CALL FOR PAPERS
Social Information Retrieval Systems
A Special Session at
The First International Conference on the Application of Digital
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008)
4-6 August 2008
Chair
Dion H. Goh
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Submission Deadline:
15 April 2008
INTRODUCTION
Social information retrieval refers to a family of techniques that assist users in obtaining information to meet their information needs by harnessing other users’ expert knowledge or search experience. Examples include sharing of queries, social bookmarking and tagging, social network analysis, subjective relevance judgments, and collaborative filtering. The area provides a promising avenue for the design and implementation of a new generation of information retrieval systems.
The special session on Social Information Retrieval at The First International Conference on the Application of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008) aims to bring together academics, researchers, software developers, students and others interested in this area to present state-of-the-art developments.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Algorithms, software components and tools
- Applications and case studies
- Architectural, design and implementation issues
- Collaborative browsing
- Collaborative filtering and recommender systems
- Collaborative querying
- Cooperative software agents for information retrieval
- Enabling technologies and applications
- Evaluation of systems, algorithms and interfaces
- Information extraction and mining
- Information retrieval in computer-supported collaborative work/groupware systems
- Information visualization
- Personalization
- Privacy and security
- Social information seeking models
- Social networks and information retrieval
- Social tagging and bookmarking
- Usability and user interfaces
- User and community needs and behavior
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submitted papers should be in MS Word format and should not exceed 10 pages, including illustrations. Papers are to be numbered starting from page one. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, selected papers will be published in peer reviewed journals such as the Journal of Digital Information Management.
Please refer to the paper submission page at the ICADIWT 2008 Web site for instructions.
Papers are to be submitted electronically at the conference Web site: http://www.dirf.org/diwt2008/submission.asp. Inquiries may be directed to the session organizer, Dion Goh, via e-mail at ashlgoh@ntu.edu.sg.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Submission deadline | 15 April 2008 |
| Notification of acceptance | 15 May 2008 |
| Camera-ready submission and registration | 15 June 2008 |
| Conference dates | 4-6 August 2008 |