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Subject: ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2002, Tampere, Finland Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:48:32 +0100 From: Dominich Sándor dominich@DCS.VEIN.HU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

For everybody interested: (apologies for cross postings)

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/.

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