ECDL98 - Call for Participation and Preliminary Programme

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                        Call for Participation
                                 and
                        Preliminary  Programme
                               for the

    Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for
                            Digital Libraries

    European   European          IEEE       ICS-FORTH    University of
    Union      Research          Computer                Crete
               Consortium for    Society
               Informatics and
               Mathematics

                       19 - 23 September, 1998
                        Knossos Royal Village,
                       Heraklion, Crete, Greece

      Web Page: http://www.csi.forth.gr/2EuroDL
      E-mail: [e-mail]

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    We  cordially   invite you  to  join us    at the  Second European
    Conference  on   Research  and   Advanced  Technology  for Digital
    Libraries, to  be   held at  Heraklion, Crete,  Greece,  September
    19-23. 

    The  conference  opening session  will  take place  at 9.00a.m. on
    Monday the 21th of September 1998  and the final session will take
    place on Wednesday   afternoon,  the 23th of  September  1998. The
    technical  talks  are  complemented  by internationally   renowned
    experts'   invited   presentations and   special  sessions,  panel
    discussions, as well as poster and demonstration sessions. 

    The 7th DELOS Workshop on Electronic Commerce will be held jointly
    with the  Second  European  Conference on  Research  and  Advanced
    Technology. Tutorials will be organized  on the 19th  and  20th of
    September 1998. 

    Please note that early registration deadline is July 31, 1998.  A
    limited number of fellowships   for  the Conference and  also  for
    Tutorials     are  available.  For    more  information, including
    registration and fellowship  application forms, please consult the
    appropriate sections of our conference web pages. 

    Details  concerning the Conference Programme can   be found at the
    conference web page,  under  the 'Conference  Programme'  section,
    http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/programme.html 

    For specific information  please consult the  appropriate sections
    of the conference web pages:
   Paper Sessions - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/accpapers.html
   Panel Sessions - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/panels.html
          Posters - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/posters.html
            Demos - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/demos.html
        Tutorials - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/tutorials.html
 Invited Speakers - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/speakers.html
 Special Sessions - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/sessions.html
 7th DELOS Workshop on Electronic Commerce -
                    http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/Delos-7.html

    Please find attached the Preliminary Conference Programme as  well
    as information on Tutorials  and Paper Sessions,  including titles
    and authors.


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Tutorials
         http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/tutorials.html
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
    Full Day Tutorials
        Visual Information Systems
            by Babu M. Mehtre
        Multimedia Information Retrieval, categorisation, and filtering
            by Pasquale Savino and Fabrizio Sebastiani

    Half Day Tutorials
        Designing Content for the Web of Tomorrow
            World Wide Web Consortium sponsored Tutorial
            by Bert Bos
        Secure Communication and Payments over the Internet
            by Amir Herzberg

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
    Full Day Tutorials
        Internet Technologies for the Digital Library
            by Larry Masinter
        Thesauri for knowledge-based assistance in searching digital libraries
            by Dagobert Soergel
        Metadata for Networked Resources
            by Renato Iannella, Carl Lagoze and Stuart Weibel

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Preliminary Conference Programme       [* implies pending final confirmation]

            http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/programme.html
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                         MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

8:30 - 9:15        Opening Ceremony
    C. Nikolaou, ECDL98 Programme Chair
    G. Arsenis, Minister of Education and Religious Affairs *
    N. Adam, Digital Libraries Technical Committee, IEEE Computer Society
    C. Spiraki, Rector, University of Crete
    E. Economou, Chairman FORTH *
    S. Orphanoudakis, Vice President ERCIM, Director ICS-FORTH

9:15 - 10:30       Plenary Session A
    Invited Speaker:
        D. Ferguson, Chief Architect, Director, Application 
        Development Division, IBM, and IBM Academy, USA

10:30 - 10:45      Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:30      Parallel Session B
    PS B1 - DELOS Workshop
    PS B2 - Special Session
            Organizer: Ann Okerson
    PS B3 - Paper Session: Architectures for DLs
    PS B4 - Paper Session: Image DLs

