Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM--94)

***************** C I K M -- 94 ***************** Preliminary Program & Registration THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (CIKM'94) November 29 -- December 2, 1994 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg, Maryland Sponsored by: ------------ ACM SIGART and SIGIR, in cooperation with: AAAI, NIST, NSF, UMBC, Purdue University, and Rutgers University. OBJECTIVES: ---------- The objective of the conference is to provide an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research through presentation of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. An important part of the conference is the Workshops program which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives. * * * * * * * * The conference will feature keynote addresses, invited talks, regular sessions, four workshops, and panels. * * * * * * * * I. KEYNOTE/INVITED TALKS: ------------------------ - Al Aho, Vice President, Bellcore - Dan Atkins, Dean and Professor of Information & Library Studies, and Professor of EE & Computer Science, University of Michigan - J. Bredekemp, NASA - Robert Ewald, Chief Operating Officer, CRAY Research, Inc. - David Farber, Professor, University of Pennsylvania - Milton Halem, Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, NASA - Bob Kerrey, Senator, State of Nebraska - Thomas Kalil, Director, National Economic Council, The White House - Paris C. Kanellakis, Professor, Brown University - Hans Mark, Professor and John J. McKetta Chair, The University of Texas at Austin - Erich Neuhold, Professor, GMD-IPSI, Germany - Raj Reddy, Professor & Dean, School of Computer Science, CMU - Jack Schwartz, Professor, New York University - Peter Sheuermann, Professor, Northwestern University - Avi Silberschatz, Professor, University of Texas at Austin - John Silva, ARPA - Jacob Slonim, Head of Research, Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Canada - Jeffrey D. Ullman, Professor and Chair, Stanford University II. PANELS: ---------- 1.1 Making money on the Internet Panel Coordinator: Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County 1.2 Standards -- Interoperability Panel Coordinators: Elizabeth Fong, NIST Abdelsalam Helal, University of Texas at Arlington 1.3 Manufacturing Panel Coordinator: Steve Ray, NIST 2.1 Federal Program Initiatives in the Computer and Information Sciences Panel Coordinator: Milton Halem, NASA, Representatives from: ARPA, NASA, NSF, DOE and NIST 2.2 Standards for Digital Libraries Panel Coordinator: Rudolf Bayer, University of Munich III. WORKSHOPS: -------------- Four workshops will be held on Friday, December 2. These will begin with a common kick-off dinner on Thursday evening. 1. Geographic Information Systems Workshop Chair: Niki Pissinou, University of SW Louisiana (For more information e-mail: pissinou@cacs.usl.edu) 2. Intelligent Agents Workshop Chair: Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County (For more information e-mail: finin@cs.umbc.edu) 3. Hypertext Workshop Chair: Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County (For more information e-mail: nicholas@cs.umbc.edu) 4. Electronic Commerce Workshop Chairs: Yelena Yesha, NIST and Nabil Adam, Rutgers University (For more information e-mail: yeyesha@cs.umbc.edu, adam@adam.rutgers.edu) IV. REGULAR SESSIONS: -------------------- SESSION 1.1: OBJECT-ORIENTED CONCEPTUAL MODELING ------------------------------------------------ Session Chair: TBA o Modeling Behavior, A Step Towards Defining Functionally Correct Views of Complex Objects in Concurrent Engineering Fawaz S. Al-Anzi and David L. Spooner (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) o Integrating a Part Relationship Into an Open OODB System Using Metaclasses Michael Halper, James Geller, Yehoshua Perl (NJIT) and Wolfgang Klas (GMD-IPSI, Germany) o A Classification Algorithm for Supporting Object-Oriented Views Elke A. Rundensteiner (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) o An Object-Oriented Database Application for HyTime Document Storage Klemens Bohm and Karl Aberer (GMD-IPSI, Germany) SESSION 1.2: QUERY PROCESSING-1 ------------------------------- Session Chair: TBA o An Optimal Graph Traversal Algorithm for Evaluating Linear Binary Chain Programs Yangjun Chen and Theo Harder (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) o TID Hash Joins Robert Marek (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) and Erhard Rahm (University of Leipzig, Germany) o Introducing Semantics in Conceptual Schema Reuse Ana Paula Ambrosio (Laboratoire PRISM, France) o A Case for Reconfigurable Parallel Architectures for Information Retrieval W. Addison Woods, H. Douglas Moser, Ophir Frieder (George Mason University) and Paul B. Kantor (Rutgers University) SESSION 1.3: KNOWLEDGE BASES ---------------------------- Session Chair: TBA o A Storage System for Scalable Knowledge Representation Peter D. Karp, Suzanne M. Paley and Ira Greenberg (SRI International) o Computer Image Retrieval by Features: Selecting the Best Facial Features for Suspect Identification Systems Eric S. Lee (St. Mary's University) and Thom Whalen (Communications Research Centre) o A Lock Method for KBMSs Using Abstraction Relationships' Semantics Fernando de Ferreira Rezende and Theo Harder (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) o Quantitative Evaluation of a Transaction Facility for a Knowledge Base Management System Vinay K. Chaudhri, Vassos Hadzilacos, John Mylopoulos and Kenneth C. Sevcik (University of Toronto) SESSION 1.4: TEXT DATABASES INFORMATION RETRIEVAL-1 ---------------------------------------------------- Session Chair: TBA o Analytical Version Control Management in a Hypertext System Antonina Dattolo and Antonio Gisolfi (Universita Di Salerno) o Query Expansion Using Domain Adapted, Weighted Thesaurus in an Extended Boolean Model Oh-Woog Kwon, Myoung-Cheol Kim and Key-Sun Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Tech.) SESSION 1.5: TRANSACTION PROCESSING-1 -------------------------------------- Session Chair: TBA o Minipage Locking Support for Page-Server Database Management Systems S. Chu and M. Winslett (University of