[Asis-l] Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries Minitrack at HICSS

[Ray Larson]

			       HICSS-40
			   CALL FOR PAPERS

  Information Retrieval and Digital Library Applications Mini-Track
		      at the Thirty-ninth Annual
	 Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences
			 January 3 - 6, 2007
       Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort and Spa on the Big Island
		       425 Waikoloa Beach Drive
			Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738
	      Tel: 1-808-886-1234    Fax: 1-808-886-2900
		    www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com


HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer,
and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and
practice.  Papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or
descriptive in nature.  Submissions undergo a double-blind peer
referee process and those selected for presentation will be published
in the Conference Proceedings.

Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: 
    http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Mirror site: http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ 

*NOTE: The submission site is now open, deadline for paper submission June 15*

We invite submission of original research papers to the Information
Retrieval and Digital Library Applications Mini-Track (part of the
Digital Media: Content and Communications Track) of HICSS-39. The
mini-track will examine both theoretical and application issues
related to information retrieval, cross-language document search,
link-based web search, text summarization, and fact-based
question-answering, as well as the applications of these technologies
in Digital Libraries. We build upon a series of successful minitracks
on Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries from
2003-2005. Particularly welcome are papers that investigate IR methods
applied to Web documents, non-English documents, spoken document
retrieval, and geographic information retrieval, and XML retrieval, as
well as internal and distributed retrieval from digital libraries.

Suggested Topics would include, but are not limited to the following areas: 
 * Information Retrieval Language Models, Algorithms and Tools 
 * Fact-based Open-domain Question Answering 
 * Web-based Information Retrieval -Topic Detection and Tracking over time 
 * Geographic Information Retrieval 
 * Information Visualization -Text Categorization and Summarization 
 * Cross Language Retrieval 
 * Speech and Broadcast Retrieval 
 * XML Document and Component retrieval 
 * Distributed Retrieval from Digital Libraries 
 * IR Performance and Evaluation 

Papers will be refereed, and accepted papers will be published in the HICSS Conference proceedings by IEEE.

Minitrack Co-Chairs: 
Ray R. Larson (Primary Contact) 
Associate Professor 
School of Information Management and Systems 
University of California, Berkeley 
102 South Hall #4600 
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 
Phone: (510) 642-6046 
ray at sims.berkeley.edu 

Fredric C. Gey 
Data Archivist and Assistant Director 
UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance 
University of California 
2538 Channing Way, # 5100 
Berkeley, CA 94720-5100 
Phone: Campus: (510) 643-1298 (NEW PHONE 3/2000) 
Fax: (510) 643-8292 
gey at berkeley.edu



IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Abstracts     - (Optional) Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance 
                and indication of appropriate content at any time. 
June 15       - Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following
                Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site 
                (www.hicss.hawaii.edu). All papers will be submitted in double
                column publication format and limited to 10 pages including 
                diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. 
August 15     - Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer 
                Review System. 
September 15  - Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission 
                instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one 
                author of each paper must register by this date with specific 
                plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early 
                Registration fee $525 applies. 
October 2     - General Registration fee $575 applies until December 10. 
December 10   - Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at 
                conference rate. 
              - Deadline to receive conference registration refund. 
              - Late registration fee $675 applies. 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published,
nor currently submitted elsewhere.  Consult the conference website
(www.hicss.hawaii.edu) for the listing and description of Minitracks
for HICSS-39.  (Optional) Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for
guidance and verification of appropriate content.  Do not submit the
manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If unsure of which
Minitrack is appropriate, submit an abstract to the Track Chair for
guidance.  HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted
paper.  Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on
the Peer Review System website.

HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS 
Collaboration Systems and Technology 
           Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs bbriggs at GroupSystems; 
           Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker nunamaker at cmi.arizona.edu 

Decision Technologies for Management 
           Chair: Dan Dolk drdolk at nps.edu 

Digital Media: Content and Communication 
           Chair: Michael Shepherd shepherd at cs.cal.ca 

E-Government     
           Chair: H. Jochen Scholl jscholl at u.washington.edu 

Electric Power Systems
           Chair: Robert Thomas   rjt1 at cornell.edu

Information Technology in Health Care
           Chair: William Chismar chismar at hawaii.edu 

Internet & the Digital Economy  
           Co-chair: David King david.king at jda.com; 
           Co-chair: Alan Dennis ardennis at indiana.edu 

Knowledge Management Systems   
           Co-chair: Murray Jennex murphjen at aol.com; 
           Co-chair: Dave Croasdell davec at unr.edu 

Organizational Systems & Technology   
           Chair: Hugh Watson hwatson at terry.uga.edu 

Software Technology   
           Chair: Gul Agha agha at cs.uiuc.edu 


CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION 
Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair 
Email: sprague at hawaii.edu 

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator 
Email: hicss at hawaii.edu 

Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator 
Email: eidennis at indiana.edu