Digital Libraries Workshop - May 1995

ADL'95 Preliminary Call for Papers A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL'95) Monday-Friday, May 15-19, 1995 McClean, VA SPONSORED BY: NASA-GSFC IN COOPERATION WITH: ARPA, NSF, IEEE Computer Society*, ACM*, NIST-CAIT Purdue University, Rutgers-CIMIC and UMBC *-Pending Approval. COPORATE SUPPORT FROM: ATT and Bellcore Honorary Chair: Michael R. Nelson, Special Asst., Information Technology, Executive Office of The President, The White House General Chair: Milton Halem, NASA-GSFC Program Co-Chairs: Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers Univ.; Bharat Bhargava, Purdue Univ.; Yelena Yesha, UMBC/NIST ********** *OBJECTIVE: ********** This forum is intended to bring together researchers from universities, industry and government to discuss evolving research issues and applications in digital libraries. Invited speakers will share their experiences in building and using prototype systems, present their vision for the future, and address applied and theoretical research related to such areas as: capturing, and organizing of data, management of heterogeneous databases and knowledge bases, and effective use of multimedia databases and knowledge bases available on various national and international networks. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Searching Indexing -Resource Discovery -Scalability -Standards -Compression -Browsing -Information Representation -Interoperability -Knowledge Discovery - Intelligent Agents The forum will feature keynote addresses, invited talks, regular sessions, and panel discussions. In addition, several follow-up workshops will be held in conjunction with the forum on May 18 and 19 *********************** *INFORMATION TO AUTHORS: *********************** Authors interested in participating in the forum are invited to electronically submit a 8-10 page paper/1-2 page panel proposal by January 23, 1995 to only one of the three program co-chairs. Prof. Nabil R. Adam Prof. Bharat K. Bhargava Prof. Yelena Yesha Tel: (201)648-5239 Tel: (317)494-6013 Tel: (301)975-3279 adam@adam.rutgers.edu bb@cs.purdue.edu yeyesha@cs.umbc.edu Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 24, 1995. A co-edited book that will be published by Springer Verlag as part of its Lecture Notes Series in Computer Science and special issue of a journal are planned.