---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2001 New Orleans September Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:27:53 +0200 From: Dominich S½ndor dominich@DCS.VEIN.HU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
Dear Colleagues,
Please find below the call for MF/IR 2001 with the ammendment that all accepted papers will be published as a special supliment of Technology Letters.
Apologies for multiple posting.
Sincerely, Sandor Dominich co-chair ________________________________________________________ ACM SIGIR 2001 WORKSHOP
ON
MATHEMATICAL/FORMAL METHODS IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
MF/IR 2001
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. September 13, 2001
OBJECTIVE
The previous workshop (ACM SIGIR 2000 MF/IR 2000 Workshop, Athens, Greece) showed that the mathematical/formal results achieved in Information Retrieval (IR) could be organized into a coherent
theoretical
framework, that they brought new knowledge to IR, and that mathematical/formal research in IR can stand as a specialized research
area of IR.
The purpose of the MF/IR 2001 workshop is, on the one hand, to
continue
and enhance the results obtained so far, and on the other hand, to present, discuss, analyze, integrate the newer/newest results.
Therefore
MF/IR 2001 aims at promoting discussion and interaction among those
with
theoretical and applicative research interests in mathematical/formal aspects of Information Retrieval, and also at being a forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applicative results (e.g., foundational issues; description and/or integration of models;
retrieval
applications; mathematical/formal techniques, properties and
structures
in IR; existing and/or new theories and theoretical aspects).
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Contributions (papers, talks) are solicited dealing with, but not
limited
to, the following areas:
Information Retrieval Information Filtering Information Mining Indexing and Retrieval Hypermedia World Wide Web Retrieval Digital Libraries Evaluation Human Computer Interaction User Modeling
where the different entities involved (e.g., documents, queries, indexing, retrieval, relevance, effectiveness, users, etc.) are
modeled
using any of, but not necessarily limited to, the following
approaches:
Classical Sets Fuzzy Sets Rough Sets Vectors Linear Space Similarity Functions Probability Functional Analysis Algebra Topology Metric Spaces Boolean Logic Non-standard Logics Fuzzy Logic Quantum Logic Matroid Theory Graph Theory Theory of Computation Recursion Theory Information Theory Artificial Intelligence
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Sandor Dominich (University of Veszprem, Hungary; Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, U.K.) Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, England, U.K.) Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Peter Bollmann-Sdorra (Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany) Peter Bruza (Distr. Sys. Tech. Centre, Queensland, Australia) Steven Cater (Kettering University, U.S.A.) Leo Egghe (Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium) Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund, Germany) Michael Heine (University of Northumbria, U.K.) Eduard Hoenkamp (University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands) Theo Huibers (KPMG Bus. Adv. Serv., the Netherlands) Donald H. Kraft (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.) David Losada (University of Corunna, Spain) Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada) Gabriella Pasi (ITIM-CNR, Milan, Italy) Janet Payne (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, U.K.) Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, U.S.A.) Padmini Srinivasan (University of Iowa, U.S.A.) Michael Wong (University of Regina, Canada)
PARTICIPATION
Those interested in making a presentation should submit their papers
of
at most 8 (eight) normal pages by e-mail to the following email
address
dominich@dcs.vein.hu
using "MF/IR 2001 Submission" as the e-mail subject line. Please
submit
the paper in Microsoft Word. Those interested in giving a talk
(without
paper submission) should submit the title and summary of at most 1
(one)
page to the same address. The format for the paper submission should follow a usual format in IR publishing. All submissions will be
refereed.
All accepted submissions will be published as a special supliment
issue
of Technology Letters (ISSN 1369-3735).
. It is planned that a selected number of accepted submissions, once expanded and revised, will be included in a special topic volume published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
CORRESPONDENCE
Direct correspondence, inquires and submissions relating to this
workshop
should be addressed to:
Sandor Dominich, e-mail: dominich@dcs.vein.hu or sdomin01@bcuc.ac.uk
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission (paper, summary): June 10, 2001 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2001 Final submission: July 15, 2001 Workshop: September 13, 2001
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information can be found on the SIGIR 2001 Web pages (http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~sigir01).
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