12:30 - 14:00      Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:30      Plenary Session C
    Invited Speakers:
        J. O'Donnell, Professor of classical studies,
        Vice Provost for Computing, University of Pennsylvania, USA

        A. Friedlander CNRI, Editor of the D-Lib Magazine 
        W. Arms CNRI, Publisher of the D-Lib Magazine 

16:30 - 16:45      Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:40      Parallel Session D
    PS D1 - DELOS Workshop
    PS D2 - Paper Session: Multilinguality
    PS D3 - Paper Session: DL Technologies for Libraries
    PS D4 - Paper Session: Case Studies I
          - Invited Speaker
            Y. Ioannidis, Professor, University of Athens 

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                        TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

8:30 - 10:30      Plenary Session E
    Invited Speakers
        M. Maybury, Advanced Information Systems Center
        The MITRE Corporation 

        E. Gelenbe, Nello L. Teer Jr. Professor and Chair of 
        Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University, USA 

10:30 - 10:45     Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:30     Parallel Session F 
    PS F1 - DELOS Workshop
    PS F2 - Special Session
            Organizer: D. Law
    PS F3 - Paper Session: Case Studies II
          - Invited Speaker
            E. Neuhold, R. Ferber, GMD-IPSI
    PS F4 - Panel Session
            DL Technology for Health Care
            Coordinator: S. Orfanoudakis
          - Paper Session: Navigation and DLs

12:30 - 14:00     Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:15     Plenary Session G
    Keynote Speaker:
        G. Papandreou, Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs, Greece

15:15 - 16:30     Plenary Session H
    Invited Speaker:
        V. Jongeneel, Director, Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics Switzerland 

16:30 - 16:45     Coffee Break

16:45 - 17:45     Parallel Session I
    PS I1 - Panel Session
        Interaction Design in Digital Libraries
        Coordinator: C. Stephanidis
    PS I2 - Panel Session
        Metadata and content-based approaches to resource discovery
        Coordinator: T. Baker and J. Klavan
    PS I3 - Paper Session: IR for DLs

17:45 - 19:10     Parallel Session J
    PS J1 - DELOS Workshop
    PS J2 - Paper Session: Querying in DLs
    PS J3 - Paper Session: Human Computer Interaction for DLs

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                       WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

8:15 - 10:45       Posters and Demos

10:45 - 11:00      Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30      Parallel Session K 
    PS K1 - DELOS Workshop
    PS K2 - Paper Session: Natural Language Processing for DLs
    PS K3 - Panel Session
        Architectures and services for cultural heritage information
        Coordinator: P. Constantopoulos 
    PS K4 - Panel Session
        Federated scientific data repositories for the 
        environment towards global scalable management of 
        environmental information: How useful will they be? What 
        is their potential impact? Shall we save the environment?
        Coordinator: C. Houstis

12:30 - 14:00      Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:15      Plenary Session L
    Panel Session
        EU and US funding policies for Digital Libraries
        Coordinator: C. Nikolaou 

15:30 - 16:45      Plenary Session M
    Panel Session
        Findings of the ESPRIT NSF Working Group on Digital Libraries
        Coordinator: C. Peters

16:45 - 17:00      Closing Remarks
    Serge Abiteboul, ECDL99 Programme Chair


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Paper Sessions

      http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/accpapers.html
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Architectures for Digital Libraries
[Parallel Session B3, Monday 21, 10:45 - 12:30]
Session Chair: S. Haridi, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden 

Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA)
        Sandra Payette, Carl Lagoze
        Cornell University, USA

The Alexandria Digital Library Architecture
        James Frew, Michael Freeston, Nathan Freitas, Linda Hill, Greg Janee, 
        Kevin Lovette, Robert Nideffer, Terence Smith, Qi Zheng 
        University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

A Framework for the Encapsulation of Value-Added Services in Digital Objects
        Manolis Marazakis, Dimitris Papadakis, Stavros A. Papadakis
        University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece

A Management Architecture for Measuring and Monitoring the Behavior of
Digital Libraries
        Sarantos Kapidakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece,
        Sotirios Terzis, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland,
        Jakka Sairamesh, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

