We are pleased to announce the opening of calls for paper for the upcoming halfday workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR), to be held as part of the International Conference on Digital Libraries 2014 – ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014) and International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2014), London, 8th-12th September 2014 (http://www.dl2014.org/).
Keynote Speaker: André Skupin (San Diego State University, USA)
“Managing Domain Knowledge: Ontology, Visualization, and Beyond”
Call for Papers
To support the previously the goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Knowledge maps for digital libraries
- Knowledge orders of information spaces
- Information seeking behaviour
- Information discovery
- Interactive IR systems
- Human–computer IR
- Knowledge Visualization in IR
- Visual interfaces to information systems
- Browsing and navigating information spaces
- Task based user modelling, interaction and personalization
- Evaluation of interactive IR systems.
Types of Submissions
- Full Papers (6 to 8 pages): Full papers, describing advanced or completed work
- Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress
- Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and Presentation of systems or prototypes
All submissions must be written in English following the Springer LNCS Author Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/lncs) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kmir2014.
All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. At least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program.
Important Dates
- Submissions: Friday 11th July, 2014
- Notification: Friday 25th July, 2014
- End of Registration: Monday 11th August, 2014
- Camera Ready Contributions: Friday 15th August, 2014
- Workshop: Friday 12th September, 2014, London (UK)
Output
Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) – This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). All accepted workshop papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and on the DL conference USB stick.
Program Committee
- Alkim Almila Akdag Salah, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University (USA)
- Kevin W. Boyack, SciTech Strategies, Inc. (USA)
- Edward A. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA)
- Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
- Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark)
- Claus-Peter Klas, University of Hagen (Germany)
- Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark)
- Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)
- André Skupin, San Diego State University (USA)
- Catherine L. Smith, Kent State University (USA)
- Howard D. White, Drexel University (USA)
Organizers
- Peter Mutschke (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany)
- Andrea Scharnhorst (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) / Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Amsterdam / The Hague, The Netherlands)
- Christophe Guéret (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) / Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Amsterdam / The Hague, The Netherlands)
- Philipp Mayr (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany)
- Preben Hansen (University of Stockholm, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Sweden)
- Aida Slavic (UDC Consortium, The Hague, The Netherlands)
Contact
Peter Mutschke (GESIS, Cologne): peter.mutschke@gesis.org
