ADL'97 Call for Participation.

IEEE ADL '97 Call for Participation IEEE International Conference on the Advances in Digital Libraries May 7 - 9, 1997 Library of Congress Washington, D. C. Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, CESDIS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The National Library of Medicine, and The Library of Congress. In Cooperation with: Columbia University, George Washington University, Rutgers-Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity, The University of Maryland - Baltimore County, and The University of Texas at Austin. Advance Program - as of 2/21/97 Wednesday, May 7, 1997 9:00 a.m. Keynote 1: Robert Harriss, Director of Science Division, NASA ``Mission to Planet Earth'' Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University 10:15 a.m. Forum Discussion 1: Very Large Digital Libraries Chair: Karen Moe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center EOSDIS - Large Scale Active Archives to Support Earth Observations from Space. John Dalton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The National Digital Library Program: Building an Institutional Capacity. Laura Campbell, Library of Congress. Opportunities, Challengs, and Solutions for High-Performance Biomedical Digital Libraries. Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine. 12:00 p.m. Lunch 1:15 p.m. Keynote 2 : Peter House, Smithsonian Institution Chair: Burt Edelson, George Washington University 2:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 1: Images in Digital Libraries Chair: Terry Smith Digital Image Indexing and Retrieval by Content using the Fractal Transform for Multimedia Databases. Jean Michel Marie-Julie and Hassane Essafi, LETI, DEIN - CEA, France. Wavelet-Based Image Indexing Techniques with Partial Sketch Retrieval Capability. James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein, Sha Xin Wei, Stanford University. Neural Fuzzy Agents that Learn a User's Preference Map. Sanya Mitaim and Bart Kosko, University of Southern California. Query by Templates: A generalized approach for visual query formulation for text dominated databases. Arit Sengupta and Andrew Dillon, University of Indiana. 4:00 p.m. Forum Discussion 2: Digital Libraries in Europe Chair: Rudolf Bayer, Institut fuer Informatik, Germany The Digital Collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France: An Experiment on Internet. Daniel Renoult, French National Library. The German National Bibliography 1601-1700: Digital Images in a Cooperative Cataloging Project. Dr. Doerr, Bavarian State Library, VD17 Project. Moving from the Digital to the Virtual Library: The Tilburg Experience. Dr. Geleijnse, Tilburg Library, Netherlands. Digital Library and Electronic Publishing Activites of German Professional Societies. Albert Endres, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany. Thursday, May 8, 1997 9:00 a.m. Keynote 3: Jay Sanders, M.D., President and CEO Global Telecommunications Group, and American Telemedicine Association "Future Health" Chair: Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine 10:15 to 12:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 2: Digital Library Projects Chair: Ron Musick, Lawrence Livermore National Labs Scalable Access within the Context of Digital Libraries. X. Cheng, R. Dolin, M. Neary, S. Prabhakar, K. V. Ravi Kanth, D. Wu, D. Aggrawal, A. El Abbadi, M. Freeston, A. Singh, T. Smith, and J. Su, University of California, Santa Barbara. Columbia Digital News System: An Environment for Briefing and Search over Multimedia Information. A. Aho, S.-F. Chang, K. McKeown, D. Radev, J. Smith, and K. Zaman, Columbia University. Continuing Medical Education to the Point of Care Using a Digital Library and Intimate Computers. Michael P. D'Alessandro, Jeffrey R. Galvin, James J. Choi, William E. Erkonen, and Louis G. Crist, University of Iowa. A Framework for Supporting Quality-Based Multimedia Presentation in Educational Digital Libraries. Aidong Zhang and Thomas V Johnson, SUNY, Buffalo. 12:00 p.m. Lunch 1:15 p.m. Keynote 4: Bruce Lehman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks "Intellectual Property in the Digital Age" Chair: Milton Halem, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 3: Technology for Digital Libraries Chair: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Darmstady, Germany Error Tolerant Document Structure Analysis. Bertin Klein and Peter Frankhauser, GMD-IPSI, Germany. A Relational Interface for Heterogeneous Information Sources. Ee-Peng Lim and Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Assuring Security and Privacy for Digital Library Transactions on the Web: Client and Server Security Policies. M. Winslett, N. Ching, V. Jones, and I. Slepchin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 4:00 Forum Discussion 3: Content for the Digital Library: What the Professional Societies Are Doing. Chair: Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University Mark Mandelbaum, ACM Robert Care, IEEE Jim Crowley, SIAM Ian Butterworth, Imperial College and Academia Europaea 7:00 Banquet Invited Speaker: Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for "Communications and Information" Chair: Nabil Adam, Rutgers University Friday, May 9, 1997 9:00 Keynote 5: Deanna Marcum, President, Research Library Associaton and National Digital Library Federation "The Current Agenda and Further Directions of the National Digital Library Federation" Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University 10:15 Forum Discussion 4: Digital Libraries, Electronic Commerce, and Law Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University Technological Protocols as Law: Democracy vs. a Technological Priesthood. Steve Jamar, Howard University. Vision vs. Reality: The Digital Information Environment in College Libraries. Sarah Pritchard, Smith College. 11:15 Forum Discussion 5: Making the Internet Safe for Electronic Commerce Chair: Shamim Naqvi, Bellcore Balancing Risks in Electronic Commerce. Rich DeMillo, Bellcore. European Perspective on Internet Security. Brian Collins, Consultant on Information Systems Security, UK. European Perspective on Internet Security and Overcoming Barriers. Revital Maron, THESEUS Institute, France. Avi Silberschatz, Lucent Bell Labs. 12:45 Forum Wrap-up Discussion Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University. 1:00 Adjourn Any questions can be directed to Georgia Flanagan - georgia@cesdis.usra.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE ADL '97 Registration Information IEEE International Conference on the