DEADILE IS APPRAOACHING - April 1, 2002 IMPORTANT DATES ==================== April 1, 2002, Paper due. April 29, 2002, Notification of acceptance. May 10, 2002, Camera-ready paper due. May 28, 2002, Workshop. Apologies for cross postings. Please, re-distribute] *************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * *************************** WORKSHOP ON DOCUMENT COMPRESSION AND SYNTHESIS IN ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS (DoCS '02) 28/5/2002 - Malaga (Spain) http://www.isi.cs.cnr.it/isi/cannataro/docs.html http://www.isi.cs.cnr.it/isi/cannataro/docs.pdf In conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Based Systems 29/5/2002 - 31/5/2002 Malaga, Spain http://sirius.lcc.uma.es/AH2002/ WORKSHOP THEME ==================== The main goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on Data Compression, Adaptive Hypermedia Systems and Web Systems, to explore novel uses and applications of lossy and lossless compression algorithms, as well as summarization systems, in (Web) Adaptive Hypermedia Systems. Nowadays, given the explosion of on-line information sources and the existence of massive information universes, some forms of (semi-) automatic lossless/lossy compression and synthesis of data are becoming crucial. The main objective of compression/synthesis is the production of a concise, condensed representation of the key information content of an information source, for a particular user and task. It is considered a crucial aspect to “scale” the complexity and size of web contents with respect to many different aspects, such as (i) used technology (kind of terminal, network bandwidth etc.), (ii) contextual conditions (time, place, battery conditions etc.), (iii) user wishes and expectations. In modern applications, for such tasks, different approaches are considered. First, classical and more recent lossless/lossy data compression methods are applied. Furthermore, it is also becoming imperative to investigate new idea which consider the user’s perception band (i.e. how much information the user considers interesting and/or useful at a certain time) and the necessity of very high compression ratios. In such cases, lossy data synthesis methods are needed, which remove details and provide suitable aggregations, e.g. by restructuring some schemata. TOPICS OF INTEREST ==================== - Models for multi-format hypermedia documents - Algorithms for the adaptive compression/synthesis of hypermedia documents - Lossless and lossy compression/synthesis algorithms (for specific types of data such as images, videos, audio, and for semi-structured data) - Schema extraction and restructuring of semi- structured data (e.g. XML) - Browsing and searching of compressed/synthesized data - Applications of compression/synthesis for Adaptive Hypermedia Systems - Applications of compression/synthesis for Mobile Computing - Applications of compression/synthesis for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. - Multilingual synthesis and use of linguistic representations, thesauri and ontology - Natural language generation for synthesis, production of abstracts and extracts, in Adaptive Hypermedia Workshop Proceedings ==================== The Proceedings of the workshop will be published after the workshop (thus allowing the authors to review their papers on the basis of discussions at the workshop) as a book. At the workshop a CD-ROM will be distributed to the participants. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ==================== Mario Cannataro (ISI-CNR, Italy) Voice:+39-0984831729 Fax:+390984839054 Email: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Voice: +39-0984-494618 Fax: +39-0984-839054 Email: [log in to unmask] PROGRAM COMMITTEE ==================== Mario Cannataro (ISI-CNR, Italy) Sara Comai (Polytechnic of Milano, Italy) Raffaele Giancarlo (Univ. of Palermo, Italy) Sergio Greco (Univ. of Calabria, Italy) Geert-Jan Houben (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Nederland) Mark Levene (Birkbeck College, Univ. of London, UK) Giansalvatore Mecca (Univ. of Basilicata, Italy) Stefano Paraboschi (Polytechnic of Milano, Italy) Alexandra Poulovassilis (Birkbeck College, Univ. of London, UK) Domenico Saccà (Univ. of Calabria, Italy) Neel Sundaresan (NehaNet Corporation) INVITED TALK ==================== The New Science of Discovery and the Algorithmics of Surprise Alberto Apostolico (Purdue Univ., USA – Univ. of Padova, Italy) http://www.cs.purdue.edu/faculty/axa.html Current progresses in ICT are forcing a completely new scenario and a wild paradigm shift. The new scenario is that data and information accumulate at a pace no longer fit for direct human inspection. The paradigm shift is that, in contrast to tradition, the bottleneck in communication is no longer represented by the channel or medium but rather by the limited perceptual bandwidth of the final user. At some core level in this transition, novel techniques supporting the automated discovery of patterns and their associations or ``rules'' in disparate contexts and media are being developed. This talk examines some of the apparent paradoxes that undermine such developments, and takes glimpses of a territory of challenges that seems largely unexplored. IMPORTANT DATES ==================== April 1, 2002, Paper due. April 29, 2002, Notification of acceptance. May 10, 2002, Camera-ready paper due. May 28, 2002, Workshop. SUBMISSION INFORMATION ==================== Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical or experimental nature. Moreover, papers concerning tools and architectures for industrial applications will also be considered. Interested authors should send a 10-page paper including keywords, to the Workshop chairs: Mario Cannataro : [log in to unmask] , [log in to unmask] Andrea Pugliese : [log in to unmask] Electronic submission (PostScript or PDF) is strongly encouraged. ====================================================================== Mario Cannataro Senior Researcher ISI-CNR, Via P.Bucci 41/c, 87030 Rende, Italy Tel: +39 0984 831729, Fax: +39 0984 839054 Email: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Http://www.isi.cs.cnr.it/isi/cannataro/