Return-Path: Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04177; 20 Jun 94 3:45:20 EDT Received: from Csli.Stanford.EDU by CS.CMU.EDU id aa18351; 20 Jun 94 3:44:33 EDT Received: from localhost.Stanford.EDU by CSLI.Stanford.EDU (4.1/25-CSLI-eef) id AA22757; Sun, 19 Jun 94 23:29:06 PDT Message-Id: <9406200629.AA22757@CSLI.Stanford.EDU> From: Gregory.Grefenstette@xerox.fr (Gregory Grefenstette) Subject: Final Program RIAO94 To: empiricists@CSLI.Stanford.EDU Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 23:29:04 -0700 Sender: roscheis@CSLI.Stanford.EDU From: Gregory.Grefenstette@xerox.fr (Gregory Grefenstette) (by way of yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu) RIAO 94 PROGRAM ************************************** INTELLIGENT MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS AND MANAGEMENT ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY NEW YORK,N.Y U.S.A OCTOBER 11-13, 1994 ------------------------------------------------ organized by CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE (C.I.D.) France 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris France Tel. 33 (1) 42 85 04 75 Fax 33 (1) 45 26 84 45 e-mail : CID @ NURI.INRIA.FR and CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS,Inc. C.A.S.I.S. CO/P.Brodnitz, 55 Perry Street,New York, N.Y. 10014 Tel/Fax (212) 741 14 21 e-mail : CID @ NURI.INRIA.FR MESSAGE TO THE PARTICIPANTS OF RIAO94 The explosion of computer processing power, memories and networks, along with the intense activity of the United States in this domain, makes the holding of "RIAO94" in New York City an event full of promise for valuable exchanges of scientific information and stimulating demonstrations. Rockefeller University is happy to follow M.I.T., which welcomed Conference "RIAO 1988", and Barcelona in Spain, which did the same in 1991. Rockefeller University is deeply involved in biomedical research, interelating biochemistry with clinical medecine. Its importance in the field of medicine is indicated by the fact that its staff has received 19 Nobel Prizes since its foundation in 1901. We are confident that your active participation in the conference will contribute much to its success. Dr. F. Seitz President Emeritus Rockefeller University CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE GENERAL SESSION OCTOBER 11, 1994 9:00- 9:15 WELCOMING STATEMENT Dr.F. Seitz President Emeritus of Rockefeller University 9:15- 9:30 AIMS AND GOALS for RIAO94 Dr. J. L. Funck Brentano co-chairman of RIAO94 9:30- 9:50 INVITED SPEAKER S. Oshuga University of Tokyo SESSION 1A: Linguistic analysis for automatic treatment Chair: U. Heid, Un. von Stuttgart (D) 9:50- 10:10 Automatic Text Decomposition and Structuring G. Salton, J.Allan Cornell University, Department of Computer Science(U.S.) 10:10- 10:50 Break 10:50- 11:10 A Methodology for Exploiting Sophisticated Representations for Classification S.Finch. Language Technology Group HCRC University of Edinburgh(U.K.) 11:10- 11:30 FASTR : A Unification-Based Front-End to Automatic Indexing C. Jacquemin Universite de Nantes IRIN(France) 11:30- 11:50 Innovations in Multilingual Searching P.Roochnik , J.C. Hermansen, M.Lewellen Language Analysis Systems, Inc.(U.S.) 11:50- 12:10 Hierarchical Pattern Matching for Knowledge Based News Categorization L.Cilardoni , P.Prunotto , G.Rocca Quinary SpA(Italy) 12:10- 12:30 Specifying Adverse Drug Reactions by Formulating Contexts F.Rikkens,D.Evans,R.Vos Carnegie Mellon University(U.S.) 12:30- 2:00 LUNCH Chair: A. Giannetti,Sogei (I) 2:00- 2:20 INVITED SPEAKER: Prof. M.J. Feigenbaum "Some considerations of digital mapping." Rockefeller University SESSION 1B: Linguistic analysis (Continued) 2:20- 2:40 Trade-offs between Syntactic and Semantic Processing in the Comprehension of Real Texts D.McDonald Brandeis University(U.S.) 2:40- 3:00 Document Retrieval Using Linguistic Knowledge E.D.Liddy, W.Paik, E.S.Yu, M.Mckenna Syracuse University(U.S.) 3:00- 3:20 Using Categories to Provide Context for Full-Text Retrieval Results M.A.Hearst Computer Science Division University of California(U.S.) 3:20- 3:40 Document Indexing and Retrieval using Natural Language Processing T.Strzalkowski Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Computer Science(U.S.) SESSION 2A: Large knowledge databases Chair: B. Smith, Europeann Union 3:40- 4:00 An Association Thesaurus for Information Retrieval B.Croft Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts(U.S.) 4:00- 4:20 Application of the Backpropagation Algorithm to an Information Retrieval System A. Caron Universite des Sciences de Lorient(France) 4:20- 4:50 Break 4:50- 5:10 Case-Based Reasoning Meets Information Retrieval M.Smail, M.Crehange CRIN/CNRS(France) 5:10- 5:30 A Logic-Based Approach to Thesauri as a Resource for Information Retrieval S.Gaeser IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH (Germany) 5:30- 5:50 Exploiting a Large Thesaurus for Information Retrieval A.R.Aronson. National Library of Medicine (U.S.) 5:50- 6:30 Demonstrations OCTOBER 12, 1994 Chair : J.C. Bassano Universite d'Orleans 9:00- 9:20 INVITED SPEAKER: G.J.E.De Moor Chairman of the European Standardization Committee, Technical Committee on Healthcare Informatics (Belgium) "Standardization in Medical Informatics in Europe" SESSION 2B: Large knowledge databases (Continued) 9:20- 9:50 The Librarian's Assistant: Automatically Organizing On-line Books into Dynamic Bookshelves Y.S.Maarek, A.J.Wecker IBM Haifa Research Laboratory (Israel) 9:50- 10:10 A Competition-Based Connectionist Model for Information Retrieval I.Syu, S.D.Lang Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida (U.S.) 10:10- 10:30 A Cooccurence-Based Thesaurus and two Applications on Information Retrieval H.Schutze, J.Pedersen Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (U.S.) 10:30- 11:00 Break 11:00- 11:20 Search Mechanisms using a New Neural Network Model Comparison with the Vector Space Model J.Mothe IRIT-SIG Universite Paul Sabatier (France) 11:20- 11:40 Hierarchies of Indices for Text Searching R.Baeza-Yates, E.F.Barbosa, N.Ziviani Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion Universidad de Chile(Chili) SESSION 3A: Digitized document understanding and retrieval Chair: R. Marcus, MIT (US) 11:40- 12:00 Adaptive Information Extraction from Online Messages M.Hofferer, B.Knaus, W.Winiwarter Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems(Austria) 12:00- 12:20 Applying Conceptual Models to Multimedia Information Retrieval P.Rosengren Swedish Institute for Systems Development(Sweden) 12:20- 1:50 LUNCH SESSION 3B: Digitized socument understanding and retrieval (Continued) Chair: B. Sharp, Stafford University (U.K) 1:50- 2:10 TACHIR: A Tool for Automatic Construction of Hypertexts for Information Retrieval M.Agosti, M.Melucci, Crestani Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow (U.K.) 2:10- 2:30 A Traceability-based-model for an Integrated Maintenance Environment. A.Escudie, P.Y. Lambolez, J.P. Queille,J.F. Voidrot Matra Marconi Space France (France) 2:30- 2:50 Search and Navigation on Legal Documents Based on Automatic Acquisition of Content Representation E.Pietrosanti, P.Mussetto, G.Marchignoli Tecsiel S.p.A.(Italy) 2:50- 3:10 Update on the MARC project. Transporting colour from the painting on the Wall to the Picture in the Book. H.Derrien Thomson-CSF/LER(France) 3:10- 3:30 Hypertext Conversion and Representation of a Printed Manual A.Mika,M.Huttl,U.Guntzer Wilhelm-Schickard-Intitut, Un. Tubingen, Munchen (Germany) 3:30- 3:50 A System for Retrieving Images by Content V.N.Gudivada, V.V.Raghavan Department of Computer Science, Ohio University(U.S.) 3:50- 4:20 Break SESSION 4: Information reading Chair: C.Chrisment Universite Paul Sabatier (F) 4:20- 4:40 Medical Image Storage and Retrieval Strategies in the LUX- IMACS project D.Bandon, R.Kanz,V. Boissart, C.Debas, G.Evers, J.Duchene, C.Wehenkel Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor(Luxembourg) 4:40- 5:00 Information retrieval System using DAI Tools M.Braunwarth LIFO Universite d'Orleans(France) 5:00- 5:20 Query Expansion in an Abductive Information Retrieval System A.Muller, U.Thiel GMD-IPSI(Germany) 5:20- 5:40 Information Retrieval in Distributed Hypertexts P.De Bra, G.J.Houben, Y.Kornatzky, R.Post. Eindhoven University of Technology(Holland) 5:40- 6:00 "ELP ADVISOR": A Prototype of an Integrated Expert System in Italian Environmental Law E.Fameli, F.Turchi Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica del CNR(Italy) 6:00- 6:30 Demonstrations OCTOBER 13, 1994 Chair: D. Harman, Nat.Inst. of Standards and technology (US) 9:00- 9:20 Query Expansion and Neural Network M.Boughanem MSI, Universite des Sciences de Limoges, Depart. Informatique(France) 9:20- 9:40 Dynamically Bounding Browsable Retrieval Spaces: an Application to Galois Lattices C.Carpineto, G.Romano Fondazione Ugo Bordoni(Italy) SESSION 5:New paradigms for information retrieval Chair: J.Depireux, Universite de Liege (B) 9:40- 10:00 INVITED SPEAKERS: Profs. C. F. Dewey and R. I. Kitney "Medical Imaging Paradigms for Distributed Health Care Systems." Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.) and Imperial College (U.K.) 10:00- 10:20 Mathprobe: Active Mathematical Dictionary C.Watters, J.Ho Jodrey School of Computer Science Acadia University(Canada) 10:20- 10:40 Exploratory Data Analysis via Self-Organization B.Faieta, E.Lumer Zetes and Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) 10:40- 11:10 Break 11:10- 11:30 Multimodality and Vagueness in the Context of a Graphical, Object-Oriented Materials Information System C.Womser-Hacker, J.Krause, C.Wolff University of Regensburg, Information Science(Germany) SESSION 6:Openness, interoperability and integration Chair: G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox (F) 11:30- 11:50 A Flexible Architecture for Collaborative Information Retrieval J.Y.Nie, J.Vaucher, N.Anquetil Dept.d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, Universite de Montreal(Canada) 11:50- 12:10 The SGML standard for a Technical Document Writing Assistance System M.L.Corral, C.Julien, A.Simon Matra/Aramiihs (France) 12:10- 12:30 An SGML Standard for the News Distribution Industry D. Becker Mead Data Central(U.S.) 12:30- 2:00 LUNCH 2:00- 2:20 A Homogenous Interaction Platform for Navigation and Search in and from Open Hypertext Systems Rittberger, M. Hammwohner, R. Assfalg, R. Kuhlen, Department of Information Science, University of Constance(Germany) SESSION 7: Multimodal interfaces Chair: J.L. Funck Brentano, hopital Necker (F) 2:20- 2:40 A Practical and Adaptable User Model for Browsing in Hypermedia Information System J.Vassileva Federal Armed Forces University(Germany) 2:40- 3:00 Toward Semantic Retrieval of Pictures and Video A.S.Chakravarthy MIT Media Laboratory(U.S.) 3:00- 3:20 InfoCrystal: Integrating Exact and Partial Matching Approaches through Visualization A.Spoerri MIT Center for Educational Computing (U.S.) SESSION 8:Measure and large-scale evaluation 3:20- 3:40 Overview of the TREC Program D.Harman. National Institute of Standards and Technology(U.S.) SESSION 9:Experimental applications Chair: J. Ladouceur 3:40- 4:00 The Tax Documentation Service in Italy M.Armellini, F.Centonze, A.. Fiorilli, A. Mancieri, U. Morgese. SOGEI SpA (Italy) 4:00- 4:30 Break 4:30- 4:50 A System for Ranking Documents according to their Relevance to a (Legal) Concept R.V.De Mulder, C.van Noortwijk Erasmus University, Centre for Computers and Law (Holland) 4:50- 5:10 A Prototype Information Retrieval System to Perform a Best- Match Search for Names N.Willman National Institute of Standards and Technology(U.S.) 5:10- 5:30 NameFinder: Software that finds Names in Text P. Hayes Carnegie Group Inc.(U.S.) 5:30- 6:00 CONFERENCE REVIEW and DISCUSSION SPECIAL SESSIONS I- North American and European programs Wednesday 12, 1994 This special session will review research and development programs in North America and Europe. The session will include general overviews, specific program presentations, and interactive discussion. For the United States: Dr. Y.T. Chien, Division Director ,Information Robotics and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation will talk on "Research opportunities in multimedia and intelligent systems at the National Science Foundation". Dr. G. Doddington , Program Manager, the Advanced Research Program Agency (ARPA) will give a lecture on "Software and Intelligent Systems Technology". For Canada J. Ladouceur will give a presentation of the activity of CEFRIO and of a project funded partly by this organisation. For Europe V.Parajon Collada Director at the European Union will present the Language Research Engineering (LRE) and Information Market Policy Actions (Impact) Programs. The Information Technology programs will also be presented. Tuesday 11, 2:00- 5:00 II- Workshop on "Multimedia Information Representation and Retrieval in USA and