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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access 2009 (FDIA 2009) Padua, Italy September 1st, 2009 http://essir2009.dei.unipd.it/#fdia As part of the European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2009) Padua, Italy August, 31st, until September, 4th 2009 http://essir2009.dei.unipd.it/ OVERVIEW The 3rd IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) will be held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Information Retrieval in 2009. The symposium aims to provide a forum for participants of the summer school to share their research and interaction with senior researchers in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. The previous symposiums were held in London in 2008, and Glasgow in 2007 (with ESSIR 2007) and have provided a fun, entertaining and exciting forum for sharing and forming tentative ideas and work. Why future directions, because we want to encourage submission that focus on the early research such as pilot studies, presenting challenges and future opportunities, conceptual and theoretical work, and the contributions from doctoral work. Why Information Access, because it captures the broader ideas of information retrieval, storage and management to include interaction and usage. SYMPOSIUM AIMS The FDIA Symposium is mainly tuned to PhD students, esearchers new to the field, and post doctoral researchers. The objectives are: * To provide an accessible forum for new researchers to discuss their research and projects. * To help foster formative and tentative research ideas. * To encourage discussion and successful progression. * To share outcomes of doctoral work. CALL FOR PAPERS This symposium calls for research papers to be submitted on topics about Information Access. We especially encourage submissions on late breaking and formative research which presents initial work that survey and present future challenges and opportunities, present pilot studies, explore conceptual and/or theoretical models. Submission focusing on new directions and emerging work in Information Access/Retrieval which create discussion and provoke reaction are strongly encouraged. Submissions should provide the necessary background and motivation of the topic, so as to maximize the benefit to the author and fellow participants. A paper should aim to include the following: * Motivation for the research * Background and related work (with key references) * Particular issues highlighted for discussion and main research questions/challenges A paper may also wish to include: * Description of proposed or performed research * Outline of Conceptual/Theoretical Models * Research methodology and experiment Areas of research include, but are not limited to: * Databases * Information Retrieval * Human Computer Interaction * Multimedia and Multimodal * Knowledge Management * Bio, Chemo, Med, Eco, etc. Informatics All papers will be peer reviewed by at least one senior researchers on the Programme Committee. Papers should be around 4-6 pages in length in eWics Format using the Word or Latex templates. Submission should be converted to PDF. Longer papers are okay up to 8 pages in length. All submissions must be from a solo author: the idea is to encourage and promote one's own research. The Proceedings will be published online as part of the Ewics series. IMPORTANT DATES Papers submission: April 30th, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 5th, 2009 Camera-ready papers: June 25th, 2009 Symposium: During ESSIR 2009, September 1st, 2009 ORGANIZATION Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow Massimo Melucci, University of Padua Ricardo Baeza Yates, Yahoo! Research PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Maristella Agosti, University of Padua Mark Baillie, University of Strathclyde Alex Bailey, Google Juan Manuel, Fernandez Universidad de Granada Norbert Fuhr, Universitat Duisburg Essen Gareth Jones, Dublin City University Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Udo Kruschwitz, Univesity of Essex Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde David Losada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Andy MacFarlane, City University Massimo Melucci, University of Padua Micheal Oakes, University of Sunderland Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde Milad Shokouki, Microsoft Research, UK Paul Thomas, CSIRO, Australia Jun Wang, University College London This message has been sent to you because you are a member of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG). Your Membership Number is: 205 |
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