Tue Aug 10 15:12:14 EDT 1993 This file contains information on CIKM-93 including: Call for Participation Advance Program Tutorial Information Workshop Information Conference Registration Form Hotel Information For more information, send email to CIKM@CS.UMBC.EDU CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November 1 - 5, 1993 Double Tree Hotel, Washington, DC, USA Sponsored by ACM and ISCA in cooperation with AAAI THE CONFERENCE CIKM-93 will provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research on the management of information and knowledge. The scope of the conference will cover the integration database technology, knowledge representation and reasoning, information retrieval, and techniques for locating and accessing relevant data and knowledge in very large, distributed information systems. THE TOPICS Special emphasis will be given to the following topics: application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic data modeling; development and management of heterogeneous databases and knowledge bases; automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases from text; knowledge discovery in databases; object-oriented DBMS; optimization techniques and performance evaluation; transaction management and high performance OLTP systems; security techniques; hypermedia and multi-media databases; parallel database systems; physical and logical database design; data and knowledge sharing and interchange; cooperation and interoperability in heterogeneous information systems; domain modeling and ontology-building; information retrieval; and computer-human interface issues involving information and knowledge systems. THE FORMAT The conference will include tutorials, invited talks, panel sessions, submitted papers and poster presentations. A partial list of invited speakers includes Mike Stonebraker (UC-Berkeley), Stefan Spaccapietra (EPFL, Switzerland), Gunter Schelagetev (Fern Univ., Germany), Don Tiedemann (AT&T), Arie Segev (UC-Berkeley), Mike Papazouglou (Queens Univ., Australia), Rafael Alonso (MITL), Nico Haberman (NSF), Nick Derchak (UNISYS), Neil Coulbourn (Univ. of Waterloo), Robert F. Cramp and William J. Campbell (NASA/GSFC), Hans R. Hansen (Vienna Univ.), Jack Minker (Univ. of Md.), John Mitchell (DISA), Christine Parent (Univ. of Burgundy). SOCIAL ACTIVITIES There will be a conference reception in the hotel on November 1. The CIKM-93 banquet will be held on November 2. THE LOCATION Washington, DC offers visitors a variety of educational, cultural and tourist attractions. The Double Tree Hotel, site of CIKM'93, is within walking distance of the Metro. The Metro provides access to interesting sites such as the White House, the Capitol, the Smithsonian, other museums, historical buildings and monuments, as well as cultural events at the National Theatre and the Kennedy Center. Tours can be arranged at the Double Tree. Double Tree offers many amenities including fine restaurants, a health club and an indoor swimming pool. REGISTRATION The advance registration fee is $325 and the onsite registration fee is $375. There are discounts for students and members of the ACM, ISCA and the cooperating societies. FOR MORE INFORMATION For an automatic email reply with more information (including advance program, registration form and hotel registration form), send email to cikm-info@cs.umbc.edu . For general inquiries, contact: CIKM-93 Computer Science Department University of Maryland Baltimore County 5401 Wilkens Avenue Baltimore, Maryland, 21228-5398 email: cikm@cs.umbc.edu phone: +1 410-455-3000, fax: +1 410 455-3969 STEERING COMMITTEE Bruce Blum D. Jefferson Tim Finin E. K. Park Keith Humenik Yelena Yesha GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Tim Finin Yelena Yesha PROGRAM CHAIR -- Bharat Bhargava PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Nabil Adam P. A. D. De Maine Rafael Alonso Kia Makki Jay Gowens Chris Overton Sushil Jajodia Niki Pissinou PUBLICITY VICE CHAIR -- Arie Segev EUROPEAN VICE CHAIR -- Hans Schek LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR -- Keith Humenik TUTORIAL CHAIR -- Charles Nicholas TREASURER -- E. K. Park PUBLICITY CHAIR -- Arie Segev ------- End of forwarded message ------- CIKM-93 SESSIONS November 1--5, 1993 Double Tree Hotel Arlington, Virginia, USA November 1, 1993 11/1/93 MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY Tutorial #1 Temporal Databases 8:30 - 12:00 Shashi K. Gadia, Iowa State University and Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas Tutorial #2 Knowledge Base Management 1:00 - 4:30 Vinay Chaudhri and Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto Tutorial #3 User Interface Design 8:30 - 12:00 1:00 - 4:30 Aaron Marcus, Aaron Marcus and Associates Tutorial #4 Introduction to Information Storage and Retrieval 8:30 - 12:00 Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tutorial #5 SQL and SQL3 8:30 - 12:00 1:00 - 4:30 Jim Melton, Digital Equipment Corporation November 2, 1993 11/2/93 TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY Invited Talk My Computer is not Object-Oriented 9.00 - 10.00 Stefano Spaccapietra (EPFL Lausanne) Invited Talk Databases for Mobile Computers 10:15 - 11:05 Rafael Alonso (Matsushita Information Tech. Lab., Panasonic Technology Inc.) Invited Talk Handling transactions and queries in multi-levelstores 11:20 - 12:20 Shamim Naqvi (Bellcore) Nabil Adam (Rutgers) 12:20 - 2:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH Invited Talk DBMS Research at a Crossroads: what is next 2:00 - 3:00 Mike Stonebraker (UC Berkeley) Invited Talk On the Duality of Distributed Database and Distributed AI Systems 3:15 - 4:30 Mike Papazouglou (Queensland Univ. of of Technology, Australia) Panel 4:45 - 6:00 OODB Organizer: Nabil Adam, Rutgers. Panelists to be finalized by him (check with him). 4:45 - 6:00 Challenge's and Concerns regarding Software Engineering Education for Industry Organizer: Jacob Slonim, Head of Research, center for advanced studies IBM, Canada 11/2/93 TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY Regular Session SESSION I: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM -- 1 10:15 - 12:20 CHAIR: Keith Humenik (UMBC) 032 InfoCrystal: A Visual Tool for Information Retrieval & Management Anselm Spoerri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 151 Statistical Inference of Unknown Attribute Values in Databases Wen-Chi Hou, Zhongyang Zhang (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) and Nong Zhou (New Mexico Tech) 163 Properties of Networked Information Retrieval with ALIBI David W. Flater and Yelena Yesha (University of Maryland Baltimore County) 050 Quick and Incomplete Responses: The Semantic Approach Chung-Dak Shum (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) 088 A Way to Compare Objects P. Mulhem and M-F. Bruandet (LGI-IMAG Campus, France) 11/2/93 TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY Regular Session SESSION II: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION & EXPERT SYSTEM - 1 10:15 - 12:20 CHAIR: I.-Y. Song (Drexel) 034 Binary Relationship Imposition Rules on Ternary Relationships Il-Yeol Song and Trevor H. Jones (Drexel University) 129 Word Sense Disambiguation for Free-text Indexing Using a Massive Semantic Network Michael Sussna (University of California, San Diego) 147 An Information Model for Human Genome Map Representation and Assembly A.J. Lee, Elke A. Rundensteiner, S.Thomas and S. Lafortune (University of Michigan) 011 An Integrated Approach to Quality Assurance of Expert System Knowledge Bases Neli Zlatareva (Central Connecticut State University) 055 Storage Management for Knowledge Bases Thodoros Topaloglou (University of Toronto, Canada) 11/2/93 TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY Regular Session SESSION III: DOCUMENT PROCESSING 3:15 - 6:00 CHAIR: Charles Nicholas (UMBC) 003 Using Cases to Represent Context for Text Classification Ellen Riloff (Univ. of Massachusetts) 008 A Data Dictionary as a Lexicon: An Application of Linguistics in Information Systems J.F.M. Burg, R.P.van de Riet and S.C. Chang (Vrije Universiteit, The Nertherlands) 057 PALKA: A System for Lexical Knowledge Acquisition Jun-Tae Kim and Dan Moldovan (University of Southern California) 075 Facilitating the Creation of a Multiple Index on Graph-Described Documents by Transforming Their Descriptions Guy William Mineau (Universite Laval, Canada) 113 Text-Hypertext Mutual Conversion and Hypertext Interchange through SGML Min Zheng (Beijing University, The People's Republic of China) and Roy Rada (University of Liverpool, England) 138 Generating a Dynamic Hypertext Environment with n-gram Analysis Claudia Pearce (U.S. Department of Defense) and Charles Nicholas (University of Maryland Baltimore County) 11/2/93 TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY Regular Session SESSION IV: DEDUCTIVE DATABASES 3:15 - 6:20 CHAIR: E. K. Park (U.S. Naval Acadamy) 002 A Dynamic Knowledge Based Approach to the Problem of Deduction in a Non-Statistical Multilevel Secure Database Michael Anderson (Univ. of Connecticut) 007 Rule Validation Based on Logical Deduction Ping Wu and Stanley Y.W. Su (University of Florida) 069 Active Rules in Deductive Databases John V. Harrison (University of Queensland, Australia) 157 Development and Evaluation of an Application in a Deductive Environment Ilias Petrounias and Pericles Loucopoulos (UMIST, UK) 144 Termination and Confluence of Rule Execution Leonie van der Voort, Arno Siebes (CWI, The Netherlands) 126 Efficient Maintenance of Rule-Derived Data through Join Pattern Indexing Arie Segev (University of California at Berkeley) and J.Leon Zhao (The College of William and Mary) 127 Adaptive Query Optimization in a Deductive Database