Conferences and Workshops

 This section provides a combined listing of relevant conferences and workshops related to any of the different research areas to be addressed in the FLUIDS Technology Watch activity.

HCI Int. '99:

8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , Munich, Germany, August 22-27, 1999.
The conference will also address various aspects related to intelligent user interfaces.

ASC'99:

IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing , Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 9-12, 1999.
The topics to be covered include also natural language processing and intelligent user interfaces.

SIGGRAPH'99:

26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques , Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 8-13, 1999.
The annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH ) is one of the leading events for disseminating new results related to research, systems, and applications in the area of advanced computer graphics.

IJCAI'99:

16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Stockholm, Sweden, July 31 - August 6, 1999.
The biennal IJCAI is the main international gathering of researchers in AI. The conference covers all aspects of current research in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

AAAI'99:

16th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Orlando, FL, USA, July 18-22, 1999.
The national summer conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence constitutes an important forum for the scientific interchange among Artificial Intelligence researchers and practitioners from all over the world.

UM'99:

Seventh International Conference on User Modeling , Banff, Canada, June 20-24, 1999.
The biennial user modeling conference constitutes a primary forum for disseminating the results of academic and industrial research in the field of user modeling.

EACL'99:

9th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL , Bergen, Norway, June 8-12, 1999.
The EACL Conference addresses all research topics in the field of computational linguistics including natural language generation as well as multimodal interfaces.

ICMCS'99:

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems , Florence, Italy, June 7 - 11, 1999.
Addressing technical issues, theory and practice in the field of multimedia computing and communications, the conference is also concerned with intelligent multimedia systems.

CHI'99:

ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems , Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 15-20, 1999.
The annual CHI conference is the leading forum for the exchange of ideas on all aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI) and it will also provide contributions related to various aspects of intelligent user interfaces.

AGENTS'99:

Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents , Seattle, WA, USA, May 1-5, 1999.
Life-like qualities for interface agents as well as user modeling are among the technical issues to be addressed.

PAAM'99:

Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents , London, UK, April 19-21, 1999.
The event will also address the use of agent technology in the context of intelligent user interfaces.

AAAI SSS'99:

1999 Spring Symposium Series of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence , Stanford University, CA, USA, March 22-24, 1999.
Among the seven symposia presented this time, the one related to ``Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace'' is of particular interest.

SV'99:

10th Conference Simulation and Visualization '98 , Magdeburg, Germany, March 5-6, 1999.
This series of annual meetings attracts also contributions related to intelligent user interfaces and knowledge-based graphics generation. Conference languages are German and English.

IUI'99:

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces , Los Angeles, CA, January 5-8, 1999.
This conference series provides a major forum for outstanding research and development on all aspects of intelligent interfaces.

TWLT14:

14th Twente Workshop on Language Technology , Twente, The Netherlands, December 7-8, 1998.
According to its specific theme ``Language Technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval'' this workshop will focus on the increasingly important role of human language technology in the indexing and accessing of written and spoken documents, video material and/or images, and on the role of language technology for cross-language retrieval and information extraction.

RIFRA'98:

International Workshop on Extraction, Filtering and Automatic Summarization , Sfax, Tunisia, November 11-14, 1998.
Automatic text summarization constitutes a very interesting issue from the point of view of the natural language generation. An explicit aim of the workshop is to establish future collaboration between researchers, users, and industrials in the field of automatic summarization.

UI4ALL'98:

4th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All , Stockholm, Sweden, October 19-21, 1998.
This annual workshop series addresses in particular current research issues related to the field of intelligent user interfaces. The emphasis of the fourth workshop is on methodologies, techniques, guidelines and tools, which contribute to the accessibility of the web environment, both at the application and the information content level.

VIS'98:

9th IEEE Visualization Conference , Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, October 18-23, 1998.
This series of annual conferences covers current research issues concerning all areas of visualization and addresses developers and users of visualization methods across all of science, engineering, medicine, business, and entertainment fields.

WECC'98:

First Workshop on Embodied Conversational Characters , Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, October 12-15, 1998.
This new conference series is specifically concerned with intelligent user interfaces based on conversational characters, i.e. autonomous, anthropomorphic, animated figures that have the ability to communicate through multiple modalities, including spoken language, facial expressions, and gestures.

ABIS-98:

6th German Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Software Systems , Erlangen, Germany, October 7-9, 1998.
The workshops in this series are specifically concerned with theoretical and pratical aspects of user modeling. The conference language is German.

LLC'98:

Lifelike Computer Characters '98 , Snowbird, UT, USA, October 6-9, 1998.
The purpose of this annual workshop series is to bring together researchers from a variety of fields who share interests in the creation of synthetic computer characters.

KONVENS'98:

4. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache -- 4th Conference on Natural Language Processing , Bonn, Germany, October 5-7, 1998.
Subjects of the conference are all areas (including natural language generation) of language processing dealing with language in its written or spoken form. Conference languages are German and English.

IBERAMIA'98:

Sixth Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Lisbon, Portugal, October 5-9, 1998.
The conference covers the full range of Artificial Intelligence research and is concerned with both theoretical and foundational issues as well as applications. Besides Portuguese and Spanish, English has been adopted as official conference language.

MIS'98:

Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems , Istanbul, Turkey, September 24-26, 1998.
The annual workshop series intends to cover all aspects of multimedia information systems, including techniques from the field of Artificial Intelligence.

AIMSA'98:

8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications , Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 21-23, 1998.
The AIMSA conference series provides a biennial forum for the presentation of Artificial Intelligence research and development covering the full range of topics in AI.

AIMTRW'98:

Artificial Intelligence Meets the Real World '98: Lessons Learned , Stamford, CT, September 17-18, 1998.
The conference includes a special panel on ``Fielding Intelligent Agents in the Real World'' which will also be concerned with intelligent interface agents.

IFAC-MMS'98:

7th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IEA Symposium on Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Man-Machine Systems , Kyoto, Japan, September 16-18, 1998.
The conference will also address aspects related to the specific field of intelligent user interfaces.

KI'98:

22nd German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Bremen, Germany, September 15-17, 1998.
Conference languages are German and English.

EHCI'98:

7th IFIP Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction , Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 14-18, 1998.
The topics to be addressed include in particular many aspects of intelligent user interface technology.

Multimedia'98:

Sixth ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition , Bristol, UK, September 12-16, 1998.
The conference is concerned with all aspects of multimedia technology and systems.

DEUMS'98:

IFIP Working Conference on Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems , Stuttgart, Germany, September 9-11, 1998.
The conference focusses on design aspects of (intelligent and conventional) multimedia-based user interfaces.

IDMS'98:

Fifth International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services , Oslo, Norway, September 8-11, 1998.
The conference will also be concerned with multimedia-specific intelligent agents and distributed virtual reality systems.

HCI'98:

British HCI Group Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , Sheffield, UK, September 1-4, 1998.
The HCI annual conference is the primary European conference on human-computer interaction. Various aspects related to intelligent user interfaces will also be addressed.

EUROGRAPHICS'98:

19th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics , Lisbon, Portugal, August 31 - September 4, 1998.
The leading international computer graphics conference in Europe is a forum for the latest developments in graphics technology, for case studies in advanced graphics systems and applications, and surveying of current trends.

IT&KNOWS/IFIP'98:

Information Technology and Knowledge Systems (as part of the 15th IFIP World Computer Congress) , Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary, August 31 - September 4, 1998.
Focusing on knowledge-based techniques, the conference will also be concerned with human-computer interaction.

ECAI'98:

13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Brighton, UK, August 23-28, 1998.
The biennial European Conference on AI is the premier European forum for international scientific exchange and presentation of Artificial Intelligence research.
Within the special workshop program the following topics are of particular interest:

• Combining AI and Graphics for the Interface of the Future ;
• Intelligent Virtual Environments .

ITS'98:

Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems , San Antonio, TX, USA, August 16-19, 1998.
Intelligent tutoring systems constitute an important application area for user modeling techniques and intelligent user interface technology in general.

COLING'98/ACL'98:

17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Montreal, Canada, August 10-14, 1998.
The COLING'98/ACL'98 Joint Conference addresses all research topics in the field of computational linguistics including also natural language generation and natural language processing for multimodal interaction.

INLG'98:

9th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation , Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, August 5-7, 1998.
The INLG series of biennial workshops is the principal gathering for researchers in natural language generation and traditionally has had a very diverse international representation.

TAG+:

Fourth Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks , Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 1-3, 1998.
The meeting is specifically dedicated to TAGs as well as related grammar formalisms and will also discuss aspects of applying tree-adjoining grammars for automated natural language generation.

IV'98:

International Conference on Information Visualisation , London, UK, July 29-31, 1998.
The specific focus of this conference lies on the diverse topics and techniques within the domain of visual information presentation.

AAAI'98:

15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Madison, WI, USA, July 26-30, 1998.
The national summer conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence constitutes an important forum for the scientific interchange among Artificial Intelligence researchers and practitioners from all over the world.

SIGGRAPH'98:

25th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques , Orlando, FA, USA, July 19-24, 1998.
The annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH ) is one of the leading events for disseminating new results related to research, systems, and applications in the area of advanced computer graphics.

APCHI'98:

Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction , Hayama-machi, Kanagawa, Japan, July 15-17, 1998.
The conference will also address topics relevant to the field of intelligent user interfaces.

VW'98:

First International Conference on Virtual Worlds , Paris, France, July 1-3, 1998.
The automated synthesis of realistic and imaginary artificial worlds using multimedia and virtual reality technology constitutes a major theme for this interdisciplinary conference.

ICMCS'98:

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems , Austin, TX, USA, June 28 - July 1, 1998.
Addressing technical issues, theory and practice in the field of multimedia computing and communications, the conference is also concerned with intelligent multimedia systems.

ED-MEDIA'98:

AACE World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia , Freiburg, Germany, June 20-25, 1998.
The conference also invites relevant contributions from the field of artificial intelligence.

AI'98:

Twelfth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Vancouver, Canada, June 18-20, 1998.
The conference covers all subareas of artificial intelligence research.

IEA-AIE'98:

Eleventh International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems , Benicàssim, Spain, June 1-4, 1998.
The conference emphasizes applications of artificial intelligence and expert/knowledge-based systems (including intelligent interfaces) to engineering and industrial problems.

KRIMS'98:

Second International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Interactive Multimedia Systems , Trento, Italy, June 1, 1998.
The workshop series is specifically concerned with the problem of knowledge representation for intelligent multimedia user interfaces.

ASC'98:

IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing , Cancun, Mexico, May 27-30, 1998.
The topics to be covered include also natural language processing and intelligent user interfaces.

NIMES'98:

Conference on Complex Systems, Intelligent Systems and Interfaces, Nimes, France, May 25-27, 1998.
The three major themes of the conference - complex system engineering, intelligent system techniques, and advanced human-machine interfaces - will be considered in the perspective of both tools and techniques, as well as related field applications in industry and services. One topic, multimodality, i.e. simultaneous use of several modes of interaction, and in particular virtual reality, will be paid particular attention.

AVI'98:

Advanced Visual Interfaces , L'Aquila, Italy, May 25-27, 1998.
This is the fourth workshop in a series of biennal international working conferences. Topics of interest include for example information visualization, virtual reality applications, multimedia environments, and adaptive interfaces.

FLAIRS'98:

Eleventh International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference , Sanibel Island, FL, USA, May 17-20, 1998.
The conference includes in particular a special track on Natural Language Processing and Human-Computer Interaction .

AGENTS'98:

Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents , Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, USA, May 10-13, 1998.
Life-like qualities for interface agents as well as user modeling are among the technical issues to be addressed.

CHI'98:

ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems , Los Angeles, CA, USA, April 18-23, 1998.
The annual CHI conference is the leading forum for the exchange of ideas on all aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI) and it will also provide contributions related to various aspects of intelligent user interfaces.

PAAM'98:

Third International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents , London, UK, March 23-25, 1998.
The event will also address the use of agent technology in the context of intelligent user interfaces.

AAAI SSS'98:

1998 Spring Symposium Series of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence , Stanford University, CA, USA, March 23-25, 1998.
Among the eight symposia presented this time, the one related to ``Intelligent Text Summarization'' is of particular interest.

WCES'98:

Fourth World Congress on Expert System , Mexico City, Mexico, March 16-20, 1998.
Intelligent interfaces and intelligent multimedia processing are among the technologies that are specifically targeted and emphasized by this conference.

VRAIS'98:

IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1998 , Atlanta, GA, USA, March 14-18, 1998.
The conference will present some new research papers as well as applied papers from all areas of virtual reality.

SV'98:

9th Conference Simulation and Visualization '98 , Magdeburg, Germany, March 5-6, 1998.
This series of annual meetings attracts also contributions related to intelligent user interfaces and knowledge-based graphics generation. Conference languages are German and English.

AI'98:

16th IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics , Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, February 23-25, 1998.
The conference will act as a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advances of applied informatics. Topics to be addressed include in particular Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems as well as Multimedia and Hypermedia.

ONLINE'98:

21st European Congress Fair for Technical Communications , Hamburg, Germany, February 16-19, 1998.
The event includes in particular a symposium specifically related to software tools for new intelligent on-line services. The conference language is German.

WSCG'98:

Sixth International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization , Plzen, Czech Republic, February 9-13, 1998.
As in the past, the conference will certainly attract some contributions which address aspects of knowledge-based graphics generation.

ICCIMA'98:

International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications , Churchill, Australia, February 9-11, 1998.
The conference aims to provide an international forum for discussion on issues in the areas of Computational Intelligence and Multimedia for scientists, engineers, researchers and practitioners.

CMC'98:

Second International Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication , Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 28-30, 1998.
The conference on the theory and applications of cooperative multimodal communication addresses important issues within the general field of intelligent multimedia interfaces.

IUI'98:

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces , San Francisco, CA, January 6-9, 1998.
This conference series provides a major forum for outstanding research and development on all aspects of intelligent interfaces.

EUROMEDIA'98:

SCS EuroMedia Conference , Leicester, UK, January 5-7, 1998.
This SCS (Society for Computer Simulation International) conference covers in particular multimedia technology.

COMPUGRAPHICS'97:

6th International Conference on Computational Graphics , Vilamoura, Portugal, December 15-18, 1997.
The conference addresses all aspects of computer graphics and considers also Artificial Intelligence techniques and the field of human-computer interaction.

VISUAL'97:

Second International Conference on Visual Information Systems , San Diego, CA, December 15-17, 1997.
Advanced information presentation in commercial and scientific applications is one of the major issues.

IIS'97:

International Conference on Intelligent Information Systems , The Bahamas, December 8-10, 1997.
The broad scope of this conference also includes aspects related to intelligent user interfaces and multimedia processing.

CAEPIA'97:

Seventh Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence , Málaga, Spain, November 12-14, 1997.
The conference addresses all areas of Artificial Intelligence. The official conference languages are Spanish and English.

TTIA'97:

Second Spanish Meeting on Technology Transfer and Artificial Intelligence , Málaga, Spain, November 12-14, 1997.
The meeting is held in parallel to CAEPIA'97 and focuses on real world applications of Artificial Intelligence technology.

MMM'97:

Fourth International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Singapore, November 10-14, 1997.
The purpose of these annual conferences is to bring together activities related to all aspects of multimedia modeling, in its broader sense, from multimedia networking to virtual worlds. Its ultimate goal is to provide a better understanding of the basic paradigms and to establish conceptual links between them for a better design of future advanced multimedia systems.

Multimedia'97:

Fifth ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition , Seattle, WA, USA, November 8-14, 1997.
The conference is concerned with all aspects of multimedia technology and systems.

AAAI FSS'97:

1997 Fall Symposium Series of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, November 8-10, 1997.
Among the seven symposia presented this time, the following two are of particular interest:

• ``Communicative Action in Humans and Machines'';
  
• ``Intelligent Tutoring Systems Authoring Tools''.
  

UIST'97:

10th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , Banff, Canada, October 14-17, 1997.
The conference will also attract contributions related to intelligent user interfaces.

EPIA'97:

8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Coimbra, Portugal, October 6-9, 1997.
The conference covers all areas of Artificial Intelligence. English is the official conference language.

EUROSPEECH'97:

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology , Rhodes, Greece, September 22-25, 1997.
Speech synthesis is one of the major topics of this biennial conference.

GW'97:

Bielefeld Gesture Workshop 1997: Gesture- and Sign-Language Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction , Bielefeld, Germany, September 17-19, 1997.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on gesture-based interfaces, gestural interaction, and sign-language. Under the focus of human-computer interfaces, the workshop will encompass all aspects of gestural interaction.

AI*IA'97:

Fifth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence , Rome, Italy, September 16-19, 1997.
The conference addresses all aspects of Artificial Intelligence research. All papers must be written in English.

RANLP'97:

Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing , Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 11-13, 1997.
The biennially conference series addresses in particular natural language generation and multimedia approaches.

KI'97:

21st German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Freiburg, Germany, September 9-12, 1997.
Conference languages are German and English.

EUROGRAPHICS'97:

18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics , Budapest, Hungary, September 4-8, 1997.
The leading international computer graphics conference in Europe is a forum for the latest developments in graphics technology, for case studies in advanced graphics systems and applications, and surveying of current trends.

HCI Int.'97:

7th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , San Francisco, CA, USA, August 24-29, 1997.
The conference will also address various aspects related to intelligent user interfaces.

IJCAI'97:

15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Nagoya, Japan, August 23-29, 1997.
The biennal IJCAI is the main international gathering of researchers in AI.
The supplementary workshop program includes this time the following interesting events:

• ``Animated Interface Agents: Making Them Intelligent'' ;
  
• ``Intelligent Multimodal Systems'' .
  

SIGGRAPH'97:

24th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques , Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 3-8, 1997.
The annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH ) is one of the leading events for disseminating new results related to research, systems, and applications in the area of advanced computer graphics.

IDA'97:

Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis , London, UK, August 4-6, 1997.
Although the main focus is on ``Reasoning About Data'' aspects related to information presentation-especially for decision support applications-will certainly be considered as well.

AAAI'97:

14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Providence, RI, USA, July 27-31, 1997.
The national summer conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence constitutes an important forum for the scientific interchange among Artificial Intelligence researchers and practitioners from all over the world.

ISDSS'97:

4th Conference of the International Society for Decision Support Systems , Lausanne, Switzerland, July 21-22 1997.
The conference will present original research papers on the design, development and implementation, and use of decision support systems.

INTERACT'97:

6th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , Sydney, Australia, July 14-18, 1997.
The topics to be addressed also include knowledge-based approaches.

HCC'97:

First International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation , Bellagio, Italy, July 14-16, 1997.
With particpants from the commercial sector and from academia this workshop aims to survey and demonstrate techniques for practical, plausible, language-based human-machine interaction.

ACL'97/EACL'97:

35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL , Madrid, Spain, July 7-12, 1997.
The ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference addresses all research topics in the field of computational linguistics. Of particular interest is the program area devoted to ``Uses of Language Processing'' including natural language generation, user modeling, and multimodal interfaces. In addition, there are several workshops to take place in conjunction with the conference, including the following:

• ``Concept to Speech Generation Systems'' ;
  
  
• ``Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization'' ;
  
  
• ``Referring Phenomena in a Multimedia Context and their Computational Treatment'' ;
  
  
• ``From Research to Commercial Applications: Making NLP Technology Work in Practice'' .
  

CoopIS'97:

Second IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Charleston, SC, USA, June 24-27, 1997.
Specific topics of interest include the theoretical and practical aspects of multimedia information systems.

IEA-AIE'97:

Tenth International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems , Atlanta, GA, USA, June 10-13, 1997.
The conference emphasizes applications of artificial intelligence and expert/knowledge-based systems to engineering and industrial problems. Topics of interest include in particular intelligent interfaces.

ICMCS'97:

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems , Ottawa, Canada, June 3-6, 1997.
Addressing technical issues, theory and practice in the field of multimedia computing and communications, the conference is also concerned with intelligent multimedia systems.

UM'97:

Sixth International Conference on User Modeling , Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy, June 2-5, 1997.
The biennial user modeling conference constitutes a primary forum for disseminating the results of academic and industrial research in the field of user modeling.

INTERFACES'97:

Sixth International ``Interfaces'' Conference, Montpellier, France, May 28-30, 1997.
This annual event comprises a series of conferences, including lectures, poster presentations, and panel sessions, an industrial forum, and an exhibition of products, applications, and advanced prototypes. This year, Man-Machine Interaction and Intelligent Systems will each be addressed in their own conference. In addition, six specialized conferences will focus on specific sectorial areas such as Architecture and Construction, Banking and Insurance, Business Management, Industrial Process Control, Medicine and Devices for the Disabled, and Transportation.

VRW'97:

Virtual Reality World '97, Stuttgart, Germany, May 13-15, 1997.
The motto of the third annual Virtual Reality World conference and fair is ``Virtual Reality hits the Web''. VRW constitutes a major European event in the area of Virtual Reality research and application.

ISESS'97:

Second International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems , Whistler, Canada, April 28 - May 2, 1997.
The conference will also provide contributions which are concerned with (multimedia) decision support systems for applications within the environment sector.

ICMIS'97:

2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems , Schaumburg, IL, USA, April 3-5, 1997.
The conference encompasses technical aspects of both computer and telecommunications technologies. The program will include regular research papers as well as industrial contributions which address the related issues from a commercial point of view and describe actual products or prototypes.

ANLP'97:

Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing , Washington, DC, USA, March 31 - April 3, 1997.
Text and spoken language generation as well as multimedia systems are among the areas of interest.

7th Mini EURO:

7th Mini EURO Conference on Decision Support Systems, Groupware, Multimedia and Electronic Commerce , Bruges, Belgium, March 25-27, 1997.
The 7th Mini Conference organized by EURO , the Association of European Operational Research Societies, is devoted to the specific topic of decision support systems, groupware, multimedia and electronic commerce. Themes to be addressed include conceptual frameworks and methodologies, technological advances, as well as real world applications. This conference will certainly attract some contributions related to multimedia information presentation for decision support systems.

AAAI SSS'97:

1997 Spring Symposium Series of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence , Stanford University, CA, USA, March 24-26, 1997.
Among the seven symposia presented this time, the following two are of particular interest:

• ``Intelligent Integration and Use of Text, Image, Video and Audio Corpora'' ;
  
• ``Natural Language Processing for the World Wide Web'' .
  

EWNLG'97:

6th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation , Duisburg, Germany, March 24-26, 1997.
The meeting continues the tradition of a series of workshops held biennially in Europe but it is open to researchers from all over the world. The special theme of this workshop is ``System Architectures for Text Generation''.

CHI 97:

ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems , Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 22-27, 1997.
The annual CHI conference is the leading forum for the exchange of ideas on all aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI) and it will also provide contributions related to various aspects of intelligent user interfaces.

VRAIS'97:

IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1997, Albuquerque, NM, USA, March 1-5, 1997.
The conference will present some new research papers as well as applied papers from all areas of virtual reality.

CIA'97:

First International Workshop Cooperative Information Agents - Distributed Artificial Intelligence meets Database Systems , Kiel, Germany, February 26-28, 1997.
The workshop will also consider user interface issues for intelligent systems relying on information agents.

VRML'97:

Second Annual Symposium on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language , Monterey, CA, USA, February 24-26, 1997.
The conference is a technical symposium focusing upon the research, technology and applications of VRML, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language.

WSCG'97:

Fifth International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization'97 , Plzen-Bory, Czech Republic, February 10-14, 1997.
Some of the contributions address aspects of knowledge-based graphics generation.

AGENTS'97:

First International Conference on Autonomous Agents , Marina del Rey, CA, USA, February 5-8, 1997.
User modeling is among the technical issues to be addressed.

ONLINE'97:

20th European Congress Fair for Technical Communications, Hamburg, Germany, February 3-7, 1997.
The event includes in particular a symposium specifically related to software tools for new intelligent on-line services. The conference language is German.

ETCE'97:

Computers in Engineering Symposium of ETCE 97 (Energy Sources and Environmental Technology Conference and Exhibition) , Houston, TX, USA, January 28-30, 1997.
The symposium includes a special session on ``Natural Language in Human-Computer Interfaces'' with a strong focus on engineering applications.

IUI'97:

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Orlando, Florida, USA, January 6-9, 1997.
The 1997 IUI meeting is the third in a series of gatherings of the intelligent interfaces community. The series will now become a biennial conference and will provide a major forum for outstanding research and development on all aspects of intelligent interfaces.

OzCHI'96:

Sixth Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, Hamilton, New Zealand, November 24-27, 1996.
User modeling and intelligent user interfaces in general are among the topics to be addressed by this conference.

UIST'96:

Ninth Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Seattle, Washington, USA, November 6-8, 1996.
The symposium brings together user-interface researchers and practitioners with an interest in techniques, tools, and technology for constructing high-quality, innovative user interfaces. The scope of of the conference also includes so-called intelligent user interfaces.

PAKM'96:

First International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, Basel, Switzerland, October 30-31, 1996.
This conference included some presentations related to user modeling and intelligent user interfaces in general.

ABIS-96:

4th German Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Software Systems, Dortmund, Germany, October 9-11, 1996.
The workshops in this series are specifically concerned with theoretical and pratical aspects of user modeling. The conference language is German.