Europe" Co-chairs: Prof. A. Pentland (MIT, USA), Prof. K. Haase (MIT,USA), Dr. Ph. Aigrain (IRIT,France) Recent work on access to still and moving images will be presented, with special emphasis on automated analysis of images, user interfaces and content-based retrieval: - -content analysis and feature extraction, - -semantic models of still images and videos, - -time segmentation and structuring of video contents, - -retrieval and navigation by similarity, - -media-oriented knowledge bases and their application to information retrieval. PROGRAM OF DEMONSTRATIONS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS Prototypes of systems described in conference papers will be demonstrated during the breaks following the paper presentations. In addition there will be other prototypes demonstrated during a parallel session (time to be announced). These include: C.Balayer, H.Guyennet, F.Spies, M.Trehel, "The concepts of distributed groupware and multimedia applied to a drawing tool". Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Besancon(France) J.Karlgren, H.Karlgren, P.Pettersson, M.Nordstrom, B.Wahrolen, "Dilemma-A tool to ensure quality of new translations by using the earlier ones". SICS(Sweden) C.Retourna, P.Baldit, L.Quoniam, M.Roux, H.Dou, "Revealing some concepts in oral speech by a new method of indexing on some statistical criterion". Centre de Recherche Retrospective de Marseille, Faculte des Sciences de Saint Jerome(France) P.Lopisteguy, A.Perez, I.Usandizaga, J.Filgueira "Extension towards hypermedia of an object oriented database management system". Universidad del Pais Vasco(Spain) M.Lipshutz, S.Liebowitz Taylor "Automatic generation of hypertext from legacy documents". Unisys Corporation(U.S.) P.Maret, J.M.Pinon, D.Martin "Capitalisation of consultants'experience in document drafting". INSA, Laboratoire d'Ingenierie des Systemes(France) M.Lafazanis, B.Mamalis, P.Spirakis, B.Tampakas, A.Tsakalidis "FIRE: A flexible tool for efficient information retrieval". Computer Technology Institute(Greece) C.T.Yu, K.R.Nair, C.Liu, A.Aslandogan "Content based approximate picture retrieval", University of Illinois(U.S.) C.Lahanier, D.Meili, M.Aubert Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval Systems and Management Rockefeller University(U.S.) J.C.Lamirel, M.Crehange "Nomad: a documentary database interrogation system based on a symbolico- connectionnist model including multiple neural topographies and novelty detection". CRIN-CNRS(France) PRESENTATION OF PRODUCTS The RIAO94 conference is being held as electronic information processing is undergoing a profound revolution. At work or at home, digital access to electronic information is finally becoming a mass phenomenon. Until now , only a relatively restricted number of people, researchers mostly, have had access to a limited number of data bases. Today, not only the quantity of information but its diversity have become factors that everyone must deal with. Data is becoming more available but it is scattered over vast heterogeneous technical and social networks which are managed in a distributed fashion with varied methods and aims. The information seeker is confronted with new challenges, and must develop new work habits as he or she directly tracks the possibilities of multishaped, large and evolving databases. In this light, RIAO has adopted a different approach and a different presentation of product demonstrations. Horizontal application areas giving a wide view of full applications within a domain will be presented in conjunction with vertical enabling technologies that may be applied to any domain. In order to develop this new approach more fully we have extended the period for accepting new demonstration participants until September 1. Three main horizontal sectors have been selected as demonstration areas: Medicine, Space and Art. MEDICINE As Health Care Reforms are being initiated in Europe and in the US, much attention is being given to the future role of medical computing and telecommunications. At RIAO 94 recent developments relating to the Electronic Health Record of the future will be demonstrated. Some of the applications and themes presented: "The Visible Human " project from the National Library of Medicine. Tools for identifying shapes in medical images, extracting