FOXEA@VTVAX3.BITNET (02/29/88)
IRList Digest Sunday, 28 February 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 12
Today's Topics:
Query - Medical dictionary
- Text comparison
Email - Address for W. Jones and hypertext information
Announcement - Program for ACM OIS Conference
Abstract - How do we distinguish the hyper from the hype in non-linear text?
- SIGMOD tutorial on optical disks and multimedia info. systems
News addresses are
Internet or CSNET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu
BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet
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Date: Fri 5 Feb 88 11:06:02-EST
From: Nancy Roderer <CUL.RODERER@cu20b.columbia.edu>
Subject: medical dictionary
Do you know of a medical dictionary that's available in electronic form -
for research, not necessarily commercially?
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From: Chris Pohlig <cap4r%boole.acc.virginia.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: text comparison
Keywords: text, database, pattern rec.
Date: 16 Feb 88 19:50:57 GMT
Organization: Academic Computing Center, University of Va.
I have a project that involves determining variations between different
versions of a very long poem. Unfortunately, simple file comparison
programs are inappropriate since not all differences between the versions
are important. For example, many (but not all) spelling variations are
insignificant. Some versions of the poem have extra, or missing lines.
Some corresponding lines (between different versions) are of unequal
length as well. The real need (I think) is to be able to specify (in a
separate "rule" file) a list identifying significant difference rules.
Are there any relevant software products? Are there any relevant
journals? Does anyone have any suggestions?
Please reply to: cap4r@virginia.edu (internet)
or: cap4r@virginia (bitnet)
Many thanks.
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 88 10:23 CST
From: mccabe@mcc.com
Subject: RE: hypertext
My new address (as of Feb. 15) is:
William P. Jones
Arthur D. Little
Artificial Intelligence, Bldg. 35
Acorn Park
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-864-5770
Could you send me more information on the RIAO conference? i.e., location in
Cambridge, etc. Along this line, I will be participating in a panel discussion
at this year's ACM CHI conference (May 15-19 in Washington, D.C.) entitled "A
Critical Assessment of Hypertext" - this should also be an interesting
discussion.
-bill
[Note: I hope you have info - let me know if you need more - Ed.]
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Date: Thursday, 4 February 1988 23:07-EST
From: rba at flash.bellcore.com (Bob Allen)
Subject: Program for ACM OIS Conference
COIS88 - Conference on Office Information Systems
March 23-25,1988
Hyatt Rickeys Hotel, Palo Alto, California
Sponsored by: ACM SIGOIS and IEEECS TC-OA In cooperation with: IFIP W.G. 8.4
For more information contact: Robert B. Allen
2A-367
Bellcore
Morristown, NJ 07960
(201) 829-4315
rba@bellcore.com
Wednesday, March 23, 1988
Introductions: Najah Naffah, Bob Allen
Keynote: Terry Winograd
Collaborative Work: (paper session) Chair: Irene Greif
The rapport multimedia conferencing system
S.R. Ahuja, J.R. Ensor, D.N. Horn, AT&T Bell Laboratories
An integrated framework for the use of computers and computer modeling
in negotiations
D. Samarasan, J.D. Nyhart, C. Goeltner, MIT
Quilt: A collaborative tool for cooperative writing,
R. Fish, R. Kraut, M. Leland, M. Cohen, Bellcore
How can groups communicate when they use different languages?
J. Lee, T.W. Malone, MIT
Distributed Artificial Intelligence - DAI (panel) Chair: Les Gasser
Task Modeling, Planning, and Coordination (paper session)
Problems in modelling tasks and task views
M. Mazer, U. Toronto
OTM: Specifying office tasks
F.H. Lochovsky, J.S. Hogg, S.P. Weiser, A.O. Mendelzon, U. Toronto
Using a planner to support office work
W.B. Croft, L.S. Lefkowitz, U. Mass.
Customizing cooperative office procedures by planning,
R. Lutze, Triumph-Adler
AMS: A knowledge-based approach to task representation, organization
and coordination
M. Tueni, J. Li, P. Fares, Bull
Directions in Workstations
Thursday, March 24, 1988
Organizational Impact (paper session) Chair: Rob Kling
Computers' impact on productivity and worklife
S. Dumais, R. Kraut, S. Koch, Bellcore
The impact of electronic mail on managerial and organizational
communications
M. Sumner, Southern Illinois
The influence of training on actual use of end-user software,
L. Olfman, R. Bostrom, Claremont Graduate School/Indiana U.
Disaligning macro, meso and micro due process: A case study of office
automation in Quebec colleges
F. Blanchard, A. Cambrosio, U. Quebec
Social Research: Methods and Principles (paper session), Chair: Tora Bikson
Cost benefit analysis of information systems: A survey of methodologies
P. Sassone, Georgia Tech.
Collection and analysis of data from communication system networks,
R. Rice, USC
Social choice theory and distributed decision making,
A. Urken, Stevens Inst
Understanding design as cooperative work, P. Ehn, U. Aarhus
SIGOIS Business Meeting
User Design of Interfaces (panel) Chair: Austin Henderson
Hypertext and Information Retrieval (paper session) Chair: Walter Bender
Query processing strategies : Cost evaluation and heuristics
E. Bertino, F. Rabitti, and S. Gibbs
Knowledge-based generation of conceptual hypertexts,
U. Hahn, U. Reimer, U. Passau/U. Constance
Knowledge based document classification supporting integrated document
handling
H. Eirund, K. Kreplin, Triumph-Adler
Shared books: Collaborative publication management for an office
information system
B. Lewis, J. Hodges, Acorn Research/Xerox
Seeing the forest for the trees: Hierarchical displays of hypertext
structures.
