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EARN89 An International Conference on Technical Aspects of Networking and User Support Services with Emphasis on Applications in the Medical Field EARN EUROPEAN ACADEMIC & RESEARCH NETWORK PRELIMINARY PROGRAM May 29-31, 1989 CAPSIS BEACH HOTEL HERAKLION, CRETE, GREECE SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS ------------------------ Support of EARN89 by the following organizations is gratefully acknowledged: - General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Greece - Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece - IBM Hellas - IBM Europe - Digital Equipment International Europe - Northern Telecom Europe Limited ------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Stelios Orphanoudakis (Chairman, Greece) Alain Auroux (EARN Office, France) Kurt Bauknecht (Switzerland) Avi Cohen (Israel) Peter Flynn (Ireland) Frode Greisen (Denmark) Dennis Jennings (Ireland) Olivier Martin (CERN) Hank Nussbacher (Israel) Jean Nuyens (Belgium) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Vassilis Dougalis (University of Crete) Constantine Halatsis (University of Athens) Christos Halkias (National Technical University of Athens) Giwrgos Kyriakides (University of Crete) Stelios Orphanoudakis (Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas) Theodore Papatheodorou (University of Patras) Manolis Protonotarios (National Technical University of Athens) EARN STAFF, NATIONAL NODE, CRETE, GREECE ---------------------------------------- Rena Kalaitzaki (EARN89 Conference Secretary) Hara Tomara (EARN Country Coordinator) Pantelis Tzortzakis (EARN Country Coordinator) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCHEDULE OF EVENTS ------------------- May 25-26 EARN Technical Forum and Network Operations Group Meetings May 27 EARN Executive Committee Meeting May 28 Registration 2.00 pm - 10.00 pm Reception 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm May 29 Registration 8.30 am - 6.30 pm Tutorials 9.00 am - 12.00 am Knossos/Museum 3.00 pm - 7.00 pm Barbeque 9.00 pm May 30 Plenary Session 8.30 pm - 1.00 pm Session A.1 4.00 pm Session B.1 4.00 pm May 31 Session A.2 9.00 pm Session B.2 9.00 pm Session A.3 4.00 pm Session B.3 4.00 pm June 1-2 EARN Board of Directors Meeting June 3 EARN Executive Committee Meeting ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference & Program Information ---------------------------------- In recent years, Academic Networking has become a major international activity whose goal is to establish effective communication channels, which will bring closer together individuals working in Academic and Research Institutions around the world. EARN89 is the 3rd International Conference of the European Academic and Research Network. It provides a forum for the exchange of information on the development and operation of EARN and other academic and research networks, the installation of network servers and other user support tools, and the use of these networks and related facilities by various groups in academic and research institutions. This international conference will address primarily issues related to the technical aspects of networking, user support services and documentation, and networking applications. A specific application area which will be emphasized is Networking in Health Care and Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS). Medical applications of networking are currently gaining substantial momentum and will serve as the central theme of parallel sessions with invited and submitted papers. Half-day tutorials on Internetworking and Security Measures for Academic Networks have been planned for the first day of the conference. EARN89 will formally open in the morning of the second day with a plenary session dedicated to a review of current and future developments in the area of networking in Europe and North America. The remaining one and a half days of EARN89 will be devoted to invited and submitted papers, which will be organized in two parallel sessions on Technical Aspects of Networking and User Support Services. Specific topics to be covered include the following: - Message Handling Systems - Existing Networks and ISDN - Network Servers - Data Security - Network Monitoring and Management - Access to Databases/Libraries - Medical Applications / PACS - Sociological Aspects of Computer Mediated Conferencing A book of extended abstracts will be distributed to all participants at the conference. -------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, MAY 29, 1989 TUTORIALS (9.00 - 12.00 AM) I. INTERNETWORKING Lawrence H. Landweber, University of Wisconsin, USA This tutorial addresses issues arising from the interconnection of (possibly heterogeneous) computer communication networks and protocol architectures. Of principal concern are the protocols which provide for translation and routing between such networks. Case studies of existing protocol architectures and a commercial gateway product are used to illustrate the concepts. Lawrence