From petrie@mcc.com Thu Jan 7 16:31:35 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA12137; Thu, 7 Jan 93 16:31:35 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA25957; Thu, 7 Jan 93 10:31:34 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA19920; Thu, 7 Jan 93 10:31:33 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA09896; Thu, 7 Jan 93 10:31:32 CST Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 10:31:31 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Health Care EI Message-Id: Are any of you working on health care enterprise integration? I am. Please let me know of any contacts. Thanks, Charles From neches@ISI.EDU Thu Jan 7 16:35:14 1993 Return-Path: Received: from quark.isi.edu by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA12276; Thu, 7 Jan 93 16:35:14 GMT Received: by quark.isi.edu (5.65c/5.61+local-9) id ; Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:35:12 -0800 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:35:12 -0800 Message-Id: <199301071635.AA22139@quark.isi.edu> From: neches@ISI.EDU (via the vacation program) Subject: away from my mail Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net I'm on vacation 12/21/92 - 1/1/93, and at the International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces in Florida, 1/4/93 - 1/10/93. While on vacation, I will be happily, gloriously unreachable. While in Florida, I can be reached at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel in Orlando. You can also leave a message via Jeanne Beharry (Jeanne@isi.edu) or Kary Lau (Kary@isi.edu), both at 310/822-1511. I'll be calling in, and they can pass messages along to me. I may be checking my mail intermittently. Otherwise, your mail regarding "Health Care EI" will be handled when I return. The next time I'll be in the office will be 1/11/93. -- Bob Neches From juggy@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu Wed Jan 13 04:17:43 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA13765; Wed, 13 Jan 93 04:17:43 GMT Received: from cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu) by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA29560; Tue, 12 Jan 93 22:17:42 CST Received: by cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA00845; Tue, 12 Jan 93 23:17:34 EST From: juggy@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9301130417.AA00845@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> Subject: Workshop announcement To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 23:17:33 EST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL6] Call for Papers 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE) Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) with sponsorships from IEEE Computer Society and AAAI is conducting a workshop on April 20-22, 1993 in Morgantown, WV. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies are sought in the following areas: Virtual Team Support Environments Information Sharing in Distributed Systems Enterprise modeling Process Capture and Characterization Process Re-engineering Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and Team Coordination Requirements, Constraints, Workflow Tracking and Management tools Networked Collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing on Local and Wide Area Networks Capturing design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise Integration Frameworks Instructions for Submitting Papers Papers should be no more than 20 typewritten, double spaced, single-sided pages including all text figures and references. Papers should have a title page that includes the title of the paper; full name, affiliation, physical address, electronic address, and tele- phone number of all authors; authors are encouraged to write a 300 word abstract; and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper's content. You can submit postscript files electronically as well. Deadlines Four (4) Copies of the full paper Jan 22, 1993 Notification of Decisions March 1, 1993 Final Version of the Paper April 1, 1993 Authors of accepted papers will be invited to attend this three day workshop on Enabling technologies. Papers submitted to this workshop will be published as proceedings (in book form) by IEEE Computer press in early summer Workshop Chair: Dr. Ramana Reddy, CERC Program Chair: Dr. V. Jagannathan, CERC CERC Committee: Professor John Callahan Dr. Joe Cleetus Professor Srinivas Kankanahalli Dr. Harshavardhan Karandikar Professor Raghu Karinthi Professor Sumitra Reddy Professor George Trapp Dr. Ralph Wood Program and review committee: Dr. Willam Akin, Institute for Defense Analysis Professor B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University Dr. Anne-Laure Charue, Cap Sesa Industrie, France Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI Professor Prasun Dewan, Purdue Professor Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Columbia Dr. Robert Furick, Institute for Defense Analysis Professor Mark Fox, University of Toronto Mr. Ted Goranson, SAIC Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Dr. R. Kannan, Shadyside Hospital Dr. Kurt Kosanke, ESPRIT Consortitium AMICE Dr. Jintae Lee, MIT Dr. John Lewis, GE Corporate Research and Development Professor Venkat Rangan, University of California, San Diego Professor Duvuru Sriram, MIT Dr. Marty Tennenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technology Professor G. C. Vansteenkiste, University of Ghent, Belgium Dr. Robert Winner, Institute for Defense Analysis Operations (CERC) Finance: Robert Chico Local Arrangements: Dr. John Spears Publicity: Mary Carriger Registration: Sally Robinson Audio-Visual: Larry McLaughlin Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: V. "juggy" Jagannathan Concurrent Engineering Research Center Drawer 2000 P.O. Box 6506 West Virginia University 886 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone : Office: 304-293-7226 Extension: 170 Fax: 304-293-7541 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu From mklein@atc.boeing.com Thu Jan 14 00:07:10 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA14852; Thu, 14 Jan 93 00:07:10 GMT Received: from atc.boeing.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA00882; Wed, 13 Jan 93 18:07:07 CST Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA03004; Wed, 13 Jan 93 16:05:41 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 16:05:41 -0800 Message-Id: <9301140005.AA03004@atc.boeing.com> Sender: mklein@bcsaic.boeing.com To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com From: mklein@atc.boeing.com Subject: CFP: IJCAI-93 Conflict Management Workshop I hope the following CFP is of interest. My apologies if you have already seen it: it appears however that my previous attempt to post this CFP may not have been completely successful. Please feel free to redistribute this CFP as you see fit. Mark Klein -------- Call For Papers =============== IJCAI-93 Workshop on Computational Models of Conflict Management in Cooperative Problem Solving Monday August 30, 1993 Chambery, France Description ----------- A central aspect of cooperative problem solving by groups is the avoidance, detection and resolution of conflicts among the participants. This is of great theoretical interest in such research areas as distributed artificial intelligence. It is also of considerable practical importance because of the key role conflict management plays in cooperative problem solving e.g. in concurrent engineering. Work on conflict management has occurred in a variety of settings including concurrent engineering, multi-agent planning & design, AI and Law, distributed AI (including game theory), GDSS (group decision support systems), CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work), software engineering, sociology, organizational science, public policy and international relations. This work thus includes theoretical groundwork, empirical studies and implemented conflict management systems for human and computational agents. Despite wide-spread interest, however, there have been few opportunities for researchers addressing these issues in different areas to explore commonalities and benefit from the differing insights each have achieved. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate this kind of cross-fertilization process. The workshop will focus on several key themes: * What lessons do empirical studies of conflict management have to offer for the development of computational models? * What are the current theoretical underpinnings for conflict management, and how can they be applied to practical problems? * How can computers support group conflict management with both human and computational participants? What are the benefits and challenges of the different approaches? * What aspects of conflict management are generic and what are domain-specific? Can the same techniques work with human and computational participants? * How do computational models of conflict management fare in real-world social and organisational settings? Through exploring such themes it is hoped the participants will have a better idea about how they can use related work from other areas, and can begin to outline a single general theory of conflict management that works across multiple domains. Workshop Information -------------------- This full day workshop is part of the Workshop Program for IJCAI-93 (the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and will be held in Chambery, France on Monday, August 30, 1993. The workshop will consist of four moderated 75 minute sessions, each made up of: * a brief (5-10 minute) moderators' overview of common themes and key issues * four 10 minute presentations (including questions): presenters will be asked to follow a results-oriented format and to address key issues identified by the moderators. * a discussion panel wherein presenters field questions from the audience and each other. This should be focused on shared issues rather than further explanation of the participant's individual work. Workshop participants will also be invited to display posters describing their work. Please note that each attendee must have registered for the main conference and is required to pay an additional 300 FF (about $60 US) fee for the workshop. IJCAI has offered to exempt the workshop fee for one student attendee if he or she agrees to be in charge of taking notes for the whole day. Please let me know if you are interested. Submissions ----------- Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people of which 16 will be presenters. Those who wish to attend the workshop should submit four copies of a research abstract no more than 5 pages long focusing on the main contribution of their work in preference to general introductory material, literature review etc. All submissions will be reviewed by researchers working in a related area. Please include a brief abstract, the author's electronic and physical address information, and indicate if you would like to display a poster on your work at the workshop. Electronic submissions will be accepted only if they are in pure ascii or binhexed Macintosh Word/MacWrite format. Submission deadline: March 1, 1993 Notification date: April 1, 1993 Final date for revised papers: June 1, 1993 We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the workshop will be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or published collection. Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services PO Box 24346, 7L-64 Seattle, WA 98124-0346 USA mklein@atc.boeing.com Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Organizing Committee -------------------- Steve Easterbrook University of Sussex Easterbrook@cogs.susx.ac.uk Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services mklein@atc.boeing.com Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts lesser@cs.umass.edu Stephen C-Y. Lu University of Illinois lu@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu Katia P. Sycara Carnegie Mellon University katia@cs.cmu.edu -------------------- Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services PO Box 24346, 7L-64 Seattle, WA 98124-0346 Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com From speyer@mcc.com Thu Jan 14 00:12:13 1993 Return-Path: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA15036; Thu, 14 Jan 93 00:12:13 GMT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA20391; Wed, 13 Jan 93 18:12:13 CST Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA12603; Wed, 13 Jan 93 18:12:11 CST Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 18:12:11 CST Message-Id: <9301140012.AA12603@joy.mcc.com> From: speyer@mcc.com (via the vacation program) Subject: away from my mail Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net I will not be reading my mail until Wednesday, January 20th. Your mail regarding "CFP: IJCAI-93 Conflict Management Workshop" will be read when I return. Regards, -Bruce From petrie@mcc.com Thu Jan 14 15:10:28 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA15691; Thu, 14 Jan 93 15:10:28 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA01784; Thu, 14 Jan 93 09:10:25 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA24500; Thu, 14 Jan 93 09:10:19 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA13227; Thu, 14 Jan 93 09:10:18 CST Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 9:10:17 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: hori@trl.vnet.ibm.com Subject: [Masahiro HORI : [planning & scheduling] the first announcement] Message-Id: If you are interested in participating, please reply to: hori@trl.vnet.ibm.com but not to me. Thanks, cp --------------- Received: from turtle.mcc.com by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA12205; Wed, 13 Jan 93 04:21:08 CST Received: from venera.isi.edu by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA12609; Wed, 13 Jan 93 04:21:05 CST Received: from isd9.isi.edu by venera.isi.edu (5.65c/5.65+local-7) id ; Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:09:29 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:55:50 -0800 Posted-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:55:50 -0800 Received: from by isd9.isi.edu (5.65c/4.0.3-4) id ; Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:55:50 -0800 Message-Id: <9301130941.AA13330@ns3.trl.ibm.com> Comment: SRKB Distribution List Originator: srkb-list@isi.edu Errors-To: neches@isi.edu Reply-To: Sender: srkb-list@isi.edu Version: 5.5 -- Copyright (c) 1991/92, Anastasios Kotsikonas From: Masahiro HORI To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [planning & scheduling] the first announcement <<< SRKB subgroup: knowledge sharing for planning and scheduling >>> As a special interest subgroup of SRKB phase II activity, we are looking for ways to facilitate the sharing and reuse of knowledge used in planning and scheduling. Our long-term goal is to enable libraries of formally represented, sharable knowledge. Specifically, we are going to explore representation primitives, which will be a basis for developing tools that share models and exchange knowledge at run time. Since scheduling and planning tasks are found in a variety of application domains such as manufacturing, transportation, and manning, it should be possible to share models of domains and problem-solving processes. Thus, our challenge here is to devise a sharable basis for those knowledge representations, appropriately abstracting activities in particular applications. One of the characteristic features of planning and scheduling is representation of time. Although the ontologies for temporal intervals and relations are rather generic, they will be a good starting point for this subgroup's discussion. Another issue will be the resources that define capacity and capabilities. In the case of production scheduling, a type of machine provides a certain capacity for processing, and an order or an operation may consume an amount of that capacity for a certain period of time. This kind of perspective is relatively common, but further assumptions and commitments must be clarified with respect to the details such as measurement units and representation of attributes associated with resources and consumers, accommodating the differences among representation systems. This message is an invitation for you to participate in the activities of this working group. In accordance with the general strategy of the SRKB phase II activity, which is to collect, analyze, and experiment with ontologies, a possible road map of this subgroup's activities will include the following: * Introduce ongoing projects related to this topic - exchange of short descriptions by email - further exchange of papers * Discuss similarities and differences in those projects - with examples of time, resources ... - clarifying assumptions about the expected scope * Collect several sample planning and scheduling tasks to be described by using ontologies - various testbed examples such as trivial ones, moderate ones, and real cases. Of course, the road map is not restricted to the one above, but can change to accommodate participants' interests. Please note that this working group activity is not intended to establish a standard for knowledge representation in planning and scheduling. One of the main objectives is to capture the rationale underlying the design of related ontologies. Thus, it is feasible that various ontologies coexist, all more or less reflecting their own design decisions. This pose an important research issue that is to accommodate modularized ontologies, clarifying the assumptions and commitments associated with those reusable modules. Ultimately, we plan to conduct a small experiment on translatability among ontologies. Those ontologies may include ones proposed by other special interest subgroups, since some of them may be interrelated. The results will be more practical if subgroups collaborate in appropriate areas. If you are interested in participating, please contact: Masahiro Hori or Donald McKay . CURRENT PROJECTS IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING FOR PLANNING AND SCHEDULING At least three current projects are associated with this special interest subgroup. We would like to call for more related projects. One is the DARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning and Scheduling Initiative (DRPI). DRPI is currently supporting a group of 30 or so researchers in the fields of Planning, Scheduling, Knowledge Representation, Case-based Reasoning, Decision Theory, and Database Management with the objective to build integrated, cooperative knowledge based systems. The initiative is organized around a 12 to 18 month cycle of Integrated Feasibility Demonstrations (IFD) and a 4 to 6 month schedule of Technology Integration Experiments (TIE). Each IFD must demonstrate a significant contribution toward solving a critical problem in the domain of Joint Operations Planning as illustrated by problems posed in planning operations, communications, and transportation in Desert Shield/Desert Storm. The TIEs are focused on demonstrating system interoperability at a smaller scale. Over the past two years, the DRPI Knowledge Representation and Architecture Issue Working Group has been guiding the development of a knowledge specification language and system infrastructure to support these cooperative systems. The Knowledge Representation Specification Language (KRSL) is the results. KRSL outlines an ontology for representing time, measurement, objects and concepts, and planning primitives. A shared domain onotology for Joint Operations Planning is being developed in the the KRSL language. (For more information on KRSL contact Nancy Lehrer, nlehrer@isx.com) The second is the MULTIS project, which has been conducted at Osaka University since 1987. Major efforts have been devoted to development of a task analysis interview system for a general class of scheduling tasks, though the methodology employed is not restricted to scheduling. In the course of the MULTIS project, a set of two-layered ontologies were identified for representing problem solving engines for scheduling and their use in task analysis interview with domain experts. The higher-level ontology represents human problem solving process at the knowledge level and is used for the task analysis interview where it contributes to filling the conceptual gap between the computer and the domain experts. The lower one consists of a set of abstract programs used as building blocks of problem solving engine. The first version of task ontology for scheduling has been edited. (For more information, please contact Riichiro Mizoguchi ) The third is the CAKE project, which has been conducted since 1990. It was started to establish a methodology for configuring problem-solving methods with smaller-grained problem-solving components. A class of scheduling problems is focused on. It is called a job assignment task, which is characterized as a set of four elements: jobs, resources, time range, and constraints. The task can be described as assigning all given jobs to the available resources within a specific time range, while satisfying various constraints. Two kinds of ontology are being designed: one is a task ontology for problem specification; the other is a problem-solving ontology for representing the problem-solving processes. These ontologies are defined in KIF and Ontolingua. (For more information contact Masahiro Hori ) ------------- From petrie@mcc.com Tue Jan 19 14:59:04 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA18838; Tue, 19 Jan 93 14:59:04 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA07584; Tue, 19 Jan 93 08:58:56 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA06358; Tue, 19 Jan 93 08:58:55 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA15883; Tue, 19 Jan 93 08:58:54 CST Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 8:58:53 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net, einet-wigs%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com Subject: ["Don Parsons dfp10%albnydh2.bitnet@uacsc2.albany.edu" : CSPP Press Release] Message-Id: >From the health care list: --------------- Received: from turtle.mcc.com by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA15869; Tue, 19 Jan 93 08:54:39 CST Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA06336; Tue, 19 Jan 93 08:54:34 CST Message-Id: <9301191454.AA06336@turtle.mcc.com> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6371; Tue, 19 Jan 93 09:48:19 EST Received: from PUCC.BITNET (NJE origin LISTSERV@PUCC) by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (LMail V1.1b/1.7e) with BSMTP id 8234; Tue, 19 Jan 1993 09:27:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 09:11:34 EST Reply-To: fam-med@gac.edu Sender: "Hospital Computer Network Discussion Group and Data Base" Comments: Resent-From: "Don Parsons dfp10%albnydh2.bitnet@uacsc2.albany.edu" Comments: Originally-From: Carol Albright <70404.166@CompuServe.COM> From: "Don Parsons dfp10%albnydh2.bitnet@uacsc2.albany.edu" Subject: CSPP Press Release X-To: "HSPNET, Rural Hospital Consulting Network" To: Multiple recipients of list HSPNET-L ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Since we've been earlobe deep discussing networks, here's a press release about work towards a "National Information Infrastructure". The report specifically names health care as one area standing to benefit from an NII. Carol --------------- Forwarded Message --------------- <
> From: Interpersonal Computing and Technology, INTERNET:IPCT%GUVAX.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU Date: Mon, Jan 18, 1993, 9:27 AM Subject: CSPP Press Release From: "Stephen P. Cohen, m.s., m.b.a." The following was released at a press conference today in Washington by the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jenny Carter January 12, 1993 202-783-8627 COMPUTER INDUSTRY CEOS PROVIDE ADMINISTRATION WITH VISION AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE Washington, DC -- Today, the chief executive officers of thirteen leading American computer companies met with members of the Clinton-Gore Administration to discuss their vision and recommendations for a national information infrastructure. The recommendations are outlined in the Computer Systems Policy Project's (CSPP) new report, "Perspectives on the National Information Infrastructure: CSPP's Vision and Recommendations for Action." "We believe the creation of a national information infrastructure must be a national priority, and we are willing to work in partnership with the government to see that it gets done," said John Sculley, chief executive officer of Apple Computer and chairman of CSPP. "The development of an information infrastructure will raise the standard of living for all Americans and enable our country to prosper in a competitive global economy." In its report, CSPP defines the national information infrastructure (NII) as integrating four essential elements: 1) communications networks; 2) computers; 3) information; and 4) people. The report outlines the important benefits an information infrastructure could make possible in the areas of health care, education, and manufacturing. CSPP's report also describes how an NII would significantly improve access to the most up-to-date government information of value to all citizens. And finally, the report identifies a series of actions that can be taken by the Administration, Congress, and industry that will help to make the NII vision a reality. Among its recommendations, CSPP calls upon industry and government to work together to address a range of public policy issues that currently hinder the development of an NII. CSPP recommends the establishment of a National Information Infrastructure Council that would have the responsibility of addressing public policy issues such as access, interoperability, and security. "We as a nation have the opportunity to lay the foundation for a successful and prosperous future," said Sculley. "Through a public-private partnership we can create an infrastructure that will forever change the way we educate our children, train and retrain our workers, earn a living, manufacture products, deliver services of all kinds, and interact with family and friends. The information infrastructure of the future will revolutionize the way individuals relate with one another by enabling us to work together, collaborate, and access and generate information without regard to geographical boundaries." CSPP was formed in 1989 to develop and advocate industry positions on trade and technology policy issues. CSPP's members include the CEOs of Apple, AT&T, Compaq, Control Data Systems, Cray Research, Data General, Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Tandem, and Unisys. Kenneth R. Kay, a partner in the law firm of Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, is executive director. PLEASE NOTE: A 9-MINUTE VIDEO IS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. TO RECEIVE THE VIDEO OR ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE REPORT, PLEASE CALL JENNY CARTER AT (202) 783-8627. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen P. Cohen, m.s., m.b.a. |SteveC@MCES.MsState.Edu Manager, Systems & Networks |Post Office Box 5446 Agricultural Administrative Computing |Mississippi State, MS 39762 Mississippi State University |601-325-3227 From Katia.Sycara@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU Tue Jan 19 15:30:14 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA19066; Tue, 19 Jan 93 15:30:14 GMT Received: from ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA07805; Tue, 19 Jan 93 09:30:11 CST Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 10:18-EST From: Katia.Sycara@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CFP for DAI-93 workshop Message-Id: <727456731/katia@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU> Call for Participation 12th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence Hidden Valley Resort Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania May 19-21, 1993 Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is concerned with the study of knowledge and action as embodied in multiagent intelligent systems that include both humans and computers. More specifically, it is concerned with using computational models to understand coordination in both cooperative and competitive situations. Coordination is necessary to enable efficient resource use, synchronization of agent actions, and informed balancing of decision tradeoffs in achieving agents' goals. The objective of the 12th International Workshop on DAI is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the broader issues of coordinating intelligent agents. Diverse perspectives and approaches are of interest including models of coordination, cooperative distributed problem solving, integration of heterogeneous systems, knowledge representation at social and organizational levels, distributed search and constraint satisfaction, cognitive modeling of multi-agent interactions, coordination support tools. Participation at the Workshop will be by invitation only and will be limited to approximately 40 people. To participate, please submit a technical paper describing original research or significant applications in DAI to the Workshop chair. Preference will be given to work that addresses one or more of the four DAI themes listed below. We specifically discourage the submission of papers in areas such as fine-grained parallelism, hardware or language-level concurrency, and connectionism, because we feel that work in these areas is more appropriate for other workshops. A small number of "interested observers" may also be invited to attend. If you would like to be considered for attendance on this basis, please submit a written request justifying your participation. To encourage participants to relate their work to ongoing themes in DAI beforehand, papers are solicited for (but not strictly limited to) the following themes: 1. Coordination/Collaboration Knowledge: The identification, encoding, and use of generic knowledge for coordination and collaboration. This theme focuses on general knowledge about resolving conflicts, compromising, and cooperating. 2. Coordination as Search: When viewing coordination as a search process, decisions are needed regarding algorithms for conducting the search, heuristics for controlling the search, and protocols for exchanging and updating portions of the search space. This theme broadly includes approaches such as distributed constraint satisfaction search, search for compatible distributed plans, search in cooperative problem-solving and design, negotiation search, and search for appropriate organizational designs. 3. Intelligent Agents in Enterprises and Applications: Embedding DAI systems in computer networks used by people to solve problems allows the automation of both cooperative problem-solving activities (such as distributed interpretation or diagnosis) and coordination activities (such as information filtering or resource allocation). This theme includes issues in identifying suitable applications of DAI technology and in developing DAI agents that interact effectively with people and each other. 4. Modeling Through Communication and Observation in Adversarial and Cooperative Systems: Building and maintaining models of other agents' beliefs, abilities, goals, and plans is crucial for intelligent interaction. Topics in this theme include acquiring modeling information (through communication and plan recognition) and using models to make decisions about communication (deciding whether to tell the truth, eliciting more information) and about other actions. 5. Societies and Organizations of Agents: Viewing the society rather than the agent as the building block on which to base collaborative behavior. Topics in this theme include emergent system behavior, swarm intelligence, organizational schemes, issues in organizational design and redesign, self-adapting organizations. These themes are not mutually exclusive, and we welcome papers that integrate insights from more than one of them. As DAI matures, it is appearing more and more in real-world applications. This welcome development raises the need for engineering principles that will help match particular techniques with kinds of problems. We welcome both theoretical and applied papers, and encourage each to contribute to the development of these principles. Specifically, theoretical papers should explain how their principles and methods can be mapped to applications, while applied papers should explain why they use the techniques that they do and why other approaches are less appropriate for the problem at hand. LOCATION: DAI'93 will be held at the Hidden Valley Resort, Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania. Hidden Valley Resort is 60 miles from Pittsburgh. The participants can arrive by rental car or by shuttle van (price depends on number of participants on a particular ride). The resort offers a variety of activities including, indoor/outdoor pools, whirlpool, sauna, lake fishing and boating, hiking and bike trails, tennis, basketball, volleyball and golf. We'll continue the DAI tradition of a participatory workshop by active practitioners in a setting that offers seclusion, natural beauty, and recreational intermissions. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Papers for review should be a maximum length of 15 pages, in a legible format (font size 11 or 12 pt). Please submit 4 copies to Katia P. Sycara (address below) and indicate on the title page the theme(s) for which the paper is most relevant. Also, please include an electronic mail address for the appropriate contact person along with the submission. DATES: Deadline for paper submissions (4 copies, 15 page max): February 1, 1993. Notification of acceptance: March 20, 1993. Final papers due (for distribution at the Workshop): April 20, 1992. We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the Workshop will be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or in a published collection. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Katia P. Sycara (chair) The Robotics Institute School of Computer Science 5000 Forbes Av. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA. 15213 Tel: (412) 268-8825 FAX: (412) 621-5477 e-mail: katia@cs.cmu.edu Susan Conry, Clarkson University, USA Edmund Durfee, University of Michigan, USA Les Gasser, University of Southern California, USA Frank v. Martial, DETECON, Germany Van Dyke Parunak, Industrial Technology Institute, USA Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew University, Israel Evangelos Simoudis, Lockheed AI Center, USA Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies, USA ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Mark Fox, University of Toronto, Canada Jacques Ferber, LAFORIA, France Mike Huhns, MCC, USA Carl Hewitt, MIT, USA Toru Ishida, NTT, Japan Victor R. Lesser, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Eric Werner, INRIA, France From petrie@mcc.com Wed Jan 20 21:35:31 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA20262; Wed, 20 Jan 93 21:35:31 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA09260; Wed, 20 Jan 93 15:35:24 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA23906; Wed, 20 Jan 93 15:35:13 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA00359; Wed, 20 Jan 93 15:35:12 CST Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 15:35:11 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: mckinney@mcc.com Subject: IEEE Computer - Jan '93 Message-Id: This issue, vol. 26, no. 1, is devoted to concurrent engineering and has several good articles. For this issue, I also wrote a one page description of the ICEIMT conference. It appears on p. 112 as "International Conference Defines Enterprise Integration" and attempts a synopsis of the problem, the EI approach, and the technical results. An earlier draft of this description is available from iceimt-papers under the index "ieee-computer". cp From juggy@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu Tue Jan 26 05:33:59 1993 Return-Path: Received: from cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu) by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22107; Tue, 26 Jan 93 05:33:59 GMT Received: by cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA08138; Tue, 26 Jan 93 00:33:52 EST From: juggy@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9301260533.AA08138@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> Subject: Final Call for WET ICE To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 0:33:51 EST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL6] Final Call for Papers ---------------------- 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE) Extended deadline + Satellite Broadcast information Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) with sponsorships from IEEE Computer Society, AAAI and in cooperation with ACM Sigart is conducting a workshop on April 20-22, 1993 in Morgantown, WV. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies are sought in the following areas: Virtual Team Support Environments Information Sharing in Distributed Systems Enterprise modeling Process Capture and Characterization Process Re-engineering Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and Team Coordination Requirements, Constraints, Workflow Tracking and Management tools Networked Collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing on Local and Wide Area Networks Capturing design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise Integration Frameworks Instructions for Submitting Papers ---------------------------------- Papers should be no more than 20 typewritten, double spaced, single-sided pages including all text figures and references. Papers should have a title page that includes the title of the paper; full name, affiliation, physical address, electronic address, and tele- phone number of all authors; authors are encouraged to write a 300 word abstract; and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper's content. You can submit postscript files electronically as well. Deadlines --------- Four (4) Copies of the full paper Feb 15, 1993 Notification of Decisions March 8, 1993 Final Version of the Paper April 15, 1993 Authors of accepted papers will be invited to attend this three day workshop on Enabling technologies. Papers submitted to this workshop will be published as proceedings (in book form) by IEEE Computer press in early summer. Satellite Broadcast of one of the workshop panels ------------------------------------------------- A national satellite broadcast on the subject of "Technologies and Organizational Issues for the Collaborative Enterprise" is being planned. We expect the broadcast will be received in at least 25 locations connected to the National Technological University satellite facility. This 2hr long panel is being held on the first day of the workshop. If you would like to find out how to receive this broadcast please contact Mike Lawson at mlawson@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu. Registration information ------------------------ The workshop is primarily for invited participants. The invitees are based on the papers submitted. We expect roughly 70-80 people to actively participate in the discussions. Depending on space constraints and number of papers received we may allow some limited number of attendees who do not submit papers. Decision on this will be made after March 8, 1993. There will be registration fee for the workshop along the following lines: IEEE Members $250 Non members $310 The registration covers: breakfast, lunch and dinner for the duration of the workshop; and proceedings of the workshop. Workshop committee ------------------ Workshop Chair: Dr. Ramana Reddy, CERC Program Chair: Dr. V. Jagannathan, CERC CERC Committee: Professor John Callahan Dr. Joe Cleetus Professor Srinivas Kankanahalli Dr. Harshavardhan Karandikar Professor Raghu Karinthi Professor Sumitra Reddy Professor George Trapp Dr. Ralph Wood Program and review committee: Dr. Willam Akin, Institute for Defense Analysis Professor B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University Dr. Anne-Laure Charue, Cap Sesa Industrie, France Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI Professor Prasun Dewan, Purdue Professor Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Columbia Dr. Robert Furick, Institute for Defense Analysis Professor Mark Fox, University of Toronto Mr. Ted Goranson, SAIC Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Dr. R. Kannan, Shadyside Hospital Dr. Kurt Kosanke, ESPRIT Consortitium AMICE Dr. Jintae Lee, MIT Dr. John Lewis, GE Corporate Research and Development Professor Venkat Rangan, University of California, San Diego Professor Duvuru Sriram, MIT Dr. Marty Tennenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technology Professor G. C. Vansteenkiste, University of Ghent, Belgium Dr. Robert Winner, Institute for Defense Analysis Operations (CERC) Finance: Robert Chico Local Arrangements: Dr. John Spears Publicity: Mary Carriger Registration: Sally Robinson Audio-Visual: Larry McLaughlin Satellite Broadcast: Mike Lawson Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: V. "juggy" Jagannathan Concurrent Engineering Research Center Drawer 2000 P.O. Box 6506 West Virginia University 886 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone : Office: 304-293-7226 Extension: 170 Fax: 304-293-7541 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu From van@hela.iti.org Tue Jan 26 05:38:04 1993 Return-Path: Received: from iti.org (hela.iti.org) by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22255; Tue, 26 Jan 93 05:38:04 GMT Received: by iti.org (5.65b/IDA-1.2.8) id AA08959; Tue, 26 Jan 93 00:41:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 00:41:02 -0500 From: "Van D. Parunak" Message-Id: <9301260541.AA08959@iti.org> Precedence: bulk Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Dear correspondent, I'm out of the office until Friday 29 Jan, and don't expect to read Email before then. If you absolutely need to talk with me before then, leave a message at the Cocoa Beach Hilton, 1-800-526-2609. I'm with the NSF Dynamic scheduling workshop. Van -------- Dr. H. Van Dyke Parunak internet: van@iti.org Scientific Fellow voice: (313) 769-4049 Industrial Technology Institute fax: (313) 769-4064 PO Box 1485, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 From petrie@mcc.com Mon Feb 1 15:26:56 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA25980; Mon, 1 Feb 93 15:26:56 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA18763; Mon, 1 Feb 93 09:26:54 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA03273; Mon, 1 Feb 93 09:26:52 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA05080; Mon, 1 Feb 93 09:26:49 CST Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 9:26:49 CST From: Charles Petrie To: ext-einet%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, einet%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: newton%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, eaton%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com Subject: White House Email !! Message-Id: Remember, "don't overuse this facility". --------------- Received: from turtle.mcc.com by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA04123; Thu, 28 Jan 93 17:22:45 CST Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA05386; Thu, 28 Jan 93 17:22:42 CST Message-Id: <9301282322.AA05386@turtle.mcc.com> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0124; Thu, 28 Jan 93 18:21:03 EST Received: from PUCC.BITNET (NJE origin LISTSERV@PUCC) by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (LMail V1.1b/1.7e) with BSMTP id 8161; Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:21:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:32:25 EST Reply-To: "Hospital Computer Network Discussion Group and Data Base" Sender: "Hospital Computer Network Discussion Group and Data Base" Comments: Resent-From: "Donald F. Parsons MD" Comments: Originally-From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was owner-info-nets@THINK.COM From: "Donald F. Parsons MD" Subject: White House connection? (fwd) X-To: Rural Hospital Consulting Network To: Multiple recipients of list HSPNET-L ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I thought the following might be of interest, but I have *not* verified or tried it. ======================================================================== 72 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 06:39:20 PST From: New Liberation News Service Subject: Email Connection to the White House /* Written 10:57 pm Jan 27, 1993 by peacenet@igc.apc.org in igc:pn.announcemen */ /* ---------- "Email Connection to the White House" ---------- */ From: Subject: Email Connection to the White House >From jsax Wed Jan 27 18:48:18 1993 From: Joel Sax There is now an email connection to the White House: Date: 27 Jan 93 19:28:30 EST From: The White House <75300.3115@CompuServe.COM> To: Joel Sax Subject: Re: Letter on Yugoslavia Message-Id: <930128002830_75300.3115_CHE75-8@CompuServe.COM> Status: R Thank you for your recent electronic mail message to the White House. As soon as practicable it will be sent to the appropriate office for consideration. You should receive a written reply in due course. Unfortunately, we are not yet ready to respond substantively to your message by electronic mail. We appreciate your patience as we implement our new electronic systems. As you know, this is the first time in history that the White House has been connected to the public through electronic mail. We welcome your comments and suggestions for ways to improve your Public Access E-mail program. Regards, Jock Gill Electronic Publishing Public Access E-mail The White House Washington, D.C. 75300.3115@Compuserve.com CLINTON PZ on America Online PS: If you did not include your U.S. mail return address in your message and you want a reply, please send your message again and include that information. Please don't overuse this facility. Joel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Elliott Parker BITNET: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM Journalism Dept. Internet: 3zlufur@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu Central Michigan University Compuserve: 70701,520 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA The WELL: eparker@well.sf.ca.us From petrie@mcc.com Fri Feb 5 15:27:39 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA27421; Fri, 5 Feb 93 15:27:39 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA22021; Fri, 5 Feb 93 09:27:37 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA11284; Fri, 5 Feb 93 09:27:29 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA00223; Fri, 5 Feb 93 09:27:28 CST Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 9:27:26 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: kahn@vault.wustl.edu, rbushko@mr4dec.enet.dec.com, roy%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com Subject: Process Engineering - NY Telephone Message-Id: "Building Networks", __Scientific American__, Nov. 1992, p. 118-120. New York Telephone (Nynex) re-engineered the process of ordering, designing, and installing T1 lines, because of slipping business. It was an informal modeling process done by having all of the participants sit down at a table. Nynex process modeling researchers were used as facilitators. It was a lengthy process. One small change was modification of the order form used by sales reps. It took a year to elicit and coordinate the necessary information. It took six months for the team to recommend to management a new design process. It is taking management somewhat longer to accept and implement the ideas, which involve radical organizational changes. *Simulations* are encouraging, reducing service time from one week to two or three days, using a dozen people rather than 40. There were two major items of interest for enterprise engineers. One is that computer scheduling was eliminated. The process was made more efficient when people coordinated with each other directly. The new emphasis is on finding ways for the computer to facilitate that coordination. (And finding ways to help people learn their jobs.) *But top-down scheduling is out.* The other is the modeling technique. No formal modeling was reported. But there was an interesting approach. The team created a perfect employee -"Melvin" - who could do everything his/her/self. Then they *gradually added assistants.* In this way they derived a rational model of enterprise agents and the information conections between them. This led to the organizational changes and and understanding of communications that would facilitate cooperation. cp From mlb2@gte.com Fri Feb 5 15:28:45 1993 Return-Path: Received: from bunny.gte.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA27476; Fri, 5 Feb 93 15:28:45 GMT Received: from tahoe by bunny.gte.com (5.61/GTEL2.19) id AA27242; Fri, 5 Feb 93 10:28:49 -0500 Received: by tahoe.gtel.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03430; Fri, 5 Feb 93 10:32:29 EST Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 10:32:29 EST From: mlb2@gte.com (Michael Brodie) Message-Id: <9302051532.AA03430@tahoe.gtel.com> Subject: I am out of the office Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net I am out of the office until February 10, 1993. Your mail regarding "Process Engineering - NY Telephone" will be read when I return. If you have something urgent, please contact sec@gte.com (Emon Mortazavi). Best wishes, Michael L. Brodie From speyer@mcc.com Mon Feb 8 15:24:09 1993 Return-Path: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA28273; Mon, 8 Feb 93 15:24:09 GMT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA02082; Mon, 8 Feb 93 09:24:08 CST Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA22024; Mon, 8 Feb 93 09:24:07 CST Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 09:24:07 CST Message-Id: <9302081524.AA22024@joy.mcc.com> From: speyer@mcc.com (via the vacation program) Subject: away from my mail Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net I will not be reading my mail until Wednesday, February 10th. Your mail regarding "Returned mail: Remote protocol error" will be read when I return. or, I can be reached at the Dallas Parkway Hilton, (214)661-3600 attending the TI AIA workshop. Regards, -Bruce From mklein@atc.boeing.com Mon Feb 8 19:04:00 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA28552; Mon, 8 Feb 93 19:04:00 GMT Received: from atc.boeing.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA24167; Mon, 8 Feb 93 13:03:58 CST Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA06434; Mon, 8 Feb 93 11:07:08 -0800 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 11:07:08 -0800 Message-Id: <9302081907.AA06434@atc.boeing.com> Sender: mklein@bcsaic.boeing.com To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: mklein@atc.boeing.com Subject: CFP: IJCAI-93 Conflict Management Workshop Call For Papers =============== IJCAI-93 Workshop on Computational Models of Conflict Management in Cooperative Problem Solving Monday August 30, 1993 Chambery, France Description ----------- A central aspect of cooperative problem solving by groups is the avoidance, detection and resolution of conflicts among the participants. This is of great theoretical interest in such research areas as distributed artificial intelligence. It is also of considerable practical importance because of the key role conflict management plays in cooperative problem solving e.g. in concurrent engineering. Work on conflict management has occurred in a variety of settings including concurrent engineering, multi-agent planning & design, AI and Law, distributed AI (including game theory), GDSS (group decision support systems), CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work), software engineering, sociology, organizational science, public policy and international relations. This work thus includes theoretical groundwork, empirical studies and implemented conflict management systems for human and computational agents. Despite wide-spread interest, however, there have been few opportunities for researchers addressing these issues in different areas to explore commonalities and benefit from the differing insights each have achieved. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate this kind of cross-fertilization process. The workshop will focus on several key themes: * What lessons do empirical studies of conflict management have to offer for the development of computational models? * What are the current theoretical underpinnings for conflict management, and how can they be applied to practical problems? * How can computers support group conflict management with both human and computational participants? What are the benefits and challenges of the different approaches? * What aspects of conflict management are generic and what are domain-specific? Can the same techniques work with human and computational participants? * How do computational models of conflict management fare in real-world social and organisational settings? Through exploring such themes it is hoped the participants will have a better idea about how they can use related work from other areas, and can begin to outline a single general theory of conflict management that works across multiple domains. Workshop Information -------------------- This full day workshop is part of the Workshop Program for IJCAI-93 (the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and will be held in Chambery, France on Monday, August 30, 1993. The workshop will consist of four moderated 75 minute sessions, each made up of: * a brief (5-10 minute) moderators' overview of common themes and key issues * four 10 minute presentations (including questions): presenters will be asked to follow a results-oriented format and to address key issues identified by the moderators. * a discussion panel wherein presenters field questions from the audience and each other. This should be focused on shared issues rather than further explanation of the participant's individual work. Workshop participants will also be invited to display posters describing their work. Please note that each attendee must have registered for the main conference and is required to pay an additional 300 FF (about $60 US) fee for the workshop. IJCAI has offered to exempt the workshop fee for one student attendee if he or she agrees to be in charge of taking notes for the whole day. Please let me know if you are interested. Submissions ----------- Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people of which 16 will be presenters. Those who wish to attend the workshop should submit four copies of a research abstract no more than 5 pages long focusing on the main contribution of their work in preference to general introductory material, literature review etc. All submissions will be reviewed by researchers working in a related area. Please include a brief abstract, the author's electronic and physical address information, and indicate if you would like to display a poster on your work at the workshop. Electronic submissions will be accepted only if they are in pure ascii or binhexed Macintosh Word/MacWrite format. Submission deadline: March 1, 1993 Notification date: April 1, 1993 Final date for revised papers: June 1, 1993 We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the workshop will be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or published collection. Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services PO Box 24346, 7L-64 Seattle, WA 98124-0346 USA mklein@atc.boeing.com Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Organizing Committee -------------------- Steve Easterbrook University of Sussex Easterbrook@cogs.susx.ac.uk Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services mklein@atc.boeing.com Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts lesser@cs.umass.edu Stephen C-Y. Lu University of Illinois lu@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu Katia P. Sycara Carnegie Mellon University katia@cs.cmu.edu -------------------- Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services PO Box 24346, 7L-64 Seattle, WA 98124-0346 Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com From petrie@mcc.com Tue Feb 9 15:45:07 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA28887; Tue, 9 Feb 93 15:45:07 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA25019; Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:45:05 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA13762; Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:23:25 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA01641; Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:18:02 CST Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 9:18:01 CST From: Charles Petrie To: einet%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com Subject: ["Donald F. Parsons MD" : [TimMcN@Think.COM: Don't e-mail White House yet]] Message-Id: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA01562; Tue, 9 Feb 93 07:55:09 CST Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA13236; Tue, 9 Feb 93 07:55:05 CST Message-Id: <9302091355.AA13236@turtle.mcc.com> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8508; Tue, 09 Feb 93 08:54:27 EST Received: from PUCC.BITNET (NJE origin LISTSERV@PUCC) by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (LMail V1.1c/1.7e) with BSMTP id 6579; Tue, 9 Feb 1993 08:54:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 08:50:54 EST Reply-To: "Hospital Computer Network Discussion Group and Data Base" Sender: "Hospital Computer Network Discussion Group and Data Base" Comments: Resent-From: "Donald F. Parsons MD" Comments: Originally-From: Robert L Krawitz Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was owner-info-nets@THINK.COM From: "Donald F. Parsons MD" Subject: [TimMcN@Think.COM: Don't e-mail White House yet] X-To: Rural Hospital Consulting Network To: Multiple recipients of list HSPNET-L ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- As this subject has come up on info-nets, I thought I'd send out this update. January 31, 1993 Important Information RE: E-Mail to the White House Yesterday, I saw several postings related to the E-mail address for the White House. Along with a good number of others, I worked throughout the campaign as part of a network of E-mail volunteers for the Clinton campaign, so I can pass along some important information about that E-mail account. The account is actually the personal compuserve account of Jock Gill. Jock worked hard (along with a handful of programming volunteers, BBS operators, listserver maintainers, and computer sophisticates at places such as Marist College, MIT, San Francisco, Chicago, and elsewhere) during the campaign to put together an E-mail system for national campaigning. The system was later expanded to accommodate all three major Presidential campaigns. It was an innovative, highly successful effort and it played a huge role in getting campaign position statements out to a wide public. Things posted from that address found their way into the virtual reality as the messages got passed along many networks from their original posting. Several weeks before the Inauguration of President Clinton, Jeff Eller was appointed by the President-Elect to have overall charge of establishing something which has never existed--an interactive public access E-mail system into the White House and into other offices of the administration. Jock Gill was then hired by the administration to work under Jeff Eller. Currently, Jock Gill is working in an office located in the Old Executive Office Building across the street from the White House. At this point, he is working alone, without a staff. His current assignment is to use the E-mail system (as during the campaign) to issue official copies of White House statements, the texts of press briefings and press conferences, copies of Executive Orders and Presidential Memos, and the like to the virtual world of E-mail. Since the compuserve box is a regular personal mail box, it gets filled quickly, especially given the high volume of mail now beginning to arrive with the broad dissemination of his address. Those of you who have sent E-mail to that address may well have received an error message stating that the box is full. That's another way of saying it has been overwhelmed. Jock has asked those of us who have been part of the volunteer E-mail team to help him out while he works to get a good interactive system up and running. Basically, he has asked that everyone cooperate and not begin sending a barrage of E-mail to that compuserve address. The White House itself employs a large staff to handle snail mail. Actually, at this point in the development of the White House E-mail system, you will probably get your message through to the administration quicker through ordinary snail mail and telephone. Later, once the administration's E-mail team develops the system they want and need, E-mail contacts should became the easier route. All things in their time. Once the E-mail address was circulated together with the heading the "White House", everyone understandably believed a real system was up and running. Not quite yet. SUGGESTION: Use the compuserve address you have judiciously, reserving it for absolutely vital contacts. Until such time that a real public access White house E-mail system is operational, consider relying on the traditional means of contacting the administration. Given what they had to start with from the previous administration (scratch), I have every reason to expect that Jeff Eller and Jock Gill will work well--and as quickly as possible--to get an interactive system up and running. But it will take time and patience. We can all help them achieve that effort best if we refrain from acting as if that non-existent system were already in place. PLEASE HELP RELAY THIS CONTEXT AND SUGGESTION TO OTHER NETWORKS AND INDIVIDUALS. Thanks. Snail Mail Address and Phone Numbers -- White House White House Numbers: The President (202) 456-1414 White House Comment Line (202) 456-1111 (To register your opinion on an issue) When bill signed or vetoed (202) 456-2226 Vice President (202) 456-2326 (202) 456-7125 Mailing Address: The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington DC 20500 ------ Jon Darling PITT/Johnstown -- January 31, 1993 From petrie@mcc.com Fri Feb 12 17:33:46 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA00827; Fri, 12 Feb 93 17:33:46 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA01562; Fri, 12 Feb 93 11:33:45 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA28920; Fri, 12 Feb 93 11:33:44 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA01509; Fri, 12 Feb 93 11:33:43 CST Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 11:33:42 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: New Papers Cc: newton%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com Message-Id: I have put two new papers in the iceimt-papers archive. One is a new version of an existing paper. It's listed in title.index as: prime. The REDUX' Server The other paper is listed in title.index as: ihcs. Integrated Health Care System Study Requirements This is a paper that attempts to outline the requirements for studying the enterprise integration of a regional hospital system. Tons have been written about this by people in medical informatics. This paper may be slightly naive from that standpoint, but does offer a perspective from the ICEIMT view. Charles PS You can always get a reminder of the instructions for getting papers by sending any message to "iceimt-papers@einet.net". From speyer@mcc.com Mon Feb 22 16:46:11 1993 Return-Path: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA02647; Mon, 22 Feb 93 16:46:11 GMT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA07579; Mon, 22 Feb 93 10:45:52 CST Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA01194; Mon, 22 Feb 93 10:45:51 CST Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 10:45:51 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9302221645.AA01194@joy.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: Society Affiliations Request Hi, There have been no plans or decisions made yet concerning a second ICEIMT. Our sense is that there is support for the idea and a desire to continue the effort to "integrate the integrators". We did agree at the first ICEIMT that the next ICEIMT should take place in Europe on something approaching a semi-annual schedule (i.e., latter part of 1994). We also agreed that EI is inherently multi-disciplinary; bringing together knowledge and activities across a wide spectrum of people and organizations. The first ICEIMT was by invitation-only and included a series of 4 focused workshops, conference, 4 SIGs and publications. It established some important abstract and concrete parameters for effectively making collaborative progress in the area of EI. A key contribution was characterization of the linkages between many of the components that make up an enterprise: people, metrics, organizations, applications, methodologies, environments and system platforms-- which was labelled the "Integration Domain". There are already examples of this body of ICEIMT work being referenced and used by companies and interenterprise standards and project activities. In some cases, there were no people in these examples that participated in the ICEIMT but are proceeding solely from the proceedings and second-hand information. The second ICEIMT (as currently envisioned) would have an open call for papers for the conference and proceedings, and a request for positions for the adjunct workshops. We need to start organizing now to make 1994. The first steps are to figure out the process and the high-level technical objectives/agenda. HOW YOU CAN HELP: We would like to get as many professional societies or standards organizations to affiliate with ICEIMT94 as reasonably possible. The organization would sponsor, advertise, participate in the event, and have an identified means for incorporating the results of the ICEIMT back into its work and membership. If you can liason to one or more organizations please reply to me by electronic mail. Please let us know how your organization structures its event affiliations. If you can't personally coordinate the liason with an organization but would like to recommend groups and people to contact let me know that too. Cheers, Bruce K. Speyer MCC Enterprise Integration Program EMail: speyer@mcc.com 3500 West Balcones Center Drive Voice: 512/338-3668 Austin, TX. 78759-6509 Fax: 512/338-3897 From van@hela.iti.org Mon Feb 22 16:50:32 1993 Return-Path: Received: from iti.org (hela.iti.org) by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA02810; Mon, 22 Feb 93 16:50:32 GMT Received: by iti.org (5.65b/IDA-1.2.8) id AA01596; Mon, 22 Feb 93 11:54:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 11:54:12 -0500 From: "Van D. Parunak" Message-Id: <9302221654.AA01596@iti.org> Precedence: bulk Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Dear correspondent, I'm out of the office until Tuesday 23 Feb, mostly out of the country, and don't expect to read Email before then. Joan Roeske, 313-769-4175, will know where I can be reached. Alternatively, leave voice mail for me at 313-769-4049, and I'll check it occasionally. Van -------- Dr. H. Van Dyke Parunak internet: van@iti.org Scientific Fellow voice: (313) 769-4049 Industrial Technology Institute fax: (313) 769-4064 PO Box 1485, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 From bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Mon Feb 22 23:52:57 1993 Return-Path: Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA03151; Mon, 22 Feb 93 23:52:57 GMT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Mon, 22 Feb 1993 19:18:45 +0000 From: Austin Tate Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 16:58:16 GMT Message-Id: <2727.9302221658@aiai.ed.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Society Affiliations Request Apparently-To: all-iceimt@net.einet.ftp I am away at the moment; I will reply to your message when I return. If the matter needs urgent attention, you may wish to contact my secretary on +44 31 650 2732. Austin Tate From winner@ida.org Wed Feb 24 21:02:23 1993 Return-Path: Received: from ida.org (cs.ida.org) by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA04365; Wed, 24 Feb 93 21:02:23 GMT Received: from omni.ida.org by ida.org (4.1/SMI-DDN) id AA04944; Wed, 24 Feb 93 16:02:13 EST Received: from csed-59.noname by omni.ida.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01263; Wed, 24 Feb 93 16:02:11 EST Received: by csed-59.noname (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00303; Wed, 24 Feb 93 16:02:13 EST Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 16:02:13 EST Message-Id: <9302242102.AA00303@csed-59.noname> From: winner@ida.org (via the vacation program) Subject: away from my mail Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net I will be away from the office for a few days and may not be able to access email. Edna Jordan is my secretary. Her number is 703-845-6615. Her e-mail is jordan@ida.org. ...bob From speyer@mcc.com Fri Feb 26 17:02:05 1993 Return-Path: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA05167; Fri, 26 Feb 93 17:02:05 GMT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA25806; Fri, 26 Feb 93 11:02:04 CST Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA03685; Fri, 26 Feb 93 11:02:03 CST Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 11:02:03 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9302261702.AA03685@joy.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: AIA executive summary For further information concerning the Application Integration Architecture workshop contact Bob Hodges at hodges@lobby.ti.com ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From aia-workshop-request@csc.ti.com Fri Feb 26 10:56:31 1993 From: hodges@lobby.ti.com (R. Hodges) Subject: AIA Summary To: aia-workshop@csc.ti.com Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 10:47:03 CST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL16] Application Integration Architectures Workshop Executive Summary In the last several years, many organizations, including both national and international standards bodies and industrial consortia, have developed a variety of software architectures for application and enterprise integration. These application integration architectures cover a broad spectrum of information technology (IT) including distributed systems, frameworks based on a backplane of services, integrated software engineering environments, repositories, and data management. For some time, there has been a need to somehow insure that emerging de facto and de jure standards for integration architectures will work together. During the week of February 8-12, 1993, forty individuals from twenty-five standards development organizations met in Dallas, Texas, to participate in the first Workshop on Application Integration Architectures. The objective of the workshop was provide a one-stop-shopping forum, until now missing, where individuals active in standardization could meet together to address technical and management problems associated with coordinating the development of a shared vision of a common industry-wide integration architecture. The workshop, coordinated and hosted by Texas Instruments, provided a neutral venue where diverse perspectives could be considered. While individuals attending were not "official" representatives of groups they attend, their participation nevertheless served to provide a "big picture" of the application integration architectures standardization landscape. Workshop attendees included individuals active in industrial consortia, military and government standards groups, and national and international standards bodies (see list below). Some of the groups represented focus on generic software architectures while others focus on architectures for software, electrical and mechanical design, manufacturing, and other domains. While many of the groups develop component standards or families of standards, others profile collections of standards to find collections that work together in an integrated manner. The workshop covered both standards producer and standards customer perspectives. The operating rules, schedules, and scope of the groups vary but their common interest is to set standards for integration technologies. WORKSHOP CONTENT: The workshop began with the vision that standards for managing, sharing and using information assets "enable the integrated enterprise." Workshop participants identified goals leading toward this vision. Our goals are to: (1) provide coordinated IT standards with minimal redundancy and a common vocabulary, (2) minimize the time and cost to establish new IT standards, (3) minimize the time and cost of producing standards-based IT products, and (4) minimize the time and cost of integrating those standards-based products. Substantial time was spent in plenary sessions in which representatives of each group described their group's scope, membership, activities, liaisons, and schedule. This part of the meeting served to insure that each group was aware of complementary groups that might sometimes provide needed solutions to related problems. The remainder of the workshop took on a town hall flavor with long sessions addressing both technical and management topics. The technical sessions focused on data and object models and on plug-and-play, compositional architectures. While there is a requirement to deal with legacy data models, many groups report moving toward object models for a wide range of enterprise needs in integrating information and applications. There is no single standard for object models so several hybrid models are being formulated to add modeling power to subsume other models (e.g., the entity- relationship model). A major integration problem identified at the workshop is the need to share enterprise information represented for different purposes in different object models. One group, X3H7 Object Information Management Technical Committee, is acting as a focal point for comparing different standards' object modeling needs and is working with other groups to develop strategies for evolving IT standards toward compatible, common perspectives on object-based standards that would support improved interoperability of future IT standards-based products. In considering different architectures, we began by noting that some existing IT standards seem to be monolithic compositions of more primitive standards and might better be decomposed. We spent most time on plug-and-play architectures providing common runtime services. These integration architectures promise to make next generation applications easier to develop, since common services will be reused through a shared basis for specifying and requesting services. Problems identified with this approach are: (1) to get most benefit, these architectures must be "open" to allow addition or replacement of services, (2) careful integration is required to achieve openness, and (3) different standards groups and different IT products bundle overlapping collections of services. A first step toward integration is for groups to develop a profile of services and to compare these profiles. Management sessions focused on ways to improve the effectiveness of computer standards development process. Workshop participants identified the need for standards groups and industrial consortia to cooperate more effectively. Some of the roadblocks are: (1) the number of meetings involved, (2) openness of membership, (3) schedule, (4) lack of understanding regarding different groups' missions and modes of operation. Believing that better cooperation could yield complementary, non-overlapping standards that will enable integration, the participants developed a model for interaction among accredited standards committees and industry consortia. The model suggests that consortia should become active members of the relevant standards development organizations, and that they actively promote "interim" standards they are developing in order to accelerate development of evolving formal standards. The model, it was agreed, does not require any new formal standards coordination organization, instead relying on improving the effectiveness of existing "liaison" mechanisms. As a first step, the group developed a snapshot of current standards work and a began work on a roadmap to discover where communications paths among the standards and consortia needed reinforcement or realignment. The workshop provided the overview needed to encourage individuals to work together in forging better relationships between related groups. WORKSHOP RESULTS: Workshop attendees recognized the need for continuing work that was started at this workshop. Several participants volunteered to contribute time or resources to support: 0 a central catalog of groups, listing scope, work items, schedule, liaisons, and, where relevant, brief descriptions of each group's data/object models and services provided. With some analysis, a roadmap showing which group is producing what by when will be available to allow groups to better coordinate their efforts. 0 a central calendar for groups to allow groups to plan overlapping meetings. 0 a second workshop, or "congress," planned for December 1993 to provide continuity and a second chance to build a shared "big picture." A Workshop Report is planned and should be available in late April 1993. AFFILIATIONS OF WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS: Workshop participants included individuals working in the following groups or organizations (in alphabetical order): 1. CALS Industry Steering Group Information Integration Working Group (IIWG) 2. CASE Communique 3. CASE Data Interchange Format (CDIF) 4. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 5. DoD Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) 6. DoD Corporate Information Management (CIM) Initiative 7. International Conference on Enterprise Integration Modeling Technology (ICEIMT) 8. ISO TC184/SC4 Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP) 9. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21/WG3 (Reference Model of Data Management) 10. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG11 (Description of Data for Software Engineering) 11. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 12. Network Management Forum (NMF) 13. North American PCTE Initiative (NAPI) 14. Object Management Group (OMG) 15. Portable Common Interface Set (PCIS) 16. Rapid Response Manufacturing Consortium 17. SEMATECH 18. Navy Next Generation Computing Resources (NGCR) Project Support Environment Standards Working Group (PSESWG) 19. Unix International 20. USAF Integration Toolkit and Methods (ITKM) Program 21. X/Open 22. X3H2 (Database), ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21/WG3 (SQL DBL Rapporteur Group) 23. X3H4 (Information Resource Dictionary System), ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21/WG3 (IRDS Rapporteur Group) 24. X3H6 (CASE Tool Integration Models) 25. X3H7 (Object Information Management) ----- End Included Message ----- From speyer@mcc.com Wed Mar 3 05:10:14 1993 Return-Path: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA06660; Wed, 3 Mar 93 05:10:14 GMT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA08016; Tue, 2 Mar 93 23:10:08 CST Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA05755; Tue, 2 Mar 93 23:10:04 CST Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 23:10:04 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9303030510.AA05755@joy.mcc.com> To: aia-workshop@csc.ti.com, all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net, jzim@kcd.allied.com Subject: CIMOSA publication announcement On Kurt's behalf, I am forwarding to the ICEIMT and AIA distribution lists the Springer-Verlag announcement for the newly available second edition: "CIMOSA: Open System Architecture for CIM" For further information regarding CIMOSA please contact: Kurt Kosanke ESPRIT Consortium AMICE Stockholmer Strasse 7 D-7030 Boeblingen Germany 49/ 7031-27-76-65 FAX 7031-27-66-98 ko@ipa.fhg.de [ My copy of the publication announcement (and thereby yours) does not contain phone or fax contact numbers for the Springer-Verlag publisher. Information for ordering by postal mail is included in this announcement. -BKS ] Springer-Verlag Computer Science Series ESPRIT CONSORTIUM AMICE, Brussels, Belgium (Ed.) "CIMOSA: Open System Architecture for CIM" (Research Reports ESPRIT. Project 688. AMICE. Coed.: Commission of the European Communities. Vol. 1) 1993. 2., rev. and ext. ed. XI, 234 pp. Softcover DM 54,- ISBN 3-540-56256-7 ######### The efficiency of enterprise operation is seriously constrained by the inability to provide the right information, in the right place, at the right time. It is still difficult to access information used or produced by different applications, due to hardware and software incompatibilities of manufacturing and information processing equipment. It is the aim of the ESPRIT project AMICE (European Computer Integrated Manufacturing Architecture) to make the enterprise knowledge base available enterprise-wide. This book reports work carried out in the framework of the ESPRIT project AMICE on CIMOSA (Open System Architecture for Computer Integrated Manufacturing). CIMOSA provides a new approach for enterprise modelling. It is based on a reference architecture for common and consistent enterprise description, a system life cycle definition focusing on model maintenance and update rather than model creation, and an integrating infrastructure for model engineering and execution that enables enterprise operation control and monitoring in heterogeneous environments. This revised second edition significantly extends the specification of CIMOSA in several ways. Constructs for modelling resources and organizational aspects and an extended framework for the integrating infrastructure are presented. A user guide is given for requirements modelling. Case-study examples are used to demonstrate templates for CIMOSA modelling constructs. Finally several AMICE technical reports address specific subjects. January 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please order through your bookseller or: Springer-Verlag Heidelberger Platz 3 W-1000 Berlin 33 F.R.Germany Please send me ______ copies ESPRIT Consortium AMICE (Ed.): "CIMOSA: Open System Architecture for CIM" DM 54,- ISBN 3-540-56256-7 ___ Please bill me Please charge the following credit card: ___ Visa/Barclaycard/BankAmericard ___ Eurocard/Access/MasterCard ___ Diners Club ___ American Express Card Number ____________________________ Expiration Date ________________________ Name ___________________________________ Address ________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Signature_______________________________ Date________________________________1/93 Prices are subject to change without notice. From HUHNS@mcc.com Wed Mar 3 22:19:23 1993 Return-Path: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA07291; Wed, 3 Mar 93 22:19:23 GMT Received: from hippo.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA17031; Wed, 3 Mar 93 16:19:20 CST Received: from cronos.mcc.com by hippo.mcc.com (5.65/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA20540; Wed, 3 Mar 1993 16:15:48 -0600 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 16:18-0600 From: Michael N. Huhns Subject: Program and Registration Info. for ICICIS-93 To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Message-Id: <19930303221812.7.HUHNS@CRONOS.MCC.COM> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT AND COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS ICICIS 93 In Cooperation with: AAAI, ACM Sigart, IEEE, IFIP DC. 12, NGI May 11-14, 1993 Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Conference ============== The purpose of the International Conference on Intelligent & Cooperative Information Systems (ICICIS) is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of research, development and practice in the various forms of intelligent and cooperative processing. The establishment of this forum will contribute towards the evolution of Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems (ICIS), thereby leading to their appreciation by the wider computer science community and their integration into the next generation of information systems. Such information systems consist of a large number of preexisting information repositories and intelligent information agents distributed widely over computer/communication networks. The agents are social in nature and capable of interacting closely to solve common complex problems. Work tasks are defined by one or more agents and are executed by agents acting autonomously, cooperatively, or collaboratively, depending on the resources required to complete the task. In spite of their independence and geographic separation from one another, these agents act as a unified, opportunistic, problem-solving network. In general, we consider the community of local information agents that jointly execute a common task to be a global intelligent information system, viz. the Intelligent and Cooperative Information System. ICIS is a new paradigm in computing, evolving from several currently disjoint technologies. It draws on Database Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed AI (DAI), Distributed Computing, Programming Languages, Software Engineering, and Knowledge Engineering. Other relevant technologies include Cooperative Work, Office Information Systems, and Interoperability. ICIS will result from the appropriate integration of these technologies and the cooperation of researchers and practitioners in them. The ICIS conference is concerned with this paradigm and the concepts, techniques, and tools in support of ICIS. Specifically, the conference provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and for the identification of the potential roles and nature of the emerging notion of ICIS, and examines a wide spectrum of issues related to interdisciplinary research and development in ICIS. It helps assess the state-of-the-art and chart future prospects for ICIS. Topics include applications or research in: o Novel Architectures for ICIS o Advanced Modelling and Reasoning Techniques for Intelligent Information Processing o Knowledge Engineering Techniques in ICIS o Data/Knowledge Representation and Management Techniques for Coordinating Multiple Cooperating Agents o Interoperability Issues in Distributed, Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases o Techniques for Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving o Standards Contributing to ICIS o Transaction Models for Cooperative Information Systems o Models for Computer Supported Cooperative Work o Development and Evolution Support for ICIS o Human-Machine and Human-Human Cooperations through ICIS o Generalizable Application Experiences with ICIS Who Should Attend ================= Due to the relatively wide spectrum of themes addressed in the ICICIS, a number of candidate participant groups can be identified from the commercial and academic worlds. Attendees will acquire knowledge of the state-of-the-art in ICIS (the introduction of artificial intelligence methods in information systems integration though cooperation). Groups who will benefit from attending the conference include: o Technical Managers who face the problems of identifying the key technology required for developing corporate information management strategies within companies. o Technical staff interested in learning about solutions to integration problems faced in a variety of 'real-life' applications. o People from academia who are working in the forefront of theoretical and/or technical developments that are related to intelligent cooperative information systems. o Students wishing to gain a deep understanding of the way in which AI techniques might be introduced in distributed information management systems. Program Information =================== Key-Note Speeches: May 12, 1993 Prof. John Mylopoulos University of Toronto Canada "Towards a Theory of Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems: Information Repositories and Information Agents" Professor Mylopoulos will elaborate on possible ways of developing the technology of Intelligent Information Systems. He will present two solutions, one based on large (possibly preexisting) passive Information Repositories and the other based on small, flexible Information Systems playing the role of specialized agents. May 13, 1993 Prof. Matthias Jarke Technical University of Aachen Germany "Three Aspects of Intelligent Cooperation in the Quality Cycle." Professor Matthias Jarke will discuss how ICIS can assist in the quest for total quality management throughout the product life-cycle in computer-integrated manufacturing environments. Issues including communication/cooperation among heterogeneous resources will be addressed in the context of a real-life industrial application. May 14, 1993 Prof. Robert Meersman Infolab University of Tilburg The Netherlands "Cooperative Information Systems from the Perspective of Knowledge and Software Engineering." Prof. Meersman will treat knowledge-based methods for the reverse engineering of existing informations systems, the problems of common repositories for them, and the need to live with databases that are locally consistent but perhaps globally inconsistent. Special Industrial Session: People from industry have expressed their interest in participating in a panel discussion where problems and prospective strategic decisions in technological break-throughs will be discussed. Currently, scientists from the following companies are expected to participate: Boeing IS Department PTT (Dutch Telecomm) Mitsubishi Japan Lockheed Microsoft GTE Labs Inc. Aircraft Division DSTO Australia Deptartment of Primary Industries, Queensland Shell Petroleum Netherlands ADVANCE ICICIS-93 PROGRAM ========================= TUTORIAL Tuesday Morning-Afternoon, May 11, 1993 "Interoperable Information Systems: Motivations, Status, Challenges, and Approaches" Michael L. Brodie GTE Laboratories, Incorporated, U.S.A. (The tutorial description follows the Technical Program) TECHNICAL PROGRAM Wednesday - May 12, 1993 8:30-10:00 Opening Session Welcome and Introduction: Louis Marinos, Erasmus University Program Overview: Michael Huhns, Mike P. Papazoglou, G. Schlageter Keynote Address: John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto =============== "Towards a Theory of Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems: Information Repositories & Information Agents" 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Two Parallel Sessions Session I: Constructing Intelligent Information Systems o "Methodological Issues in the Design of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems" B. Cheikes University of Linkoeping o "A Multiformalism Approach to Formalize Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems" H. Bachatene and A. Seghrouchni Institute Blaise Pascal o "A Distributed Real-Time Knowledge-Based System and its Implementation using Object-Oriented Techniques" D. Haihong, J. Hughes, and A. David University of Ulster at Jordanstown Session II: Managing Distributed Information o "Integrating Enterprise Information Models in Carnot" Michael N. Huhns, Nigel Jacobs, Tomasz Ksiezyk, Wei-Min Shen, Munindar P. Singh, and Philip E. Cannata MCC o "Contracting Mechanism: A Dynamic and Flexible Way to Integrate Information" Toncan Duong, John Hiller, and Anne Ngu University of New South Wales o "Interschema Knowledge in Cooperative Information Systems" Tiziana Catarci and Maurizio Lenzerini Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Two Parallel Sessions Session III: Coordinating Heterogeneous Agents o "Knowledge about Other Agents in Heterogeneous Dynamic Domains" Kurt Sundermeyer and A. Haddadi Daimler-Benz AG o "Distributed Consensus Mechanisms for Self-Interested Heterogenous Agents" Eitan Ephrati and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Hebrew University o "Physical Ownership and Task Reallocation for Multiple Robots with Heterogeneous Goals" Takahiro Yakoh and Yuichiro Anzai Keio University Session IV: Supporting Human Collaborators o "A Generic Framework for Human Computer Cooperation" Andreas Lux, P. de Greef, F. Bomarius, and Donald D. Steiner DFKI, Kaiserslautern o "A Computer-Supported Cooperative Problem Solving Environment for Examining Communication Effectiveness" Kathleen M. Swigger, Tom Thomas, and Robert Brazile University of North Texas o "A Group Communication Support System" Shogo Nishida and Mie Nakatani Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-5:30 Two Parallel Sessions Session V: Facets of Intelligent Agents o "Adaptation in Open Systems: Reflection as a Backbone" Sylvain Giroux, Alain Senteni, and Guy Lapalme University of Montreal o "Learning Agents for Cooperative Hyperinformation Systems" Akira Namatame National Defense Academy, Yokoshuka o "The Redux Server" Charles Petrie MCC o "Cooperative Argument Dialogues with the Support of Autonomous Agents" G. Staniford, T. Bench-Capon, and P. Dunne University of Liverpool Session VI: Assisting Users o "Intelligent Assistance in Flexible Decisions" C. Wittemann and H. Kunst Utrecht University O "SBC Customer Rating: A Case Study in the Successful Integration of Databases, Knowledge-Based Systems, and Human Judgement" Michael Wolf Swiss Bank Corporation o "Using Temporal Abstractions and Cancellations for Efficiency in Automated Meeting Scheduling" Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee University of Michigan Thursday - May 13, 1993 9:00-10:00 Keynote Address: Prof. Matthias Jarke =============== Technical University of Aachen "Three Aspects of Intelligent Cooperation in the Quality Cycle" 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Two Parallel Sessions Session VII: Negotiation Mechanisms o "Negotiation with Incomplete Information about Worth: Strict versus Tolerant Mechanisms" Gilad Zlotkin and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Hebrew University o "A Negotiation Protocol for Conflict Resolution in Multi-agent Environments" Rumiko Kakehi and Mario Tokoro Keio University o "Reasoning about Goals to Resolve Conflicts" Nancy D. Griffeth and Hugo Velthuijsen Bell Communications Research Session VIII: Cooperating in Design and Development o "Task-Oriented Development of Intelligent Information Systems" John Mylopoulos, Thomas Rose, and Carson Woo University of Toronto O "CODA - a GROUPBASE-System for Cooperative Design Applications" Guido Barbian and Gunter Schlageter Fern Universitaet Hagen o "Role Conflict in Groupware" S. Watt The Open University 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Panel Discussion-1, Chair: Michael L. Brodie Panelists: Matthias Jarke, John Mylopoulos, Mike Papazoglou. 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-5:30 Two Parallel Sessions Session IX: Agent Interactions o "A Planning Algorithm for Distributed Manufacturing" Tibor Gyires and Balakrishnan Muthuswamy Illinois State University o "The Acceptance Relation and the Specification of Communicating Agents" Renata Vieira and A. C. Rocha Costa Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul o "Distributed Objects in a Federation of Autonomous Cooperating Agents" Hamideh Afsarmanesh and F. Tuijnman University of Amsterdam o "O-Raid Experiences and Experiments" B. Bhargava, Y. Jiang, and J. Srinivasan Purdue Univ. Session X: Information Semantics o "Modelling the Real World by Multi-World Data Model" Toncan Duong and John Hiller University of New South Wales o "Declarative Semantics of Interoperable Data and Knowledge Bases" G. Reichwein, J. L. Fiadeiro, and M. Rohen Instituto des Engeharia de Simestas e Computadores o "Detecting Semantic Violations in Generalised Classification Structures" Stephen M. Blott, M. C. Norrie, D. J. Harper, and A.D.M. Walker University of Glasgow o "Application Modelling in Heterogeneous Environments using an Object Specification Language" G. Saake, R. Jungclaus, and T. Hartmann Techn. University of Braunschweig Friday - May 14, 1993 9:00-10:00 Keynote Address: Prof. Robert Meersman =============== Infolab University of Tilburg "Intelligent & Cooperative Information Systems from the Perspective of Knowledge Engineering" 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Two Parallel Sessions Session XI: Distributed Transaction Management o "A Semantic-based Nested Transaction Model for ICIS" Mostafa S. Haghjoo, Mike P. Papazoglou, and Heinz W. Schmidt Australian National University and Queensland University of Technology o "Enforcing Data Dependencies in Cooperative Information Systems" Sridhar Gantimahapatruni and George Karabatis University of Houston o "Cooperating Transactions in a Versioned Database" Minh Ngoc Nguyen and R. Conradi Norwegian Institute of Technology Session XII: Rule Management and Reasoning o "The Reflective Approach for Data-Driven Rules" O. Etzion Technicon o "Restricting Query Relaxation through User Constraints" Terry Gaasterland Argonne National Laboratory o "An Advanced Reasoning Technique Concerning Intelligent Modifications in a Distributed Knowledge Representation Architecture" W. Hower and S. Jacobi University of Koblenz-Landau 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Panel Discussion-2, Chair and Panelists to be announced. TUTORIAL DESCRIPTION ==================== "Interoperable Information Systems: Motivations, Status, Challenges, and Approaches" Michael L. Brodie GTE Laboratories, Incorporated, U.S.A The vision of future information systems (ISs) is compelling. It involves large numbers of heterogeneous, intelligent agents distributed over large computer/communication networks. Tasks will be executed by agents acting autonomously, cooperatively, or collaboratively, depending on the resources required to complete the task (e.g., monitoring many systems of a patient or many stations in a factory). Agents will request and acquire resources (e.g., processing, knowledge, data) without knowing what resources are required, how to acquired them, or how they will be orchestrated to achieve the desired result. A goal of this vision is to be able to use, efficiently and transparently, all computing resources, particularly ISs, that are available on computers in large computer/communications networks. As compelling as the vision may be, problems of legacy systems (i.e., existing systems often developed using, now ancient, technology) are more so, and are certainly more immediate. No matter how great the vision, it will be of little value if it cannot be integrated into the current IS technology base. Milions of currently disjoint ISs/computing resources must be made to cooperate efficiently and transparently. Without cooperation and increased intelligence, the dramatic benefits and massive investments in currently disjoint computing resources may be lost. For example, do you incorporate, into a organisation's new distributed computing architecture, a mission critical, multi-million dollar, multi-million line COBOL system with all its faults and limitations, or simply replace it with a newly re-written system? There is strong evidence that such legacy systems cannot be re-written. In the IS world, demand for new systems and enhancements is outpacing available resources. Maintenance consumes almost all resources, with little left for new development or major enhancements. A challenge here is to develop technology that permits continuous enhancement and evolution of the current, massive investment in ISs. This vision is well on its way to reality. There are a large number of national and international consortia, guidelines, and standards that support initial responses to these requirements. The major software vendors have all announced their support of, and initial products for, distributed computing goals, including: # Open systems (i.e., standard interfaces and architectures) # Client-server computing (with low-cost workstation MIPS) # Distributed computing (including distributed DBMSs) # Advanced flexible user interfaces # Transparent multi-vendor interoperability # Transaction processing # Structured organisation of corporate resources/components # Reliability and maintainability # Reduced communication costs # Single-point program maintenance and upgrading ICIS underly these advances and challenges. This tutorial provides a practical, intuitive, and conceptual understanding of interoperability in terms of case studies (legacy systems), a vision of the future, current trends / approaches, and research challenges. It provides a road map of the new area of interoperability as a basis for understanding ICIS. It addresses such trendy topics as: # Distributed Computing Architectures and Middleware # The Repository # Process Re-Engineering # Re-Use and Reverse Engineering # Corporate Information Repositories # Enterprise Information Architectures and Integration # Legacy System Migration / Evolution # Distributed Databases # Transaction Processing and Monitors # Object-Orientation # Gateways About the Instructor: Dr. Michael L. Brodie heads the Distributed Object Computing Department within the Computer and Intelligent Systems Laboratory Inc., Waltham, Mass. Michael is a trustee of the VLDB Endowment and a member of the ACM SIGMOD Advisory Committee. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems (World Scientific). He is on the editorial advisory board of Information Systems (Pergamon Press), and a reviewer for five information technology journals. Michael has authored over 70 books, journal articles, and refereed conference papers. He is a member of the ACM SIGMOD Advisory Committee (1989-present), and a Trustee of the VLDB Foundation, 1992- present. Michael has been the chairman of numerous SIGMOD, VLDB, IFIP, and special interest activities and has given invited lectures and short courses on Database Technology, Information Engineering, CASE, Integrating AI and Database Technologies, Intelligent Information Systems, and Next Generation Database Technology in over a dozen countries. He has consulted to research advisory organisations of the governments of USA, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Colombia, Brazil, Denmark, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, and the EEC. Program Committee ================= General Conference Chairman: Mike Papazoglou (QUT, Australia) Program Chairs: Michael Huhns (MCC, TX) Guenther Schlageter (Fern Univ. Hagen) Program Committee: Bruce Blum (John Hopkins Univ.) Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY) Patrick Bobbie (Univ. of W. Florida) Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Labs) David Bree (Univ. of Manchester) Michael Brodie (GTE Labs Inc. MA) Edward Durfee (Univ. of Michigan) Les Gasser (USC, Los Angeles) Jaap van den Herik (Univ. of Limburg, Netherlands) John Hughes (Univ. of Ulster) Matthias Jarke (Univ. of Aachen) Peter de Jong (IBM Cambridge Labs) Yahiko Kambayashi (Univ. of Koyoto) Dimitris Karagiannis (FAW - Ulm) Stefan Kirn (Fern Univ. Hagen) Bernd Kraemer (GMD, Bonn -- Fern Univ Hagen) Steven Laufmann (US West Advanced Technologies) Frederick Lochovsky (Hong-Kong UST) Vince Lum (Chin. Univ. Hong Kong) Frank Manola (GTE Labs Inc. MA) Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam) Robert Meersman (Univ. of Tilburg, Netherlands) John Mylopoulos (Univ. of Toronto) Moira Norrie (Univ. of Glasgow) Marek Rusinkiewicz (Univ. of Huston) Jos Schreinemakers (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam) Timos Sellis (Univ. of Maryland) Evangelos Simoudis (Lockheed) Donald Steiner (DFKI, Germany) Susan Urban (Arizona State Univ.) Joe Urban (Arizona State Univ.) John Vittal (GTE-Labs Inc. MA) Ben Wah (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana) Jay Weber (EITECH, Palo Alto) Keith Werkman (IBM, Owengo Labs) John Zeleznikow (La Trobe Univ. Australia) Yelena Yesha (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore) Noshihiko Yoshida (Kuyshu Univ. Japan) Organising Committee ==================== Organising Committee Chairman: Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam) Publicity Chairman: Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY) Local Organisation: E. K. Park (U.S. Naval Academy) Ruud Smit (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam) Proceedings Chair: Patrick Bobbie (University of West Florida) Registration ============ Please Return registration form and fee to: Louis Marinos, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burg. Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands email: Louis.Marinos@ailab.eur.nl Early registrations for the conference have to be received by March 31, 1993. Payments must be remitted by check in Dfl, or $, payable to ICICIS 93. 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From petrie@mcc.com Sun Mar 21 17:08:40 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA11309; Sun, 21 Mar 93 17:08:40 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA01959; Sun, 21 Mar 93 11:08:38 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA03800; Sun, 21 Mar 93 11:08:37 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA09001; Sun, 21 Mar 93 11:08:36 CST Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 11:08:35 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Open System Announcements Message-Id: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: OPEN SYSTEMS Date: 17 Mar 1993 15:14:36 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 193 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1o7f8s$e7j@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> Reply-To: sfrazz@tazman.East.Sun.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: tazman.east.sun.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UNIX LEADERS ANNOUNCE COMMON OPEN SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT Six Companies Agree On Software Technologies And Common Desktop Reinforce Commitment To Open Systems SAN FRANCISCO, UNIFORUM, March 17, 1993 -- Worldwide UNIX system leaders Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corp., The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Univel and UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. today announced their intent to deliver a common open software environment across their UNIX system platforms. This announcement is in response to increased customer demand for consistent technologies across multiple platforms, greater technology choice, increased cost savings and quicker time to market. HP, IBM, SCO, SunSoft, the software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., Univel and USL have defined a specification for a common desktop environment that gives end users a consistent look and feel. They have defined a consistent set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for the desktop that will run across all of their systems, opening up a larger opportunity for software developers. The six companies have each decided to adopt common networking products, allowing for increased interoperability across heterogeneous computers. In addition, they have endorsed specifications, standards and technologies in the areas of graphics, multimedia and object technology, and have announced a working group in the area of systems administration. All of the new specifications, technologies and products will be designed to preserve compatibility with the companies' existing software application environments. Today's announcement is a strong endorsement for the premise of open systems. Under open systems, unencumbered specifications are freely available, independent branding and certification processes exist, multiple implementations of a single product may be created and competition is enhanced. To this extent, the Open Software Foundation (OSF) has agreed to submit the Motif specification and associated support materials to X/Open for incorporation into a future release of X/Open's portability guide, including licensing of the trademark and the branding process. In addition, Novell/Univel have agreed to submit the specification for the NetWare UNIX client to X/Open. Common Desktop Environment The six companies have defined a specification for a common desktop environment that will provide end users with a consistent computing experience and software developers with a consistent set of programming interfaces for the HP, IBM, SCO, SunSoft, Univel and USL platforms. This advanced environment will enable users to transparently access data and applications from anywhere in the netork. The companies plan to publish a preliminary specification for the environment by the end of June, 1993 and will periodically release updates to the industry. They have agreed to submit the specification to X/Open for incorporation into the X/Open portability guide. HP, IBM, Sun and USL will make available an implementation for the common desktop, based on X/Open specifications, in the first half of 1994 that will be openly licensable to the industry. SCO and Univel will strongly participate on the evolution of this common desktop environment. The six companies will host a Developers Conference in early October to give users and software developers details on products and direction. The common desktop environment will incorporate aspects of HP's Visual User Environment (VUE), IBM's Common User Access model and Workplace Shell, OSF's Motif toolkit and Window Manager, SunSoft's OPEN LOOK and DeskSet productivity tools and USL's UNIX SVR4.2 desktop manager components and scalable systems technologies. Specific technologies to be used by the six companies include the X Window System, Version 11, the Motif toolkit and interface and SunSoft's ToolTalk interapplication communication product with an incorporated HP Encapsulator. As most of this environment exists today, the companies will integrate key technologies available in the open marketplace and innovate where appropriate to give users and software developers a consistent UNIX desktop environment. The common desktop environment was demonstrated here today running across five hardware and software platforms. The companies' goal is to preserve compatibility of existing applications written to HP-UX, IBM AIX/6000, SCO Open Desktop, SunSoft Solaris, Univel UnixWare and USL UNIX SVR4.2 as they are evolved from their current desktops to the common desktop environment. Networking In furthering support for heterogeneous computing, HP, IBM, SCO, SunSoft, Univel and USL will sell, deliver and support OSF's DCE, SunSoft's ONC+ and Novell/Univel's NetWare UNIX client networking products. The companies will offer customers greater choice while providing them with a consistent level of support and integration. Users will gain increased interoperability across multiple platforms while continuing to protect their current investments. Individual companies will announce pricing and availability for each of their products at a later date. Graphics To enable consistent implementation of high-performance graphics software and promote wider availability of applications in the marketplace, the companies plan to support a core set of graphics facilities from the X Consortium. These are Xlib/X for basic 2D pixel graphics; Pexlib/PEX for 2D/3D geometry graphics; and XIElib/XIE for advanced imaging. Multimedia The six companies will submit a joint specification for the Interactive Multimedia Association's (IMA) request for technology. This will provide users with consistent access to multimedia tools in heterogeneous environments and enable developers to create next-generation applications using media as data. Object Technology HP, IBM, SCO, SunSoft, Univel and USL are working together to accelerate the development and delivery of object-based technology. They are supporting the efforts of the Object Management Group (OMG) that has developed the Common Object Request Broker (CORBA) standard for distributed object management solutions. The companies will comply with the CORBA specification in their future product implementations. In addition, the companies will work with the OMG to establish common guidelines to simplify developer transition, specify core capabilities for object construction and development, and further the adoption of common testing and certification. Systems Management As more customers move to distributed heterogeneous computing environments, enterprise system management becomes a critical requirement. To this extent, the six companies will form a working group to facilitate the rationalization and rapid acceptance of industry specifications in the systems management arena. The companies will initially focus on the areas of user and group management; software installation and distribution management; software licensing management; storage management; print spooling and distributed file system management. ### 1993 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. and AIX/6000 is a trademark of International Business Machines Corp. NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. OSF, Motif and Open Software Foundation are trademarks of the Open Software Foundation in the U.S. Univel and UnixWare are trademarks of Univel. SCO and SCO Open Desktop are registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Sun Microsystems, Inc. SunSoft, Solaris, ONC+ and ToolTalk are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX and OPEN LOOK are registered trademarks of UNIX System Laboratories in the U.S. and other countries. X/Open is a trademark of X/Open Company Ltd. in the United Kingdom and other countries. All other products or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACTS: Hewlett-Packard Company Lynn Wehner 508-436-5017 IBM, Corp. Kathleen Ryan 914-642-4634 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Zee Zaballos 408-427-7156 SunSoft, Inc. Shernaz Daver 415-336-0678 Univel Melanie King 408-729-2342 UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. Larry Lytle 908-522-5186 ====================================================== Subject: OSF Electronic Flash DARPA SAN FRANCISCO, CA March 17, 1993 - The Open Software Foundation today announced that its Research Institute (RI) has received a three-year, multi-million dollar research contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Air Force Material Command (AFMC) to develop a distributed operating system for high-performance computing. Under this contract the Research Institute will develop prototype versions of OSF/1 incorporating the Mach microkernel technology originally developed by Carnegie Mellon University. The result of this work will be a series of highly modular, distributed operating system prototypes with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust. These systems will be portable across a range of hardware architectures, especially non-shared- memory supercomputers. ========================================================= Subject: OSF Electronic Flash DCE Pricing Open Software Foundation Simplifies Pricing for DCE To Accelerate Widespread Deployment New DCE pricing structure encourages broader adoption, makes DCE much more attractive to low-end market SAN FRANCISCO, March 17, 1993 - The Open Software Foundation today announced a new pricing structure for the OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) that adds pricing options to foster high-volume deployment by system vendors and make DCE more affordable for users. "We have revised our pricing structure to accommodate greater than expected adoption of DCE on high-volume platforms," said Jonathan Gossels, OSF Business Area Manager. "The modifications we've made will help system vendors, ISVs, and end users successfully deploy DCE." OSF is offering several new licensing options that will encourage widespread deployment. After acquiring a full distribution rights license under the new pricing structure, a licensee may * choose an annual paid-up DCE Release 1.0.x Executive option for $500,000 per operating system, which allows unlimited distribution of DCE object code on that operating system for one year * pay a one-time fee of $50,000 to distribute unlimited copies of DCE client/servers object code to application developers to promote availability of distributed applications * choose an annual paid-up option of $100,000 per operating system for unlimited distribution rights of DCE Release 1.0.x Administration Tools object code for DCE clients. In addition, licensees distributing DCE on high-end, low-volume platforms may choose to pay royalties on a per-unit basis. The new DCE source code licensing fee is $25,000 for limited distribution and $250,000 for full distribution rights. A limited distribution license allows use of DCE for in-house development, and full distribution rights allow use of DCE in implementations for commercial shipment. These new prices go into effect May 15, 1993. ====================================================== From goranson@charm.isi.edu Mon Mar 22 00:02:56 1993 Return-Path: Received: from charm.isi.edu by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA11649; Mon, 22 Mar 93 00:02:56 GMT Received: by charm.isi.edu (5.65c/4.1.1-4) id ; Sun, 21 Mar 1993 16:02:54 -0800 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 16:02:54 PST From: Ted Goranson To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Cc: goranson@charm.isi.edu Subject: New status and news Message-Id: EI Friends-- I'm back from wherever I was. I took a couple months to work on some underlying technology for an EI pilot, following the previous work described in the ICEIMT as Sirius-Beta. Toward that end, I am now back with a resuscitated Sirius-Beta Corp. (I had been with SAIC). The numbers and addresses all remain the same with the exception of the fax (now 804/721-0781). My contracted role with AF Mantech has been renewed, so I will be acting in the same role in the next year as in prior years, with a focus on pilots. Some old odds and ends: There were some "non-technical" SWG results which were not appropriate for the proceedings. I collected these into a separate report which avoids the proprietary details. Generally, the topic is market-share oriented with a DoD utility perspective. Bruce will be posting a copy on the server. Also, I am collecting my papers on EI from the SWG process. There appear to be about 3000 items which can be classed as non-proprietary. In my spare time (?), I'm organizing them physically and categorically. About 15% have already been entered into an EndNote reference manager database. This product was chosen because it runs on both PCs and Macs and a read-only version is free. In time, I'll make the database available somehow. In the meanwhile, if there are important papers which you think I might need, please advise me. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- .....| Ted Goranson | | .....| 1976 Munden Pt, Va Beach VA 23457-1227 | ARoarABoaryAlice | .....| 804/426-6704, Fax 804/721-0150 | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From mklein@atc.boeing.com Mon Mar 22 22:17:31 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA13164; Mon, 22 Mar 93 22:17:31 GMT Received: from atc.boeing.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA03433; Mon, 22 Mar 93 16:17:29 CST Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA06607; Mon, 22 Mar 93 14:21:05 -0800 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 14:21:05 -0800 Message-Id: <9303222221.AA06607@atc.boeing.com> Sender: mklein@bcsaic.boeing.com To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: mklein@atc.boeing.com Subject: Final (Revised) CFP: IJCAI Conflict Management Workshop Final Call For Papers (Please Note Revised Submission Requirements) IJCAI-93 Workshop on Computational Models of Conflict Management in Cooperative Problem Solving Monday, August 30, 1993 Chambery, France Description ----------- A central aspect of cooperative problem solving by groups is the avoidance, detection and resolution of conflicts among the participants. Work in this area has occurred in a variety of settings including concurrent engineering, multi-agent planning & design, distributed AI, GDSS (group decision support systems), CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work), software engineering, sociology, organizational science, public policy and international relations. This workshop offers one of the first opportunities for inter-disciplinary discussion in this key area. The workshop will focus on the following themes: What lessons do empirical studies of conflict management have to offer for the development of computational models? What are the current theoretical underpinnings for conflict management, and how can they be applied to practical problems? How can computers support group conflict management with both human and computational participants? What are the benefits and challenges of the different approaches? What aspects of conflict management are generic and what are domain-specific? Can the same techniques work with human and computational participants? How do computational models of conflict management fare in real-world social and organisational settings? Workshop Information -------------------- This full day workshop is part of IJCAI-93 (the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and will be held in Chambery, France on Monday, August 30, 1993. The workshop will consist of four moderated 75 minute sessions, each with four 10 minute presentations followed by a discussion panel. Attendees must have registered for the main conference and are required to pay an additional 300 FF (about $60 US) fee for the workshop. IJCAI will exempt the workshop fee for one student attendee if he or she agrees to be in charge of taking notes for the whole day - please let me know if you are interested. Submission Requirements ----------------------- Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people of which 16 will be presenters. Those who wish to present a paper at the workshop should submit four copies of a research abstract no more than 5 pages long. Those who want to attend the workshop without presenting a paper should send a 1 page description of their research interests. Participants are invited to display a poster on their work. Electronic submissions will be accepted only in pure ascii or binhexed Macintosh Word/MacWrite format. Please include your physical and electronic mail address with your submissions. Submission deadline: April 30, 1993 Notification date: May 31, 1993 Final date for revised papers: June 31, 1993 We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the Workshop will be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or published collection. Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services Building 33-07, MS 7L-44 2760 160th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98008 USA Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com Organizing Committee -------------------- Steve Easterbrook University of Sussex Easterbrook@cogs.susx.ac.uk Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services mklein@atc.boeing.com Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts lesser@cs.umass.edu Stephen C-Y. Lu University of Illinois lu@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu Katia P. Sycara Carnegie Mellon University katia@cs.cmu.edu -------------------- Mark Klein, PhD Boeing Computer Services Building 33-07, Mailstop 7L-44 2760 160th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98008 USA Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com From speyer@mcc.com Wed Mar 24 00:26:17 1993 Return-Path: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA15338; Wed, 24 Mar 93 00:26:17 GMT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA29391; Tue, 23 Mar 93 18:26:14 CST Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA27157; Tue, 23 Mar 93 18:26:12 CST Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 18:26:12 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9303240026.AA27157@joy.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net, janowski@hpl.hp.com Subject: SWG Results Paper Available Ted Goranson writes to all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net: >Some old odds and ends: There were some "non-technical" SWG results >which were not appropriate for the proceedings. I collected these >into a separate report which avoids the proprietary details. >Generally, the topic is market-share oriented with a DoD utility >perspective. Bruce will be posting a copy on the server. This document can be retrieved in either of two ways-- a) FTP access from the internet: % cd % ftp ftp.einet.net login: anonymous password: ftp> cd iceimt/papers ftp> get Background-SWG.ps ftp> quit % lpr Background-SWG.ps [note: Framemaker source is also out there as Background-SWG.mif] b) Retrieval by electronic mail: % mail iceimt@ftp.einet.net get iceimt-papers background-swg.ps [note: "get iceimt-papers title.index" retrieves index of all papers, the subject field is ignored by the automated list/archive server, the document is split and sent as two email messages, strip out the mail headers and merge them into one postscript file then print] Note: The analysis presented within this document produced much of the original rationale for initiating ICEIMT back in 1990/1991-- along with the SWG's analysis of the EI technical issues which were presented by Ted during the ICEIMT discussions and in the proceedings last year. Regards, -Bruce p.s. All four of the ICEIMT SIG reports are now in final draft and the complete report is expected to be published within a few weeks. Notice will be posted to this distribution list upon availability. Contact me directly at speyer@mcc.com for information or if you wish to (immediately) review the document for your SIG. ### Bruce Speyer MCC Enterprise Integration Program EMail: speyer@mcc.com 3500 West Balcones Center Drive Voice: 512/ 338-3668 Austin, TX. 78759-6509 Fax: 512/ 338-3897 From speyer@mcc.com Thu Mar 25 15:50:39 1993 Return-Path: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA16575; Thu, 25 Mar 93 15:50:39 GMT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA21186; Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:50:36 CST Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA28604; Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:50:34 CST Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:50:34 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9303251550.AA28604@joy.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: Information Systems Conferences The following are all announcements (not previously send to all-iceimt) that should be of interest to some of you on the list. For any further information please contact the organizers listed for each event. Regards, -Bruce ######## 1) CFP HICSS - 27 MINITRACK ON INTEGRATED MODELING ENVIRONMENTS 2) CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE December 3 - 5, 1993 Orlando, Florida 3) CIKM '93 -- CALL FOR PAPERS 4) CFP - HICSS 27 - Minitrack on Hypermedia in Information Systems and Organizations 5) CFP - MINITRACK ON MODELLING THE DYNAMICS OF ORGANIZATIONS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS H I C S S - 2 7 6) HICSS-27 Call for Papers for the Information Systems Track 7) Call for Papers and Referees HICSS 27 - MINI-TRACK ON GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 8) Call for Papers HICSS-27 Mini-Track on Multi-media Information ######## >From: rk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS SCIENCES - 27 MINITRACK ON INTEGRATED MODELING ENVIRONMENTS JANUARY 4-7, 1994 Mauai, Hawaii CONFERENCE AIMS AND SCOPE: The purpose of the HICSS conference is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners in computer-based system sciences. Papers are invited for the minitrack on Integrated Modeling Environments. HICSS is one of the key forums for research on model management and modeling environments. An integrated modeling environment (IME) supports the development of models within and across such disciplines as artificial intelligence, database design, information engineering, and management science. We believe that the study of the modeling process, and of the various modeling paradigms employed in these discplines will contribute to a modeling theory. This, in turn, will inform the design and implementation of software environments which facilitate various types of model representation, manipulation, and integration. This mini-track will deal with theoretical and practical issues relevant to model management, and to computer-based modeling environments. Topics of interest are not limited to but include the following: o Model Representation Schemes o Modeling Languages o Visualization of Models o User Processes in Modeling o Model Reusability o User Interfaces for Modeling Environments o Model/Solver Interface Standards o Discrete Event Simulation Model Management o Qualitative Modeling and Reasoning o Modeling Environment Architectures o Industry Case Studies on IME INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Manuscripts should be 22-26 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length. Do not send submissions that are significantly shorter or longer than this. Papers must not have been previously presented or published, nor currently submitted for journal publication. Each manuscript will be subjected to a rigorous refereeing process. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper, full name(s) of its author(s), affiliation(s), complete mailing and electronic address(es), telephone number(s), and a 300- word abstract of the paper. MINITRACK CHAIR: Ramayya Krishnan Information Systems The Heinz School of Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15215 e-mail: rk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu phone: (412) 268-2174 fax: (412) 268-7036 SUBMISSION PROCESS: o Short abstract of intended submission are due by April 1, 1993 o Six copies of the manuscript are due by June 5, 1993. o Notification of accepted papers by August 31, 1993. o Accepted manuscripts, camera ready, are due by October 1, 1993. Please contact me if you are interested in serving as a reviewer for the minitrack. ######## >From ravjaka@ube.ub.umd.edu INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE December 3 - 5, 1993 Orlando, Florida The purpose of the International Academy for Information Management (IAIM) conference is to provide a forum in which researchers and practitioners in information systems can exchange ideas, techniques, and applications of pedagogy and can react to issues with significant pedagogical implications. Call for Papers Proposals for papers and panels are invited for blind review and presentation at the Eight Annual Meeting. Papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in nature and must not have been previously presented or published. Format: Each submission should include a title page and extended abstract or completed paper. The title page should include the title of the paper, full name of its author(s), affiliation(s), complete address(es), and telephone number(s). To facilitate blind review, this information should appear only on the title page. The extended abstract should be a minimum of 500 words (two double spaced pages) and completed papers may not exceed 15 pages including references and figures. Deadlines: Send five (5) copies of each submission (postmarked) by June 1, 1993. Please include a stamped self addressed postcard to acknowledge receipt of the abstract. Notification of accepted papers and panels will be mailed to the first listed author on or before July 15, 1993. For inclusion in the Proceedings, the completed papers must be received on computer disk by September 1, 1993. Completed papers should not exceed 15 single-spaced, word processed pages,including references, tables, endnotes (footnotes should not be used),and figures or exhibits. Proceedings will be distributed at the conference. IAIM is a nonprofit organization funded primarily by registration fees; therefore, all speakers and chairs must register for the conference and are responsible for their own expenses. The 1993 Program Committee of the International Academy for Information Management (IAIM) invites submissions for papers and panel presentations and suggests the following topics. 1. Successful curriculum models which have been developed and/or tested. 2. Planning and implementation of teaching laboratories. 3. Case study or other non-lecture instructional methods. 4. Surveys of industry needs. 5. Evaluation of teaching strategies and methodologies. 6. Investigation of the impact of IS technology on curricula. 7. Theory, research, or case studies which highlight significant organizational and technical issues in the management of information systems and their impact on information systems pedagogy. 8. The internationalization of information systems course -- impact on information systems pedagogy. 9. Incorporating ethical issues in IS curricula. 10. The integration of information systems and functional area courses. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are willing to serve as a reviewer and/or session chair please complete the form below. Send this form to Dr. A. K. Aggarwal at the address listed below. I am interested in serving as a reviewer and/or session chair. You can reach me at: Name: Address: City, State, Zip: Phone: BITNET: IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 1, 1993 Acceptance Notification: July 15, 1993 Final Version Due: September 1, 1993 Send Submissions to: Professor A. K. Aggarwal IQS Department University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201 BITNET: RAVJAKA@UBE ######## >From segev@csr.lbl.gov CIKM '93 -- CALL FOR PAPERS CIKM-93, the second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management will be held November 1-5, 1993 at the Double Tree Hotel in Washington D.C., USA. Like the successful CIKM-92, it will 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. Authors are invited to submit papers, proposals for tutorials and exhibits concerned with theory or practice or both. Papers should be sent to the Program Chair, Dr. Bharat Bhargava, by April 1, 1993. Send email to CIKM-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU to receive an automatic reply with a full copy of the Call for Papers and to CIKM92-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU to receive a copy of the CIKM-92 program. CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November 1 - 5, 1993 Double Tree Hotel, Washington D.C., USA Sponsored by ISCA in cooperation with AAAI, ACM (Pending Approval), IEEE, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The conference provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. Authors are invited to submit papers, proposals for tutorials and proposals for exhibits concerned with theory or practice or both. The focus of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following: Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic data modeling; development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases; automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases especially from raw text; object-oriented DBMS; optimization techniques; transaction management; high performance OLTP systems; security techniques; performance evaluation; hypermedia; unconventional applications; parallel database systems; physical and logical database design; data and knowledge sharing; interchange and interoperability; cooperation in heterogenous systems; domain modeling and ontology-building; knowledge discovery in databases; information storage and retrieval and interface technology. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter containing a list of all authors, their affiliations, telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and fax telephone numbers. Papers should be at most 20 double spaced pages and must include an abstract of 100-150 words with five keywords. All submissions will be reviewed and will be judged with respect to quality and relevance. Authors must submit 7 copies of each paper, tutorial or exhibit proposal to the program chairman: Prof. Bharat Bhargava Department of Computer Science Purdue University West LaFayette, Indiana, 47907 Email: bb@cs.purdue.edu Telephone: +1 (317) 494-6013 Fax: +1 (317) 494-0739 For more information about the conference (as opposed to paper submissions), send e-mail to cikm@cs.umbc.edu STUDENT PAPER AWARD The author of the best student paper will receive an award for his/her submission. To be eligible, the student must be the first author and primary contributor to the paper. The cover letter must identify the paper as a candidate for this competition. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper/tutorial/exhibit submission: April 1, 1993 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 1993 Camera ready papers due: September 1, 1993 STEERING COMMITTEE Bruce Blum Tim Finin Keith Humenik David Jefferson E. K. Park Yelena Yesha GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Tim Finin Yelena Yesha PROGRAM CHAIR Bharat Bhargava PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Nabil Adam Rafael Alonso Jay Gowens Sushil Jajodia P. A. D. De Maine Kia Makki Chris Overton Niki Pissinou EUROPEAN VICE CHAIR Hans Schek AWARD VICE CHAIR Stanley Su PUBLICITY VICE CHAIR Arie Segev LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS VICE CHAIR Keith Humenik TUTORIAL CHAIR Charles Nicholas TREASURER E. K. Park ######## >From mbieber@rnd.stern.nyu.edu *********************************************************************** * C A L L F O R P A P E R S A N D R E V I E W E R S * * 27th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science * * H I C S S - 2 7 * * Minitrack on * * Hypermedia in Information Systems and Organizations * * Maui, Hawaii - January 4-7, 1994 * *********************************************************************** CONFERENCE AIMS AND SCOPE ********************************************** The HICSS conference provides a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners in organizational and computer-based system sciences. We are inviting papers for the minitrack on Hypermedia in Information Systems and Organizations. MINITRACK ************************************************************** Hypertext is both a concept regarding "access" to information and a rapidly growing technology. Hypermedia lies at the crossroads of hypertext and multimedia. Until recently, most successful hypertext and hypermedia implementations have been "monolithic" applications designed specifically to provide a hypermedia-style interface to a particular domain. The hypermedia community is starting to produce models of hypermedia and standards for exchanging hypermedia-linked information. The next stage is to augment the myriad of today's business applications with hypermedia functionality. This should result in new ways to view a system's knowledge and processes conceptually, to navigate among items of interest and analysis stages, to enhance a system's knowledge with comments and relationships, and to target information displays to individual users and their tasks. Indeed, commercial applications are starting to incorporate hypermedia techniques. Introducing hypermedia technology into information systems brings forth a number of organizational issues. How will the organization change with enhanced access to information and the new communication channels this facilitates? How will people's work practices be affected? What kinds of telecommunication networks are needed to support the new organization? How do we evaluate a hypermedia network? In this minitrack we explore the benefits and the challenges that arise as hypermedia support for information systems and work practices grows. We encourage papers that address organizational aspects of hypertext and hypermedia, technical aspects of integration, and both. SUGGESTED TOPICS ******************************************************* - Organizational Impact of Hypertext/Hypermedia - Hypertext/Hypermedia as an Enabling Technology - Integration of Hypertext/Hypermedia into Information Systems - Hypertext/Hypermedia Frameworks and Architectures - Designing Networks to Support Hypertext/Hypermedia - Communicating through Hypertext/Hypermedia - Hypertext/Hypermedia as a Technique for: Accessing and Managing Knowledge Improving Training and Learning Facilitating Teamwork and Collaboration - Applications Addressing These Issues INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS *********************************************** Manuscripts should be 22-26 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length. Do not send submissions that are significantly shorter or longer than this. The published version will be 10 single-spaced pages, inclusive. Papers must not have been previously presented or published, nor currently submitted for publication. Each manuscript will be subjected to a rigorous refereeing process. Manuscripts should have a separate title page that includes the title of the paper, full name(s) of its author(s), affiliations(s), complete mailing and electronic address(es), and telephone number(s). A 300-word abstract should appear on the second page along with the title of the paper. The name(s) of the author(s) should only appear on the separate title page to facilitate the blind review process. MINITRACK CHAIRS ******************************************************* Michael Bieber Tomas Isakowitz New Jersey Inst. of Technology New York University CIS Department Information Systems Department University Heights 44 West 4th Street Newark, NJ 07102-1982 New York, NY 10012-1126 bieber@cis.njit.edu tisakowitz@stern.nyu.edu tel: (201) 596-2681 (212) 998-0833 fax: (201) 596-5777 (212) 995-4228 Feel free to contact either of us with questions! SUBMISSION PROCESS ***************************************************** 4/6/93 Optional extended abstract submitted by e-mail or post to one of the chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content. 4/27/93 Feedback to first author concerning extended abstract. 6/1/93 Send 6 copies of the manuscript to one of the Minitrack chairs. 8/31/93 Notification of acceptance to authors. 10/1/93 Camera-ready manuscripts due for accepted papers. 11/15/93 At least one author must register for conference. REVIEWERS WANTED ******************************************************* Please contact one of us if you are interested in serving as a reviewer for the minitrack. ######## >From Bots@sepa.tudelft.nl CALL FOR PAPERS MINITRACK ON MODELLING THE DYNAMICS OF ORGANIZATIONS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS H I C S S - 2 7 Hawaii International Conference on System Science Maui, Hawaii, January 4-7, 1994 Coordinators ============ Pieter W.G. Bots, Alexander Verbraeck, Henk G. Sol Delft University of Technology. Introduction ============ Dynamics is an inherent characteristic of our society in general and of organizations in particular. It is the dynamic behaviour that enables organizations to react to changes that can originate both within the organization itself and in the environment. It is also this dynamic behaviour that makes it so difficult to analyze and understand problems with respect to organizational performance. Methods and tools are needed to grasp the dynamic aspects of an organization in addition to its structural aspects. The ultimate objective is to improve organizational performance. The scope may vary from the interorganizational or corporate level (macro) via business components and their coordination (meso) to the process level (micro). Research to date has identified many aspects that need to be studied to achieve better organizational performance: business structure, organizational culture, process optimization, change management, strategic decision making, information systems, etc., etc.. For each of these perspectives, specific methods and tools have been developed. Comparison, integration and testing, both conceptually and empirically, of these perspectives and their methods and tools should ultimately lead to a sound methodology for performance improvement of dynamic organizations in a dynamic environment. Subjects ======== This minitrack provides a scientific platform for comparing and integrating both old and new ideas, methods, and tools with a strong emphasis on dynamic aspects. Therefore, original papers are sought on one or more of the following topics: - organizational problem solving - dynamic enterprise modelling - administrative logistics - process, business, and corporate re-engineering - workflow management - interorganizational coordination, such as production or transportation chain logistics - dynamics in information systems development - transferring models for design into actual implementations - coping with resistance to organizational change - transferring models for design into training instruments - methodological aspects of modelling dynamics - diagramming techniques to capture time-related aspects - support tools for any of the phases in organizational problem solving (problem identification, conceptualization, specification, analysis, validation, diagnosis, solution finding, analysis and choice, implementation, evaluation). Instructions for submitting papers ================================== Manuscripts should be 22 - 25 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length. Please, do not send submissions that are significantly shorter or longer than this. The paper must not have been previously presented or published, nor concurrently submitted for journal publication. Each manuscript will be subjected to a rigorous refereeing process. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper, full name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), complete postal and electronic address(es), telephone number(s), and a 300-word abstract of the paper. Deadlines ========= - A 300-word abstract is due by March 15, 1993, but this deadline has been extended to March 22, 1993 (please contact us if you want to submit, but can not hold the deadline). - Eight copies of the manuscript are due by June 1, 1993. - Notification of accepted papers by August 30, 1993. - Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts are due by October 1, 1993. Send submissions and questions to ================================= Dr. Alexander Verbraeck Dr. Pieter W.G. Bots Dept. of Information Systems Dept. of Systems Engineering Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology P.O. Box 356 P.O. Box 5015 2600 AJ Delft, The Netherlands 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Tel 31 (15) 783805 / 784475 Tel 31 (15) 782948 / 787100 Fax 31 (15) 786632 / 787022 Fax 31 (15) 784811 e-mail a.verbraeck@is.twi.tudelft.nl e-mail bots@sepa.tudelft.nl ######## >From: Eileen Subject: HICSS-27 Call for Papers for the Information Systems Track THE 27th ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS SCIENCES JANUARY 4 - 7 1993 INFORMATION SYSTEMS TRACK CALL FOR PAPERS The purpose of the HICSS Conference is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities and applications among academicians and practitioners in the information, computer, and system sciences. HICSS-27 will consist of advanced seminars, tutorials, open forums, task forces, a distinguished guest lecture, and the presentation of accepted manuscripts which emphasize research and development activities in software technology, architecture, and information systems. The best papers, selected by the program committee in each of track, are given an award at the meeting. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among the conference participants because the meeting is conducted in a workshop-like setting. All registrants are expected to attend the entire conference and actively engage in these discussions. The Information Systems Track of HICSS-27 emphasizes three (3) major areas: Collaboration Technology, Organizational Systems & Technology, and Knowledge-Based Systems. In each of these areas is several minitracks. A complete listing with the names of the minitrack coordinators and their e-mail address can be found at the end of this call. Papers are invited that may be theoretical, conceptual or descriptive in nature. Those papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings. HICSS-27 is sponsored by the University of Hawaii in cooperation with the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. The Conference Proceedings are published by the IEEE Computer Society. DEADLINES: June 1 Six (6) copies of the full manuscript to the appropriate minitrack coordinator. The manuscript should be 22-26 pages long including diagrams and references. DO NOT submit the manuscript to more than one minitrack. Manuscripts should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. August 30 Notification of accepted papers. October 1 Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscript to minitrack coordinator with registration form of at least one (1) author. TRACK COORDINATORS: Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. E-mail: sprague@uhunix E-mail: nunamaker@arizbpa sprague@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Track Assistant: Eileen Dennis (706) 613-7807 E-mail: edennis@ugabus MINITRACK COORDINATORS FOR COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY TRACK "GSS" Joseph Valacich Alan Dennis E-mail: valacich@iubacs E-mail: adennisa@uga.cc.uga.edu "Organizational Memory" Joline Morrison Lorne Olfman E-mail: jmorriso@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu E-mail: olfman@clargrad "Facilitation" Peggy Beranek Cathy Beise E-mail: cismmb@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (404) 894-3792 "Applied Group Technology / Application & Implementation" Len Jessup Brad Post E-mail: len_jessup@csucm.edu (206) 557-0433 "Distributed Communication Systems" Laku Chidambaram E-mail: laku@dscience.cba.hawaii.edu "Negotiation Support Systems" Tung Bui Melvin Shakun E-mail: 3867p@navpgs E-mail: mshakun@stern.nyu.edu "Enterprise Analysis / Business Process Re-engineering" Mike McCracken E-mail: mike@cc.gatech.edu "Geographical Information Systems" Martin Crossland Brian E. Mennecke E-mail: mdc299f@smsvma E-mail: bmenneck@iubacs MINITRACK COORDINATORS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY "Creativity/Innovation in IS Organizations " J. Daniel Couger E-mail: jdcouger@colospgs "Organizational Modeling with Object-Oriented Programming" Scott C. McIntyre E-mail: mcintyre@colospgs "Software Quality" Scott C. McIntyre E-mail: mcintyre@colospgs "Modeling the Dynamics of Organizations and Information Systems" Henk G. Sol Alexander Verbraeck E-mail: sol@duticai.tudelft.nl E-mail: winfave@duticai.tudelft.nl "Strategic & Competitive Information Systems " Eric Clemons Michael Row Phone: 215-898-7747 Phone: 215-898-7747 E-mail: clemons@wharton.upenn.edu "Measuring the Effectiveness of Emerging Technologies" Donald Amoroso E-mail: amoroso@colospgs "Global Information Technologies" Paul Gray Marvin Manheim E-mail: grayp@clargrad Phone: 708-491-8678/3465 "Organizational DSS" Sree Nilakanta E-mail: nilakant@iastate.edu MINITRACK COORDINATORS FOR DSS/KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS TRACK "Integrated Modeling Environments" Ramayya Krishnan E-mail: rk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu "Executive Information Systems" Joseph Walls Hugh Watson E-mail: wbaa170@uscmvsa E-mail: hwatson@uga "Logic Modeling" Hemant K. Bhargava E-mail: bhargava@cs.nps.navy.mil "Hypermedia in Information Systems and Organizations" Michael Bieber Tomas Isakowitz E-mail: bieberm@stern.nyu.edu E-mail: tisakowitz@gba.nyu.edu "Expert Systems" David Pingry James Mardsen E-Mail: pingry@arizbpa E-Mail: marsden@ukcc Efraim Turban E-Mail: cfxet@ecncdc "Forecasting Support Systems" Bill Remus Marcus O'Connor E-mail: remus@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu University of New South Wales "Computer-Aided Software Engineering: Tools, Methods, and Implementations" Minder Chen Alan Hevner E-mail: chen@gmuvax.gmu.edu E-mail: ahevner@umdacc.umd.edu chen@gmuvax ahevner@umdacc.umd "Emerging Paradigms for Intelligent Systems" Deepak Kumar E-mail: kumard@cs.buffalo.edu "Information Systems and the Management of Technology" Robert M. Mason E-mail: rmm3@po.cwru.edu "Graph-Based Methods for Analyzing Systems and Organizations" Asit Basu Bob Blanning E-mail: basua@vuctrvax E-mail: BLANNIRW@VUCTRVAX basua@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu "Neural Net Applications in Organizations" Tim Hill Phone: 808-956-6657 E-mail: thill@uhunix "Multi-media Information Systems" Hong-Mei Chen Garcia William Chismar E-mail: garcia@dscience.cba.hawaii.edu E-mail: chismar@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu "Information Sharing and Knowledge Discovery in Large Scientific Databases" Sudha Ram E-mail: ram@bpa.arizona.edu ram@arizbpa ARCHTECTURE TRACK COORDINATORS: Trevor N. Mudge Bruce D. Shriver E-mail: tnm@eecs.umich.edu E-mail: b.shriver@compmail.com SOFTWARE TRACK COORDINATORS: Hesham El-Rewini Ted Lewis E-mail: rewini@unocss.unomaha.edu E-mail: lewis@cs.orst.edu Bruce D. Shriver E-mail: b.shriver@compmail.com BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPUTING TRACK COORDINATOR: Lawrence Hunter E-mail hunter@nlm.nih.gov ================================================================== Eileen Dennis Department of Management, Terry College of Business University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 Phones: 706-613-7807 Fax 706-542-3743 ================================================================== ######## >From GRAYP@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU Call for Papers and Referees 27th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-27) MINI-TRACK ON GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Maui Intercontinental Hotel, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii - January 4-7, 1993 As the nature of global competition intensifies, companies are endeavoring to find new ways of gaining competitive advantage, or, in some cases, simply surviving against intense competition. new forms of organization structures and new types of business strategies are emerging. In many cases, information technology is beginning to play a key role in an organization's global strategy. This track will examine issues in the uses of information technology (IT) in globally-competing organizations (GCO's), including both profit-oriented and non-profit organizations. Typically, such organizations will have major functions in a number of countries, on several continents; but in some cases an organization may have facilities in only a few countries while it is sourcing and/or selling in many countries. Cases where a company is operating in only a few countries can also be useful. All aspects of IT, including information systems and telecommunications, are potentially relevant. Following on the highly-successful sessions at HICSS in 1991, 1992 and 1993, the program this year will examine issues such as: -- How is IT transforming the global marketplace? -- How do applications of IT in global organizations differ from applications in other organizations? -- How is the use of IT transforming globally-competing organizations? -- What are the ethical issues associated with global IT? Papers might explore such topics as: -- the role of interorganizational systems, such as EDI, e-mail, or others -- specific strategies for companies or for regions; including I/T infrastructure strategies, I/T and Europe 1992, computer-supported cooperative work strategies, etc. -- the role of I/T in helping to build a global organization, such as in overcoming cultural, language, or other barriers within an organization -- preparing I/T professionals for the new global role. -- issues facing globally-competing companies and possible or actual I/T applications -- competitive necessities or opportunities for competitive advantage in I/T use -- use of specific I/T options, such as: "teamware," electronic meeting systems, electronic data interchange (ED), intelligent CAD or e-mail systems, teleports, LANS, WANS, video or other multi-media, etc.; but with particular emphasis on the global aspects. -- ethical dilemmas and their solution. Papers are not restricted to these topics. Any quality paper in this area is potentially acceptable; and including overview papers making critical assessments of important management or research issues in this field of global I/T. Papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings, which are published by the Computer Society of the IEEE. HICSS-27 is sponsored by the University of Hawaii, in cooperation with the ACM, the Computer Society of the IEEE and the Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management (PRIISM). Instructions for Submitting Papers 1. Submit six copies of the full paper, consisting of 22-26 double-spaced typewritten pages, including diagrams. Do not send manuscripts that are significantly longer than this. The paper must contain original results and not have been submitted elsewhere while it is being evaluated for acceptance to HICSS. Each manuscript will be put through a rigorous refereeing process. 