There have been two Text REtrieval conferences frRECs); TREC-1 in November 1992, with 28 participants, and TREC-2 in August 1993, with 31 participants. This conference was inspired by the very successful MUC effort, and by the availability of the new large English test collection built for TIPSTER. Whereas an important goal for ARPA was to investigate a broad range of detection (retrieval) tech...

T here is always a frisson of anticipation when heading to a conference. It is an opportunity to renew acquaintances, to share your latest results—or at least those that you think are safe to talk about—and to find out what progress has been made on recent exciting work. Increasingly, however, the reality is that conferences are more like Rock concerts where the main act is clearly lip-syncing ...

Conference peer review constitutes a human-computation process whose importance cannot be overstated: not only it identifies the best submissions for acceptance, but, ultimately, impacts future of whole research area by promoting some ideas and restraining others. A surge in number received leading AI conferences has challenged sustainability increasing burden on pool qualified reviewers which ...

Since its inception, analytic philosophy has failed to attain dominance in Japan. However, the 21st century seen gain traction among Japanese philosophers. This paper, which examines status quo of Japan since 2000, consists two parts. The first part deals primarily with organizations—specifically, relevant associations, journals, conferences, universities, and publishers are illustrated. second...

22 IJCAI-11: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (July 16–22) 21 IJCAI-09: Pasadena, California, USA (July 11–17) 20 IJCAI-07: Hyderabad, India (January 6–12) 19 IJCAI-05: Edinburgh, Scotland (July 30–August 5) 18 IJCAI-03: Acapulco, Mexico (August 9–15) 17 IJCAI-01: Seattle, Washington, USA (August 4–10) 16 IJCAI-99: Stockholm, Sweden (July 31–August 6) 15 IJCAI-97: Nagoya, Japan (August 23–29) 14 IJC...

Zebrafish Development and Genetics April 24 28 Organized by: Nigel Holder, King’s College London, UK Nancy Hopkins, Massachusetts institute of Technology Philip Ingham, imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Max-Plan&-lnstitut fur Entwicklungsbiologie, Germany Early Development of Xenopus Laewis April 12 21 Instructors: Robert Grainger, University of Virginia Hazel Sive,...

Hermite subdivision algorithms are mainly designed to interpolate functional values and associated derivatives. These schemes process non-scalar data (functional values and derivatives), and can be rewritten as non-stationary vector algorithms, although their non-stationarity is of a very specific kind. In this talk we present new families of approximating subdivision schemes derived from inter...

A Postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Stephen A. Osmani at the Weis Center for Research to study cell cycle regulation (see EMBO J 1995 14 986-994 and 995-1003). Experience in genetics or molecular biology or biochemistry a plus but a strong publication record most important. Please send CV, copies of publications and names of three references to: Postdoctoral Position Gastr...

This paper describes a concept to support scalable multicast communications for small audio / video conferencing groups in the Internet. The solution presented in this paper is based on extensions of IPv6 and the session description protocol (SDP). A goal of the concept called Multicast for Small Conferences (MSC) is the smooth deployment in the Internet. 1. Scalable Multicast Techniques Teleco...

xvii This volume constitutes the twentieth IJCAI conference. The locations and times of all twenty IJCAI conferences are as follows: 20 IJCAI-07: Hyderabad, India (January 6–12) 19 IJCAI-05: Edinburgh, Scotland (July 30–August 5) 18 IJCAI-03: Acapulco, Mexico (August 9–15) 17 IJCAI-01: Seattle, Washington, USA (August 4–10) 16 IJCAI-99: Stockholm, Sweden (July 31–August 6) 15 IJCAI-97: Nagoya, ...