Promoting and Encouraging Early Research in Information Access
At the first symposium held last year, the aim was to provide a forum where future directions of information access can be presented and discussed in an open and friendly environment.
The focus of the 2nd Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access will be to continue this theme by dedicating an entire day to the discussion and promotion of such research in a fun, entertaining and exciting way.
Why future directions,, because we want to encourage submission that focus on the early research such as pilot studies, presenting challenges and future opportunities, conceptual and theoretical work, and the contributions from doctoral work.
Why Information Access, because it captures the broader ideas of information retrieval, storage and management to include interaction and usage.
You can access the previous year's FDIA web page from here
Symposium Aims
The objectives of the IRSG FDIA Symposium are:
- To provide an accessible forum for new researchers to share and discuss their research and projects:
- particularly PhD students,
- researchers new to the field, and
- post doctoral researchers
- To help foster formative and tentative research ideas.
- To encourage discussion and successful progression.
- To share outcomes of doctoral work.
Format of Day
Monday, 22nd of September, 09:30 - 19:00
09:30-10:30 Welcome and Keynote Talk
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:30-13:00 Short Presentations (10 minutes each)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Time
14:00-15:00 Short Presentations (10 minutes each)
15:00-15:30 Soap Box Introductions
15:30-19:00 Meet, Mingle, Mix Session, with
- Poster presentations: comment, question, find out more
- White board analysis: explain, argue, enlighten
- Rating session: Get to vote on the most interesting, most extreme, most strange, and most awesome paper at the symposium (Audience Participation required)
- Served with coffee and snacks, and later followed by a buffet dinner with plenty of beer and wine.
Call for Papers
This symposium calls for research papers to be submitted on topics about Information Access. We especially encourage early research which presents initial work that survey and present future challenges and opportunities, present pilot studies, explore conceptual or theoretical models, etc.
Submission focusing on new directions and emerging work in Information Access/Retrieval which create discussion and provoke reaction are strongly encouraged. Submissions should provide the necessary background and motivation of the topic, so as to maximize the benefit to the author and fellow participants.
A paper should aim to include the following:
- Motivation for the research
- Background and related work (with key references)
- Particular issues highlighted for discussion and main research questions/challenges
A paper may also wish to include:
- Description of proposed or performed research
- Outline of Conceptual/Theoretical Models
- Research methodology and experiments
Areas of research include, but are not limited to:
- Databases
- Information Retrieval
- Human Computer Interaction
- Multimedia and Multimodal
- Knowledge Management
- Bio, Chemo, Med, Eco, etc. Informatics
All papers will be peer reviewed by at least one senior researchers on the Programme Committee. Papers should be 4-8 pages in length in eWics Format using the Word or Latex templates. Submission should be converted to PDF.
Submissions can be made through the EasyChair system setup for FDIA 2008.
Important Dates
15th of May: Submissions open
1st of July: Paper Deadline
1st of August: Review Deadline
4th of August: Paper Notification
25th of August: Camera Ready Papers Due. Note: Papers will be made available online via the eWic system
22nd of September: BCS-IRSG FDIA 2008 Symposium
Followed by:
23rd of September: BCS-IRSG Search Solutions 2008
Location
The Symposium will be held in the BCS Central London Office .
BCS, 1st Floor
The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA
Registration
Registration fees are as follows:
|
Member |
Non-Member |
| Student |
£89 |
£ 99 |
| Non-Student |
£ 99 |
£ 129 |
Members include: BCS, BCS-IRSG and members of any European IRSG
Registration fees include lunch, an evening reception and a copy of the proceedings. Tea, coffee, juice and water will also be available. Save up to £30,when you register to become an BCS-IRSG member. Visit our membership enquiry page, if you are a BCS-IRSG member and would like to obtain your membership number.
Organization
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow
Ayse Goker, City University
Andy MacFarlane, City University
Murat Yakici, MY Consulting
Program Committee
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Contact
Andy MacFarlane
E: andym [at] soi [dot] city [dot] ac [dot] uk
T: +44 (0)20 7040 8386
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