From ahmed@cassatt.sdsc.edu Tue Dec 21 17:46:15 EST 1993 Article: 19980 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.databases:31843 comp.graphics.visualization:4671 comp.cog-eng:2699 comp.multimedia:12284 comp.ai:19980 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!wx.gtegsc.com!news.cerf.net!pravda.sdsc.edu!cassatt.sdsc.edu!ahmed From: ahmed@cassatt.sdsc.edu (Zahid Ahmed) Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.graphics.visualization,comp.cog-eng,comp.multimedia,comp.ai Subject: Workshop on Intelligent Access to On-line Digital Libraries Date: 17 Dec 1993 00:08:53 GMT Organization: San Diego Supercomputer Center Lines: 130 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2eqtal$oou@pravda.sdsc.edu> Reply-To: ahmed@cassatt.sdsc.edu (Zahid Ahmed) NNTP-Posting-Host: cassatt.sdsc.edu Keywords: databases, information retrieval, multimedia interfaces, archives ********************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************** Workshop on Intelligent Access to On-line Digital Libraries =========================================================== IEEE CAIA '94 San Antonio, Texas Tuesday, March 1, 1994 The rate of information production in our global society is taking place thousands of times faster than our population growth. The linkages of high speed networks, fiberized telephone lines, and large capacity information bases will facilitate creation of digital libraries which are expected to provide many kinds of information. Due to their widely distributed and diversified clientele, these emerging libraries will require intelligent management of information. The purpose of this workshop is to focus on how intelligent data management and intelligent presentation systems will allow better information services to end-users of next generation, mass-scale, robust information architectures. This workshop will attract researchers and designers of on-line digital libraries (DLs) that are being applied to data analysis problems, educational and publication media, and entertainment services. Through a discussion of some generic issues that effect the design of digital libraries, it is the goal of the workshop to produce a reference model model of such libraries based on the access, interface, and communication requirements of a small range of application domains. In line with this, the following is a list of possible topics for consideration at the workshop. I. Basic Architectural Issues. - Comparing DLs with traditional libraries and data management systems - Relationship between DL architecture and intended or expected use - Generality of retrieval models s.t. they are usable in multiple domains, and for multiple DL clients. - Basic DL building blocks and scaling issues - DL reference models - one or many? - Integrating DLs with other information processing elements, for example, data analysis tools, supercomputers, and end-user applications II. Information Retrieval. - Browsing approaches for large, distributed on-line libraries, including experience with Mosaic, WAIS, and other browsers - Query language paradigms - Searching, filtering, summarizing of multimedia information - Knowbots, intelligent agents, intelligent gatekeepers - Personalized, interactive news and publication services III. Information Organization. - Multimedia information models (hypertext, relational, etc.) - Indexing, classification and merging of information clips - Document management IV. Information Presentation Mediums. - Intelligent, interactive data visualization systems - Dynamic, task-based multimedia interfaces - Dialogue management between DL client and DL server PARTICIPATION Workshop participation will be limited to twenty people. It is expected that all participants are active researchers, or are interested in the design and development of digital libraries, information retrieval systems, or multimedia interfaces. Participants should submit position papers through electronic mail (preferred), regular mail or FAX by January 15, 1994. Position papers can be a review, original research contributions, extensions of previous work, or applications briefs. Participants will be selected based on their position papers by the workshop organizers. Participants will have an opportunity to resubmit their papers for possible post-workshop publication. Please e-mail or send (4 copies, please) position papers to the workshop chair at the address included below. The fee for a one-day workshop is $75 (only if you do not register for the CAIA '94 conference), which includes breaks and lunch. Registration forms will be sent to participants by IEEE CAIA (Conference for Artificial Intelligence Applications) '94. For more information on IEEE CAIA '94, contact: Peter Selfridge AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Phone: 908-582-6801 pgs@research.att.com WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Zahid Ahmed, San Diego Supercomputer Center Robert Akscyn, Knowledge Systems Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Thomas Kirk, AT&T Bell Laboratories Scott Stevens, Carnegie-Mellon University Workshop Chair: Zahid Ahmed San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego, 0505 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 Phone : (619)-534-5105 FAX : (619)-534-5113 E-mail: ahmed@cassatt.sdsc.edu