifications will be required. An
alternative to ad hoc procedural programs is the use of rules, or
knowledge-based systems which allow a precise specification of the
object of interest, and hide the mechanics of database search.
However, this approach works well only when a human expert exists who
can articulate his knowledge, the objects under study have crisp
definitions, and the databases are not too large.
The purpose of this session, therefore, is to explore techniques for
conducting searches in the face of very large databases, uncertainty
in the targets of the searches, and the possible need for man-machine
interaction to crystallize definitions of the objects. These
techniques may require such things as procedural programming for
stream-processing, declarative programming for integrated deductive
analysis and database access, graphical I/O for the investigation of
visual formalisms, animation capabilities, and queries by graphical
example, and an environment for integrating these and other tools.
Papers are invited that may help better define the problem, present
approaches to solving selected aspects of the problem, and detail
solutions to practical problems. Those papers selected for
presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings, which are
published by the Computer Society of the IEEE, and, possibly, later
also in a special issue of a professional society periodical. HICSS-
23 is sponsored by the University of Hawaii in cooperation with the
ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Pacific Research Institute for
Information Systmes and Management (PRIISM).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS
Manuscripts should be 22-26 typewritten, double-spaced pages in
length. Do not send submissions that are signigicatly shorter or
longer than this. Papers must not have been previously presented or
published, nor currently submitted for journal publication. Each
manuscript will be subjected to a rigorous refereeing process
involving at least five reviewers. Manuscript papers should have a
title page that includes the title of the paper, full name(s) of its
author(s), affiliation(s), complete mailing and electronic
address(es), telephone number(s), and a 300-word abstract of the
paper.
DEADLINES
* A 300-word abstract is due by April 15, 1989
* Feedbact to author concerning abstract by May 1, 1989
* Six copies of the manuscript are due by June 5, 1989
* Notice of accepted papers by August 31, 1989
* Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, are due by October 2, 1989
SEND SUBMISSIONS AND QUESTIONS TO
Wayne Anderson Richard Brice
C-10, MS B296 MCC
Los Alamos National Laboratory 3500 West Balcones Center Dr.
Los Alamos, NM 87545 Austin, TX 78759
Tel: (505) 667-1977 Tel: (512) 338-3429
E-mail: jwa@lanl.gov E-Mail: rsb@mcc.combouguett@margaux.colorado.edu (07/22/89)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST MAGHREBIN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Constantine, Algeria, September 24-27, 1989 CALL FOR PAPERS TOPICS The Conference Program will include bith invited and contributed papers. Authors from Maghreb are particulary encouraged to submit. The adressed topics, but not limited to, are : - Algebraic Specification - Program Construction and Proving - Expert Systems - Knowledge and Data Bases - Communication Protocols - Distributed Systems - Object Oriented Programming TERMS OF PRESENTATION OF PAPERS : Papers should be in English, French or Arabic and meet the following requirements : 1- Pages should not number more than 20, including an abstract, tables, figures and references. 2- The papers should be double typed on (A 4) single faced page. 3- The full-name of author (s) and institude and country where the research was conducted should be written on the title page with an abstract of no more than 300 words. 4- Four copies of the papers should be sent to the chaiman of the organizing committee. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS : The closing date for acceptance of papers is 10 August 1989. Those whose papers are accepted will be informed by 4th September 1989. ORGANIZED BY : Laboratory of Knowledge Bases and Distributed Systems Computer Science Institute, Constantine University with the partipation of LRI ORSAY- FRANCE. GUEST SPEAKER : Eric G. Wagner, Research staff member IBM Watson Research Center (USA) CORRESPONDANCE : All correspondance should be adressed to : Dr. BETTAZ Mohamed Institut d'Informatique Universite de Constantine Constantine 25000 ALGERIA Telephone : (213) (4) 69.21.39 Telex : 92436 UNCZL -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
grosz@masi.ibp.fr (Georges GROSZ) (10/23/90)
------------------------------ | CALL FOR PAPERS | | | | INFORSID'91 | | | | JUNE 4-7 1991 | | | | PARIS | ------------------------------ The aim of the congress is twofold : - to present original and significant researches and developments in the field of Information Systems, - to present current research works and to promote new and relevant ideas for the IS community. The list of the following themes is indicative : - Decision support systems - Manufacturing and Information Systems - Data bases and multimedia - Object-orientation of Information Systems - Interfaces - Active Information Systems - Temporal aspects of Information Systems - Design methodologies and CASE tools - Information Systems and knowledge based systems - Documentation of Information Systems A session will be devoted to the presentation of communications from junior researchers. Exhibition of research prototypes is possible. Instructions to the authors : The submitted papers, not exceeding 6000 words, written in French or in English, must be preceded by : - the precise authors' name and address - an abstract (20 lines) - the category of the paper : YOUNG, TOOL, or RESEARCH IMPORTANT DATES : Already now : Communication intention. - 01/15/1991 : Paper submission to the general Chairperson, in 4 copies. - 02/28/1991 : notification of paper acceptance. - 03/30/1991 : camera-ready copies of papers. Organizing Committee : UNIVERSITE PARIS 1 - Sorbonne General Chairperson : Gia Toan NGUYEN INRIA / IMAG / LGI BP 53X 38041 GRENOBLE CEDEX FRANCE Fax : (+ 33) 76.44.66.75 SECRETARIAT : INFORSID 91 UNIVERSITE PARIS 1 - Sorbonne 12, Place du Pantheon 75231 PARIS Cedex 05 FRANCE Tel:(+33) 1 43.25.90.05 Fax:(+33) 1 45.57.33.35 Email:inforsid@masi.ibp.fr