System Marcia A. Derr (AT&T Bell Laboratories) November 3, 1993 11/3/93 WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY Invited Talk New Initiatives at NSF 9:00 - 10:00 Nico Habermann (NSF) Invited Talk Support of Design Processes in Engineering Applications 10:15 - 11:05 Gunter Schlageter, Fern University, Germany Invited Talk 15 years of Deductive Databases 11:20 - 12:20 Jack Minker (U of Maryland) Poster Session-1 10:00 - 11:45 12:20 - 2:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH Invited Talk Databases for Marketing Information Systems 2:00 - 3:00 Don Tiedemann (AT&T) Invited Talk 3:15 - 4:15 Arie Segev (UC-Berkeley) Invited Talk A World-wide Heterogeneous Database System 4:15 - 5:15 Avi Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Panel Temporal Databases 5:15 - 6:20 Organizer: Niki Pissinou (National Super Computing Center, UNLV) Panelists: James Clifford, Ramez Elmasri, Shashi Gadia, Sushil Jajodia, Kia Makki, Abdullah Tansel, Arie Segev, Snodgrass Poster Session - 2 3:00 - 4:45 11/3/93 WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY Regular Session SESSION V: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS -- 2 10:15 - 12:20 CHAIR: James Mayfield (UMBC) 010 Constraint By Example Levent V. Ormana (Cornell University) 106 Translating Description Logics to Information Server Queries Premkumar T. Devanbu (AT&T Bell Laboratories) 078 HYKIS --- An Information Retrieval System Based on a Hybrid Knowledge Base Dongwook Shin, Hyongmuk Lim (Chungnam University, Republic of Korea) and Yongun Yoon, Keysun Choi (KAIST, Republic of Korea) 082 A Hypothesis Refinement Method for Summary Discovery in Databases Do Heon Lee and Myoung Ho Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea) 058 Multi-media RISSC Informatics: Retrieval of Information with Simple Structural Components (Part I: The Architecture) Daniela Rus and Devika Subramanian (Cornell University) 11/3/93 WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY Regular Session SESSION VI: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION & EXPERT SYSTEM -- 2 10:15 - 12:20 CHAIR: Kia Makki (UNLV) 164 Separating Semantics from Representation in a Temporal Object Database Domain Niki Pissinou (National Supercomputing Center For Energy and The Environment) and Kia Makki (University of Nevada) 044 Learning Bayesian Classification Rules through Genetic Algorthims Christoph F. Eick and Daw Jong (University of Houston) 061 Experiments on Multi-Strategy Learning by Meta-Learning Philip K. Chan and Salvatore J. Stolfo (Columbia University) 153 Enchancing Knowledge Procesing in Client/Server Envirnoments J.Thomas, Bernhard Mitschang, N.Mattos and S.DeBloch (University Kaiserslautern, Germany) 018 Normalising Knowledge Objects John Debenham (University of Technology and Macquarie Centre, Australia) 11/3/93 WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY Regular Session SESSION VII: USER INTERFACES / IMAGE DATABASES 3:15 - 6:00 CHAIR: Y. Zhang (Purdue) 079 Automatic Generation of Graphical User Interfaces for Interactive Database Applications Arturo Pizano (RICOH Corporation, Santa Clara), Yukari Shirota and Atsushi Iizawa (RICOH Company Ltd. Tokyo) 049 Interface Support for Data Archaeology Loren G. Terveen (AT&T Bell Laboratories) 112 Browsing and Querying in Object-Oriented Database Juliano Lopes de Oliveira and Ricardo de Oliveira Anido (MECC-UNICAMP, Brasil) 031 Model-driven Hypermedia Access to Weather Information Stephan Kerpedjiev (NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratories/Forecast Systems Laboratory) 068 An Object-Oriented Database for the Display Measurement and Analysis System Yihong Qian, Edward A. Fox and Willard W. Farley (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) 105 An Object-Oriented Model for Image Information Representation James N. Griffioen, Rajiv Mehrotra and Rajendra Yavatkar (University of Kentucky) 11/3/93 WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY Regular Session SESSION VIII: QUERY PROCESSING 3:15 - 6:20 CHAIR: Y. Jiang (Purdue) 131 An Extensible Query Model and Its Languages for a Uniform Behavioral Object Management System Randal J. Peters, Anna Lipka, M. Tamer Ozsu and Duane Szafron (University of Alberta, Canada) 160 Projection-propagation in complex-object query languages Yatin Saraiya (Bellcore) 054 Reformulating Query Plans for Multidatabase Systems Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock (University of Southern California) 146 Multiple Query Optimization with Depth-First Branch-and-Bound and Dynamic Query Ordering Ahmet Cosar, Ee-Peng Lim and Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota) 161 Speculative Query Evaluation over Databases of Plans Shamim A. Naqvi (Bell Communications Research), T. Imielinski (Rutgers University), Madhur Kohli (Bell Communications Research) and K. Vadaparty (Case Western Reserve