CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
RIAO'97 CONFERENCE
Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet
June 25-27, 1997
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS]
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Brief Description :
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Every third year, the "CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES
d'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE" (CID) Paris, France, along with various
international affiliates, organizes a conference called RIAO
(Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval / Recherche d'Information
Assistee par Ordinateur)
"RIAO 97" will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO'85 was held in
Grenoble, France; RIAO'88 in Cambridge, MA, USA (MIT); RIAO'91 in
Barcelona, Spain; and RIAO'94 in New York City (Rockefeller University).
The preparation of RIAO 97 started many months ago and the Conference will
take place on June 25-27, 1997, at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
RIAO conferences, all of which have had printed proceedings, have the
special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative
product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific
papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are
subject to a rigorous selection process. While commercial displays, as
such, are not promulgated, the mix of scientific expertise and
state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical
examination of both with the potential for advances in product development
and sponsorship as well as the initiation of lines for further, critical
research investigations.
RIAO is prepared by a Scientific Committee and an Application Committee.
Calls for papers and calls for innovative products are sent worldwide. A
third committee, the Organization Committee is in charge of general
coordination.
The next conference, RIAO 97 will be focused on the new problems resulting
from the network development. This development impinges on all domains of
information retrieval and data diffusion, and amplifies the problem of
information filtering.
Sponsors
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- Communaute Europeenne, Bruxelles, Belgique
- Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, Paris, France
- Ministere de l'Industrie, des Postes et des Telecommunications,
Paris, France
- France Telecom
- Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montreal (CRIM), Canada
- Ministere de l'Industrie du Commerce de la Science et de la Technologie
du Quebec
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FINAL PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
GENERAL SESSION
June 25, 1997
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9:00-9:15 a.m WELCOMING STATEMENT
Dr B. Robaire
Vice Principal, Research
McGill University, Canada
9:15-9:30 a.m RIAO97' Introduction
J. Thuiller
Professor at the College de France
President of the C.I.D.
9:30-10:00 a.m Invited Speaker
GILS Projet
N. Brodie
National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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SESSION 1: INFORMATION DISCOVERY
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Chairman: L. Devroye, McGill University
10:00-10:25 a.m "The Do-I-Care Agent: Effective Social Discovery and
Filtering on the Web"
M.S. Ackerman, B. Starr, M. Pazzani
University of California, USA
10:25-10:50 a.m "Mining Information In Order To Extract Hidden And
Strategical Information"
T.Dkaki, B. Dousset, J. Mothe
Universite P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France
10:50-11:20 a.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 2: VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR INFORMATION NAVIGATION
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Chairman: S. Tohme, ENST France
11:20-11:45 a.m "Design Issues for World Wide Web Navigation Visualisation
Tools"
A. Cockburn, S. Jones
University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand
11:45-12:10 a.m "Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing"
A. Wexelblat, P. Maes
Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
12:10-12:35 p.m "Using terminological base for Term-based information
retrieval"
J-Y Nie, Universite de Montreal, Canada
12:35-2:05 p.m LUNCH
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SESSION 3: AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING, REPOSITORIES
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Chairman: G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre
2:05-2:30 p.m "Development of a Document Summarization System for
Effective Information Services"
D. H. Jang, S. H. Myaeng
Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea
2:30-2:55 p.m "Automatic summarization on the Web? RAFI: A system for
summarizing using indicating fragments"
A. Lehmam, Universite de Nancy II, France
2:55-3:20 p.m "Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information
Repositories"
B. Chidlovskii, U. M. Borghoff, P.Y. Chevalier
Rank Xerox Research Centre, France
3:20-3:45 p.m "Annotating the World Wide Web using Natural Language"
B. Katz, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA
3:45-4:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 4: LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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Chairman: R. Cencioni, European Community
4:15-4:40 p.m "IRENA: Information Retrieval Engine based on Natural
Language Analysis"
A.T. Arampatzis ,T. Tsoris, C.H.A. Koster.
Patras, Greece and Netherlands
4:40-5:05 p.m "The Effect of Syntactic Phrase Indexing on Retrieval
Performance for Dutch Texts"
R. Pohlmann , W. Kraaij
University of Twente, Organisation for Applied Scientific
Research (TNO), Netherlands.
