Schedule of Events: Workshops

ACM SIGIR'01 Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in IR
New Orleans, Louisiana, September 13, 2001

Workshop Agenda (PDF version; MS Word version)

CALL FOR PAPERS

OBJECTIVES

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 published as a special supplemental issue of Technology Letters (ISSN 1369-3735). 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 25, 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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