S. Feiner, Columbia U.
Hypertext and Electronic Publishing (panel) Chair: Norm Meyrowitz
Banquet, Speaker, Kristen Nygaard, Tresidder Union, Stanford University,
7:30-10:00
Friday, March 25, 1988
Multimedia (paper session) Chair: Donald Chamberlin
Employing voice back channels to facilitate audio document retrieval
C. Schmandt, MIT
Interactive retrieval of office documents
W.B. Croft, R. Krovetz, U. Mass.
An experimental multi-media bridging system,
E.J. Addeo, A. Dayao, A.D. Gelman, V.F. Massa, Bellcore
Browsing within time-driven multimedia documents
S. Christodoulakis, S. Graham, U. Waterloo
Object-Oriented and Distributed Databases (paper session)
An application oriented approach to view updates,
J. Klein, A. Reuter, U. Stuttgart
Aggregation and generalization hierarchies in office automation
M. Bever, D. Ruland, IBM
Object flavor evolution in an object-oriented database system
Q. Li, D. McLeod, USC
Semantic queries for office information system desig
B. Pernici, Politecnico di Milano
Object-Oriented, Organizational, and Market Systems (paper session) 1:00-2:30
An object oriented system implementing KNOs, E. Casais, U. Geneva
A commitment-based communication model for distributed office
environments
C. Koo, G. Wiederhold, P. Cashman, Stanford/DEC
Market automation: Self-regulation in a distributed environment
R. Miller, Boston U.
Ubik: A system for conceptual and organizational development
P. de Jong, MIT
Object-Oriented PS/DBMSs (panel) Chair: Stan Zdonik
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 88 17:32 CST
From: mccabe@mcc.com
Subject: hypertext
Speaking of hypertext refs, I can't help but mention my ow recent contribution:
[Jones 87]
W.P. Jones, How Do We Distinguish the Hyper from the Hype in
Non-linear Text?, Proceedings of INTERACT'87, 2nd IFIP Conference on
Human-Computer Interaction (Stuttgart, FRG), North-Holland, Amsterdam, September
1987, pp. 1107-1113.
The good news is that non-linear or hypertext systems may dramatically
increase the accessibility of information. The bad news is that this increased
accessibility may magnify further an already severe problem of selection.
Whether we are sending or receiving a body of information, we must take steps to
distinguish its components on the basis of their potential importance or
relevance. Current hypertext efforts have focused on the development of tools
giving users direct control over the formation and traversal of links connecting
units of information in a network structure. Such tools place considerable
power and a considerable burden in the hands of the users. Information must be
initially organized in ways that prove useful later on; links leading to
relevant information must subsequently be distinguished from a potentially
large number of others. These activities may be very difficult to accomplish
in an expanding knowledge base. In this article we look at potential selection
problems in hypertext and we examine some of the ways in which these problems
may be remedied.
by the way, I move to boston for another position and so it is probably best to
take me off the list until I find out what my new mailing address will be.
[Note: OK, but hope we hear from you soon again! - Ed.]
-bill jones
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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 88 15:31:31 EST
From: Stavros Christodoulakis <watmath!watdragon!schristodoul@uunet.UU.NET>
Subject: Tutorial on optical discs and multimedia information systems
[Note: The following appeared in an earlier msg and explains the text below:
"I have been invited to give a tutorial at ACM Sigmod on optical disks and
multimedia information systems. I am mailing you the abstract next."]
Tutorial: Optical Disk Architectures and Multimedia Information Systems
Stavros Christodoulakis
University of Waterloo
ABSTRACT: This tutorial will survey currently available optical disk technol-
ogy of various forms (WORM's CD-ROM's, rewritable disks, etc.), and it will
describe some performance aspects and file organizations for them. It
will then describe some important multimedia data base applications that
may utilize optical disk storage and will discuss some implementation
issues for such systems.
Finally, some salient aspects of the design and implementation of a high per-
formance, optical disk based, multimedia document server that has been built
at the University of Waterloo will be outlined.
THE AUTHOR: Stavros Christodoulakis is Associate Professor in the Department
of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, and Director of the Office
Automation Lab in the same Department. His current research interests are in
data base system design, implementation, and performance optimization, optical
disk architectures, distributed systems, and multimedia information systems.
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