ADASS V Abstracts The Program Organizing Committee has reviewed the abstracts submitted for the Conference. Although this is not necessarily the final program, any changes to the Oral program and the BOF schedule should be minor. Oral Program BOFs (Birds-of-a Feather Sessions) Posters Computer Demonstrations Oral Program (Authors' names given in capital letters indicate invited talks.) Monday, 23 October 8:30am Sidney Wolff, NOAO Director: Welcome Session A: Science S/W Applications 8:45am - 10:00am 8:45am JACOBY: Software Demands Imposed by H_0 Studies 9:15am Adorf: Limits to the precision of joint flux- and position measurements 9:30am Valdes: Automated Arc Line Identifications in IRAF 9:45am Kashyap: 3D Source Detection Poster/Demo Session 10:00am - 11:00am Session B: Tools and Resources 11:00am - 12:30pm 11:00am CRUTCHER: The AIPSview Astronomy Visualization Tool 11:30am Lasker: The Palomar--ST ScI Digitized Sky Survey: Preliminary Data Availability 11:45am Mandel: The ASSIST: Unified Management of Public and Private Information 12:00pm Mink: Browsing Images in World Coordinate Space with SAOimage 12:15pm Percival: An Ultra-low Bandwidth Video Transmission System Lunch 12:30pm - 2:00pm Session C: S/W Development Methods 2:00pm - 3:45pm 2:00pm COGGINS: Subject-Oriented Programming 2:30pm GLENDENNING: Creating an Object-Oriented Software System --- the AIPS++ Experience 3:00pm Huang: Object-Oriented Modeling and Design for SDSS 3:15pm McGonegal: Gemini's Development Methodology 3:30pm Young: GNOMES - A Case History Poster/Demo Session 3:45pm - 4:30pm BOFs 4:30pm - 6:00pm 4:30pm - 6:00pm Epubs, IRAF Users Meeting BOFfet 6:00pm - 7:30pm BOFs 7:30pm - 10:30pm 7:30pm - 9:00pm IDL User's Group, Linux Users Meeting 9:00pm - 10:30pm EPICS, FITS Tuesday, 24 October Session D: Archives 8:30am - 10:00am 8:30am CRABTREE: Archives of Data from Ground-based Observatories 9:00am PASIAN: Archiving TNG data 9:30am Brunner: The Science Archive for the SDSS 9:45am Pirenne: The Infrared Space Observatory Archive Poster/Demo Session 10:00am - 11:00am Session E: Real-Time Systems 11:00am - 12:30pm 11:00am GILLIES: The Design of the Gemini Observatory Control System 11:30am McGRAW: A Friendly Command, Control, and Information System for Astronomy 12:00pm Gaudet: The Gemini Data Handling System 12:15pm Rose: The OPUS Pipeline Managers Lunch 12:30pm - 2:00pm Session F: Electronic Information Systems 2:00pm - 3:30pm 2:00pm BOYCE: Electronic Publishing at the AAS 2:30pm Plante: The NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library 2:45pm Payne: The Astronomical Software Directory Service: Distributed Documents --- Centralized Searchable Index 3:00pm Oliversen: WISARD: A Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data 3:15pm Murray: AstroBrowse Workshop Report Poster/Demo Session 3:30pm - 4:30pm Session G: Software Utilities and Systems 4:30pm - 5:30pm 4:30pm Sergey: SHIVA - An Astronomical Data Analysis Framework 4:45pm Terrett: Controlling Foriegn Tasks with the IRAF cl 5:00pm Roll: A User-Centered Data Base for Astronomy 5:15pm Jennings: FITS and HDF Data Format Interconvertablity 6:00pm Meet at Holiday Inn for tranportation by bus to Banquet 10:00pm Buses return to Holiday Inn Wednesday, 25 October Session H: Science S/W Applications 8:30am - 10:00am 8:30am LAUER: Measuring the Motion of the Local Group 9:00am Gray: Analysis of Digital POSS-II Catalogs Using Hierarchical Unsupervised Learning Algorithms 9:15am Jones: Automating the Classification of Stellar Spectra 9:30am van Moorsel: AIPS developments in the nineties 9:45am Arnaud: XSPEC: The First Ten Years Poster/Demo Session 10:00am - 11:00am Session I: Real Time Systems 11:00am - 12:30pm 11:00am GARWOOD: AIPS++ and the GBT 11:30am Herlin: The VLT Real-Time Display Software 11:45am Nicinski: Displaying Drift Scanning Images from Multiple CCDs in Real-Time During Data Acquisition 12:00pm Popova: Superfast Photometry with MANIA (Multichannel Analysis of Nanosecond Intensity Alterations) Complex 12:15pm Downey: The Univ. Iowa Automated Telescope Facility Lunch 12:30pm - 2:00pm Session J: Proprosal Processing and Scheduling 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2:00pm HOWARD: The Changing Scene at NASA Headquarters 2:30pm JOHNSTON: Automated Proposal Handling 3:00pm Miller: Portable Astronomical Scheduling Tools 3:15pm Choudhary: Requirements for a generic science planning tool 3:30pm Conference Summary 3:45pm Concluding Remarks Break 4:00pm - 4:30pm All personal materials must be removed from p/d area by 4:30pm. BOF 4:30pm - 6:00pm 4:30pm - 6:00pm Software System Futures BOFs Monday, October 22 4:30pm - 6:00pm Epubs 4:30pm - 6:00pm IRAF Users Meeting 7:30pm - 9:00pm IDL User's Group 7:30pm - 9:00pm Linux Users Meeting 9:00pm - 10:30pm EPICS 9:00pm - 10:30pm FITS Wednesday, October 24 4:30pm - 6:00pm Software System Futures Posters (All posters will be up for the duration of the Conference.) Programming Methodologies and System Software Allen Farris: Data Structures in STIS and NICMOS Darrell Schiebel: Programming with Distributed Objects in Glish Paul Shannon: A Few GUI Components for AIPS++ Doug Tody: PC-IRAF: The Choice of a GNU Generation J.J. Travisano: Lessons Learned: The Object-Oriented Design of StarView Nelson Zarate: A FITS Image Extension Image Kernel for IRAF Software Systems M. Denby: The development of data analysis software for the JET-X instrument on SPECTRUM-X-GAMMA Rieks Jager: The Netherlands SAX Data Centre F.A. Jansen: The XMM Science Analysis Software : Approach and Design Maria Concetta Maccarone: The SAX Scientific Software Nestor Peccia: Design and development principles of the XMM Science Operations Centre T. Takata: The Data Analysis System of SUBARU Telescope Archives and Databases J.G. Bartlett: The Aladin Project: Status Report Tom Comeau: Options for Improving Retrieval Performance of the Hubble Data Archive C.S. Cornuelle: An On-Line Database of APS POSS Images Dennis Crabtree: The CADC/ST-ECF HST Archives: Less is More André Csillaghy: Transforming images into icons to (remotely) retrieve information from astronomical archives Wendy Erdwurm: Storing and Distributing GONG Data N. Hill: Associating Science Exposures with Calibration Exposures in the CFHT Archive. Dan Klinglesmith: Availability of Copernicus UV Data in FITS Format Eric C. Olson: A Multi-Mission Archive Benoît Pirenne: Re-classification of HST Targets Arnold H. Rots: The XTE FITS Database Proposal Processing; Planning and Scheduling Drew J. Asson: A Tcl/Tk-based, intelligent graphical editor for preparing HST proposals David Bell: An Automated System for Receiving KPNO Proposals by Electronic Mail Robert E. Douglas, Jr.: The RPS2 Generic Distributed Computing Framework Earl R. Johnson: A High Capacity Object Oriented Mission Scheduling System for XTE Electronic Information Systems M. Abbott: The EUVE Knowledge Base Alberto Accomazzi: The ADS Article Service Data Holdings and Access Methods Chris Biemesderferr: The Developing Resource Metadata Infrastructure Sherri Chasin Calvo: An Enriched Meta-Information Schema for Astronomical Databases Frossie Economou: Remote Observing Assistance with the World Wide Web Guenther Eichhorn: Various Access Methods to the Abstracts in the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) J. M. Fullton: The Electronic Astrophysical Journal: Information Discovery, Retrieval and Open Protocols Maria Concetta Maccarone: The European Scientific Network on `Converging Computing Methodologies in Astronomy' Evan Owens: Translation Software and The Astrophysical Journal Benoît Pirenne: A multi-archive WEB browser with WDB Karen M. Strom: Data Distribution and Ph.D. Publication via the World Wide Web Archibald Warnock: The Electronic Astrophysical Journal: Resource Location and Archive Management Real-Time Systems C. Baffa: Remote Observations in Near Infrared Steven M Beard: The Gemini Core Instrument Control System Maria Donata Guarnieri: Data acquisition optimization by image selection on the Torino Two-Channel Medium InfraRed Camera (TC-MIRC) Paul F. Hsieh: Automatic Sequencing for Experimental Protocols George Kosugi: Connection between the SUBARU Data Analysis System and Control System B. Marshall: The Integration of Telescopes, Instruments, and User Interfaces at KPNO and WIYN Chris Mayer: The Gemini Telescope Control System K.M. Merrill: Quick-look Interactive IRAF Scripts for Data Acquisition Management John Moran: Wide Area Synchronization to the 10ms Level Joyce Plante: Programmable Telemetry Processor for AXAF Science Center Rob Seaman: Remote Observing and Automatic FTP on