2. Each paper must have a cover page which includes the title of the paper, full name of all authors and their complete addresses including affiliations, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. The first page of the manuscript should include the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper (but no authors' names, for blind reviewing). DEADLINES: A statement of intent to submit, and a 300-word abstract, is desirable, but not essential, prior to May 7, 1993. We will try to provide quick feedback to the author on this abstract. Six copies of the full paper must be submitted to the mini-track coordinator by June 7, 1993. Notification of accepted papers will be mailed to the author on or before August 30, 1993, after a formal reviewing process. Camera-ready copy of accepted manuscripts will be due no later than October 1, 1993. This deadline will be firm, in order to meet the publication schedule; proceedings will be printed and available to attendees at the conference. All registrations for conference attendance must be received no later than November 15, 1993. Applications received after this deadline may not be accepted for registration due to space limitations. Send paper submissions to: With copy to; Prof. Paul Gray Prof. Marvin L. Manheim Claremont Graduate School ATTN: HICSS Secretary Information Science Management & Strategy Dept. Claremont, CA 91711 J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management tel. (909)621-8565 Northwestern University fax. (909)621-8564 Evanston, IL 60208 Bitnet: GRAYP@CGSVAX.CLARGRAD.EDU tel: (708)491-3465 fax: (708)491-3090 If you have questions or suggestions, contact Paul Gray or Marvin Manheim, Mini-track Co-chairs. ######## >From GARCIA@busadm1.cba.hawaii.edu Thu Mar 4 17:11:46 1993 HICSS-27 CALL FOR PAPERS 27th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Mini-Track on Multi-media Information Systems Maui, Hawaii - January 4-7, 1994 Papers are requested for the HICSS-27 Mini-Track on Multi-media Information systems. The mini-track will provide a forum for presenting and discussing original research addressing the application of multi-media technology to support organizational processes and activities. Submissions may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in nature. Of special interest, however, are 1) papers detailing innovative solutions to significant practical problems, through application of multi-media technology; and 2) theorectical or practical investigations addressing the design and implementation issues of multi-media information systems. Appropriate applications/topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Existing and emerging multi-media applications in organizations; 2. Modeling and design of multi-media information systems; 3. Design of input/output (user interface), processing (operating system extensions), communication (networking), database (storage/compression/retrieval; versioning/backup/recovery) subsystems for multi-media applications; 4. Implementation issues: enabling technologies, infra-structure for multi-media application, standards issues, cost/benefit analysis, measuring effectiveness of multi-media information systems; 5. Integration of multi-media technology into the existing information systems; 6. Tools for supporting multi-media application development; INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS AND DEADLINES: Submissions should include six copies of the full paper. Manuscripts should be 22-26 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length, including figures and tables. Manuscripts should have two title pages. The first one should include title, author name(s), affiliation(s), complete mailing and electronic address(es), and telephone number(s). The second one should include only the title. The first page of the manuscript should include a 300-word abstract of the paper. Deadlines are as follows: Mar 15, 93 Optional abstract submitted by e-mail or post to Mini- Track chair for guidance and indication of appropriate content. Mar 31, 93 Feedback to author concerning abstract. Jun 1, 93 Full papers submitted to Mini-Track chair. Aug 30, 93 Notification of acceptance to authors. Oct 1, 93 Camera-ready manuscripts due for accepted papers AND At least one author must register for conference. Send all correspondence to one of the Mini-Track Co-Chairs below: Prof. Hong-Mei Chen Garcia Prof. William Chismar University of Hawaii University of Hawaii 2404 Maile Way OR 2404 Maile Way Honolulu, HI 96822 USA Honolulu, HI 96822 USA Tel: (808) 956-7286 Tel: (808) 956-7681 E: garcia@dscience.cba.hawaii.edu E: chismar@dscience.cba.hawaii.edu hcgarcia@uhccvx.uhcc.hawaii.edu Fax: (808) 956-9889 Fax: (808) 956-9889 Aloha, Hong-Mei ######## From jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Mar 26 00:26:17 1993 Received: from cccgw.ccc.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA16884; Fri, 26 Mar 93 00:26:17 GMT Received: from zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp by cccgw.ccc.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp (5.65/1.20W) id AA06404; Fri, 26 Mar 93 09:21:54 +0900 Received: by zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp (4.1/6.4J.6-zzzgtw) id AA15379; Fri, 26 Mar 93 09:27:50 JST Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 09:27:50 JST From: Jan Goossenaerts Return-Path: Message-Id: <9303260027.AA15379@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: Workshop announcement DIISM '93 International Workshop THE DESIGN OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING November 8-10, 1993 Sanjoo Kaikan, The University of Tokyo TOKYO, JAPAN ORGANIZED BY Japan Society of Precision Engineering International Federation of Information Processing WG 5.3 CO-SPONSORED BY International Federation for Automatic Control (TC Manuf. Techn.) Information Processing Society of Japan Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Japan Society of Design Engineers (under neg.) Japan Industrial Management Association Japan Institute of Industrial Engineers (under neg.) PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair: H. Yoshikawa (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Co-chairs: S. Narita (Waseda U., Japan) H. Van Brussel (K.U.Leuven,Belgium) Members: R. Akella (CMU, USA) E. Arai (Tokyo Metr. U., Japan) J. Bubenko, jr. (Stockholm U., Sweden) M. Cutkosky (Stanford U., USA) A. Di Leva (U. of Torino, Italy) G. Doumeingts (Bordeaux U.,France) E. Dubois (U. of Namur, Belgium) J. Goossenaerts (U. of Tokyo, Japan) U. Graefe (NRC, Canada) Z. Han (Tsinghua U., P.R. of China) G. Harhalakis (U. of Maryland, USA) C. N. Ho (NTU, Singapore) I. Inoue (Kyoto Sangyo U., Japan) F. Kimura (U. of Tokyo, Japan) A. Kusiak (U. of Iowa, USA) A. Markus (CAI, Hungary) A. Matsumoto (Toyo U., Japan) Y. Matsushita (Keio U., Japan) K. Mertins (IPK, Germany) T. Mizuno (Mitsubishi El., Japan) L. Nemes (CSIRO, Australia) G. Olling (Chrysler, USA) G. Olsson (Lund Inst. of Techn.,Sweden) L.M. Patnaik (IIS Bangalore, India) J. Ranta (TRCF, Finland) A.-W. Scheer (U. Saarlandes, Germany) N. Shiratori (Tohoku U., Japan) O.I. Semenkov (MNIPI, Belarus) T. Simmons (Brit. Aerospace, UK) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki U.,Japan) T. Tomiyama (U. of Tokyo, Japan) S. Umeda (Musashi U., Japan) F. Vernadat (INRIA-Lorraine, France) T. Williams (Purdue U., USA) M. Wozny (Rensselaer, USA) PROBLEM AREA The possible benefits, the external characteristics, and the broad-range requirements of information infrastructure systems for future (intelligent) manufacturing systems are widely known. These infrastructure systems should provide low cost and flexible solutions for the information and communication needs of devices and people who collaborate in engineering and manufacturing processes. They should support concurrent engineering, design, planning, control, diagnosing and maintenance along a value-adding, wealth-creating chain of manufacturing facilities. Today many valuable technologies such as computers, communication networks, manufacturing devices and design tools exist, but the software-based amalgamation of these technologies requires exorbitant investments, inhibiting - at present - the creation of chains of automated factories which can flexibly and with low costs respond to changing demand on worldwide markets. A reason for our failure to build intelligent manufacturing systems today is the lack of understanding and agreement about techniques and methods for: (1) coordinating and systematizing the broad-range information processing requirements; and (2) integrating these requirements into a deeply structured and comprehensive conceptual model. This hampers: (3) the development of an information infrastructure amalgamating the conceptual model and computer/communication technologies; and (4) the development of an intelligent manufacturing system amalgamating the information infrastructure with advanced machine tools and skillful people. GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP The major goal of the workshop is to deepen understanding and agreement about the methods and techniques needed for developing an information infrastructure system for manufacturing systems. Some specific objectives are: (1) To bring together and compare a number of techniques and methods for factory/enterprise modeling that help to grasp the wide scope and to understand the deep structure of information infrastructure systems for manufacturing; (2) To illustrate the methods and techniques by means of non-trivial examples exhibiting a wide scope and deep structure; (3) To identify a number of testbeds for which information infrastructure systems can be developed; (4) To initiate the public domain development of information infrastructure systems for these testbeds; (5) To identify and evaluate existing key-technologies for realizing information infrastructure systems. OUTLINE OF THE WORKSHOP Four types of contributions are invited: (1) Tutorial sessions (1-1.5 hours) explaining methods for coordinating and systematizing information infrastructure requirements for manufacturing systems (examples should be used to illustrate the method at all the relevant levels in the analysis/design). (2) Case-studies (20-40 minutes) presenting operational systems or test-beds in which a number of functions expected from information infrastructure systems are implemented, or can be implemented. (3) Key-technologies: surveys, standards, evaluations, possibilities for integration (20-40 minutes). (4) Other relevant contributions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS The number of participants will be limited to 90. Researchers and professionals from universities and industries are invited to submit contributions. Contributions must be received by June 1, 1993, and should contain different items depending on their type (see Outline of the Workshop): (1) A tutorial contribution should contain: a detailed table of contents; a description of the case-studies used; and an illustrated outline of the design method. (2) A case-study contribution should contain an overview of the system or test-bed describing its architecture, and list the manufacturing devices, functions, technologies (network, database, user-interface, hardware, software) and/or the roles of the human users. All submissions should be complete papers. Those typed (3-4) can be up to 15 double spaced pages long. A separate page should contain: (1) address and email-address/fax-number of the authors; (2) title and abstract of the contribution; (3) the resources required for its presentation (time slot on the workshop; number of pages; overhead projector, slide-projector, video...). Four copies of the contribution must be sent before June 1, 1993. With the notification of acceptance, the author(s) will receive referee reports, and information about the time-slot allocated to their contribution. A camera ready copy for inclusion in the pre-proceedings should be received by October 4, 1993. The proceedings (or selected papers) will be published by Elsevier Science Publisher in the IFIP Transactions series. SCHEDULE June 1, 1993: submission of contributions August 16, 1993: notification of acceptance October 4, 1993: camera ready copy November 8-10, 1993: workshop ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: H. Yoshikawa (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Contact: J. Goossenaerts (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Members: K. Ando (Shibaura I. of Tech.,Japan) R. Sano (Matsushita, Japan) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki U., Japan) E. Arai (Tokyo Metr. U., Japan) Y. Matsumoto (Hitachi Ltd., Japan) T. Mizuno (Mitsubishi El., Japan) T. Taura (U. of Tokyo, Japan) S. Umeda (Musashi U., Japan) ============================================================================== REPLY CARD return to: DIISM 93 C/O Yoshikawa laboratory The University of Tokyo Dept. of Precision Machinery Engineering 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113, JAPAN email: jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp telefax: +81-3-3812-8849 telephone: +81-3-3812-2111 ext. 6481 Please complete and return this form: ============================================================================== name: institution: address: postcode: city: country: telephone: telefax: e-mail: Please check: ============================================================================== O I would like to receive further information and registration forms. Number of copies: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ O I would like to submit a contribution. Tentative title: Co-authors: Kind of contribution: O Tutorial O Case-study O Key-technologies O Others ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ O I would like to receive an order form for the workshop proceedings. ============================================================================== From petrie@mcc.com Mon Mar 29 15:26:02 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA17655; Mon, 29 Mar 93 15:26:02 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA01789; Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:26:01 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA22360; Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:25:59 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA12228; Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:25:59 CST Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 9:25:58 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: KIF, CG, SUMM, and O-O Message-Id: Really good comments on translating between models in different languages at the end. --------------- 1) 27-Mar sowa ; Sat, 27 Mar 1993 19:22:53 -0800 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 19:25:07 -0800 Posted-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 19:25:07 -0800 Received: from by isd9.isi.edu (5.65c/4.0.3-4) id ; Sat, 27 Mar 1993 19:25:07 -0800 Message-Id: <9303280248.AA03984@turing.pacss.binghamton.edu> Comment: List name: SRKB-LIST (do not use email address as name) Originator: srkb-list@isi.edu Errors-To: neches@isi.edu Reply-To: Sender: srkb-list@isi.edu Version: 5.5 -- Copyright (c) 1991/92, Anastasios Kotsikonas From: sowa To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Questions about OO models in logic As a result of the joint meeting between ANSI X3H4 and X3H7, some questions came up about the use of logic, in particular, conceptual graphs and KIF, for defining object models for OO systems. Following is a note that I sent to Elizabeth Fong with brief answers to some of the questions. Mike Genesereth and I are planning to attend the next meeting of X3H7 (the ANSI Committee on Object Information Management) on July 20th in Chicago. We will be discussing these and related questions concerning how CGs and KIF could be used in the OO standards efforts. John Sowa Message 2 -- ********************* Received: from turtle.mcc.com by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA11996; Sat, 27 Mar 93 21:44:47 CST Received: from venera.isi.edu by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA15388; Sat, 27 Mar 93 21:44:39 CST Received: from isd9.isi.edu by venera.isi.edu (5.65c/5.65+local-8) id ; Sat, 27 Mar 1993 19:44:23 -0800 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 19:46:39 -0800 Posted-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 19:46:39 -0800 Received: from by isd9.isi.edu (5.65c/4.0.3-4) id ; Sat, 27 Mar 1993 19:46:39 -0800 Message-Id: <9303280250.AA03991@turing.pacss.binghamton.edu> Comment: List name: SRKB-LIST (do not use email address as name) Originator: srkb-list@isi.edu Errors-To: neches@isi.edu Reply-To: Sender: srkb-list@isi.edu Version: 5.5 -- Copyright (c) 1991/92, Anastasios Kotsikonas From: sowa To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Copy of note to Elizabeth Fong >From sowa Sat Mar 27 11:38:45 1993 Received: by turing.pacss.binghamton.edu (4.1) id AA03656; Sat, 27 Mar 93 11:38:39 EST Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 11:38:39 EST From: sowa To: fong@ecf.ncsl.nist.gov Subject: Comments on questions about logic and OO models Cc: sowa Status: R Liz, Following are some comments on questions that arose at the joint meeting of X3H7 and X3H4. Could you please forward this note to your mailing list of X3H7 members. Thanks, John _____________________________________________________________________ > Why choose one logic system over another? All systems of first-order logic are exactly equivalent to one another. Therefore, the choice of one or another is purely a matter of personal preference, convenience, availability of tools, etc. However, it is necessary to choose at least one concrete notation in order to have some way of recording and communicating whatever models have been represented. In order to avoid the so-called "religious wars" between competing systems, we had a meeting of the KIF, CG, and SUMM developers to agree upon a common position: to adopt both the KIF and CG syntaxes, to adopt ontological primitives from SUMM for defining other languages, and to adopt the model theoretic basis of KIF n for a common semantics. Therefore, anything represented in either KIF or CGs could be automatically translated to the other, and either one could use SUMM ontological primitives (or others that may be developed) for representing object models or anything else. > Why is CG a superior interface? Conceptual graphs have a graphic interface that many people find very readable. But because of the agreement on KIF, CG, and SUMM, CGs and KIF can be automatically translated to one another, and anyone is free to mix or match CGs and KIF in any combination they find convenient. Furthermore, anyone who prefers to develop a new syntax or adapt an older syntax, such as Z, is welcome to do so, provided that they represent exactly the same semantics. Therefore, we should ask "Why is the common semantic base of KIF and CGs superior?" That is a very complex question that cannot be answered briefly here, but both Mike Genesereth and I plan to attend the joint X3H4.6 and X3H7 meeting on July 20th, and perhaps we can both clarify the various issues. If I had to give one very short answer, however, I would say that the metalanguage capabilities of KIF and CGs are what makes them very powerful as definitional languages -- that is essential for defining object models, conceptual schemas, and various kinds of logics and programming languages. > Is CG a tool for specifying object models or is it in competition > to the OO concept? In my talk in San Antonio, I showed a simple object model and its representation in conceptual graphs. However, I was not trying to propose any particular object model, but to show how logic, in the form of either KIF or CGs, could be used to define object models. Therefore, I would say that the CG-KIF coalition is a basis for specifying object models, and it is not in competition with any of them. There were also some interoperability questions that I would like to comment on: > A subsumption model such as CG is capable of being mapped to > all models. This approach may not solve the interoperability problems. A formal definition in terms of CGs, KIF, or any other notation will not, by itself, solve the interoperability problems. But it is a necessary first step towards relating and classifying different models. The matrix of features is useful for an overview of many different models, but it is too simplified to show how the features interact. Two different models may have features with similar names and functions, but the details may make them completely incompatible. Therefore, a formal definition of the various models in logic is a necessary follow-on to the matrix classification and a prerequisite for defining precise groundrules for interoperability. > Frank Manola and Sandra Heiler of GTE submitted an article on > "Reduced Instruction Set" or "RISC" object model as an approach > to interoperable object models. I would say that this seems to be a step in the right direction, but such a RISC object model must be specified precisely in some language, and a version of logic would be the best candidate for a specification language. > The translator approach, e.g., Express to C++ translator, is an > example of interoperability between Express and C++. Translators are useful when you only have two languages that need to cooperate. But if you have N languages, you need N*(N-1) pairs of translators. That is why X3H4 proposed the subsumption approach as a framework for a large family of interoperating systems. I would also like to make a comment about C++: More than any other OO language, it is close to being a "RISC" OO language. That means that its own object model is so primitive that it is necessary for anyone who uses C++ to augment it with a library of definitions that make it usable for a particular family of applications. The real object model is therefore C++ as augmented with a particular library. Therefore, the Express to C++ translator is not an example of interoperability between Express and "bare" C++, but an example of interoperability between Express and C++ augmented with a library of definitions to support the Express object model. If someone else is using C++ with a different library of extensions, they would still be incompatible with the Express object model even though they were using the same underlying language. The point of this comment is that even if you built N*(N-1) pairs of translators, programs translated to language X from incompatible sources A and B would be just as incompatible on the X platform as they were on their original platforms. Bottom line: I don't believe that there is any magic answer to interoperability. But I do believe that formal definitions in logic of the various object models together with a subsumption model of the various models would be an important step towards groundrules and conventions for interoperability. John Sowa From jlf@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Mon Mar 29 15:51:56 1993 Return-Path: Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA17940; Mon, 29 Mar 93 15:51:56 GMT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Mon, 29 Mar 1993 16:30:10 +0100 From: John Fraser Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 16:31:09 BST Message-Id: <8159.9303291531@aiai.ed.ac.uk> Subject: I am away Apparently-To: all-iceimt@net.einet.ftp I will not be able to read your mail regarding "KIF, CG, SUMM, and O-O" until Thursday 1st April. In emergency you can leave a message with Neil Ketchell at (0923) 254282. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Fraser email: J.L.Fraser@ed.ac.uk Group Leader, Knowledge Based Decision Support Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute Tel: +44 (031) 650 2739 80 South Bridge, EDINBURGH EH1 1HN Fax: +44 (031) 650 6513 From petrie@mcc.com Mon Mar 29 16:05:10 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA18247; Mon, 29 Mar 93 16:05:10 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA02311; Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:05:08 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA22808; Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:05:01 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA12260; Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:05:00 CST Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:04:59 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: European Commercial Network Message-Id: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA12243; Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:54:02 CST Received: from sunvalley.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA22638; Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:53:58 CST Received: by sunvalley.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA07348; Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:53:57 CST Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:53:57 CST From: carmin@sunvalley.mcc.com (Carmin McLaughlin) Message-Id: <9303291553.AA07348@sunvalley.mcc.com> To: einet@mcc.com Subject: EUROPE TO BENEFIT FROM WIDER ELECTRONIC NETWORK SERVICE Cc: hamilton@mcc.com, jsims@mcc.com, roy@mcc.com To: com-priv@psi.com Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 09:37:14 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL11] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3271 From: Simon Poole For your information. 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For Further Information: Glenn Kowack Chief Executive, EUnet Limited Tel: +31 20 592 5109 Fax: +31 20 592 5155 e-mail: info@eu.net Mark Riminton Sigma Public Relations Tel: +44 (0)932 252900 Fax: +44 (0)932 253670 e-mail: mriminton@eu.net From HUHNS@mcc.com Tue Mar 30 15:10:03 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA18766; Tue, 30 Mar 93 15:10:03 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA03396; Tue, 30 Mar 93 09:10:02 CST Received: from hippo.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA04796; Tue, 30 Mar 93 09:10:01 CST Received: from cronos.mcc.com by hippo.mcc.com (5.65/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA23970; Tue, 30 Mar 1993 09:05:35 -0600 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 09:08-0600 From: Michael N. Huhns Subject: Announcement: Catalogue of "ontological" concept-systems To: all-iceimt@einet.net Message-Id: <19930330150850.8.HUHNS@CRONOS.MCC.COM> The following might be of interest to those constructing ontologies. Cheers, Michael Huhns MCC CONCEPT-SYSTEMS CATALOGUE Fritz Lehmann 145 Exeter, Irvine, CA 92715 USA (714)725-9057 [rarely accessed email: fritz@rodin.wustl.edu] This is to be an informal catalogue of existing concept catalogues and hierarchies (including high level "ontologies") for possible use in knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, and database integration. Anybody can contribute (and be acknowledged). Each concept system is described (in a page or less) with some references and other information. I hope to be inclusive, with emphasis on machine-readable/usable concept (and relation) hierarchies. Some people think there is ONE concept system for the true structure of the world. Others like me think pragmatic concerns (subjective or socially agreed-upon) may dictate different structures. Most "ontologies" have large areas of near-agreement on concepts like time, space, individuals, properties, etc. Technical thesauri deal with more specific subject areas like accounting, subfields of medicine, or plumbing fixtures. Philosophical concepts are necessary but controversial; some concepts like "check-stub" are quite uncontroversial. Formalized or not, two aspects of every system are: its purely mathematical (order) structure, and the meanings of its components. Notation or language is incidental to both. The page ordering, for now, is vaguely chronological. It must be emphasized that only rarely is a concept in one system genuinely the same as a concept with the same name in another system. Please let me know about ANY OTHER concept-systems you know about, or at least give a reference. [I started this Nov. 20, 1992 for the "PEIRCE project" (a cooperative international implementation of a Conceptual Graphs inferential database processing sytem, initiated by Gerard Ellis and Robert Levinson), with a mental list of 84 systems beginning with Aristotle's.] ARISTOTLE'S CATEGORIES LEIBNIZ' CHARACTERISTICA UNIVERSALIS LODWYCK'S COMMON WRITING DALGARNO'S ARS SIGNORUM WILKINS' PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE LINNAEUS BIOLOGICAL TAXONOMY (ANONYMOUS) UNIVERSAL CHARACTER CAVE BECK KANT'S CATEGORIES ROGET'S THESAURUS PEIRCE'S CATEGORIES BOLZANO MEINONG BRADLEY HUSSERL'S ONTOLOGY PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA WHITEHEAD'S PROCESS THEORY BASIC ENGLISH LIESNIEWSKI'S MEREOLOGY SEMANTOGRAPHY SYMBOLS RICHENS/MASTERMAN/WILKS SEMANTIC PRIMITIVES CECCATO'S CORRELATION NET PRIMITIVES INGARTEN'S ARISTOTLE REVISION LINCOS INTERPLANETARY LANGUAGE R.M. MARTIN'S SEMIOTIC PRIMITIVES COLON CLASSIFICATION - FACETED DEEP CASE SYSTEMS LOGLAN/LOJBAN PRIMITIVES LAFFAL'S CONCEPT DICTIONARY CONCEPTUAL DEPENDENCY THEORY ACM COMPUTER SCIENCE CLASSIFICATION PARKER-RHODES' INFERENTIAL SEMANTICS LATTICES WIERZBICKA'S LINGUA MENTALIS KAMP'S DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION STRUCTURES HAYES' NAIVE PHYSICS EXPLANATORY-COMBINATORY DICTIONARY (MEANING-TEXT) MeSH - MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS CATALOGUE THE HOLOTHEME AM/EURISKO MATH CATEGORIES CONCEPTUAL GRAPHS PRIMITIVES SITUATION SEMANTICS SCHUBERTIAN ("ECO") SUBHIERARCHIES QUALITATIVE PHYSICS PRIMITIVES SMITH-MULLIGAN ONTOLOGY SIMONS' PART SYSTEM SMALLTALK DATA TYPE TREE OBJECTIVE-C (NeXTSTEP) DATA TYPE TREE RESEDA ONTOLOGY GRAESSER'S MULTIPLE CONCEPT HIERARCHIES LONGMAN DICTIONARY CODINGS (INCL. SLATOR) LONGMAN'S THESAURUS THE WORDTREE PENMAN UPPER MODEL SPARCK JONES/BOGURAEV DEEP CASE LIST COOK ONTOLOGY DIXON ONTOLOGY VARIOUS WILLE CONCEPT LATTICES RUSSIAN MERONOMY SOMERS' CASE GRID CHAFFIN'S RELATION HIERARCHY CYC PROJECT EPSTEIN AM-BASED GRAPH THEORY HIERARCHY MARTY'S SEMIOTIC LATTICES IRDS DATABASE CATEGORIES VELARDI'S SEMANTIC LEXICON ONTEK ONTOLOGY LAKOFF'S CATEGORIES HUHNS & STEPHENS RELATION FEATURES WORDNET EDR CONCEPT DICTIONARY DOUDNA QUANTIFIER RHOMBIDODECAHEDRON NIRENBURG'S DIONYSUS ONTOLOGY SCHUBERT'S EPISODIC LOGIC CATEGORIES UNITRAN-LCS RELATIONAL LEXICON HIERARCHY SUMM SKUCE ONTOLOGY PETRI ONTOLOGIES TEPFENHART ONTOLOGY PLINIUS CERAMICS ONTOLOGY RANDELL & COHN'S SPATIOTEMPORAL LATTICES HARTLEY'S TIME AND SPACE WORLD ONTOLINGUA-KIF DICK'S CASE-RELATION SYSTEM SUGGESTED FORMAT: Brief description, Example, Formalized?, Abstract hierarchy structure, Necessary/sufficient?, References, Current authorities or enthusiasts, Machine- readable text?, Machine-usable structure?, Source, FTP site?, Implementations? . From speyer@mcc.com Wed Mar 31 15:29:05 1993 Return-Path: Received: from turtle.mcc.com by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA21312; Wed, 31 Mar 93 15:29:05 GMT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA18745; Wed, 31 Mar 93 09:29:04 CST Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA01949; Wed, 31 Mar 93 09:29:01 CST Date: Wed, 31 Mar 93 09:29:01 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9303311529.AA01949@joy.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: Telco's Information Infrastructure Position Statements. FYI, enclosed: TELEPHONE COMPANY JOINT PRESS RELEASE TELEPHONE COMPANY JOINT POLICY POSITION STATEMENT SPRINT ADDENDUM, POLICY STATEMENT AND PRESS RELEASE For entire text and all individual statements contact: Tony Rutkowski ======================================================== For Release: March 23, 1993 LEADING TELCO CEOs JOINTLY SUPPORT CLINTON-GORE TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE The Chief Executive Officers of the nation's leading local and long-distance telecommunications companies today announced that they have signed a landmark public policy position statement (attached) -- signaling strong industry-wide support for the communications technology initiatives envisioned by the Clinton- Gore Administration. The statement was signed by the CEOs of Ameritech, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Bellcore, BellSouth, Cincinnati Bell, Inc., GTE, MCI, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Southern New England Telephone Company, Southwestern Bell Corp., Sprint, U S WEST. The policy statement provides a set of principles consistent with the Administration's initiative, "Technology for America's Economic Growth, A New Direction to Build Economic Strength," and articulates the roles government and industry should play. The CEOs suggest the Administration and Congress adopt these principles as a framework for cooperation among federal, state and local governments, key users communities -- such as schools, libraries and health care providers -- and the private sector (including telecommunications, computer, information, and related industries.) In addition, the set of principles recommends that government support research on applications and services that benefit schools, health care, and industries crucial for U.S. competitiveness, as well as research that will make it easier for people to connect to, and use, information networks. Benefits to come from following these principles would include: * Increased private sector investment in, and continued development of, a national information infrastructure as a result of government serving as a catalyst. Partnerships among government, academia, industry and key user communities will focus on development of experimental technologies that leverage limited government funds. Transferring experimental technologies to commercial (production) networks will provide new capabilities to users, meet their expanding needs, and increase industry's investment in the infrastructure. * Alternative visions of the national information infrastructure can be integrated into a common vision which provides interactive multi-media and other advanced networking capabilities to all Americans. * Industry's incentive to invest in the infrastructure will remain strong because the government will not subsidize commercial networks and because commercial services will not be provided on government- supported experimental networks. * Selected user communities will be provided support for access to, and use of, networks and information through government funding. Supporting these communities represents a shift of emphasis from government's direct support of networks. These funds, predominantly grants, would be carefully targeted by the government to meet urgent societal needs by communities which otherwise could not afford to take advantage of the benefits that the infrastructure can provide -- for example, innovative math and science programs for children in public schools with limited budgets and resources. * Alternative network suppliers will be able to interconnect seamlessly with each other, resulting in a wide array of competitive choices that will spur innovation and result in competitive prices to users. According to George Heilmeier, President and CEO of Bellcore, "The telecommunications industry looks forward to the challenge of evolving information networks to meet urgent societal needs, spur economic growth, and strengthen America's competitive position in the global economy." ======================================================== POLICY POSITION ON THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE 1.The High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) vision should be expanded to foster the emergence of services and applications that will serve the urgent societal needs of a broad range of users and industries, such as K-16 education, healthcare delivery and cost containment, manufacturing productivity and job creation, and the general public through telecommuting and access to libraries and other data bases. This imperative is shared with the recommendations of the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP). 2.This expanded vision can be most effectively served by a target structure comprised of separate Experimental and Production Networks. Experimental Networks should consist of government supported testbeds (for example, the gigabit testbeds) and high performance national testbeds (for example, interconnecting major supercomputer research sites) for leading edge networking technology and applications requiring such technology. Experimental Networks supported by the government should be used only: a) To carry traffic directly related to the experimental goals of these networks, and b) By those researchers who need to perform applications that require the advanced technological capabilities of these networks, and which cannot be performed on Production Networks. These Experimental Networks will be developed by partnerships among government, academia, private industry and target user communities. These partnerships, which can build upon the long and successful collaboration between industry, academia and government, can leverage the government's limited resources to maximize social return. Production Networks should consist of present and future commercially available communication networks. Production Networks would: a) Be built, managed and operated by multiple providers from the private sector; b) Provide a vehicle for technology transfer from their experimental counterparts; c) Offer commercial networking capabilities to the business and residential population; and d) Serve all users, including the Research and Education Community, for those applications that can be supported by commercially available network services. The government, private sector and key user communities should jointly implement transition steps to achieve this target structure. 3.The government should encourage maximum interconnectivity and interoperability among Production Networks as an important goal of public policy. 4.The following four activities should be supported by the government and given the highest priority for achieving broad societal benefits: a) Research into applications and services that will provide for the urgent needs of the broad range of users including K-16 education, healthcare and industries critical for U.S. competitiveness. b) Research into user-friendly access and use of the networks to promote broad utilization by all members of society. c) Direct subsidies to the Research and Education communities to support their access to and use of Production Networks. d) Technical development of the Experimental Networks, including continued support of the Research and Education community's contributions in developing these networks. 5.Full consideration should be given to the present and future developments of the computer, telecommunications, information and related industries when planning, designing, and implementing the technology and standards for the Experimental Networks. Giving full consideration to the developments in all these industries will help ensure the maximum transfer of the best and most cost effective technology from the Experimental to the Production Networks. 6.Decision making processes relative to government programs and associated funding should be open to the target user community, including K-16 educational institutions, libraries, the healthcare industry, and industries critical to U.S. competitiveness. The decision-making process should also include representation from the computer, telecommunications, information and related industries. 7.The government and industry should strive for a framework that promotes fair and open competition, encourages innovation, and allows for effective participation among all participants and industries. This would allow all participants in the Production Networks to contribute effectively towards the evolution of the national information infrastructure to satisfy future needs. ======================================================== Sprint Position Paper National Information Infrastructure Policy US industrial & commercial competitiveness and advancements in the quality and efficiencies of our educational and health care systems are increasingly dependent upon the availability of advanced communications capabilities and efficient access to information. The US today enjoys the benefits of the world's finest telecommunications infrastructure and services industry, but as a nation we must continue to develop our technologies at a rapid pace to maintain our leadership position. Sprint shares with the Clinton/Gore Administration concern for vigilant focus on the continual advancement and improvement of our nation's telecommunications and information infrastructure in a way to assure the efficient deployment of state-of-the- art capabilities in support of our national priorities. Sprint, therefore, endorses the Clinton/Gore administration's policies to advance our national telecommunications capabilities through a partnership among the private sector, the government and the research and academic communities. Together, we can advance fundamental telecommunications technologies and applications. We can deliver these applications via advanced telecommunications services that contribute to improvements in: industrial productivity and competitiveness, access to education and training, health care delivery, and efficient access to the information resources of our government, our libraries and the private sector. Sprint strongly believes that the government, in cooperation with the private sector, can make a profound and lasting contribution by focusing its activities and resources in four areas, all of which are evident in the Administration's policy: - -Basic and applied research to develop advanced technologies and networking capabilities and applications, including interoperability and network security technologies and standards; - -Demonstration and pilot projects aimed at evidencing the technical and commercial viability of new technologies and applications as well as the contribution such applications can make in the areas of health care, education, and industrial competitiveness; - -Demand stimulation by providing support to states, school districts, libraries and other institutions so that they can demonstrate the benefits of networking to the educational, library, health care and other communities and; - -Expansion of access to the Internet and NREN to interconnect all levels of the nation's future. The policy will evolve as will its specific implementation programs. Sprint is eager to work with the Administration and the Congress in shaping the final set of policies and programs, with four basic principles in mind. - Maximum reliance upon the private sector must be emphasized. The private sector should be uniquely responsible for building, owning, operating, and upgrading the nation's telecommunications infrastructure. - Care must be taken so the government does not subsidize the provision of commercial service. Such subsidy would upset the competitive dynamic of the industry and contribute to its long term degradation. - Experimental and other associated network requirements should use existing capacity where available so as not to undermine the supply and demand forces within the industry and depreciate rather than contribute to the value of existing infrastructure. The funding of excess capacity should be avoided. - The National Information Infrastructure is not just a high speed, "Data Superhighway," equivalent to the nation's interstate highway network. The infrastructure is not complete if end users are unable to access it. sprint believes local access is today's weak link in the evolving National Information Infrastructure, and that continued attention to the need for economical, high bandwidth, cost effective access at the local level is essential. The following will assure that the private sector deploy the advanced infrastructure upon which our nation's competitiveness and the quality of life for us all will depend: Advancement of basic knowledge in the areas of communications technologies; demonstration of the technical and commercial viability of new technologies and applications; stimulation of demand through the effective use of government procurements, the development and support of new applications, the conduct of pilot programs and the provision of support to assure efficient access by all to these advanced capabilities. Both the opportunity and the national interest now exist to use creatively our existing infrastructure, and to scale up to tomorrow's demand. The National Information Infrastructure policy and derivative programs will be critical to achieving our desirable domestic and global policy objectives. Sprint looks forward to continuing to work cooperatively with the government, with business and industry, and with the educational, research and other non-profit communities in the development and expansion of these initiatives. ### ======================================================== For Immediate Release SPRINT SUPPORTS NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 1993 -- Sprint today joined other telecommunications industry leaders in signing a public policy statement outlined in the Clinton-Gore Administration Technology Initiative. Sprint also issued its own policy statement in support of the National Information Infrastructure Initiative. Sprint supports the initiative because of its critical role in improving our industrial productivity and competitiveness, and our access to education, training, health care delivery and information resources. Sprint endorses the concept of a partnership of the private sector, the government and the research community, with the government focusing its activities and resources in four areas: o Basic and applied research aimed at developing advanced technologies o Demonstrations and pilot projects to underscore the technical and commercial viability of new technologies and applications o Demand stimulation by providing support to schools and institutions for networking, with corresponding elimination of the government subsidy to the Internet backbone o Expansion of access to the Internet (about 8,000 serving government, research and academic communities) and the National Research and Education Network (NREN), to interconnect all levels of the nation's diverse educational community to a high performance network In endorsing this policy, Sprint underscored the need for adhering to four basic principles: o Maximum reliance upon the private sector o Assurance that the government does not subsidize commercial services o Use of existing commercial capacity to the degree it is available o Economical, high bandwidth, cost-effective access at the local level "We applaud the ambitious goals of the Administration," said William T. Esrey, chairman and CEO of Sprint. "Both the opportunity and the national interest now exist to creatively use our current infrastructure, and to scale up to tomorrow's demand." Sprint presently participates with the government, as well as the scientific, research and educational communities, on three projects involving advanced technologies: o Sprint was selected last year by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide next-generation broadband network services for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), and the NASA's Science Internet, which both link more than two dozen national scientific laboratories with each other and with leading research facilities worldwide. In implementing ESnet, Sprint will be the first carrier to offer a commercial Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) service later this year. o Supercomputer highway research with the Department of Defense, involving the transmission of computer data at record speeds, to allow more people to use long distance viewing/"virtual reality" technology o SprintLink(sm), the first Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) service offered by a long distance company to government and commercial customers, connecting scientific and research networks nationwide and globally In addition to these partnership projects, Sprint has a history of leadership in technological innovation and development. Key accomplishments include: o The first and only nationwide 100 percent digital, fiber optic network o SprintNet(R), the first and one of the world's largest public data networks o International connections manager for the National Science Foundation's NSFNet next-generation transmission capabilities network using Sprint is a diversified international telecommunications company with more than $10 billion in annual revenues and the United States' only nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Its divisions provide global long distance voice, data and video products and services, local telephone services to nearly 5.9 million subscriber lines in 19 states, and cellular operations that serve 42 metropolitan markets and more than 50 rural service areas. - 30 - JL/BG 032393 From petrie@mcc.com Thu Apr 1 16:39:17 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22394; Thu, 1 Apr 93 16:39:17 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA07249; Thu, 1 Apr 93 10:39:15 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA04797; Thu, 1 Apr 93 10:39:14 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA13835; Thu, 1 Apr 93 10:39:02 CST Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 10:39:01 CST From: Charles Petrie To: einet%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: [New Element Discovered!] Message-Id: Sender: "Hospital Computer Network Discussion Group and Data Base" Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was NETNEWS@UICVM.UIC.EDU From: "M. Jacobs" Subject: New Element Discovered! To: Multiple recipients of list HSPNET-L NEW ELEMENT DISCOVERED The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by university physicists. The element, tentatively named "ADMINISTRATIUM," has no proton or electrons and thus has an atomic weight of 0. However, it does have one neutron, 70 vice neutrons, and 161 assistant vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass of 232. These 232 particles are held together in a nucleus by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons. Since it has no electron, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically, as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with. According to researchers, a minute amount of Administratium, added to one reaction, caused it to take four days to complete. Without the Administratium, the reaction ordinarily occurred in less than one second. Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Studies seem to show the atomic number actually increasing after each reorganization. Research indicates that Administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate in certain locations such as government agencies, large corporations and universities. It can usually be found in the newest, best-appointed and best- maintained buildings. Scientists warn that Administratium is known to be toxic, and recommend plenty of fluids and bed rest after even low levels of exposure. --Author Unknown (but astute!) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | M. Jacobs | This is MY view | Discontent is the first | | U45301@UICVM | not the view | necessity of progress. | | U45301@uicvm.uic.edu | of the "U" | -- John Steinbeck | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From petrie@mcc.com Thu Apr 1 18:39:21 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22922; Thu, 1 Apr 93 18:39:21 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA07663; Thu, 1 Apr 93 12:39:06 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA05692; Thu, 1 Apr 93 12:39:04 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA13964; Thu, 1 Apr 93 12:39:03 CST Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 12:39:03 CST From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: [IJCAI '93 Workshop on Knowledge Sharing and Information Interchange] Message-Id: Please contact Peyralbe, not me, for information: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 14:48:36 +0200 From: Catherine Peyralbe Message-Id: <9304011248.AA08683@gizmo> To: ontolingua@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: IJCAI '93 Workshop on Knowledge Sharing and Information Interchange CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IJCAI'93 Workshop on Knowledge Sharing and Information Interchange August 28th, 1993 - Chambery, FR Connecting Knowledge Based Systems (KBSs) with conventional software or with other KBSs poses problems of knowledge sharing and information interchange. Possible solutions of knowledge representation problems are the subject of intense discussions in the American AI Community and in Europe through European Community ESPRIT funded research projects, academic research, and the newly formed EuroKnowledge initiative. This one-day Workshop during IJCAI'93 will confront the different approaches on Knowledge Sharing and Information Interchange and promote communication between researchers. The following subtopics are of interest for the Workshop (others can be considered): * a common language for knowledge interchange (scope, semantics, syntax), * translation/mapping from a formalism to the common language, * generic ontologies, * use of a single knowledge representation formalism for the development of all KBSs, * reuse of existing KBs (methodological issues, standards). * potential of a standard query language/communication protocol. Organization: The maximum number of attendees is 35. The language is English. For each subtopic, several position statements will be made. Follow up discussions are then planned. The aim of this workshop is to promote an open exchange of ideas rather than a formal speaker/audience format. A round table will be organized to conclude the day. The Contact Person will assure the organization of minutes taking and production of the synthesis of the Workshop. Several overviews will be added to this report: * the DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort, * the EuroKnowledge initiative, * the IMKA effort. Submission: People wishing to present a communication (about 15 minutes) at the workshop should submit a short position paper (about 1700 words). Other persons wishing to attend the workshop should submit a short presentation paper (about 500 words) describing why their contribution to the workshop would be of interest (i.e. the research they have been conducting in the domain or in a related domain). Three copies (hard copy, Latex on e-mail or fax) have to be sent to the contact person. Papers must include: author's name(s), affiliation, main field of specialization, complete postal address, phone and fax number, and e-mail. Schedule: position paper, intention of participation: April 23 Notifications: May 3 Final copies of position papers: July 2 Practical information: According to the IJCAI'93 organization, each workshop attendee must have registered for the main conference. The fee of the workshop are an additional 300 FF (about 55 $) Organization Committee: Giuseppe Attardi, University of Pisa, Italy Tim Finin, University of Maryland, USA Mike Genesereth, Stanford University, USA Douglas B. Lenat, MCC, USA Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Blanes Center of Advanced Studies, Spain Don McKay, Paramax Systems Corporation, USA Bob Neches, USC/ISI, USA Catherine Peyralbe, Cap Gemini Innovation (chair), France Contact Person: Catherine Peyralbe CAP GEMINI INNOVATION 86-90 rue Thiers, 92513 Boulogne Billancourt Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 49 10 52 71 Fax: +33 49 10 06 15 E-mail: peyralbe@capsogeti.fr For further information please contact the Contact Person at the above address. From petrie@mcc.com Thu Apr 1 19:31:04 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA23210; Thu, 1 Apr 93 19:31:04 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA07927; Thu, 1 Apr 93 13:31:03 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA06057; Thu, 1 Apr 93 13:30:53 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA14045; Thu, 1 Apr 93 13:30:52 CST Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 13:30:52 CST From: Charles Petrie To: HSPNET-L%ALBNYDH2.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu, hitsgroup@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Healthcare EI Message-Id: Information Week, March 29, 1993, p. 53 The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) surveyed its members and found that the top IS priority in the next two years is "integrating existing systems to share information across departments". Next year, I bet they discover the importance and problems of cooperating systems among hospitals, payers, employers, clinics, etc. Charles Petrie From petrie@mcc.com Fri Apr 2 15:52:22 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA23703; Fri, 2 Apr 93 15:52:22 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA08905; Fri, 2 Apr 93 09:52:19 CST Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA17050; Fri, 2 Apr 93 09:52:12 CST Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA15174; Fri, 2 Apr 93 09:51:46 CST Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 9:51:45 CST From: Charles Petrie To: einet-wigs%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: NREN Parody Message-Id: Date: 31 Mar 1993 16:40:41 -0500 (EST) From: BILL DREW From bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Fri Apr 2 16:20:27 1993 Return-Path: Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA24070; Fri, 2 Apr 93 16:20:27 GMT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Fri, 2 Apr 1993 17:01:38 +0100 From: Austin Tate Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 17:02:55 BST Message-Id: <10193.9304021602@aiai.ed.ac.uk> Subject: Re: NREN Parody Apparently-To: all-iceimt@net.einet.ftp I am away at the moment; I will reply to your message when I return. If the matter needs urgent attention, you may wish to contact my secretary on +44 31 650 2732. Austin Tate From petrie@mcc.com Tue Apr 6 16:25:42 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA25405; Tue, 6 Apr 93 16:25:42 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA12271; Tue, 6 Apr 93 11:25:41 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA21913; Tue, 6 Apr 93 11:25:39 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA16899; Tue, 6 Apr 93 11:25:39 CDT Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 11:25:38 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: EI Papers Archives Message-Id: As a reminder to old members, and a notice to new members, there is an archive of EI papers that you can retrieve by email. For instructions, please send any message to "iceimt-papers@einet.net". Neither the subject nor message text matters. You will receive an automatic reply. cp From gasser@morue.usc.edu Tue Apr 6 16:27:59 1993 Return-Path: Received: from usc.edu by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA25499; Tue, 6 Apr 93 16:27:59 GMT Received: from morue.usc.edu by usc.edu (4.1/SMI-3.0DEV3-USC+3.1) id AA17754; Tue, 6 Apr 93 09:27:56 PDT Received: by morue.usc.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1+ucs-3.6) id AA10852; Tue, 6 Apr 93 09:27:56 PDT Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 09:27:56 PDT From: gasser@morue.usc.edu (Les Gasser) Message-Id: <9304061627.AA10852@morue.usc.edu> Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net 5 April 1992 Dear Correspondent: I am away from my office until 12 April. I will read your mail and follow up on my return. In an emergency you can contact me via Louise Skura (+213 740-8771). -- Les Computational Organization Design Lab Institute of Safety and Systems Management USC Los Angeles, CA 90089-0021 USA Voice: 213.740.4046 Fax: 213.740.8771 Alternate Fax: 213.740.5943 Internet: gasser@usc.edu From van@iti.org Tue Apr 6 16:30:52 1993 Return-Path: Received: from iti.org (hela.iti.org) by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA25600; Tue, 6 Apr 93 16:30:52 GMT Received: by iti.org (5.65/IDA-1.2.8) id AA03756; Tue, 6 Apr 93 12:30:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 12:30:11 -0400 From: "Van D. Parunak" Message-Id: <9304061630.AA03756@iti.org> Precedence: bulk Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Dear correspondent, I'm out of the office until Wednesday 7 April, mostly out of the country, and don't expect to read Email before then. Joan Roeske, 313-769-4175, will know where I can be reached. Alternatively, leave voice mail for me at 313-769-4049, and I'll check it occasionally. Van -------- Dr. H. Van Dyke Parunak internet: van@iti.org Scientific Fellow voice: (313) 769-4049 Industrial Technology Institute fax: (313) 769-4064 PO Box 1485, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 From winner@ida.org Tue Apr 6 16:33:32 1993 Return-Path: Received: from ida.org (cs.ida.org) by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA25695; Tue, 6 Apr 93 16:33:32 GMT Received: from omni.ida.org by ida.org (4.1/SMI-DDN) id AA22960; Tue, 6 Apr 93 12:33:21 EDT Received: from csed-59.ida.org by omni.ida.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09790; Tue, 6 Apr 93 12:33:20 EDT Received: by csed-59.ida.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07001; Tue, 6 Apr 93 12:33:24 EDT Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 12:33:24 EDT Message-Id: <9304061633.AA07001@csed-59.ida.org> From: winner@ida.org (via the vacation program) Subject: away from my mail Apparently-To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net I will be away from the office for a few days and may not be able to access email. Edna Jordan is my secretary. Her number is 703-845-6615. Her e-mail is jordan@ida.org. ...bob From petrie@mcc.com Tue Apr 13 19:54:37 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA28792; Tue, 13 Apr 93 19:54:37 GMT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/EINet_0.01) id AA18969; Tue, 13 Apr 93 14:54:35 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA25911; Tue, 13 Apr 93 14:02:03 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA19982; Tue, 13 Apr 93 14:02:02 CDT Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 14:02:01 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com Subject: [CAIA-94 call-for-papers] Message-Id: Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 14:45 EDT From: pgs@research.att.com (Peter G. Selfridge) Subject: CAIA-94 call-for-papers CALL FOR PAPERS CAIA-94 The Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications: Developing Enabling Technologies and Integrating AI into Application Solutions Marriott Riverwalk - San Antonio, Texas March 1-4, 1994 Increasingly, the role of AI in business and scientific applications is that of one component in a complex system. Integrating AI with knowledge sources and databases, user interfaces, and existing software is an important aspect of advancing the application of AI to real world problems. This year's conference will emphasize both the development of enabling AI technology and the issues involved in the integration of this technology into products and processes. We are also seeking innovative ideas for new application areas and new research and technology transfer paradigms. Our goal is to increase interaction between different communities and to increase our understanding of how AI technology can be applied to real- world problems. With these goals in mind, two general kinds of papers are appropriate. First are case studies of AI applications that address significant real- world problems. These papers must (1) justify the use of the AI technique, based on the problem and application requirements, (2) explain how the AI technology contributed to the solution and was integrated with other components, and (3) describe the status of the implementation. Second are papers on novel AI techniques and principles that may enable more ambitious real-world applications. All the usual AI topics are appropriate. These papers must (1) describe the importance of the approach from an applications context, (2) describe the work in sufficient technical detail and clarity, (3) clearly and thoroughly differentiate the work from previous efforts. While finished work is important, one major role for this conference is as a forum for exchanging ideas. For this reason, well-written reports on work-in-progress and descriptions of innovative partial implementations are encouraged. In fact, we hope to structure CAIA-94 in several ways to facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners. First, we will include invited speakers on various appropriate topics, of both technical and more general scope. Second, panel sessions are very important in an inter-disciplinary area and will be a key feature of CAIA-94. Third, CAIA will include a mix of introductory and advanced tutorials and a small workshop program oriented towards wide participation. Other, more novel forums such as evening discussion sessions may be tried. Papers should be limited to 5000 words and papers significantly longer that this will not be reviewed. Accepted papers will be allotted seven pages in the conference proceedings, and the best papers will be considered for a special issue of IEEE Expert to appear late in 1994. Awards will be presented to the best paper and best student paper at the conference. The first page of the paper must contain the following information (where applicable) in the order shown: * Title. * Author's name and affiliation (specify student status). * Contact information (name, postal address, phone and email address). * Abstract: A 200 word abstract that includes a clear statement describing the paper's original contributions and what new lesson is imparted. * AI topic: One or more terms describing the relevant AI areas, e.g. knowledge acquisition, explanation, diagnosis, etc. * Domain area: One or more terms describing the problem domain area, e.g. mechanical design, factory scheduling, education, medicine, etc. * Language/Tool: Underlying programming languages, systems and tools used. * Status: Development and deployment status, as appropriate. * Effort: Person-years of effort put into developing the particular aspect of the project being described. * Impact: A 20 word description of estimated or measured (specify) benefit of the application developed. In addition to papers, we will be accepting the following types of submissions: * Proposals for Panel Discussions. Provide a brief description of the topic (1000 words or less). Indicate appropriateness for this conference, the membership of the panel and interest in organizing/moderating the discussion. * Proposals for Tutorial Presentations. Proposals for three hour tutorials of both an introductory and advanced nature are requested. Tutorials which analyze classes of applications in depth or examine techniques appropriate for a particular class of applications are of particular interest. Include a detailed topic outline, a half-page synopsis of the focus, topics, a list of benefits to the audience, and a full professional vita. * Proposals for Workshops. Proposals are sought for one day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. These workshops should avoid having too narrow a scope (such as "AI in Radiology"); rather, they should be designed to foster communication between both experts and interested newcomers about a broad application area (for example, "Applications of AI to Software") or address a concern that covers many applications (for example, "Issues in Technology Transfer"). Include a one-page description of the workshop and a small organizing committee. Important Dates * August 31, 1993: Four copies of papers, and three copies of all other proposals are due to the program chair at the address listed below (no electronic submissions). * October 15, 1993: Author notifications mailed. * December 14, 1993: Accepted papers and tutorial notes due to IEEE. * March 1, 1994: Conference tutorial program and workshops. * March 1-4, 1994: Conference technical program. Submit Papers and all Proposals to: Peter G. Selfridge AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 2B-425 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Phone: 908-582-6801, fax -7550 Email: pgs@research.att.com For registration and additional conference information, contact: CAIA-94 IEEE Computer Society 1730 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-1903 Phone: 202-371-1013 General Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California Program Chair: Peter G. Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories Publicity Chair: Marc Goodman, Cognitive Systems and Brandeis University Local Arrangements Chair: Aaron Konstam, Trinity University Program Committee Jan Aikins Trinzic Corporation Chid Apte IBM Larry Birnbaum Northwestern University Ron Brachman AT&T Mark Burstein BBN Dan Cooke U. Texas El Paso Vasant Dhar NYU Tim Finin U. Maryland Baltimore County Phil Hayes Carnegie Group Jim Hendler U. Maryland Haym Hirsh Rutgers Lou Hoebel Rome Laboratory, USAF Se June Hong IBM Lewis Johnson USC/ISI Bernadette Kowalski-Minton Academic Systems Corp. Larry Lefkowitz Bellcore Don McKay Paramax Robert Milne Intelligent Applications Ltd. Charles Petrie MCC David Redmiles UC Boulder Anil Rewari DEC Marcio Rillo University of San Paulo, Brazil Eric Schoen Schlumberger Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed Bob Simpson NCR Elliot Soloway U. Michigan Craig Stanfill Thinking Machines Loren Terveen AT&T Oliver Vadas Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI David Waltz Thinking Machines and Brandeis U. John Yen Texas A&M University General information on CAIA-94, including this Call for Papers, is available electronically. Send email to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU or try the Gopher server on GOPHER.CS.UMBC.EDU for a description of what is available and how to retrieve. For more information or clarification, contact the IEEE Computer Society or the Program Chair at the addresses above. From bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Tue Apr 13 20:03:00 1993 Return-Path: Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA29088; Tue, 13 Apr 93 20:03:00 GMT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Tue, 13 Apr 1993 21:02:33 +0100 From: Austin Tate Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 21:04:02 BST Message-Id: <28705.9304132004@aiai.ed.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [CAIA-94 call-for-papers] Apparently-To: all-iceimt@net.einet.ftp I am away at the moment; I will reply to your message when I return. If the matter needs urgent attention, you may wish to contact my secretary on +44 31 650 2732. Austin Tate From petrie@mcc.com Fri Apr 30 16:08:07 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA18515; Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:08:07 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA01324; Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:08:05 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA16779; Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:08:04 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA03643; Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:08:03 CDT Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:08:02 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) -- Message-Id: From: kumar@sunrise.stanford.edu (Vinay Kumar) Message-Id: <9304302100.AA07058@sunrise.Stanford.EDU> To: share@sunrise.stanford.edu Subject: CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) -- International Journal -- An Announcement Dear Fellow Researcher: We are pleased to inform you that Concurrent Engineering (CE) Institute of International Society of Productivity Enhancement (ISPE) in collab- oration with Academic Press, London has started a new journal enti- tled: Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications (CERA) -- An International Journal." CERA is a refereed archival quality publica- tion. This journal fills a void for a very important and timely sub- ject matter. "Concurrent Engineering" has been recognized for some time to be a major force behind achieving international competitive- ness, responsiveness and improving productivity. If you have worked in this area, we would like to seek your inputs in making this endeavor a success. We take this opportunity to invite you to submit your original contri- bution to CERA for possible publication. Please inform your friends and colleagues or write to me, who can contribute. A "Call for Paper" is enclosed. If you are interested in subscribing CERA Journal in 1993, or would like to get a free sample copy for review please write/call/fax or EMAIL your request to Academic Press, London. They would send you the required information. If you have further question, please do not hesitate to write to us or EMAIL at CERA editorial office in USA. Thanking you and looking forward to hearing from you soon, Sincerely, Biren Prasad, Ph.D. Managing Editor Chairman, CERA J. Task Force. Email ID: BPRASAD@CMSA.GMR.COM _____________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) - An International Journal CERA is a new international, multidisciplinary journal to promote a better understanding of Concurrency in enterprise modeling, informa- tion processing and computing. The purpose of this journal is to provide an international forum for the dissemination of scientific work on Concurrent Engineering based on computer technologies. Concur- rent Engineering (CE) is an official journal of the Concurrent Engi- neering Institute of the International Society for Productivity En- hancement (ISPE). CERA is the key publication for the newest and most exciting research arising from parallelism of product's life cycle functions. CERA deals with all basic tracks that enable CE including aspects of Information Modeling, Teaming & Sharing, Networking & Distribution, Planning & Scheduling, Reasoning & Negotiation, Collab- orative Decision Making, Organization and Management of CE. Emphasis is placed on CE technologies that result in faster product develop- ment, higher quality, lower costs, improved productivity and better customer value. The journal is an important source of information for design, engineering and manufacturing personnel and those with inter- est in research, development and applications of productivity tools, methods and concepts. The distinguishing nature of the journal will be to foster the ex- change and integration of concepts and theories from these diverse areas, and cross-fertilization of enabling CE technologies to stimu- late thinking that can generate new insights. A second goal is to publish interdisciplinary research that advances interactions among these are well known researchers and practitioners in the field from industy, university and government laboratories. The distinguished Editorial Board reflects the excellence of this important journal and the commitment to publish quality articles on the most timely and significant trends, issues, problems and applications of Concurrent Engineering in modern manufacturing. Research Areas include: o Principles of Concurrent Engineering o CE Process Characterization & Matrix o Enterprise Modeling o Requirements, Constraints, Workflow Tracking & Management o Multi-Enterprise Integration o Information Sharing and Collaboration o Project & Team Coordination o Decision Support & Design Assessment o Networked Collocation o Tools for Multi-media Conference on the Network o Distributed Computing Environments o Corporate Technical Memory o Capturing Design Intent o Integration Frameworks for CE o CE Languages and Tools o Intelligent Retrieval of Corporate Knowledge o Virtual Team Support Environments o Blackboard and other AI Architectures o Emerging Standards & Practices o Case Histories & Research Briefs The journal is published by Academic Press four times a year beginning January 1993. Potential authors should submit papers or write for instructions to any of the editors or managing editor. Requests for subscriptions and other information can be obtained from the managing editor or the publisher. Managing Editor: Associate Editor: DR. MARK S. FOX Dr. Biren Prasad Computer Science & Mgt. Science CERA Institute University of Toronto P.O. Box 250254, 4 Taddle Creek; Roseburgh Bldg. West Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA. Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4 Tel: (313)492-0551; Fax:(313) Tel: (416) 978-6823; 661-8333 Fax: (416) 971-1373 Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com Associate Editors: Prof. Shuichi Fukuda Dr. Philip Barkan Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. of Tech. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Dept. of Management Eng. Stanford University 6-6, Asahigaoka, Hino Design Division Tokyo 191, JAPAN Stanford, CA 94305, USA Tel: +81 425-83-5111 ext. 266 Tel: (415) 967-8534 (O) /Fax: +81-425-83-5119 Associate Editors: Publisher: Dr. A.M. Agogino Academic Press Ltd. Professor (Room # 5136) 24-28 Oval Road Mechanical Engineering Department London, NW1 7DX, U.K. University of California Berkeley Tel: 71-267-4466 Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Fax: 71-482-2293 or Tel:(510)642-6450(O)/ 642 3458(M) Fax: 71-485-4752; / (510) 642 1338(D) EMAIL: AC2@IB.RL.AC.UK From neches@isi.edu Fri Apr 30 16:14:03 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA18732; Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:14:03 CDT Received: from quark.isi.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA01516; Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:14:00 CDT Received: by quark.isi.edu (5.65c/5.61+local-10) id ; Fri, 30 Apr 1993 14:13:58 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 14:13:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199304302113.AA20641@quark.isi.edu> From: neches@isi.edu (via the vacation program) Subject: away from my mail Apparently-To: all-iceimt@einet.net I'm out of the country at the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction in Amsterdam, returning to the office on Monday, May 3rd. I don't expect to be easily reachable, but will be calling in now and then. You can leave a message via Jeanne Beharry (Jeanne@isi.edu) or Kary Lau (Kary@isi.edu), both at 310/822-1511. Otherwise, your mail regarding "CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) --" will be handled when I return. -- Bob Neches *** If you are trying to reach me about joining a Knowledge Sharing Effort mailing list, please do the following: - For Interlingua or KRSS: send e-mail to Kary@isi.edu; she will add you - For KQML-users or SRKB-list: send a message to our automated list server, ISD-Serv@isi.edu, the body of which says, "Subscribe " - If you don't know what these lists are, send mail to Jeanne@isi.edu and ask for the Fall '91 AI Mag article and the Oct. '92 KR'92 paper *** If this gets generated in response to one of those bloody automatic distributions, my apologies. From janowski@hplrbj.hpl.hp.com Fri Apr 30 16:14:28 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA18752; Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:14:28 CDT Received: from hplms2.hpl.hp.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA01503; Fri, 30 Apr 93 16:13:56 CDT Received: from hplrbj.hpl.hp.com by hplms2.