Building HyperNavigation Wrappers for Publisher Web-Sites
        Lukas C. Faulstich, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany,
        Myra Spiliopoulou, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany

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Image Digital Libraries
[Parallel Session B4, Monday 21, 10:45 - 12:30]
Session Chair: S. Abiteboul, INRIA, France

Combining Color and Spatial Information for Content-based Image Retrieval
        Ramin Zabih, Jing Huang 
        Cornell University, USA

The Application of Metadata Standards to Video Indexing
        Jane Hunter
        University of Queensland, Australia

Search and Progressive Image Retrieval from Distributed Image/Video
Databases: the SPIRE project
        Vittorio Castelli, Lawrence D. Bergman, Chung-Sheng Li, John R. Smith
        IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA

Improving the Spatial-Temporal Clue Based Segmentation by the use of Rhythm
        Walid Mahdi, Liming Chen, Dominique Fontaine 
        Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France

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Multilinguality
[Parallel Session D2, Monday 21, 16:45 - 18:40]
Session Chair: C. Peters, IEI-CNR, Italy

Multilingual Information Retrieval Based on Document Alignment Techniques
        Martin Braschler, Eurospider Information Technology AG, Switzerland,
        Peter Schauble, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Experimental Studies on an Applet-based Document Viewer for
Multilingual WWW Documents - Functional Extension of and Lessons
Learned from Multilingual HTML 
        Shigeo Sugimoto, Myriam Dartois, Jun Ohta, Shigetaka Nakao,
        Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Koichi Tabata,
        University of Library and Information Science, Japan,
        Akira Maeda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

SIS - TMS A Thesaurus Management System for Distributed Digital Collections
        Martin Doerr, Irini Fountoulaki
        ICS-FORTH, Greece

Parallel Text Alignment
        Charles B. Owen, Michigan State University, USA
        James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Tilmann Steinberg, Dartmouth College, USA

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DL Technologies for Libraries
[Parallel Session D3, Monday 21, 16:45 - 18:40]
Session Chair: I. Solvberg, University of Science and Technology, Norway 

An Analysis of Usage of a Digital Library
        Steve Jones, Sally Jo Cunningham, Rodger McNab
        University of Waikato, New Zealand

ILLUSTRATED BOOK STUDY: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed
Illustrations
        Anne R. Kenney, Cornell University, USA,
        Louis H. Sharpe II, Picture Elements, Inc., USA,
        Barbara Berger, Cornell University, USA

Structuring Facilities in Digital Libraries
        Peter J. Nuernberg, Aarhus University, Germany
        Uffe K. Wiil, Aalborg University, Germany
        John J. Leggett, Texas A&M University, USA

E-Referencer: A Prototype Expert System Web Interface to Online Catalogs
        Christopher Khoo, Soon-Kah Liew,
        Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
        Danny C.C. Poo, Teck-Kang Toh,
        National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Case Studies I
[Parallel Session D4, Monday 21, 16:45 - 18:40]
Session Chair: C. Thanos, IEI-CNR, Italy 

Scientific Workflow Management
Invited Speaker: Prof. Yiannis Ioannidis, University of Athens

The Planetary Data System. A Case Study in the Development and
Management of Meta-Data for a Scientific Digital Library 
        J. Steven Hughes, Susan K. McMahon
        JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA

Performing Arts Data Service - An Online Digital Resource Library
        Steve Malloch, Carola Boehm, Celia Duffy, Catherine Owen,
        Stephen Arnold, Tony Pearson 
        University of Glasgow, UK

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Case Studies II
[Parallel Session F3, Tuesday 22, 10:45 - 12:30]
Session Chair: C. Houstis, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece

Global Info
Invited Speakers: Dr. Erich Neuhold and Dr. Reginald Ferber, GMD-IPSI

Invited Paper [title to be announced shortly]
        Robin Wright
        Online Manager Cinemedia

Invited Paper [title to be announced shortly]
        Richard Paterson
        Head of Information and Education Division, British Film Institute 

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Navigation and DLs
[Parallel Session F4, Tuesday 22, 11:45 - 12:25]
Session Chair: C. Lagoze, Cornell University, USA 

