EUSIDIC SPRING MEETING
E-COMMERCE VISUALISATION DATAMINING
Strasbourg. 8-10 March 1999
The EUSIDIC 1999 Spring Meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn in
Strasbourg from the 8th to the 10th of March. The intellectual, cultural
and economic capital of the Alsace region in France, Strasbourg is steeped
In history but is currently better known as the Seat of the Council of
Europe amid of the European Parliament. What better place to hold a meeting
on e-commerce and other leading edge technologies by one of the leading
European information organisations.
As usual, the Spring Meeting will bring together leading figures in the
information industry to present papers which have been created through
experience and which will give insight and inspiration to delegates.
Numbers will be limited to 50 to ensure maximum communication between
delegates; networking has always been an important aspect of the Spring
Meetings.
The main topics for the meeting will be: E-Commerce; and Visualisation,
Datamining and Search Algorithms. Each presentation will last an hour
allowing plenty of time for general discussion.
Monday, March 8th from 9.00 to 17.30 will be devoted to E-Commerce
Tuesday, March 9th from 9.00 to 17.30 and Wednesday, March 10th from 9.00
to 12.30 will be devoted to Visualisation, Datamining overview and Search
Algorithms.
Please keep your diary free for these dates, as we are sure the meeting
will be as enightening and as educational as the city of Strasbourg itself.
'Culturally well endowed, Strasbourg proposes challenging collections in
its museums, a lyrical excellence in its opera house and an ambitious
variety of theatrical programmes that is world renown. This ancient city
offers a wealth of gracious architecture of which the highlights are the
Cathedral and the Petite France area. Strasbourg is also famous for its
gastronomy: Fois Gras, wines of Alsace, chocolates, Eaux de vie are
appreciated by gourmets from all nationalities'.
Jean Jacques Gsell, Deputy Mayor of Strasbourg
Programme of the EUSIDIC Spring Meeting
at Strasbourg , March 8 - 10, 1999
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Monday, March 8: E-Commerce
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Chair: Georg F. Schultheiss
FIZ-Karlsruhe, Germany
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09.00 - 10.00 : Electronic commerce : the future is now
Speaker: Ferenc Szelenyi, Manager of electronic commerce solutions, IBM
EMEA
Electronic Commerce is a new chance especially also in Europe, to reach
customers more efficient. This presentation covers solutions and examples
from different industries such as SME, government, large enterprises and
publisher. The main focus is on the business value using these new
technologies.
10.00 - 10.15 : Break
10.15 - 11.15 : E-comerce : first experiences at Springer-Verlag
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Rakow, Project Manager - Electronic Publilshing,
Springer-Verlag, Heidelburg
The online services of the Springer Publishing group offer their customers
the features of scientific publishing like peer review and technical
quality on the Web just as in print. Current developments aim at the
inclusion of encyclopedias, multimedia 'books', and loose-leaf collections.
The talk will highlight some of Springer's recent developments of
E-commerce applications. Qualified linking between complementary online
services is installed, including methods for payment and utilizing the
upcoming standard Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
11.15 - 11.30 : Break
11.30 - 12.30 : 5th Framework Programme: electronic publishing and business
model issues
Speaker: Bernard Smith, Deputy Head of Unit DGXIII/E-4, European Commission
12.30 - 14.00 : Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 : Perspectives on e-commerce from the Object Management Group
Speaker: Dr. Don Siegel, OMG
15.00 - 15.15 : Break
15.15 - 16.15 : Information commerce - looking up from the foundations: an
overview
of the Issues involved in trading Information in a digital Environment
Speaker : Chris Barlas, Authors Licensing & Claiming Society
16.15 - 16.30 : Break
16.30 - 17.00 : Final discussion with speakers
19.00 Social Evening Event, Dinner (not included in fee)
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Tuesday, March 9: Visualization, Datamining Overview, Search Algorithms
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Chair: Alexander Nevyjel
Austrian Research
Center Seibersdorf Ltd.
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09.00 - 10.00 : Graphics in digitial libraries: a first step towards
unified information spaces?
Speaker: Prof Dieter W. Fellner, TU Braunschweig
In networked environments both terms, Digital Libraries as well as Graphics
have widened their scope quite radically: graphical elements are no longer
considered as simple attachments to the primary medium text. 2D and 3D
graphical elements are becoming self-contained information entities
building up large digital libraries. On the other hand, large graphical
databases are now considered just another flavor of digital libraries. This
development poses new challenges to the database design and to the
retrieval aspects in terms of underlying algorithms as well as user
interfaces. Despite all the work ahead of us we seem to be moving in the
right direction creating a unified view on information spaces holding
various kinds of multimedia elements.