University) 114 Optimization of Object Queries Containing Encapsulated Methods Zhaohui Xie (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 135 Interoperable Query Processing with Multiple Heterogeneous Knowledge Servers Louiqa Raschid, Yahui Chang and Bonnie J. Dorr (University of Maryland College Park) November 4, 1993 11/4/93 THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY Invited Talk Parallel Database Processing 9:00 - 10:00 Nick Derchak (UNISYS) Invited Talk Strategic long-range Information System Planning 10:15 - 11:05 Hans R. Hansen (Vienna University) Invited Talk Databases Integration 11:20 - 12:20 Christine Parent (University of Dijon, France) 12:20 - 2:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH Invited Talk Distributed System Architecture 2:00 - 3:00 John Mitchell (Center for Architecture, Joint Interoperability Eng Office, Defence Information System Agency) Invited Talk Information Management in Heterogeneous Environment 3:15 - 4:15 Neil Coulbourn (University of Waterloo) Invited Talk Data Mining of Multi-dimensional Remotely Sensed Images 4:15 - 5:15 Robert F. Cromp and William J. Campbell (NASA/GSFC) 5:15 - 6:20 Panel Nomadic Databases Organizer: Rafael Alonso (MITL) (check with him) Panel Business Opportunities of the Internet (check with Nicholas, wants it but not as organizer) (cancel it if no response) 11/4/93 THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY Regular Session SESSION IX: INFORMATION ENGINEERING 10:15 - 12:20 Chris Overtan (U of Penn) ---- Check with him 021 An Information Model for Use in Software Management Estimation and Prediction Ningda R. Li and Marvin V. Zelkowitz (University of Maryland College Park) 128 On Packing R-trees Ibrahim Kamel and Christos Faloutsos (University of Maryland College Park) 149 Queries, Constraints, Updates and Transactions Within a Logic-Based Language Danilo Montesi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Elisa Bertino (Universita di Genova, Italy) 119 FunBase: A Function-based Information Management System Wafik Farag and Toby J. Teorey (University of Michigan) 056 Collection Oriented Match Anurag Acharya and Milind Tambe (Carnegie Mellon University) 11/4/93 THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY Regular Session SESSION X: SCIENTIFIC DATABASES 10:15 - 12:20 CHAIR: Niki Pissinou (National Supercomputing Center) 051 Automated Cataloging and Analysis of Sky Survey Image Databases: The SKICAT System Usama M. Fayyad (JPL/California Institute of Technology), Nicholas Weir and S. Djorgovski (California Institute of Technology) 090 The Design and Implementation of an Expert Object-Oriented Geographic Database Model Ramesh Subramanian (University of Alaska) and Nabil R. Adam (Rutgers University) 065 A Knowledge-Based Patient Data Acquisition System for Primary Care Medicine James R. Warren (The American University), Debra E. Warren (University of Baltimore) and Richard W. Freedman (Susquehanna University) 052 Using Analogical Reasoning for Knowledge Discovery in a Molecular Biology Database Juergen Haas, Jeffery S. Aaronson and G. Christian Overton (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) 166 Towards the Design and Development of a New Model for Geographic Information Systems Niki Pissinou (National Supercomputing Center For Energy And The Environment), Kia Makki (University of Nevada) and E.K. Park (U.S. Naval Academy) 11/4/93 THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY Regular Session SESSION XI: OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES 3:15 - 6:20 CHAIR: Margaret Law (NIST) 038 Temporal Database Modeling: An Object-Oriented Approach Ramez Elmasri, Vram Kouramajian and Shian Fernando (University of Texas at Arlington) 108 Locking Objects and Classes in Multiversion Object-Oriented Databases Wojciech Cellary and Waldemar Wieczerzycki (Franco-Polish School of New Information and Communication Technologies, Poland) 029 The OODB Path-Method Generator (PMG) Using Precomputed Access Relevance Ashish Mehta, James Geller, Yehoshua Perl and Erich Neuhold (New Jersey Institute of Technology) 053 Value Propagation in Object-Oriented Database Part Hierarchies Michael Halper, James Geller, and Yehoshua Perl (New Jersey Institute of Technology) 024 Object Identity and Dimension Alignment in Parametric Databases Tsz S. Cheng, Shashi K. Gadia and Sunil S. Nair (Iowa State University) 092 ERC++: A Conceptual Data Model Based on Object and Logic Paradigms Zahir Tari (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 101 Tools for View Generation in Object-Oriented Databases Elke A. Rundensteiner (University of Michigan) 11/4/93 THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY Regular Session SESSION XII: DISTRIBUTED DATABASES/TRANSACTION PROCESSING 3:15 - 6:20 CHAIR: Rafael Alonso (Matsushita Information Tech. Lab., Panasonic Technology Inc) 165 