ACM SIGIR 2002 WORKSHOP

                        ON

MATHEMATICAL/FORMAL METHODS IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

                       MF/IR 2002

    August 11-15, 2002, Tampere, Finland
 
 
 

OBJECTIVE

The previous workshops (ACM SIGIR 2000 MF/IR 2000, Athens, Greece, and ACM SIGIR 2001 MF/IR 2001, New Orleans, USA) 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 increased attendance and rising interest indicate that MF/IR is viable.

The purpose of the MF/IR 2002 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 2002 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
User Modeling, and User Tasks
Semantic Web and Ontologies

where the different entities involved (e.g., documents, queries, 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
Theory of Uncertainty
Functional Analysis
Algebra
Topology
Metric Spaces
Euclidean Geometry
Non-Euclidean Geometries
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)
· Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, England, U.K.)
· Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 
 
· Peter  Bruza (Distr. Sys. Tech. Centre, Queensland, Australia)
· Steven  Cater (Kettering University, U.S.A.)
· Fabio  Crestani (University of Strathclyde, Scotland)
· Leo  Egghe (Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium)
· Norbert  Fuhr (University of Dortmund, Germany)
· Donald  H. Kraft (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.)
· Eduard  Hoenkamp (University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
· Theo  Huibers (KPMG Bus. Adv. Serv., the Netherlands)
· David  Losada  (San Pablo-CEU University, Madrid, SPAIN
· Jian-Yun  Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
· Gabriella  Pasi (ITIM-CNR, Milan, Italy)
· Vijay  Raghavan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, U.S.A.)
· Steven  Robertson (Microsoft, Cambridge, UK)
· Michael  Wong (University of Regina, Canada)
 

SUBMISSION

Participation in the workshop is open for all interested. Those wishing to submit a paper should take into account the following. Submitted papers should be of at most 15 normal (A4) pages in length. Please submit the paper in PDF or PS by e-mail to the following e-mail address

                dominich@dcs.vein.hu

using "MF/IR 2002 Submission" as the e-mail subject line. The format for the paper should follow a usual format in IR publishing. All submissions will be reviewed by two referees. All accepted papers will be made available in a printed and/or electronic proceedings. It is planned that a selected number of accepted papers, once expanded and revised, be included in a post-workshop book.
 
 

CORRESPONDENCE

Direct correspondence, inquires and submissions relating to this workshop should be addressed to:

                Sandor Dominich, E-mail: dominich@dcs.vein.hu
 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission:     31 May 2002
Notification of acceptance:      1 July 2002
Final submission:    15 July 2002
Workshop:     15 August 2002
 

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information can be found on the SIGIR 2002 Web pages http://www.sigir2002.org/.