IRaF
Information
Retrieval and Filtering
Special Session
in conjunction with
the 6th International Conference
on Business Information Systems BIS 2003
Colorado Springs,
Colorado, USA
June 4-6, 2003
Call for Papers
[printable pdf]
BIS is an international conference that addresses various
aspects of information technology in business. Although neither information
retrieval nor information filtering were the main area of interest of the
previous BIS conferences, number of papers touched the subject. We decided
to separate and emphasize the topic during the 6th BIS, devoting special
session to this issue.
Nowadays, one of the most important and challenging problems in management
information systems science is the proper choose of technologies which are
effective in providing access to unstructured or ill structured information
resources. Along with the expansion effective technologies for finding
relevant information are urgently needed. This special session will be
focusing on effective solutions to the described problem.
The area of information retrieval is mainly concerned with
modeling, designing and implementing systems that are able to provide access
to vast information and knowledge resources. The main challenge of such
systems is to estimate relevance of each knowledge or information item to
user’s needs. This is not a trivial task, and contemporary researches show,
that there is still much to be done in this area. There are a lot of
promising and challenging projects, which contribute to the area of
information retrieval and filtering. We expect that papers presented during
the IRaF special session will show both already successful solutions and new
directions in developing information retrieval and filtering systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
IRaF 2003 invites paper submissions related to each and every aspect of
information retrieval and filtering, however the proposals have to cope with
the Business Information Systems area. Topics are restricted by the session
title and they include inter alia:
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Ontologies and knowledge representation issues for
information retrieval and filtering from the Internet
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Query languages, e.g. media or domain specific
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Profiling and personalization
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Search strategies, e.g. agents technology
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Document indexing, categorization and clustering
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Information extraction
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(Multi)media information retrieval and filtering from the
Internet
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Multilingual and cross-lingual information retrieval and
filtering from the Internet
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Adaptive filtering, collaborative filtering, Web filtering
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Information retrieval and filtering from the Internet to
information systems, e.g. digital libraries, ERP, CRM
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Portal technology
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Textual and multimedia information systems to mange
information retrieved and filtered from the Web
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Evaluation of information retrieval and filtering from the
Internet
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SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
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Research papers:
up to 5000 words
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Work-in-progress papers:
up to 2500 words
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers to be considered for regular conference presentation and proceedings
should be submitted via the regular conference submission process. Detailed
instructions, especially formatting, will be published on conference Web
page (see /).
Questions on content should be directed to the special session organizing
committee:
kbiraf@kie.ae.poznan.pl
A. RESEARCH PAPERS
Papers should not exceed 5000 words. They should describe original research
(practical or theoretical). Theoretical papers should provide an overview of
area of research closely related to information retrieval and filtering in
BIS. Practical papers can describe an implemented tool or service that
contributes to the area of information retrieval and filtering.
B. WORK IN PROGRESS
Papers should not exceed 2500 words. They may present some aspects related
to information retrieval and filtering and describe work that it is still in
progress but its results may be interesting for a broader audience.
IMPORTANT DATES
Jan. 15, 2003 submission deadline for long and work in progress
papers to be published in refereed proceedings
Feb. 28, 2003 notification of acceptance/rejection
April 15, 2003 submission of final papers
June, 4-6, 2003 the conference
SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR
Witold Abramowicz, The Poznań University of Economics, Poland
W.Abramowicz@kie.ae.poznan.pl
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Youcef Baghdadi, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
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Beate Baltes, National University San Diego, USA
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Savitri Bevinakoppa, RMIT University, Australia
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Wojciech Cellary, Poznań University of Economics, Poland
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Czesław Daniłowicz, The Technical University of Wrocław,
Poland
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Julius Dichter, University of Bridgeport, USA
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Ying Ding, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Dieter Fensel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
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Eugene Gryazin, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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M. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, India
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Hele-Mai Haav, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia
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Harald Häuschen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA
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Ausif Mahmood, University of Bridgepot, USA
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Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium
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Jorgen Nilsson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
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Eric Paquet, National Research Council, Canada
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Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Czech Republic
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Giuseppe Psaila, Universita degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy
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Hakikur Rahman, SDNP, Bangladesh
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Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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Edward Szczerbicki, University of Newcastle, Australia
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Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, The Wrocław University of Technology,
Poland
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Herna Viktor, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Reginald Walker, University of California, USA
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Wita Wojtkowski, Boise State University, USA
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SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Marek Kowalkiewicz (M.Kowalkiewicz@kie.ae.poznan.pl)
and
Tomasz Kaczmarek (T.Kaczmarek@kie.ae.poznan.pl)
The Poznan Univ. of Economics, Poland
BIS 2003 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
W.Abramowicz@kie.ae.poznan.pl
Gary Klein
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
gklein@uccs.edu
ADDRESS
The Poznan University of Economics
Department of Management Information Systems
Al. Niepodleglosci 10
60-967 Poznan, Poland
phone: +48/61/ 856 93 33
fax: +48/61/ 856 93 34
bis2003@kie.ae.poznan.pl
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