Efficient Availability Mechanisms in Distributed Databases Systems Bharat Bhargava (Purdue University) and Abdelsalam Helal (University of Texas at Arlington) 118 Distributed Constraint Management for Collaborative Engineering Databases Ashish Gupta and Sanjai Tiwari (Stanford University) 125 A Recovery Scheme for Multidatabase Systems Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University) and Hsiang-Lung Tung (Chinese Naval Ship, ROC) 086 Precision Locking Algorithm for Nested Transactions Systems John K. Lee (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 132 On the Development of a site Selection Optimizer for Distributed and Parallel Database Systems Fotios Barlos and Ophir Frieder (George Mason University) 099 Concurrency Control in Federated Databases: A Dynamic Approach San-Yih Hwang (University of Minnesota), Jiandong Huang (Honeywell) and Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota) 162 Adaptive Transaction Scheduling Abdelsalam Helal, Tung-Hui Ku, Ramez Elmasri and Sourav Mukherjee (University of Texas at Arlington) PAPERS FOR THE POSTER SESSION ----------------------------- POSTER SESSION - 1 ------------------- 023 Knowledge Discovery in Reaction Databases John R. Rose (Technical University Munich, Germany) and Herbert Gelernter (State University of New York at Stony Brook) 043 A Model for Developing Large Shared Knowledge Bases Nina Tayar (IRIMAG-LIFIA, France) 100 Query Optimization and Processing in Federated Database Systems Ee-Peng Lim and Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota) 150 A Method of Using Semijoins to Optimizing Queries with ADT Functions Xiaodong Zhang, Nobuo ohbo, Hanxiong Chen and Yuzuru Fujiwara (University of Tsukuba, Japan) 073 Adjusting the Performance of an Information Retrieval System J. Nie, F. Paradis and J. Vaucher (Universite de Montreal, Canada) 076 Performance Evaluation of MAX -- the Maintenance Administrator Expert System Erica J. Wolin (NYNEX Science and Technology Inc.) PAPERS FOR THE POSTER SESSION ----------------------------- POSTER SESSION - 2 ------------------- 094 Building Concept Hierarchies for Schema Integration in HDDBS Using Incremental Concept Formation Cyrus Azarbod (Mankato State University) and William Perrizo (North Dakota State University) 046 Representation and Interpretation of Fuzzy Information T. Van Le (University of Canberra, Australia) 143 Elicitation and Analysis of Fuzzy Repertory Grids Sanjiv K. Bhatia and Qi Yao (University of Missouri) 152 Indexing in Large Scale Production Systems G.Phanendra Baabu (Indian Institute of Science, India), M.Madhav (University of Mussori-Rola), B.E.Prasad (University of Hyderabad, India) and M. Narasimha Murty (Indian Institute of Science, India) 060 The Role of Automated Word Classification in Summarization of the Contexts of Sets of Documents Robert P. Futrelle and Susan Gauch (Northeastern University) TUTORIAL ABSTRACTS ------------------ "An Overview of SQL" Jim Melton, Digital Equipment Corporation SQL is arguably the most widely-known and -used database language in the world; it is certainly the most widely-implemented standard database language. Early versions of the SQL standard were rightly criticized for not specifying sufficient facilities required for writing real-world applications. The most recent revision of SQL, SQL-92, resolves that shortcoming by defining extensive facilities for data definition, data integrity, and advanced data manipulation. Instead of defining a standard that is the least-common denominator of existing products, SQL-92 challenges implementors to build relational database systems among which meaningful applications can be freely ported. The Tutorial will briefly review relational theory and the basic concepts of SQL database technology. The primary focus will be on the new capabilities of SQL-92, including new data types, new relational operators and predicates, exception reporting mechanisms, dynamic SQL facilities, multi-session capabilities, and the self-defining information schema. A brief overview of the emerging SQL3 standard and its object-oriented capabilities will also be presented. Jim Melton is the Editor for the ANSI and ISO committees that develop SQL standards and has co-authored the definitive text on the SQL-92 database language. He also participates extensively in the development of the X/Open consortium's Portability Guide for SQL and in the SQL Access Group's activities. Jim is a database architect for Digital Equipment Corporation and has been especially active in database internationalization efforts worldwide. "Introduction to Information Retrieval" Ed Fox, Virginia Tech This introductory level overview of Information Access in general and Information Retrieval (IR) in particular will prepare researchers in AI, DBMS, and related areas to understand IR research, and to use existing and emerging (CD-ROM, network) tools. The tutorial will cover the fundamentals of IR including: models (string, Boolean, vector, probabilistic and their extensions); representation (unstructured/fields, MARC, SGML, objects); controlled vocabularies, thesauri, indexing, analysis; ambiguity, context, fuzziness/imprecision; matching, similarity, clustering; searching, feedback, browsing, linking; implementation: inverted files, signature files, n-grams; evaluation methods and experimentation. The course will also cover extensions to traditional IR, including: NLP (phrases, lexicons), knowledge bases; genetic, neural net algorithms; compression; integration with hypertext, DBMS. Current systems for personal use (e.g., Personal Librarian, TOPIC, ConQuest), libraries, network access (e.g., Archie, Gopher, Mosaic, WAIS, WWW), emerging applications for multimedia information and digital libraries, and recent developments from Virginia Tech research with the MARIAN and Envision systems will also be discussed. Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU), where he serves as Associate Director for Research at the Computing Center, and Associate Professor of Computer Science. He directs Project Envision, building "A User-Centered Database from the Computer Science Literature." Dr. Fox serves on the ACM Electronic Publishing Volunteer Advisory Committee, after serving 1988-91 as editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products (responsible for the broad area of electronic publishing including online, CD-ROM, hypertext, interactive multimedia, and developing an electronic library). He also served as a member of the Publications Board, and is currently chairman of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, chairman of the Steering Committee for the ACM Multimedia series of conferences, and associate editor for ACM Transactions on Information Systems. He has authored or co-authored numerous publications in the areas of information storage and retrieval, hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia, computational linguistics, CD-ROM and optical disc technology, electronic publishing, and expert systems. "User Interface Design" Aaron Marcus, Aaron Marcus and Associates Skillful graphic design for user interfaces of all kinds (graphical, pen-based, virtual-reality based) is crucial to the success of innovative computer-based products, especially as computers acquire multimedia characteristics, become more sensitive to diverse, international user communities, and must deliver more usable systems. Presented by a pioneer of graphic design for computer graphics and a leader in the field of user interface design, electronic document design, and knowledge visualization, this tutorial will give developers, graphic designers, and users valuable insight into key graphic design issues and show how to achieve effective visual communication and increased usability. The tutorial will introduce terminology, principles, guidelines, and heuristics for using information-oriented, systematic graphic design in user interfaces, especially for the design of metaphors, mental models, navigation schema, icons, and dialogue boxes. The tutorial will benefit participants because many current window manager and graphical user interface design tools do not provide sufficient functions or guidance for these topics. Aaron Marcus is an internationally recognized authority on graphic design for computer graphics, especially chart, form, document, icon, and screen design. He and his staff have designed and evaluated user interfaces, knowledge visualization, and electronic publishing/presentations for Apple, Ashton-Tate, Computervision, DEC, DuPont, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Kodak, MCC, McDonnell-Douglas, Microsoft, Motorola, NCR, Pacific Bell, Reuters, Scitex, 3M, Wavefront, and many other organizations. Government clients have included the East-West Center, INTELSAT, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Endowment for the Arts, National Library of Medicine, New York Department of City Planning, US Department of Defense, and US Department of Labor. Mr. Marcus has written many articles on graphic design for computer graphics for technical and professional journals. He co-authored The Computer Image (1982), for which he wrote the essay "Color: A Tool for Computer Graphics Communication," co-authored Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs (1990), and authored Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces (1992), all published by Addison-Wesley. Mr. Marcus received a B.A. in Physics from Princeton University (1965) and a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Yale University Art School (1968). He has taught computer graphics since 1970 and founded AM+A in 1982. In 1992, Mr. Marcus received the National Computer Graphics Association Industry Achievement award