10.00 - 10.15 : Break
10.15 - 11.15 : Data mining today and beyond
Speaker : Peer Boerner, Manning & Napier
The presentation will be divided into three sections covering tools and
technology, effort and architecture, and finally hybrid data mining
techniques. The tools and technology discussion will explore the types of
technologies available to perform data mining operations on both structured
and unstructured text. This section will identify common algorithms and
their application along with the human effort involved. This section will
also explore the importance of feature selection and extraction, data
representation techniques, and provide some realistic expectations on the
effectiveness of these techniques.
Next, the effort and architecture section will focus on the effort required
to aggregate, manipulate, cleanse, and normalize data so that it is useful
for data mining. Typical architectures which facilitate data mining will be
discussed along with a discussion of data warehouses and data marts.
Additionally, the hidden costs to construct models, score data, and review
results will be uncovered and explained.
Finally, the section on hybrid techniques will provide an overview of how
recent advances in automated feature extraction, probabilistic ontologies,
and automated relationship identification can bring structure to
unstructured data. Techniques to merge and explore structured and
unstructured will then be discussed.
11.15 - 11.30 : Break
11.30 - 12.30 : Text knowledge miner: Text mining for document content
analysis
Speaker: Dr.Charles Huot, IBM Consulting Group, Text Mining Consulting
Sales Specialist
Text mining is not just a theory anymore. It's well out of the R&D
environment. In fact, IBM has the most comprehensive and robust text mining
offerings currently available - offerings that give your
customers cutting edge technology for a competitive advantage. Text mining
also provides a way to get you in the door with a new set of users -
business users. People are excited about what this
technology can do, so it's an easy way to generate interest and
conversations with your customer that can lead to a new relationship. Text
Knowledge Miner (TKM) is powerful enough to analyze tens of thousands of
complex, text-based documents in a single iteration -- including scientific
publications, newswires, and articles. It analyzes and clusters textual
data to help companies discover new subject relationships, extract
important concepts, and stimulate new ideas.
12.30 - 14.00 : Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 : The next generation of Internet search engines
Speaker: Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann, Regionales Rechenzentrum fuer
Niedersachsen & Lehrgebeit Rechnerentze und Verteilte Systeme, Universitaet
Hannover, Germany
Using the Internet as an information retrieval source is nearly impossible
without good searchengines. The searchengines have developed into portals
of the net and their performance has reached impressive heights.
Nevertheless, everything that searchengines are doing nowadays is more or
less just a comparison of bit patterns. The engines do not know anything
about the meaning of those patterns. Besides that every single searchengine
covers just a fraction of the content of the whole Internet. Therefore the
next generation of Internet searchengines has to achieve two goals: search
as "complete" as possible and deliver results of "high quality". The first
goal can be achieved by meta search teckhnology, the second by highly
improved content recognition and ranking methods. The presentation will
show the current developments in these fields and will then focus on our
searchengine lab at Hannover University.
15.00 - 15.15 : Break
15.15 - 16.15 : Content-based image retrieval technology: can it satisfy
real information needs?
Speaker: Dr. John Eakins, Institute for Image Data Research, Univ. of
Northumbria at Newcastle
16.15- 16.30 : Break
16.30 - 17.00 : Discussion with speakers
19.00 Dinner (not included in fee)
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Wednesday, March 10: Visualization, Datamining Overview, Search Algorithms
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Chair: Daphne Tomlinson
Siemens Building Technologies - Switzerland
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09.00 - 10.00 : Information retrieval methods for new challenges
Speaker: Prof.Dr. Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany
We show how new challenges in the information infrastructure can be dealt
with by appropriate information retrieval methods. Documents with a rich
logical structure and hypertext links require structure-related search
facilities. For multimedia content such as images or speech, appropriate
search operators have to be provided. For retrieval in a networked,
heterogeneous environment, database selection and data fusion methods have
to be applied.
10.00 - 10.15 : Break
10.15 - 11.15 : to be announced
Speaker : from Cambridge
11.15 - 11.30 : Break
11.30 - 12.00 : Final discussion
Chair and EUSIDIC-Chairman
12.30 : Lunch
End of the Meeting
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at:
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104B St John Street, London EC1M 4EH
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