5:05-5:30 p.m "Using Simulated Annealing to Understand Natural Language
Texts"
S.A. Laribi, G. Desrocques, A. Laribi, J.C. Bassano
Universite d'Orleans, France. Geneva Univeristy, Switzerland
5:30-5:55 p.m "An Analysis of Statistical and Syntactic Phrases"
M. Mitra, C. Buckley, A. Singhal, C. Cardie
Cornell University, USA
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June 26, 1997
SESSION 5: MULTILINGUAL APPROACH
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Chairman: C. Fluhr, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique. France
9:00-9:25 a.m "Multi-Language Text Indexing for Internet Retrieval"
M.Wechsler, P. Sheridan, P. Schauble
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
9:25-9:50 a.m "Adaptative Filtering of Multilingual Document Streams"
D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA
9:50-10:15 a.m "A domain Specific Lexicon Acquisition Tool for
Cross-Language Information Retrieval"
D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, W. Kraaij
CTIT, Twente University, Netherlands
10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 6: IRS ARCHITECTURE
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Chairman: R. Marcus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
10:45-11:10 a.m "EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic
Engineering"
B. Baldwin , C. Doran, J.C. Reynar
11:10-11:35 a.m "Information Retrieval On The Word Wide Web using a Decision
Making System"
F. Corvaisier, A. Mille, J.M. Pinon, INSA, Lyon, France
11:35-12:00 a.m "A Multiagent Architecture for Information Retrieval on the
World-Wide Web"
V.N. Gudivada, S.P. Tolety
Wayne State University, University of Missouri. USA
12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH
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SESSION 7: INFORMATION EXTRACTION
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Chairman: C. Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes. France
1:30-2:45 p.m Panel
TREC in Many Languages
* TREC-5: English
D. Harman
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
* TREC-5: Spanish and Chinese
A. Smeaton
Dublin City University, Ireland
*The Amaryllis Project
C. Fluhr
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France
2:45-3:10 p.m "Integrated text categorisation and information extraction
using pattern matching and linguistic processing"
W. J. Black, L. Gilardoni, F. Rinaldi, R Dressel
UMIST, UK. Quinary Spa, Italy
3:10-3:35 p.m "On-Line Resource Discovery using Natural Language"
O.R. Zaiane , A. Fall, S. Rochefort, V. Dahl, P. Tarau
Simon Fraser University, Canada
3:35-4:00 p.m "Coupling information retrieval and information extraction:
A new text technology for gathering information from the web"
R. Gaizauskas, A.M. Robertson
University of Sheffield, UK
4:00-4:30 p.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 8: DOCUMENT / RELEVANCE RANKING
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Chairman: D.J. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.
4:30-4:55 p.m "Summarizing Similarities and differences Among Related
Documents"
I. Mani , E. Bloedorn
The MITRE Corporation, USA
4:55-5:20 p.m "Relevance Ranking for One to Three Term Queries"
C.L.A. Clarke , G.V. Cormack, E.A. Tudhope
University of Toronto. Canada
5:20-5:45 p.m "Space Optimizations for Total Ranking"
D.R. Cutting, J.O. Pedersen
Excite Inc., USA
5:45-6:10 p.m "A Similarity-Based Agent for Internet Searching"
T.G. Rose, P. J. Wyard, Canon, UK
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June 27, 1997
SESSION 9: IRS ARCHITECTURE- II
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Chairman: U. Heid, Stuttgart University, Germany
9:00-9:25 a.m "ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing
Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery"
F. Menczer , R.K. Belew
University of California, USA
9:25-9:50 a.m "Cobra: A new approach to IR System design"
T. Mills, K. Moody, K. Rodden
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. UK
9:50-10:15 a.m "Interactive Image Retrieval by Means of Abductive Inference"
A. Muller, A. Everts
GMD. Germany
10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 10: QUERY REFORMULATION
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Chairman: J.C. Bassano, Universite d'Orleans France.
10:45-11:10 a.m "Query modification based on relevance backpropagation"
M. Boughanem, C. Soule-Dupuy
Universite de Limoges,Universite de Toulouse 1, France
11:10-11:35 a.m "Query ReFormulation on the Internet: Empirical Data and the
Hyperindex Search Engine"
P.D. Bruza , S. Dennis
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
11:35-12:00 a.m SQLET: Short Query Linguistic Expansion Techniques:
Palliating One or Two-word Queries by Providing Intermediate
Structure to WWW Pages
G. Grefenstette
Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France
12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH
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SESSION 11: INFORMATION FILTERING
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Chairman: V. Semenova, ANALIT, Moscow
1:30-1:55 p.m "Probabilistic Learning for Information Filtering"
G. Amati , F. Crestani, F. Ubaldini, S. de Nardis
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Universita di Padova, Universita di
Roma, Italy
1:55-2:20 p.m "Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A
Comparative Study of Part-of-speech Tagging and Supertagging"
R. Chandrasekar , B. Srinivas
University of Pennsylvania, USA
2:20-2:45 p.m "Querying Hierarchical Text and Acyclic Hypertext with
Generalized Context-Free Grammars"
Y. Marcoux, M. Sevigny
Universite de Montreal, Canada
2:45-3:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 12: INFORMATION EXTRACTION II
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Chairman: J.P. Haton, Universite Henri-Poincare, Nancy I, France
3:15-3:40 p.m "A probabilistic model of Passage Categorization"
M. Iwayama, T. Tokunaga
Advanced Research Laboratory, Japan
3:40-4:05 p.m "Knowledge Discovery From Natural Language Texts"
U. Hahn, K. Schnattinger
Freiburg University, Germany
4:05-4:30 p.m "Extraction of Index Words from Manuals"
H. Nakagawa
Yokohama National University, Japan
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SESSION 13: JUDICIAL PROBLEMS
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Chairman: J. Perriere, C.I.D. France
4:30-4:55 p.m "Limits of Using Data"
Maitre Feral-Schuhl
Ordre Des Avocats du Barreau de Paris, France.