H. Landweber is Chairman of the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1967 from Purdue University. He was one of the founders of CSNET. His research interests include high speed networking, protocol design and implementation and the interconnection of heterogeneous network/protocol architectures. II.SECURITY MEASURES FOR ACADEMIC NETWORKS Stanley Kurzban, IBM, Thornwood, New York, USA This tutorial addresses issues of system penetration and data security in academic networks. The relative importance of various security threats facing academic networks today will be considered and possible security measures will be discussed. Stanley Kurzban is a Senior Instructor with IBM's Systems Research Education Center, Thornwood, New York, USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.00 pm Lunch Break ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.00 pm Tour of the Palace of Knossos and the Archaelogical Museum in Heraklion ------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.00 pm BARBEQUE ------------------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1989 8.30 am PLENARY SESSION Welcome Remarks Official Opening of EARN89 EARN's Role on the Networking Scene - Now and in the Future Frode Greisen (President, EARN) Danish Computing Center for Research and Education EARN OSI Migration Dennis Jennings, University College, Dublin, Ireland Aspects of Scientific Networking in Europe K. Ullmann, RARE, Amsterdam 10.30 am Coffee Break 11.00 am PLENARY SESSION (cont'd) From X.25 to ISDN - The Changing Data Communications Scene Louis Pouzin, CNET-PAA, France EUNET Daniel Karrenberg (EUUG EUNET Executive) CWI, Netherlands North American Networks Lawrence H. Landweber University of Wisconsin, USA HEPnet in Europe R. Blokzijl, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Medical Doctors' and Researchers' Attitudes as Users of EARN: the Example of CLAN (Cancer Liaison and Action Network) Jean-Claude Salomon, CNRS, France ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.00 pm Lunch Break ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.00 pm SESSION A.1: EXISTING NETWORKS Computer Conferencing in Global Networks and IBM's View of Future Computer Conferencing (Invited Paper) Jack Williford IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA High Speed European Academic Network (Invited Paper) Herb Budd, IBM Europe, Paris, France 5.00 pm Coffee Break 5.30 pm SESSION A.1 (cont'd) National Plan for the COSINE Implementation Phase - Greece (Invited Paper) C. Halatsis and A. Arvillias NRCPS "Democritos", Aghia Paraskevi, Greece NORDUNET and the NORDUnet Overview Mats Brunell, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Einar Loevdal, University of Oslo, Norway ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.00 pm SESSION B.1: NETWORK SERVERS / USER INTERFACES User Development: a Challenge to Systems Design (Invited Paper) J. Kirakowski and M. Corbett University College, Cork, Ireland LifeSci - A Tool for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Invited Paper) Aminadav Zakai, The Rappaport Family Institute Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 5.00 pm Coffee Break 5.30 pm SESSION B.1 (cont'd) The Trickle Servers Turgut Kalfaoglu Ege University, Turkey A Rule-Based Electronic Mail Filter M.F. Wyle Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland Information Servers for the National Science Foundation Network: The GRASP System James C. Sweeton, The Merit Computer Network The University of Michigan, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1989 9.00 am SESSION A.2: MEDICAL APPLICATIONS I High Speed Medical Applications (Invited Paper) Rudolf Schosser and Konrad Messmer University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, FRG Use of PACS Networks: Time Related Special Management R. Mattheus, R. Luypaert, M. Osteaux, and Y. Temmerman PRIMIS, VUB, Brussels, Belgium 10.00 am Coffee Break 10:30 am SESSION A.2 (cont'd) Potential Uses of X.400 in a University Hospital Information System Essia Rammah and Alain Rouge Hopital Cantonal Universitaire de Geneve Geneve, Switzerland Data Modelling for Networking in Health Care Applications: Medical Information and the Object Oriented Paradigm Andrew Eliasz, University College London, and Barbara Kostrewski, City University London, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.00 am SESSION B.2: NETWORK MONITORING, MANAGEMENT, AND SECURITY Reliable Networking in an Unreliable Environment (Invited Paper) Erol Gelenbe Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Informatique, France The NETSTAR Network Management System Marc A. Hamilton, TRW Defense Systems Group Redondo Beach, California, USA 10.00 am Coffee Break 10.30 am SESSION B.2 (cont'd) Secure Automated Document Delivery System Bill Tuck and Tom Casey University College, London, UK Personal CRC / Checksum Utilization Over Randomly Chosen Generator Polynomials for Viral Activity Detection: A Proposal Eren Saban and Ahmet Koltuksuz Ege University, Izmir, Turkey ------------------------------------------------------------------ 12.00 pm Lunch Break ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.00 pm SESSION A.3: MEDICAL APPLICATIONS II Practical Aspects of Using E-Mail in a Clinical Department Yoav Horn, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel Networking in a Biomedical Research Setting: Some Experiences and Prospective Applications in Basic Science and Epidemiology V. Guardabasso, G. Angeli, and A. Nicolucci Instituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri S. Maria Imbaro, Italy 5.00 pm Coffee Break 5.30 pm SESSION A.3 (cont'd) Using EARN in Transplant Medicine for Multi-Center Collaborative Studies Eric Keppel and M. Wilk IBM Germany, Heidelberg, FRG EARN Applied to Cystic Fibrosis Research: Specific and General Aspects of Networking by Naive Users Michel Jorda, U.C.R.I Hopital - Maternite de l' Arbresle, France ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4.00 pm SESSION B.3: ACCESS TO DATABASES / LIBRARIES An Experimental Service for Dissemination of Information for Academia: Early Results and Perspectives (Invited Paper) Stefano Trumpy, CNUCE Institute of CNR, Italy ONNES: Organized Network for News about European Superconductivity Dominique Dumas and Nadine Grange EARN - France, CNUSC, Montpellier, France The PLUTO International Network Project Rhys Gwyn, Manchester Polytechnic, UK Norman Longworth, IBM International Education Centre, La Hulpe, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Who Should Participate: ---------------------- EARN89 will be of particular interest to all users of EARN, those who are responsible for the development, installation, and maintenance of Academic and Research Networks, those who install and maintain network servers and other user support tools, and other users of computer network and related facilities. As application of networking in the medical field will be emphasized, this conference will also be of interest to all those who are engaged in research and development in the areas of Hospital Information Systems, picture archiving and communication systems, and computer intergrated health care systems in general. All members of the above groups are invited to share their knowledge and experiences with other participants at this conference. All those who plan to attend EARN89 are asked to return the attached hotel and conference Registration Forms to the address provided or preferably by E-Mail* as soon as possible. For additional information For general information on on the conference EARN89, the European Academic and send e-mail to: Research Network (EARN), send e-mail to: (EARN:) EARN89 @ GREARN (EARN:) GREGURY @ FRMOP11 or write to: or write to: EARN89 c/o Ms. Rena Kalaitzaki EARN Office Dept. of Computer Science c/o Ms. Cathy Gregury University of Crete 45, rue des Saints-Peres 714 09 Heraklion, Crete 75006 Paris, FRANCE GREECE Tel: 33-1-40150539 Tel: 30-81-239779 ext 163 Tlx: 670602 F CITIUM Tlx: 262728 MPUC GR Fax: 33-1-42963497 Fax: 30-81--239735 *It is strongly recommended that e-mail be used for all correspondence, including return of the attached form and the submission of abstracts. Regular mail should be used only when e-mail is not available. Place and Travel ---------------- EARN89 will be held at the Capsis Beach Hotel, Heraklion Crete Greece from May 29-31, 1989. The Hotel is located on the peninsula of Agia Pelagia about 20 km. from the city of Heraklion. Crete is connected with the mainland of Greece by several flights a day. Olympic Airways flies to Heraklion according to the following timetable: Flight number Departure Arrival from Athens at Heraklion OA 500 05.45 06.30 OA 502 07.10 07.45 OA 506 16.10 16.50 OA 510 17.20 18.10 OA 512 19.00 19.50 OA 518 22.10 23.00 There are numerous charter flights directly to Heraklion from most major European airports. For those looking for direct scheduled flights, please note that Lufthansa is flying from Frakfurt, W. Germany, every Saturday and Sunday at 12.25. Heraklion is also connected with the mainland (Piraeus port in Athens) by two ferries every night, departing from Piraeus at 18.30 and 19.00 and arriving at Heraklion at 07.00 the following morning. The conference will provide continuous bus transportation on Sunday, May 28 to and from the airport. Facilities for car rental and taxi service are available at the airport. (Ride by taxi 20-30 min, at about 2000 drs per hire). HOTEL Reservations ----------------- The organizers will guarantee reservations at the Capsis Beach Hotel for all participants who return the attached hotel Registration Form or send an e-mail request before May 15, 1989. Since the Conference is held during the peak of the tourist season in Greece, participants are requested to preregister through the conference secretary as early as possible. Please note that payment for accomodations will be made directly to the Hotel in cash, travellers cheques, or credit cards during check out. Accomodation at Capsis Beach Hotel for all participants and their spouse has been negosiated at the special rate of Bed & Breakfast Half Board Single room 9.000 11.000 Double room 5.800 7.800 All prices are per person per night in drachmas and include all taxes. Participants staying at the Hotel beyond the conference period will benefit from the same reduced rate prices. Conference Registration ----------------------- All participants are strongly requested to return the special registration form or send e-mail to the conference secretary as soon as possible. The registration fee of US$ 170.00 for participants and US$ 35.00 for accompanying persons includes airport pick-up (only for Sunday May 28th ), a welcome reception coffee breaks, a half day tour to the palace of Knosson and the archeological Museum a barbeque with folklor dancing, and a book of abstracts to be distributed at the conference. In addition to the above, the fee for each accompanying person will include a special accompanying person program. The registration fees should be paid by a bankers cheque (no personal cheques will be accepted) or by bank transfer to G. Kiriakidis national Bank of Greece Branch 205 Heraklion Crete, Greece acc. no. 205/ 622204-8 Late resistration will be available at the Conference Registration Desk at no additional charge. Conference Office ----------------- The Registration and Information area at the Conference site will be open from 8.30 am until 6.30 pm every day. On Sunday, May 28th, the Registration Desk will be open from 2.00 pm until 10.00 pm. E-Mail Facility -------------- Several terminals will be available for the use of EARN89 participants in a dedicated room which will be open each day from 9.00-12.00 in the morning and 3.00-6.00 in the afternoon. Climate ------- In May the weather is pleasant and we suggest summer clothing only. The Hotel also provides facilities for all sea-water sports, 5 tennis courts, volley ball, sauna etc. Participants should bring their own equipment if they wish to participate in these activities. Bank and Post Office -------------------- The Hotel provides postal facilities and banking services. Full Banking facilities can be found in Heraklion from 07.30 to 13.30 Monday to Friday. Visa Requirement ---------------- Non EEC participants are advised to consult their Foreign Office on probable visa requirement to enter Greece. Hotel Contact ------------- For further inquiries concerning hotel facilities, participants may contact directly the Capsis Beach Hotel at Agia Pelagia at: Tel: +30-81-811212 Tlx: 262204 CAPS GR 811234 262550 CAPS GR 811256 262526 CAPS GR 811278 811290 or by FAX : +30-81-811076 Accompanying Persons Program ---------------------------- Registered accompanying persons are welcome to join in all the social activities scheduled for the participants. In addition, they are invited to participate in the following activities: - Guided tour of town and Historical Museum Tuesday 9.30 am to 1.00 pm - Guided visit to Fodele village and the old part of the town of Rethymnon. Wednesday 9.30 am to 2.00 pm Optional Excursions ------------------- For those who wish to take advantage of their stay on the island and tour around or join a cruise to a nearby island, INTER AVIAIR, the official travel agency for EARN89 will be operating a desk during the Conference to assist them with all the arrangements. Any travel inquiries by the participants should also be addressed to: INTER AVIAIR 35, KORNAROU str, Heraklion 712 01 Crete tel: +30-81- 286865 - 226997 - 221459 fax: 289346 tlx: 262396 INEV GR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EARN89 May 29-31, 1989 HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM (to be mailed by May 15th, 1989) Name.................................................... Address................................................. ........................................................ e-mail:........................phone.................... Please make reservations at the Capsis Beach Hotel for.......nights, from..........to............1989. Bed and Breakfast Half Board [ ] Single Room 9,000* 11,000 [ ] Double Room 5,800 7,800 Name(s) of accompanying person(s)....................... *per person per night in drachmas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EARN89 May 29-31, 1989 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM Return by AIRMAIL to: Registration Fees (US$) EARN89 Participants 170.00 Ms. Rena Kalaitzakis Accomp. Persons 35.00 Dept. of Computer Science University of Crete 714 09 Heraklion, Crete GREECE Name.................................................... Title.....................Affiliation................... Address................................................. ........................................................ e-mail:......................phone...................... Name(s) of accompanying person(s)....................... Form of payment: [ ] Bank Transfer [ ] Bankers Cheque Cheques should be made payable to: Dr. G. Kiriakidis, Treasurer EARN89 Bank transfers to: G. Kiriakidis National Bank of Greece, Branch 205 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Account No. 205/622204-8