for his contributions to the field. "Temporal Databases" Shaski Gadia, Iowa State University Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas This tutorial will give an up to date account of the state of research in temporal databases. The topics will include taxonomy of time in databases, models, languages, implementation, access methods, optimization, updates and applications of temporal databases. The emphasis will be on the relational approach, but the ER, object oriented and deductive approaches will also be considered. In addition spatio-temporal databases will also be mentioned. After attending this tutorial the audience will be acquainted to the state of research and open problems in temporal databases. Ramez Elmasri is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has worked in the database field for over 15 years. His recent research is in the areas of temporal database models, languages, and indexing techniques. His other interests include data modeling, object-oriented databases, and database applications in engineering and manufacturing. Elmasri holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Stanford. He is co-author of the book "Fundamentals of Database Systems". Shashi K. Gadia did his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois. Subsequently he did an M.S. in computer science from the Ohio State University. He has taught at Texas Tech University and is currently at Iowa State University. He has been an active researcher in temporal databases for about a decade and published extensively in this field. His interests cover models, languages, implementation, optimization, updates and applications of temporal databases. He has researched the relational and object oriented approaches. "Knowledge Base Management" Vinay Chaudhri and Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto Knowledge based systems are now routinely used in thousands of ``real world'' applications. Most such applications involve relatively small knowledge bases, containing hundreds rather than thousands of units (objects, rules, frames, etc.) Developing the next generation of knowledge based systems with knowledge bases containing hundreds of thousands or even millions of units will require first and foremost a technology for building, accessing and managing these large knowledge bases. Such a technology will be founded on new implementation techniques that extend known ones for knowledge bases and databases and address issues of physical storage management (how does one minimize disk I/O during the evaluation of a query), query optimization (transforming a query to an equivalent, but simpler expression), concurrency control (interleaving the execution of knowledge base operations to optimize the use of computer resources), constraint enforcement and others. Apart from such traditionally database-oriented techniques, knowledge base management requires new techniques, specific to knowledge bases such as ones for efficient implementations of inference mechanisms (terminological subsumption, deduction, induction and abduction). Moreover, knowledge base management demands new tools for knowledge acquisition, knowledge base validation, verification and maintenance, as well as new architectures that accommodate a multi-user, distributed operating environment. The tutorial aims at providing a comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art in knowledge base management techniques and commercial tools as well as recent research results and ongoing projects. The topics to be covered in the tutorial include the following: - Knowledge representation and reasoning - The state-of-the-art in commercial products - Physical and logical storage management - Query processing - Constraint enforcement and rule management - Concurrency control - Knowledge base management tools Vinay K. Chaudhri is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He has been a member of the knowledge base management group for three years and his research has focussed on concurrency control for knowledge bases. Prior to this he worked for one and one half years for Tata Consultancy Services, New Delhi, where he was involved in the development of large scale information systems. He has co-authored a book on relational database design and several research articles. Thodoros Toplaloglou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto where has been a member of the knowledge base management group for four years. Prior to this he was a member of the knowledge bases group of the Institute of Computer Science of Crete, Greece, participating in the ESPIRIT projects LOKI and DAIDA. He had worked on implementation of knowledge representation languages as well as in storage management and query processing for knowledge bases. CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON ADVANCES IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS November 5, 1993 - Washington, D.C. Sponsored by ACM and ISCA In Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management to be held November 1-5, 1993 ____________________ | | THEME: | GENERAL CHAIR | | | | K. Makki | GIS'93 will serve as a forum for disseminating research | UNLV | and experience in the emerging areas of geographic | | information systems. GIS will bring together leading | PROGRAM CHAIR | researchers and developers in these areas and will | | strive toward setting future research directions. | N. Pissinou | | NSCEE | Sessions are being organized on: | | | PROGRAM COMMITTEE| o Spatial Reasoning | | o Time and Space | N. Adams | o Spatio-Temporal Knowledge | Rutgers | o Query Languages | | o User Interfaces | B. Bhargava | o Parallel and Distributed GIS | Purdue | o GIS Architectures | | o Heterogeneous Systems | M. Egenhofer | o Applications and Next Generation GIS Systems | Univ. of Maine | | | | A. Frank | | TU Vienna | PAPER SUBMISSION: | | | J. Herring | | Integraph | Authors are invited to submit complete and original work. | | Papers that may be submitted for consideration include | H. Tom | those that have not previously been published in another | NIST | forum, or are not currently being published or reviewed | | by another journal or conference. All submitted papers | E.K. Park | papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, | US Naval Academy | originality and relevance. Of particular interest are | | papers which address experiences with concrete GIS | K. Makki | systems and applications. Authors will be interested | UNLV | to know that special issues of journals containing | | outstanding papers from the workshop are being planned | R. Loganantharaj | | CACS/USL | | | An extended abstract (at most three double spaced pages) | D. Mark | should be submitted and received no later than Sept. 3. | SUNY Buffalo | Longer abstracts may be considered for evaluation. | | Submissions should include the title, author(s), | D. Peuquet | author's affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and | Penn State | postal address. In case of multiple authors, an indication | | of which author is responsible for correspondence and | Pham | preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings | Rutgers Unv. | should also be included. Five copies of the manuscript | | should be submitted by Friday, September 3, 1993 to Dr | V. Raghavan | Niki Pissinou, the Program Chair: | CACS/USL | | | Professor Niki Pissinou | C. Shaffer | c/o Ms Chris Nienaber | Virg. Tech | National Supercomputing Center | | For Energy and the Environment | Y. Yesha | Box 454028 | UMBC | Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4028 | | pissinoi@nye.nscee.edu | WORKSHOP CHAIR | Tel: (702) 895-4024 | | Fax: (702) 895-4156 | L. Rachid | | UMD | Electronic submission is encouraged, in which case | | the message SUBJECT should include GIS submission. | | | TREASURER | | | | E.K. Park | IMPORTANT DATES | USNA | | | | LOCAL ARRANGEMENT| | | Paper submission deadline (up to 3pgs) : September 3, 1993 | S. Busovaca | Notification of acceptance : September 14, 1993 | CSUS | Camera ready papers (up to 6pgs) : September 22, 1993 | | Workshop date : November 5, 1993 | H. Tom | | NIST | |_________________ | CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT HYPERTEXT November 5, 1993---Washington, D.C. Sponsored by ACM and ISCA In Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management to be held November 1--5, 1993 The CIKM '93 Workshop on Intelligent Hypertext will explore the application of natural lan- guage processing, knowledge bases, intelligent agents, and other AI techniques to hypertext systems. We are particularly interested in reports of work in progress, and practical experience with large hypertext documents. Organizing Committee Participants are encouraged to submit position papers not to exceed four pages in length. Richard Furuta The papers will be reviewed by the Texas A&M University organizing committee, and some will be Robert Futrelle selected for informal presentation at the Northeastern University workshop. Selected papers will appear in a James Mayfield workshop proceedings. Mail papers in either University of Maryland PostScript or ASCII to smart-ht@cs.umbc.edu by Baltimore County September 20, 1993. We prefer e-mail submis- Charles Nicholas sions, but authors who lack e-mail access may University of Maryland send papers to Dr. James Mayfield, Computer Baltimore County Science Department, University of Maryland Roy Rada Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 University of Liverpool USA. Submissions should include the title, au- thor(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of multiple authors, please indicate which author is responsible for correspondence. 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