---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CALL - ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2001 New Orleans Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:27:48 +0200 From: Dominich Sándor dominich@DCS.VEIN.HU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Dear ISWORLD Colleagues,

Please find a few moments to consider our call:

___________________________________________________________ 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 made available in a printed and/or electronic proceedings. 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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