Digital Libraries Forum, May 1995, (prelim. program and registration)

********************************************************************* PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ADL'95 A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries McLean Hilton at Tysons Center, Virginia Monday, May 15, 7:00pm - 9:30pm - Reception (McLean Hilton) Tuesday, May 16, 8:30am - 5:00pm and Wednesday, May 17 8:30am - 5:00pm ********************************************************************* SPONSORED BY: NASA-GSFC IN COOPERATION WITH: ACM, ARPA, IEEE Computer Society, NIST-CAIT NSF, Purdue University, Rutgers-CIMIC and UMBC CORPORATE SUPPORT FROM: AT&T and Bellcore HONORABLE CHAIR: Michael R. Nelson, Special Asst. to the President for Information Technology, The White House GENERAL CHAIR: Milton Halem, NASA-GSFC STEERING COMMITTEE: A. Aho, Columbia University; D. Atkins, Univ. of Michigan; W. Day, Prodigy; L. Holcomb, NASA; S. Howe, NCO/HPCC; D. Tiedeman, AT&T; J. Ullman, Stanford Univ. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers Univ.; Bharat Bhargava, Purdue Univ.; Yelena Yesha, UMBC/NASA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: L. Baron, Univ. of Toronto; T. Finin, UMBC; P. Hunter, NASA; P. Kanellakis, Brown Univ.; M. Lesk, Bellcore; C. Pu, OGI; D. Rosenkrantz, Univ. at Albany-SUNY; J. Schwartz, NYU; J. Slonim, IBM Canada; H. Stone, NEC; H. Wactlar, CMU; R. Wilensky, UC Berkeley INTERNATIONAL CO-COORDINATORS: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany; Shigeo Sugimoto, Univ. of Library & Info. Science, Japan PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS: Susan Hoban, NASA-GSFC; Elke Rundensteiner, University of Michigan EXHIBIT CHAIR: Susan Hoban, NASA-GSFC 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 data, management of heterogeneous databases and knowledge bases, and effective use of multimedia databases and knowledge bases available on various national and international networks. =============================================================================== Monday, May 15, 1995 5:30-7:00pm - Poster Session 7:00pm - 9:30pm - Reception (McLean Hilton) =============================================================================== Tuesday, May 16, 1995 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-9:15 Welcome Remarks Dr. M. Halem, Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA 9:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker Dr. Cordova, Chief Scientist, NASA 10:00-10:20 BREAK 10:20-11:40 Session#1.1: VISUALIZATION IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES 1. Video as Scholarly Material in the Digital Library W. Wolf, B. Liu, M. Yeung, B. Yeo, and D. Markham (Princeton Univ.) 2. Digital Libraries for Electronic News M. A. Shepherd (Dalhousie Univ., Canada), C.R. Watters (Acadia Univ., Canada), and F.J. Burkowski (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) 3. The Visual Analysis of Textual Information: Browsing Large Document Sets J. Thomas, K. Pennock, T. Fiegel, J. Wise, M. Pottier, A. Schur, D. Lantrip, and V. Crow (Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory) 4. WebJounal: Visualization of a Web Journey B. C. Dasai and S. Swiercz (Concordia Univ., Canada) 11:40-1:00 LUNCH 1:00-2:20 Forum Discussion #1 ``Research Issues in Digital Libraries'' Chair: A. Aho (Columbia University) Rapporteur: TBA 2:20-2:35 BREAK 2:35-3:05 Invited Speaker#1.1 3:05-3:35 Invited Speaker#1.2 3:35-3:50 BREAK 3:50-5:30 Session#2.1: DOCUMENT HANDLING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES 1. Uniform Structured Document Handling Using a Constraint-based Object Approach A. Nica and E. A. Rundensteiner (Univ. of Michigan) 2. Digital Software and Data Repositories for Support of Scientific Computing R. Boisvert (NIST), S. Browne (Univ. of Tennessee), J. Dongarra (Univ. of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab.), and E. Grosse (AT&T Bell Laboratories) 3. Semantic Hypermedia Retrieval in Digital Libraries S. Wiesener (Bayerisches Forschungszentrum Fur Wissensbasierte Sys., Germany), W. Kowarschick, P. Vogel, and R. Bayer (Univ. of Munchen, Germany) 4. Fuzzy Multilinkage Thesaurus Builder in Multimedia Information Systems Y. J. Gao, J.J. Lim, and A.D. Narasimhalu (National Univ. of Singapore) 5. Fuzzy Full-Text Searches in OCR Databases A. Myka and U. Guntzer (Univ. of Tubingen, Germany) 6:30-7:30 Cocktail Hour and Informal Question and Answer Session with Representatives from: ARPA, NASA and NSF 7:30- Banquet Speaker Dr. L. Smarr, Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications. =============================================================================== Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-9:15 Welcome Remarks Dr. M. R. Nelson, Special Asst. to the President for Information Technology, The White House 9:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker The Honorary J. Billington, The Librarian of Congress 10:00-10:20 BREAK 10:20-11:40 Forum Discussion #2 ``Economic Issues in Digital Libraries'' Chair: M. Lesk, Bellcore Rapporteur: TBA 11:40-1:00 LUNCH 1:00-1:30 Invited Speaker#2.1 1:30-2:00 Invited Speaker#2.2 2:00-2:15 BREAK 2:15-3:35 Session#2.1: NETWORK-BASED INFORMATION AND RESOURCE DISCOVERY 1. Data Discovery in Large Scale Heterogeneous and Autonomous Databases S. Milliner and A. Bouguettaya (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia) 2. An Intelligent Agent for the K-12 Educational Community M. E. Rorvig (NASA), M. W. Hutchison (Science Applications International Corporation), R. O.