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (16.5/15.5+IOS 3.20) id AA19097; Fri, 30 Apr 93 14:13:44 -0700 Received: by hplrbj.hpl.hp.com (16.8/15.5+IOS 3.14) id AA23343; Fri, 30 Apr 93 14:12:22 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 14:12:22 -0700 Message-Id: <9304302112.AA23343@hplrbj.hpl.hp.com> From: janowski@hplms2.hpl.hp.com Subject: I am on vacation Apparently-To: all-iceimt@einet.net This message is an automatic reply to email received from you. I am on vacation until Monday, May 10th. If you need to contact me urgently, please do so through my manager, Bob Ritter (ritter@hplrgr.hpl.hp.com or telnet 857 3243). -Rick From petrie@mcc.com Mon May 3 13:26:16 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA20042; Mon, 3 May 93 13:26:16 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA03952; Mon, 3 May 93 13:26:08 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA04812; Mon, 3 May 93 13:26:02 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA05650; Mon, 3 May 93 13:26:01 CDT Date: Mon, 3 May 93 13:25:57 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: roy%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, einet%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, share@sunrise.stanford.edu Subject: Concurrent Engineering - Business Process Re-eingineering Message-Id: [Please excuse the multiple messages (and vacation mailers) - we're starting to actually stress the mail systems.] Can research in design revision and rationales be applied to business process re-engineering(BPR) ? Some design rationale work focuses on discovering or generating the purpose for the design to facilitate revision (e.g., Gruber). BPR has focused on rationalizing existing processes to make them perform better. I wonder if a design rationale would facilitate this kind of redesign? It's not entirely obvious, since BPR tends to focus on performance optimization rather than function. Is anyone looking into this? I've been working in distributed design revision. It occurs to me that once a process has been re-engineered, it is a design subject to later revision. Again, the applicability of the design techniques may be only abstractly applicable to BPR. But I'm interested in discussing the possibility with any of you who are doing BPR work. Any takers? Charles From KMCD%A1%UTRC@mrgate.utc.com Mon May 3 14:46:53 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA20350; Mon, 3 May 93 14:46:53 CDT Received: from utrcgw (utrcgw.utc.com) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA04243; Mon, 3 May 93 14:46:44 CDT Received: from mrgate.utc.com by utrcgw.utc.com (PMDF #2906 ) id <01GXQQWFG846007TX0@utrcgw.utc.com>; Mon, 3 May 1993 15:44:52 EDT Received: with PMDF-MR; Mon, 3 May 1993 14:50:37 EDT Date: 03 May 1993 14:35:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kevin M. Dye (203) 727-7483" Subject: RE: Concurrent Engineering - Business Process Re-eingineering To: "all-iceimt@einet.NET" Message-Id: <01GXQSJ1QU5G007TX0@mrgate.utc.com> X-Envelope-To: all-iceimt@einet.NET Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Posting-Date: 03 May 1993 14:48:00 -0400 (EDT) Importance: normal Priority: non-urgent X-Hop-Count: 2 A1-Type: MAIL Several months ago I completed a literature survey of Business Process Reenginering methods and case studies in preparation for our work in the Rapid Response Manufacturing (RRM) Program. One of our partners, TI, has developed a significant BPR program. An infrastructure subgroup within RRM called the Engineering Environment Architecture has been reviewing the applicability of design theory and methodology, especially the work of Warfield, Clausing, Pugh, and Suh, to the work of the Architecture development. So, I'm somewhat familiar with the issue you raise. I believe that you must select a design method which encompasses descriptive as well as prescriptive approaches and is concerned with social as well as systems perspectives. Warfield's Generic Design Science and Interactive Management is one such discipline. This is important because there are dynamics in a business process which are outside classic systematization. The beauty of Warfield is that he comes at his design theory from the systems standpoint and developed a comprehensive framework based on concern with large scale social systems issues such as urban planning, design of university curricula, or design of an environmental protection policy. Examples can be sited of where his design method is being applied to BPR type projects. I'd be very interested in continuing this conversation with you regarding the applicabilty of design theory and methodology to business process reengineering. Perhaps we might consider a white paper based on correspondence with people involved with such efforts across the net. What do you think? Kevin M.C. Dye |||| Integrated Associate Research Engineer |||| Product Product Development and Manufacturing |||| Development United Technologies Research Center Laboratory 411 Silver Lane, MS 129-48 East Hartford, CT 06108 Phone: (203)727-7483, Technet 446-7483 Fax: (203)727-7880, Technet 446-7880 Internet: kmcd@utrc.utc.com From bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Tue May 4 03:05:47 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA20716; Tue, 4 May 93 03:05:47 CDT Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA05053; Tue, 4 May 93 03:05:41 CDT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Tue, 4 May 1993 09:05:15 +0100 From: Austin Tate Date: Tue, 4 May 93 09:07:03 BST Message-Id: <9316.9305040807@subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk> To: bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk, petrie@mcc.com Subject: Re: Concurrent Engineering - Business Process Re-eingineering Cc: all-iceimt@einet.net, bd@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk, mmm@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk In response to Charles Petrie's request for information on people workign on using design revision and rationale concepts for business process engineering, I would note that AI planning researchs (myself included) have for some time (since the mid 1970s) been using "plan rationale" or deep goal structures to record the underlying INTENTIONS behind processes, plans and schedules. My Nonlin planner and the NOAH planer from SRI (both about 1975) were able to generate plans from hieracrchical descriptions of actions and plan components (processes). The output was a hierarchical PERT chart or petri-net representation of the plan. Nonlin specifically used a representation of the underlying reasons for the specifically chosen actions in a plan. Later version of Nonlin with a plan revision capability (based on a decision graph similar to early versions of facilities now available in reason/truth maintenance systems). Over the years more flexible plan representations have been developed. We worked on a "club" project as part of the UK ALvey Programme called PLANIT with around 25 UK organisations to develop an AI plan representation based tool that could integrate information about process planning (not in the business process sense - I mean here the manufacturing process for components), project planning and job shop scheduling. The user of the KEE based prototype tool could perform constrained editing of the rationale based linked structures in an enterprise (the example being a company building fuel tanker trucks) to adjust the processes, plans and schedules as circumstances or requirements changed or as an alternative manufacturing process was being considered. It was early days (1984-5) but is similar to what we are trying to do with more sophisticated representations now. We have used this background to input to recent work to define a shared ontology for plan entities which is being published via the DARPA/Rome Lab Planning Initiative as KRSL. Our most recent planner (O-Plan) takes this some way forward but is still based on underlying goal structures to capture the rationale for activities chosen for a specific process or plan. As well as applications in mission control, manufacturing, logistics, etc, we are now using the same concepts in business process modelling. Our approach gives the capability to re-engineer processes after modelling and analysis points out areas for improvement. This can then be done by constrained editing out parts of the current process (replacing these with "flaws" based on the rationale structure), and then using constrained editing or constraint propogation and search based synthesis planning methods to propose or make improvements to the process. Hope these notes serve to fill you all in on our interests. Austin Tate Prof. Austin Tate AI Applications Institute University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN United Kingdom email A.Tate@ed.ac.uk tel UK +31 650 2732 fax UK +31 650 6513 From KMCD%A1%UTRC@mrgate.utc.com Tue May 4 14:27:33 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA21694; Tue, 4 May 93 14:27:33 CDT Received: from utrcgw (utrcgw.utc.com) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA05933; Tue, 4 May 93 14:27:22 CDT Received: from mrgate.utc.com by utrcgw.utc.com (PMDF #2906 ) id <01GXS1IRR0K60082CE@utrcgw.utc.com>; Tue, 4 May 1993 15:25:02 EDT Received: with PMDF-MR; Tue, 4 May 1993 14:50:31 EDT Date: 04 May 1993 14:39:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kevin M. Dye (203) 727-7483" Subject: DTM & BPR To: ALL-ICEIMT@einet.net Message-Id: <01GXS62OP7G80082CE@mrgate.utc.com> X-Envelope-To: all-iceimt@einet.NET Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary (ID ro+4mRUTHGDZvDsisV/dnw)" Posting-Date: 04 May 1993 14:40:00 -0400 (EDT) Importance: normal Priority: non-urgent X-Hop-Count: 2 A1-Type: MAIL --Boundary (ID ro+4mRUTHGDZvDsisV/dnw) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII --Boundary (ID ro+4mRUTHGDZvDsisV/dnw) Content-type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 11:57:00 EDT Subject: BPR & Design Methods Sender: "Kevin M. Dye (203) 727-7483" To: ICEIMT@EINET.NET Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Posting-date: Tue, 4 May 1993 12:02:00 EDT Importance: normal A1-type: MAIL Charles Petrie suggested I foward references on John Warfield's work regarding the applicability of Design Theory & Methodology to things like Business Process Reengineering. Please find attached a message which includes bibliographic info and sources. --Boundary (ID ro+4mRUTHGDZvDsisV/dnw) Content-type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 10:00:00 EDT Subject: RE: Warfield's work Sender: "Kevin M. Dye (203) 727-7483" To: Remote Internet User <_IN%JLF%AIAI.EDINBURGH.AC.UK%A1%UTRC@mrgate.utc.com> Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Posting-date: Tue, 4 May 1993 10:14:00 EDT Importance: normal A1-type: MAIL John N. Warfield is associated with George Mason University Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences. An annotated bibiliography of his work is available through Fenwick Library and material can be borrowed via interlibrary loan by contacting Interlibrary Loan Department Fenwick Library George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 U.S.A. Your international requests must be sent by your library. The outline of the bibliography includes sections on Planning Systems Science and Conceptual Science Structural Modeling High-Productivity Group Processes Display Representations Design Science Design Applications Social Roles in the Systems Age I will recommend his book "A Science of Generic Design: Managing Complexity through Systems Design", Salinas, CA., Intersystems, 1990, two volume set, and his book "Societal Systems: Planning, Policy, and Complexity", New York: Wiley Interscience 1976, reprinted in paperback Salinas, CA. Intersystems 1989, which presents theoretical and empirical results relevant to issues of coping with complexity. Looking forward to continued correspondence with you on the subject. Kevin M.C. Dye |||| Integrated Associate Research Engineer |||| Product Product Development and Manufacturing |||| Development United Technologies Research Center Laboratory 411 Silver Lane, MS 129-48 East Hartford, CT 06108 Phone: (203)727-7483, Technet 446-7483 Fax: (203)727-7880, Technet 446-7880 Internet: kmcd@utrc.utc.com --Boundary (ID ro+4mRUTHGDZvDsisV/dnw)-- From bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Wed May 5 05:56:55 1993 Return-Path: Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22568; Wed, 5 May 93 05:56:55 CDT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Wed, 5 May 1993 11:31:46 +0100 From: Austin Tate Date: Wed, 5 May 93 11:33:40 BST Message-Id: <10561.9305051033@subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: AI Plan Representations - Rationale Capture in Plans and Processes _____________________________________________________________________________ AI Plan Representation in O-Plan2 _____________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Austin Tate AI Applications Institute University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN United Kingdom email A.Tate@ed.ac.uk tel UK +31 650 2732 fax UK +31 650 6513 This note explains a little about the model of activity being used in systems like O-Plan2, PLANIT, OPTIMUM-AIV, etc. and now being promoted as one basis for our work in process modelling. We are very keen to ensure our work fits closely with systems engineering work in train elsewhere - hence the comparison and linkage of terminology to IDEF. Its just as easy to link to other SADM type modelling (such as CORE or HOOD). O-Plan2 Task Formalism (TF) Triangle Model of Activity ------------------------------------------------------ The O-Plan2 team at Edinburgh are actively revising O-Plan2 Task Formalism (TF) and in particular are trying to simplify some of the notions and to relate them better to existing software engineering and systems engineering requirements capture and modelling languages and methods (like IDEF, CORE, HOOD, etc). We have as a core an action decomposition (tasks descriptions, plans, partial plans, action schemas and other operators or primitive activities all being in exactly the same form as before in TF). This is reflected in our "triangle" model of an activity. The vertical dimension reflects action (or plan or task) decomposition, the horizontal dimension reflects time. Inputs and Outputs are split into three principal categories (authority, teleology and resources). Arbitrarily complex modelling is possible in all dimensions. "Types" are used to further differentiate the inputs and outputs and and their semantics. activity ^ | | | / \ / \ authority / \ authority pre-conditions --> / activity \ --> post-conditions resources / decomposition \ resources / \ ----------------------- --- time ---> "Entry" to the model can be from any of the three points in the triangle model. From the top vertex to ask for action (or plan or task) decompositions, from the right to ask for actions (or plans or tasks) satisfying or providing the output requirement (a desired effect or "goal", a required resource, or a needed authority. These two sides are used mostly by our planners to date. The third side from the right can reflect triggering conditions for an action (or plan or task) and will be needed when improved independent processes are modelled as in our Excalibur system prototype. The "intentions" or "rationale" behind the use of a particular activity in a process or plan can be related to the features of this triangle model. Normally causality or teleology via the pre-conditions/post-conditions has been used in AI planers for their plan rationale or Goal Structure (as we term it at Edinburgh). But in the richer model now in use in O-Plan2 for example, rationale in terms of resource usage or provision (e.g. this activity has been included in a plan only to provide a resource, its post-conditions may be a side efect for this PARTICULAR use). The same applies to authority provision. Relationship to IDEF -------------------- Note that there is a direct mapping here to IDEF for example. control | | v +---------------------+ | | input ---> | decomposition | ---> output | | +---------------------+ ^ | | mechanism Where IDEF modellers usually use control for authority related triggers and mechanism to reflect resource availability. A criticism of IDEF if the lack of direct support for modelling the different types of output and their intended destination. Experience IDEF modellers use the arc labels, naming conventions and the "notes" system in an IDEF support "kit" to encode this information. The O-Plan2 TF triangle model more directly supports this and will allow better support tools. O-Plan2 TF typed conditions and typed resources are already employed to further differentiate inputs and outputs and how they may be legitimately manipulated in a plan. Further work is continuing on this and new work has now started on authority modelling along the same lines. From mklein@atc.boeing.com Tue May 11 19:26:36 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA01775; Tue, 11 May 93 19:26:36 CDT Received: from atc.boeing.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA21887; Tue, 11 May 93 19:26:27 CDT Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA14443; Tue, 11 May 93 17:30:28 -0700 Received: from [130.42.151.95] (lorien) by grace.rt.cs.boeing.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13189; Tue, 11 May 93 17:24:18 PDT Date: Tue, 11 May 93 17:24:18 PDT Message-Id: <9305120024.AA13189@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com> To: mklein@atc.einet.net From: mklein@atc.boeing.com X-Sender: mklein@grace Subject: "Intelligent" Workflow Technology Research? List moderators: please post if appropriate for your list. I am involved in a project investigating how computing can provide "intelligent" agents/services to improve the functionality of existing workflow technology. Some key areas we have identified for further investigation include task assignment (computer-supported assignments of tasks to agents based on an expressive model of the organization's hierachy, resources, members, their skills, experience and workload etc), exception handling (providing customizable policies for dealing with contingencies like approaching/passed deadlines, missing resources, changing requirements) and queue management (identifying opportunities to reduce work by merging common subtasks across multiple tasks in an individuals' work queue). Just to give you an example, we have been investigating the use of rationale capture technology to record the reasons for a given workflow having a given structure to facilitate computer-supported workflow modification in response to exceptional conditions such as resource availability changes. I would appreciate any pointers people can offer to publications or research groups addressing this area, and would be glad to share the pointers I already have. Thanks, Mark Klein -------------------- Mark Klein, PhD Boeing Computer Services Building 33-07, Mailstop 7L-44 2760 160th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98008 USA Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com -------------------- Mark Klein, PhD Boeing Computer Services Building 33-07, Mailstop 7L-44 2760 160th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98008 USA Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com From mlb2@gte.com Tue May 11 19:27:57 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA01836; Tue, 11 May 93 19:27:57 CDT Received: from bunny.gte.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA21926; Tue, 11 May 93 19:27:55 CDT Received: from tahoe by bunny.gte.com (5.61/GTEL2.19) id AA15169; Tue, 11 May 93 20:27:50 -0400 Received: by tahoe.dom (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10241; Tue, 11 May 93 20:28:51 EDT Date: Tue, 11 May 93 20:28:51 EDT From: mlb2@gte.com (Michael Brodie) Message-Id: <9305120028.AA10241@tahoe.dom> Subject: I am out of the office Apparently-To: all-iceimt@einet.net I am out of the office until May 18, 1993. Your mail regarding ""Intelligent" Workflow Technology Research?" will be read when I return. If you have something urgent, please contact em02@gte.com (Emon Mortazavi). Best wishes, Michael L. Brodie From srini@gtsurya.gatech.edu Tue May 11 19:36:09 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA02116; Tue, 11 May 93 19:36:09 CDT Received: from hydra.gatech.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA22201; Tue, 11 May 93 19:36:04 CDT Received: from gtsurya (gtsurya.gatech.edu) by hydra.gatech.edu (5.67a/3.1) id AA13482; Tue, 11 May 1993 20:36:03 -0400 Received: by gtsurya.gatech.edu (4.1/1.0) id AA06274; Tue, 11 May 93 19:49:40 EDT Date: Tue, 11 May 93 19:49:40 EDT From: srini@gtsurya.gatech.edu (K Srinivasan) Message-Id: <9305112349.AA06274@gtsurya> Subject: I am on vacation till May 20th Apparently-To: all-iceimt@einet.net Your mail regarding ""Intelligent" Workflow Technology Research?" will be read when I return. If you have something urgent, please contact hari@gtsurya.gatech.edu or 011-91-422-42060. From bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Wed May 12 03:07:07 1993 Return-Path: Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA02859; Wed, 12 May 93 03:07:07 CDT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Wed, 12 May 1993 09:06:12 +0100 From: Austin Tate Date: Wed, 12 May 93 09:07:47 BST Message-Id: <12703.9305120807@subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net, mklein@atc.boeing.com Subject: Re: "Intelligent" Workflow Technology Research? Mark, to give some input relating to your query on intelligent flow management based on rationale, you may know that we are working on a number of task planning systems (based on Nonlin, O-Plan and O-Plan2) including work with the the US government as part of the Planning Initiative. These all use goal structure/rationale capture as their underlying process and plan representation. in work with Japan, we have done scheduling applications of the same architecture (a variant called TOSCA - The Open SCheduling Architecture) in manufacturing. We have put considerable thought into how the work we have done can be used to link levels of business process modelling and strategic decision making, tactical plan elaboration, and operational dispatch through intelligent work flow management with explanation and rescheduling aids based on process and plan rationale. We have just won a large (2.4 milion pounds) project in the UK with government support as part of the UK Itelligent Systems Integration porgramme. Our consortium involves 4 other groups to explore this further. We have explored our thinking with flow manager product companies as we are sure that flow managers are the way to deliver the benefits of the work we are doing. This project is called ENTERPRISE. Two user sites are involved in tnbe project. AIAI is one of the main technology providers. This is effectively one of the large scale enterprise integration pilots called for in the working sessions if the First Conference on Enterprise Integration Modelling. We have a number of projects internally and with clients which instantiate parts of the overall ideas and are in productive use for them. Our HARDY diagramming aid (in C++) already allows for capture of processes and defintion of processes, output of quality manuals and the like. I thought this brief overview of our interests and news of ENTERPRISE (announced a week ago) may be of interest to all-iceimt. I would be pleased to talk in more detail directly to you about this. Prof. Austin Tate Technical Director AI Applications Institute University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN United Kingdom email A.Tate@ed.ac.uk tel UK +31 650 2732 fax UK +31 650 6513 From speyer@mcc.com Fri May 14 11:41:42 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA03727; Fri, 14 May 93 11:41:42 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25727; Fri, 14 May 93 11:41:34 CDT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA27682; Fri, 14 May 93 11:41:33 CDT Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19_mod) id AA06737; Fri, 14 May 93 11:41:32 CDT Date: Fri, 14 May 93 11:41:32 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9305141641.AA06737@joy.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: RE: I am on vacation till May 20th recipient all-iceimt From GeneP@ccsdsmtp.columbiasc.ncr.com Sat May 15 14:07:59 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA04311; Sat, 15 May 93 14:07:59 CDT Received: from ncrcom.DaytonOH.NCR.COM by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA26907; Sat, 15 May 93 14:07:54 CDT Received: from ncrcae by ncrcom.DaytonOH.NCR.COM id aa09819; 15 May 93 15:07 EDT Received: from ccsdsmtp.columbiasc.ncr.com ([153.78.225.25]) by ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM with SMTP id AA23722 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Sat, 15 May 1993 19:06:02 GMT Received: by ccsdsmtp.columbiasc.ncr.com with Microsoft Mail id <2BF5694C@ccsdsmtp.columbiasc.ncr.com>; Sat, 15 May 93 15:06:04 PDT From: Pierce Gene To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: RE: I am on vacation till May 20th Date: Sat, 15 May 93 14:06:00 PDT Message-Id: <2BF5694C@ccsdsmtp.columbiasc.ncr.com> Encoding: 26 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 - I have an interest in this topic as well. Could someone please send any information regarding " Intelligent Workflow Technology Research" Gene Pierce ---------- From: all-iceimt To: gene.pierce Subject: I am on vacation till May 20th Date: Tue, May 11, 1993 7:51PM Your mail regarding ""Intelligent" Workflow Technology Research?" will be read when I return. If you have something urgent, please contact hari@gtsurya.gatech.edu or 011-91-422-42060. From speyer@mcc.com Wed May 19 10:55:20 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08233; Wed, 19 May 93 10:55:20 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA00422; Wed, 19 May 93 10:55:17 CDT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA15957; Wed, 19 May 93 10:55:13 CDT Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19_mod) id AA10115; Wed, 19 May 93 10:55:11 CDT Date: Wed, 19 May 93 10:55:11 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9305191555.AA10115@joy.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net, jl@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu Subject: Design Rationale / Business Process Reengineering This message is being forwarded for Jintae Lee (jl@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu) of MIT. ----- Begin Included Message ----- Date: Tue, 18 May 93 16:58:13 CDT From: jl@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following description of the Process Handbook project should be relevant to the recent discussion on the connection between business process reengineering and design rationales. This project includes participants from MIT, Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Hawaii, and UCLA. (Malone, Crowston, Lee, and Pentland 1993). The goal of the process handbook project is to support process analysis and redesign by creating an electronic handbook organizing numerous example processes and an environment for systematically exploring various combination of these processes. The processes are represented and organized along two major relations -- decomposition, specialization -- as well as many other dependency relations such as prerequisite, producer-consumer dependencies. The process handbook uses these relations to help the user better understand existing processes and explore alternatives systematically. Because a process is represented as a specialization of more general processes, the user can better understand what it shares with other similar processes and how it is different. Because the decomposition of a process tells the user about its subprocesses, each of which is itself a specialization of other processes, the user can systematically generate and explore alternative process designs by trying out different specializations for each of the steps. Process descriptions are being collected from field site companies, from case studies, and from other relevant literature . In each of these cases, we will attempt to extract the rationales underlying the processes and systematically associate them with each handbook entry. For example, if Boeing used a blackboard-based communication process to coordinate its assembly operations, we will try to find out why it was chosen and what alternatiives were explored. We will also study, when possible, what the consequences were. These rationales will then be used to help explore new alternatives as well as better understand exsiting processes. The representation of these rationales will be based on DRL (Lee'92), semi-formally represented initially but incrementally formalizable as the needs arise. A major challenge is to separate out the credit assignment problem, that is how can we tell that which choice of processes, if at all, resulted in the successful or disastrous outcome, as the case may be. I have been looking at planning literature for insights, and the recent message by A.Tate on plan rationales seems very interesting. I would be very interested in forming or joining a subgroup discussing these topics. Lee, J. & K.-Y. Lai (1991). What's in Design Rationale? invited submission to Human-Computer Interaction special issue on design rationale 6(3-4) pp. 251-280 Malone, T. W., Crowston, K., Lee, J. and Pentland, B. Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, Morgantown, WV, April 20-22, 1993. ----- End Included Message ----- From jlf@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Wed May 19 11:04:38 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08557; Wed, 19 May 93 11:04:38 CDT Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA00708; Wed, 19 May 93 11:04:13 CDT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Wed, 19 May 1993 17:01:34 +0100 From: John Fraser Date: Wed, 19 May 93 17:03:50 BST Message-Id: <28190.9305191603@aiai.ed.ac.uk> Subject: I am away Apparently-To: all-iceimt@net.einet I will not be able to read your mail regarding "Design Rationale / Business Process Reengineering" until Monday 31st May. Please don't send me any unnecessary mail in the meantime. Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Fraser email: J.L.Fraser@ed.ac.uk Group Leader, Knowledge Based Decision Support Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute Tel: +44 (031) 650 2739 80 South Bridge, EDINBURGH EH1 1HN Fax: +44 (031) 650 6513 From srini@gtsurya.gatech.edu Wed May 19 11:04:54 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08571; Wed, 19 May 93 11:04:54 CDT Received: from hydra.gatech.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA00725; Wed, 19 May 93 11:04:48 CDT Received: from gtsurya (gtsurya.gatech.edu) by hydra.gatech.edu (5.67a/3.1) id AA01478; Wed, 19 May 1993 12:04:43 -0400 Received: by gtsurya.gatech.edu (4.1/1.0) id AA08835; Wed, 19 May 93 11:17:33 EDT Date: Wed, 19 May 93 11:17:33 EDT From: srini@gtsurya.gatech.edu (K Srinivasan) Message-Id: <9305191517.AA08835@gtsurya> Subject: I am on vacation till May 20th Apparently-To: all-iceimt@einet.net Your mail regarding "Design Rationale / Business Process Reengineering" will be read when I return. If you have something urgent, please contact hari@gtsurya.gatech.edu or 011-91-422-42060. From masrani@skyler.arc.ab.ca Wed May 19 12:14:41 1993 Return-Path: Received: from eureka.arc.ab.ca by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA09438; Wed, 19 May 93 12:14:41 CDT Received: from skyler.arc.ab.ca by eureka.arc.ab.ca (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA01242; Wed, 19 May 93 11:18:27 MDT Received: from [128.144.6.32] by skyler.arc.ab.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA25355; Wed, 19 May 93 11:14:31 MDT Date: Wed, 19 May 93 11:14:24 MDT Message-Id: <9305191714.AA25355@skyler.arc.ab.ca> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net From: masrani@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Roy Masrani) Subject: EI and EIS Hi. Can someone point me to literature that can help me differentiate between the promise of "enterprise integration" and the past promises of "executive information systems"...the 1 nugget that I have come across is the notion that EI assumes a heterogeneous computing environment, whereas EIS requires that first the computing env. become standardized. This request is motivated by a 2 year joint venture with a company where we are building software to help integrate different applications that are necessary for an oil and gas company to "manage its value". Some help in putting this project in a broader context would be much appreciated. Thanks Roy Masrani, Alberta Research Council, 3rd Floor, 6815 8 Street N.E., Calgary, CANADA. (403)-297-2354 ; fax: (403) 297-2337 From KMCD%A1%UTRC@mrgate.utc.com Wed May 19 12:54:42 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA09799; Wed, 19 May 93 12:54:42 CDT Received: from utrcgw (utrcgw.utc.com) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA01828; Wed, 19 May 93 12:54:35 CDT Received: from mrgate.utc.com by utrcgw.utc.com (PMDF #2906 ) id <01GYD1DMRW960007TQ@utrcgw.utc.com>; Wed, 19 May 1993 13:54:33 EDT Received: with PMDF-MR; Wed, 19 May 1993 13:52:10 EDT Date: 19 May 1993 13:33:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kevin M. Dye (203) 727-7483" Subject: RE: EI and EIS To: "all-iceimt@einet.NET" Message-Id: <01GYD1DBCWQC0007TQ@mrgate.utc.com> X-Envelope-To: all-iceimt@einet.NET Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Posting-Date: 19 May 1993 13:50:00 -0400 (EDT) Importance: normal Priority: non-urgent X-Hop-Count: 2 A1-Type: MAIL Regarding the differentiation of Enterprise Integration and Executive Information Systems. My background knowledge on Executive Information Systems comes from awareness of a few EIS systems implemented in our company and from research papers I followed several years ago through the Industrial Liaison Program at MIT. My impression of the EIS movement is that it was primarily focused on monitoring, rather than execution, types of applications. Using an EIS application to "roll up" performance measures from several different systems, replacing intermediate ranks of middle managers whom used to do the "consolidation". In this fashion, the executive would be able to receive the information when they requested it rather than "when it was ready". This efficiency implied the executive would also be able to review information more frequently. The invevitable filtering by middle managers would also be removed eliminating the influence of personal agenda's on the numbers. Neither our internal EIS systems nor the research reports reviewed mentioned any thing about execution of actions based on decisions made with the information. In this sense it was one way flow. There were some reports regarding Executive Expert Systems which went the next step and made some decisions automatically based on incoming data but even those did not indicate a flow of action from the executive back into the system and organization. The EIS in our company is certainly not based on standards. The reason it was a necessary project is precisely because there were heritage systems, without any standards, that needed to be tied togethor. So I don't understand your reference to applicability of standards to EIS, I have more an impression of a patchwork approach (unfortunately). Enterprise Integration on the other hand is about helping the enterprise function, not just monitoring its performance; EI is about omnidirectional flow of data and execution of actions rather than unidirectional flow to the senior executives; EI can be based on standards (at least at the lower levels) and probably market dominant proprietary open architectures for higher levels in the system. The focus of EI is on empowerment of the worker rather than the Executive. From bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Thu May 20 03:31:21 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA10261; Thu, 20 May 93 03:31:21 CDT Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA02694; Thu, 20 May 93 03:31:12 CDT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Thu, 20 May 1993 09:26:25 +0100 From: Austin Tate Date: Thu, 20 May 93 09:28:25 BST Message-Id: <585.9305200828@subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk> To: all-iceimt@einet.net, jl@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu Subject: Plan Rationale / Business Process Reengineering Jintae, the message to EINET looked interesting and we seem to have very similar objectives. did you ever see our "triangle model of activity" posting to EINET? I attach it here as there sems to be new contacts on EINET. We consider processes and subprocesses as having hierarchical decompositions, we can also specialise via instantiation of variables in the schemas we use. This gives us the "vertical" modeling dimension. Then we have authority, teleology and resources threading through processes in the horizontal direction. At Edinburgh we are advocates of strongly "typing" these where domain knowledge exists to ensure the flexibility on using the process in a wider context and maintaining authority, teleology and resource reservations is clearer. AS well as being an aid in plan (or process) generation and re-engineering, this information can greatly help in explananation, justification, operationalisation of a proces or plan, work-flow management, repair and the like. I am hoping to post an old (1984) summary paper on plan intentions - which we call Goal Structure - to the EINET archives. This really summarises work done in 1976-7 in this area. Things have moved on a lot since then of course, but the background to what AI planning folk were doing could be relevant. Note that the 1976/7 work was on a UK science and engineering research council (SERC) grant involving the UK electricity generators which was titled "Planning: a joint AI/OR aproach". So it will not suprise those involved in the first enterprise integration conference that this work could be relevant. They identified a mix of AI planning related research and OR techniques aloongside large scale integration pilots as the way to move forward in enterprise integration technology. ------------ reposting of earlier EINET note -------------------------------- _____________________________________________________________________________ AI Plan Representation in O-Plan2 _____________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Austin Tate AI Applications Institute University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN United Kingdom email A.Tate@ed.ac.uk tel UK +31 650 2732 fax UK +31 650 6513 This note explains a little about the model of activity being used in systems like O-Plan2, PLANIT, OPTIMUM-AIV, etc. and now being promoted as one basis for our work in process modelling. We are very keen to ensure our work fits closely with systems engineering work in train elsewhere - hence the comparison and linkage of terminology to IDEF. Its just as easy to link to other SADM type modelling (such as CORE or HOOD). O-Plan2 Task Formalism (TF) Triangle Model of Activity ------------------------------------------------------ The O-Plan2 team at Edinburgh are actively revising O-Plan2 Task Formalism (TF) and in particular are trying to simplify some of the notions and to relate them better to existing software engineering and systems engineering requirements capture and modelling languages and methods (like IDEF, CORE, HOOD, etc). We have as a core an action decomposition (tasks descriptions, plans, partial plans, action schemas and other operators or primitive activities all being in exactly the same form as before in TF). This is reflected in our "triangle" model of an activity. The vertical dimension reflects action (or plan or task) decomposition, the horizontal dimension reflects time. Inputs and Outputs are split into three principal categories (authority, teleology and resources). Arbitrarily complex modelling is possible in all dimensions. "Types" are used to further differentiate the inputs and outputs and and their semantics. activity ^ | | | / \ / \ authority / \ authority pre-conditions --> / activity \ --> post-conditions resources / decomposition \ resources / \ ----------------------- --- time ---> "Entry" to the model can be from any of the three points in the triangle model. From the top vertex to ask for action (or plan or task) decompositions, from the right to ask for actions (or plans or tasks) satisfying or providing the output requirement (a desired effect or "goal", a required resource, or a needed authority. These two sides are used mostly by our planners to date. The third side from the right can reflect triggering conditions for an action (or plan or task) and will be needed when improved independent processes are modelled as in our Excalibur system prototype. The "intentions" or "rationale" behind the use of a particular activity in a process or plan can be related to the features of this triangle model. Normally causality or teleology via the pre-conditions/post-conditions has been used in AI planers for their plan rationale or Goal Structure (as we term it at Edinburgh). But in the richer model now in use in O-Plan2 for example, rationale in terms of resource usage or provision (e.g. this activity has been included in a plan only to provide a resource, its post-conditions may be a side efect for this PARTICULAR use). The same applies to authority provision. Relationship to IDEF -------------------- Note that there is a direct mapping here to IDEF for example. control | | v +---------------------+ | | input ---> | decomposition | ---> output | | +---------------------+ ^ | | mechanism Where IDEF modellers usually use control for authority related triggers and mechanism to reflect resource availability. A criticism of IDEF if the lack of direct support for modelling the different types of output and their intended destination. Experience IDEF modellers use the arc labels, naming conventions and the "notes" system in an IDEF support "kit" to encode this information. The O-Plan2 TF triangle model more directly supports this and will allow better support tools. O-Plan2 TF typed conditions and typed resources are already employed to further differentiate inputs and outputs and how they may be legitimately manipulated in a plan. Further work is continuing on this and new work has now started on authority modelling along the same lines. From speyer@mcc.com Thu May 20 09:23:47 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA10714; Thu, 20 May 93 09:23:47 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA03099; Thu, 20 May 93 09:23:45 CDT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA27621; Thu, 20 May 93 09:23:44 CDT Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19_mod) id AA20277; Thu, 20 May 93 09:23:43 CDT Date: Thu, 20 May 93 09:23:43 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9305201423.AA20277@joy.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: call for papers I will be updating the ICEIMT archives shortly with various contributions including those from Mark Klein, Austin Tate, Duvvuru Sriram, and the SIG reports from last year on future actions, coordination, information clearinghouse and enterprise modeling. If you have contributions you would like to share too please send them to me and I'll include them with this batch of updates. Please be sure that no copyright or publication agreements are being violated by putting the work up on a publically accessible source. I can put up abstracts that reference work elsewhere. Methods of document transfer: 1) ftp ftp.einet.net and login as anonymous cd /incoming put #note that you can not read the file that you have just put into /incoming email speyer@mcc.com notifying me of the paper. 2) email speyer@mcc.com #note that large files need to be split into multiple mail messages, anything over 64KB may not come through. 3) send me a PC floppy or diskette to: Bruce Speyer MCC 3500 W. Balcones Cntr. Dr. Austin, TX 78759-6509 Preferred documentation types: 1) plain ASCII of the abstract 2) postscript version of the document 3) sources are optional, if you can't create a postscript or it is generated on an Apple which generally can't be printed anywhere but an Apple then send me the source and I'll attempt to create the postscript output. Regards, -Bruce From petrie@mcc.com Thu Jun 3 14:46:20 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22837; Thu, 3 Jun 93 14:46:20 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA12274; Thu, 3 Jun 93 14:46:19 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA12911; Thu, 3 Jun 93 14:46:10 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA14825; Thu, 3 Jun 93 14:46:08 CDT Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 14:46:08 CDT From: petrie@mcc.com (Charles Petrie) Message-Id: <9306031946.AA14825@sunscreen.mcc.com> To: KMCD%A1%UTRC@mrgate.utc.com Cc: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: EI and EIS Reply-To: ai.petrie@mcc.com Regarding the differentiation of Enterprise Integration and Executive Information Systems....My impression of the EIS movement is that it was primarily focused on monitoring, rather than execution, types of applications.... Enterprise Integration on the other hand is about helping the enterprise function, not just monitoring its performance. Kevin, I agree with this. At the ICEIMT, the EI Modeling SIG came to a similar conclusion. EI Models were being used more for executive information (and perhaps not even monitoring) than for helping the enterprise function. An "omnidirectional flow of data and execution" is indeed critical to EI. WIthout feedback, an EI model is not very useful, or used. Apparently. cp From gdennis@ntu.ac.sg Fri Jun 4 01:04:29 1993 Return-Path: Received: from ntu.ac.sg by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA00534; Fri, 4 Jun 93 01:04:29 CDT Received: by ntu.ac.sg (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA04809; Fri, 4 Jun 93 14:04:19 +0800 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 14:04:19 +0800 From: gdennis@ntu.ac.sg (Dennis Sng) Message-Id: <9306040604.AA04809@ntu.ac.sg> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: Survey: CE Journals/Conferences Hello, I am doing an informal survey to find out what, in your opinion, are the top journals and conferences in concurrent engineering. I would appreciate it if you could name at least one, but not more than 3, refereed journals or conferences in each of the following categories: 1. CE specific journals (eg. CE Research & Applications) 2. CE specific conferences/workshops (eg. CE&CALS or WET ICE) 3. General journals with CE topics (eg. IEEE Computer) 4. General conferences/workshops with CE topics (eg. ASME Design Theory & Methodology or the AAAI workshops) Please reply directly to me at the email address below. If there is interest, I will summarize the results and mail it back to you (however, since this is a closed and not very scientifically conducted survey, the results should not be used for any decision making). Thanks for your time. Regards, Dennis. ======================================================================== Dennis Sng Internet: gdennis@ntu.ac.sg GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology Fax: (65) 791-6377 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263 Tel: (65) 799-5548 From petrie@mcc.com Fri Jun 4 10:24:39 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA07563; Fri, 4 Jun 93 10:24:39 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA13755; Fri, 4 Jun 93 10:24:29 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA24221; Fri, 4 Jun 93 10:24:27 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA00851; Fri, 4 Jun 93 10:24:26 CDT Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 10:24:25 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: [Info on how to send email to the President] Message-Id: > THE WHITE HOUSE > > Office of Presidential Correspondence > >______________________________________________________________ >For Immediate Release June 1, 1993 > > > LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT > IN ANNOUNCEMENT OF WHITE HOUSE ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCESS > > > > > Dear Friends: > > Part of our commitment to change is to keep the White House >in step with today's changing technology. As we move ahead into >the twenty-first century, we must have a government that can show >the way and lead by example. Today, we are pleased to announce >that for the first time in history, the White House will be >connected to you via electronic mail. Electronic mail will bring >the Presidency and this Administration closer and make it more >accessible to the people. > > The White House will be connected to the Internet as well as >several on-line commercial vendors, thus making us more >accessible and more in touch with people across this country. We >will not be alone in this venture. Congress is also getting >involved, and an exciting announcement regarding electronic mail >is expected to come from the House of Representatives tomorrow. > > Various government agencies also will be taking part in the >near future. Americans Communicating Electronically is a project >developed by several government agencies to coordinate and >improve access to the nation's educational and information assets >and resources. This will be done through interactive >communications such as electronic mail, and brought to people who >do not have ready access to a computer. > > However, we must be realistic about the limitations and >expectations of the White House electronic mail system. This >experiment is the first-ever e-mail project done on such a large >scale. As we work to reinvent government and streamline our >processes, the e-mail project can help to put us on the leading >edge of progress. > > Initially, your e-mail message will be read and receipt >immediately acknowledged. A careful count will be taken on the >number received as well as the subject of each message. However, >the White House is not yet capable of sending back a tailored >response via electronic mail. We are hoping this will happen by >the end of the year. > > A number of response-based programs which allow technology >to help us read your message more effectively, and, eventually >respond to you electronically in a timely fashion will be tried >out as well. These programs will change periodically as we >experiment with the best way to handle electronic mail from the >public. Since this has never been tried before, it is important >to allow for some flexibility in the system in these first >stages. We welcome your suggestions. > > This is an historic moment in the White House and we look >forward to your participation and enthusiasm for this milestone >event. We eagerly anticipate the day when electronic mail from >the public is an integral and normal part of the White House >communications system. > > > > President Clinton Vice President Gore > > PRESIDENT@WHITEHOUSE.GOV VICE.PRESIDENT@WHITEHOUSE.GOV --- Mark A. Breland - Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) Ada Fault Tolerance | voice: (512) 338-3509 3500 West Balcones Center Drive | FAX: (512) 338-3900 Austin, Texas 78759-6509 USA | internet: breland@mcc.com From petrie@mcc.com Thu Jun 10 09:00:40 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA19563; Thu, 10 Jun 93 09:00:40 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA19482; Thu, 10 Jun 93 09:00:38 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA23757; Thu, 10 Jun 93 08:57:48 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA05311; Thu, 10 Jun 93 08:40:26 CDT Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 8:40:25 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: ext-ei%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CAIA-94 CALL FOR PAPERS Message-Id: CALL FOR PAPERS CAIA-94 The Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications: Developing Enabling Technologies and Integrating AI into Application Solutions Marriott Riverwalk - San Antonio, Texas March 1-4, 1994 Increasingly, the role of AI in business and scientific applications is that of one component in a complex system. Integrating AI with knowledge sources and databases, user interfaces, and existing software is an important aspect of advancing the application of AI to real world problems. This year's conference will emphasize both the development of enabling AI technology and the issues involved in the integration of this technology into products and processes. We are also seeking innovative ideas for new application areas and new research and technology transfer paradigms. Our goal is to increase interaction between different communities and to increase our understanding of how AI technology can be applied to real- world problems. With these goals in mind, two general kinds of papers are appropriate. First are case studies of AI applications that address significant real- world problems. These papers must (1) justify the use of the AI technique, based on the problem and application requirements, (2) explain how the AI technology contributed to the solution and was integrated with other components, and (3) describe the status of the implementation. Second are papers on novel AI techniques and principles that may enable more ambitious real-world applications. All the usual AI topics are appropriate. These papers must (1) describe the importance of the approach from an applications context, (2) describe the work in sufficient technical detail and clarity, (3) clearly and thoroughly differentiate the work from previous efforts. While finished work is important, one major role for this conference is as a forum for exchanging ideas. For this reason, well-written reports on work-in-progress and descriptions of innovative partial implementations are encouraged. In fact, we hope to structure CAIA-94 in several ways to facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners. First, we will include invited speakers on various appropriate topics, of both technical and more general scope. Second, panel sessions are very important in an inter-disciplinary area and will be a key feature of CAIA-94. Third, CAIA will include a mix of introductory and advanced tutorials and a small workshop program oriented towards wide participation. Other, more novel forums such as evening discussion sessions may be tried. Papers should be limited to 5000 words and papers significantly longer that this will not be reviewed. Accepted papers will be allotted seven pages in the conference proceedings, and the best papers will be considered for a special issue of IEEE Expert to appear late in 1994. Awards will be presented to the best paper and best student paper at the conference. The first page of the paper must contain the following information (where applicable) in the order shown: * Title. * Author's name and affiliation (specify student status). * Contact information (name, postal address, phone and email address). * Abstract: A 200 word abstract that includes a clear statement describing the paper's original contributions and what new lesson is imparted. * AI topic: One or more terms describing the relevant AI areas, e.g. knowledge acquisition, explanation, diagnosis, etc. * Domain area: One or more terms describing the problem domain area, e.g. mechanical design, factory scheduling, education, medicine, etc. * Language/Tool: Underlying programming languages, systems and tools used. * Status: Development and deployment status, as appropriate. * Effort: Person-years of effort put into developing the particular aspect of the project being described. * Impact: A 20 word description of estimated or measured (specify) benefit of the application developed. In addition to papers, we will be accepting the following types of submissions: * Proposals for Panel Discussions. Provide a brief description of the topic (1000 words or less). Indicate appropriateness for this conference, the membership of the panel and interest in organizing/moderating the discussion. * Proposals for Tutorial Presentations. Proposals for three hour tutorials of both an introductory and advanced nature are requested. Tutorials which analyze classes of applications in depth or examine techniques appropriate for a particular class of applications are of particular interest. Include a detailed topic outline, a half-page synopsis of the focus, topics, a list of benefits to the audience, and a full professional vita. * Proposals for Workshops. Proposals are sought for one day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. These workshops should avoid having too narrow a scope (such as "AI in Radiology"); rather, they should be designed to foster communication between both experts and interested newcomers about a broad application area (for example, "Applications of AI to Software") or address a concern that covers many applications (for example, "Issues in Technology Transfer"). Include a one-page description of the workshop and a small organizing committee. Important Dates * August 31, 1993: Four copies of papers, and three copies of all other proposals are due to the program chair at the address listed below (no electronic submissions). * October 15, 1993: Author notifications mailed. * December 14, 1993: Accepted papers and tutorial notes due to IEEE. * March 1, 1994: Conference tutorial program and workshops. * March 1-4, 1994: Conference technical program. Submit Papers and all Proposals to: Peter G. Selfridge AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 2B-425 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Phone: 908-582-6801, fax -7550 Email: pgs@research.att.com For registration and additional conference information, contact: CAIA-94 IEEE Computer Society 1730 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-1903 Phone: 202-371-1013 General Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California Program Chair: Peter G. Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories Publicity Chair: Marc Goodman, Cognitive Systems and Brandeis University Local Arrangements Chair: Aaron Konstam, Trinity University Program Committee Jan Aikins Trinzic Corporation Chid Apte IBM Larry Birnbaum Northwestern University Ron Brachman AT&T Mark Burstein BBN Dan Cooke U. Texas El Paso Vasant Dhar NYU Tim Finin U. Maryland Baltimore County Phil Hayes Carnegie Group Jim Hendler U. Maryland Haym Hirsh Rutgers Lou Hoebel Rome Laboratory, USAF Se June Hong IBM Lewis Johnson USC/ISI Bernadette Kowalski-Minton Academic Systems Corp. Larry Lefkowitz Bellcore Don McKay Paramax Robert Milne Intelligent Applications Ltd. Fumio Mizoguchi Tokyo Science University Charles Petrie MCC David Redmiles UC Boulder Anil Rewari DEC Marcio Rillo University of San Paulo, Brazil Eric Schoen Schlumberger Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed Bob Simpson NCR Elliot Soloway U. Michigan Craig Stanfill Thinking Machines Loren Terveen AT&T Oliver Vadas Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI David Waltz Thinking Machines and Brandeis U. John Yen Texas A&M University General information on CAIA-94, including this Call for Papers, is available electronically. Send email to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU or try the Gopher server on GOPHER.CS.UMBC.EDU for a description of what is available and how to retrieve. For more information or clarification, contact the IEEE Computer Society or the Program Chair at the addresses above. From speyer@mcc.com Fri Jun 11 11:15:03 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08724; Fri, 11 Jun 93 11:15:03 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA20572; Fri, 11 Jun 93 11:15:01 CDT Received: from joy.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA07729; Fri, 11 Jun 93 11:14:42 CDT Received: by joy.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19_mod) id AA29446; Fri, 11 Jun 93 11:14:38 CDT Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 11:14:38 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9306111614.AA29446@joy.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net, parks@eeel.nist.gov Subject: CFP for IDEF-UG (user group) Curt Parks writes: >The IDEF-UG fall meeting is October 18-21, 1993 at the Salt >Lake City Marriott. The abstracts are due July 2, 1993. The >Conference theme is "Global Competitiveness -- Integrating >Process, Information & Technology" For information call >(513) 259-4702 or FAX abstracts with author address & phone >to (513) 259-4343. Please post to the ICEIMT list. From morgan@arc.ab.ca Fri Jun 11 12:16:04 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA09828; Fri, 11 Jun 93 12:16:04 CDT Received: from eureka.arc.ab.ca by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA20929; Fri, 11 Jun 93 12:15:59 CDT Received: from skyler.arc.ab.ca by eureka.arc.ab.ca (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA23707; Fri, 11 Jun 93 11:20:08 MDT Received: from [128.144.5.44] by skyler.arc.ab.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA22390; Fri, 11 Jun 93 11:15:50 MDT Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 11:15:49 MDT Message-Id: <9306111715.AA22390@skyler.arc.ab.ca> To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: morgan@arc.ab.ca (Sean Morgan) X-Sender: morgan@skyler.arc.ab.ca Subject: sci.engr.manufacturing newsgroup created Though not explicitly stated in the following description, there may be additional discussion on concurrent engineering, etc. in this new group. Sean ---------------------------------------- Group Name =========== sci.engr.manufacturing Status ======== Unmoderated Rationale ========== A discussion group for "Manufacturing Engineering" is a means for interested parties to learn about current developments, events, and issues in regards to manufacturing. It provides a forum for people with similar needs to make contact and will help establish new news groups specific to special manufacturing topics (i.e. Design for Manufacture, Simulation, Optimization, Holonic Manufacturing, etc.). Proposer ======= Thomas Becker tjbecker@tinman.mke.ab.com -----------------+---------------+---------------------------------- Sean Morgan | Integrated | ALBERTA 3rd Flr, 6815 - 8 St NE 403/297-2628 | Manufacturing | RESEARCH Calgary, AB, Canada morgan@arc.ab.ca | Program | COUNCIL T2E 7H7 From terje@felucca.vr.dnv.no Fri Jun 18 04:18:01 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA04297; Fri, 18 Jun 93 04:18:01 CDT Received: from vr.dnv.no (lugger.vr.dnv.no) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25590; Fri, 18 Jun 93 04:17:54 CDT Received: from felucca.vr.dnv.no by vr.dnv.no (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02192; Fri, 18 Jun 93 11:14:22 +0200 Received: by felucca.vr.dnv.no (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27218; Fri, 18 Jun 93 11:14:21 +0200 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 93 11:14:21 +0200 From: terje@felucca.vr.dnv.no (Terje Totland) Message-Id: <9306180914.AA27218@felucca.vr.dnv.no> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Tools for activity/enterprise modelling Hello, some days ago I posted an article to a number of USENET News groups, and among the returned answers was a reference to your email list. I hope it is acceptable to repost my article to you, here is the original article: -- Original article posted -- Hi, as a doctoral student, I'm currently looking for computerized tools supporting activity or enterprise modelling. The main application is to model complex engineering activities and to be able to decompose these activities into simpler and more specialized tasks. The tools should therefore have some kind of abstraction mechanism (like multiple layers or explode/implode). The tools should allow the user to perform simple simulations on models, like navigating and performing computations based on activity attribute values. This requires functionality past simple drawing/sketching tools. There should also be support for multiple users (not necessarily concurrent). Tools may be free or commercial, but it should be fairly stable and easy to use. The tools should preferably run on PCs using MS Windows, but UNIX-based systems are of equal interest. Does anyone out there have knowledge of products that may match my needs? If so, please send me some info (preferrably by email, if there should be any response I'll post a compiled list). I'm aware that there probably aren't many tools available that satisfy these requirements, so please also notify me of products with less than the requested functionality. -- End of original article -- I took a peek into the anonymous ftp database ftp.einet.net and found several interesting articles, so I hope you may be able to send me some pointers to available tools. Best regards, Terje T. ------------------ Terje Totland Phone: +477 59 63 39 PAKT Fax: +477 59 63 30 N-7034 Trondheim Email: tt@pakt.unit.no NORWAY From mlb2@gte.com Fri Jun 18 04:19:20 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA04379; Fri, 18 Jun 93 04:19:20 CDT Received: from bunny.gte.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25631; Fri, 18 Jun 93 04:19:16 CDT Received: from tahoe by bunny.gte.com (5.61/GTEL2.19) id AA26143; Fri, 18 Jun 93 05:19:14 -0400 Received: by tahoe.dom (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09032; Fri, 18 Jun 93 05:20:36 EDT Date: Fri, 18 Jun 93 05:20:36 EDT From: mlb2@gte.com (Michael Brodie) Message-Id: <9306180920.AA09032@tahoe.dom> Subject: I am out of the office Apparently-To: all-iceimt@einet.net I am out of the office until June 25, 1993. Your mail regarding "Tools for activity/enterprise modelling" will be read when I return. If you have something urgent, please contact Emon Mortazavi at (617) 466-2951 or em02@gte.com. Best wishes, Michael L. Brodie From speyer@mcc.com Fri Jun 25 18:52:31 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA16197; Fri, 25 Jun 93 18:52:31 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA04620; Fri, 25 Jun 93 18:52:27 CDT Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA04998; Fri, 25 Jun 93 18:52:27 CDT Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA01878; Fri, 25 Jun 93 18:52:27 CDT Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 18:52:27 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9306252352.AA01878@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: all-iceimt vacation problem alleviated Notice to: all-iceimt subscribers I'm pleased to report that our operations guys have updated the EINet listserv from version 5.5 to 6.0. This version suppresses the automatic responses that were being generated by the vacation programs to the general list. This is accomplished by the inclusion of the "Precedence: bulk" in the mail headers. For those of you who have come to rely on the all-iceimt distribution list as a groupware calendar program-- my regrets. :) There are also new features associated with version 6.0. One of them is the ability to postpone delivery of messages. If you are going on vacation, etc. and want to temporarily suspend all-iceimt, just do the following: send e-mail to: listserv@einet.net (subject field is ignored, include in the body) set all-iceimt mail postpone When you return send the listserv the message: set all-iceimt mail ack -Bruce p.s. You are welcomed to post EI related messages to all-iceimt@einet.net From speyer@mcc.com Fri Jun 25 19:06:02 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA16391; Fri, 25 Jun 93 19:06:02 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA04707; Fri, 25 Jun 93 19:05:57 CDT Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA05677; Fri, 25 Jun 93 19:05:57 CDT Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA01890; Fri, 25 Jun 93 19:05:57 CDT Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 19:05:57 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9306260005.AA01890@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: AAAI93 EI panel solicitation At the upcoming AAAI93 "modeling in the large" workshop there will be a panel held on EI modeling in real-world application. I had four panelist lined up but one of them is unable to confirm that they can be there. If you happen to be attending AAAI93 and are available and interested in participating in the discussion please let me know. Send me a *brief* description of a preferably current, EI modeling activity that you are involved with and that is being used by customers. The panel is Monday morning July 12th, at approximately 10:30 at the conclusion of the 1-1/2 day workshop that begins Sunday. There should be about 40 invited attendees in the audience. Look forward to your input. -Bruce From jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Jun 27 19:21:58 1993 Received: from zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp ([130.69.135.7]) by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA21040; Sun, 27 Jun 93 19:21:58 CDT Received: by zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp (5.65+1.6W/1.20W) id AA10347; Mon, 28 Jun 93 09:23:06 JST Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 09:23:06 JST From: Jan Goossenaerts Return-Path: Message-Id: <9306280023.AA10347@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: DIISM'93 International Workshop JSPE-IFIP WG 5.3 Workshop DIISM '93 THE DESIGN OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING second announcement invitation November 8-10, 1993 Sanjoo Kaikan, The University of Tokyo TOKYO, JAPAN ORGANIZED BY The Japan Society for Precision Engineering International Federation of Information Processing WG 5.3 (CAM) CO-SPONSORED BY International Federation for Automatic Control (TC Manuf. Techn.) Information Processing Society of Japan The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Japan Society of Design Engineers Japan Industrial Management Association Japan Institute of Industrial Engineers PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair: H. Yoshikawa (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Co-chairs: S. Narita (Waseda U., Japan) H. Van Brussel (K.U.Leuven,Belgium) Members: R. Akella (CMU, USA) E. Arai (Tokyo Metr. U., Japan) J. Bubenko, jr. (Stockholm U., Sweden) M. Cutkosky (Stanford U., USA) A. Di Leva (U. of Torino, Italy) G. Doumeingts (Bordeaux U.,France) E. Dubois (U. of Namur, Belgium) J. Goossenaerts (U. of Tokyo, Japan) U. Graefe (NRC, Canada) Z. Han (Tsinghua U., P.R. of China) G. Harhalakis (U. of Maryland, USA) C. N. Ho (NTU, Singapore) I. Inoue (Kyoto Sangyo U., Japan) F. Kimura (U. of Tokyo, Japan) A. Kusiak (U. of Iowa, USA) A. Markus (CAI, Hungary) A. Matsumoto (Toyo U., Japan) Y. Matsushita (Keio U., Japan) K. Mertins (IPK, Germany) T. Mizuno (Shizuoka U., Japan) L. Nemes (CSIRO, Australia) G. Olling (Chrysler, USA) G. Olsson (Lund Inst. of Techn.,Sweden) L.M. Patnaik (IIS Bangalore, India) J. Ranta (TRCF, Finland) A.-W. Scheer (U. Saarlandes, Germany) N. Shiratori (Tohoku U., Japan) O.I. Semenkov (MNIPI, Belarus) T. Simmons (Brit. Aerospace, UK) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki U.,Japan) T. Tomiyama (U. of Tokyo, Japan) S. Umeda (Musashi U., Japan) F. Vernadat (INRIA-Lorraine, France) T. Williams (Purdue U., USA) M. Wozny (Rensselaer, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: H. Yoshikawa (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Contact: J. Goossenaerts (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Members: K. Ando (Shibaura I. of Tech.,Japan) E. Arai (Tokyo Metr. U., Japan) Y. Matsumoto (Hitachi Ltd., Japan) T. Mizuno (Shizuoka U., Japan) M. Saito (Mitsubishi El., Japan) R. Sano (Matsushita, Japan) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki U., Japan) T. Taura (U. of Tokyo, Japan) S. Umeda (Musashi U., Japan) WELCOME TO THE WORKSHOP The design of information infrastructure systems for manufacturing is focussed on as a means to achieve a systematic synthesis of the large variety of communication and information processing requirements of manufacturing systems. The in-depth treatment, both of the requisites of present-day manufacturing, and of the architectures proposed to cast these requisites, is expected to encourage high-level technical discussions about information infrastructure systems for manufacturing. We invite all researchers and engineers with an active interest in these topics to join the JSPE-IFIP WG 5.3 Workshop on The Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing (DIISM '93) which will be held at The University of Tokyo, November 8-10, 1993. The preliminary program includes ten invited papers. It shows a commitment to inter-disciplinarity and quality. The invited papers cover architectures for integrating manufacturing activities and enterprises, information infra- structures, communication networks for manufacturing, production management, flexible manufacturing systems, real time intelligent control, and concurrent engineering. They will feature several case-studies. From the papers submitted for the workshop in response to the call for papers, the program committee will select fifteen to twenty more papers for presentation during the contributed papers sessions. The final program of the workshop will be announced in September 1993. Looking forward to meeting you at the workshop in November this year, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (General Chairman of DIISM '93) MOTIVATION The possible benefits, the external characteristics, and the broad-range requi- rements of information infrastructure systems for intelligent manufacturing systems are widely known. These infrastructure systems should provide low cost and flexible solutions for the information and communication needs of devices and people who collaborate in engineering and manufacturing processes. They should support concurrent engineering, design, planning, control, diagnosing and maintenance along a value-adding, wealth-creating chain of clean manufacturing facilities. Today many valuable technologies such as computers, communication networks, manufacturing devices and design tools exist, but the software-based amalgama- tion of these technologies requires exorbitant investments, inhibiting - at present - the creation of chains of automated factories which can flexibly and with low costs respond to changing demand on worldwide markets. A reason for our failure to build intelligent manufacturing systems today is the lack of understanding and agreement about techniques and methods for: 1. coordinating and systematizing the broad-range information processing requirements; and 2. synthesizing these requirements into a deeply structured and comprehensive conceptual model. This hampers: 3. the development of an information infrastructure amalgamating the conceptual model and computing/communication/storage technologies; and 4. the development of an intelligent manufacturing system amalgamating the information infrastructure with advanced machine tools and skillful people. The workshop aims to deepen understanding and agreement about methods and techniques for developing an information infrastructure for manufacturing. Some specific objectives are: 1. To bring together and compare a number of techniques and methods for factory/enterprise modeling that help to grasp the wide scope and to understand the deep structure of manufacturing processes; 2. To illustrate the methods and techniques by means of non-trivial examples exhibiting a wide scope and deep structure; 3. To identify and evaluate existing key-technologies for realizing information infrastructure systems; 4. To identify a number of testbeds for which information infrastructure systems have been developed or can be developed; 5. To initiate the public domain development of basic components of information infrastructure systems for manufacturing. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8 9:00- 9:30 Registration 9:30- 9:40 Opening Remarks by the Conference Chairmen 9:40-10:30 Invited Speech T. J. WILLIAMS (Director, PLAIC, Purdue University (USA)): Architectures for Integrating Manufacturing Activities and Enterprises (A Progress report of the IFAC/IFIP Task Force of the same name) (paper by: T.J. Williams, P. Bernus, J. Brosvic, D. Chen, G. Doumeingts, L. Nemes, J.L. Nevins, B. Vallespir, J. Vlietstra, and D. Zoetekouw). 10:50-12:30 Requirements K. INAGAKI (Manager, Dep. of Manuf. Management, NEC, (Japan)): The Role of Information Infrastructure in Production Management. H. VAN BRUSSEL (Director, PMA Division, Univ. of Leuven (Belgium)): Information Infrastructure Requirements for Preserving Flexibility of Flexible Manufacturing Systems. 13:30-17:55 Contributed Papers TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 9:00-10:40 Architectures F. VERNADAT (Research Officer, INRIA-Lorraine, Metz (France)): CIMOSA: Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise Integration using a process-based approach A.-W. SCHEER (Director, Inst. Wirtshaftsinformatik, Univ. of Saarland, (Germany)): Architecture for Integrated Information Systems 11:00-12:30 Contributed Papers 13:40-15:20 Requirements N. NAKANO (R&D Manager, Mitsubishi Electric (Japan)): The International Standardizational Activities for Time Critical Communication Architecture in Factory Automation F. KIMURA (Prof., Dep. of Precision Machinery Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)): A Computer-supported Framework for Concurrent Engineering 15:50-17:50 Contributed Papers WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 9:00-11:30 Architectures M.G. RODD (Prof., School of Engineering, Univ. of Wales, Swansea (UK)): Architectures for Real-Time Intelligent Control Systems J. GOOSSENAERTS (EC-STF Visiting Researcher (Belgium), Dep. of Precision Machinery Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)): Enterprise Formulae & Information Infrastructures for Manufacturing T.J. WILLIAMS (Director, PLAIC, Purdue University (USA)): The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture 11:30-12:30 Contributed Papers 13:30-15:30 Contributed Papers or Panel Discussion 16:00-17:00 Closing Speech H. YOSHIKAWA (President, The University of Tokyo (Japan)): Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Approaching the Future GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Registration Fees The registration fees include admittance to the workshop, a copy of the pre-proceedings, drinks during breaks, and the workshop reception. before September 30, 1993: Yen 30.000 after September 30, 1993: Yen 35.000 Notes: - The number of participants is limited to 90 (first come, first service basis), with about 30 places reserved for the workshop contributors. - Workshop contributors (one per paper) will also receive a free copy of the proceedings which will be published in the IFIP Transactions series by Elsevier Science Publishers (Amsterdam) in early 1994. 2. Workshop Schedule July 1, 1993: full contributions (upto 15 double-spaced pages) must be received August 25, 1993: notification of acceptance and referee reports October 8, 1993: camera ready copy (for the pre-proceedings) November 8-10, 1993: workshop December 6, 1993: camera ready copy (for the proceedings) 3. Official Language The official language of the workshop is English. 4. Post-workshop Study Tour On Thursday November 11, there will be a one-day post-workshop study tour to visit a Japanese company with an active interest in intelligent manufactu- ring systems. More details and the application form for attending the visit will be sent in September 1993, together with the final announcement of the workshop. 5. Reception On Monday, November 8, 1993 there will be workshop reception at Sanjoo Kaikan. The reception fee is included in the workshop registration fee. 6. Workshop Buffet On Tuesday evening, November 9, 1993 there will be a workshop buffet. More information will be sent with the final announcement. 