[Sigia-l] BCS IRSG Industry Day

[Tony Rose]

                       CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
                       
                     BCS IRSG Industry Day
                      in association with
        28th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006)
        
     13th April 2006, British Computer Society Headquarters, London, UK
      
             http://ecir2006.soi.city.ac.uk/index.php?page=indust
      

DESCRIPTION:
For the first time in its history, ECIR will be followed by a special
day devoted to the interests and needs of Information Retrieval
practitioners. The Industry Day after ECIR 2006 is devoted to the
challenges involved in designing and developing operational IR products
and services, and aims to build bridges between IR specialists in
industry and academia. This forum presents an opportunity for commercial
organisations and individuals to share their work with a wider audience,
and for researchers to learn more about the issues and problems faced by
IR practitioners in developing practical solutions for the information
search and retrieval industry.

The scope of Industry Day 2006 covers all the areas addressed by ECIR
2006 (http://ecir2006.soi.city.ac.uk/index.php?page=call), but we are
particularly interested in presentations and demonstrations of the
following:

* search engines (web & enterprise) 
* information architecture & navigation 
* knowledge & content management 
* data mining & visualisation 


VENUE:
Industry Day 2006 will be held at the BCS London Office, Southampton
Street, WC2E 7HA (http://www.bcs.org/BCS/Contact/Maps.htm). This location
is 10 mins by Tube from the main ECIR conference venue. A separate
one-day registration rate will be available.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Abstracts for 30-minute presentations should be submitted in plain ASCII
by e-mail to the BCS IRSG:

irsgevents AT bcs.org

Accepted abstracts (or complete papers, should authors choose to submit
them), will be published in the workshop proceedings. Final versions of
abstracts/papers should be in PDF - authors of accepted presentations
will be given formatting details in due course.

Submissions will be reviewed by IR practitioners on the basis of the
originality and authority of the work, and the contribution to the IR
profession. For further details please refer to the conference web site: 
http://ecir2006.soi.city.ac.uk/index.php?page=indust


IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts due: Friday 2 December 2005
Notification to authors: Friday 13th January 2006
Submission of camera-ready copy: Monday 13th February 2006
ECIR Conference: 10th to 12th April 2006
IRSG Industry Day: 13th April 2006


LOCAL ORGANISERS:
Tony Rose 
Alex Bailey
Andrew MacFarlane