From: sukumar@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Sukumar Rathnam)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: NGITS'93
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:50:01 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas


From: saseg@violet.berkeley.edu (Arie Segev)


                     Call for  Papers

                         NGITS '93

                 The International Workshop on
        Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems
           
                   June 28 - 30  1993
        Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
                    HAIFA, ISRAEL

GENERAL INFORMATION:

A current view in the research community is that next generation
information and systems  will be complex, intelligent,
cooperative and will utilize various multi-media technologies.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussing
issues related to the realization of these next generation systems.
These issues include but are not limited to:

* Architecture of NGITS systems.
* Paradigms for the design and implementation of NGITS (software  
  repositories, application generators, and object orientation).
* Knowledge and Data management issues in NGITS.
* Multi-Media technologies.
* Intelligent Information Systems.
* Cooperation and Collaboration in NGITS.
* Computer Vision and its use in NGITS.
* The user's perspectives: NGITS interfaces.
* Inter-Disciplinary Research required for NGITS.
* Industrial Applications of NGITS.
 
We solicit contributions of two types:

* Research papers (extended abstracts limited to 10 double-spaced  pages)
* Position papers (about any of the relevant issues).


The workshop will feature paper presentations, discussions and
panels based on position papers submitted, a "feedback from the 
industry perspective" panel and invited speakers.

All accepted papers will appear in a conference proceedings. 
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of
the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.
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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:

In order to promote the paperless society,  we shall strive to handle
the submission and review processes by electronic mail.  All
contributions should be submitted to:

ngits@ie.technion.ac.il AND ngits@isr.berkeley.edu  

If you intend to submit a research or position paper, please send
an electronic mail notice of this intention as early as possible, but no
later than November 1, 1992.


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|  Important Dates: |
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November 1, 1992 : (preferably sooner)  Intention to Submit.
January 24, 1993 :  Research and Position Paper Due.
March    5, 1993 :  Notification of Acceptance.
April   15, 1993 :  Camera-Ready Copies Due.
June    28-30, 1993 : The Workshop.


Workshop Co-Chairs
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 Opher  Etzion                     Arie Segev
 Technion- Israel Institute        University of California at Berkeley
 of Technology, Haifa,             and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
 ISRAEL                            USA
                       

Steering Committee
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Daniel Berry
Dov Dori
Opher Etzion
Bezalel Gavish
Shimon Nof
Arie Segev
Peretz Shoval


Program Committee
=================

Daniel Berry, Software Engineering Institute, CMU, USA and Technion, Israel.
Alfred Bruckstein, Technion, Israel.
Umesh Dayal, DEC-CRL, USA.
Dov Dori, Technion, Israel.
Frank Eliassen, University of Tromso, Norway.
Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel
Frank Friedman, Temple University, USA
Bezalel Gavish, Vanderbilt University, USA
Matthias Jarke, Rwth Aachen, Germany
Shimon Nof, Purdue University, USA
Tamer M. Ozsu, University of Alberta, Canada
Shmuel Peleg, Hebrew University, Israel
Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA
Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA
Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel
Yannis Vassiliou, University of Crete, Greece