4:55-5:20 p.m "Data Security"
Maitre G. Arendt
President of Computer Commission of the International
Union of Lawyers, Luxemburg
5:20-5:45 p.m "Security Concerns On The Intranet"
Maitre Landry
Montreal, Canada.
Union Internationale des Avocats.
5:45-6:15 p.m Conclusions
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SPECIAL SESSION
Cooperation program between France and Quebec
Linguistic and knowledge engineering
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Chairman : S. Chaudiron, program coordinator for France
(Ministry for education and research, DISTNB)
9:00 - 9:15 a.m Presentation of the program
Antoine Mynard,
Attache pour la Science et la
Technologie, Consulat general de
France au Quebec
9:15 - 9:45 a.m Tools for Lexicographers: Applications
of the Explanatory and Combinatorial
Lexicography
Alain Polguere,
Gilles Serasset
Departement de linguistique et de
traduction, Universite de Montreal;
GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Universite
Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I.
9:45 - 10:15 a.m Automatic processing of synonymy
Gaston Gross, Andre Clas
Laboratoire de linguistique et
informatique-UMR 195,
Universite Paris 13, France.;
GRESLET, Universite de Montreal.
10:15 - 10:45 a.m The Semantics of Spatial
Expressions and the Voronoi Model
A. Gryl, Geoffrey Edwards
LIMSI, Universite de Paris Sud;
Centre de Recherche en geomatique,
Universite Laval.
10:45 - 11:00 a.m Emergentist classifiers and
computationnally enhanced cognition:
applications to text analysis and
diagnosis.
Vincent Rialle, Jean-Guy Meunier
Laboratoire TIMC, IMAG, Universite
Joseph Fourier ; Laboratoire d'analyse
de l'information, Universite du Quebec
a Montreal.
10:45 - 11:00 a.m BREAK
Chairman Claude Fleury, program coordinator for Quebec,
Ministere des relations internationales du Quebec
11:00 - 11:30 a.m Connecting "What to say?" and
"How to say it?" components in a
text generation system
Laurence Danlos, Guy Lapalme
TALANA, Universite Paris 7; DIRO,
Universite de Montreal.
11:30 - 12:00 Recycling the results of robust
parsers to identify term variants
Benoit Habert, Suzanne Bertrand-
Gastaldy, Adeline Nazarenko, Fernande
Dupuis, Elie Naulleau, Monique Lemieux
ENS Fontenay; Universite de Montreal;
LIPN; UQAM; DER/EDF;
12:00 - 12:30 p.m The integration of French language
processing and user features in an
information retrieval system
Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Jian-Yun Nie
CLIPS-IMAG, Universite Joseph
Fourier; Universite de Montreal.
12:30 - 1:00 a.m Text retrieval and filtering using
concept-based clustering method,
Jacques Guizol, Ruben Gonzalez Rubio
Laboratoire d'informatique de
Marseille, Universite de Mediterranee,
et Universite de Sherbrooke.
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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
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Registration via the WWW at
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97
or by e-mail: riao97@irin.univ-nantes.fr
or by fax at the CID: (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45
or by surface mail:
CID, 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France
CID, c/o Constantin and co., 575 Madison Ave, 25th Floor, NY, NY
10022, USA
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Registration Fees
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(before June 1, 1997): US$ 475 or CA$ 650 or 415 ECUS
(from June 1, 1997): US$ 530 or CA$ 725 or 460 ECUS
Students (presenting valid Student ID):
(before June 1, 1997): US$ 315 or CA$ 435 or 275 ECUS
(from June 1, 1997): US$ 390 or CA$ 530 or 340 ECUS
Registration fees can be made by bank transfer:
in US dollars:
CID/CASIS No: 02 050 25 061 2
Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre,
89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France
or
CASIS No: 15 39 90 34
City Bank,
460 Park Avenue and 57th Street, NY, NY 10022 USA
in Canadian dollars:
CID No: 09-909-21 (No of transit: 0891)
Banque Nationale du Canada,
700 Bd Rene Levesque Ouest
Montreal (Quebec) H3B 1XS
in ECUs:
CID No: 055 500 65 48 1
Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre,
89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France
For Credit Card payments, only VISA Card can be accepted in writing or
by faxing request to C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France,
fax (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45.
