From: shepherd@cs.dal.ca (Mike Shepherd) Subject: CONF: NFORMATION AS A GLOBAL COMMODITY -- COMMUNICATION, PROCESSING AND USE (CAIS/ACSI'93), Nova Scotia, Canada Date: 15 Apr 93 00:56:51 GMT Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Crossposted from news.announce.conferences PRELIMINARY PROGRAM INFORMATION AS A GLOBAL COMMODITY -- COMMUNICATION, PROCESSING AND USE CAIS/ACSI'93 21st Annual Conference Canadian Association for Information Science St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada 12-14 July 1993 The annual CAIS/ACSI conference provides a national and international forum for the presentation and discussion of research and development in information science. The focus of this year's conference is on information as a global commodity. A description of a half-day tutorial on "Accessing Large Amounts of Text", the preliminary program, and conference registration follow: SUNDAY, July 11, 1993 2-5 TUTORIAL Accessing Large Amounts of Text: Query Languages, Interaction Protocols, and Text Models (Dr. Forbes Burkowski, Univ. of Waterloo) Concise Description of Tutorial (full description available upon request) Recent advances in computer technology (LAN interconnected RISC based computers coupled with arrays of small disks) have provided the economic basis for powerful yet inexpensive distributed computing environments. The key system implementation issues revolve around the theme of client/server architectures with a general trend to implement departmental or enterprise-wide solutions that often displace the mainframe platform in a downsizing exercise. When this client/server environment supports a text retrieval system, the user interface (incorporating some type of query language) runs on the client machine and communicates with one or more retrieval engines each running on a server machine. Many system implementation issues (modularity, ease of modification, etc.) will be aided if this client/server communication adheres to the rigorous specification of a well formulated interaction protocol. This tutorial presents a review of various query languages and interaction protocols (CCL, CD-RDx, and SFQL) now being used in the text retrieval industry. This will be followed by a review of research being done in the area (interaction protocols based on hierarchical text algebras, context-free grammars, etc.). The motivation, history, and architecture of each interaction protocol is presented along with a description of the underlying text model. A comparative analysis of each protocol discusses its suitability for various application domains. Biography of the Presenter Forbes Burkowski is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Unviersity of Waterloo. He has developed text retrieval systems in both the research and commercial sectors. His recent work has concentrated on two areas of research: access methods for structured documents and the modelling of text hierarchies, the objective being to provide a well defined conceptual layer between user interface and lower level access methods. While on sabbatical in 1992, he worked as a Chief Scientist in Text Retrieval for Systemhouse Ltd. While in this position he worked at Dow Jones and Company evaluating software and hardware configurations for their future SuperText news retrieval service. PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM MONDAY, July 12, 1993 9-10:15 Opening Addresses Assesment Indicators and the Impact of Information on Development (Martha Stone, IDRC, Ottawa) 10:30-12 IT in Less-Developed Countries IT Landmarks in Less-Developed Countries: The Chilean Case (R. Baeza-Yates, D. Fuller, J.A. Pino, University of Chile) Developing Modern Information Infrastructure in Africa (J. Abawagy, Dalhousie University) CD-ROM for Agricultural Researchers in Egypt (B. Grainger, McGill University) 1:30-3 Information Technology and Libraries Inter-Institutional Borrowing in Nova Scotia Higher Education Institutes (L. Beltaos, St. Francis Xavier Univ) Evaluating CD_ROM Software: A Model (T. Richards & C. Robinson, Univ. of Western Ontario) New Approach to IBM-PC for Accessing Library CD_ROM Databases via Campus Network (R. Chen & D. Chen, Library of National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) 3:30-5 Communication Communication Technologies and Human Subjectivity (B. Frohmann, Univ. of Western Ontario) How NOT to Market Telecommunications (W. Sheridan, Ottawa) Study of Facilitating Interorganizational Collaboration (R. Inskip, Univ. of Alberta) TUESDAY, July 13, 1993 9-10 Invited Speaker (IT in Nova Scotia, NovaKnowledge) 10:30-12 IT Issues X.500 More then a Global Directory (J. Hong, A. Marshall, M. Bauer, Univ. of Western Ont.) A Study of the Effect of Controlling Flow of Information through Imposition of Statutes (M.A. Williamson, Univ. of Western Ontario) Launching the SnoopGuard PC Access-Control (J. Nash & M. Nash, Ottawa) 1:30-3 Informatics Assumptions in the Naming of Information (H. Olson, Univ. of Alberta) A Note on Maximum Impact factors (R. Rousseau, Belgium) Research Methods Used in Information Science (P. Bernhard, Univ.of Montreal) 3:30-5 Annual General Meeting BANQUET WEDNESDAY, July 14, 1993 9-10 Invited Speaker (Multilingual Access to Document Databases, Steven Pollitt, University of Huddersfield, UK) 10:30-12 Information Retrieval - I Performance in ART1-like Neural Network for Document Clustering (K. MacLeod, Saint Mary's Univ., Halifax) A Multi-Agent Distributed Retrieval System (J. Nie, N. Anquetil, J. Vaucher, Univ. de Montreal) Multimodal Access to Text Data Streams (C. Watters & M. Shepherd, Dalhousie Univ.) 1:30-3 Information Retrieval - II Hypertext Maintenance (R. Robson & T. Guan, Univ. of New Brunswick) Performance Evaluation of Large Text Retrieval Systems (F. Burkowski, Univ. of Waterloo) Fast Adaptive Data Compression for Information Retrieval (M. Nelson, Univ. of Western Ontario) 3:30-5 Information Retireval -III Information Retrieval from MIDI Encoded Music Files (J. Tague-Sutcliffe, Univ.Western Ontario) The Effect of a CD_ROM Interface on Children's Retrieval Performance (J. Beheshti, McGill Univ) VIBE Access to Data Sets (R. Korfhage & B. Pharmanto, Univ. of Pittsburg) Evaluation of Genetic Algorithm Solutions (C. Carrick & K. MacLeod, Saint Mary's Univ., Halifax) CAIS/ACSI '93 -- REGISTRATION TITLE: ______________________________________________ AFFILIATION: ______________________________________________ ADDRESS: ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ PHONE: (area code) ________ (number) ______________ EMAIL: ______________________ FAX: _________________ TUTORIAL REGISTRATION AMOUNT Sunday, July 11, 1993, 2-5p.m. - $50 ________ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION (Includes Banquet) Monday - Wednesday, July 12 - 14, 1993 Member of CAIS/ACSI Before 15 May 1993 - $200 ________ After 15 May 1993 - $225 ________ Non-Member of CAIS/ACSI Before 15 May 1993 - $225 ________ After 15 May 1993 - $250 ________ Student - $130 ________ Day Registration - $100 (12) (13) (14) ________ (Check day) BANQUET INFORMATION Extra Banquet Ticket - $30 X ____ (Number) ________ Children's Menu - $7 X ___ (Number) ________ Meal Choices (Indicate Number) Lobster ____ Chicken _____ Vegetarian ____ TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED (Canadian Dollars) ..................... ________ Please include cheque for the total amount, payable to CAIS/ACSI '93, and return to: Prof. Ernst J. Schuegraf Box 55, St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, Nova Scotia Canada B2G 1C0 Fax: 902-867-5153 email: schuegraf@essex.stfx.ca Accommodation information may be obtained by contacting Prof. Schuegraf.