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Date:Mon Aug 18 13:45:20 1993 
Subject:URGENT - PLUG93 Papers to Review 
From:"J.Anderson" (James Anderson) 
Volume-ID:930818.01 

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I need two reviewers for each of the following 4 papers submitted to PLUG 93.
Please consider responding to this message even if you responded to the earlier one.

    o Reviewers should be knowledgeable about Pop.

    o Reviewers should be knowledgeable in the technical area of the paper they
      seek to review.

    o Reviewers should send their reviews to an ES93 coordiantor - so I do not see the
      raw replies. (No one need be embarrassed.)

    o Reviewers can elect to have their names revealed to each individual paper's
      author.

    o Reviewers may review as many papers as they like!

Here are the titles of the papers and the abstracts copied from the original.
If you would like to review one or more papers then please e-mail me saying which
paper(s) you would like to review. Please also include your post address so that
I can post you the hardcopy papers.

PAPER 1: "An Introduction to HiPWorks: an AI/Hypermedia Authoring Environment"

          This paper introduces HiPWorks: a Hypermedia authoring system built in
          the UK-based Poplog AI programming environment. HiPWorks is a product
          under development as part of the Hypermedia in Poplog (HiP) research
          project.

          The aim of this paper is to introduce the reader to the issues of
          integrating Artificial Intelligence with Hypermedia, and to offer practical
          advice based on our experiences of writing the HiPWorks software.

          The paper describes the underlying research questions that motivated the
          project: it describes why Hypermedia and Artificial Intelligence form an
          exciting partnership, specifically looking at AI augmenting Hypermedia,
          Hypermedia augmenting AI, and the synergy between AI and Hypermedia. It
          presents Poplog and describes the background and history from which the
          HiP project arose. It looks at strengths and weaknesses of the HyperCard
          approach, and shows how we have developed the themes used in HyperCard-like
          systems, looking at metaphor, usability, terminology and scripting.The
          paper discusses a few practical problems we faced implementing the tool,
          outlines new opportunities presented by HipWorks and describes a
          demonstration application for HiPWorks.

PAPER 2: "Clementine: a Smart Tool for Data Mining"

          Many organisations are "data rich", collecting and maintaining large
          volumes of historical data on their operations and performance. In many
          cases, however, the valuable information represented by the data, which
          could be of direct assistance in future decision making, is not readily
          apparent and remains untapped. This paper presents "Clementine" - a
          software tool implemented in Poplog which, using machine learning
          technologies from the field of Artificail INtelligence, helps end-users
          to extract high-value information and decision making knowledge from
          the obscuring mass of data.

PAPER 3: "A Demonstration of CAD-Vision Compilation"

         Early work is reported on the automatic compilation of computer vision
         programs from Computer Aided Design descriptions. The compiler reads
         descriptions in Additive Constructive Solid Geometry and generates code
         in Pop-11 to recognise a scence composed of toy, wooden blocks. The
         compiler is itself implemented in Pop-11 and uses the Model package.
         It is intended that future implementations of the compiler should generate
         code in C.

PAPER 4: "The Design of ObjectClass, a Seamless Object-Oriented Extension of Pop11"

         The ObjectClass library adds object-oriented programming into Pop11. In
         contrast to similar previous work, its main goal is to integrate the
         procedural and object-oriented paradigms in the most natural and fluent way.
         This article describes the problems encountered and the solutions that have
         been adopted. It also relates the solutions adopted in the ObjectClass work
         with those of other hybridisation efforts such as C++ and the Common Lisp
         System CLOS.

P.S. - I have still not received papers from two people who indicated to me that they
       were writing papers. If they, or anyone else, gets papers to me before
       September, I will make sure that they are reviewed and considered at the
       selection meeting on 6 September. The selected papers will be published as
       a book in time for the conference in Novemeber.