ACM SIGIR 2003 WORKSHOP
ON
MATHEMATICAL/FORMAL METHODS IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
MF/IR 2003
August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada
OBJECTIVE
The previous three workshops (ACM SIGIR 2000 MF/IR 2000, Athens, Greece,
ACM SIGIR 2001 MF/IR 2001, New Orleans, USA, and ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2002,
Tampere, Finland) 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 2003 workshop is, on the one hand, to continue
and enhance the results obtained so far, and on the other hand, to present,
discuss, analyze, the newer/newest results. Therefore MF/IR 2003 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).
There will be paper presentations, and it is planned to have an invited
speaker. Although the presentations will follow a conference style, interaction
and discussion shall be of primary importance. The presentations will be
followed by a Discussion Panel, since this form of interaction has been
very successful in the previous MF/IR workshops.
Due to high interest in this workshop in previous years, paper presentations
will be selected on a peer review basis, just as in previous workshops.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Contributions are solicited dealing with, but not limited to, the following
areas:
Digital Libraries
Evaluation
Hypermedia
Indexing and Retrieval
Information Filtering
Information Mining
Information Retrieval
Link Analysis
Semantic Web and Ontologies
User Modeling, User Tasks, and Context
World Wide Web Retrieval
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:
Algebra
Artificial Intelligence
Boolean Logic
Classical Sets
Complexity Theory
Euclidean Geometry
Functional Analysis
Fuzzy Logic
Fuzzy Sets
Graph Theory
Information Theory
Linear Space
Matroid Theory
Metric Spaces
Non-Euclidean Geometries
Non-standard Logics
Probability
Quantum Logic
Quantum Mechanics
Recursion Theory
Rough Sets
Similarity Functions
Statistical Mechanics
Theory of Computation
Theory of Uncertainty
Topology
Vectors
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 Duisburg, 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 (University of 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.)
· Michael Wong (University of Regina, Canada)
SUBMISSION
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-ijNs5Nr+KpOT9ig0jae3mg@public.gmane.org
using "MF/IR 2003 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, will be included
in a post-workshop journal issue.
CORRESPONDENCE
Direct correspondence, inquires and submissions relating to this workshop
should be addressed to:
Sandor Dominich, e-mail: dominich-ijNs5Nr+KpOT9ig0jae3mg@public.gmane.org
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission (paper, summary): 1 June 2003
Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2003
Final submission: 30 June 2003
Workshop: 1 August 2003
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information can be found on the SIGIR 2003 Web pages http://www.sigir2003.org/.
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