7. Accommodation Information The organizing committee will reserve rooms for participants at hotels near The University of Tokyo, and is ready for accommodation services. An accommodation application form will be sent with the final announcement of the workshop. Rooms will be reserved in the hotels: - Tokyo Garden Palace (rooms: 7,479 Yen (single) and 13,822 Yen (twin)); - Park Side Hotel (rooms: 9,300 Yen (single) and 16,500 Yen (twin)); - Hilltop Hotel (rooms: 15,000 Yen (single) and 24,000 Yen (twin)). 8. Final Announcement All persons who register for the workshop, who returned the reply card of the call for papers, or who return the information request form of the second announcement, will receive the third and final announcement of the workshop. The final announcement will include the complete workshop program, an accommodation application form, and details about the workshop location and the transport between Narita Airport and the workshop location. 9. For More Information To receive the second announcement (with registration information) and the final announcement of the workshop (with the final program) please send the request form below, either by mail or fax to the conference secretary: Ms. M. Okaniwa DIISM '93 The University of Tokyo Dept. of Precision Machinery Engineering 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, JAPAN Telefax: (81)(3)3815-7838 or by electronic mail to: jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp ============================================================================== I would like to receive more information about the JSPE-IFIP WG 5.3 Workshop THE DESIGN OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING (DIISM '93) (The University of Tokyo, November 8-10, 1993) name: institution: address: postcode: city: country: telephone: telefax: e-mail: ============================================================================== From petrie@mcc.com Wed Jun 30 15:07:29 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA09568; Wed, 30 Jun 93 15:07:29 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA14999; Wed, 30 Jun 93 15:07:15 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA09409; Wed, 30 Jun 93 14:04:47 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA20462; Wed, 30 Jun 93 14:04:46 CDT Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 14:04:46 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com Subject: 2nd CFP - CAIA-94, + Review of CAIA-93 Message-Id: CALL FOR PAPERS CAIA-94 The Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications: Developing Enabling Technologies and Integrating AI into Application Solutions Marriott Riverwalk - San Antonio, Texas March 1-4, 1994 Increasingly, the role of AI in business and scientific applications is that of one component in a complex system. Integrating AI with knowledge sources and databases, user interfaces, and existing software is an important aspect of advancing the application of AI to real world problems. This year's conference will emphasize both the development of enabling AI technology and the issues involved in the integration of this technology into products and processes. We are also seeking innovative ideas for new application areas and new research and technology transfer paradigms. Our goal is to increase interaction between different communities and to increase our understanding of how AI technology can be applied to real- world problems. With these goals in mind, two general kinds of papers are appropriate. First are case studies of AI applications that address significant real- world problems. These papers must (1) justify the use of the AI technique, based on the problem and application requirements, (2) explain how the AI technology contributed to the solution and was integrated with other components, and (3) describe the status of the implementation. Second are papers on novel AI techniques and principles that may enable more ambitious real-world applications. All the usual AI topics are appropriate. These papers must (1) describe the importance of the approach from an applications context, (2) describe the work in sufficient technical detail and clarity, (3) clearly and thoroughly differentiate the work from previous efforts. While finished work is important, one major role for this conference is as a forum for exchanging ideas. For this reason, well-written reports on work-in-progress and descriptions of innovative partial implementations are encouraged. In fact, we hope to structure CAIA-94 in several ways to facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners. First, we will include invited speakers on various appropriate topics, of both technical and more general scope. Second, panel sessions are very important in an inter-disciplinary area and will be a key feature of CAIA-94. Third, CAIA will include a mix of introductory and advanced tutorials and a small workshop program oriented towards wide participation. Other, more novel forums such as evening discussion sessions may be tried. Papers should be limited to 5000 words and papers significantly longer that this will not be reviewed. Accepted papers will be allotted seven pages in the conference proceedings, and the best papers will be considered for a special issue of IEEE Expert to appear late in 1994. Awards will be presented to the best paper and best student paper at the conference. The first page of the paper must contain the following information (where applicable) in the order shown: * Title. * Author's name and affiliation (specify student status). * Contact information (name, postal address, phone and email address). * Abstract: A 200 word abstract that includes a clear statement describing the paper's original contributions and what new lesson is imparted. * AI topic: One or more terms describing the relevant AI areas, e.g. knowledge acquisition, explanation, diagnosis, etc. * Domain area: One or more terms describing the problem domain area, e.g. mechanical design, factory scheduling, education, medicine, etc. * Language/Tool: Underlying programming languages, systems and tools used. * Status: Development and deployment status, as appropriate. * Effort: Person-years of effort put into developing the particular aspect of the project being described. * Impact: A 20 word description of estimated or measured (specify) benefit of the application developed. In addition to papers, we will be accepting the following types of submissions: * Proposals for Panel Discussions. Provide a brief description of the topic (1000 words or less). Indicate appropriateness for this conference, the membership of the panel and interest in organizing/moderating the discussion. * Proposals for Tutorial Presentations. Proposals for three hour tutorials of both an introductory and advanced nature are requested. Tutorials which analyze classes of applications in depth or examine techniques appropriate for a particular class of applications are of particular interest. Include a detailed topic outline, a half-page synopsis of the focus, topics, a list of benefits to the audience, and a full professional vita. * Proposals for Workshops. Proposals are sought for one day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. These workshops should avoid having too narrow a scope (such as "AI in Radiology"); rather, they should be designed to foster communication between both experts and interested newcomers about a broad application area (for example, "Applications of AI to Software") or address a concern that covers many applications (for example, "Issues in Technology Transfer"). Include a one-page description of the workshop and a small organizing committee. Important Dates * August 31, 1993: Four copies of papers, and three copies of all other proposals are due to the program chair at the address listed below (no electronic submissions). * October 15, 1993: Author notifications mailed. * December 14, 1993: Accepted papers and tutorial notes due to IEEE. * March 1, 1994: Conference tutorial program and workshops. * March 1-4, 1994: Conference technical program. Submit Papers and all Proposals to: Peter G. Selfridge AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 2B-425 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Phone: 908-582-6801, fax -7550 Email: pgs@research.att.com For registration and additional conference information, contact: CAIA-94 IEEE Computer Society 1730 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-1903 Phone: 202-371-1013 General Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California Program Chair: Peter G. Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories Publicity Chair: Marc Goodman, Cognitive Systems and Brandeis University Local Arrangements Chair: Aaron Konstam, Trinity University Program Committee Jan Aikins Trinzic Corporation Chid Apte IBM Larry Birnbaum Northwestern University Ron Brachman AT&T Mark Burstein BBN Dan Cooke U. Texas El Paso Vasant Dhar NYU Tim Finin U. Maryland Baltimore County Phil Hayes Carnegie Group Jim Hendler U. Maryland Haym Hirsh Rutgers Lou Hoebel Rome Laboratory, USAF Se June Hong IBM Lewis Johnson USC/ISI Bernadette Kowalski-Minton Academic Systems Corp. Larry Lefkowitz Bellcore Don McKay Paramax Robert Milne Intelligent Applications Ltd. Charles Petrie MCC David Redmiles UC Boulder Anil Rewari DEC Marcio Rillo University of San Paulo, Brazil Eric Schoen Schlumberger Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed Bob Simpson NCR Elliot Soloway U. Michigan Craig Stanfill Thinking Machines Loren Terveen AT&T Oliver Vadas Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI David Waltz Thinking Machines and Brandeis U. John Yen Texas A&M University General information on CAIA-94, including this Call for Papers, is available electronically. Send email to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU or try the Gopher server on GOPHER.CS.UMBC.EDU for a description of what is available and how to retrieve. For more information or clarification, contact the IEEE Computer Society or the Program Chair at the addresses above. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Report: The Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications (CAIA '93) Orlando, Florida, 2/28-3/5, 1993 Peter G. Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories (Note: this report will appear in IEEE Expert Magazine, June, 1993. Currently, copyright for this report is held by AT&T Bell Laboratories.) The Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications (CAIA '93) was held at The Disney Yacht Club Resort, Disney World, Orlando, Florida, February 28 through March 5, 1993. The setting was terrific: not only is the Yacht Club an excellent hotel and conference facility, but the weather cooperated and Disney World location gave attendees a plethora of activies after (and sometimes during!) the conference. This year's call-for-papers attracted 215 submission (a big jump over last year's 145), and 80 papers were accepted: 61 (or 28 percent of those submitted) as full papers and 19 (or 9 percent) as poster session papers. This year's conference had strong international representation. Accepted papers and posters come from 15 countries: nine from Canada, six from Germany, three from Japan (one coauthored with a US collaborator), three from France, two each from Scotland and Italy, and one each from England, India, Portugal, China, Australia, Austria, Singapore, and Mexico. The rest (47) came from the United States. The conference started with two days of Tutorials and Workshops. There were eight tutorials, ranging in topic from AI and Business to Qualitative Reasoning to Intelligent User Interfaces. 102 people took these tutorials and they were well received. The Workshop on Validation and Verification of Intelligent Systems featured presentations by speakers including Robert Plant, Alun Preece and Daniel O'Leary. These presentations focused on specific issues in V&V, including life cycle impact on V&V, methodologies for system development including V&V, the use of metaknowledge in V&V, systematic determination of knowledge base anomolies and the statistical analysis of expert systems. A round table discussion of different applications followed the presentations. The V&V of a number of applications, including the "Pilot's Associate" and some of its derivatives, were discussed. The second workshop was a meeting of the IEEE P1252 Standards Group, whose charter is to propose a Frame Based Knowledge Representation standard. Topics discussed included the semantics of various aspects of the proposed standard (such as system defined frames, slot attachment, and enumeration functions), validation of knowledge bases, detecting inheritance conflicts, and what aspects of a knowledge base are modifiable after the initial definition. This is an ongoing activity. The technical program started with an invited plenary address by Wendy Lehnert of the Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. The title of the presentation was "Portability and Scalability for Information Extraction Systems." She described the evolution of Natural Language research from basic research and demonstration systems to problem-oriented research with an emphasis on evaluation and portability. This change in emphasis has been accomplished in part by priorities of funding agencies and the availability of common problem sets with agreed upon input and output. This allows different groups of researchers to work on the same problems and compare results. Dr. Lehnert concluded her talk by listing five new directions of natural language research: (1) applications must stimulate basic research, (2) domain portability through training, (3) automated knowledge acquisition, (4) put a human in the loop, and (5) hybrid systems. In response to a audience question, Dr. Lehnert described the "weakest link" in this kind of work as that of discourse analysis, or the analysis of multiple sentences. At the Wednesday banquet (surprisingly good food and very well attended) there were two special events. The first was the acceptance of the Emanual R. Piore Award, an IEEE award for long-standing applications-oriented research, to Dr. Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. This award comes with a handsome plaque and a generous honorarium, and Dr. Nagao chose the Conference on AI for Applications as the IEEE conference for accepting this award. Dr. Nagao discussed his research into global approaches to Natural Language and Image analysis on Thursday. Second, Oliver Selfridge, of GTE Research Laboratories, Waltham, Massachusetts, gave the banquet speech entitled "AI and the Future of Software". His controversial message is that computer science and artificial intelligence should take a new approach to software. Instead of trying to do everything at the level of specifications, and then transform these specifications into code, the community ought to acknowledge that specifications will always be ambiguous, incomplete, and, most important, will change. This implies that software should be written with change in mind, and that the types of change software undergoes should be extensively and empirically studied. If we do that, Dr. Selfridge argued, we can begin to design software to change and can begin to build evaluation into the programs themselves. Then we can begin to understand and build truly adaptive, intelligent software systems. Two other invited talks were part of CAIA '93. Patrick Winston, of the MIT AI Laboratory, gave a talk on his experiences in business. One message of his talk was that in a commercial product, the amount of actual AI technology tends to shrink far beyond expectations, and in some cases, vanishes. This mirrors other people's experiences in the amount of work necessary to turn a demonstration system into something closer to a product - that amount of work is much more than it took to build the prototype! Dr. Frank Mayadas, of the Alfred T. Sloan Foundation, gave an assessment of computer technology. In his view, the extraordinary pace of improvements in processing power, memory capacity, and the like, are beginning to slow. The biggest challenge by far, he claimed, is now to explore and develop new application areas for our technology. This, of course, was an appropriate message for the Conference on AI for Applications! The bulk of the conference was, of course, paper sessions and panels. The papers covered a large number of topic areas, from parallel processing to case-based reasoning, constraint satisfaction, and genetic algorithms. Two papers received Best Paper awards: Amir Hekmatpour, of IBM and also a student at UCSD, and Charles Elkan, a professor at UCSD, for their paper "Categorization-Based Diagnostic Problem Solving in the VLSI Design Domain", and Leonard A. Hermens, a student at Washington State University, and Jeffrey C. Schlimmer, a professor at WSU, for their paper "A Machine-Learning Apprentice for the Completion of Repetitive Forms". Panel presentations were very popular, and included a panel on statistical approaches to natural language, evaluation AI applications, AI on Wall Street, AI for Manufacturing, Organizational Memory, Applications of Case-Based Reasoning, and Massifely Parallel AI. The success of CAIA-93 was the result of many people's efforts. Jan Aikins, of Trinzic Corporation, provided terrific leadership and planning for the conference. Dave Waltz, as Program Chair, did a great job, especially during the final program committee meeting. His colleauge at Thinking Machines, Craig Stanfill, did a fantastic job standing in for Dave during an illness. Peter Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Don McKay, of Paramax, worked hard to put together a successful tutorial and workshop program. Curt Hall of Intelligent Software Strategies and Doug Dankel of the University of Florida did excellent jobs at Publicity and Local Arrangements, respectively. People at the IEEE office, especially Nancy Wise, Janet Harward, Phyllis Walker, and John Mee, worked hard at many logistic details crucial to the success of CAIA-93. Dari Whitehouse of Thinking Machines also handled many administrative details. The program committee members reviewed all the papers and made many difficult decisions. Finally, the success of a conference like this ultimately rests on those people submitting papers and agreeing to be outside reviewers, invited speakers, and panel members. Thank you all! This brings us to next year's conference, which will be held at the Marriot Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. Dan O'Leary, of the Business School at the University of Southern California will be the Conference Chair, and Peter Selfridge of AT&T Bell Laboratories, will be the Program Chair. Dan and I are contemplating a number of changes in the Conference on AI for Applications. We want to ensure that this Conference remains attractive to a wide and diverse audience, from government to acedemia to industry. To do this, we are formulating an integrative theme for the conference that will emphasize that while AI is but one component of a complete application, it can be the most important technical component and the true "market differentiator". We hope the theme will both widen the scope of the conference and help us in the AI and applications community sharpen our focus on the exact role of AI in applications, and the role of AI research in applications endeavors. Dan and I are also committed to a number of structural changes in the conference to make it more efficient. While these changes are still being decided, it is probable that the conference will be shortened from 5 days to 4, and we are exploring various options including integrating tutorials into the technical program, having evening sessions, including demonstration tracks, and trying to facilitate more direct and active participation among the audience and speakers. Of course, a successful conference of this kind must also include outstanding plenary addresses and panels and, last but not least, attractive social events. If you have any ideas or suggestions for events, panels, workshops, tutorials, or are interested in submitting a paper, the due date is August 31, 1993. For more information, contact CAIA '94, IEEE Computer Society, 1730 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036, or call 202-371-1013. Alternatively, feel free to contact me, Peter Selfridge, at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Room 2B- 425, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, phone 908-582-6801, email pgs@research.att.com. From petrie@mcc.com Thu Jul 1 13:30:50 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA25585; Thu, 1 Jul 93 13:30:50 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com ([128.62.1.215]) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA16909; Thu, 1 Jul 93 11:15:53 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA18317; Thu, 1 Jul 93 11:15:51 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA00789; Thu, 1 Jul 93 11:15:45 CDT Date: Thu, 1 Jul 93 11:15:44 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: einet-wigs%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, bsingh@mcc.com Subject: CE Should Be Part of AM Pilots Message-Id: To Whom It May Concern: You may already be aware of the dichotomy between Agile Manufacturing (AM) and Concurrent Engineering (CE) that I will attempt to describe here. However, I'm in a good position to notice and care about what I'm seeing. Thus, the motivation for this note. AM vs. CE AM has a relentless (and correct) push toward pragmatism: how much of the "virtual enterprise" can we achieve with today's technologies? Even stronger, how much can we achieve with the technologies of those organizations that are willing to come together today and attempt to build something? This is the way to make something good and new happen. CE is more concerned, than AM, with the design aspect of distributed work. Further, the CE work that emphasizes computer coordination of distributed design is generally being done as research projects at universities or institutes. This is because the technology to coordinate designs, rather than just share information among designers, is still a developing science. So because it is more restricted in its focus and is less available, CE technology seems to be split off from AM. But AM needs CE. First, design is ubiquitous. Whether one is planning a marketing strategy or a manufacturing process, one is designing. Second, the coordination of distributed processes is central to AM. This is something more than just matching up tasks and capabilities. It is something more than management reports. It is different from conventional process control. It is about peer-to-peer communications and the reduction of the need for hierarchical control of distributed design and interacting actions. It includes rationales and the facilitation of negotiation and, especially, revision. The more complex the process and artifact(s) being produced, the more important coordination is. Finally, in a full virtual company scenario, heterogeneous systems (not just people) must understand and react to each other. The system coordination needed in AM has also been a concern addressed by some CE research. And Not Just CE CE is a good place to start with coordination. CE does not assume that all implications have been thought through and it does allow dynamic propagation of change. But there is also much research on coordination per se that is broader in scope and possibly more dynamic. This broader research should be brought to bear on the problem of coordinating virtual enterprises, even in the guise of CE. Conflicts and Opportunities Whatever the technology, two important aspects of coordination that are the key to productivity are conflicts and opportunities. Consider a virtual automobile manufacturer (VAM) that farms out the design, finds suppliers, has someone else do final assembly, and then contracts for marketing and distribution. The VAM needs to detect that the assembly plan, the choice of engine block supplier, and the design of the motor mounts together are the primary cause for the car being too heavy. Perhaps the marketing campaign being developed is for a sportier car than is being dictated by design constraints. And the VAM needs to be able to detect the opportunity for improving the assembly process by changing a design decision, or asking the marketing people about the possible benefit of a feature change. Management of change is fundamental to handling conflicts and opportunities. What are the ramifications, and possibilities, if a part is out of stock? If prices change, does this affect decision rationales? Is it worthwhile trying to do better? These situations have been at least addressed by CIM, though not totally solved. It is much worse with distributed processes. Not only is it more difficult to detect conflicts and opportunities, they are more difficult to handle. There must be support for negotiation and satisfying multiple objectives. Each of the participants may be an independent company, not necessarily willing to sacrifice local objectives for a common global optimum. The VAM is just another player, without the power to dictate to subordinates, as in an hierarchically-controlled company. To the extent that we have not solved coordination problems with CIM, we will exacerbate them with virtual companies. The problem is not so much that we can't specify the coordination interactions for a particular scenario. We can analyze the possible transactions, all of the possibilities for conflict and revision, and how change would propagate to which of the participants. But we need general tools and technologies so that we don't have to do all of this analysis (and coding) for each new virtual enterprise before it can happen. Pilots and Coordination If AM pilots emphasize high bandwidth WANs (Wide Area Networks) without process coordination mechanisms, they will at least fail to achieve the full potential of virtual companies. Doing AM by focusing on standards, data access, and moving bits faster is like looking under the lamp post for the lost keys because that's where the light is, rather than where they were dropped. That may seem overstated. Clearly it helps if organizations can simply find out about each other's capabilities and needs via a matching mechanism that is far short of coordination. But without coordination, the process that follows the matching will be even more unwieldy and inefficient than current processes within organizations. That is contrary to the goals of AM. Current CE research is addressing various aspects of the coordination problems above. But, for the most part, the technology is not ready to go. So, what to do? One obvious recommendation is to pilot virtual enterprises with simple, perhaps "low-tech", products and processes with more existing standards, fewer opportunities for conflicts, and less need for control in general. A general recommendation is that any pilot proposal should at least examine the conflict/opportunity dimension of the process, determine the need for (or benefit of) additional technology, and evaluate near-term CE (or coordination) technologies that may be applicable. Perhaps some of the CIM work can be adapted. At least one suitable AM pilot should carefully examine the coordination problem. Perhaps the way to start is to assign people the necessary coordination tasks and then engineer systems to take over these tasks (in the same way that the PACT experiment led to SHADE [in ICEIMT proceedings*]). We need a place to experiment with the different coordination approaches and move some of this research out into field experiments. cp * Send any message to "iceimt-info@einet.net" for automated information on this book. From petrie@mcc.com Sat Jul 10 12:12:44 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA29484; Sat, 10 Jul 93 12:12:44 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA21611; Sat, 10 Jul 93 12:11:11 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA04843; Sat, 10 Jul 93 08:24:50 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA01619; Sat, 10 Jul 93 08:24:48 CDT Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 8:24:48 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com Cc: pgs@research.att.com Subject: Last Call - CAIA-94 call] Message-Id: CALL FOR PAPERS CAIA-94 The Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications: Developing Enabling Technologies and Integrating AI into Application Solutions Marriott Riverwalk - San Antonio, Texas March 1-4, 1994 Increasingly, the role of AI in business and scientific applications is that of one component in a complex system. Integrating AI with knowledge sources and databases, user interfaces, and existing software is an important aspect of advancing the application of AI to real world problems. This year's conference will emphasize both the development of enabling AI technology and the issues involved in the integration of this technology into products and processes. We are also seeking innovative ideas for new application areas and new research and technology transfer paradigms. Our goal is to increase interaction between different communities and to increase our understanding of how AI technology can be applied to real- world problems. With these goals in mind, two general kinds of papers are appropriate. First are case studies of AI applications that address significant real- world problems. These papers must (1) justify the use of the AI technique, based on the problem and application requirements, (2) explain how the AI technology contributed to the solution and was integrated with other components, and (3) describe the status of the implementation. Second are papers on novel AI techniques and principles that may enable more ambitious real-world applications. All the usual AI topics are appropriate. These papers must (1) describe the importance of the approach from an applications context, (2) describe the work in sufficient technical detail and clarity, (3) clearly and thoroughly differentiate the work from previous efforts. While finished work is important, one major role for this conference is as a forum for exchanging ideas. For this reason, well-written reports on work-in-progress and descriptions of innovative partial implementations are encouraged. In fact, we hope to structure CAIA-94 in several ways to facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners. First, we will include invited speakers on various appropriate topics, of both technical and more general scope. Second, panel sessions are very important in an inter-disciplinary area and will be a key feature of CAIA-94. Third, CAIA will include a mix of introductory and advanced tutorials and a small workshop program oriented towards wide participation. Other, more novel forums such as evening discussion sessions may be tried. Papers should be limited to 5000 words and papers significantly longer that this will not be reviewed. Accepted papers will be allotted seven pages in the conference proceedings, and the best papers will be considered for a special issue of IEEE Expert to appear late in 1994. Awards will be presented to the best paper and best student paper at the conference. The first page of the paper must contain the following information (where applicable) in the order shown: * Title. * Author's name and affiliation (specify student status). * Contact information (name, postal address, phone and email address). * Abstract: A 200 word abstract that includes a clear statement describing the paper's original contributions and what new lesson is imparted. * AI topic: One or more terms describing the relevant AI areas, e.g. knowledge acquisition, explanation, diagnosis, etc. * Domain area: One or more terms describing the problem domain area, e.g. mechanical design, factory scheduling, education, medicine, etc. * Language/Tool: Underlying programming languages, systems and tools used. * Status: Development and deployment status, as appropriate. * Effort: Person-years of effort put into developing the particular aspect of the project being described. * Impact: A 20 word description of estimated or measured (specify) benefit of the application developed. In addition to papers, we will be accepting the following types of submissions: * Proposals for Panel Discussions. Provide a brief description of the topic (1000 words or less). Indicate appropriateness for this conference, the membership of the panel and interest in organizing/moderating the discussion. * Proposals for Tutorial Presentations. Proposals for three hour tutorials of both an introductory and advanced nature are requested. Tutorials which analyze classes of applications in depth or examine techniques appropriate for a particular class of applications are of particular interest. Include a detailed topic outline, a half-page synopsis of the focus, topics, a list of benefits to the audience, and a full professional vita. * Proposals for Workshops. Proposals are sought for one day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. These workshops should avoid having too narrow a scope (such as "AI in Radiology"); rather, they should be designed to foster communication between both experts and interested newcomers about a broad application area (for example, "Applications of AI to Software") or address a concern that covers many applications (for example, "Issues in Technology Transfer"). Include a one-page description of the workshop and a small organizing committee. Important Dates * August 31, 1993: Four copies of papers, and three copies of all other proposals are due to the program chair at the address listed below (no electronic submissions). * October 15, 1993: Author notifications mailed. * December 14, 1993: Accepted papers and tutorial notes due to IEEE. * March 1, 1994: Conference tutorial program and workshops. * March 1-4, 1994: Conference technical program. Submit Papers and all Proposals to: Peter G. Selfridge AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 2B-425 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Phone: 908-582-6801, fax -7550 Email: pgs@research.att.com For registration and additional conference information, contact: CAIA-94 IEEE Computer Society 1730 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-1903 Phone: 202-371-1013 General Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California Program Chair: Peter G. Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories Publicity Chair: Marc Goodman, Cognitive Systems and Brandeis University Local Arrangements Chair: Aaron Konstam, Trinity University Program Committee Jan Aikins Trinzic Corporation Chid Apte IBM Larry Birnbaum Northwestern University Ron Brachman AT&T Mark Burstein BBN Dan Cooke U. Texas El Paso Vasant Dhar NYU Tim Finin U. Maryland Baltimore County Phil Hayes Carnegie Group Jim Hendler U. Maryland Haym Hirsh Rutgers Lou Hoebel Rome Laboratory, USAF Se June Hong IBM Lewis Johnson USC/ISI Bernadette Kowalski-Minton Academic Systems Corp. Larry Lefkowitz Bellcore Don McKay Paramax Robert Milne Intelligent Applications Ltd. Fumio Mizoguchi Tokyo Science University Charles Petrie MCC David Redmiles UC Boulder Anil Rewari DEC Marcio Rillo University of San Paulo, Brazil Eric Schoen Schlumberger Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed Bob Simpson NCR Elliot Soloway U. Michigan Craig Stanfill Thinking Machines Loren Terveen AT&T Oliver Vadas Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI David Waltz Thinking Machines and Brandeis U. John Yen Texas A&M University General information on CAIA-94, including this Call for Papers, is available electronically. Send email to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU or try the Gopher server on GOPHER.CS.UMBC.EDU for a description of what is available and how to retrieve. For more information or clarification, contact the IEEE Computer Society or the Program Chair at the addresses above. From speyer@mcc.com Fri Jul 16 08:22:43 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA09691; Fri, 16 Jul 93 08:22:43 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA02731; Fri, 16 Jul 93 08:22:39 CDT Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA19501; Fri, 16 Jul 93 08:22:37 CDT Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA20000; Fri, 16 Jul 93 08:22:36 CDT Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 08:22:36 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9307161322.AA20000@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Information Infrastructure Sourcebook (fwd) ---------- Text of forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 11:36:53 -0400 (EDT) From: James@ksgbbs.harvard.edu To: com-priv@psi.com, members@farnet.org, communet@uvmvm.bitnet Cc: Jim Keller CSIA 6-4042 Subject: Information Infrastructure Sourcebook The Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government announces the publication of the Information Infrastructure Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is designed to provide planners and policymakers a single volume reference on efforts to define and develop policy for a national information infrastructure. It includes historical policy documents, private sector vision statements and position papers, program and project descriptions (all sectors), landmark reports and pending legislation. In assembling the Sourcebook, we have looked for documents that have had or are likely to have an impact on policy development, that are formal in nature, and that deal with information infrastructure at a general rather than topic level. In general, material is reproduced as is, although we have excerpted in the interests of space, relevance, balance, and consistency. Because of changes in technology, markets, programs and policies, the Sourcebook will of necessity require supplementation or revision on a regular basis. So we will look for new or updated contributions whenever they become available. Please direct any suggestions for additional material to: James Keller Project Coordinator Information Infrastructure Project Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138 tel: (617) 496-4042 e-mail: kellerj@ksg1.harvard.edu The Sourcebook is available for $40, including Priority Mail postage and handling. If you would like to receive a copy of the Sourcebook, please send a check for $40 payable to Harvard University to: Graceann Todaro Center for Science and International Affairs Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138 The Table of Contents from the Sourcebook is provided below: TABLE OF CONTENTS Information Infrastructure Sourcebook Official Documents Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, FCCSET Initiatives in the FY 1994 Budget, Washington, DC, April 8, 1993. (Introduction and excerpts) President William J. Clinton & Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., Technology for America's Economic Growth, A New Direction to Build Economic Strength, White House, Washington, DC, February 22, 1993. (excerpts) Allan D. Bromley, The National Research and Education Network Program: A Report to Congress, OSTP, Washington, DC, December, 1992. (Table of Contents and Executive Summary) Committee on Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences, Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Grand Challenges 1993: High Performance Computing and Communications, a Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 1993 Budget, Washington, DC, 1992. Committee on Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences, Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Grand Challenges: High Performance Computing and Communications, a Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 1992 Budget, Washington, DC, 1991. U.S. Congress, Public Law 102-94 - High Performance Computing Act of 1991, Washington, DC, December 9, 1991. U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation - Report 102-57, High Performance Computing Act of 1991, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, May 16, 1991. Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The Federal High Performance Computing Program, OSTP, Washington, DC, September 8, 1989. (Executive Summary) Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, A Research and Development Strategy for High Performance Computing, Washington, DC, November, 1987. Vision Statements and Position Papers CALS Vision: Economic Growth Through Worldwide Enterprise Integration, CALS Industry Steering Group, National Security Industrial Association, undated. Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Cable's Role in the "Information Superhighway", Boulder, CO, 1993. Computer Systems Policy Project, Perspectives on the National Information Infrastructure: CSPP's Vision and Recommendations for Action, Washington, DC, 1993. Council on Competitiveness, Vision for a 21st Century Information Infrastructure, Washington, DC, May, 1993. Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Open Platform: A Proposal by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for a National Telecommunications Infrastructure, Cambridge, MA & Washington, DC, 1992. Information Industry Association, Telecommunications Infrastructure Objectives and Implementation Principles, Washington, DC, April, 1993. Mary Gardiner Jones, The Consumer Interest in Telecommunications Infrastructure Modernization, Consumer Interest Research Institute, January 21-24, 1990. Robert Kahn, National Information Infrastructure Components, Serials Review, Spring and Summer, 1992. National Cable Television Association, Cable Television and America's Telecommunications Infrastructure, Washington, DC, 1993. Telecommunications industry CEOs, Policy Statement on NII, March 24, 1993. Program & Project Descriptions - all sectors Robert Aiken, Hans Werner Braun, Peter Ford & Kimberly Claffy, NSF Implementation Plan for Interagency Interim NREN, National Science Foundation, May 1, 1992. The CENDI Group, an overview, undated. EINet - Stepping into the Electronic Marketplace: a Technical Overview, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, undated. Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee, Department of Energy, Program Plan for the National Research and Education Network, Washington, DC, May 16, 1989. First Cities - Interactive Multimedia Information: Where, When and How You Want It, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, undated. The National Initiative for Product Data Exchange, NIST, an overview, November, 1992. The National Science Foundation, Program Solicitation: Network Access Point Manager, Routing Arbiter, Regional Network Providers, and Very High Speed Backbone Network Services Provider for NSFNet and the NREN Program, Washington, DC, National Science Foundation, DC, May 6, 1993. Technology Reinvestment Project, Program Information Package for Defense Technology Conversion, Reinvestment and Transition Assistance, Arlington, VA, March 10, 1993. (Introduction and excerpts) Reports Computer Science and Technology Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, National Research Council, The National Challenge in Computer Science and Technology, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1988. (Chapter 3: The Promise of Infrastructure) Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, National Collaboratories, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1993. (Executive summary and Chapter 1) "The Future Federal Information Infrastructure: The Responsibility of the Federal Information Resources Management Community", excerpted from the Information Resources Plan of the Federal Government, Office of Management and Budget, November, 1992. National Research and Education Network Review Committee of the Computer Science and Technology Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, National Research Council, Toward a National Research Network, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1988. (Executive Summary) National Telecommunications and Information Administration, The NTIA Infrastructure Report - Telecommunications in the Age of Information, Executive Summary, U.S. Department of Commerce, October, 1991. Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Critical Connections: Communication for the Future, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, January, 1990. (Chapter 1 - Summary) Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Global Standards - Building Blocks for the Future, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, March, 1992. (p. 26-30) Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Helping America Compete - The Role of Federal Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, July, 1990. (Chapter 1 - Summary) Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Informing the Nation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, October, 1988. (Chapter 1 - Summary) Panel on Information Technology and the Conduct of Research, National Academy of Sciences, Information Technology and the Conduct of Research: The User's View, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1989. (Executive Summary) Proceedings of the NREN Workshop, Monterey, California, September 16-18, 1992 (excluding appendices), Computing Research Association/EDUCOM/IEEE U.S. Activities Board, with assistance from the National Science Foundation Grant NCR- 921671. Steven R. Rivkin and Jeremy D. Rosner, Shortcut to the Information Superhighway: A Progressive Plan to Speed the Telecommunications Revolution, Progressive Policy Institute Policy Report No. 15, July 1992. (Introduction and Part four: a Progressive Strategy to Build the Fiber-Optic Network) Proposed Legislation U.S. Congress, Communications Competitiveness and Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1993 - H.R. 1504, Washington, DC, March 29, 1993. U.S. Congress, To Establish a System of State-based Electronic Libraries - S.626, Washington, DC, March 22, 1993. U.S. Congress, High Performance Computing and High Speed Networking Applications Act of 1993 - H.R. 1757, Washington, DC, April 21, 1993. U.S. Congress, Local Exchange Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1993 - H.R. 1312, Washington, DC, March 11, 1993. U.S. Congress, National Competitiveness Act of 1993 - S.4, Washington, DC, January 21, 1993. - - Total length 577 pages - - From petrie@mcc.com Thu Jul 22 18:01:57 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA29406; Thu, 22 Jul 93 18:01:57 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA04116; Thu, 22 Jul 93 18:01:55 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA10552; Thu, 22 Jul 93 17:13:00 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA02023; Thu, 22 Jul 93 17:08:53 CDT Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 17:08:52 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com Subject: Call For Papers - COOPERATING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS Message-Id: A Call for Papers CKBS'94 International Working Conference on COOPERATING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS June 15 - 17, 1994 University of Keele, England Dear Colleagues, Introduction ------------ CKBS'94, the second International Working Conference on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems (CKBS) will be held, from June 15 to 17 (Wednesday to Friday) in 1994 at the University of Keele. A special emphasis will be placed this year on a CKBS approach to intelligent manufacturing systems, but papers from other areas are also invited. The objective of the CKBS series of conferences is to bring the researchers from Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), Distributed Databases (DDB) and industry together to discuss issues and solutions of real-world problems that are inherently distributed. Such problems can benefit from a CKBS type approach, which amalgamate ideas from DAI and DDB for high-performance and robust solutions. Examples of interesting application domains are: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Air-traffic Control, Telecommunications Network Management, Distributed Sensor Networks, Distributed Decision-making Systems, Distributed Banking Systems, Distributed Office Procedures, Distributed Fault Diagnosis. CKBS'94 is the successor to CKBS'90 which was held at Keele in 1990, and in which both DAI and DDB researchers participated. CKBS'90 was considered by the attendees to be very successful and led to the formation of the International Special Interest Group CKBS-SIG, which is managed by the DAKE Centre at Keele. Conference Themes ---------- ------ For CKBS'94, we have selected the application domain of intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS) as a special theme, because of a growing need for a CKBS approach in many areas of this field, such as agent-based and flexible manufacturing, concurrent engineering design and knowledge and systems integration for manufacturing. A number of Programme Committee members are researchers in the IMS area. It is hoped that the conference will provide a forum for the cross-fertilisation of ideas leading to better solutions of CKBS problems in the various branches of IMS and other application domains. Finally, despite our special focus on research in intelligent manufacturing systems, we invite papers from other application domains as well. In fact we may run in the conference different streams, one for the research related to intelligent manufacturing and other(s) for the other domains, depending on the number of quality papers received. If necessary, the conference could be extended to Saturday, June 18. Topics of Interest ------ -- -------- We seek not only papers from completed research work, but also papers on novel ideas even if the work is not yet complete. In addition, we would also like to see papers describing industrial problems of interest. It may be observed here that the CKBS research distinguishes itself from the traditional multi-agent research by having a stronger emphasis on real-world problems, where issues such as performance, reliability, consistency, organisational constraints, security and end-user facility are important. The conference wishes to address three important (though not necessarily disjoint) areas which should comprise the CKBS technology of the future: (i) techniques, (ii) applications, and (iii) systems infrastructures - the latter providing the essential core technologies for the support of CKBS applications and techniques. A partial list of topics of interest to this conference is: CKBS Techniques * Agent Modelling * Representations of Knowledge, Beliefs, Behaviours, Reasonings and Learning * Planning, Task Decomposition and Scheduling * Cooperation, Coordination and Negotiation * Result Integration and Disparity Management * Preferences and Constraints Propagation * Coherence and Performance Optimisation * Languages and Communications Protocols Real-world Applications * Application Requirements * Experience with CKBS Applications * Application Simulations * CKBS Prototypes * Imaginative Case Studies * Cooperating and Active Databases * Cooperative Transactions and User-interfaces * Cooperative Concurrent Design Infrastructures for CKBS Applications * Generalised Models and Architectures * Interoperable Environments * Directory Systems, Knowledge Consistency and Systems Integrity * Flexibility, Adaptability and Scalability * Systems Resilience, Reliability and Recovery * Systems Responsiveness and Reconfigurability * Systems Development Methodology * System Development Shells and Tools Inclusion of topics in different areas is meant to give a flavour, but not a definitive classification; also some topics can fit into more than one area. Submission and Selection ---------- --- --------- The list of topics cited above is only a guide; your paper need not belong to any of these topics, provided it falls in the general CKBS area explained earlier. If you have any doubt, please contact the address given below. Please submit an extended abstract, not exceeding 2000 words, to reach here by February 14, 1994. The abstract should include a comprehensive summary of the intended full paper to help evaluation. Email submission is preferred. If you intend to submit a poster on your work or project, or if you wish to demonstrate your system, please write to us (preferably by email), again by February 14. We shall make the necessary arrangements for you. As was in CKBS'90, papers will be accepted for presentation on the basis of extended abstracts, and will be selected again (full papers) - following their presentation at the conference - for publication as proceedings. A special feature of the conference will be the extensive discussion of ideas, for which specific time will be reserved for each presentation. The authors will have a chance to revise their papers before submission for the final selection, in the light of the comments received during the conference. Further Information ------- ----------- CKBS'94 will be a fully residential conference, as was CKBS'90, giving greater opportunity for the delegates to get to know each other and more time for discussion and the exchange of ideas. Key Dates * Abstracts (under 2000 words) by Feb 14, 1994. * Intention for Posters and Demonstrators by Feb 14, 1994. If you are interested to receive further information on this conference, please contact: Prof. S.M. Deen. DAKE Centre (Department of Computer Science), University of Keele, Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG, England. Tel: +44 782 583076, Fax: +44 782 713082 Email: deen@cs.keele.ac.uk Programme Committee --------- --------- S. Misbah Deen [Chairman] Mohamed M. Bayoumi (Canada) Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Sharma Chakravarthy (USA) Keith Clark (UK) Daniel D. Corkill (USA) Rose Dieng (France) Jim Doran (UK) Edmund H. Durfee (USA) Kari-Pekka Estola (Finland) Brian Gaines (Canada) David Griffiths (UK) Michael Hatzopoulos (Greece) Hans Haugender (Germany) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Ichiro Inasaki (Japan) Toru Ishida (Japan) V. Jagannathan (USA) Paul Kearney (UK) Larry Kerschberg (USA) Stefan Kirn (Germany) Mark Klein (USA) Victor R. Lesser (USA) Witold Litwin (France) Peter B. Luh (USA) E. H. Mamdani (UK) Rainer Manthey (Germany) Yoshio Matsumoto (Japan) Rainer Mittmann (Germany) Heinz Jurgen Mueller (Germany) Erich J. Neuhold (Germany) Douglas H. Norrie (Canada) H. Van Dyke Parunak (USA) Charles Petrie (USA) Gunter Schlageter (Germany) Pierre-Yves Schobbens (Belgium) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Munindar P. Singh (USA) Larry M. Stephens (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Makoto Takizawa (Japan) Shinsuke Tamura (Japan) Edwin Van Leeuwen (Australia) Sponsors -------- DTI (Department of Trade and Industry, UK) CEC ESPRIT (anticipated) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From petrie@mcc.com Fri Jul 23 15:20:44 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA15021; Fri, 23 Jul 93 15:20:44 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA04857; Fri, 23 Jul 93 15:20:24 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA22939; Fri, 23 Jul 93 14:24:49 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA01055; Fri, 23 Jul 93 14:24:34 CDT Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 14:24:33 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: einet-wigs%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com Subject: [ Modem Tax - READ!] Message-Id: Is the next step a tax on Internet nodes? ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Please Cross-post -- RELEVANT TO EVERY BBS IN THE COUNTRY! ************************ AEN ALERT **************************** CALL/FAX/COMPUSERVE YOUR CONGRESSMAN TODAY!!!! *************************************************************** June 25, 1993 WASHINGTON - The Senate moved toward approving its version of President's Clinton's budget package early this morning, a move that is expected to set the stage for a showdown over "hidden taxes" and spending in a House-Senate conference committee. At which time, conservatives in the senate say they will fight efforts to increase taxes and spending which they say is hidden in the legislation. Singled out was $60 million to be used to finance the National Data Network that Vice-President Gore is a supporter of. **************** HERE'S THE PART YOU WANNA CALL ABOUT ************* The $60 million is to be raised by the imposition of a tax on the manufacturers of telecommunications hardware and by fees on the users of such equipment, known as modems. "We used the Pittman- Robertson act, which finances conservation efforts through a tax on firearms and ammunition, as a model," said Congressional spokesperson Bonnie Houck. "The people purchasing and using this type of equipment are affluent and well off. It's fair, it's not taxation, this is a progressive measure that asks the users of a resource to pay for the costs of that resource." Clinton Administration spokesperson J. R. Dobbs cautioned against calling the fees a tax; "Inaccurate buzz words like `modem fees' and allusions to `modem taxes' produce knee-jerk reactions that short-circuit constructive inquiry into a vital public issue. Telecommunications users from all sectors - educators, small business, local governments, public service entities. liraries and recreational users - should take strong interest in how the next generation of telecommunications networks will be developed and financed. The newly authorized user fees are concealed in an obscure *************** HERE'S THE REFERENCE NUMBER: ***************** line item (Docket 37-42 of the Data Communications Network Architecture, or DCNA proposal), "the implications of which NO ONE at this time fully understands," according to noted MIT communications policy expert James Parry. These changes would require telecommunications users to pay "usage sensitive" carrier charges. Roger Carasso is a special assistant to the chief of the Common Carrier Bureau at the FCC. He said it made sense that someone using a 14,400 bps modem pay more than someone using a 2400 bps modem. He also commented that it was good policy to have the fees collected by modem manufacturers and the regional Bell operating companies (RBOC's). "That way the users don't see the government involved in the same old `tax and spend'. In this case the users can take pride in the fact that they are, in fact, directly financing the new `data superhighway' while, at the same time, freeing up scarce government resources for truly necessary social programs such as Medicare, food stamps and education." ==================================================================== From petrie@mcc.com Fri Jul 23 16:27:56 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA15841; Fri, 23 Jul 93 16:27:56 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA04907; Fri, 23 Jul 93 16:27:54 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA23475; Fri, 23 Jul 93 15:33:13 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA01178; Fri, 23 Jul 93 15:32:58 CDT Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 15:32:58 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: einet-wigs%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com, clive%sunscreen.mcc.com@mcc.com Subject: [Daniel Burstein : Re: Modem Tax - READ!] Message-Id: Sorry! I was taken in. --------------- From: Daniel Burstein Subject: Re: Modem Tax - READ! > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > Please Cross-post -- RELEVANT TO EVERY BBS IN THE COUNTRY! > > ************************ AEN ALERT **************************** > > CALL/FAX/COMPUSERVE YOUR CONGRESSMAN TODAY!!!! > *************************************************************** > ... and included a lengthy discussion about a "modem tax." to which dannyb@panix.com (danny burstein) responds: afriad you've been hoaxed. this memo has been floating around for quite awhile, and was thoroughly debunked on telecom-digest, among others. a few hints that this was a phoney: a) check out the names again. b) the memo usually starts off by quoting a non-existant newspaper. your version left it off, but if you have the full text of it, you'll see what I mean. c) no copy editor would ever let a reporter pass through a sentence like "that vice-president Gore is a supporter of." (something about that sentence ending with a word with which I wll not put up - a misquote attributed to Churchill...) take care, dannyb@panix.com (misspellings are probably due to my typing...) From petrie@mcc.com Mon Jul 26 08:51:33 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA02505; Mon, 26 Jul 93 08:51:33 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA07003; Mon, 26 Jul 93 08:51:30 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA09019; Mon, 26 Jul 93 08:51:29 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA01824; Mon, 26 Jul 93 08:51:28 CDT Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 8:51:27 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) TC5 Message-Id: Return-Path: Date: 16 Jul 93 10:30:26 U >From: "mjohnson" PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Towards World Class Manufacturing 1993 International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) TC5 In cooperation with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers September 12-16, 1993 The Wigwam Resort Litchfield Park, Arizona The conference will address vehicles for making progress towards a common understanding of how information needs to be modeled, communicated, stored, and accessed across all aspects of an enterprise starting with the definition of the customer requirements and proceeding through product planning, conceptual product, process, materials, manufacturing system design, prototype validation, detailed pre-production planning, and all life cycle aspects from delivery to disposal to recycle. CONFERENCE SCOPE o Early Design Tools o Infrastructure and Databases o Concurrent Engineering Modeling o Standards o Rapid Prototyping o Economic Cost Models o Management & Organizational Issues o Training and Education o Product Realization Architecture o Distributed Manufacturing o Cooperative Problem Solving Methodologies o Network Services o Teaming and Human Issues o Decentralized Communication Issues - Virtual Co-Location CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Professor Michael J. Wozny, RPI Chair, WG5.2 Dr. Gustav Olling, Chrysler Corp. Chair, WG5.3 CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Mary Johnson, Sec. WG5.2 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Design & Manufacturing Institute 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518)276-6754 Fax: (518)276-2702 Email: mjohnson@rdrc.rpi.edu REGISTRATION Conference registration fee of $475 includes conference proceedings, lunches, breaks, reception, and conference dinner. Important Payment Information o Complete and return registration form with payment. o Please send to the conference coordinator a personal or company check, money order, or company purchase order, in US Dollars payable to the Design & Manufacturing Institute. o Personal checks and bank checks can be accepted only if drawn on US banks, or US branches of foreign banks. o We cannot accept credit cards. o Travelers checks will be accepted on site. To register, please complete and mail, email, or fax the registration form to the conference coordinator. HOTEL INFORMATION A block of rooms has been reserved under the name IFIP Conference, at: The Wigwam Resort 300 East Indian School Road Litchfield Park, Arizona 85340 Phone (602)935-3811, Fax: (602)935-3737 Attn: Ms. Nichols, Reservations Please make your reservation directly with the hotel using the registration form. Include first night's deposit in the form of check or credit card number to guarantee your reservation. Your reservation will be confirmed upon receipt of your deposit. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IFIP 1993 Conference September 12-16, 1993 The Wigwam Resort Litchfield, Arizona (PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE) Name: Affiliation: Address: (include all mail stops, codes, etc.) Phone: Fax: Email: SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Please let us know if you have any special requirement, i.e., vegetarian meals, handicap access, etc. Conference Cost $475.00 which includes conference proceedings, lunches, breaks, reception, and conference dinner. Please send to the conference coordinator a personal or company check, money order, or company purchase order, in US Dollars payable to the Design & Manufacturing Institute. Fax, mail or e-mail this form to: Mary Johnson, Sec. WG5.2 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Design & Manufacturing Institute 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518)276-6754 Fax: (518)276-2702 Email: mjohnson@rdrc.rpi.edu HOTEL RESERVATIONS IFIP 1993 Conference September 12-16, 1993 (PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE) Name: Affiliation: Address: (include all mail stops, codes, etc.) Phone: Fax: Arrival Date: Departure Date: Single ($90.00) Double ($90.00) To have your room guaranteed you must supply a credit card number or send one night's deposit in the form of a check. Card Name: Number: Expiration Date: TRANSPORTATION If you wish to be met at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport by the hotel shuttle, indicate below. The charge is $20.00 per person each way. Arrival Date: Carrier: Flt #: Time: Departure Date: Carrier: Flt #: Time: Fax or mail this form to: The Wigwam Resort 300 East Indian School Road Litchfield Park, Arizona 85340 Phone (602)935-3811, Fax: (602)935-3737 Attn: Ms. Nichols, Reservations The Wigwam, located 17 miles west of Phoenix, is one of the finest and most exclusive desert resorts in the nation. Set in a 74-acre oasis of orange and palm trees, The Wigwam is a year-round recreation paradise. Famous architect Robert Trent Jones designed two of the three championship golf courses. Wigwam guests receive first priority on all 54 holes. From petrie@mcc.com Tue Jul 27 12:32:53 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA26714; Tue, 27 Jul 93 12:32:53 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA08190; Tue, 27 Jul 93 12:32:51 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA25179; Tue, 27 Jul 93 11:25:24 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA02853; Tue, 27 Jul 93 11:25:23 CDT Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 11:25:22 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com Subject: CAIA-94 Third CFP - Deadline 8/31/93 Message-Id: CALL FOR PAPERS CAIA-94 The Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications: Developing Enabling Technologies and Integrating AI into Application Solutions Marriott Riverwalk - San Antonio, Texas March 1-4, 1994 Increasingly, the role of AI in business and scientific applications is that of one component in a complex system. Integrating AI with knowledge sources and databases, user interfaces, and existing software is an important aspect of advancing the application of AI to real world problems. This year's conference will emphasize both the development of enabling AI technology and the issues involved in the integration of this technology into products and processes. We are also seeking innovative ideas for new application areas and new research and technology transfer paradigms. Our goal is to increase interaction between different communities and to increase our understanding of how AI technology can be applied to real- world problems. With these goals in mind, two general kinds of papers are appropriate. First are case studies of AI applications that address significant real- world problems. These papers must (1) justify the use of the AI technique, based on the problem and application requirements, (2) explain how the AI technology contributed to the solution and was integrated with other components, and (3) describe the status of the implementation. Second are papers on novel AI techniques and principles that may enable more ambitious real-world applications. All the usual AI topics are appropriate. These papers must (1) describe the importance of the approach from an applications context, (2) describe the work in sufficient technical detail and clarity, (3) clearly and thoroughly differentiate the work from previous efforts. While finished work is important, one major role for this conference is as a forum for exchanging ideas. For this reason, well-written reports on work-in-progress and descriptions of innovative partial implementations are encouraged. In fact, we hope to structure CAIA-94 in several ways to facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners. First, we will include invited speakers on various appropriate topics, of both technical and more general scope. Second, panel sessions are very important in an inter-disciplinary area and will be a key feature of CAIA-94. Third, CAIA will include a mix of introductory and advanced tutorials and a small workshop program oriented towards wide participation. Other, more novel forums such as evening discussion sessions may be tried. Papers should be limited to 5000 words and papers significantly longer that this will not be reviewed. Accepted papers will be allotted seven pages in the conference proceedings, and the best papers will be considered for a special issue of IEEE Expert to appear late in 1994. Awards will be presented to the best paper and best student paper at the conference. The first page of the paper must contain the following information (where applicable) in the order shown: * Title. * Author's name and affiliation (specify student status). * Contact information (name, postal address, phone and email address). * Abstract: A 200 word abstract that includes a clear statement describing the paper's original contributions and what new lesson is imparted. * AI topic: One or more terms describing the relevant AI areas, e.g. knowledge acquisition, explanation, diagnosis, etc. * Domain area: One or more terms describing the problem domain area, e.g. mechanical design, factory scheduling, education, medicine, etc. * Language/Tool: Underlying programming languages, systems and tools used. * Status: Development and deployment status, as appropriate. * Effort: Person-years of effort put into developing the particular aspect of the project being described. * Impact: A 20 word description of estimated or measured (specify) benefit of the application developed. In addition to papers, we will be accepting the following types of submissions: * Proposals for Panel Discussions. Provide a brief description of the topic (1000 words or less). Indicate appropriateness for this conference, the membership of the panel and interest in organizing/moderating the discussion. * Proposals for Tutorial Presentations. Proposals for three hour tutorials of both an introductory and advanced nature are requested. Tutorials which analyze classes of applications in depth or examine techniques appropriate for a particular class of applications are of particular interest. Include a detailed topic outline, a half-page synopsis of the focus, topics, a list of benefits to the audience, and a full professional vita. * Proposals for Workshops. Proposals are sought for one day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. These workshops should avoid having too narrow a scope (such as "AI in Radiology"); rather, they should be designed to foster communication between both experts and interested newcomers about a broad application area (for example, "Applications of AI to Software") or address a concern that covers many applications (for example, "Issues in Technology Transfer"). Include a one-page description of the workshop and a small organizing committee. Important Dates * August 31, 1993: Four copies of papers, and three copies of all other proposals are due to the program chair at the address listed below (no electronic submissions). * October 15, 1993: Author notifications mailed. * December 14, 1993: Accepted papers and tutorial notes due to IEEE. * March 1, 1994: Conference tutorial program and workshops. * March 1-4, 1994: Conference technical program. Submit Papers and all Proposals to: Peter G. Selfridge AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 2B-425 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Phone: 908-582-6801, fax -7550 Email: pgs@research.att.com For registration and additional conference information, contact: CAIA-94 IEEE Computer Society 1730 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-1903 Phone: 202-371-1013 General Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California Program Chair: Peter G. Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories Publicity Chair: Marc Goodman, Cognitive Systems and Brandeis University Local Arrangements Chair: Aaron Konstam, Trinity University Program Committee Jan Aikins Trinzic Corporation Chid Apte IBM Larry Birnbaum Northwestern University Ron Brachman AT&T Mark Burstein BBN Dan Cooke U. Texas El Paso Vasant Dhar NYU Tim Finin U. Maryland Baltimore County Phil Hayes Carnegie Group Jim Hendler U. Maryland Haym Hirsh Rutgers Lou Hoebel Rome Laboratory, USAF Se June Hong IBM Lewis Johnson USC/ISI Bernadette Kowalski-Minton Academic Systems Corp. Larry Lefkowitz Bellcore Don McKay Paramax Robert Milne Intelligent Applications Ltd. Charles Petrie MCC David Redmiles UC Boulder Anil Rewari DEC Marcio Rillo University of San Paulo, Brazil Eric Schoen Schlumberger Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed Bob Simpson NCR Elliot Soloway U. Michigan Craig Stanfill Thinking Machines Loren Terveen AT&T Oliver Vadas Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI David Waltz Thinking Machines and Brandeis U. John Yen Texas A&M University General information on CAIA-94, including this Call for Papers, is available electronically. Send email to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU or try the Gopher server on GOPHER.CS.UMBC.EDU for a description of what is available and how to retrieve. For more information or clarification, contact the IEEE Computer Society or the Program Chair at the addresses above. From bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Mon Aug 9 09:23:11 1993 Return-Path: Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA02643; Mon, 9 Aug 93 09:23:11 CDT Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.aiai; Mon, 9 Aug 1993 15:21:12 +0100 From: Austin Tate Date: Mon, 9 Aug 93 15:21:05 BST Message-Id: <29295.9308091421@subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: enterprise wide corporate electronic publishing I am interested in projects and companies engaged in corporate electronic publishing. A contact has stated that they believe there is more (or at least as much) activity directed at corporate electronic publishing in Europe as they have observed in the US. Are you involved in such work and can you help with evidence to support or refute this hypothesis? From speyer@mcc.com Mon Aug 9 10:24:07 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA03417; Mon, 9 Aug 93 10:24:07 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA20240; Mon, 9 Aug 93 10:23:59 CDT Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA07074; Mon, 9 Aug 93 10:23:57 CDT Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA13550; Mon, 9 Aug 93 10:23:57 CDT Date: Mon, 9 Aug 93 10:23:57 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9308091523.AA13550@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Re: enterprise wide corporate electronic publishing The following message is being forwarded for Kevin Dye . Please direct responses to him for more information. ----- Begin Included Message ----- In reponse to the recent posting regarding electronic publishing by Austin Tate : I have been working on a series of electronically published newsletters in the areas of Integrated Product Development, Kaizen, and Rapid Prototyping. We plan to add Knowledge Based Design. These "ALERTS" are published through our company's worldwide electronic mail. Compilation of material is also electronic - through our library's access to on-line databases. After creating a profile the search is run automatically. There are many more subtle issues in publishing electronically than I would have guessed before I started. To develop an intelligent way to go about electronic publishing, which here links our R&D center to our operating divisions, we have been slowly developing an Enhanced Quality Function Deployment analysis (a la Clausing) to map the needs to the how-tos. This work is carried out informally between the Integrated Product Development group, our library (Information Services), and the Information Systems group. I have written a vision of the relationship between the library, R&D and our operating units. Please forward your name and e-mail address and I'll send it. ----- End Included Message ----- From petrie@mcc.com Mon Aug 9 16:13:51 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA07723; Mon, 9 Aug 93 16:13:51 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA20843; Mon, 9 Aug 93 16:13:42 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA11300; Mon, 9 Aug 93 16:13:37 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA11101; Mon, 9 Aug 93 16:13:36 CDT Date: Mon, 9 Aug 93 16:13:35 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: hulthage@morue.usc.edu Subject: Computational Organization Design - Symposium Message-Id: This is relevant to my previous message to this list about the possibility of applying theories of design and design rationales to business process re-engineering. This call for participation emphasizes organizational design. But it offers many interesting and relevant possibilities for discussion. For instance, is it possible to provide computational support that eliminates or reduces the need for a static organization? It promises to be an interesting symposium. cp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hulthage@morue.usc.edu (Ingemar Hulthage) Message-Id: <9308062121.AA01628@morue.usc.edu> Subject: Computational Organization Design To: petrie@mcc.com Date: Fri, 6 Aug 93 14:21:25 PDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Call for participation in the AAAI-94 Spring Symposium on COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATION DESIGN at Stanford University, March 21-23, 1994 Modern private and public organizations are facing immense pressures to rapidly reconfigure their processes, products, and relationships with other organizations. The cross-functional complexity of these changes - including their impacts on the technologies that organizations use, the structures of organizations, and the integration of human and cognitive issues such as skill requirements, cognitive loads, and performance management systems - is immense. AI has found numerous applications in supporting decision-making in organizations, but few in managing the complex issues of organizational design, analysis, re-configuration, re-engineering, and process change. The problem of capturing and managing this complexity cries out for computational design/analysis support, much in the way that other large, complex design and analysis problems (e.g., architectural design, engineering design) have been supported by automated assistance. At the same time, organization theories and design approaches have reached a degree of maturity that they can profitably be brought together in the new enterprise of supporting the reconfiguration of organizations. This new avenue, which we call Computational Organization Design, encompasses both the theoretical, practical, and methodological aspects of AI, design, and organization theory. The scope of Computational Organization Design encompasses both the design of human organizations, the design of automated organizations such as intelligent networks, and the design of highly-integrated human-technology organizations in which there is an integrated division of labor between people and computing. COD is an important research area and an interesting and promising class of abstract design problems. Key research questions include: How can Design Process Models (DPMs), for organizational design, be characterized, identified and verified ? A DPM is an explicit model of the activities carried out while creating a design. Adopting a particular DPM amounts to making the hypothesis that, over a collection of design problems, applying the DPM will generate a useful percentage of highly-evaluated acceptable designs with acceptable levels of effort. Can AI, with its unique capabilities for rigorous, qualitative inference, provide powerful new capabilities to formalize and execute organization theory ? For example, most organization theory to date makes only qualitative predictions about aggregate behaviors of organizations, treating environmental constraints and contingencies like point loads at the center of mass of the organization. How can COD contribute in practical arenas such as business process reengineering and redesign ? To what extent can organization design be treated as a routine design problem, with a well defined space of possibilities and explicit evaluation criteria ? Are there any important implications of the fact that organizations are abstract objects, subject to constraints of a different nature from the constraints that physical objects are subject to ? How should a DPM for COD differ from DPM's for other applications ? What role does creative design play in COD ? Other questions are: What is the state of the art of Computational Organization Design (COD) ? What should the agenda for future research be ? The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers from the fields of AI, Design and Organization theory in order to define and build a community of researchers active in Computational Organization Design. The format of the symposium will be designed with the aim to support this goal and will include selected presentations and extensive, but closely moderated, discussions. Anybody who wishes to participate and make a presentation should submit an extended abstract (500-1000 words) of the presentation. The character of presentations may vary widely and include: complete results, experimental data, report on work in progress, theoretical analysis and thoughtful speculations. Other prospective participants should submit a statement (approximately 500 words) explaining their interests and experiences related to COD and what they can contribute to the discussions. Please, include references to all your publications related to COD in all submission. The number of participants is limited and invitations will be made based on a review of the submissions. Submissions may be included in working notes distributed to the participants, for discussion purposes only. No other distribution of submissions will be made by the organizing committee or AAAI, without written permission of the authors. Email submissions are preferred (ASCII or LaTeX), otherwise submit four hardcopies, or (as a last resort) fax one copy. Send all submissions to arrive by October 15 1993, to: Ingemar Hulthage Institute of Safety and Systems Management University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0021 (213) 740-4044 (voice) (213) 740-9732 (fax) hulthage@usc.edu (email) Additional organizers: Raymond E. Levitt, Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, rel@cive.stanford.edu Duvvuru Sriram, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, sriram@athena.mit.edu Sarosh Talukdar, Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie-Mellon University, talukdar@edrc.cmu.edu From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Wed Aug 11 14:56:26 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA15470; Wed, 11 Aug 93 14:56:26 CDT Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA23554; Wed, 11 Aug 93 14:56:24 CDT Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA29092; Wed, 11 Aug 93 15:56:16 EDT From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9308111956.AA29092@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: CERES To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 15:56:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4338 CERES: A Global Knowledge Network for Environmentally Sound Product Development The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, in collaboration with a number of universities in Europe and Asia, has launched an initiative to create a global knowledge network to facilitate world-wide sharing of information needed for developing environmentally sound products. Examples of such information are:processes for recycling, standards for products, laws and regulations, recommended manufacturing processes, materials, and so on. This project called CERES (for the Roman goddess who was believed to protect the fruits of the Earth) will connect users with globally distributed knowledge bases using current network information infrastructures, such as Internet, and generic servers such as Gopher and WAIS. This should make it possible for any product developer in the world to explore models and information related to product/process/material/deployment alternatives that will have the least impact on the Environment. It is envisioned that each country/region will create repositories of sharable knowledge that will be made available through the CERES Network. Proprietary knowledge on a pay-for-use basis may also be made available through CERES. This aspect will be explored in future with organizations such as the National Center for Manufacturing Science (NCMS-USA). The CERES concept is based on the following assumptions: 1. There is global interest in sharing environmental knowledge and thus making it a global resource. 2. Knowledge exists in diverse forms and media. 3. Global information infrastructure is emerging rapidly. 4. Government mandates and incentives for producing environmentally sound products are rapidly evolving. 5. Recycling infrastructure development is becoming a high priority for many countries. Specifically CERES will contain knowledge pertaining to: 1. disposability 2. recyclability 3.Material Substitution 4.Process Alternatives 5. Cost Models 6. Expert Systems 7. Animations/ Simulations 8. Expert Refferal networks 9. Advanced Research results 10. Case histories and other relevant information. An initial prototype network will be created and demonstrated using the Collaboration Technology developed under the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE-USA). The prototype network will have nodes at the following universities and research centers: 1. Concurrent Engineering Research Center (USA) - COORDINATION 2. University of Ghent (Belgium) 3. Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) 4. University of ROMA II at Frascati (Italy) 5. Institute for Research in Productics and Logistics (France) 6. St. Petersburg Academy for Aerospace Technology (Russia) 7. Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology (Japan) 8. GINTIC Institute for Manufacturing (Singapore) 9. Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK) The initial organizing committee for CERES includes: Prof. R. Reddy, USA -- Chairman Prof. G. Vansteenkiste, Belgium Prof. E.J. Sol, The Netherlands Prof. G. Iazeolla, Italy Prof. S. Fukuda, Japan Mr. F. Perihirin, France Prof. A. Lukoshkin, Russia Prof. R. Yusupov, Russia Dr. S. Evans, UK Dr. D. Sng, Singapore The first working meeting of the organizing committee (including present members and other interested persons) is scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C, USA around January, 1994. The project will be kicked off at an International Conference to be held on Lake Baikal (Russia) in the third week of July, 1994. An electronic journal, to be named , will itself be made available through the knowledge network. The following committees of CERES are planned: 1. CERES Network Design Committee 2. CERES Knowledge Representation Committee 3. CERES Journal Committee 4. CERES Organizational Committee In addition, several domain-specific committees will be formed later. If you are interested in participating in the development of the CERES concept please contact: Professor Ramana Reddy Director Concurrent Engineering Research Center P.O. Box 6506 886 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26506 USA Phone: 304 293 7226 (Office) 304 594 1584 (Home) Fax 304 293 7541 E-mail: rar@cerc.wvu.edu From petrie@mcc.com Fri Aug 13 10:15:10 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA23967; Fri, 13 Aug 93 10:15:10 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25300; Fri, 13 Aug 93 10:15:02 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA04304; Fri, 13 Aug 93 09:02:08 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA14033; Fri, 13 Aug 93 09:02:07 CDT Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 9:02:07 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com Subject: CKBS'94 - CFP Message-Id: A Call for Papers CKBS'94 International Working Conference on COOPERATING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS June 15 - 17, 1994 University of Keele, England Dear Colleagues, Introduction ------------ CKBS'94, the second International Working Conference on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems (CKBS) will be held, from June 15 to 17 (Wednesday to Friday) in 1994 at the University of Keele. A special emphasis will be placed this year on a CKBS approach to intelligent manufacturing systems, but papers from other areas are also invited. The objective of the CKBS series of conferences is to bring the researchers from Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), Distributed Databases (DDB) and industry together to discuss issues and solutions of real-world problems that are inherently distributed. Such problems can benefit from a CKBS type approach, which amalgamate ideas from DAI and DDB for high-performance and robust solutions. Examples of interesting application domains are: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Air-traffic Control, Telecommunications Network Management, Distributed Sensor Networks, Distributed Decision-making Systems, Distributed Banking Systems, Distributed Office Procedures, Distributed Fault Diagnosis. CKBS'94 is the successor to CKBS'90 which was held at Keele in 1990, and in which both DAI and DDB researchers participated. CKBS'90 was considered by the attendees to be very successful and led to the formation of the International Special Interest Group CKBS-SIG, which is managed by the DAKE Centre at Keele. Conference Themes ---------- ------ For CKBS'94, we have selected the application domain of intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS) as a special theme, because of a growing need for a CKBS approach in many areas of this field, such as agent-based and flexible manufacturing, concurrent engineering design and knowledge and systems integration for manufacturing. A number of Programme Committee members are researchers in the IMS area. It is hoped that the conference will provide a forum for the cross-fertilisation of ideas leading to better solutions of CKBS problems in the various branches of IMS and other application domains. Finally, despite our special focus on research in intelligent manufacturing systems, we invite papers from other application domains as well. In fact we may run in the conference different streams, one for the research related to intelligent manufacturing and other(s) for the other domains, depending on the number of quality papers received. If necessary, the conference could be extended to Saturday, June 18. Topics of Interest ------ -- -------- We seek not only papers from completed research work, but also papers on novel ideas even if the work is not yet complete. In addition, we would also like to see papers describing industrial problems of interest. It may be observed here that the CKBS research distinguishes itself from the traditional multi-agent research by having a stronger emphasis on real-world problems, where issues such as performance, reliability, consistency, organisational constraints, security and end-user facility are important. The conference wishes to address three important (though not necessarily disjoint) areas which should comprise the CKBS technology of the future: (i) techniques, (ii) applications, and (iii) systems infrastructures - the latter providing the essential core technologies for the support of CKBS applications and techniques. A partial list of topics of interest to this conference is: CKBS Techniques * Agent Modelling * Representations of Knowledge, Beliefs, Behaviours, Reasonings and Learning * Planning, Task Decomposition and Scheduling * Cooperation, Coordination and Negotiation * Result Integration and Disparity Management * Preferences and Constraints Propagation * Coherence and Performance Optimisation * Languages and Communications Protocols Real-world Applications * Application Requirements * Experience with CKBS Applications * Application Simulations * CKBS Prototypes * Imaginative Case Studies * Cooperating and Active Databases * Cooperative Transactions and User-interfaces * Cooperative Concurrent Design Infrastructures for CKBS Applications * Generalised Models and Architectures * Interoperable Environments * Directory Systems, Knowledge Consistency and Systems Integrity * Flexibility, Adaptability and Scalability * Systems Resilience, Reliability and Recovery * Systems Responsiveness and Reconfigurability * Systems Development Methodology * System Development Shells and Tools Inclusion of topics in different areas is meant to give a flavour, but not a definitive classification; also some topics can fit into more than one area. Submission and Selection ---------- --- --------- The list of topics cited above is only a guide; your paper need not belong to any of these topics, provided it falls in the general CKBS area explained earlier. If you have any doubt, please contact the address given below. Please submit an extended abstract, not exceeding 2000 words, to reach here by February 14, 1994. The abstract should include a comprehensive summary of the intended full paper to help evaluation. Email submission is preferred. If you intend to submit a poster on your work or project, or if you wish to demonstrate your system, please write to us (preferably by email), again by February 14. We shall make the necessary arrangements for you. As was in CKBS'90, papers will be accepted for presentation on the basis of extended abstracts, and will be selected again (full papers) - following their presentation at the conference - for publication as proceedings. A special feature of the conference will be the extensive discussion of ideas, for which specific time will be reserved for each presentation. The authors will have a chance to revise their papers before submission for the final selection, in the light of the comments received during the conference. Further Information ------- ----------- CKBS'94 will be a fully residential conference, as was CKBS'90, giving greater opportunity for the delegates to get to know each other and more time for discussion and the exchange of ideas. Key Dates * Abstracts (under 2000 words) by Feb 14, 1994. * Intention for Posters and Demonstrators by Feb 14, 1994. If you are interested to receive further information on this conference, please contact: Prof. S.M. Deen. DAKE Centre (Department of Computer Science), University of Keele, Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG, England. Tel: +44 782 583076, Fax: +44 782 713082 Email: deen@cs.keele.ac.uk Programme Committee --------- --------- S. Misbah Deen [Chairman] Mohamed M. Bayoumi (Canada) Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Sharma Chakravarthy (USA) Keith Clark (UK) Daniel D. Corkill (USA) Rose Dieng (France) Jim Doran (UK) Edmund H. Durfee (USA) Kari-Pekka Estola (Finland) Brian Gaines (Canada) David Griffiths (UK) Michael Hatzopoulos (Greece) Hans Haugender (Germany) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Ichiro Inasaki (Japan) Toru Ishida (Japan) V. Jagannathan (USA) Paul Kearney (UK) Larry Kerschberg (USA) Stefan Kirn (Germany) Mark Klein (USA) Victor R. Lesser (USA) Witold Litwin (France) Peter B. Luh (USA) E. H. Mamdani (UK) Rainer Manthey (Germany) Yoshio Matsumoto (Japan) Rainer Mittmann (Germany) Heinz Jurgen Mueller (Germany) Erich J. Neuhold (Germany) Douglas H. Norrie (Canada) H. Van Dyke Parunak (USA) Charles Petrie (USA) Gunter Schlageter (Germany) Pierre-Yves Schobbens (Belgium) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Munindar P. Singh (USA) Larry M. Stephens (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Makoto Takizawa (Japan) Shinsuke Tamura (Japan) Edwin Van Leeuwen (Australia) Sponsors -------- DTI (Department of Trade and Industry, UK) CEC ESPRIT (anticipated) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From speyer@mcc.com Fri Aug 20 10:08:09 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA26394; Fri, 20 Aug 93 10:08:09 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA04435; Fri, 20 Aug 93 10:08:01 CDT Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA02187; Fri, 20 Aug 93 10:08:00 CDT Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA05829; Fri, 20 Aug 93 10:07:59 CDT Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 10:07:59 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9308201507.AA05829@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: STEP Technical Publications Meeting >From: Curtis Parks >I have been reviewing the iceimt messages as well as the STEP's SC4 >messages. In the latter was this announcement that seems to relate >quite closely to your enterprise electronic publishing issue: ------------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE ---------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 93 09:56:36 EDT From: bburns%e16sun@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Bernard Burns) To: sc4@cme.nist.gov Subject: STEP Technical Publications Meeting The STEP Technical Publications team, ISO TC184/SC4/WG3/T14, will meet at the SC4 working groups meeting in Berlin during the week of 3 October 1993. T14's current task is to provide the resources to enable the representation of intelligent documentation associated with a product in a STEP environment. These resources are currently referred to as the Technical Publications Information Model (TPIM). Thus far, participation in T14 has primarily came from the U.S. and Canadian delegations. We urge other countries to participate to ensure the consideration of international requirements. A T14 Newcomers' Orientation will be presented on Monday and Wednesday at 13:00. If your country has interest in this subject matter, it is recommended that a representative attend the Orientation. Please feel free to contact me if you want further information. Best regards, Bernard Burns ISO TC184/SC4/WG3/T14 Leader U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Div. (voice) +1 301 394 4310 (FAX) +1 301 394 1799 (e-mail) krhoffm@relay.nswc.navy.mil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From petrie@mcc.com Mon Aug 23 11:47:35 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA19429; Mon, 23 Aug 93 11:47:35 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA07566; Mon, 23 Aug 93 11:47:31 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA25474; Mon, 23 Aug 93 10:44:44 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA05821; Mon, 23 Aug 93 10:44:44 CDT Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 10:44:43 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com Subject: CoopIS-94 CFP Message-Id: CALL FOR PAPERS SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS-94) Formerly "Intelligent & Cooperative Information Systems (ICICIS)" May 17-20, 1994 Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada Supported by the Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario In cooperation with IEEE CS, ACM SIGOIS (pending approval), and ACM SIGMOD TSUNAMI - THE TIDAL WAVE IS HERE -------------------------------- Within most organizations, worldwide, mission critical information systems (ISs) already cooperate or are being converted to do so to meet basic business requirements. Due to the lack of appropriate concepts, techniques, and tools, this is being done using primitive means thereby creating problems that will dwarf those of current legacy information systems. This conference is devoted to addressing this tidal wave facing the information systems community. COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: THE NEXT GENERATION AND THE CHALLENGE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The paradigm for the next generation of ISs will involve large numbers of ISs distributed over large, complex computer/communication networks. This ranges from the vast and visionary Electronic Superhighway, to the large and complex billing system of a telephone company, an even to the small patient information system in a one-doctor office. Such ISs will manage or have access to large amounts of information and computing services. They will support individual or collaborative human work. Computation will be conducted concurrently over the network by software systems that range from conventional to advanced application systems including expert systems, and multiagent planning systems. Information and services will be available in many forms through legacy and new information repositories that support a host of information services. Communication among component systems will be done in a centralized or distributed fashion, using communication protocols that range from conventional ones to those based on distributed AI. We call such next generation ISs Cooperative Information Systems (CIS). Soon, the operation of a one-doctor office may critically depend on its ISs' ability to cooperate with foreign ISs not just for reimbursement (i.e., required by insurance organizations) but also for patients (e.g., exchanging information in medical crises). Demand for more efficient processes and use of all resources will come from economic and business conditions (e.g., competition, imperative for wider marketplaces, and cooperation and distribution in the production of goods and services) that have led to downsizing and re-engineering . IS technology, one of the largest costs of many organizations, can be the problem, or part of the solution. The demands are pervasive from vast organizations to very small. The requirements span conventional organizational and legal boundaries such as countries, companies (e.g., virtual companies), disciplines (e.g., concurrent engineering spanning a products entire life span). The CIS paradigm is evolving to meet these demands thus raising challenges for the supporting technologies. Unlike previous major computing advances based on single technologies, the CIS paradigm will evolve from the integration of many, currently disjoint technologies. Database Systems will contribute information management techniques, particularly for distributed or heterogeneous databases, as well as efficient implementation techniques for information bases. Artificial Intelligence will contribute knowledge representation and reasoning techniques, on the one hand, and distributed problem solving and planning techniques in a multiagent environment on the other. Operating Systems will contribute resource management techniques over large distributed computer/communications networks. Programming Languages will contribute languages and type/object systems for cooperative programming. Software/Knowledge/Information Engineering will contribute design and development environments/shells and methodologies for CIS development and evolution. Computer Communications will provide the necessary underlying communication and interconnection technology. Other relevant technologies include: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Distributed Computing, Organizational Computing, and Interoperability. The challenge is to effectively combine these technologies and their contributions to meet CIS requirements. A significant challenge is to overcome the existing boundaries to achieve a common understanding of the relevant issues. CIS will become reality through research in concepts, methodologies, techniques, and tools for the efficient - and transparent - integration of computing resources that are accessible over large computer/communications networks which may become indistinguishable from the CISs themselves. More important is the technology transfer and communication required between the significant, practical situations, which exemplify the requirements, and the research community that tries to address them. But most important is an increased common understanding across the existing boundaries as to the nature of the problems, the requirements, and adequate approaches to address them. THE CONFERENCE -------------- The CoopIS-94 conference will provide a forum for the presentation and dissemination of this research covering all aspects of CIS conception, requirements, functionality, implementation, deployment, and evolution. The CoopIS-94 conference programme will include technical sessions, invited presentations, panels, and tutorials that deal with CISs and the integration of relevant technologies. In addition, CoopIS-94 plans to host special sessions on the industrial applicability of CIS technology. Further information about the conference and its programme can be obtained from the General and Program Co-Chairs and by anonymous FTP from ftp.gte.com (132.197.8.2) under directory pub/coopis. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to:) ------------------ CIS Systems Issues: o CIS Principles - cooperation, intelligence, autonomy o CIS Architectures and communication protocols - novel open architectures, blackboard systems, multiagent planning frameworks, speech acts, advanced information services in support of interoperability o Core Technology for CIS - open distributed computing architectures, type systems, object models and advanced transaction models for interoperability, advanced query models and languages, active databases o CIS Implementation Techniques - novel programming languages for CISs, interoperability issues in distributed heterogeneous information bases, multi-database transaction scheduling and execution, rule bases o Integration Challenges - interoperability, multiple paradigms, forms of transparency, object and transaction model integration, global information (e.g., schemas, directories, repositories), semantic interoperability, negotiation, optimization (e.g., queries, indexing, ...) CIS Modelling, Migration, and Evolution: o CIS Applications - current and future o Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs - multiple perspective representations, non-deductive forms of inference (inductive, analogical, case-based, ...), multiagent planning and problem solving o Advanced CIS Programming - workflows, transactions, information requests, policy/rule-driven systems, mega-programming, multiple programming paradigms o Information Engineering for CIS - information acquisition, classification and retrieval techniques and tools, information sharing and management o Re-Engineering - concepts, tools, and methodologies; re-engineer legacy and new information systems into CISs o CIS Evolution - concepts, tools, and techniques for CIS design, development, and maintenance o Information Agents - novel models and organizations, application of information agent technology in virtual laboratories, concurrent engineering and other groupware frameworks. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS ----------------------- Authors must clearly relate the contribution of their work to the concept of CIS, rather than just describing aspects of a component technology (e.g., state assumptions or definitions as to the nature of CISs). Papers which illustrate their results in terms of an CIS application or address technology integration issues leading to CISs are particularly welcome. Submission must be identified as one of three different categories: visions, research, and experience. Vision papers should present stimulating challenges, ideas, or visions that lead to exciting and valuable CIS research directions. Vision papers will be evaluated with respect to innovation, realizable applications and technologies, and technical challenges posed (e.g., that do not currently admit of solutions). Research papers should advance the state of the art of CIS and will be evaluated using conventional scientific criteria. Experience papers should describe the practical applications of CIS concepts or methods. They will be evaluated in terms of lessons learned, research issues raised, and solutions to realistic challenges, such as those of legacy information systems. Five copies of original and compelling unpublished papers up to 5000 words that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere during the reviewing period should be sent to the appropriate Programme Committee Co-Chair. Restricted electronic submission may be acceptable. For instructions contact the American PC Co-Chair. Submissions must include contact information (contact name, postal and e-mail address, and phone number), a 100-word abstract, and explicitly indicate the paper category (vision, research, or experience). The edited proceedings of CoopIS-94 will appear as a book from a major international publisher. Selected articles will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- December 1, 1993 paper, panel, and tutorial submissions due February 1, 1994 notification of acceptance March 1, 1994 camera-ready version due GENERAL CHAIR ------------- John Mylopoulos Dept. Computer Science University of Toronto 6 King's College Road, Toronto M5S 1A4, Canada jm@cs.toronto.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- America (North & South) Europe & Middle East Far East, Africa, Australia Michael L. Brodie Matthias Jarke Mike P. Papazoglou Distributed Object Informatik V School of Computing Department Information Systems GTE Laboratories Incorporated RWTH Aachen Queensland Univ. Technology 40 Sylvan Road Ahornstr. 55 GPO Box 2434 Waltham, MA 02254, USA 52074 Aachen, Germany Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia brodie@gte.com jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de mikep@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Philip A. Bernstein (USA) Robert Meersman (Holland) Patrick Bobbie (USA) John Mylopoulos (Canada) Alexander Borgida (USA) Wolfgang Nejdl (Germany) Manfred Broy (Germany) Anne Ngu (Australia) Tung Bui (Hong-Kong) Maurizio Panti (Italy) Umeshwar Dayal (USA) Charles Petrie (USA) Misbah Deen (UK) Andreas Reuter (Germany) Lois M.L. Delcambre (USA) Daniel R. Ries (USA) Eric Dubois (Belgium) Bob Rockwell (Germany) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (USA) Marek E. Rusinkiewicz (USA) Opher Etzion (Israel) Hans Schek (Switzerland) Less Gasser (USA) Gunter Schlagter (Germany) Igor Hawryszkiewycz (Australia) Timos Sellis (Greece) Karen Huff (USA) Amit P. Sheth (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Abraham Silberschatz (USA) Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Dimitri Karagiannis (Austria) Stefano Spaccapietra William Kent (USA) (Switzerland) Steven C. Laufmann (USA) Ronald Stamper (Holland) Ron Lee (Holland) Michael Stonebraker (USA) Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Zahir Tari (Australia) Victor Lesser (USA) Patrick Valduriez (France) Fred Lochovsky (Hong-Kong) Carson Woo (Canada) Vincent Lum (Hong-Kong) Yelena Yesha (Baltimore) Frank A. Manola (USA) Norihiko Yoshida (Japan) Louis Marinos (Germany) John Zeleznikow (Australia) From alok@ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu Tue Aug 24 12:34:15 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA07579; Tue, 24 Aug 93 12:34:15 CDT Received: from mentor.cc.purdue.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA08709; Tue, 24 Aug 93 12:34:11 CDT Received: from ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu by mentor.cc.purdue.edu (5.61/Purdue_CC) id AA06604; Tue, 24 Aug 93 12:34:08 -0500 Received: by ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu with Microsoft Mail id <2C7A6E18@ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu>; Tue, 24 Aug 93 12:38:00 PDT From: "Chaturvedi, Alok" To: all-iceimt Subject: EI Conference at Purdue University, Sept 20,21, 1993 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 12:27:00 PDT Message-Id: <2C7A6E18@ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu> Encoding: 180 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Enterprise Integration: New Competitive and Organizational Landscapes Monday, September 20 and Tuesday, September 21 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 The information highway, virtual reality in product development, technology alliances, client/server computing, technology and the nature of the workplace in the future are just some of the topics you will hear leading practitioners and academicians speak about at the Sixth Annual Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises(CMME) Conference. This conference is being hosted by the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University with participation from the Schools of Engineering and the School of Computer Science. Please join us for this educational program of cutting- edge issues. Co-sponsoring the conference are EDS, GTE, the General Electric Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. An outstanding group of business, academic, and governmental leaders have been assembled for the purpose of assessing the current status of enterprise integration from a technological and management perspective. The objective of the conference will be to set the agenda for future research, educational and technology transfer. Mr. William Weiss, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ameritech Corporation will give the Keynote address. Opening addresses for Monday and Tuesday will be provided by John Segall, Vice Chairman of GTE, and Dwayne Walker, Director, Worldwide Solutions Provider, Marketing and Sales, Microsoft Corporation respectively. EDS, MCC, Motorola, IBM, Eastman Kodak, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar, Bethlehem Steel, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and others are also on the program. This is an invitation only conference and we would be delighted if you and/or those from your staff could attend. There is no conference fee, but reservations are limited to the first 250 people. To confirm your attendance, please E-MAIL the registration form to us by September 6, 1993. We look forward to seeing you in September for an exciting, significant, and seminal conference. REGISTRATION To register, please e-mail the following information Name Title Organization Address City State Zip Code Phone to brady@mgmt.purdue.edu, or alok@mgmt.purdue.edu INFORMATION For further information, please call Tom Brady 317-494-4413 Agenda Monday 7:30 a.m.-8:15 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Session Time Speakers 8:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Welcome: Dean Dennis Weidenaar 1 8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m. Opening Address: Information Transformation John Segall, Vice Chairman, GTE 2 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Enterprise Integration: Perspectives and Directions Katherine Hudson, Vice President, General Manager, Eastman Kodak Company Thomas Mays, Senior Vice President, NCR Corporation Dr. William Mow, Chairman, Bugle Boy Industries Roy Smith, Vice President, Enterprise Integration, MCC Corporation 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Luncheon 3 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Enterprise Integration: Enabling Technologies and Infrastructure Jim Bradley, Director, Network Infrastructure Architecture, Ameritech Corporation Dr. Doug Comer, Professor, Computer Science, Purdue University Mike Deruntz, Director, Enterprise Integration, Motorola, Inc. Don Sawyer, Senior Advisor, Services Evolution, BNR Inc. 4 3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Enterprise Integration: Applications Dr. Walt Bargeron, Vice President, Technology & Quality Assurance, BethlehemSteel Corporation Russ Leslie, Account Executive, EDS Dave Stevenson, Design Engineer, Caterpillar, Inc. 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Banquet and Keynote Address Mr. William L. Weiss, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ameritech Corporation Tuesday Session Time Speakers 5 8:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. Opening Address Dwayne Walker, Director, Worldwide Solutions Provider Marketing and Sales, Microsoft Corporation 6 9:30 a.m.- 11:45 a.m. Manufacturing/Marketing Implications Betty Spinelli, Manager, Global Data Management Xerox Corporation Gus Vassiliades, Director, Worldwide Manufacturing, IBM Corporation Marc Onetto, General Manager, Global Quality, Process, & Information Management, GE Medical Systems Dr. James Solberg, Director, Engineering Research Center, Purdue University 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Luncheon 7 1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Organizational Structure/Human Resource Implications Dr. Paul Adler, Associate Professor of Management Organization, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California Dr. Kenneth R. Brousseau, President, Decision Dynamics Corporation Stephen Hamilton, Strategic Consulting, Hewlett-Packard Corporation Gretchen Imlay, Director, Organization and Technology, Levi Strauss & Co. 8 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: Setting an Agenda for Enterprise Integration Research, Education and Technology Transfer Moderator, Dr. Arden Bement, Jr., Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Purdue University Dr. Hank Grant, Program Director of Operations Research and Production Systems, National Science Foundation Dr. Gary Koehler, Professor of Management, University of Florida Dr. Scott Morton, Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T Cherri Langenfeld, Manager, Chicago Office, US Dept. of Energy Wrap-up: Dr. Herbert Moskowitz, Director, Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises and Lewis B. Cullman Distinguished Professor of Manufacturing Management From petrie@mcc.com Mon Aug 30 10:35:26 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA19794; Mon, 30 Aug 93 10:35:26 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA14002; Mon, 30 Aug 93 10:35:17 CDT Received: from sunscreen.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA16205; Mon, 30 Aug 93 10:34:43 CDT Received: by sunscreen.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA10368; Mon, 30 Aug 93 10:34:42 CDT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 10:34:41 CDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: alok@ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu, einet@mcc.com Subject: [EI conference at Purdue] Message-Id: From: "Chaturvedi, Alok" Enterprise Integration: New Competitive and Organizational Landscapes Monday, September 20 and Tuesday, September 21 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 The information highway, virtual reality in product development, technology alliances, client/server computing, technology and the nature of the workplace in the future are just some of the topics you will hear leading practitioners and academicians speak about at the Sixth Annual Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises(CMME) Conference. This conference is being hosted by the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University with participation from the Schools of Engineering and the School of Computer Science. Please join us for this educational program of cutting- edge issues. Co-sponsoring the conference are EDS, GTE, the General Electric Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. An outstanding group of business, academic, and governmental leaders have been assembled for the purpose of assessing the current status of enterprise integration from a technological and management perspective. The objective of the conference will be to set the agenda for future research, educational and technology transfer. Mr. William Weiss, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ameritech Corporation will give the Keynote address. Opening addresses for Monday and Tuesday will be provided by John Segall, Vice Chairman of GTE, and Dwayne Walker, Director, Worldwide Solutions Provider, Marketing and Sales, Microsoft Corporation respectively. EDS, MCC, Motorola, IBM, Eastman Kodak, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar, Bethlehem Steel, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and others are also on the program. This is an invitation only conference and we would be delighted if you and/or those from your staff could attend. There is no conference fee, but reservations are limited to the first 250 people. To confirm your attendance, please E-MAIL the registration form to us by September 6, 1993. We look forward to seeing you in September for an exciting, significant, and seminal conference. REGISTRATION To register, please e-mail the following information Name Title Organization Address City State Zip Code Phone to brady@mgmt.purdue.edu, or alok@mgmt.purdue.edu INFORMATION For further information, please call Tom Brady 317-494-4413 Agenda Monday 7:30 a.m.-8:15 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Session Time Speakers 8:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Welcome: Dean Dennis Weidenaar 1 8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m. Opening Address: Information Transformation John Segall, Vice Chairman, GTE 2 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Enterprise Integration: Perspectives and Directions Katherine Hudson, Vice President, General Manager, Eastman Kodak Company Thomas Mays, Senior Vice President, NCR Corporation Dr. William Mow, Chairman, Bugle Boy Industries Roy Smith, Vice President, Enterprise Integration, MCC Corporation 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Luncheon 3 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Enterprise Integration: Enabling Technologies and Infrastructure Jim Bradley, Director, Network Infrastructure Architecture, Ameritech Corporation Dr. Doug Comer, Professor, Computer Science, Purdue University Mike Deruntz, Director, Enterprise Integration, Motorola, Inc. Don Sawyer, Senior Advisor, Services Evolution, BNR Inc. 4 3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Enterprise Integration: Applications Dr. Walt Bargeron, Vice President, Technology & Quality Assurance, BethlehemSteel Corporation Russ Leslie, Account Executive, EDS Dave Stevenson, Design Engineer, Caterpillar, Inc. 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Banquet and Keynote Address Mr. William L. Weiss, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ameritech Corporation Tuesday Session Time Speakers 5 8:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. Opening Address Dwayne Walker, Director, Worldwide Solutions Provider Marketing and Sales, Microsoft Corporation 6 9:30 a.m.- 11:45 a.m. Manufacturing/Marketing Implications Betty Spinelli, Manager, Global Data Management, Xerox Gus Vassiliades, Director, Worldwide Manufacturing, IBM Marc Onetto, General Manager, Global Quality, Process, & Information Management, GE Medical Systems Dr. James Solberg, Director, Engineering Research Center, Purdue University 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Luncheon 7 1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Organizational Structure/Human Resource Implications Dr. Paul Adler, Associate Professor of Management Organization, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California Dr. Kenneth R. Brousseau, President, Decision Dynamics Corporation Stephen Hamilton, Strategic Consulting, Hewlett-Packard Corporation Gretchen Imlay, Director, Organization and Technology, Levi Strauss & Co. 8 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: Setting an Agenda for Enterprise Integration Research, Education and Technology Transfer Moderator, Dr. Arden Bement, Jr., Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Purdue University Dr. Hank Grant, Program Director of Operations Research and Production Systems, National Science Foundation Dr. Gary Koehler, Professor of Management, University of Florida Dr. Scott Morton, Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T Cherri Langenfeld, Manager, Chicago Office, US Dept. of Energy Wrap-up: Dr. Herbert Moskowitz, Director, Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises and Lewis B. Cullman Distinguished Professor of Manufacturing Management From jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Sep 2 05:18:14 1993 Received: from zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08121; Thu, 2 Sep 93 05:18:14 CDT Received: from ba.zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp (ba.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp) by zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp (5.65+1.6W/1.20W) id AA01604; Thu, 2 Sep 93 19:19:06 JST Received: from localhost by ba.zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp (4.1/6.4J.6-zzzsub) id AA27831; Thu, 2 Sep 93 19:18:51 JST Return-Path: Message-Id: <9309021018.AA27831@ba.zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: DIISM '93 Workshop - final announcement Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 19:18:50 +0900 From: jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp JSPE-IFIP WG 5.3 Workshop DIISM '93 THE DESIGN OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING final announcement invitation November 8-10, 1993 Sanjoo Kaikan, The University of Tokyo TOKYO, JAPAN ORGANIZED BY The Japan Society for Precision Engineering International Federation of Information Processing WG 5.3 (CAM) CO-SPONSORED BY International Federation for Automatic Control (TC Manuf. Techn.) Information Processing Society of Japan The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Japan Society of Design Engineers Japan Industrial Management Association Japan Institute of Industrial Engineers WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM Foundation for the Promotion of Advanced Automation Technology PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair: H. Yoshikawa (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Co-chairs: S. Narita (Waseda U., Japan) H. Van Brussel (K.U.Leuven,Belgium) Members: R. Akella (CMU, USA) E. Arai (Tokyo Metr. U., Japan) J. Bubenko, jr. (Stockholm U., Sweden) M. Cutkosky (Stanford U., USA) A. Di Leva (U. of Torino, Italy) G. Doumeingts (Bordeaux U.,France) E. Dubois (U. of Namur, Belgium) J. Goossenaerts (U. of Tokyo, Japan) U. Graefe (NRC, Canada) Z. Han (Tsinghua U., P.R. of China) G. Harhalakis (U. of Maryland, USA) C. N. Ho (NTU, Singapore) I. Inoue (Kyoto Sangyo U., Japan) F. Kimura (U. of Tokyo, Japan) A. Kusiak (U. of Iowa, USA) A. Markus (CAI, Hungary) A. Matsumoto (Toyo U., Japan) Y. Matsushita (Keio U., Japan) K. Mertins (IPK, Germany) T. Mizuno (Shizuoka U., Japan) L. Nemes (CSIRO, Australia) G. Olling (Chrysler, USA) G. Olsson (Lund Inst. of Techn.,Sweden) L.M. Patnaik (IIS Bangalore, India) J. Ranta (TRCF, Finland) A.-W. Scheer (U. Saarlandes, Germany) N. Shiratori (Tohoku U., Japan) O.I. Semenkov (MNIPI, Belarus) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki U.,Japan) T. Tomiyama (U. of Tokyo, Japan) S. Umeda (Musashi U., Japan) F. Vernadat (INRIA-Lorraine, France) T. Williams (Purdue U., USA) M. Wing (Brit. Aerospace, UK) M. Wozny (Rensselaer, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: H. Yoshikawa (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Contact: J. Goossenaerts (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Members: K. Ando (Shibaura I. of Tech.,Japan) E. Arai (Tokyo Metr. U., Japan) Y. Matsumoto (Hitachi Ltd., Japan) T. Mizuno (Shizuoka U., Japan) M. Saito (Mitsubishi El., Japan) R. Sano (Matsushita, Japan) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki U., Japan) T. Taura (U. of Tokyo, Japan) S. Umeda (Musashi U., Japan) WELCOME TO THE WORKSHOP The design of information infrastructure systems for manufacturing is focussed on as a means to achieve a systematic synthesis of the large variety of communication and information processing requirements of manufacturing systems. The in-depth treatment, both of the requisites of present-day manufacturing, and of the architectures proposed to cast these requisites, is expected to encourage high-level technical discussions about information infrastructure systems for manufacturing. We invite all researchers and engineers with an active interest in these topics to join the JSPE-IFIP WG 5.3 Workshop on The Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing (DIISM '93) which will be held at The University of Tokyo, November 8-10, 1993. The program includes ten invited and twenty-seven submitted papers. It shows a commitment to inter-disciplinarity and quality. The papers cover architectures for integrating manufacturing activities and enterprises, information infrastructures, communication networks for manufacturing, production management, flexible manufacturing systems, real time intelligent control, and concurrent engineering. They feature several case studies and analyses of other particular requisites for manufacturing information infrastructures. Looking forward to meeting you at the workshop in November this year, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (General Chairman of DIISM '93) SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Monday, November 8 Opening Session 9:30-10:30 Chaired by: S. Narita, Waseda University, Japan -Welcome and Opening Remarks -Keynote speech: Architectures for Integrating Manufacturing Activities and Enterprises(A Progress report of the IFAC/IFIP Task Force of the same name) T. J. Williams, Purdue University, USA Session 1-1: Production Management and Manufacturing Requirements 10:50-12:30 Chaired by: E. Arai, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan The Role of Information Infrastructure in Production Management K. Inagaki, Nippon Electric Co., Japan Information Infrastructure Requirements for Preserving Flexibility of Flexible Manufacturing Systems H. Van Brussel, P. Valckenaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Session 1-2: Case Studies 13:30-15:35 Chaired by: H. Van Brussel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Development & Implementation of an FMS with Future Expansion Possibilities A. K. Shrivastava, B. W. Barnard, Monash University; Hoang Nguyen, CNC Design Pty Ltd, Australia CIMOSA Pilot Implementation for Technology Transfer W. Eversheim, B.R. Katzy, et al., RWTH Aachen, Germany Cell Controller Based Local Area Network for FMC K.D. Rao, D.C. Reddy, S.S.N. Murty, IIT, Kharagpur, India The Use of Design Management Frameworks to Support an Information Infrastructure for CIM D. Sng, T.K. Wang, R. Gay, GINTIC, Nanyang Techn. University, Singapore Approach to Enhanced Kanban System, S. Kuroiwa, Toyota Motor Co., Japan Session 1-3: Decision Support Requirements 16:00-18:00 Chaired by: J. Goossenaerts, The University of Tokyo, Japan A Framework of Intellectual Infrastructure for Complex Product Realization Y. Shibata, Aomori University, Aomori, Japan Value Based Stability for Enterprise Models: Relevance to Information Infrastructures A. Dewan, BIM, Brussels, Belgium Integrated Intelligent Simulation System for Enterprise Level Decision Support N.N. Nagarur, N. Nafade, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand An Enterprise Model as a Design Tool for Information Infrastructure U. Graefe, W. Chan, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Conflicts in Manufacturing Systems - A Problem Setting M. Horvath, Technical University; J. Vancza, A. Markus, Hungarian Ac. of Sciences, Budapest,Hungary Tuesday, November 9 Session 2-1: Enterprise Modelling and Integration - 1 9:00-10:40 Chaired by: T. Williams, Purdue University, USA CIMOSA: Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise Integration Using a Process-based Approach F. Vernadat, INRIA-Lorraine, Metz, France Architecture for Integrated Information Systems A.-W. Scheer, University of Saarland, Germany Session 2-2: Design, Planning and Scheduling 11:00-13:00 Chaired by: F. Kimura, The University of Tokyo, Japan A Product Assembly and Restoration Planning System for Ecologically Conscious Factories J.C. Fu, C.A. Troy, Lehigh University, USA; S. Wong, ICOT, Japan Intelligent Assembly Planning System in Distributed Production Environment E. Arai, N. Uchiyama, Tokyo Metropolitan University; K. Iwata, Osaka University, Japan Optimized Information Structure for Design and Scheduling, R. Rentsch, Keio University, Japan NORMAN/DEBORA: a Powerful CAD-Integrating Automatic Sequencing System Includ- ing Advanced DOE/RSM Techniques for Various Engineering Optimization Problems R. Cartuyvels, L.H. Dupas, IMEC, Belgium Real Time Simulation and Monitor Forecast for Dynamic Scheduling in Distributed Production Systems, E. Arai, S.-T. Amnuay, N. Uchiyama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Session 2-3: Time Critical Communication and Control 14:00-15:40 Chaired by: M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan The International Standardizational Activities for Time Critical Communication Architecture in\linebreak Factory Automation N. Nakano, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan Architectures for Real-Time Intelligent Control Systems, M.G. Rodd, University of Wales,Swansea,UK Session 2-4: Information Technology - 1 16:00-18:00 Chaired by: M.G. Rodd, University of Wales, Swansea, UK Cooperation Issues in Holonic Manufacturing Systems, S.M. Deen, University of Keele, UK Transaction Model of Automated Guided Vehicles S. Hamada, M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Man-Machine Cooperation in Real-Time Control: Two Case Studies for Future Control Systems X. Gandibleux, I. Crevits, P. Milot, University of Valenciennes, France Object Oriented Modelling for Logistics Network Engineering A. Hovi,V.-P. Mattila,Technical Research Centre of Finland,Espoo,Finland ATLAS -- Architecture, Methodology and Tools for Computer Integrated Large Scale Engineering H.M. Bohms, TNO, The Netherlands; G. Storer, Taylor Woodrow Construction Holdings Ltd., UK Wednesday, November 10 Session 3-1: Enterprise Modelling and Integration - 2 9:00-10:40 Chaired by: A.-W. Scheer, University of Saarland, Germany A Computer-supported Framework for Concurrent Engineering F. Kimura, The University of Tokyo, Japan The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture, T.J. Williams, Purdue University, USA Session 3-2: Information Technology - 2 11:00-13:00 Chaired by: M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Enterprise Formulae and Information Infrastructures for Manufacturing J. Goossenaerts, The University of Tokyo, Japan Towards a Formal Agent-Oriented Requirements Definition of Manufacturing Systems M. Derroitte, E. Dubois, et al., University of Namur, Belgium J.-P. Michel, CRP Henri Tudor, G.D. Luxemburg Engineering Office Systems for Concurrent Engineering H. Masui, A. Tanaka, K. Miyoshi, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan Virtual Modeling for Manufacturing Systems G. Doumeingts, F. Marcotte, University of Bordeaux, France Session 3-3: Enterprise Modelling and Integration - 3 14:00-15:40 Chaired by: F. Vernadat, INRIA-Lorraine, Metz, France Enterprise Process Integration Model and Infrastructure C. Bussler, Digital Equipment Co., Karlsruhe, Germany A Social Human Activity Model as an Information Infrastructure System R. Atsumi, Mitsui Engineering \& Shipbuilding Co., Tokyo, Japan Enterprise Modelling: Basis for Information System Planning K. Mertins, R. Jochem, IPK Fraunhofer Institut Berlin, Germany GIM:GRAI Integrated Methodology: A Methodology to Design and to Specify Advanced Manufacturing Systems}, G. Doumeingts, P. Fenie, D. Chen, University of Bordeaux, France Closing Speech: 16:00-16:50 Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Approaching the Future H. Yoshikawa, President, The University of Tokyo, Japan GENERAL INFORMATION 1. The registration fees include admittance to the workshop, a copy of the pre-proceedings, drinks during breaks, the workshop reception (on Monday evening) and the workshop dinner (on Tuesday evening). The registration fee is: for registration before October 8, 1993: Yen 30.000 after October 8, 1993: Yen 35.000 Notes: - The number of participants is limited to 90 (first come, first service basis), with about 30 places reserved for the workshop contributors. - Workshop contributors (one per paper) will also receive a free copy of the proceedings which will be published in the IFIP Transactions series by Elsevier Science Publishers (Amsterdam) in early 1994. 2. The official language of the workshop is English. 3. The workshop industrial visit on Thursday November 11 starts at 8:30 and ends around 19:00. Nippon Electric Co. Densei manufactures a wide variety of electric products for industrial use, employing a sophisticated production management system characterized by the bar-code information processing network architecture. At Hitachi Mito Works we will visit the fully automated production lines for elevators and escalators and be introduced to CAD/CAM-based Factory Automation and the CIM Production Management System which give the production lines the versatility to meet the diverse needs of customers. The tour costs 4,000 Yen per person. This fee includes transportation by bus and lunch and must be paid at the registration desk, during the workshop. 4. For more information please complete the form below and send it to: (Workshop contributors and program committee members will receive a more detailed final announcement by mail) Ms. M. Okaniwa DIISM '93 The University of Tokyo Dept. of Precision Machinery Engineering 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 JAPAN phone: (81)(3)3812-2111, ext. 6446; telefax: (81)(3)3815-7838 ============================================================================== I would like to receive more information about the JSPE-IFIP WG 5.3 Workshop THE DESIGN OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING (DIISM '93) (The University of Tokyo, November 8-10, 1993) name: institution: address: postcode: city: country: telephone: telefax: e-mail: ============================================================================== From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Thu Sep 2 10:54:45 1993 Return-Path: Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu) by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA12153; Thu, 2 Sep 93 10:54:45 CDT Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA13607; Thu, 2 Sep 93 11:54:22 EDT From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9309021554.AA13607@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: Preliminary Call for Papers To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 11:54:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: cerc@cerc.wvu.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3829 Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS WET ICE '94 Third IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 17-19, 1994 Morgantown, West Virginia The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society (approval from AAAI and ACM - past sponsors of this workshop is pending), will conduct the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 17-19, 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for concurrent engineering are sought in the following areas: Virtual team support environments Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing Capturing design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be under submission currently for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of all authors. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or postscript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript January 10, 1994 Notification of decisions February 28, 1994 Final version of the paper April 4, 1994 Papers submitted to this workshop will be candidates for inclusion in a bound volume of the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. 23 papers and 3 working group reports wre published in the Proceedings of the Se cond Workshop, available from the IEEE Computer Society Press. WET ICE '94 Steering Committee Chair: Prof. Ramana Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Jack Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Raghu Karinthi, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. K. Srinivas , CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Ralph Wood, CERC/West Virginia University Invited WET ICE '94 Program and Review Committee Chair: Dr. Joe Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI, International Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto Mr. Ted Goranson, SAIC Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Prof. Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia Prof. Tom Malone, MIT Prof. Jintae Lee, Univeristy of Hawaii Prof. Sumitra Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Alex Schill, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Mr. Dennis Sng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr. Mike Sobolewski, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Duvvuru Sriram, MIT Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies Prof. George Trapp, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Robert Winner, The Center for High Performance Computing, MA WET ICE '94 Coordination General Chair: Prof. V. Jagannathan, CERC Finance: Anagha Karandikar, CERC Local Arrangements/Publicity: Mary Carriger, CERC Registration: Cathy O'Neal, CERC Audio-Visual: Bill Duff, CERC Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 304-293-7226 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu From speyer@mcc.com Wed Sep 8 12:08:24 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA26608; Wed, 8 Sep 93 12:08:24 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA22365; Wed, 8 Sep 93 12:08:22 CDT Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA02883; Wed, 8 Sep 93 12:08:21 CDT Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA05072; Wed, 8 Sep 93 12:08:13 CDT Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 12:08:13 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9309081708.AA05072@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: AHMF Meeting on Conceptual Schemas ----- Begin Included Message ----- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 16:00:17 PDT From: tony@ontek.com (Tony Sarris) Subject: F.Y.I. AHMF Meeting on Conceptual Schemas I thought you might find the following meeting announcement summary of interest. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or would like additional details. Tony Sarris Ontek Corporation [Acting] Chair X3H4 Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Conceptual Schemas tony@ontek.com voice: 714/768-0301 fax: 714/768-0851 BEGIN ATTACHMENT The ANSI X3 SC21 Composite Technical Advisory Group (SC21CT) has formed a new Ad Hoc subgroup on Modeling Facilities (AHMF) to serve as the interim U.S. standards body for new international work on conceptual schemas under the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). 172, X3H4 Position on U.S.TAG for New ISO Work on Conceptual Schemas). The AHMF will have its first meeting Sept. 27-30 in Somerset, NJ. On Sept. 27 there will be a review of documents from the Yohohama meeting, review and discussion of the new international work item on CS, and discussion of plans for organizing U.S. work and contributions. The remainder of the meeting (Sept. 28-30) will be devoted to taking base U.S. documents in this area (including IRDS CS-related documents), and synthesizing them into a U.S. composite base document. Attendance is open to everyone, whether or not you have participated in specialized CS activities in X3H4 IRDS or X3T2 Communications, and regardless of whether you personally are able to travel internationally (this would be your chance to contribute something to the U.S. position that will get forwarded for the planned international meeting in January 1994 in France, even if you cannot be a delegate to that meeting). Attendees should contact John Sharp (AHMF Chair) at 505-271-7810 before Sept. 12, or Maurice Smith at 816-997-3590 after Sept. 12, to confirm attendance. Hotel arrangements are with the Somerset Quality Inn at 908-469-5050, and should be made by Sept. 15 to guarantee the rate of $48 single. The rooms are being held under the name of ANSI X3T2, as that group was already meeting at this hotel and their contract was expanded to include AHMF attendees. However, the AHMF was noted as being a completely separate meeting from X3T2, and no joint meeting time has been planned. Newark NJ is the nearest airport. Bancroft Scott of Open Systems Solutions is the X3T2 meeting host and may be contacted at 908- 249-5107 with logistical questions. I can also fax a copy of the directions etc. to interested parties. Tony Sarris [Acting] Chair, X3H4 IRDS CS SIG ----- End Included Message ----- From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Mon Sep 13 10:32:47 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22327; Mon, 13 Sep 93 10:32:47 CDT Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA27377; Mon, 13 Sep 93 10:32:31 CDT Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA08618; Mon, 13 Sep 93 08:32:28 PDT Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 8:32:27 PDT From: Charles Petrie To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu Subject: COOCS 93 Cal for Papers Message-Id: COOCS 93 ACM Conference on Organizational Computing Systems Sponsored by ACM SIGOIS and IEEECS TC-OA in cooperation with IFIP WG 8.4 Sheraton Silicon Valley Milpitas (near San Jose) California November 1-4, 1993 As we move toward globally distributed businesses, widespread mixed-media computing systems and highly mobile workers, the availability of information within an organization becomes increasingly critical. Advances in tools, technologies, and methodologies that facilitate the use of information systems in organizations will improve the way information is made available and used. This conference is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the use, management, and movement of information within organizations. TUTORIALS: Monday November 1, 1993 (All Tutorials run concurrently, start at 9am, and are full-day) T1: Object-Oriented Analysis of Organizational Activities Yair Wand (U. British Columbia, Canada) Carson C. Woo (U. British Columbia, Canada) Our experience of teaching object-oriented analysis suggests difficulties in applying the approach, in particular, in identifying the objects necessary to model an organizational system. Examination of the literature as well as teaching experi- ence indicate that what is missing is a set of well-formulated rules on how to apply the approach. We developed a set of rules for this purpose. These rules are based on certain fundamental principles. We have tested these rules in classes on systems analysis at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and by applying them to many test cases. The rules were found very useful in modelling organizational activities and in resolving ambiguities identified in the modelling process. The resulting models were easy to understand and verify against the case facts. The purpose of this tutorial is to present and practice the aformentioned set of rules for object-oriented modelling in sys- tems analysis. It is important to point out that the rules are independent of any specific object-oriented analysis approach or technique. Yair Wand and Carson Woo are faculty members in the MIS Division, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. They have extensive experience in teaching information systems analysis and design to both undergraduate and graduate students. Recently they have been working together on modelling organizational computing systems and on the application and instruction of the object-oriented approach in systems analysis. Professor Wand's work on formalizing the object-oriented concepts was quoted in the Final Report of the X3/SPARC/ DBSSG Object-Oriented Database Group. He also has extensive consulting experience in developing information systems. Recently, he presented the application of an ontological approach to meta-modeling in systems development in a European summer school on Meta Modeling and Method Engineering. Professor Woo is chairperson of the ACM special interest group on office information systems (SIGOIS). T2: Computer-Supported Meeting Environments Marilyn Mantei (U. Toronto, Canada) Lisa Neal (EDS, USA) This tutorial will help participants develop a general understanding of existing research and development in computer supported meeting environments (CSME). Participants will gain an understanding of the differences between various CSME's and be introduced to the software technologies and physical architectures that support each environment. The tutorial will survey existing computer supported meeting environments, with an emphasis on the types of meetings each supports and their underlying communications and distributed systems architecture solutions. User interface design problems will be covered in-depth along with the psychological issues associated with building software for groups. The tutorial will present what is known about how groups interact, make decisions, brainstorm, perform work, cooperate and negotiate while using a CSME. It will conclude with a discussion of the major hurdles in understanding how to design for groups and in building robust software systems. Marilyn Mantei is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Library and Information Science at the University of Toronto, where she was a leader of the CAVECAT project, a video-enhanced CSME. She was Co-Chair of the ACM 1992 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Lisa Neal is a senior research engineer at the EDS Center for Advanced Research, where she directs a project aimed at developing strategic planning software for management teams. T3: Supporting Cooperative Processes with Workflow Management Technology Thomas Schael (RSO Spa, Milano, Italy and HDZ/KDI der RWTH, Aachen, Germany) Process management is the way to approach the transformation of traditionally bureaucratic organizations into market-oriented companies. The tutorial is aimed at identifying the benefit of a change from a functional to a business process organization and defining methodological and design implications for the transformation of an organization. New soft- ware products with enhanced office information systems functionalities are developed which fall under the new domain of workflow management technologies. The new technology addresses the different aspect of cooperative work in their temporal distribution in the process. However, workflow management technology is still an unfamiliar term for many system developers and users. Growth is currently hindered by a lack of knowledge about the concepts and benefits of workflow management technology. The tutorial is addressed to CSCW practitioners, managers (e.g., MIS, Human Resources, Organization), information systems people, organizational analysts, system designers, etc. of business or public organizations. The tutorial provides theoretical methods and practical experiences carried out by the instructor, a consistent guideline to understanding the key issues and how to approach concrete projects for process analysis and design, as well as for workflow technology implementation. Thomas Schael is working for the Italian company RSO in various consulting, research and training projects for technological and organizational systems design and management. SESSIONS: Tuesday November 2, 1993 S1: 0930-1030: Keynote Address Chair: Peter de Jong (Hewlett-Packard, USA) To be announced. S2: 1100-1200: Group Ranking Chair: Robert Allen, (Bellcore, USA) Comparing Rankings of Heterogeneous Agents, Norbert Kuhn (DFKI, Germany) Multi-User Interfaces for Group Ranking: User-centered Analysis, Wai-Lan Luk and V. Srinivasan Rao (U. British Columbia, Canada) S3: 1330-1500: Facilitating Group Communication Chair: Allan Shepherd (Hewlett-Packard, USA) A Tour Through Tapestry, Douglas B. Terry (Xerox PARC, USA) Making Contact: Getting the Group Communicating with Groupware, Andy Cockburn (U. Stirling, UK) and Saul Greenberg (U. Calgary, Canada) Information and Context: Lessons from the Study of Two Shared Information Systems, Paul Dourish, Victoria Bellotti, Wendy Mackay and Chao-Ying Ma (Rank Xerox EuroPARC, UK) S4: 1530-1700: Underlying Technologies Chair: Saul Greenberg (U. Calgary, Canada) Supporting Collaboration with Loose Relationship, Shin-ya Sato and Tatsuro Murakami (NTT Communication Switching Labs, Japan) A PilotCard-Based Shared Hypermedia System Supporting Shared and Private Databases, Satoshi Ichimura, Takeshi Kamita and Yutaka Matushita (Keio U., Japan) Development of Multiple Media Documents, S. J. Morris and A. C. W. Finkelstein (Imperial College, UK) Wednesday November 3, 1993 S5: 0900-1030: Case Studies Chair: Thomas Schael (RTWH Aachen, Germany and RSO, Italy) Critical Success Factors in the Implementation of Information Centre in Hong Kong's Banking Industry, Willie Yip (Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong), Chi Wing To (National Commercial Bank, Hong Kong) and Louis C. K. Ma (Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong) Towards Integrated Support of Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication in Cooperative Work: An Empirical Study of Real Group Communication, Yasuhisa Sakamoto and Eiji Kuwana (NTT Software Labs, Japan) Information Artisans: Patterns of Result Sharing by Information Artisans, Vicki L. O'Day and Robin Jeffries (Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA) S6: 1100-1200: Act-Based Collaboration Tools Chair: Anthony Finkelstein (Imperial College, U.K.) Supporting Dynamic Interdependencies Among Collaborative Activities, Douglas P. Bogia, William J. Tolone, Simon M. Kaplan and Eric de la Tribouille (U. Illinois, USA) Design and Implementation of CB Lite, Dan Kogan (Intel Corp, USA) S7: 1330-1500: Business Process Reengineering Chair: Dan Kogan (Intel, USA) Visual Support for Reengineering Work Processes, Keith Swenson (Fujitsu Open Systems Solutions Inc., USA) Workflow Management Systems for Financial Services, Thomas Schael (RWTH Aachen, Germany and RSO, Italy) and Buni Zeller (RSO, Italy) Reengineering a Business Process with an Innovative Workflow Management System: A Case Study, A. Agostini, G. De Michelis, M. A. Grasso and S. Patriaca (U. Milano, Italy). S8: 1530-1700: Posters An Interface for Navigating Clustered Document Sets Returned by Queries, Robert B. Allen, Pascal Obry and Michael Littman (Bellcore, USA) MOCCA: An Environment for CSCW Applications, Steve Benford (Nottingham U., UK), John Mariani (Lancaster U., UK), Leandro Navarro (UPC, Spain), Wolfgang Prinz (GMD, Germany) and Tom Rodden (Lancaster U., UK) Supporting the Dynamics of Knowledge Sharing within Organizations, Monica Divitini, Giuseppe Omodei Sale, Alberto Pozzoll and Carla Simoni (U. Milano, Italy) Data Object Creation and Display Techniques for the Huge Database of Subscriber Cable Networks, Y. Kato, Y. Kataoka, Y. Yoshihiro and Y. Mitsunaga (NTT, Japan) OMNI: A Model for Focused Collaborative Wwork Through Issue Management, Beth Lange (Andersen Consulting, USA), James B. Treleaven (Battlle Venture Partners, USA) and Anatole Gershman (Andersen Consulting, USA) Goal-Based Process Analysis: A Method for Systematic Process Redesign Jintae Lee (U. Hawaii, USA) Enactment Theory as a Paradigm for Enabling Flexible Worflows, Dirk E. Mahling (U. Pittsburgh, USA) A Blackboard-Based Architecture for Filtering New Software Features, Masashi Uyama (FRIEND21 Research Center, Japan) Thursday November 4, 1993 S9: 0900-1030: Supporting Software Development Organizations Chair: Jintae Lee (U. Hawaii, USA) ORDIT: A New Methodology to Assist in the Process of Eliciting and Modelling Organizational Requirements, A.J.C. Blyth, J. Chudge, J. E. Dobson and M. R, Strens (U. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.) Supporting Long Term Collaboration in Software Maintenance, Robert Lougher and Tom Rodden (Lancaster U., U.K.) Combining Local Negotiation and Global Planning in Cooperative Software Development Projects, Kazuo Okamura (MIT, USA). S10: 1100-1200: Actor-Based Organizational Modeling Chair: Ken Pier (Xerox PARC, USA) Methods for Organizational Development, Peter de Jong (Hewlett-Packard, USA) An Actor Dependency Model of Organizational Work With Application to Business Process Reengineering, Eric Yu and John Mylopolous (U. Toronto, Canada) S11: 1330-1500: Panel on Application of Workflow Technologies. Chairs: Sunil Sarin, (Xerox Corp., USA) and Allan Shepherd (Hewlett-Packard, USA) S12: 1530-1700: Groupware Architectures Chair: Tom Rodden (Lancaster U., UK) ASCW: An Assistant for Cooperative Work, Thomas Kreifelts and Wolfgang Prinz (GMD, Germany) Building Flexible Groupware Through Open Protocols, Mark Roseman and Saul Greenberg (U. Calgary, Canada) Access as a Means of Configuring Cooperative Interfaces, Gareth Smith and Tom Rodden (Lancaster U., UK) Conference Organization General Chair: Peter de Jong (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Conference Committee: Robert Allen (Bellcore, USA) Fred Lochovsky (HKUST, Hong Kong) Doug Vogel (U. Arizona, USA) Carson Woo (U. British Columbia, Canada) Registration/Local Arrangements: Charles Grantham (U. San Francisco, USA) Treasurer: Jeanie Treichel (Sun Microsystems Labs, USA) Demonstrations: Keith Swenson (Fujitsu/OSSI, USA) Program Chair: Simon Kaplan (U. Illinois, USA) Program Committee: Graham Button (Xerox EuroPARC, UK) Prasun Dewan (Purdue U., USA) Bob Ensor (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) Anthony Finkelstein (Imperial College, UK) Dave Gedye (SunLabs, USA) Saul Greenberg (U. Calgary, Canada) Hiroshi Ishii (NTT, Japan) Gail Kaiser (Columbia U., USA) John King (U.C. Irvine, USA) Rob Kling (U.C. Irvine, USA) Dan Kogan (Intel Corp., USA) Jintae Lee (U. Hawaii, USA) Dave Marca (DEC, USA) Ken Pier (Xerox PARC, USA) Tom Rodden (Lancaster U., UK) Sunil Sarin (Xerox, USA) Thomas Schael (RSO, Italy) Allan Shepherd (HP Labs, USA) John Smith (U. North Carolina, USA) Terry Winograd (Stanford U., USA) Mike Wish (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) COOCS'93 REGISTRATION FORM (November 1-4) Milpitas, California Name: ________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________________________ Telephone: ________________________________________________ Fax: ________________________________________________ Email: ________________________________________________ TUTORIAL RATES: (includes tutorial notes and coffee breaks) Membership Status Before Oct 14 After Oct 14 [ ] ACM [ ] IEEE [ ] IFIP 8.4 (check one) $250 $295 [ ] non-member $300 $345 MAIN CONFERENCE RATES: (includes proceedings and coffee breaks) Membership Status Before Oct 14 After Oct 14 [ ] ACM [ ] IEEE [ ] IFIP 8.4 (check one) $295 $350 [ ] non-member $375 $440 [ ] Full-time student (*) $150 $150 [ ] One Day $150 $150 (*) include copy of valid student ID Fees Due: Item COST: Tutorial T1: __________ Tutorial T2: __________ Tutorial T3: __________ Main Conference __________ Lunches Nov 2, 3, 4 ($60) __________ Banquet Nov 3 ($60) __________ Total Due: ========== Dietary Restrictions: ________________________ Please make check payable to COOCS'93, and send with this form to: Charles Grantham 725 Washington Street Suite 210 Oakland, CA 94607 EMAIL: cegrant@well.sf.ca.us PHONE: 510 834-1485 FAX: 510 834-1486 REMITTANCE IN U.S. DOLLARS PLEASE. COOCS'93 CONFERENCE HOTEL Please contact hotel directly for reservations Sheraton San Jose at Silicon Valley Hotel 1801 Barber Lane Milpitas, CA 95035 Telephone: (408) 943-0600 Toll-free: (800) 943-0660 FAX: (408) 943-0484 Conference rate for COOCS'93 participants (Nov. 1-4) honored until OCTOBER 1. Single $85 [] Double/Twin $85 [] Please request the special rate for COOCS'93 Reservations held only until 6pm without deposit or accepted credit card. From mklein@atc.boeing.com Tue Sep 21 11:28:06 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA11112; Tue, 21 Sep 93 11:28:06 CDT Received: from atc.boeing.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA05017; Tue, 21 Sep 93 11:27:36 CDT Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA01657; Tue, 21 Sep 93 09:24:11 -0700 Received: from [130.42.151.95] (lorien) by grace.rt.cs.boeing.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18803; Tue, 21 Sep 93 09:23:04 PDT Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 09:23:04 PDT Message-Id: <9309211623.AA18803@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com> To: EIF@cme.nist.gov, nac@sparky.sterling.com, dbowner@cs.wisc.edu, distributed-ai@mailbase.ac.uk, ckbs@cs.keele.ac.uk, DAI-List@mcc.com, maamaw@cosmos.imag.fr, announcements.chi@xerox.com, cscw-list@gid.co.uk, danny@arizona.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, LISTSERV@nic.surfnet, PSYCH@pucc.einet.net, dr-workshop@ai.mit.edu, csp-list@saturne.cert.fr, HCI-Members@europarc.xerox.com, STUDENTS.CHI@xerox.com From: mklein@atc.boeing.com X-Sender: mklein@grace Subject: CFP: Special Issue of CERA on Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering Cc: mklein@atc.einet.net CALL FOR PAPERS CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) - An International Journal Special Issue on Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering A central aspect of concurrent engineering is the management of conflicts among multiple engineering disciplines throughout the product life cycle. If such conflicts are not avoided or resolved in a timely fashion, the result can be huge unnecessary waste and rework costs as well as slowed schedules and reduced product quality. Current mainly manual approaches to this problem such as multi-functional teams and coordination memos are increasingly overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of modern products and processes. This special issue will focus on how computer technology can support more effective avoidance, detection and resolution of conflicts in concurrent engineering settings. The intent is to gather together an multi-disciplinary collection of work from the many fields (e.g. distributed artificial intelligence, organizational science, computer-supported cooperative work, group decision support systems) relevant to this important challenge. Themes of interest include: o What lessons do empirical studies of conflict management have to offer? o What are the current theoretical underpinnings for conflict management? o How can computer systems support conflict management? o How do computational conflict management models fare in real-world settings? CERA is a new international journal published quarterly by Academic Press whose purpose is to provide a forum for the dissemination of multidisciplinary scientific work on Concurrent Engineering based on computer technologies. It is an official journal of the Concurrent Engineering Institute of the International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE). Subscription and other information can be obtained by contacting Managing Editor, CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA., Fax: (313) 661 8333: Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.co INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS Manuscripts should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length including all figures and references. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Initial abstracts and manuscripts should have a title page including the authors' full names, affiliations, physical and email addresses. Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Final manuscripts must meet the guidelines for the CERA Journal set forth by CERA Institute. Papers not included in the special issue will be considered for possible presentation at the CERA'94 Conference to be held in August 1994. DEADLINES o 1 to 2 page abstract is due November 15, 1993. o Five copies of the full manuscript are due March 1, 1994. o Notification of acceptance is June 1, 1994. o Final version of the manuscript is due August 1, 1994. SEND SUBMISSIONS AND QUESTIONS TO Mark Klein, PhD Guest Editor, CERA Special Issue Boeing Computer Services Building 33-07, MS 7L-44 2760 160th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98008 USA Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com From speyer@mcc.com Fri Oct 8 11:53:32 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA17606; Fri, 8 Oct 93 11:53:32 CDT Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA27430; Fri, 8 Oct 93 11:53:21 CDT Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA25826; Fri, 8 Oct 93 11:51:22 CDT Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA03037; Fri, 8 Oct 93 11:51:16 CDT Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 11:51:16 CDT From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9310081651.AA03037@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net, pohl@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: CFP: REFSQ '94 (requirements engineering) Forwarding: Mail from 'dow@paladin.mcc.com (David Dow)' dated: Fri, 8 Oct 93 11:09:22 CDT NOTE: CFP being forwarded at the request of Klaus Pohl. For further information E-Mail: pohl@informatik.rwth-aachen.de =============================================================== Call for papers REFSQ '94 =============================================================== R E F S Q `9 4 FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING: FOUNDATION OF SOFTWARE QUALITY 6-7 June 1994 Utrecht, The Netherlands (preceeding the CAiSE conference) ================================================================ PURPOSE It is generally accepted that requirements engineering is the most crucial phase within software development. Therefore requirements engineering deserves special attention whenever software quality is concerned. During requirements engineering not only the functional requirements have to be elicited and defined, but also non-functional requirements must be stated. For quality oriented system development the specification of the desired quality goals during requirements engineering is essential. Currently there are deficiencies in exploiting the relationships between requirements engineering and software quality. GOAL The main goal of the REFSQ'94 is to bring together people working in the fields of requirements engineering and software quality, focussing on the - specification of quality requirements - their traceability back to user needs and - measurement of their achievement. THEMES REFSQ'94 invites contributions from research as well as from industry, dealing with (but not limited to) the following topics: - - Specification of software quality requirements - - Quality models for requirements engineering - - Integration and extension of specification models by quality aspects - - Quality-oriented process models for requirements engineering - - Traceability of quality requirements - - Measurement of quality requirements satisfaction by suitable metrics PARTICIPATION The workshop will be an interactive forum with presentations of papers and discussion groups. Presentations will be brief (10 minutes maximum), and will be followed by a panel discussion between the authors and the audience, directed by a panel leader. Papers should emphasize what is new and significant about the chosen approach and adequately compare it with similar work. Attendance will be limited to 20 people and all participants must have written accepted papers. The workshop language is English. Participants will be selected on the basis of submitted full papers (10 pages maximum), position papers (5 pages maximum) or experience reports (10 papers maximum), all of which will be reviewed by at least three independent referees from the CAiSE programm committee. Full papers and experience reports must be original contributions, not accepted or sumitted elsewhere. All workshop participants are supposed to attend the CAiSE conference. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Send 4 copies of your submission until December 10th (arrival date) to: REFSQ '94 Lehrstuhl Informatik V Ahornstr. 55 D-52074 Aachen Germany All papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and will be available for all accepted and registered participants at the beginning of the workshop. Selected workshop papers will also be published in the CAiSE proceedings by Springer Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 10th 1993 Acceptance notification: March 15th 1994 Camera ready paper due: April 15th 1994 ORGANIZATION Klaus Pohl Gernot Starke Lehrstuhl Informatik V Lehrstuhl Informatik III Ahornstrasse 55 Ahornstrasse 55 D-52074 Aachen D-52074 Aachen - - Germany - - Germany - Tel. +49-241-80-21513 Tel. +49-241-80-21311 Fax. +49-241-80-21529 Fax. +49-241-80-21329 pohl@informatik.rwth-aachen.de gernot@informatik.rwth-aachen.de --------------------------------------------------------- Klaus Pohl email: pohl@informatik.rwth-aachen.de RWTH-Aachen Informatik V Tel.Nr. 0241/80-21513 Ahornstr. 55 Fax 0241/80-21529 5100 Aachen --------------------------------------------------------- From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Fri Oct 8 17:52:48 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22122; Fri, 8 Oct 93 17:52:48 CDT Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA27794; Fri, 8 Oct 93 17:52:39 CDT Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA02995; Fri, 8 Oct 93 15:52:35 PDT Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 15:52:34 PDT From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: ["Andrew B. Whinston" : Customer Support ] In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 8 Oct 93 17:49:19 CDT Message-Id: [Note: all subscribers - one can post to this list simply by sending mail to "all-iceimt@einet.net".] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Forwarded for "Andrew B. Whinston" : September, 1993 We are pleased to announce the upcoming conference Positioning Customer Support for the 21st Century, which will be held on Wednesday, November 10 and Thursday, November 11, 1993, at The University of Texas at Austin's IC2 Institute in Austin, Texas. This conference is designed to address both organizational and information technology issues currently facing customer support organizations. The conference will bring together experts in both academia and business to identify and begin to develop a set of critical issues for research in this area. The dual goals of the conference include shared learning on customer support practices and defining a research agenda which will directly address issues concerning managers today and position them for the challenges of tomorrow. Customer support is playing an increasingly significant role in determining the success of today's companies by providing value to external and internal customers. The challenge facing companies is to increase the effectiveness of customer support activities in order to achieve superior business performance. It is no longer sufficient for customer support organizations to be a "maintenance and repair" department. As successful organizations have taken a process-oriented view of their businesses, they have re-evaluated the role of the customer support organization in terms of alignment with corporate goals. Expanded roles for customer support within the business include activities which support other internal business processes. Likewise, customer support organizations are a key liaison to customers. These organizations are increasingly taking on activities which expand the service offerings of the company. Through maintaining the utility of purchases and expanding their usefulness through training, peripherals, and upgrades, customer service specialists create increased satisfaction and stronger relationships with customers. Investments in customer support organizations, whether in time or money, typically introduce far-reaching organizational and technological issues. Questions such as who should provide customer support, how this activity should be carried out, how customer support should be integrated with other organizational units, and how information technology can facilitate the goals of the customer support organization turn out to be complex decisions for executives making these investments. We hope you are able to attend this conference. Registration information and materials are enclosed. Positioning Customer Support for the 21st Century November 10-11, 1993 IC2 Institute, 2815 San Gabriel Austin, Texas Sponsored by Marketing Science Institute The University of Texas at Austin RGK Foundation IC2 Institute Austin Software Council College and Graduate School of Business Center for Information Systems Management Who should attend * Executives concerned with providing excellent customer service * Executives who make investments in customer support * Executives who develop customer support operations * Academics in marketing, management information systems, organizational behavior, and service management concerned with the integration of technological and organizational constructs in the customer support domain Registration To register for the conference, complete and mail the enclosed registration form along with a check (payable to the RGK Foundation) for the registration fee before Wednesday, October 27, 1993 to the RGK Foundation, 2815 San Gabriel, Austin, Texas 78705. The registration fee is $150 for industry attendees and $75 for students and academics. This registration fee covers the banquet on Wednesday evening, breakfast and lunch on Thursday, coffee breaks, conference materials, and scheduled ground transportation to and from the hotel and conference site. Please refer to the enclosed agenda for bus departure times. Accommodations We have reserved a block of rooms at the OMNI Austin Hotel, 700 San Jacinto, Austin, Texas 78701. The conference rate is $79 for reservations made by Tuesday, October 26, 1993. After this date the $79 rate and availability cannot be guaranteed. You are responsible for making your own hotel reservations and guaranteeing your room for late arrival if necessary. Please call the OMNI at 512-476-3700 and mention the Customer Support Conference. Airline Arrangements have been made with American Airlines to help attendees secure the least expensive and most direct route to this conference. American Airlines is offering a special discount to all attendees. For complete details, call American Airlines at 1-800-433-1790 and tell the agent that you are attending the Customer Support Conference and that the Star File Number is S12N3P8. Positioning Customer Support for the 21st Century November 10-11, 1993 Austin, Texas Wednesday, November 10 1:15 p.m. Bus departs OMNI Hotel for IC Institute, 2815 San Gabriel 1:30 p.m. Registration 2:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks George Kozmetsky, Director, IC2 Institute, The University of Texas at Austin Robert E. Witt, Dean, Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin H. Paul Root, President, Marketing Science Institute 2:30 p.m. Keynote Address --- Information Technology's Role in Transforming Customer Service James I. Cash Chairman, MBA Program, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break 4:00 p.m. Customer Support in the 21st Century Jerry Frick Owner Relationsh Manager, Ford Motor Company 5:00 p.m. Bus departs for OMNI Hotel, 700 San Jacinto 6:30 p.m Reception - OMNI Hotel 7:00 p.m. Dinner - OMNI Hotel Leadership/Customer Support Banquet Speaker: Shelby H. Carter, Chairman of the Board and Director, SynOptics Communications, Inc. Thursday, November 11 7:45 a.m. Bus departs OMNI Hotel for IC2 Institute 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Present Challenges for Customer Support Andrew B. Whinston Hugh Roy Cullin Chaired Professor, College and Graduate School of Business and Director, Center for Information Systems Management, The University of Texas at Austin 9:30 a.m. Coffee Break 10:00 a.m. Panel Discussion --- Organizational Issues in Customer Support Benjamin A. Tomb, Senior Vice President, Customer Service, CIGNA Corporation Robert D. Hawkins, President, RoDo Consulting & Associates (formerly with IBM) 11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion --- Technical Issues in Customer Support Mike Tamer, President, Teknekron Infoswitch Corporation Bruce C. Hahn, President, OZZ Research Benn R. Konsynski, George S. Craft Professor of Business Administration, Emory Business School, Emory University 12:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 p.m. Case Study --- Otis Elevators: Managing the Field Service Force Keri E. Pearlson, Assistant Professor, College and Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin 2:00 p.m. Coffee Break 2:15 p.m. Small Group Discussions --- Key Issues in Customer Service and Support 3:30 p.m. Future Directions in Customer Support Discussion Group Reports, Summation, and Concluding Remarks Vijay Mahajan, John P. Harbin Chair in Business and Associate Dean for Research, College and Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin 4:30 p.m. Conference adjourns Registration Form Name (Please type) __________________________________________________ (Prof., Dr., Mr., Ms., Mrs.) First Last Title: ______________________________________________________________ Organization: _______________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ City State Zip Code Country Telephone: (_____)__________________ Work (_____)_____________Home Fax: (_____)_______________ Email: _________________________ Which days do you plan to attend? Wednesday, Nov.10 ______ (meeting at IC2 Institute) Wednesday, Nov.10 ______ (dinner at OMNI Hotel) Thursday, Nov.11 ______ (meeting at IC2 Institute) Thursday, Nov.11 ______ (lunch at IC2 Institute) Registration Fee: ______ $150 (Industry) ______ $75 (Academia/Students) Payment must be made by check or money order payable to the RGK Foundation. Please complete and mail this registration form along with registration fee before Wednesday, October 27, 1993 to: Customer Support Conference RGK Foundation 2815 San Gabriel Austin, TX 78705-3596 Phone: 512-474-9298 Fax: 512-499-0245 (Cancellations must be made before Wednesday, November3, 1993, in order to receive a refund.) From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Tue Oct 19 15:49:00 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA01197; Tue, 19 Oct 93 15:49:00 CDT Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA07641; Tue, 19 Oct 93 15:48:54 CDT Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA02376; Tue, 19 Oct 93 13:48:49 PDT Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 13:48:48 PDT From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CoopIS '94 -- 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Message-Id: I attended this conference last year and liked it a lot. It was a dynamic mix of folks from DAI, multi-agent planning, process control, industrial databases, and concurrent engineering all focusing on the application of computational coordination schemes. This conference has a lot of potential for making coherent this important new field. BTW, the word "Intelligent" was dropped from the title after a public discussion. My own position was that it denoted a rough emergent property characteristic of many coordinating systems, but did not describe a goal of such systems. That seemed to be near the consensus view as well. cp --------------- Return-Path: Received: from bunny.gte.com by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA02101; Tue, 19 Oct 93 13:12:49 PDT Received: from makapuu by bunny.gte.com (5.61/GTEL2.19) id AA17917; Tue, 19 Oct 93 13:31:05 -0400 Message-Id: <9310191731.AA17917@bunny.gte.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 13:34:50 -0500 To: em02@gte.com >From: em02@gte.com (Emon Mortazavi) Subject: CoopIS '94 -- CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS '94) Formerly "Intelligent & Cooperative Information Systems (ICICIS)" May 17-20, 1994 Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada Supported by the Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario Sponsored by the University of Toronto In cooperation with ACM SIGOIS and ACM SIGMOD (pending approval) TSUNAMI - THE TIDAL WAVE IS HERE -------------------------------- Within most organizations, worldwide, mission critical information systems (ISs) already cooperate or are being converted to do so to meet basic business requirements. Due to the lack of appropriate concepts, techniques, and tools, this is being done using primitive means thereby creating problems that will dwarf those of current legacy information systems. This conference is devoted to addressing this tidal wave facing the information systems community. COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: THE NEXT GENERATION AND THE CHALLENGE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The paradigm for the next generation of ISs will involve large numbers of ISs distributed over large, complex computer/communication networks. This ranges from the vast and visionary Electronic Superhighway, to the large and complex billing system of a telephone company, an even to the small patient information system in a one-doctor office. Such ISs will manage or have access to large amounts of information and computing services. They will support individual or collaborative human work. Computation will be conducted concurrently over the network by software systems that range from conventional to advanced application systems including expert systems, and multiagent planning systems. Information and services will be available in many forms through legacy and new information repositories that support a host of information services. Communication among component systems will be done in a centralized or distributed fashion, using communication protocols that range from conventional ones to those based on distributed AI. We call such next generation ISs Cooperative Information Systems (CIS). Soon, the operation of a one-doctor office may critically depend on its ISs' ability to cooperate with foreign ISs not just for reimbursement (i.e., required by insurance organizations) but also for patients (e.g., exchanging information in medical crises). Demand for more efficient processes and use of all resources will come from economic and business conditions (e.g., competition, imperative for wider marketplaces, and cooperation and distribution in the production of goods and services) that have led to downsizing and re-engineering . IS technology, one of the largest costs of many organizations, can be the problem, or part of the solution. The demands are pervasive from vast organizations to very small. The requirements span conventional organizational and legal boundaries such as countries, companies (e.g., virtual companies), disciplines (e.g., concurrent engineering spanning a products entire life span). The CIS paradigm is evolving to meet these demands thus raising challenges for the supporting technologies. Unlike previous major computing advances based on single technologies, the CIS paradigm will evolve from the integration of many, currently disjoint technologies. Database Systems will contribute information management techniques, particularly for distributed or heterogeneous databases, as well as efficient implementation techniques for information bases. Artificial Intelligence will contribute knowledge representation and reasoning techniques, on the one hand, and distributed problem solving and planning techniques in a multiagent environment on the other. Operating Systems will contribute resource management techniques over large distributed computer/communications networks. Programming Languages will contribute languages and type/object systems for cooperative programming. Software/Knowledge/Information Engineering will contribute design and development environments/shells and methodologies for CIS development and evolution. Computer Communications will provide the necessary underlying communication and interconnection technology. Other relevant technologies include: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Distributed Computing, Organizational Computing, and Interoperability. The challenge is to effectively combine these technologies and their contributions to meet CIS requirements. A significant challenge is to overcome the existing boundaries to achieve a common understanding of the relevant issues. CIS will become reality through research in concepts, methodologies, techniques, and tools for the efficient - and transparent - integration of computing resources that are accessible over large computer/communications networks which may become indistinguishable from the CISs themselves. More important is the technology transfer and communication required between the significant, practical situations, which exemplify the requirements, and the research community that tries to address them. But most important is an increased common understanding across the existing boundaries as to the nature of the problems, the requirements, and adequate approaches to address them. THE CONFERENCE -------------- The CoopIS-94 conference will provide a forum for the presentation and dissemination of this research covering all aspects of CIS conception, requirements, functionality, implementation, deployment, and evolution. The CoopIS-94 conference programme will include technical sessions, invited presentations, panels, and tutorials that deal with CISs and the integration of relevant technologies. In addition, CoopIS-94 plans to host special sessions on the industrial applicability of CIS technology. Further information about the conference and its programme can be obtained from the General and Program Co-Chairs and by anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.toronto.edu (128.100.1.105) under directory pub/coopis or by sending e-mail to coopis@cs.toronto.edu. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to:) ------------------ CIS Systems Issues: o CIS Principles - cooperation, intelligence, autonomy o CIS Architectures and communication protocols - novel open architectures, blackboard systems, multiagent planning frameworks, speech acts, advanced information services in support of interoperability o Core Technology for CIS - open distributed computing architectures, type systems, object models and advanced transaction models for interoperability, advanced query models and languages, active databases o CIS Implementation Techniques - novel programming languages for CISs, interoperability issues in distributed heterogeneous information bases, multi-database transaction scheduling and execution, rule bases o Integration Challenges - interoperability, multiple paradigms, forms of transparency, object and transaction model integration, global information (e.g., schemas, directories, repositories), semantic interoperability, negotiation, optimization (e.g., queries, indexing, ...) CIS Modelling, Migration, and Evolution: o CIS Applications - current and future o Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs - multiple perspective representations, non-deductive forms of inference (inductive, analogical, case-based, ...), multiagent planning and problem solving o Advanced CIS Programming - workflows, transactions, information requests, policy/rule-driven systems, mega-programming, multiple programming paradigms o Information Engineering for CIS - information acquisition, classification and retrieval techniques and tools, information sharing and management o Re-Engineering - concepts, tools, and methodologies; re-engineer legacy and new information systems into CISs o CIS Evolution - concepts, tools, and techniques for CIS design, development, and maintenance o Information Agents - novel models and organizations, application of information agent technology in virtual laboratories, concurrent engineering and other groupware frameworks. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS ----------------------- Authors must clearly relate the contribution of their work to the concept of CIS, rather than just describing aspects of a component technology (e.g., state assumptions or definitions as to the nature of CISs). Papers which illustrate their results in terms of an CIS application or address technology integration issues leading to CISs are particularly welcome. Submission must be identified as one of three different categories: visions, research, and experience. Vision papers should present stimulating challenges, ideas, or visions that lead to exciting and valuable CIS research directions. Vision papers will be evaluated with respect to innovation, realizable applications and technologies, and technical challenges posed (e.g., that do not currently admit of solutions). Research papers should advance the state of the art of CIS and will be evaluated using conventional scientific criteria. Experience papers should describe the practical applications of CIS concepts or methods. They will be evaluated in terms of lessons learned, research issues raised, and solutions to realistic challenges, such as those of legacy information systems. Five copies of original and compelling unpublished papers up to 5000 words that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere during the reviewing period should be sent to the appropriate Programme Committee Co-Chair. Restricted electronic submission may be acceptable. For instructions contact the appropriate PC Co-Chair. Submissions must include contact information (contact name, postal and e-mail address, and phone number), a 100-word abstract, exact word count, and explicitly indicate the paper category (vision, research, or experience). The edited proceedings of CoopIS-94 will appear as a book from a major international publisher. Selected articles will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- December 1, 1993 paper, panel, and tutorial submissions due February 1, 1994 notification of acceptance March 1, 1994 camera-ready version due GENERAL CHAIR ------------- John Mylopoulos Dept. Computer Science University of Toronto 6 King's College Road, Toronto M5S 1A4, Canada jm@cs.toronto.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- America (North & South) Europe & Middle East Far East, Africa, Australia Michael L. Brodie Matthias Jarke Mike P. Papazoglou Distributed Object Informatik V School of Computing Department Information Systems GTE Laboratories Incorporated RWTH Aachen Queensland Univ. Technology 40 Sylvan Road Ahornstr. 55 GPO Box 2434 Waltham, MA 02254, USA 52074 Aachen, Germany Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia brodie@gte.com jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de mikep@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Philip A. Bernstein (USA) Robert Meersman (Holland) Patrick Bobbie (USA) Wolfgang Nejdl (Germany) Alexander Borgida (USA) Anne Ngu (Australia) Manfred Broy (Germany) Maurizio Panti (Italy) Tung Bui (Hong-Kong) Charles Petrie (USA) Umeshwar Dayal (USA) Andreas Reuter (Germany) Misbah Deen (UK) Daniel R. Ries (USA) Lois M.L. Delcambre (USA) Bob Rockwell (Germany) Eric Dubois (Belgium) Marek E. Rusinkiewicz (USA) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (USA) Josef Schaefer (Germany) Opher Etzion (Israel) Hans Schek (Switzerland) Less Gasser (USA) Gunter Schlagter (Germany) Igor Hawryszkiewycz (Australia) Timos Sellis (Greece) Karen Huff (USA) Amit P. Sheth (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Abraham Silberschatz (USA) Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Dimitri Karagiannis (Austria) Stefano Spaccapietra William Kent (USA) (Switzerland) Steven C. Laufmann (USA) Ronald Stamper (Holland) Ron Lee (Holland) Michael Stonebraker (USA) Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Zahir Tari (Australia) Victor Lesser (USA) Patrick Valduriez (France) Fred Lochovsky (Hong-Kong) Carson Woo (Canada) Vincent Lum (Hong-Kong) Yelena Yesha (Baltimore) Frank A. Manola (USA) Norihiko Yoshida (Japan) Louis Marinos (Germany) John Zeleznikow (Australia) From gasser@morue.usc.edu Tue Oct 19 16:50:01 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA01960; Tue, 19 Oct 93 16:50:01 CDT Received: from usc.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA07674; Tue, 19 Oct 93 16:49:58 CDT Received: from morue.usc.edu by usc.edu (4.1/SMI-3.0DEV3-USC+3.1) id AA26134; Tue, 19 Oct 93 14:49:55 PDT Received: by morue.usc.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1+ucs-3.6) id AA03124; Tue, 19 Oct 93 14:49:49 PDT Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 14:49:49 PDT From: gasser@morue.usc.edu (Les Gasser) Message-Id: <9310192149.AA03124@morue.usc.edu> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: gasser@usc.edu Subject: USC/ISSM COD Lab: ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS Reply-To: gasser@usc.edu ================================================================ ================================================================ CCCCCCC OOOOOO DDDDDD L AAAA BBBBB CC OO OO D D L AA AA B B C O O D D L A A B B C O O D D L AAAAAA BBBBB C O O D D L A A B B CC OO OO D D L A A B B CCCCCCC OOOOOO DDDDDD LLLLLL A A BBBBB USC/ISSM COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATION DESIGN LAB SEMINAR ================================================================ ================================================================ ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS: A METHODOLOGICAL ACCOUNT Claude VOGEL, Ph.D. CISI Ingenierie, Paris, France Date: 11 November, 1993 Place: SSM-119, USC Time: 10:30 AM ABSTRACT: This talk presents new research on methods and knowledge-based tools for organizational analysis and the design of organizational processes and information management in organizations. The objectives of the methods and analysis, called "Organizational Semiotics" are to: * Study the dynamics of the exchanges of cultural objects (e.g. information, texts) inside social organizations, * Map the structure of these exchanges over functional frameworks; * Use this mapping as to reveal the internal logic underlying operation and reproduction of organizations. The technical process of organizational semiotics involves the following tasks: * organization sampling and identification of attractors * cognitive analysis of clusters * cultural regulation analysis This talk will include a brief summary of the background and theoretical framework of organizational semiotics, a technical presentation of the three major steps (lexicographic, cognitive and cultural analysis) and a case-study application of the analysis in a real organization. The information discussed in this presentation may of interest to academics, consultants, organizational analysts, and quality specialists concerned with human resources management, cultural information processing (infometrics, competitive intelligence, documentation), and cooperative work. Speaker: Claude VOGEL, Ph.D. CISI Ingenierie 3, rue le Corbusier 94528 Rungis Cedex France Phone: [33.1] 49.79.46.87 Fax: [33.1] 46.87.69.89 Internet: vogel@cisi.uucp Claude Vogel has Ph.D.s in Letters/Human Sciences and in Social/Cultural Anthropology, and a background in Artificial Intelligence. He has had a long career as a cultural anthropologist, much of it spent on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. In 1986 he joined CISI where he is now the director of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Methods research. (CISI is the French Atomic Energy Authority Industry Group; CISI specializes in scientific, technical and industrial research and applications). Since 1991, he has managed the KOD (Knowledge Oriented Design) project office at CISI. He has authored numerous works on anthropology and artificial intelligence, and is director of the Cognitive Sciences series for Masson publishers. His three most recent books are: Ginie Cognitif, Masson, 1988; KOD: La Mise en Oeuvre, Masson (in press); and La Logique des Composants Mithodes, Masson (in press). Host: Les Gasser (213.740.4046, gasser@usc.edu) For directions please call Louise Skura at 213.740.8771, lskura@cod.usc.edu From marcos@mansun.lut.ac.uk Thu Oct 28 10:35:29 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA20982; Thu, 28 Oct 93 10:35:29 CDT Received: from mailhost.lut.ac.uk (bgate.lut.ac.uk) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA20789; Thu, 28 Oct 93 10:35:04 CDT Received: from snow-gate.lut.ac.uk by hpd.lut.ac.uk (15.11/SMI-4.1) id AA14587; Thu, 28 Oct 93 14:08:08 gmt Received: from sandra.mansun.lut.ac.uk by mansun.lut.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06837; Thu, 28 Oct 93 14:02:18 GMT Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 14:02:18 GMT From: marcos aguiar Message-Id: <9310281402.AA06837@mansun.lut.ac.uk> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: call for papers - concurrent engineering ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From sobol@cerc.wvu.edu Thu Oct 21 22:56:14 1993 From: sobol@cerc.wvu.edu (Michael Sobolewski) Subject: CERA'94 To: marcos@cerc.wvu.edu Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 18:01:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: sobol@cerc.wvu.edu (Michael Sobolewski) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4846 Please circulate this announcement. ________________________________________________________________________ FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENT ENGINEERING, RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania - August 29-31, 1994 (Originally planned to be held in Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania) CALL FOR PAPERS: CERA CONFERENCE The Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications (CERA) conference is a major forum for the international scientific exchange and presenta- tions of the multi-disciplinary and inter-organizational aspects of concurrent engineering (CE) utilizing integrated enterprise processes, collaborative work, information sharing, co-locating people, tools and places, and integrating frameworks and tools. This conference addresses research and applications issues. CERA is sponsored by the International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE) and is co-sponsored and hosted by the Concurrent Technologies Corporation, (CTC), Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA. TOPICS OF INTEREST Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research in all areas of product design, engineering and manufacturing, including, but not limited to: Enterprise integration (e.g., assessing an organization's readiness, CE assessment models, integrated process capture, re-engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, barriers to CE) Cooperative work (e.g., team coordination, common visibility of activities and data, monitoring progress of product development, change notification across perspectives, conflict resolution techniques, constraints management, planning and scheduling of activities, cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure) Information sharing (e.g., information modeling and simulation, data version management, multi-level user access, data change management, capturing corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, integrated database and knowledgebase management systems) Communication tools (e.g., computer-based video and audio confering and consulting, multimedia electronic mail, network-wide sharing of tools, graphical collaborative user interfaces for inter-operability) Integrating frameworks and tools (e.g., architectures for building concurrent engineering systems, integration of tools, integration of design and manufacturing, knowledge-based integration ) TIMETABLE Author should submit a 200-word, extended abstract (in English) to the Program Chair not later than November 15, 1993 (E-Mail is suggested, if possible). Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened. Authors should note that ordinary mail can sometimes be considerably delayed, and should take that into account when timing their submissions. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after the abstract is received. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) on or before December 31, 1993. Final version of papers must be received by March 1, 1994. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag Publishers, Berlin, Germany. Selected expanded papers will be included in a special issue of the international journal, Concurrent Engineering: Research & Application (CERA). CERA CONFERENCE CONTACTS CONFERENCE CHAIR Dr. Anand J. Paul Concurrent Technologies Corporation 1450 Scalp Avenue, Johnstown, PA 15904 E-Mail: paul@ctc.com, Office: (814) 269-2501, FAX: (814) 269-4458 PROGRAM CHAIR Paper submissions, reviewing, invited talks and all matters related to the technical program: Dr. Michael Sobolewski Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506, Morgantown, WV 26506, E-Mail: sobol@cerc.wvu.edu, Office: (304) 293-7226, FAX: (304) 293-7541 CONFERENCE LOCATION The conference will be held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. The Convention Center and all other major hotels are located in the heart of the safe and walkable downtown area. Delegates can take advantage of the many entertainment, cultural, and dining opportunities the city has to offer. The Carnegie Science Center has been called "The Amusement Park of the Mind." The city is rich in cultural activities and is home to hundreds of performing art groups. Sports have always been a big part of Pittsburgh. With major-league championship teams like the Penguins - hockey, Steelers - football, and Pirates - baseball there is always a big game in town. For dining, Pittsburgh offers a wide variety of dining choices - ranging from exquisite continental cuisine to ethnic eateries - to suit your tase and budget. ----- End Included Message ----- From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Fri Oct 29 17:53:42 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA09059; Fri, 29 Oct 93 17:53:42 CDT Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA22630; Fri, 29 Oct 93 17:53:32 CDT Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA05133; Fri, 29 Oct 93 15:53:28 PDT Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 15:53:27 PDT From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: ["Andrew B. Whinston" : Journal of Organizational Computing ] Message-Id: >From: "Andrew B. Whinston" Subject: Journal of Organizational Computing To: petrie ======================================================================= JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMPUTING Andrew B. Whinston, editor Volume 4 (1994) Subscription Rates: $115.00/Institutional; $50.00/Personal The Journal of Organizational Computing presents timely, original articles that examine the impact of computer and communication technology on organizational design, operations, and performance. By providing a forum for stimulating and dis-seminating research into how these technologies affect organizational structure and dynamics, this quarterly publication enables you to stay on the cutting edge of the rapidly emerging possibilities for improving organizational productivity. You'll find theoretical, experimental, and survey research in the Journal of Organizational Computing. Contributions from noted authorities in the field focus on computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), groupware, computer modeling of organizations, investigations of organizational systems issues such as computer-aided learning, economics of organizational computing, and behavioral studies of organizational computing. A new section in the journal highlights the latest in computer software. Book reviews, meeting announcements, brief notes of interest, editorial comments, and invited papers also enhance the usefulness of the journal. Subscribe now to the Journal of Organizational Computing and take advantage of this valuable resource from Ablex. Journal of Organizational Computing Order Form ----- Please begin an institutional/library subscription starting with Volume 4, #1 of 1994 ($115.00). ----- Please begin an individual subscription starting with Volume 4, #1 of 1994 ($50.00). Payment Method (Check One): _____ Payment Enclosed _____ MasterCard _____ VISA Exp. Date:_____________________________________ Charge Card # _________________________________ Signature _____________________________________ Name ________________________________________ Address _______________________________________ City ________________ State _______ ZIP __________ All journal subscriptions are for the calendar year and must be PRE-PAID. For subscriptions outside of the US and Canada, please add $20.00 for postage and handling. Cancellations will not be accepted after the first issue has been mailed. Please return this form to: Subscription Department Ablex Publishing Corporation 355 Chestnut Street Norwood, NJ 07648 For Volume 3, here are the abstracts of some papers: An Interpretive Analysis of Team Use of Group Technologies Gerardine DeSanctis, Marshall Scott Poole, Gary Dickson Studies of the impacts of new computing technologies on organizations often lead to contradictory or equivocal findings. Studies showing negative or null effects of computing are as commonplace as those showing benefits. Moreover, outcomes are not uniform across individuals, groups, or organizational units and sometimes vary within the same study. To explain the commonality as well as the variance in the results of new technology introduction, we propose adaptive structuration theory. The theory focuses on how technology structures are applied in interpersonal interaction and the specific nature of appropriation patterns. We illustrate the power of the theory through interpretative analysis of three teams as they adapt to use of a group decision support system over a period of eight months. The analyses highlight differences in technology impacts across the three teams and also explain some common outcomes. Our analytic approach appears to be useful in the study of organizational computing impacts in general and group decision support system effects in particular. The Design of Coordination Mechanisms and Organizational Computing John O. Ledyard We provide an introduction to a theory of coordination mechanism design and show how to apply it to an assignment problem. The purpose is to introduce those familiar with organizational computing, but unfamiliar with game theory and economics, to the subject. We also describe briefly how we can test new mechanisms before taking them into the field. Finally, we raise some unresolved research questions. Computer Support of Organization Design and Learning Gail Rein, Clyde Holsapple, Andrew Whinston Organization design is a pervasive phenomenon that significantly impacts performance, and yet organization design activity has received little direct support from computer technology. If organization design both influences the organizational learning that occurs and is at least a partial reflection of the organizational learning that has occurred. This paper examines the significance, bases, and means for developing multi-user, computer-based environments for supporting organization design and learning. The paper introduces a working perspective of organization design and learning highlighted by three key ideas. Organization design and learning (1) is defined in terms of organization work, structure, and process, (2) is an ongoing evolutionary phenomenon, and (3) can and should be an inclusive, distributed, multi-participant effort. The paper identifies the requirements for computer-based technology that supports this working perspective and then presents an overview of a prototype technology that addresses these requirements. The prototype technology consists of two interacting components: (1) Deva, an interactive, multi-user, graphical editor for managing process descriptions, and (2) GPOD, an associated group process for using Deva for organization design. We conclude that the technologies will enable organizations to become self organizing systems, thereby allowing them to more effectively compete and survive in today's rapidly changing environment. Modeling the Going Concern Judgment Using Argumentation Theory Ai-Mei Chang, Andrew Bailey, Jr., Jane Mutchler, Andrew Whinston A going-concern judgment is an important classification of a client that auditors are called upon to render. We study the collective group process of interpretation that auditors are engaged in by examining their individual interpretation processes and their interactions among themselves and with clients. The interpretation process leading to the going-concern judgment involves four phases: (1) recognizing any potential going-concern problems; (2) understanding the cause of those problems; (3) evaluating client plans to mitigate those problems, and (4) rendering a going-concern judgment. We capture the process underlying a going-concern judgment by representing the content and process of the interactions using an argumentation language. The Computing Paradigm Shift John S. Quarterman, Smoot Carl-Mitchell Over the last five years, there has been a shift from centralized to distributed computing. Timesharing and batch systems still have uses, but the large mainframe is no longer the only way to do computing. networks have spread computing power, access, and costs beyond centralized computer centers. Personal computers have made computing accessible to many new users. Distributed computing attempts to bring the manageability of mainframe computing together with the accessibility of networked computing and the transparency of personal computing. The following are the table of contents and abstracts of some papers in the special issue of Journal of Organizational Computing Special Issue: Economics, Information Systems and Organizations TABLE OF CONTENTS The Matrix of Change: Information Technology and the Economics of Organization Erik Brynjolfsson and Haim Mendelson An Analysis of Economic Incentives for Inter-organizational Information Sharing Seungjin Whang Modeling Networked Organizations: A Basis for Exploring Computer Supported Coordination Possibilities Chee Ching, Clyde W. Holsapple and Andrew B. Whinston When Quality matters: Information Technology and Buyer-Supplier Relationships Erik Brynjolfsson and J. Yannis Bakos Hierarchical Elements in Software Contracts Soon Ang and Cynthia Beath The Impacts of Information Technology on Organizational Size and Shape: Control and Flexibility Effects Terry Barron ABSTRACTS: Impacts of Information Technology on Organizational Size and Shape: Control and Flexibility Effects Terry Barron We argue that the study of IT impacts on organizations has been hindered by the shortage of formal models from which empirically testable implications of such impacts can be derived. This paper demonstrates the feasibility and usefulness of this approach by constructing and analyzing optimization models of the organizational design problem for a restricted class of hierarchical organizations. The literature suggests that two organizational characteristics which are likely to be affected by IT are organizational "flexibility," and the nature of organizational control problems. Thus first a particular concept of flexibility is defined and parameterized. Second, organizational design is formalized as an optimization problem having parameters for flexibility and control effects. Third, probable effects of four broad classes of IT on the model's parameters are spelled out and then analyzed via comparative statics and numerical results. One result is that some kinds of IT impacts could have potentially dramatic industry-level effects since large changes in the optimal organization scale under profit. The model shows that a very careful understanding of the effects of a particular system is vital to predicting its impacts; for example, monitoring systems of different types can have impacts which are the opposite of one another. The model also suggests that short-run, medium-run, and long-run effects of a given IT type may well differ from one another, so that lagged effects of IT investments should be carefully studied, with allowance being made for the possibility of different directions of change for different lags. Hierarchical Elements in Software Contracts Soon Ang, Cynthia M. Beath Recent literature in information systems notes that software development outsourcing is increasingly prevalent, in spite of the complexity of managing development across organizational boundaries. Using transaction cost and agency theories, information systems researchers have proposed incentive schemes to address this problem. This paper, drawing on the recent developments in relational contracting, describes an expanded set of contractual mechanisms, essentially hierarchical elements, which can further improve the governance of external software development. Software outsourcing contracts using such elements should be viewed as hierarchical, not market, organizational forms, in that they are sheltered from the disciplining influence of market forces. Using theories of social embeddedness of economic exchanges, the paper also proposes that the use of hierarchical elements will vary under certain circumstances. Finally, content-analytic research designs appropriate for testing these propositions are elaborated. Modeling Network Organizations: A Basis for Exploring Computer Support Coordination Possibilities Chee Ching, Clyde W. Holsapple, Andrew Whinston In recent years, network organizations have gained much attention as more and more of them have emerged in various industries. The problem of coordination within network organizations is an important one that differs in major ways from coordination within hierarchies or markets. We contend that computer technology has a potential for usefully supporting coordinations efforts in networks. As a basis for studying such potential in a systematic way, a formal model of network organizations would be helpful, particularly to the extent that it represents coordination possibilities. >>From a long term perspective, the success of a network organization depends on more than efficient transaction processing. It also depends on such factors as participant reliability, motivation, mutual trust, cooperation, creativity, and prudent evolution. All of these are related to the issue of a participant's value (past, current, ongoing, changing) to the network. We introduce a model that formalizes some key aspects of network organizations. At the heart of our formulation is a construct called reputation, which encapsulates the many attributes that can characterize participants' past behaviors in a network. This model characterizes essential informational aspects of a network organization in a quantifiable form that lays a foundation for analyzing. designing, and implementing computer-based systems to facilitate network operation and growth. We use the model to discuss possibilities for computer-based support of network organizations at managerial and strategic levels, as complements to transaction-level EDI-like systems. When Quality Matters: Information Technology and Buyer-Supplier Relationships Yannis Bakos, Erik Brynjolfsson As search costs and other coordination costs decline, theory predicts that firms should optimally increase the number of suppliers with which they do business. Despite recent declines in these costs due to information technology, there is little evidence of an increase in the number of suppliers used. On the contrary, in many industries firms are working with fewer suppliers. This suggests that other forces must be accounted for in a more complete model of buyer-supplier relationships. This paper uses the theory of incomplete contracts to illustrate that incentive considerations can motivate a buyer to limit the number of employed suppliers. In order to induce suppliers to make investments that cannot be specified and enforced in a satisfactory manner via a contractual mechanism, the buyer must commit not to expropriate the ex post surplus fro such investments. Under reasonable bargaining mechanisms, such a commitment will be more credible if the buyer can choose from fewer alternative suppliers. Thus, it is predicted that when non-contractibles such as "quality" are particularly important, firms will employ fewer suppliers, and that this will be true even when search and transaction costs are very low. Analysis of Interorganizational Information Sharing Seungjin Whang Recent years have observed a number of interorganization information systems (IOSs) and Electronic Data Interchanges (EDIs) through which multiple organizations share information. The paper studies the incentives to share information when two or more companies are involved in a supplier-buyer relationship. We propose two models through which we pursue the question: what type of information will be shared? In the first model we study the incentives for a production company to share its queue information with its customers. The release of queue information has a tradeoff between loss of profits and efficient flow control, but we show that the supplier will share information under certain regularity conditions. Teh second model studies the incentive for a supplier to share price information with its buyer. As the buyer makes its quantity decision based on the price information fed by the supplier, the latter has to choose between keeping the communication channel alive for good news and benefiting from the buyer's uniformed purchase decisions. We show that in most practical situations, the supplier will not voluntarily share its price information. From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Fri Nov 5 13:46:46 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA10769; Fri, 5 Nov 93 13:46:46 CST Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA00365; Fri, 5 Nov 93 13:46:37 CST Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA18340; Fri, 5 Nov 93 14:46:35 EST From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9311051946.AA18340@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: Third Workshop on Enabling Technolgies: WET ICE '94 To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 14:46:34 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 6024 CALL FOR PAPERS WET ICE '94 Third IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 17-19, 1994 Morgantown, West Virginia The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society, with support from AAAI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGOIS, will conduct the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises onA April 17-19, 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia. The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration are sought in the following areas: Virtual team support environments Mediators to support collaborative activities Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing Capturing design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be under submission currently for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of all authors. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or postscript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Electronic submission is the preferred mode. Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript January 10, 1994 Notification of decisions February 28, 1994 Final version of the paper April 4, 1994 Papers submitted to this workshop will be candidates for inclusion in a bound volume of the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | NOTE: Students are especially encouraged to submit innovative work. | | Students will be eligible for financial support if their papers are | | accepted. This support is being provided through the support of AAAI.| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WET ICE '93 Synopsis -------------------- Advances in database and networking technology, groupware, multi-media, graphical user-interfaces and a precipitous drop in the ``cost of computing,'' point the way to the possibility of creating a truly collaborative environment that transcends the barriers of distance, time, and heterogeneity of computer equipment. The ideal collaborative environment will enable any member of a team to spontaneously communicate (and thereby collaborate) with any other member (or a group) of a team. The 2nd Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focussed precisely on these issues. Scientists and practitioners from around the world gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The proceedings was a compendium of 23 scientific papers and 3 working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Copies of the proceedings from WET ICE '93 can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 714-821-8380 if you're calling internationally. Copies are $35 for IEEE members and $70 for non-members. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises" when ordering. Selected papers from the WET ICE '93 will be published in International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WET ICE '94 Steering Committee ------------------------------ Chair: Prof. Ramana Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Jack Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Raghu Karinthi, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. K. Srinivas , CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Ralph Wood, CERC/West Virginia University WET ICE '94 Program and Review Committee ---------------------------------------- Chair: Dr. Joe Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI, International Prof. Prasun Dewan, UNC Chapel Hill, NC Dr. Milena Didic, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, & ESPRIT Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto Mr. Ted Goranson, SAIC Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Prof. Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia Prof. Tom Malone, MIT Prof. Jintae Lee, Univeristy of Hawaii Prof. Sumitra Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Alex Schill, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Mr. Dennis Sng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr. Mike Sobolewski, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Duvvuru Sriram, MIT Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies Prof. George Trapp, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Robert Winner, The Center for High Performance Computing, MA WET ICE '94 Coordination ------------------------ General Chair: Prof. V. Jagannathan, CERC Finance: Anagha Karandikar, CERC Local Arrangements/Publicity: Mary Carriger, CERC Registration: Cathy O'Neal, CERC Audio-Visual: Bill Duff, CERC Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 304-293-7226 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Fri Nov 12 13:38:39 1993 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA10246; Fri, 12 Nov 93 13:38:39 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA07936; Fri, 12 Nov 93 13:38:36 CST Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA08280; Fri, 12 Nov 93 11:36:50 PST Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 11:36:50 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: share@sunrise.stanford.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CoopIS'94 Submission Instructions Message-Id: >From: mlb2@gte.com (Michael L. Brodie) Subject: Submission Instructions for CoopIS'94 SUBMISSIONS TO CoopIS'94 Second International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-94) May 17-20, 1994 Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada FIRM Submission Deadline: As with many other conferences, CoopIS'94 will have a FIRM deadline ("official" = "real"). As stated in the Call for Papers, all submissions must be received by DECEMBER 1, 1993 (or postmarked November 26 and sent by airmail) to be considered. To avoid problems with electronic submissions, we strongly suggest a deadline of November 26, 1993 (see explanation below). Specific paper submission guidelines for CoopIS'94 are provided in this message and in the call for papers. Postscript versions of the call for papers and other information about the conference can be obtained by anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.toronto.edu (128.100.1.105) under directory pub/coopis or by sending e-mail to coopis@cs.toronto.edu. Submission Information Submission must be identified as one of three different categories: visions, research, or experience. Vision papers should present stimulating challenges, ideas, or visions that lead to exciting and valuable CIS research directions. Vision papers will be evaluated with respect to innovation, realizable applications and technologies, and technical challenges posed (e.g., that do not currently admit of solutions). Research papers should advance the state of the art of CIS and will be evaluated using conventional scientific criteria. Experience papers should describe the practical applications of CIS concepts or methods. They will be evaluated in terms of lessons learned, research issues raised, and solutions to realistic challenges, such as those of legacy information systems. Authors must clearly relate the contribution of their work to the concept of Cooperative Information System (CIS), rather than just describing aspects of a component technology (e.g., state your assumptions or definitions as to the nature of CISs). Papers which illustrate their results in terms of an CIS application or address technology integration issues leading to CISs are particularly welcome. Please follow guidelines. Papers that do not meet the criteria given in the call for papers will not be considered. To assist you further, the program committee review form against which your paper will be evaluated in included at the end of this message. Five copies of original and compelling unpublished papers up to 5000 words that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere during the reviewing period should be sent to the appropriate Programme Committee Co-Chair. Restricted electronic submission may be acceptable. For instructions contact the appropriate PC Co-Chair. Submissions must include contact information (contact name, postal and e-mail address, and phone number), a 100-word abstract, exact word count, and explicitly indicate the paper category (vision, research, or experience). TOPIC(S) OF THE SUBMISSION Authors are asked to state which of the following topics the paper addresses (these are elaborated further in the Call for Papers): CIS Systems Issues: ___ : CIS Principles ___ : CIS Architectures and communication protocols ___ : Core Technology for CIS ___ : CIS Implementation Techniques ___ : Integration Challenges CIS Modelling, Migration, and Evolution: ___ : CIS Applications ___ : Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs ___ : Advanced CIS Programming ___ : Information Engineering for CIS ___ : Re-Engineering ___ : CIS Evolution ___ : Information Agents ___ : Other (please specify):___________________________________ HARD COPY SUBMISSION (to the correct PC co-chair) Americas (North & South) Michael L. Brodie CoopIS PC Co-Chair Distributed Object Computing Department GTE Laboratories Inc. 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254, USA Europe & Middle East Matthias Jarke Informatik V RWTH Aachen Ahornstr. 55 52074 Aachen, Germany jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Far East, Africa, Australia Mike P. Papazoglou School of Information Systems Queensland Univ. Technology GPO Box 2434 5 Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia mikep@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION REQUIRMENTS (to the correct PC co-chair) Printing PS papers is often problematic (see below). We are treating this as an experiment. If we can't get your paper to print (with very little effort on our part) then your paper will not be accepted electronically and you will have to submit in hard copy form under the FIRM Dec 1 deadline. Hence, you must provide enough time for such a contingency. 1) Electronic Submission Deadline We suggest a deadline of November 26 to ensure the paper prints prior to the FIRM Dec 1 deadline for hard copy submission. 2) Test Your PS versions Before Submitting We encourage you to submit your paper to us electronically, and in postscript format. Even though postscript language is the same everywhere, the way postscript files are made on different machines, and the way some non-postscript printers emulate the language are, unfortunately, not the same. We have had problems with postscript files made on Macintosh machines which didn't print on non-Apple printers and vice versa. Areas of potential problems include inclusion of font definitions, incompatible printer headers, and embedded figures. Therefore, if you plan to submit your paper in postscript format, please make sure that your postscript file prints correctly on generic, true postscript printers. Also, as a rule of thumb, don't use fonts which are not included with most postscript printers. If our printer cannot find the right font, it will substitute a default font which may ruin layout of your paper. Also let us know on what machine you made your postscript file. This information will help us in case of a problem, even though we do not have the time to try to fix serious problems. 3) Protocol for Submission Prior to electronic submission, send notice of submission to: coopis94NA@gte.com (for the Americas) coopis94E@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Europe and Middle East) coopis94F@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au (Far East,Africa, Australia) In your message include the information about the machine and the software that you used to create the postscript file (e.g., FrameMaker on Sun, or Microsoft Word on Macintosh). At this time, please provide all the requested information concerning contact address, category of paper, and topic areas (see above). After receiving an acknowledgment of your intent to submit electronically, submit your paper, and wait for an acknowledgment (for confirmation of submission, receipt, and successful printout, i.e., acceptance). Your paper will not be consider submitted until it has been printed successfully, logged, and acknowledged. If your paper does not print, it will not be accepted and you must submit in the hard copy by the December 1 deadline. CoopIS94 REVIEW FORM Below is the review form against which your paper will be evaluated by the program committee. You may want to ensure that your paper meets the criteria against which it will be evaluated. ---------This page for the Authors-------------------------- CoopIS-94 2nd Int'l Conf on Cooperative Information Systems REVIEW REPORT ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper Number: Authors: Title: -----------CoopIS-94 Topics Section (To be provided by authors):----------- Topic Areas of the Paper CIS Systems Issues: ___ : CIS Principles ___ : CIS Architectures and communication protocols ___ : Core Technology for CIS ___ : CIS Implementation Techniques ___ : Integration Challenges CIS Modelling, Migration, and Evolution: ___ : CIS Applications ___ : Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs ___ : Advanced CIS Programming ___ : Information Engineering for CIS ___ : Re-Engineering ___ : CIS Evolution ___ : Information Agents ___ : Other (please specify) --CoopIS-94 Criteria Section (To be completed by reviewer)--- Answers: Y (=yes), N (=no) ___ : Less than 5,000 words ? ___ : CIS assumptions/definition given ? ___ : Contributions clearly related to (some) concept of CIS ? ___ : Contributions illustrated in terms of CIS application(s) ? ___ : Addresses technology integration issues leading to CISs ? -Ratings Section (To be completed by reviewer)-------------- Rating scale: Reject: 0-3 Weak Reject: 4-5 Weak Accept:6-7 Accept:8-10 For All papers ___ : Originality/Innovation ___ : Significance of topic (cf. those in call for papers) ___ : Technical quality ___ : Relevance to CoopIS (cf. topics and challenges in call for papers) ___ : Presentation: clear, readable, well illustrated, well structured, ... ___ : Overall rating (i.e., accept or reject the whole thing?) For Scientific papers only: ___ : Advances the state of the art relevant to CIS For Vision papers only: ___ : Visionary (vs. advanced product concept) ___ : Compelling (vs. fall asleep reading or listening) ___ : Opportunities posed (vs. narrow, non-applicable) ___ : Technical challenge(s) raised (vs. existing solutions) ___ : Realizable application(s) or technologies (vs. impossible) For Experience papers only: ___ : Clear lesson(s) learned ___ : General applicability of lessons learned (vs. solution to isolated problem) ___ : Research issues raised ----------------------------------------------------- Referee+s expertise on the topic: [ ] Low [ ] Medium [ ] High ----------------------------------------------------------- Amount of rewriting required: [ ] Low [ ] Medium [ ] High ------Comments Section (To be completed by reviewer)------- Comments to Authors: Main contribution(s): Positive aspect(s): Negative aspect(s): Further comments: __________________________________________________________________ Michael L. Brodie (brodie@gte.com) GTE Laboratories Incorporated Phone:(617)466-2256 40 Sylvan Road, MS-62 FAX:(617) 466-2439 Waltham, MA 02254 USA From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Mon Nov 22 18:17:41 1993 Return-Path: <petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu> Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA04586; Mon, 22 Nov 93 18:17:41 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA18407; Mon, 22 Nov 93 18:17:31 CST Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA26162; Mon, 22 Nov 93 16:17:28 PST Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 16:17:27 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CAIA-94 Workshop CFP Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.754013847.petrie@sunrise.Stanford.EDU> Call for Participation CAIA-94 Workshop on Coordinated Design and Planning Marriott Riverwalk - San Antonio, Texas March 1, 1994 The goal of this workshop is to find common ground among various approaches to the coordination of constructive problem solving--particularly design and planning--among multiple agents. Such approaches include, but are not limited to, DAI, case-based reasoning, constructive problem solving, and multiagent systems. The intent is to discover where these approaches complement and compete. We also wish to discover what parts of the problem space may not yet be covered. Because the terminology among the approaches has not yet been unified, and because many of the reported problems have different characteristics, this workshop uses the tactic of grounding the discussion on a common application example. A meeting scheduling example has been chosen, because it is simple and easily understood without technical jargon. It is also of a ubiquitous problem type: the assignment of resources to tasks within discrete timeframes under constraints. Examples are assigning gates to airplanes, rooms to hotel guests, teachers to courses, and employees to jobs. The meeting scheduling problem also has features common to many cooperative probelems. For instance, each meeting attendee may have goals that conflict with that of the others. While they have the common goal of finding days on which to meet, attendees may have independent reasons to prefer different days. Also, it is assumed that each attendee may have some local calendar or meeting scheduler. Some combination of the attendees and these systems communicate over a wide-area network (WAN), such as the Internet, to solve the meeting scheduling problem. Any number of intermediate software systems, interacting via the WAN, can be posited to facilitate communications and problem solving. Workshop participants are expected to relate their approach to the example by answering in their paper at least the six questions that follow the example. It is not required that the approaches or systems described actually be in use, since it is well-known that scheduling systems are rarely successful in implementation. (Speculation about this fact is invited.) The example was chosen to simply explicate some common features of distributed design and planning problems. The workshop will consist of at most thirty-two (32) participants, each of whom should submit a paper for the working notes. No more than eight (8) papers will be selected for presentation and discussion. Authors will not present their own papers. Instead, the papers will be assigned to eight groups of three nonauthors for presentation and evaluation. Authors will make a short response. A comparison and evaluation of the eight papers will be the subject of a panel discussion. The panel will be also composed of nonauthors, and will attempt to identify where the eight approaches presented compete with or complement each other. ________________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: The Secretaries' Nightmare. Axel, Brigitt, Carl, and Dirk wish to plan two all-day meetings. The scenario is as follows: The meetings must be scheduled on weekdays during April 1994. The first meeting concerns preliminary business agreements among three companies. Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk can each represent their respective three companies' business interests and marketing goals. Carl's company will be a subcontractor to Dirk's company and he need not attend this first meeting. The second meeting is a technical discussion of proposed architectures for the joint project. Carl's attendance is necessary, although Dirk's is not. Axel and Brigitt must attend. Axel is based in New York City, Brigitt in Palo Alto, Carl in Los Angeles, and Dirk in Austin. Travel should be minimized by scheduling two days in a row if possible. The faster the meeting can take place, the better. The meetings can be in either Austin or Los Angeles, but it is preferable for the second meeting to be in Los Angeles because of the availability of a demonstration. If the meetings are back-to-back in the same city, Los Angeles is preferable. Axel is available in April the week of the 4th, the 18th and 19th, and the 26th and 27th. Brigitt is available the 7th, 8th, 19th, and the week of the 25th. Carl is available on the 7th, 19th and 26th. Dirk is available on the 7th, 8th, 18th, and 25th. The best option would be to hold consecutive meetings on the 7th and 8th, but Carl cannot meet on the 8th. The meeting cannot occur on the 18th and 19th because Brigitt is not available on the 18th. One available option is for Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk to meet on the 7th. Then Axel, Brigitt, and Carl can meet on the 19th. Another is for Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk to meet on the 25th and for Axel, Brigitt, and Carl to meet on the 26th. The first option is chosen because it is important to meet as soon as possible and because Dirk and Carl would like to meet between the two meetings if possible. Under this first option, the two meetings can be in different cities. The first meeting will be held in Austin, because it is more central, especially for Axel. The second meeting should be held in Los Angeles because of the demonstration facilities. Under this option, the need for another meeting is generated. Since Carl was not present at the first meeting, Dirk wants to brief Carl to make sure the business decisions are reflected in the technical design. But it turns out that Dirk and Carl cannot get together between the 8th and the 19th. They object to the current plan. But now they also object more strongly to the meetings being held on the 25th and 26th. They push for another option. The current options will be held as backup plans; possibly Dirk and Carl can get by on a phone call. But all participants agree to negotiate to see if anyone will relax their constraints. Each must persuade the others of the importance of their current commitments, but avoid revealing possibly confidential information. Axel declines to make any more days available because he has already made all of the week of the 4th open. Carl and Dirk offer to be available on the 5th and 6th, but Brigitt can make neither meeting because of nonrefundable travel plans. Finally Brigitt offers to cancel another meeting and be available on the 18th. This means that the two meetings can be held back-to-back on the 18th and 19th. Now both meetings will be held in Los Angeles. Then Carl's schedule changes. It turns out he can meet in Austin on the 8th. This means that the separate meeting option is now available - Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk can meet in Austin on the 7th; Dirk and Carl can meet in Austin on the 8th; and Axel, Brigitt, and Carl can meet in Los Angeles on the 19th. This also means that everyone could meet on the 7th and 8th, an even better option. But Axel objects saying that he has already planned another meeting in Los Angeles on the 19th to take advantage of his presence there. He would rather not cancel that meeting. They agree to the separate meeting option so that Brigitt can reschedule the meeting she canceled. Everything works as planned. _____________________________________________________________________ Questions: 1. What parts of the problem does your approach help with and how? 2. Which functions are distributed and which are centralized? 3. What other tools and methodologies do you presume? 4. Do you allow heterogeneous agents, such as different calendar systems, to participate? What changes are required to the systems? 5. What messages, or kinds of messages, are exchanged between your agents? 6. Why is your approach better than email between people? Between systems? _____________________________________________________________________ Workshop Committee Charles Petrie <petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu> (chair) Center for Design Research Stanford University Bldg. 560, Panama Street Stanford, CA 94305-2232 Michael Huhns <huhns@mcc.com> J. Marty Tenenbaum <marty@eitech.com> MCC EITech 3500 West Balcones Center Dr. 459 Hamilton Avenue Austin, Tx 78759-6509 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Please send papers to Charles Petrie to arrive no later than January 14th, 1993. Notifications will be sent by February 15th. Papers should be no more than ten (10) pages in length. Clarity and specific relevance to the scenario described will be of the utmost importance in paper selection. Electronic submission in PostScript format is encouraged. However, Apple users must beware that their files may be too large to email and even if received may not print. LaTeX submissions are also welcome. But please check with the Chair about style files and included PostScript figures. If you plan to participate in this workshop without registering for the main conference, there will be a $75 fee. This workshop will be repeated at CoopIS-94 in May in Toronto. A book including the best papers from both workshops is planned. From gdennis@ntu.ac.sg Fri Nov 26 00:18:26 1993 Return-Path: <gdennis@ntu.ac.sg> Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08309; Fri, 26 Nov 93 00:18:26 CST Received: from ntu.ac.sg by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA21657; Fri, 26 Nov 93 00:17:29 CST Received: from localhost (gdennis@localhost) by ntu.ac.sg (8.6.4/8.6.4) id NAA06538; Fri, 26 Nov 1993 13:43:04 +0800 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 13:43:04 +0800 From: Dennis Sng <gdennis@ntu.ac.sg> Message-Id: <199311260543.NAA06538@ntu.ac.sg> To: Allen Herman <herman@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Amy Reinhart <reinhart@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Barbara Warthen <warthen@tmm.me.wisc.edu>, Bharat Rao <bharat@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Bill Baschnagel <wrb@creare.com>, Biren Prasad <BPrasad@cmsa.gmr.com>, Dan Nichols <dmn@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>, Dave Mattox <mattox@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Dave Tcheng <tcheng@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Donald Steward <dvsteward@csus.edu>, Duvvuru Sriram <sriram@mit.edu>, Fay Sudweeks <fay@chomsky.arch.su.edu.au>, Feniosky Pera-Mora <feniosky@athena.mit.edu>, Harsh Karandikar <harsh@cerc.wvu.edu>, J Marty Tenenbaum <marty@eitech.com>, Jan Goossenaerts <jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, Jim Davis <davis@dri.cornell.edu>, Joe Cleetus <jocle@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>, John Gero <john@archsci.arch.su.edu.au>, John R Callahan <callahan@cerc.wvu.edu>, John Tanquary <tanquary@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Kankanahalli Srinivas <sriniv@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>, Kari Alho <kta@cs.hut.fi>, Ken MacCallum <ken@cad.strath.ac.uk>, Ken Smith <ksmith@cs.uiuc.edu>, Ken Tarbell <tarbell@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Kish Sharma <ksharma@atc.boeing.com>, Mark Lawley <lawley@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Martin Hardwick <hardwick@rdrc.rpi.edu>, Marty Lucenti <lucenti@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Mike Case <case@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Mike Silliman <silliman@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Paul Teicholz <teicholz@cive.stanford.edu>, Paulo Silva <nmg@inesc.pt>, Raghu Karinthi <raghu@cerc.wvu.edu>, Ralph Wood <woodrt@cerc.wvu.edu>, Ramana Reddy <rar@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>, Ravi Raman <rsr@cerc.wvu.edu>, Robert Shank <rrs@cerc.wvu.edu>, Roxanne Callahan <callahan@esgwst.enet.dec.com>, Stephen Lu <lu@pluto.me.uiuc.edu>, Steven Eppinger <eppinger@mit.edu>, Stuart Madnick <smadnick@mit.edu>, Sudhakar Yerramareddy <sudha@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu>, Ted Goranson <goranson@isi.edu>, Thomas Malone <malone@mit.edu>, V Jagannathan <juggy@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>, Vinod Anupam <anupam@ector.cs.purdue.edu>, all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net, robert@ntu.ac.sg Subject: IEEE TENCON '94 Cc: Robert Gay <"GAY K L ROBERT"@a1.ntu.ac.sg> CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE TENCON '94 22-26 August 1994, Singapore Special Session on MANUFACTURING IN AN INFORMATION AGE The focus of this session will be on the application of information technology in manufacturing enterprises. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Computer Integrated Manufacturing * Concurrent Engineering * Shopfloor Control and Integration * Computer Aided Product Design * Manufacturing Information and Data Bases * Decision Support Systems for Manufacturing * Computer Aided Engineering * AI Applications in Manufacturing Authors are invited to submit complete, original, and previously unpublished papers reflecting their current research results. All submitted papers will be refereed and accepted papers will be published in the IEEE TENCON proceedings. Manuscripts should not exceed 20 pages in length (double spaced) including an abstract, all text, figures, tables, and references. The author's names, affiliation, complete address of the corresponding author, email address, and telephone and fax numbers should be on the cover page. Please send five copies of the complete paper to: Professor Robert K L Gay GIMT, Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue Singapore 2263 Republic of Singapore Tel: (65) 799-5491 Fax: (65) 791-6377 Important Dates: 1 February 1994: papers due 15 March 1994 : notice of acceptance 1 June 1994 : camera-ready paper due Session Chairs: Robert K L Gay, GIMT, Nanyang Technological University Lim Beng Siong, GIMT, Nanyang Technological University Session Programme Committee: Robert de Souza, MPE, Nanyang Technological University Soh Ai Kah, GIMT, Nanyang Technological University Poo Aun Neo, National University of Singapore Y S Wong, National University of Singapore From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Tue Nov 30 11:44:52 1993 Return-Path: <petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu> Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA26872; Tue, 30 Nov 93 11:44:52 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25632; Tue, 30 Nov 93 11:44:48 CST Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA26801; Tue, 30 Nov 93 09:44:43 PST Sender: Charles Petrie <petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 9:44:42 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net, share@sunrise.stanford.edu, ext-ei@mcc.com Subject: Corrected, 2nd CAIA Workshop Call Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.754681482.petrie@sunrise.Stanford.EDU> Douglas E. Dyer <ddyer@afit.af.mil> found a bug in Axel's availability in the original CFP with his planner. Others? cp ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation CAIA-94 Workshop on Coordinated Design and Planning Marriott Riverwalk - San Antonio, Texas March 1, 1994 The goal of this workshop is to find common ground among various approaches to the coordination of constructive problem solving--particularly design and planning--among multiple agents. Such approaches include, but are not limited to, DAI, case-based reasoning, constructive problem solving, and multiagent systems. The intent is to discover where these approaches complement and compete. We also wish to discover what parts of the problem space may not yet be covered. Because the terminology among the approaches has not yet been unified, and because many of the reported problems have different characteristics, this workshop uses the tactic of grounding the discussion on a common application example. A meeting scheduling example has been chosen, because it is simple and easily understood without technical jargon. It is also of a ubiquitous problem type: the assignment of resources to tasks within discrete timeframes under constraints. Examples are assigning gates to airplanes, rooms to hotel guests, teachers to courses, and employees to jobs. The meeting scheduling problem also has features common to many cooperative probelems. For instance, each meeting attendee may have goals that conflict with that of the others. While they have the common goal of finding days on which to meet, attendees may have independent reasons to prefer different days. Also, it is assumed that each attendee may have some local calendar or meeting scheduler. Some combination of the attendees and these systems communicate over a wide-area network (WAN), such as the Internet, to solve the meeting scheduling problem. Any number of intermediate software systems, interacting via the WAN, can be posited to facilitate communications and problem solving. Workshop participants are expected to relate their approach to the example by answering in their paper at least the six questions that follow the example. It is not required that the approaches or systems described actually be in use, since it is well-known that scheduling systems are rarely successful in implementation. (Speculation about this fact is invited.) The example was chosen to simply explicate some common features of distributed design and planning problems. The workshop will consist of at most thirty-two (32) participants, each of whom should submit a paper for the working notes. No more than eight (8) papers will be selected for presentation and discussion. Authors will not present their own papers. Instead, the papers will be assigned to eight groups of three nonauthors for presentation and evaluation. Authors will make a short response. A comparison and evaluation of the eight papers will be the subject of a panel discussion. The panel will be also composed of nonauthors, and will attempt to identify where the eight approaches presented compete with or complement each other. ________________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: The Secretaries' Nightmare. Axel, Brigitt, Carl, and Dirk wish to plan two all-day meetings. The scenario is as follows: The meetings must be scheduled on weekdays during April 1994. The first meeting concerns preliminary business agreements among three companies. Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk can each represent their respective three companies' business interests and marketing goals. Carl's company will be a subcontractor to Dirk's company and he need not attend this first meeting. The second meeting is a technical discussion of proposed architectures for the joint project. Carl's attendance is necessary, although Dirk's is not. Axel and Brigitt must attend. Axel is based in New York City, Brigitt in Palo Alto, Carl in Los Angeles, and Dirk in Austin. Travel should be minimized by scheduling two days in a row if possible. The faster the meeting can take place, the better. The meetings can be in either Austin or Los Angeles, but it is preferable for the second meeting to be in Los Angeles because of the availability of a demonstration. If the meetings are back-to-back in the same city, Los Angeles is preferable. Axel is available in April the week of the 4th, the 18th and 19th, and the 25th and 26th. Brigitt is available the 7th, 8th, 19th, and the week of the 25th. Carl is available on the 7th, 19th and 26th. Dirk is available on the 7th, 8th, 18th, and 25th. The best option would be to hold consecutive meetings on the 7th and 8th, but Carl cannot meet on the 8th. The meeting cannot occur on the 18th and 19th because Brigitt is not available on the 18th. One available option is for Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk to meet on the 7th. Then Axel, Brigitt, and Carl can meet on the 19th. Another is for Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk to meet on the 25th and for Axel, Brigitt, and Carl to meet on the 26th. The first option is chosen because it is important to meet as soon as possible and because Dirk and Carl would like to meet between the two meetings if possible. Under this first option, the two meetings can be in different cities. The first meeting will be held in Austin, because it is more central, especially for Axel. The second meeting should be held in Los Angeles because of the demonstration facilities. Under this option, the need for another meeting is generated. Since Carl was not present at the first meeting, Dirk wants to brief Carl to make sure the business decisions are reflected in the technical design. But it turns out that Dirk and Carl cannot get together between the 8th and the 19th. They object to the current plan. But now they also object more strongly to the meetings being held on the 25th and 26th. They push for another option. The current options will be held as backup plans; possibly Dirk and Carl can get by on a phone call. But all participants agree to negotiate to see if anyone will relax their constraints. Each must persuade the others of the importance of their current commitments, but avoid revealing possibly confidential information. Axel declines to make any more days available because he has already made all of the week of the 4th open. Carl and Dirk offer to be available on the 5th and 6th, but Brigitt can make neither meeting because of nonrefundable travel plans. Finally Brigitt offers to cancel another meeting and be available on the 18th. This means that the two meetings can be held back-to-back on the 18th and 19th. Now both meetings will be held in Los Angeles. Then Carl's schedule changes. It turns out he can meet in Austin on the 8th. This means that the separate meeting option is now available - Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk can meet in Austin on the 7th; Dirk and Carl can meet in Austin on the 8th; and Axel, Brigitt, and Carl can meet in Los Angeles on the 19th. This also means that everyone could meet on the 7th and 8th, an even better option. But Axel objects saying that he has already planned another meeting in Los Angeles on the 19th to take advantage of his presence there. He would rather not cancel that meeting. They agree to the separate meeting option so that Brigitt can reschedule the meeting she canceled. Everything works as planned. _____________________________________________________________________ Questions: 1. What parts of the problem does your approach help with and how? 2. Which functions are distributed and which are centralized? 3. What other tools and methodologies do you presume? 4. Do you allow heterogeneous agents, such as different calendar systems, to participate? What changes are required to the systems? 5. What messages, or kinds of messages, are exchanged between your agents? 6. Why is your approach better than email between people? Between systems? _____________________________________________________________________ Workshop Committee Charles Petrie <petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu> (chair) Center for Design Research Stanford University Bldg. 560, Panama Street Stanford, CA 94305-2232 Michael Huhns <huhns@mcc.com> J. Marty Tenenbaum <marty@eitech.com> MCC EITech 3500 West Balcones Center Dr. 459 Hamilton Avenue Austin, Tx 78759-6509 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Please send papers to Charles Petrie to arrive no later than January 14th, 1993. Notifications will be sent by February 15th. Papers should be no more than ten (10) pages in length. Clarity and specific relevance to the scenario described will be of the utmost importance in paper selection. Electronic submission in PostScript format is encouraged. However, Apple users must beware that their files may be too large to email and even if received may not print. LaTeX submissions are also welcome. But please check with the Chair about style files and included PostScript figures. If you plan to participate in this workshop without registering for the main conference, there will be a $75 fee. This workshop will be repeated at CoopIS-94 in May in Toronto. A book including the best papers from both workshops is planned. From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Wed Dec 15 16:00:51 1993 Return-Path: <petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu> Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08279; Wed, 15 Dec 93 16:00:51 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA00596; Wed, 15 Dec 93 16:00:47 CST Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA15803; Wed, 15 Dec 93 14:00:42 PST Sender: Charles Petrie <petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 14:00:41 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com, share@sunrise.stanford.edu Subject: CAIA'94 Preliminary Announcement Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.755992841.petrie@sunrise.Stanford.EDU> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT CAIA '94 Advance Program The Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications March 1-4, 1994 Marriott Riverwalk San Antonio, Texas CONFERENCE OVERVIEW For nine consecutive years, the IEEE Computer Society's Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications has provided an international forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and experiences in the application of AI to real-world problems. During this time, CAIA has established itself as a key conference for business and technical people who want to keep up on the fast-changing word of commercial AI. This year, the ninth annual CAIA will continue that tradition by providing a provocative mix of introductory, intermediate and advanced talks, tutorials, workshops, and panels. In addition, CAIA '94 has strived for a new balance between information of interest to AI researchers and information of interest to business and commercial people. An emerging theme of AI and information systems, including the Internet, reflects this balance. CAIA '94 starts with a full day of workshops and tutorials. The three workshops range from intelligent access to digital libraries, to business process re-engineering, to coordinated design, and will provide a forum for intense communication between researchers and practitioners. The six half-day tutorials will provide succinct but detailed introductions into a variety of AI-related techniques and applications. CAIA '94 continues with three days of technical sessions. Each day starts with one of the following plenary addresses: Shall We Reinvent AI and its Applications? Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University Digital Libraries: Why People use Tools, not AI Ed Fox, Virginia Polytech Angels, Pinheads, and AI Technology Infusion Dr. Melvin Montemerlo, Program Manager for Automation, NASA Headquarters After each plenary address are technical sessions in three tracks: two paper tracks and a panel track. These tracks are designed to be complementary and to appeal to people with different backgrounds. The panels include such topics as "Smart Computers in Space", "AI and Business Applications", and "Intelligent User Interfaces". Finally, CAIA '94 will include many opportunities for informal discussion, including numerous breaks, a banquet and a reception with poster viewing. --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA-94 WORKSHOP PROGRAM MARCH 1, 1994 WORKSHOP 1: TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING The increase in competition, customer awareness, and ever changing business climate coupled with the failure of short-gap solutions (e.g., restructuring/downsizing, diversification, portfolio management, LBO, etc.) has forced many corporations to redesign business process in a fundamentally new way. A business process consists of all activities and agents required from the conceptualization of a product to its delivery to customers and subsequent support. The task of re-engineering is to design the activities themselves and thereby redesign the relationship between the activities and the agents. Information technologies play a central role in the design and implementation of re-engineering solutions. This workshop will bring together leaders, researchers, and developers engaged in designing and delivering re-engineering solutions and share challenges faced and lessons learned. Contact: D.D. Sharma, 3N750FF, Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA 95583, 510- 867-2954, dxsharm@pacbell.com WORKSHOP 2: INTELLIGENT ACCESS TO ON-LINE DIGITAL LIBRARIES The rate of information production in our global society is taking place thousands of times faster than our population growth. The linkages of high speed networks, fiberized telephone lines, and large capacity information bases will create digital libraries which is expected to provide many kinds of information. Such information reservoirs when connected to many others have the potential of giving birth to a global information repository. Due to their widely distributed, and diversified clientele, these emerging libraries will require intelligent management of information. The purpose of this workshop is to focus on how intelligent browsing, intelligent data management, and intelligent presentation systems will facilitate the operation of robust, mass- scale, and large capacity digital libraries. Contact: Zahed Ahmed, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, 619- 534-5105, ahmed@cassatt.sdsc.edu WORKSHOP 3: COORDINATED DESIGN AND PLANNING Many proposals for functionality are being made in the domains of Enterprise Integration (EI) and Concurrent Engineering (CE). At the same time many research claims are being made for distributed agent-based technologies that should apply to these domains. Yet the problem and solution spaces are as yet ill-defined. In this workshop, participants will apply their technologies to a simple problem: distributed meeting scheduling. We believe that this problem is simple enough to permit analysis of the problem and solution spaces, yet complex enough to expose gaps in technologies needed for EI and CE. The best papers from this workshop and a similar one are to be included in a planned book on this subject. Contact: Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Bldg. 560, Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305-2232, 415- 725-0162, petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA-94 TUTORIAL PROGRAM MARCH 1, 1994 Tuesday, March 1, 1994, 8:30 - 12:00 noon TUTORIAL 1: SYMBOLIC AND NEURAL-NETWORK APPROACHES TO MACHINE LEARNING Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University This tutorial will survey symbolic and neural-network approaches to machine learning. It will provide an overview of the major topics in the area, and give detailed descriptions of some of the better-known algorithms (e.g., decision-tree methods, perceptrons, backpropagation), presenting them in a single, unified light that highlights their commonalities and relative strengths and weaknesses. After attending the tutorial, participants should understand how to use these methods for their own problems, and be able to understand the main problems, goals, and methods being addressed by researchers today. Further, people already familiar with work in either area will learn about work in the other area and see both areas in a more uniform light. TUTORIAL 2: TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS WITH ADVANCED COMPUTING David Bailey, Bailey Consulting Advanced computing offers organizations an unprecedented opportunity to leverage the use of information technology to solve complex business problems. Many view it to be a key to competitive advantage and process innovation. In order to be effective, advanced computing needs to be applied as part of a visionary information strategy that directly supports and enables the business strategy. This tutorial discusses the state of the software industry and the opportunities provided by advanced computing. It then summaries key advanced computing techniques, characterizing their capabilities, costs, and benefits. Next, a practical problem-driven approach to applying advanced computing within organizations is described. Practical considerations and case studies are then discussed, and the tutorial concludes with a summary of key points. TUTORIAL 3: KNOWLEDGE BASE MANAGEMENT AND ITS APPLICATION Igor Jurisica and Huaiquing Wang, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Knowledge based systems are now routinely used in thousands of "real world" applications. Most such applications involve relatively small knowledge bases, containing hundreds rather than thousands of units (object, rules, frames). Developing the next generation of knowledge based systems will require a technology for building, accessing, and managing very large knowledge bases, with potentially millions of units. Knowledge base management requires new techniques, including efficient implementations of inference mechanisms (terminological subsumption, deduction, induction and abduction), and new tools for knowledge acquisition, knowledge base validation, verification, and maintenance, as well as new architectures that accommodate a multi-user, distributed environment. This tutorial will provide a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in knowledge base management techniques and commercial tools, as well as recent research results and on-going projects. All of these will be presented from the application point of view and the actual development process of knowledge based applications will be stressed. March 1, 1994, 1:30 - 5:00 pm TUTORIAL 4: PROBABILISTIC REASONING John Lemmer, CTA Incorporated Increasingly applied AI has had to come to grips with the uncertainties inherent in most knowledge applicable to real domains. The focus of this tutorial is how Probabilistic Reasoning fits into applied AI. First, Probability will be brought into sharp focus against a background of applications by considering it a generalization of "if...then" rules of Expert Systems, and compared to Fuzzy Sets, Possibility Logic, Conditional Logic, and Dempster-Shafer Theory, the other principal alternatives to Probability for quantitative management of uncertainty. The comparisons are based not on "good/bad?, but on "different". Then, a number of choices withing Probability are explained and compared, including Bayes Nets, Triangulated Nets, Influence Diagrams, and Causal Models. These choices are discussed in sufficient detail to reveal their different uses and their different implementation strategies. TUTORIAL 5: PUTTING EXPERT SYSTEMS/DBMSs COOPERATION INTO PRACTICE Chihab Hanachi, University Toulouse 1 In many application domains the actual and efficient use of expert systems relies on the proper use of data. Also, expert systems handle large populations of facts, so that accessing and managing the underlying data becomes a complex activity, as important as reasoning itself. It is then essential to use Data Base Management Systems (DBMSs) to guarantee efficient access to the data and appropriate data management (including data coherence, data sharing, and data distribution). This tutorial will help the attendee in the tasks of implementing ES/DBMS integration, in particular with identifying the role of each component, choosing a software architecture, specifying the mechanisms of ES/DBMS communication, and understanding ES/DBMS communication and reasoning efficiency. TUTORIAL 6: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION Angel R. Puerta, Stanford University, and Henrik Eriksson, Linkoping University This tutorial will develop a comprehensive view of the most important principles and practical issues in knowledge acquisition. We will present the theoretical foundations of knowledge acquisition to establish a framework in which the attendee can understand and analyze how the theories are put into practice. We will concentrate on illustrating problems with computer-based knowledge-acquiistion tools, covering examples from early expert systems to the new generation of knowledge-based systems based on reusable knowledge components. Throughout the tutorial, we will emphasize the particular issues, such as human-computer interaction, that affect the design and development of knowledge acquistion tools, and will address the specific tradeoffs created by conflicting design requirements. After the tutorial, the attendee should have a good understanding of the principles and design tradeoffs involved in the construction of knowledge-acquisition tools, a solid background on existing tools, and a clear grasp of the research issues that affect knowledge acquisition. TUTORIAL LECTURER BIOGRAPHIES David Bailey, 7769 Ohio Northern Drive, Lancaster, OH 43130, 614-833- 4127. Mr. Bailey has more than six years of experience of consulting, development, and management experience in advanced computer systems. His background includes the design and development of integrated artificial intelligence applications, project management, tutorial and seminar development and presentation, marketing and sales, and business information problems with a practical mix of advanced and conventional information technology. Henrik Eriksson, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden, her@ida.liu.se. Dr. Eriksson is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Linkoping University in 1991. His dissertation and current work is concerned with computer-based tool support for knowledge acquisition. He is presently a visiting scholar at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. Chihab Hanachi, University Toulouse 1, Place Anatole France, 31042 Toulouse Cedex, France, 33-61-63-35-60, hanachi@cix.cict.fr. Dr. Hanachi is an Associated Professor at the University of Toulouse I in France, and received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toulouse III. He has worked in the area of cooperation between expert systems and database management systems for five years and has published many papers in this area. Haym Hirsh, Computer Science Department, Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, 908-932-4176, hirsh@cs.rutgers.edu. Dr. Hirsh's is Assitant Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where he conducts research and teaches courses in artificial intelligence and machine learning. His graduate research at Stanford, from which he received his MS and PhD degrees, was in machine learning, and his current research includes applications of machine learning in molecular biology and in yacht design. Igor Jurisica, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S1A4, Canada, 416-978-7589, juris@ai.utoronto.ca. Mr. Jurisica is a member of the knowledge base management group at Toronto, a five-year effort in functionality and performance issues for knowledge base management headed by Dr. John Mylopolous. His thesis work is on the representation and management issues for case-based reasoning systems. John Lemmer, Rome Laboratory/C3CA, 525 Brooks Road, Griffiss AFB, NY, 13441, 315-330-3665, lemmer@ai.rl.af.mil. Dr. Lemmer received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1976 and is a Senior Scientist at CTA Incorporated. He has been the principal investigator for a number of multi-million dollar R&D contracts, including AFES (Automated Feature Extractions Systems), MRS3 (the predecessor to JSTARS), and DATA (Decision Aids for Target Aggregation), some of which involved embedded expert systems, probabilistic reasoning, and causal modelling. Angel R. Puerta, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Medical Computer Science Group, Stanford University, MSOB X215, Stanford, CA 94305, Pueta@camis.stanford.edu. Dr. Puerta is a Research Scientist at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina in 1990. His dissertation topic and current research interests include knowledge acquisition, intelligent interfaces, and the construction of knowledge- based systems from reusable knowledge components. Huaiquing Wang, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S1A4, Canada, 416-987-7330, wang@ai.utoronto.ca. Dr. Wang received his PhD in artificial intelligence and computer vision from the University of Manchester and has been a research scientist in the AI group at Toronto since 1988. His current research interests include the application of knowledge-based and database systems, object-oriented cooperative environments, knowledge sharing, and integration of these systems. --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA-94 TECHNICAL PROGRAM MARCH 2-4, 1994 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1994 8:30 - 8:45 AM CAIA '94 WELCOME ADDRESS Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California 8:45 - 10:00 INVITED PLENARY TALK: Title to Be Announced, Dr. Ed Feigenbaum, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca. 10:00 - 10:30 am Break 10:30 - 12:00 noon Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: CAD/VLSI APPLICATIONS Session Chair: TBA On the Solution of Layout Problems in Multiagent Systems: A Preliminary Report, Johannes Stein, Daimler-Benz AG, Germany CASTOR: an Expert Advisor for Testability Enhancement of VLSI Systems, Patrizia Cavalloro, ITALTEL SIT, ITALY An Intelligent Control Shell for CAD Tools, Satoru Fujita, NEC Corporation, Japan Heuristic Classification of Cells in Logic Electronic Specifications, Salvador Mir, INPG/TIMA, France PAPER SESSION: SCHEDULING Session Chair: TBA AUTO-MPS: An Automated Master Production Scheduling System For Large Volume Manufacturing, R. Greg Arbon, Covia Technologies Learning Control Knowledge through Cases in Schedule Optimization Problems, Kazuo Miyashita, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. On the Design of an Adaptive Meeting Scheduler, Sandip Sen, University Tulsa Distributed, Knowledge-based, Reactive Scheduling of Transporation Tasks, Jorg Muller, DFKI, Germany PANEL SESSION: Modelling Financial Markets with Neural Nets and Other Non-Linear Techniques Chair: Ganesh Mani, LBS Capital Management, Inc. 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: CASE-BASED APPLICATION Session Chair: TBA Inductive Learning of Prototype-Selection Rules for Case-Based Iterative Design, Mark Schwabacher, Rutgers University A Case-Based Design Aid for Conceptual Design of Aircraft Subsystems, Eric A. Domeshek, Georgia Institute of Technology Spatial Design of Complex Artifacts Using Cases, Ian F. C.Smith, Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerlanda Automated Schema Selection in Software Synthesis, Michael Hewett, University of Texas at Austin PAPER SESSION: NEURAL NETS AND MACHINE LEARNING Session Chair: TBA Modeling the Behavior of the S&P 500 Index: A Neural Network Approach, Mary Malliaris, Loyola University of Chicago Neural Network based Multisensor Multitarget Tracking, V. Schmidlin, University of Nice, France Using Machine Learning to Monitor Network Performance, Raguram Sasisekharain, AT&T Bell Laboratories, EEL: An Information Theoretic Similarity-based Learning Method in Databases, Changhwan Lee, University of Connecticut PANEL SESSION: AI AND BUSINESS Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California 3:00 - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 - 5:00 pm Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: OFFICE APPLICATIONS Session Chair: TBA Learning Contextual Rules for Document Understanding, Donato Malerba, Universita degli Studi Interactive Constraint Satisfaction for Office Systems, Megumi Ishii, NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories Intelligent Validation and Routing of Electronic Forms in a Distributed Environment, Michael M. Compton, Recom Technologies, Inc. PAPER SESSION: DIVERSE TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS Session Chair: TBA Predictive Analysis System: A Case Study of AI Techniques for Counternarcotics, William Brooks, SRA Corporation Using Hybrid Knowledge Bases for Missile Siting Problems, John R. Benton, U. S. Army Topographic Engineering Center Integrating Case-Based Reasoning, Knowledge-Based Approach and Dijkstra Algorithm for Route Finding, Bing Liu, National University of Singapore From System Requirements to Appropriate Knowledge Representations: A Case Study, Markus Stolze, University of Colorado at Boulder PANEL SESSION: Integrating AI Techniques and Applications: Case Studies, Issues, and Methods Chair: Louis Hoebel, Rome Laboratory, USAF 6:30 - 8:00 Banquet --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1994 8:45 - 10:00 am Invited Plenary Talk: Artificial Intelligence Research and Applications at NASA, Dr. Melvin Montemerlo, Program Manager for Automation and Robotics, NASA Headquarters 10:00 - 10:30 am break 10:30 - 12:00 noon Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: MEDICAL APPLICATIONS Session Chair: TBA Automatic Computation of Genetic Risk, Dhiraj K. Pathak, Carnegie Mellon University Roentgen: Radiation Therapy and Case-based Reasoning, Jeffrey Berger, University of Chicago A Study of an Expert System for Interpreting Human Walking Disorders, Tom Bylander, The University of Texas at San Antonio OaSiS: Integrating Safety Reasoning for Decision Support in Oncology, Peter Hammond, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, England PAPER SESSION: NATURAL LANGUAGE Session Chair: TBA A Tool for the Acquisition of Japanese-English Translation Rules Using Inductive Machine Learning Techniques, Hussein Almuallim, NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories Memory-based Parsing with Parallel Marker-Passing, Minhwa Chun, University of Southern California Application of Explanation-based Learning for Efficient Processing of Constraint-based Grammars, Gunter Neumann, Stuhlsatzenhausweg, Germany Learning Natural Language Filtering Under Noisy Conditions, Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg PANEL SESSION: AI AND MANUFACTURING Chair: Oliver Vadas, Canadian Pulp and Paper Institute 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: MANUFACTURING AND MODELLING Session Chair: TBA Generating Programs from Connections of Physical Models, Gordon S. Novak Jr., University of Texas at Austin A Blackboard Approach to the Integration of Crankshaft Analysis Applications, Daniel J. Fagan, Ford Research Laboratory Qualitative Spatial Reasoning about Objects in Motion: Applications to Physics Problem Solving, Raman Rajagopalan, University of Texas at Austin Target Design: A Method for an Accurate Pose Determination, Agus Harjoko, University of New Brunswick PAPER SESSION: EXPLANATION Session Chair: TBA A Cooperative Model for Interactive Plan Explanation, Susan M. Haller, State University of New York at Buffalo Model-based Explanation of Specifications for Sequence Control, Satoshi Ito, Toshiba Corporation Automatic Generation of Explanations for Spreadsheet Applications, Daniele Nardi, Universita di Roma MeteoAssert: Generation and Organization of Assertions from Gridded Data, Stephan Kerpedjiev, NOAA/ERL/FSL PANEL SESSION: SMART COMPUTERS FOR SPACE Chair: Carol Redfield, Southwest Research Institute 3:00 - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 - 5:00 Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: DIVERSE APPLICATIONS AND TECHNIQUES Session Chair: TBA Redesign of Local Area Networks Using Similarity-based Adaptation, Michael Weiss, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Genetic Algorithms for Partitioning Air Space, Jean-Loup Farges, Centre d'Eteudes et de Recherche de Toulouse, France, EAGOL: An Artificial Intelligence System for Process Monitoring, Situation Assessment and Response Planning, Harry E. Pople, Seer Systems, Inc., An Application of Belief Networks to Future Crop Production Dr. Yiqun Gu, Scottish Crop Research Institute PAPER SESSION: EXPERT SYSTEMS Session Chair: TBA Concept Formation using ITERATE: Building Rule Models for Efficient Reasoning, Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University A Neural Network Expert System Shell, Tong-Seng Quah, National University of Singapore Optimization of Rule-Based Expert Systems Via State Transition System Construction, Albert Mo Kim Cheng, University of Houston Dependency Analysis for Knowledge Validation in Rule-based Expert Systems, Chih-Hung Wu, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan PANEL SESSION: MACHINE AND MACHINE-ASSISTED TRANSLATION Chair: Phil Hayes, Carnegie Group 6:30 - 8:00 - Reception and Poster Viewing --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1994 8:45 - 10:00 AM INVITED PLENARY TALK: DIGITAL LIBRARIES: WHY PEOPLE USE TOOLS, NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Ed Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 am - 12:00 noon Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: BIOLOGY APPLICATIONS Session Chair: TBA Integration of Multiple Knowledge Sources in an Brain CT-scans Interpretation System, Hongyi Li, Free University of Brussels Using Machine Learning and Expert Systems to Predict Preterm Delivery in Pregnant Women, Michele M. Van Dyne, IntelliDyne, Inc. Using Background Knowledge to Improve Inductive Learning of DNA Sequences, Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University Automatic Classification of Planctonic Foraminifera by a Knowledge- Based System, Shan Liu, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France PAPER SESSION: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES Session Chair: TBA Using Causal Reasoning to Validate Stochastic Models, Arun Chandra, University of Austin at Texas COCOS - A Tool for Constraint-Based, Dynamic Configuration, Markus Stumptner, Technische Universitat Wien Subsumption and Recognition of Heterogeneous Constraint Networks, Robert Weida, Columbia University Managing Large Temporal Delays in a Model Based Control System, Fano Ramparany, ITMI, France PANEL SESSION: INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES Chair: David Redmiles, University of Colorado at Boulder 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES Session Chair: TBA A Development Process for Engineering Project Management Information Systems Based on Semantic Data Models, Jiaqing Cao, Anhui University, The People's Republic of China Automating Workflows for Service Provisioning: Integrating AI and Database Technologies, Michael N. Huhns, MCC Merging Information by Discourse Processing for Information Extraction, Tsuyoshi Kitani, NTT Data Communications Systems Corporation Improving Monitoring and Surveillance through Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Information Management Systems, Marco Lazzari, ISMES, Italy PAPER SESSION: DIAGNOSIS Session Chair: TBA Intelligent Reliability Analysis, Jeffrey A. Barnett, The Northrop Corporation Optimizing Genetic Algorithm Parameters for Multiple Fault Diagnosis Applications, Mark Juric, The University of Georgia A Computationally Efficient Probabilistic Diagnosis Tool, Gegory M. Provan, University of Pennsylvania Component Ontological Representation of Function for Diagnosis, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, University of Buffalo PANEL SESSION: THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY: WHAT AI RESEARCH IS NEEDED? Chair: Meyer Billmers, DEC 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 4:00 CLOSING SESSION --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA '94 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California Program Chair: Peter Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories Publicity Chair: Marc Goodman, Cognitive Systems and Brandeis University Local Arrangements Chair: Aaron Konstam, Trinity University Program Committee: Chid Apte, IBM Marie Bienkowski, SRI Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University Ron Brachman, AT&T Bell Laboratories Mark Burstein, BBN Dan Cooke, U. Texas El Paso Vasant Dhar, NYU Tim Finin, U. Maryland Baltimore County Phil Hayes, Carnegie Group Jim Hendler, U. Maryland Haym Hirsh, Rutgers Lou Hoebel, Rome Laboratory, USAF Se June Hong, IBM Lewis Johnson, USC/ISI Bernadette Kowalski-Minton, Academic Systems Corp. Larry Lefkowitz, Bellcore Don McKay, Paramax Robert Milne, Intelligent Applications Ltd. Fumio Mizoguchi, Tokyo Science University Charles Petrie, CDR, Stanford University David Redmiles, UC Boulder Anil Rewari, DEC Marcio Rillo, University of San Paulo, Brazil Eric Schoen, Schlumberger Evangelos Simoudis, Lockheed Bob Simpson, NCR Elliot Soloway, U. Michigan Craig Stanfill, Thinking Machines Loren Terveen, AT&T Bell Laboratories Oliver Vadas, Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI David Waltz, Thinking Machines and Brandeis U. John Yen, Texas A&M University --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA '94 REGISTRATION INFORMATION Registration information will be available shortly. Send a message to CAIA94-REGISTER@CS.UMBC.EDU if you would like to receive via email the full details on registration (including forms) as soon as it iss available. --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA '94 HOTEL INFORMATION The conference hotel for CAIA '94 is the Marriot Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. Please contact the hotel directly using the following information: Reservation number: 1-800-228-9290 Conference rate: Single: $125, Double: $135 Mention "IEEE Computer Society" to get this rate From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Fri Dec 17 09:59:08 1993 Return-Path: <juggy@cerc.wvu.edu> Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA26066; Fri, 17 Dec 93 09:59:08 CST Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA02490; Fri, 17 Dec 93 09:59:05 CST Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA04556; Fri, 17 Dec 93 10:59:03 EST From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9312171559.AA04556@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: CFP - 3rd WET ICE '94 To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 10:59:02 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5660 CALL FOR PAPERS WET ICE '94 Third IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 17-19, 1994 Morgantown, West Virginia The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society, with support from AAAI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGOIS, will conduct the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 17-19, 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia. The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration are sought in the following areas: Virtual team support environments Mediators to support collaborative activities Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multimedia conferencing Capturing design intent & intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be under submission currently for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of all authors. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or postscript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Electronic submission is the preferred mode. Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript January 10, 1994 Notification of decisions February 28, 1994 Final version of the paper April 4, 1994 Papers submitted to this workshop will be candidates for inclusion in a bound volume of the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. | NOTE: Students are especially encouraged to submit innovative work.| | Students will be eligible for financial support if their papers are| | accepted. This support is being provided through AAAI. | WET ICE '93 Synopsis Advances in database and networking technology, groupware, multimedia, graphical user-interfaces and a precipitous drop in the ``cost of computing,'' point the way to the possibility of creating a truly collaborative environment that transcends the barriers of distance, time, and heterogeneity of computer equipment. The ideal collaborative environment will enable any member of a team to spontaneously communicate (and thereby collaborate) with any other member (or a group) of a team. The 2nd Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focussed precisely on these issues. Scientists and practitioners from around the world gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The proceedings was a compendium of 23 scientific papers and 3 working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Copies of the proceedings from WET ICE '93 can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 714-821-8380 if you're calling internationally. Copies are $35 for IEEE members and $70 for nonmembers. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises" when ordering. Selected papers from WET ICE '93 will be published in the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. WET ICE '94 Steering Committee Chair: Prof. Ramana Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Jack Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Raghu Karinthi, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. K. Srinivas , CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Ralph Wood, CERC/West Virginia University WET ICE '94 Program and Review Committee Chair: Dr. Joe Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI, International Prof. Prasun Dewan, UNC Chapel Hill, NC Dr. Milena Didic, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, & ESPRIT Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto Mr. Ted Goranson, SAIC Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Prof. Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia Prof. Tom Malone, MIT Prof. Jintae Lee, Univeristy of Hawaii Prof. Sumitra Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Alex Schill, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Mr. Dennis Sng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr. Mike Sobolewski, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Duvvuru Sriram, MIT Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies Prof. George Trapp, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Robert Winner, The Center for High Performance Computing, MA WET ICE '94 Coordination General Chair: Prof. V. Jagannathan, CERC Finance: Anagha Karandikar, CERC Local Arrangements/Publicity: Mary Carriger, CERC Registration: Cathy O'Neal, CERC Audio-Visual: Bill Duff, CERC Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 304-293-7226 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu ------------------------------ From masrani@skyler.arc.ab.ca Mon Dec 20 17:36:43 1993 Return-Path: <masrani@skyler.arc.ab.ca> Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA03712; Mon, 20 Dec 93 17:36:43 CST Received: from eureka.arc.ab.ca ([128.144.50.22]) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA05444; Mon, 20 Dec 93 17:36:23 CST Received: from skyler.arc.ab.ca by eureka.arc.ab.ca (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA00213; Mon, 20 Dec 93 16:43:59 MST Received: by skyler.arc.ab.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA17937; Mon, 20 Dec 93 16:36:15 MST Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 16:36:15 MST From: masrani@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Roy Masrani) Message-Id: <9312202336.AA17937@skyler.arc.ab.ca> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: looking to fill E.I. position Cc: lau@skyler.arc.ab.ca Hi. I apologize in advance if this posting in inappropriate for this email list. We (The Alberta Research Council) are involved in a research project with a local company to introduce E.I. concepts to their current product line (a software company in the Oil and Gas industry). We are about 30% into a 2.5 - 3 year project and are expecting the launch of the first product in January. This product will essentially be a "glue" that is able to connect various applications/databases/platforms together to form an integrated suite of applications that can deal with various needs in an oil company. We are looking for an individual with a background in enterprise integration frameworks, enterprise modeling, etc...but more importantly, we are looking for someone who is creative and is able to "push the envelope" so to speak by introducing new concepts to this project. If you know of anyone who fits the bill, I would appreciate a reply.... Thanks in advance. Roy Masrani From mklein@atc.boeing.com Thu Dec 23 12:43:04 1993 Return-Path: <mklein@atc.boeing.com> Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA28937; Thu, 23 Dec 93 12:43:04 CST Received: from atc.boeing.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA08538; Thu, 23 Dec 93 12:42:59 CST Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA15822; Thu, 23 Dec 93 10:41:49 -0800 Received: from [130.42.151.95] (lorien) by grace.rt.cs.boeing.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25916; Thu, 23 Dec 93 10:40:57 PST Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 10:40:56 PST Message-Id: <9312231840.AA25916@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com> To: csp-list@saturne.cert.fr, fits-list@csi.uottawa.ca, OCISNET@baylor.edu, EIF@cme.nist.gov, nac@sparky.sterling.com, ce-digest-local@wheat.tc.cornell.edu, dbowner@cs.wisc.edu, distributed-ai@mailbase.ac.uk, ckbs@cs.keele.ac.uk, DAI-List@mcc.com, maamaw@cosmos.imag.fr, announcements.chi@xerox.com, ce-digest@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu, cscw-list@gid.co.uk, DMITTLEMAN@bpa.arizona.edu, HCI-Members@europarc.xerox.com, all-iceimt@einet.net, cnbr-L@kanga.edc.rmit.edu.au From: mklein@atc.boeing.com X-Sender: mklein@grace Subject: CFP: Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop Call for Papers 13th International Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop July 28-30, 1994: Seattle WA USA "Making Connections" Goal ---- Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is concerned with the cooperative solution of problems in multi-agent intelligent systems with both computational and human agents. The central problem in DAI is how to achieve coordinated action among such agents, so that they can accomplish more as a group than individually. The DAI workshop is dedicated to advancing the state of the art in this field. For over a decade now the workshop has gathered a relatively small group of active researchers for intensive discussions on the state of the art as well as fruitful directions for future exploration. Previous DAI Workshops have resulted in nine summaries published in AI Magazine, two volumes of edited papers published by Pitman/Morgan Kaufmann as well as special issues of the journals "Group Decision and Negotiation" and "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics". A wide range of research communities throughout the world are now addressing issues related to DAI. This include work on CKBS (cooperating knowledge-based systems), CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work), ICIS (intelligent cooperating information systems), GDSS (group decision support systems), CE (concurrent engineering), organizational sciences, social psychology, business process management, anthropology and so on. There is also increasing recognition of the need for collaboration support technology in many settings, as evidenced for example by the large international Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) Program which envisages future manufacturing facilities based on globally distributed autonomous and intelligent systems. Such potential application areas pose great challenges for DAI. The goal of the 1994 DAI workshop is therefore "making connections": trying to better understand the connections between DAI and related fields as well as real-world problems. It is hoped that the workshop deliberations will help participants (1) develop a better understanding of the gaps between current theory and potential applications and (2) identify future research directions that integrate multi-disciplinary efforts to address these gaps. Diverse perspectives and approaches are of interest including, but not limited to: "real-world" DAI systems - case studies of implemented practical applications - principles for selecting and applying DAI ideas design of coordination-capable agents - task decomposition (speech act formalisms etc). - distributed reasoning and control - intelligent agents - conflict management/negotiation (game theory etc.) - agent models multi-agent learning - inductive - explanation-based societies of agents - design & behaviour - economic models implementational approaches - languages: object-based concurrent programming languages such as Actors and reflective languages - frameworks: ABE, MACE, AGORA, blackboard systems, distributed search and constraint satisfaction - infrastructures - integration of heterogeneous systems Workshop Time & Location ------------------------ July 28, 1994: all day technical sessions July 29, 1994: morning sessions, open afternoon, evening reception July 30, 1994: morning session only - adjourn at noon Site: rustic retreat (location TBD soon) close to Seattle to allow participants to continue to AAAI conference in downtown Seattle July 31. Structure --------- The workshop will consist of several basic elements: o Technical Presentations: There will be several moderated technical sessions, each focusing on a particular technical theme, consisting of 3-4 10-15 minute talks follow by 30-40 minute Q&A sessions where the moderator addresses initial questions to all the speakers and facilitates audience participation. o Invited Talks: We plan to include several invited presentations by potential "customers" of DAI technology (e.g. from concurrent engineering, sales & labor negotiations, scheduling, shop floor control, telecommunications, networks, budget processes etc.) as well as potential "collaborators" (i.e. prominent researchers in related fields such as CSCW and GDSS). o "Breakout" Groups: The workshop will include the opportunity for workshop participants to divide into smaller groups for intensive discussions on gaps between current theory and practical requirements, as well as new inter-disciplinary research directions to addresss these gaps. Each group will communicate their results to the workshop as a whole in a closing technical session. o Poster/Demo Session: Participants will be invited to display posters and other demos describing their work during the open afternoon July 29. Participation Requirements -------------------------- Participation at the Workshop will be by invitation only and limited to approximately 35 people. To participate, please submit 4 copies of a technical paper (15 pages or less) describing original research or significant applications in DAI. Preference will be given to work that addresses one or more of the DAI themes listed above, and that presents clear statements of research findings rather than discussion of topics of study. We specifically discourage the submission of papers in areas such as fine-grained parallelism, hardware or language-level concurrency, and connectionism, because we feel that work in these areas is more appropriate for other workshops. We welcome both theoretical and applied papers. Theoretical papers should explain how their principles and methods can be mapped to applications, while applied papers should explain why they use the techniques that they do and why other approaches are less appropriate for the problem at hand. A small number of "interested observers" may also be invited to attend. Please submit a brief (1-2 page) description of your research interests and reason for participation. Please send submissions to the workshop chair and include electronic mail addresses for the authors. Electronic submissions in ascii, Macintosh Word or RTF format are welcome. Papers due March 15, 1994 Notification April 30, 1994 Final papers May 30, 1994 Participants are invited to prepare posters and/or demos for presentation during the open period the afternoon of July 29. Please let the workshop chair know if you plan to do so. A limited number of "scholarships" will be available to support attendance of the workshop by graduate students of limited means. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for this on your submission. Workshop Chairs --------------- Mark Klein DAI Workshop Chair Boeing Computer Services, MS 7L-44 PO Box 24346 Seattle WA 98124-0346 USA Voice: +1 (206) 865-3412 Fax: +1 (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com Kish Sharma DAI Workshop Co-Chair Boeing Computer Services Seattle WA USA Voice: +1 (206) 865-3353 Fax: +1 (206) 865-2965 ksharma@atc.boeing.com Program Committee ----------------- Susan E. Conry Simon Kaplan ECE Department Department of Computer Science Clarkson University University of Illinois Potsdam, NY USA Urbana Illinois USA conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu kaplan@marula.cs.uiuc.edu Dan Corkill Victor R. Lesser Blackboard Technology Group, Inc. Computer and Information Science Amherst, MA USA University of Massachusetts corkill@cs.umass.edu Amherst, MA USA lesser@cs.umass.edu Kevin Crowston Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Assistant Professor Ross Building School of Business Administration Department of Computer Science University of Michigan Hebrew University Ann Arbor, MI USA Jerusalem ISRAEL crowston@csmil.umich.edu jeff@cs.huji.ac.il Edmund H. Durfee Sandip Sen Electrical Engineering University of Tulsa and Computer Science Tulsa AZ USA The University of Michigan sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu Ann Arbor, MI USA durfee@caen.engin.umich.edu Steve Fickas Ian Smith Computer and Information AI Lab Science Department Federal Institute of Technology University of Oregon Lausanne, SWITZERLAND Eugene OR USA smith@lia.di.epfl.ch fickas@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu Mark Fox Duvvuru Sriram Department of Industrial Engineering Intelligent Engineering Systems Lab University of Toronto Dept of Civil Engineering Toronto, Ontario CANADA Cambridge MA USA msf@ie.utoronto.ca sriram@athena.mit.edu Les Gasser Katia P. Sycara Computational Organization Design Lab The Robotics Institute Institute for Safety and Systems Carnegie Mellon University Management Pittsburgh, PA USA University of Southern California katia@cs.cmu.edu Los Angeles, CA USA gasser@usc.edu Michael Genesereth Jay Martin Tenenbaum Computer Science Department Enterprise Integration Technologies Stanford University Palo Alto, CA USA Stanford CA USA marty@eitech.com genesereth@cs.stanford.edu Michael Huhns Frank von Martial Microelectronics and Computer DETECON (Deutsche Telepost Consulting) Technology Corporation (MCC) Bonn GERMANY Austin Texas USA frank@gmdzi.gmd.de huhns@mcc.com Toru Ishida Andrew Whinston Department of Information Science Department of Management Systems Kyoto University and Information Science Kyoto JAPAN The University of Texas at Austin ishida@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Austin, TX USA abw@emx.utexas.edu Dr. Nick Jennings Department of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary & Westfield College University of London London UK nickj@qmw.ac.uk From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Mon Dec 27 11:24:28 1993 Return-Path: <juggy@cerc.wvu.edu> Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA11847; Mon, 27 Dec 93 11:24:28 CST Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA11681; Mon, 27 Dec 93 11:24:24 CST Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA14682; Mon, 27 Dec 93 12:24:23 EST From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9312271724.AA14682@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: Re: CFP - 3rd WET ICE 94 (fwd) To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 12:24:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 12333 Some folks have indicated that they need additional information about the 3rd WET ICE workshop. I have included the table of contents for the 2nd WET ICE proceedings from last year below. Our goal is to make this workshop, the 3rd in the series, a focal point for technology enablers for CE (which expands to Collaborative Enterprises or Concurrent Engineering :-), where researchers and practiotiners can come together to discuss the latest advances and their practicality. - juggy | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: | Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE) | | Foreword/Preface | | Working Group Reports | +++++++++++++++++++++ | | 1. Collocation Technology | | 2. Coordination Technology | | 3. Information Sharing Technology | | | Enterprise Integration | ++++++++++++++++++++++ | | 4. Tit: Building Public Concurrent Engineering Frameworks on a National | Information Infrastructure | Aut: Dennis Sng, GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology, | Nanyang Technological Univeristy, Singapore | Michael K. S. Yap, National Computer Board, Singapore | [FULL][Process] | | 5. Tit: Share: A methodology and environment for Collaborative Product | Development | Aut: George Toye, Mark Cutkosky, Larry Leifer | Center for Design Research, Stanford Univiersity, Stanford, CA | Marty Tennebaum, Jay Glicksman, | Enterprise Integration Technologies, Palo Alto, CA | [FULL][Collocation] | | 6. Tit: SWIFT: System Workbench for Integrating and Facilating Teams | Aut: Stephen Lu, Ken Smith, Dave Mattox, Mike Silliman, Marty Lucenti, | Jim Jacobs, Dave Chazin, Mark Lawley and Mike Case | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL | [FULL][Integration] | | 7. Tit: ARTEMIS: Advaced Research Testbed for Medical Information Systems | Aut: Y. V. Reddy, V. Jagannathan, C. Gollapudy, R. Karinthi, S. Reddy | K. Srinivas, J. Cleetus | Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virgina University, | Morgantown, WV | [POS][Integration] | | 8. Tit: An Open Systems Profile for Concurrent Engineering | Aut: Marilyn T. Gaska, IBM Federal Systems Company, Owego, NY | [POS][Integration] | | Process Reengineering and Coordination | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | | 9. Tit: Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational | processes | Aut: Tom Malone, Kevin Crowston, Jintae Lee, Brian Pentland, | Centerfor Coordination Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachussets | [FULL][Process] | | 10. Tit: Assessing Organization readiness for implementing Concurrent | Engineering practices and collaborative technologies | Aut: H. M. Karandikar, M. E. Foota, M. Lawson, R. T. Wood | Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virgina University, | Morgantown, WV | [FULL][Process] | | 11. Tit: Re-engineering the design process | Aut: Donald V. Steward, California State University, Sacramento, CA | [POS][Process] | | 12. Tit: AgentX: An Environment for Coordinating Distributed Problem | Solving in Product Development | Aut: Jim Davis, Srikanth Kannapan, Xerox Corporation, | Design Research Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | [POS][Coordination] | | 13. Tit: Negotiation as an aid in Concurrent Engineering. | Aut: Keith Werkman, IBM, FSD, Owego, NY | [FULL] [Coordination] | | Collocation Technology | ++++++++++++++++++++++ | | 14. Tit: CECED: A system for multi-media collaboration | Aut: Earl Craighill, Ruth Lang, Keith Skinner, Martin Fong, | SRI International, Menlo Park, CA | [FULL][Collocation] | | 15. Tit: Reliable information service for internet computer conferencing | Aut: Hussein Abdul-Hawab, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia | [FULL][Collocation] | | 16. Tit: Extending Group Communcation Facilites to support complex | distributed office procedures | Aut: Alex B. Schill, University of Karlsruhe, Institute of Telematics, | Karlsruhe, Germany | [FULL][Collocation] | | 17. Tit: Shastra: An Architecture for devolopment of Collaborative Applications | Aut: Vinod Anupam, Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN | [FULL][Collocation] | | 18. Tit: Infrastructure Support for Multimedia Communications: A survey | Aut: Q. Lin, K. Srinivas | Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virgina University, | Morgantown, WV | [FULL][Collocation] | | 19. Tit: MobViews: a Multiuser Worksheet for a Mechanical Engineering | Environment | Aut: Nuno M. Guimares, Paulo T. Silva, Jose T. Santos, Andrzej Seimaszko | IST/INESC, Lisbon, Portugal | [POS][Collocation] | | 20. Tit: Support System for Different-Time Different-Place Collaboration | for Concurrent Engineering | Aut: Eswaran Subrahmanian, Robert Coyne, Suresh Konda, Sean Levy | Richard Martin, Ira Monarch, Yoram Reich, Art Westerberg | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | [POS][Collocation] | | 21. Tit: COMIX: A tool to share X applications | Aut: Ali Babadi | Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virgina University, | Morgantown, WV | [POS][Collocation] | | Information Sharing | +++++++++++++++++++ | | 22. Tit: Model-Based Information Access | Aut: V. Jagannathan, R. Karinthi, M. Sobolewski, G. Almasi, Z. Wu | Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virgina University, | Morgantown, WV | [FULL][Information Sharing] | | 23. Tit: Shared-DRIMS: SHARED Design Recommendation-Intent Management System | Aut: F. Pena, D. Sriram, R. Logcher | Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory | MIT, Cambridge, MA | [FULL][Information Sharing] | | 24. Tit: An Approach for Supporting Inter-application Consistency | Aut: Kari Alho, Hannu Peltonen, Tomi Mannisto, Reijo Sulonen | Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland | [FULL][Information Sharing] | | 25. Tit: Concurrent Engineering and Longterm Archiving | Aut: R. Anderl and B. Malle, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany | [POS][Information Sharing] | | 26. Tit: Translative Interface for Data Sharing and Integrating: A paradigm | for Distributed Data Systems | Aut: Thomas F. Maloney, CDP, Pacific Northwest Lab, Richland WA | [POS][Information Sharing] | | 27. Tit: Issues in information system development for the support of CE env | Aut: Francis A. Wilson, John N. Wilson, Manchester Metropolitan University | Manchester, England and Univeristy of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland | [POS][Information Sharing] | | | Appendix A: Workshop Participants | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS WET ICE '94 Third IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 17-19, 1994 Morgantown, West Virginia The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society, with support from AAAI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGOIS, will conduct the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 17-19, 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia. The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration are sought in the following areas: Virtual team support environments Mediators to support collaborative activities Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multimedia conferencing Capturing design intent & intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be under submission currently for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of all authors. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or postscript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Electronic submission is the preferred mode. Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript January 10, 1994 Notification of decisions February 28, 1994 Final version of the paper April 4, 1994 Papers submitted to this workshop will be candidates for inclusion in a bound volume of the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. | NOTE: Students are especially encouraged to submit innovative work.| | Students will be eligible for financial support if their papers are| | accepted. This support is being provided through AAAI. | WET ICE '93 Synopsis Advances in database and networking technology, groupware, multimedia, graphical user-interfaces and a precipitous drop in the ``cost of computing,'' point the way to the possibility of creating a truly collaborative environment that transcends the barriers of distance, time, and heterogeneity of computer equipment. The ideal collaborative environment will enable any member of a team to spontaneously communicate (and thereby collaborate) with any other member (or a group) of a team. The 2nd Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focussed precisely on these issues. Scientists and practitioners from around the world gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The proceedings was a compendium of 23 scientific papers and 3 working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Copies of the proceedings from WET ICE '93 can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 714-821-8380 if you're calling internationally. Copies are $35 for IEEE members and $70 for nonmembers. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises" when ordering. Selected papers from WET ICE '93 will be published in the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. WET ICE '94 Steering Committee Chair: Prof. Ramana Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Jack Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Raghu Karinthi, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. K. Srinivas , CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Ralph Wood, CERC/West Virginia University WET ICE '94 Program and Review Committee Chair: Dr. Joe Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI, International Prof. Prasun Dewan, UNC Chapel Hill, NC Dr. Milena Didic, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, & ESPRIT Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto Mr. Ted Goranson, SAIC Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Prof. Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia Prof. Tom Malone, MIT Prof. Jintae Lee, Univeristy of Hawaii Prof. Sumitra Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Alex Schill, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Mr. Dennis Sng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr. Mike Sobolewski, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Duvvuru Sriram, MIT Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies Prof. George Trapp, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Robert Winner, The Center for High Performance Computing, MA WET ICE '94 Coordination General Chair: Prof. V. Jagannathan, CERC Finance: Anagha Karandikar, CERC Local Arrangements/Publicity: Mary Carriger, CERC Registration: Cathy O'Neal, CERC Audio-Visual: Bill Duff, CERC Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 304-293-7226 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu ------------------------------