Registration includes access to all presentations and sessions,
including the Working Group,Thursday morning, June 26th, and a copy of
the proceedings. On-Site Registration will take place on Tuesday June
24 from 5 pm, and on Wednesday June 25, from 8 am on.
Telephones accepting credit cards are available throughout the University.
Lunches can be taken at the University Cafeteria, 3840 McTavish Street.
Lunch tickets will be available at the Registration Desk for $10 (Canadian)
per ticket.
McGill University is located in the center of Montreal and numerous
other restaurants are available nearby.
An optional visit and dinner will be organized for RIAO'97 participants
June 26th at 7 p.m.
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AIRFARE AND HOTELS
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Reductions in air fare will be possible for flights leaving from
France. Contact the CID before June 1, 1997.
A block of rooms have been reserved at several hotels in Montreal
at a special rate for RIAO97 participants.
When you make your reservation, please indicate that you are a participant
of RIAO97 Conference. In most cases, rooms will only be held at a special
rate until one month before the conference.
Hotels list
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Chateau de Versailles
1659 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, Quebec
H3H 1E3
Tel : (514) 933-3611
Fax: (514) 933-6867
prix: single $ 89 per night
Castel Durocher
3488 Durocher
Montreal, Quebec
H2X 2E1
Tel : (514) 282-1697
Fax: (514) 282-0025
prix: single $ 85 per night
Delta Montreal
450 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T4
Tel : (514) 286-1986
Fax: (514) 284-4306
prix: single $ 119 per night
Howard Johnson
475 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2L9
Tel : (514) 842-3961
Fax: (514) 842-0945
prix: single $ 98 per night
Best Western Ville Marie Hotel
3407 Peel Street
Montreal, Quebec
Tel : (514) 288-4141
Fax: (514) 288-3021
prix: single $ 99 per night
Manoir Ambrose
3422 rue Stanley
Montreal Canada
H3A IR8
Tel : (514) 288-6922
Fax: (514) 288-5757
prix: single $ 80 per night
Manoir Sherbrooke
157 rue Sherbrooke West
H2X 1C7
Tel : (514) 285-0895
Fax: (514) 284-1125
prix: single $ 80 par nuit
Casa Bella
264 rue Sherbrooke West
H2X 1X9
Tel : (514) 849-2777
Fax: (514) 849-1126
prix: single $ 80 per night
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Programme Committee
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Canadian Co-Chair :
L. DEVROYE McGill University, Montreal (Canada).
French Co-Chair :
C. CHRISMENT Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France).
Members:
J. ARAMBERRI (ES) Universidad del Pais Vasco
J.C. BASSANO (FR) Universite d'Orleans
P. BRUZA (AU) Queensland University of Technology
R. CENCIONI (CEE) Commission of the European Communities
D.G. ELLIMAN (UK) University of Nottingham
C. FLUHR (FR), CEA, Saclay
G. GREFENSTETTE (FR) Rank Xerox
J.C. GUEDON (CA) Universite de Montreal
J. HAN (CA) Simon Fraser University
D. HARMAN (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology
J.P. HATON (FR) Universite de Nancy
U. HEID (GR) University of Stuttgart
C. JACQUEMIN (FR) Universite de Nantes
G. KIKUI (JP) NTT Information and Communication Laboratory
J. KLAVANS (US) Colombia University, New York
R.R. KORFHAGE (US) University of Pittsburgh
J. H. LEE (KR) Korea Research and Development Center
P. LOPISTEGUY (ES) Universidad del Pais Vasco
R. MARCUS (USA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B. MERIALDO (FR) Institut EURECOM
A. MOFFAT (AU) University of Melbourne
J. MOTHE (FR) Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
S. H. MYAENG (KR) Chungnam National University
T. PRABHAKAR (IN) Indian Institute of Technology of Kampur
S.T. SARACEVIC (US) Rutgers University
P. SCHAUBLE (SZ) ETH Zentrum, Zurich
F. SEBASTIANI (IT) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa
A. SEFFAH (CA) CRIM, Montreal
V. SEMENOVA (RU) ANALIT, LTD
S. TOHME (FR) ENST, PARIS
R. WILKINSON (AU) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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Application Committee
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Co-Chair: A.EL ZAIM
Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal. Canada
Co-Chair: C. BROCHARD
Canope. France
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Organization Committee
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Coordination: J. PERRIERE, Secretaire general du C.I.D
P. BRODNITZ USA
S. MALLEM France
J.Y. NIE Canada
A. SAOUDI France
