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inf.enst.fr>Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS [deadline: November 8, 1999] =============== ================================================= conference: T H E E V O L U T I O N O F L A N G U A G E ================================================= Paris April 3-6, 2000 Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Tlcommunications Paris - France http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Dr. Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Professor Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh), Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London), Professor Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije Universiteit Brussel). LOCAL ORGANISATION: Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Laleh Ghadakpour (CREA), Frdric Kaplan (Sony CSL), Luc Steels (Sony CSL), Franois Yvon (ENST). This will be the third conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with those of modern Darwinism. The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists, neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with the question of the origin and evolution of language. Provisional PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: - ----------------------------- Jean Aitchison (Worcester College), Robert C. Berwick (M.I.T.), Derek Bickerton (Univ. Hawa), Melissa Bowerman* (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory), Ren Carr (ENST), Bernard Comrie (University of Southern California), Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Jean-Marie Hombert* (MSH Rhne-Alpes), James R. Hurford (University of Edinburgh), Judy Kegl* (University of Southern Maine), Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh), Chris Knight (University of East London), Andr Langaney (Muse de l'Homme), Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington), Michael Studdert-Kenedy* (Haskins Laboratories), Luc Steels (Sony CSL & Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Bernard Victorri (ENS Ulm). * [to be confirmed] Submission Instructions ======================= Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or short papers (from 1 to 4 pages, max. 2000 words). Submitted papers will be refereed and selected for oral presentation (25/30 min) on the basis of quality and relevance to the Conference topics. Accepted abstracts and papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings and will be made accessible through the web. Copies of the proceedings will be available at the Conference. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to submit full length papers for a volume to be published after the Conference by an international publisher. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically (MS Word preferred, but most formats will be recognised). Please email your submission to evolangMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
informatics.muni.cz>- ---------------------------- CFP ------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS := +------------------------------------------------------------+ | SOFSEM'99 | | | | XXVI-th Seminar on Current Trends | | in Theory and Practice of Informatics | +------------------------------------------------------------+ November 27 - December 4, 1999 Devet-skal hotel, Milovy Czech Republic more information -> URL: http://www.sofsem.cz ==================== Organized by CSCS, Czech Society for Computer Science DCIT, Prague Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Prague Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno Utrecht University in co-operation with ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - ----- Subject - ----- SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is an eight-day international conference devoted to the theory and the practice of software systems. Its program consists of a series of invited talks given by prominent academic professionals and researchers. Contributed talks and posters of participants are also included in the program of SOFSEM. The working language is English. ------------------------------- Invited talks and contributed talks are published by Springer-Verlag in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series and distributed at the seminar. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sofsem'99 is the 26th in the series of Sofsem seminars held annually.| | It is intended to foster cooperation among people working in various | | areas of computer science. Its scientific program offers a unique | | opportunity to gain a relatively quick and representative | | overview about the selected parts of computer science, | | presented by top researchers. | | Its social program provides an optimum framework for discussions, | | meetings, establishing contacts, and socializing. Especially suited | | for young computer scientists. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= Topics Committees Program of Invited Talks Submissions Contributed Talks Posters Deadlines Contact Addresses, Sofsem www-page Fees Cancellation Financial support Exhibitions Sponsors Local Arrangements, Venue, History Registration REGISTRATION FORM AND PAYMENT NOTICE - ---- Topics - ---- Trends in Theory Core Technologies Software and Information Engineering From Data to Knowledge Applications - -------- Committees - -------- Advisory Board -------------- D. Bjorner, (UN University, IIST, Macau), P. van Emde Boas, (CWI Amsterdam, NL), M. Broy, (TU Munich, DE), M. Chytil, (ANIMA Praha, Prague, CZ), G. Gottlob, (TU Vienna, A), K. G. Jeffery, (CLRC RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK), M. Zemankova, (NSF, Washington DC, USA) Steering Committee --------------- J. Wiedermann, Chair (Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ) B. Rovan, Vice-Chair (Comenius University, Bratislava, SK) K. G. Jeffery (CLRC RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK) J. Pavelka (DCIT, Prague, CZ) F. Plasil (Charles University, Prague, CZ) I. Privara (Institute of Informatics and Statistics, Bratislava, SK) J. Staudek (Masaryk University, Brno, CZ) Programme Committee ------------------- Jan Pavelka, DCIT, Prague, CZ, Chair Gerard Tel, Utrecht Univ, NL, Co-Chair Bernadette Charron, LIX Paris, FR Linda van der Gaag, Utrecht University, NL Torben Hagerup, MPI Saarbrucken, DE Petr Hanacek, Tech. University Brno, CZ Vaclav Hlavac, CTU Prague, CZ Keith G. Jeffery, CLRC, UK Shmuel Katz, Technion, IL Mojmir Kretinsky, Masaryk University, CZ Klaus-Jorn Lange, Universitat Tubingen, DE Borivoj Melichar, CTU Prague, CZ Frantisek Plasil, Charles University, CZ Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, CZ Igor Privara, INFOSTAT, SK Branislav Rovan, Comenius University, SK Peter Ruzicka, Comenius University, SK Arno Siebes, CWI Amsterdam, NL Vaclav Sebesta, ICS Acad. of Sciences, CZ Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers Uni, SE Peter van Emde Boas, University of Amsterdam, NL Josef Vasica, DCIT Prague, CZ Filip Zavoral, Charles University, CZ Jiri Sochor, Masaryk University Brno, CZ, Secretary Organizing Committee -------------------- Jan Staudek, MU Brno, CZ, Chair Miroslav Bartosek, Petr Hanacek, Dana Komarkova, Ales Krenek, Zdenek Malcik, Tomas Pitner, Petr Sojka, Tomas Staudek - ----------- Invited Talks - ----------- Trends in Theory Jozef Gruska, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ Quantum Challenges Juraj Hromkovic, University of Aachen, DE Stability of approximation algorithms for hard optimization problems Wojciech Rytter, Warsaw University, PL Algorithms on compressed strings and arrays Core Technologies Wolfgang Appelt,GMD, Sankt Augustin, DE WWW based collaboration with the BSCW System Christian Bac, Guy Bernard, Didier Le Tien, INT Evry, FR Middleware and Quality of Service Jean-Marie Rifflet, Universite Paris 7, FR Chorus internals Noemi Rodrigues, Catholic University Rio de Janeiro, BR Dynamic Reconfiguration of CORBA-based Applications Doaitse Swierstra, University Utrecht, NL Parsing Ghica van Emde Boas, IBM Nederland N.V., NL IBM San Francisco: Java based business application components and new ways to develop them Software and Information Engineering Paolo Atzeni, University of ROMA III, IT Data bases and the World Wide Web, accomplishments and challenges Juan Biccaregui, CLRC-RAL, UK Exploiting formality in software engineering Ronald Cramer, ETH Zurich, CH Secure Multi-Party Computation Max Garzon, University Memphis, US Biocomputing Vaclav Rajlich, Wayne State University, Detroit, US Software change and evolution Peter Sloot, WINS, NL Distributed Simulation with Cellular Automata: Applications and Architecture >From Data to Knowledge Alejandro P. Buchmann, T. University, Darmstadt, DE Data warehousing Max Garzon, University Memphis, US Knowledge applications on human-computer interactions Applications Martin Bogdan, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, University of Tuebingen, DE Application of artificial neural networks for different engineering problems Maxime Crochemore, University of Marne-la-Vallie, FR String algorithms and text compression Emil Pelikan, Czech Academy of Science, CZ Principles of Forecasting Dan Roth, University of Illinois, US Neural Nets Applications Willy Schilders, Philips Labs, NL Electronics design Stephan Tschoeke, University Paderborn, DE Real Life Project with Lufthansa - --------- Submissions - --------- The categories for submissions include Contributed Talks and Posters. Each submission should have a title giving the following information: - name, address, e-mail address, and phone/fax number of each author; - specification of one of the authors as the contact person. To submit, please send a postscript file of your contribution via e-mail. With each submission, please e-mail also an abstract in plain ASCII. Any other form of electronic submission should be consulted in advance with the PC sectretary. Contributed Talks ----------------- 8-page drafts in English are expected. A full camera-ready copy of contributed talks on current topics in Computer Science should be no longer than 8-pages. Presentation time for contributed talks is 25 minutes. Contributed talks will be included in the Proceedings of SOFSEM '99, published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag. The Organizing Committee will supply the authors of accepted contributed talks with detailed technical instructions and the LaTeX style file for the preparation of the camera-ready copy. Posters ------- We actively encourage posters describing work in progress. Final versions of two A4 page poster are expected. Deadlines --------- Submission of the contributed talk/poster May 7, 1999 Notification of acceptance / rejection June 30, 1999 Camera-ready copy of the talks August 25, 1999 - --------------- Contact Addresses - --------------- Sofsem www-page --------------- http://www.sofsem.cz Communications and enquires should be adressed to: ------------------------------------------------- sofsemMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue