Date: Mon 1 Aug 1988 14:22-EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Us-Mail: MIT Mail Stop 38-390, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-2737 Subject: AIList Digest V8 #33 To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Status: R AIList Digest Tuesday, 2 Aug 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 33 Today's Topics: Announcements: Object-Oriented Database Workshop Network Computing Forum - call for papers ACL 1989 Annual Meeting Call for Papers; Vancouver, 26-29 June First annual meeting of the International Neural Network Society New Special Interest Group - INFO-FRAME ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Jul 88 20:05:21 GMT From: root@mips.ti.com (Super-user) Reply-to: thatte@ti-csl.ti.com (Satish Thatte) Subject: Object-Oriented Database Workshop Article-I.D.: ti-csl.54967 OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE WORKSHOP To be held in conjunction with the OOPSLA '88 Conference on Object-Oriented Programming: Systems, Languages, and Applications 26 September 1988 San Diego, California, U.S.A. Object-oriented database systems combine the strengths of object-oriented programming languages and data models, and database systems. This one-day workshop will expand on the theme and scope of a similar OODB workshop held at OOPSLA '87. The 1988 Workshop will consist of the following four panels: Architectural issues: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Therice Anota (Graphael), Gordon Landis (Ontologic), Dan Fishman (HP), Patrick O'Brien (DEC), Jacob Stein (Servio Logic), David Wells (TI) Transaction management for cooperative work: 10:30 AM - 12:00 noon Bob Handsaker (Ontologic), Eliot Moss (Univ. of Massachusetts), Tore Risch (HP), Craig Schaffert (DEC), Jacob Stein (Servio Logic), David Wells (TI) Schema evolution and version management: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Gordon Landis (Ontologic), Mike Killian (DEC), Brom Mehbod (HP), Jacob Stein (Servio Logic), Craig Thompson (TI), Stan Zdonik (Brown University) Query processing: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM David Beech (HP), Paul Gloess (Graphael), Bob Strong (Ontologic), Jacob Stein (Servio Logic), Craig Thompson (TI) Each panel member will present his position on the panel topic in 10 minutes. This will be followed by questions from the workshop participants and discussions. To encourage vigorous interactions and exchange of ideas between the participants, the workshop will be limited to 60 qualified participants. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please submit three copies of a single page abstract to the workshop chairman describing your work related to object-oriented database systems. The workshop participants will be selected based on the relevance and significance of their work described in the abstract. Abstracts should be submitted to the workshop chairman by 15 August 1988. Participants selected will be notified by 5 September 1988. Workshop Chairman: Dr. Satish M. Thatte Director, Information Technologies Laboratory Texas Instruments Incorporated P.O. Box 655474, M/S 238 Dallas, TX 75265 Phone: (214)-995-0340 Arpanet: Thatte@csc.ti.com CSNet: Thatte%ti-csl@relay.cs.net ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 88 12:31 PDT From: William Daul / McAir / McDonnell-Douglas Corp Subject: NETWORK COMPUTING FORUM - CALL FOR PAPERS NETWORK COMPUTING FORUM CALL FOR PAPERS OCTOBER 5-8, 1988 HOLIDAY INN WESTPORT, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI The next meeting of the Network Computing Forum will be held on October 5-7 in St. Louis, Missouri. This will be the fourth meeting of the Forum, and will focus on the role of the Forum as a catalyst for change in the industry. The Forum is an industry group chartered to lead the way for rapid adoption of multi-vendor network computing concepts and technologies. Forum meetings allow representatives from users and vendors to work together on common issues in an open, informal atmosphere. The Forum has over 100 member organizations, and more than 220 representatives attended the May 1988 meeting. Forum meetings are organized into three sessions: a conference featuring invited papers and panel sessions, meetings of interest groups and working groups, and a policy making executive committee meeting. Some areas of interest to the Forum member organizations are listed, to suggest possible topics for papers: Definition of user requirements for network computing Practical experiences using network computing concepts & technologies Partitioning and/or integration of applications across networks Remote procedure calls and other core services for network computing System and network administration for networks of heterogeneous computers User interfaces and user environments for network computing Software licensing in a network environment Data representation and command scripting across heterogeneous networks Use of network computing with IBM mainframes (MVS and VM) Invited Papers As part of each Forum meeting, papers are invited from the community at large for presentation and discussion. These papers should address the use or development of network based applications and services. Emphasis should be placed on creating and using tightly coupled links between multiple, heterogeneous computer systems. Technical descriptions of research projects, user experiences, as well as commerically available products are welcome. Invitations are also extended for more informal talks on practical experience in administering heterogeneous computer networks. All presentations should be 35 minutes in length, with 15 minutes of discussion following each presentation. Abstracts must be received by August 10, 1988. Abstracts should summarize the paper in two or three paragraphs and include the mailing address, affiliation, and phone number of the author(s). Notification of abstracts selected will be sent on August 19, 1988 and papers must be submitted no later than September 20, 1988. Papers can be copyrighted, but must include authorization for unrestricted reproduction by the Network Computing Forum. Papers can be marked as working papers to allow future publication. SEND ABSTRACTS BY AUGUST 10, 1988 TO the Program Chairman for the October 1988 meeting: T.D. Carter c/o Jan McPherson McDonnell Douglas Travel Company 944 Anglum Drive, Suite A Hazelwood, MO 63042 (314) 233-2951 Internet Address: TDC.MDC@OFFICE-8.ARPA ------------------------------ Date: 1 Aug 88 14:30:14 GMT From: flash.bellcore.COM!walker@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Donald E Walker) Subject: ACL 1989 Annual Meeting Call for Papers; Vancouver, 26-29 June CALL FOR PAPERS 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 26-29 June 1989 University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces; message understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe unique work that has not been submitted elsewhere; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit twelve copies of an extended abstract not to exceed eight double-spaced pages (exclusive of references) in a font no smaller than 10 point (elite). The title page should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, and a specification of the topic area. Submissions that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send to: Julia Hirschberg ACL89 Program Chair AT&T Bell Laboratories, 2D-450 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA (201)582-7496; julia@btl.att.com SCHEDULE: Papers are due by 6 January 1989. Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 20. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, either on model paper or in a reduced font size using laserprinter output, must be received by 20 April along with a signed copyright release statement. OTHER ACTIVITIES: The meeting will include a program of tutorials organized by Martha Pollack, AI Center, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; (415)859-2037; pollack@ai.sri.com. Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to Richard Rosenberg at the address below. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Local arrangements are being handled by Richard Rosenberg, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA V6T 1W5; (604)228-4142; rosen%cs.ubc.ca@relay.cs.net. For other information on the conference and on the ACL more generally, contact Don Walker (ACL), Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (201)829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com or bellcore!walker. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Joyce Friedman, Barbara Grosz, Julia Hirschberg, Bob Kasper, Richard Kittredge, Beth Levin, Steve Lytinen, Len Schubert, Martha Palmer, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Mark Steedman. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Aug 88 12:08:42 EDT From: mike%bucasb.bu.edu@bu-it.BU.EDU (Michael Cohen) Subject: FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY -----Meeting Update----- September 6--10, 1988 Park Plaza Hotel Boston, Massachusetts The first annual INNS meeting promises to be a historic event. Its program includes the largest selection of investigators ever assembled to present the full range of neural network research and applications. The meeting will bring together over 2000 scientists, engineers, students, government administrators, industrial commercializers, and financiers. It is rapidly selling out. Reserve now to avoid disappointment. Call J.R. Shuman Associates, (617) 237-7931 for information about registration For information about hotel reservations, call the Park Plaza Hotel at (800) 225-2008 and reference "Neural Networks." If you call from Massachusetts, call (800) 462-2022. There will be 600 scientific presentations, including tutorials, plenary lectures, symposia, and contributed oral and poster presentations. Over 50 exhibits are already reserved for industrial firms, publishing houses, and government agencies. The full day of tutorials presented on September 6 will be given by Gail Carpenter, John Daugman, Stephen Grossberg, Morris Hirsch, Teuvo Kohonen, David Rumelhart, Demetri Psaltis, and Allen Selverston. The plenary lecturers are Stephen Grossberg, Carver Mead, Terrence Sejnowski, Nobuo Suga, and Bernard Widrow. Approximately 30 symposium lectures will be given, 125 contributed oral presentations, and 400 poster presentations. Fourteen professional societies are cooperating with the INNS meeting. They are: American Association of Artificial Intelligence American Mathematical Society Association for Behavior Analysis Cognitive Science Society IEEE Boston Section IEEE Computer Society IEEE Control Systems Society IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Optical Society of America Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Mathematical Biology Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior DO NOT MISS THE FIRST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF THIS IMPORTANT NEW RESEARCH COALITION! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Aug 88 10:04:34 pdt From: mcdonald@loki.edsg (louis mcdonald) Subject: New Special Interest Group New Special Interest Group INFO-FRAME ------- System Frameworks ------------------------------------------------- This group is designed to provide information for software tool developers that are responsible for integrating heterogenous software products. This can include in-house and vendor supplied. Usually, the integration of the products is designed to provide an environment that makes using the tools easier. The basic issue is to build a `framework' around the tools that provides a common and consistent view of the system. The framework is not limited to homogenus environments, but also can span heterogeneous systems. Companies like EDA and government sponsored projects like EIS are trying to tackle this problem. This group can be viewed as a forum for users and developers to voice their opinions on this subject. Frameworks are common in the area of CAD/CAE, CASE and office automation; but they are not limited to only these areas. Topics open for discussion are: Tool encapsulation Data Management Network Computing User Interface Data Transfer Languages Tool Portability Process Control/Flow Object Programming Anything Else ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Moderator: Louis McDonald; Hughes Aircraft mcdonald%loki.edsg@hac2arpa.hac.com Digest format; hopefully release a digest a week, put is dependent on amount of input. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To be added to/deleted from/corrections made to list, send message to: info-frame-request%loki.edsg@hac2arpa.hac.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All other messages should be sent to: info-frame%loki.edsg@hac2arpa.hac.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************