information dynamically from sequences of 2D images (MIT Multimedia Lab). Telemedicine with demonstrations from Europe via the World Wide Web. Also electronic data interchange through standardized messages, communication of medical images, the ultimate medical workstation. SPACE Space and aeronautic technologies have created large quantities of image data and vast stores of technical documentation. Information solutions in these areas will be demonstrated via applications such as: Spot Images'database of 3.5 million satellite photos, enriched at a rate of 2,000 images a day. Jouve will present a demonstration of its European-American application using CALS and SGML in technical documentation and their impact on searching for information. ART Virtual museum projects are numerous all over the world, as methods are being explored to produce Art databases, interfaces and research engines. Some applications to be presented: The NARCISSE project in the IMPACT program: Network of Art Research and Computer Image Systems in Europe. The RAMA project in the European Race program : Remote Access to Museum Archives. The San Francisco Museum of Art has recently developed a product entitled American Visions : OTHER SECTORS Demonstrations of new and innovative functions in the fields of Libraries and Legal Fields will also be shown. A demonstration will be given on the Tax Documentation Service containing legislation, interpretation and case law related to the Italian Taxation Domain, daily accessed by a very large number of users at all relevant Public Administration sites in Italy through a large private network and duly updated by means of an internal text acquisition and indexing process. Relevant functionalities such as query expansion/restriction and textual navigation as well as usage of specific dictionaries will be shown. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES As well as the presentation of the above horizontal application fields, vertical axes of enabling technologies will also be presented at RIAO94. Some of the best advanced products in the following fields will be present in the Product Demonstration section of RIAO94. A sample from each field is given. Information Retrieval: with demonstrations by pathsetters such as Fulcrum, Claritech... Software tools : Xerox Linguistic Tools; SGML information structuring tools; and other information management software. Networks Services: GROUPLENS news filtering from MIT and University of Minnesota, and others CD-ROM: SGML television dictionaries; from Italy, the Media Music system of navigation in a musical database. Interfaces: group requests; navigational assistance; intelligent agents. The Organizers of RIAO94 are still communicating with a number of further applications and product developers who will be present at the conference. The final list of the demonstrations will be available on September 10, 1994 and will be mailed on request and sent to participants who have mailed their registration form. APPLICATION COMMITTEE US Co-Chair: B. Glushko, Passage System(U.S.A.) French Co-Chair: J. Guidon, Universite Paris VII(France) D. Bearman, Editor of Archives and Museum Informatics(U.S.A.) C. Clergeau, Director of Laboratory, College de France(France) F.C. Lees, Director Information and Computing Services, Rockefeller University(U.S.A.) N. Paquel, Director of Canope REGISTRATION INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------------------- APPLICATION FORM FOR REGISTRATION NAME:________________________________________________ FIRST NAME:______________________________ AFFILIATION(short for badge):________________________ ADDRESS:_____________________________________________ ______________________________________________ CITY: ______________________________________________ STATE: ______________________________________________ ZIP CODE: __________________________________________ COUNTRY: ____________________________________________ TELEPHONE: __________________________________________ FAX: __________________________________________ E-MAIL: _____________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- Preregistration should be received by September 1, 1994. The standard registration fee for the conference is of $450 or 2.700 FF, if received before September 15, and $500 or 3.000 FF if received after that date. It includes admission to all sessions and demonstrations, luncheons from Tuesday through Thursday and the Conference proceedings. Please complete the Attached Application Form for Registration and send it for European participants to : C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu 75009 Paris, France enclosing a check made out to C.I.D. in French Francs or to C.A.S.I.S. in US dollars or bank transfer in French Francs to account : Number 000 50 06 548 1 Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France Checks will be accepted in FF on a French bank or in US $ on a US bank. In other cases, an exchange commission will be added at the current daily price. For participants from North America and other countries, please send the application form to : C.A.S.I.S. C/O Mr. P. Brodnitz 55 Perry Street # 4 A New York N.Y. 10014 with a check made out to C.A.S.I.S. or a bank transfer to account : Number 1 539 903 4 City Bank 460 Park Avenue New York 10022 Registration may be cancelled with a 90% refund if notification is received prior September 20, 1994. No refund will be granted after that date. SPECIAL EVENT A tour of historic Greenwich Village has been arranged for the evening of Wednesday, October 12. Following a guided bus tour over the cobblestone streets, a dinner will be served in a charming village restaurant. You may sign up for taking the tour at the beginning of the conference for a fee of $40. HOTEL RESERVATIONS A block of rooms has been reserved at several hotels in New York at a special rate for RIAO94 participants. When you make your reservation, please indicate that you are a participant of RIAO94 Conference. In most cases, rooms will only be held at a special rate until one month before the conference. 1) The Grammarcy Park Hotel 21st Street and Lexington avenue New York N.Y. 10010 Tel 1 800 221 40 83 Major credit cards are accepted rate : single $95 2) The Barbizon New York Hotel 140 East 63rd Street New York N.Y. 10021 Tel. (212) 888 5700 and 1 800 223 10 20 (USA) all major credit cards accepted International reservations should be faxed to : (212) 753 03 60 rate : single $95 3) Hotel Intercontinental New York 111 East 48th street New York N.Y. 10017 Tel. (212) 906 3110 Fax (212) 906 15 75 all major credit cards accepted rate : single or double : $180 4) The Paramount Hotel 235 West 46th street New York N.Y. 10006 all major credit cards accepted Tel (212) 764 55 00 Rate : single $148 5) Novotel New York 726 West 52nd street New York N.Y. 10019 Tel. (212) 315 01 00 Fax (212) 765 53 69 all major credit cards accepted Rate : single or double : $139 6) The Waldorf Astoria Hotel 301 Park Avenue New York N.Y. 10022 all major credit cards accepted Tel (212) 355 30 00 Rate : $229 Air Travel Special fares will be offered to go to New York from Europe. Discount rates will be available on a case-by-case basis Please contact Mr. William in Paris, Tel. 33-1-46 22 00 34 and Fax 33-1-47 54 07 51 INFORMATIONS: - - France: C.I.D. 36 rue Ballu Paris France tel: (1)42 85 04 75 Fax: 1 48 78 49 61 or 1 45 26 84 45 e-mail:CID@NURI.INRIA.FR - - U.S.A.: C.A.S.I.S. P. Brodnitz 45 Perry StreetJ#4A New York N.Y. 10014 tel. and fax: 212 741 14 21 e-mail:CID@NURI.INRIA.FR The Rockefeller University Ms. F. Azwade (Dr. F. Seitz' office) 1230 York Avenue New York N.Y. 10021 tel: (212) 327 8423 Fax: (212) 327 7559 Program Committee French co-chairman Professor J.L. Funck Brentano President du Centre Informatique de l'hopital Necker U.S. Co-chairman Dr. F. Seitz President Emeritus Rockefeller University J.P. Barthes (F) Univ. de Compiegne J.C. Bassano (F) Univ. d'Orleans C.Chrisment (F) Univ. Paul Sabatier Toulouse C.Dampney (AUS) Macquarie J.Depireux (B) Univ. de Liege J.Ducloy (F) CRIN D.Evans (US) Carnegie Mellon Univ. A.Giannetti (I) Sogei Roma G.Grefenstette (F) Rank Xerox D.J.Harman (US) Nat.Inst. of Standards and Technology U.Heid (D) Univ. von Stuttgart J.Ladouceur (CAN) Univ.Laval R.Marcus (US) MIT W.MARTIN (ND) Vrije Univ. Amsterdam L.Rau (US) General Electric R.S. Rosenberg (CAN) Univ.British Columbia J.Rouault (F) Univ. de Grenoble T.Saracevic (US) Rutgers Univ. B.Sharp (UK) Stafford Univ. P.E. Smith European Union U.Thiel (D) G.M.D.-I.P.S.I. Darmstadt B.Webber (US) Univ. of Pensylvania Y.Yamadori (J) Jipdec