Learning User Communities for Improving the Services of Information Providers
        Georgios Paliouras, Christos Papatheodorou,
        Vangelis Karkaletsis, Costantine Spyropoulos, Victoria Malaveta
        NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Soft Navigation in Product Catalogs
        Markus Stolze
        IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

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IR for DLs
[Parallel Session I3, Tuesday 22, 16:45 - 17:45]
Session chair: P. Schauble, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Mixing and Merging for Spoken Document Retrieval
        Mark Sanderson, University of Massachusetts, USA 
        Fabio Crestani, University of Glasgow, UK

An Integrated Approach to Semantic Evaluation and Content-Based
Retrieval of Multimedia Documents
        A. Knoll, University of Bielefeld,
        C. Altenschmidt, J. Biskup, University of Dortmund,
        H.-M. Blüthgen, University of Technology RWTH Aachen,
        I. Glöckner, University of Bielefeld,
        S. Hartrumpf, H. Helbig, Fernuniversität Hagen,
        C. Henning, University of Technology RWTH Aachen,
        R. Lüling, B. Monien, University of Paderborn,
        T. Noll, University of Technology RWTH Aachen,
        N. Sensen, University of Paderborn,
        Germany

Taiscealai: Information Retrieval from an Archive of Spoken Radio News
        A.F. Smeaton, School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University
        M. Morony, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University
        G. Quinn, School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University
        R. Scaife, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University
        Ireland

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Querying in DLs
[Parallel Session J2, Tuesday 22, 17:45 - 19:05]
Session Chair: H.J. Schek, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 

Semantic Structuring and Visual Querying of Document Abstracts in
Digital Libraries
        Andreas Becks, Stefan Sklorz, 
        Lehrstuhl fur Informatik, RWTH Aachen, Germany,
        Christopher Tresp, 
        LuFG Theoretische Informatik, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Documentation, Cataloging and Query by Navigation: A Practical and
Sound Approach
        F.J.M. Bosman, P.D. Bruza, Th.P. van der Weide, L.V.M. Weusten

Signature File Methods for Semantic Query Caching
        Boris Chidlovskii, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France, 
        Uwe M. Borghoff, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany

Introducing MIRA: a Retrieval Applications' Development Environment
        Jose M. Martinez, Jesus Bescos, Guillermo Cisneros
        Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

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Human Computer Interaction for DLs
[Parallel Session J3, Tuesday 22, 17:45 - 18:45]
Session chair: C. Stephanidis, ICS-FORTH, Greece

Interacting With IDL: The Adaptive Visual Interface
        M. F. Costabile, F. Esposito, G. Semeraro, N. Fanizzi, S. Ferilli
        Universita di Bari, Italy

Evaluating a Visual Navigation System for a Digital Library
        Anton Leouski, James Allan

Visualizing Document Classification: A Search Aid for the Digital Library
        Yew-Huey Liu, Paul Dantzig, and Martin Sachs
        IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA,
        Jim Corey, Mark Hinnebusch and Terry Sullivan
        Florida Center For Library Automation, USA,
        Marc Damashek and Jonathan Cohen
        U.S. Department of Defense, USA

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Natural Language Processing for DLs
[Parallel Session K2, Wednesday 23, 11:00 - 12:20]
Session Chair: S. Weibel, OCLC, USA

A Linguistically Motivated Probabilistic Model of Information Retrieval
        Djoerd Hiemstra
        University of Twente, The Netherlands

The C-value/NC-value method of Automatic Recognition for Multi-Word Terms
        Katerina Frantzi, Sophia Ananiadou, 
        Manchester Metropolitan University, UK,
        Junichi Tsujii,
        University of Tokyo, Japan

Comparing the Effect of Syntactic vs. Statistical Phrase Indexing
Strategies for Dutch
        Wessel Kraaij, 
        Institute of Applied Physics, TNO, The Netherlands,
        Renee Pohlmann,
        Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Reduction of Expanded Search Terms for Fuzzy English-text Retrieval
        Manabu Ohta, University of Tokyo, Japan,
        Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi
        National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan