Nîmes, France, 19-22 October 2003

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David A. Evans
Clairvoyance Corp, Pennsylvania, USA
The power of clustering promises advances in information management

Thomas Lorenz
BASF, Germany
The Impacts of Changing Technology on Information Service Provision at BASF

Engelbert Zass and Martin Brändle
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Information Services in Academia: The Impact of Changing Technology


Robert Swann
Chemical Abstracts Service, Ohio, USA
The Impact of Changing Technology on Delivering Products and Services in Chemical Information

Karl Harrison
Central Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK
Chemistry Computing on a Massive Scale

Shirley Bailey-Wood and Bob Stembridge
Thomson Derwent, UK
Patent Analytics: Tips, Traps and Techniques

Andrej Budo-Marek
Xerox Global Services, The Netherlands
Trends in Intellectual Asset Management

Liz Blankson-Hemans
Quantum Dialog, UK
Defining the Value of Information: Beyond ROI

William Woishnis
Knovel Corporation, New York, USA
Decreasing Time to Market through Linking Reference Information and Analysis Tools to Workflow:
Case Studies and a Survey of the Available Services

Minoo Philipp
Henkel, Germany
Why Pay for Value Added Information?

Ricardo Vieira
MicroPatent, UK
Why Pay for Information? A View from the Value-Added Information Provider

Chahab Nastar
LTU Technologies, France
Content-Based Image Retrieval: A State of the Art

Stephen E Arnold
AIT, Kentucky, USA
Social Software and a New Search Paradigm

Steven Bachrach
Trinity University, Texas, USA
Publishing at a Cross-Roads: Who is Going to be Doing What?

Michel Vajou
M.V. Etudes et Conseil, France
Concentration and Integration in the Information Industry: Towards "Vertical" Monopolies in the
Provision of Online Professional Information

Peter T Shepherd
COUNTER, UK
Standards for the Recording and Exchange of Online Usage Data: Towards Fairness for Publishers and Customers

Gérard Giroud
European Patent Office, The Netherlands
Collection of Chemical Structure Data during Patent Filing

David Dickens, Pierre Buffet and Yuji Takashima
Questel-Orbit, France and Patolis, Japan
A Guide to the Japanese Patent Information Galaxy: Who are the Stars?

Stephen Stein, Dmitri Tchkhovskoi and Stephen Heller
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland, USA
An Open Standard for Chemical Structure Representation: The IUPAC Chemical Identifier

Caspar Fall and Patrick Fiévet
ELCA Informatique, and WIPO, Switzerland
Computer-Assisted Categorisation of Patent Documents in the International Patent Classification

Anthony Rowe
Wellcome Trust Biological Atlas of Insulin Resistance Project, UK
Towards Domain-Mapping Systems to Integrate Biological and Chemical Analysis

Kirill Degtyarenko
European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Vocabularies and Ontologies for Bioinformatics