Kitt Peak P.L. Shopbell: Remote Observing with the Keck Telescope Using the ACTS Satellite Peter Teuben: Real-Time Observing at Hat Creek L. Wong: Development and Deployment of a Rule-Based Expert System for Autonomous Satellite Monitoring Tools and Resources David J. Allan: A Distributed Processing Library Terrence L. Beck: STIS IDL Widget Tools Michael Fitzpatrick: Datastream Compression for IRAF Image Display Immanuel Freedman: Systems Aspects of COBE Science Data Compression V.G. Gavryusev: MATADOR: sofware for the manipulation of 3D data Richard Gooch: Karma: a Visualisation Test-bed Joseph Harrington: Jiggle: a Program for Noninteractive Mosaic Assembly Philip E Hodge: STSDAS Tables Package Uses FITSIO Jinger Mo: Implementation of an Optical Prescription Retrieval Code Using PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) in a Mixed Architecture Network Clive G. Page: IDA -- A FITS table browser and editor William Pence: A Versatile New FITS File Viewer and Editor Rüdiger Staubert: The German ROSAT XUV Data Center and a WFC Pointed Phase Source Catalogue P.T. Wallace: The IAU SOFA Initiative A.G. Willis: Correcting Some DRAO Synthesis Telescope Wide-Field Imaging Problem Algorithms M. Abbott: ETOOLS: Tools for Photon Event Data Jeffrey J. Bloch: Detecting EUV Transients in Near Real Time with ALEXIS A.F. Boden: Massively Parallel Spatially-Variant Maximum Likelihood Image Restoration Marc W. Buie: CCDPHOT -- An IDL widget based CCD photometry reduction system Howard Bushouse: NICMOS Calibration Pipeline -- A Collaborative Project between IDT and STScI I. Busko: Error Estimation in Elliptical Isophote Fitting Maureen Conroy: The ASC Scientific Data Model and its DDF Implementation Maureen Conroy: ASC Analysis Tool Architecture Francesco Damiani: A Source Detection Method for X-Ray Images based on Wavelet Transforms: the Case of the ROSAT PSPC Lindsey E. Davis: World Coordinate System Based Image Registration Tools for IRAF Janet DePonte: Automated Pipeline Processsing for AXAF Ground Calibration Stephen Doe: The ASC Fitting Environment Jesse Doggett: Photometric Calibration of the Digitized Sky Survey Peter E. Freeman: X-Ray Source Detection Using the Wavelet Transform J. Garrett Jernigan: A New Approach for the Analysis of Complex Multi-dimensional Data from Instruments which Detect Individual Photons Coryn A.L. Jones: The Extraction of Stellar Spectra from Objective Prism Plates Vinay Kashyap: Detection of Variable Sources Leonid Kogan: The New AIPS Task FRMAP to Image Spectral Line Radio Sources Using VLBI Data Don J. Lindler: An IDL Pipeline for Reduction of STIS Data Glen Mackie: A Reduction and Analysis Pipeline for ROSAT PSPC data L. Pásztor: All Sky Data Clumping Analysis Alan Penny: Stellar Photometry with CCD Sub-Pixel Sensitivity Variations Richard A. Shaw: Modelling the 2-D Response of Cameras and Spectrographs with Synphot P.L. Shopbell: FPTOOL: A GUI for the Analysis of Fabry-Perot Data in IRAF John D. Silverman: A Re-examination of the `UV Leak' of the High Resolution Imager on ROSAT Jean-Luc Starck: Deconvolution by the Multiscale Maximum Entropy Method Valerij Vlasyuk: Reduction of Bidimensional Spectral Data Obtained with the Integral Field Spectrographs of the 6-meter Telescope W. E. Williams: Image Quality Assessment Using the Modulation Transfer Function Nailong Wu: Proposed High Order Harmonic Interferometer for Aperture Synthesis Radio Telescope Yihua Yan: Noise Suppression with Wavelets in Image Reconstruction for Aperture Synthesis Computer Demonstrations Klaus Banse: European Southern Observatory - MIDAS Dennis R. Crabtree: Web Access to the CADC/ECF/ESO Archives Richard M. Crutcher: Demonstrations of AIPSview and the NCSA Astronomy Digital Library Richard Gooch: Sutra: the ATNF Visualisation Tools Stephen J. Hulbert: aspec: A New Spectrum and Line Analysis Package for IRAF J. Rose: The OPUS Pipeline Managers Dennis Schmidt: SAOimage -- The Next Generation Richard A. Shaw: New Software in STSDAS David M. Stern: IDL Scientific Data Analysis Software Elizabeth Stobie: NICMOS Image Analysis Tools Doug Tody: IRAF Demo Shane Walker: A Prototype of the Gemini Observing Tool A. Warnock: ASDS: A System for Search and Retrieval of Distributed Collections of Documents on the Internet ADASS '95 jbarnes@noao.edu