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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri 5 Feb 88 11:06:02-EST From: Nancy Roderer Subject: medical dictionary Do you know of a medical dictionary that's available in electronic form - for research, not necessarily commercially? ------------------------------ From: Chris Pohlig 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. ------------------------------ 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.] ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 88 15:31:31 EST From: Stavros Christodoulakis 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. ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************