Subject: Call for Papers
From: Innes Ferguson <innes@dlib.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 97 09:06:01 GMT
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

		  IJCAI-97 Workshop on AI in Digital Libraries

		          IJCAI-1997 Workshop Series

		 	    Nagoya Congress Center
			        Nagoya, Japan

			      August 23-25, 1997
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Workshop Description
====================

As the volume and diversity of available on-line information continues to  
grow, so too will the number of users of this information. Whereas until  
quite recently most information sources were designed to serve a relatively  
small number of specialized users, they are steadily becoming essential to a  
wide range of academic, professional, commercial, and even hobbyist and lay  
consumers. These trends have led to the emergence of an increasingly  
important discipline: digital libraries.

A digital library is an electronic information access system which offers  
users a coherent view of a selected, organized, and managed body of  
information. As interest increases in heterogeneous, information rich  
repositories -- arguably, proto-digital libraries -- such as the Internet and  
intranets, a number of technical challenges will need to be met to satisfy  
individual users' demands. Key among these are information discovery and  
retrieval, user interface design, classification and indexing, content  
delivery and presentation, and storage management and administration. Faced  
with such challenges, a number of international agencies (most noticeably  
NASA, DARPA, and NSF in the United States and MITI in Japan) have recently  
made available substantial funding for digital library research. AI  
researchers are among those participating in major digital library projects.

The purpose of this workshop is to identify ways in which AI techniques can  
contribute to solving some of the challenges of building real world digital  
libraries. The workshop is intended to build upon the successes of earlier  
IJCAI and AAAI workshops on information access and navigation. Following on  
from the many useful AI techniques and approaches presented at these venues,  
the present workshop will focus on how such techniques can be applied in the  
context of digital libraries. Particular questions that need addressing  
include: How easily do AI techniques for general information repositories --  
such as the WWW -- migrate to the more structured domains of digital  
libraries? What other AI techniques (eg. knowledge representation) can assist  
in improving access to and management of digital information? What new  
challenges and opportunities do real world digital libraries bring to bear on  
AI research?

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Information discovery and retrieval:
	information filtering
	user modelling and adaptive profiling
	use of user feedback
	software agents for resource discovery
	knowledge-based models of information retrieval
User interface design:
	information access, browsing and navigation
	visualization of large repositories
	summarization and multiple perspective presentation of content
	natural language processing
Classification and indexing:
	information modelling
	knowledge and metadata representation
	automatic keyword extraction, classification and clustering
	statistical, probabilistic, linguistic and other approaches to
	indexing
	indexing of non-textual media such as image, sound, and video
	distributed indexing
Architectural designs and issues:
	interoperability
	scaling and extensibility
	cooperative information systems
	information economies


Submission Details
==================

The workshop will consist of invited talks, presentations, discussion  
sessions, and hands-on demonstrations. Well written short papers (5-8 pages)  
are sought describing novel AI algorithms and techniques applied to one or  
more of the areas of research listed above. In addition, short papers  
describing real world digital libraries which employ embedded AI technology,  
or well supported and imaginative visionary papers discussing future  
challenges and directions are requested. Also of interest are review papers  
(5-8 pages), particularly those which address linkages between AI and other  
pertinent fields of study such as the information and library sciences.  
Hands-on demonstrations of prototypical or fielded work are strongly  
encouraged. Those wishing to demonstrate should also include a one-page  
description of their hardware and connectivity requirements. All papers must  
include: author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone  
number, fax number, URL, and email address.

The workshop is open to all members of the AI community. Please note,  
however, that all workshop participants must register for the IJCAI-97  
conference and that the number of workshop participants is strictly limited.  
Participants will be selected on the basis of their submitted short papers,  
which will be reviewed by members of the organizing committee. Selected  
participants will be asked to give brief presentations of their work;  
presenters should aim to address the ideas and guiding principles behind  
their work, rather than simply repeating the contents of their paper  
submissions. Moderated discussion sessions will consume most of the allotted  
time and will revolve around a core set of discussion topics. These topics  
will reflect the research, work in progress, opinions, visions, and  
applications presented at the workshop, as well as material exchanged via  
email discussions (facilitated by the chair) in advance of the one-day  
workshop. Participants will also be invited to raise any new topics on the  
day.

Via email, send either a URL pointing to an electronic version of the paper  
or the electronic copy itself to innes@dlib.com. Acceptable electronic  
formats include: Postscript, HTML, PDF, LaTeX, RTF, and SGML (this last one  
should be accompanied by an appropriate DTD or style file). Alternatively,  
send 4 hard copies of the paper to:

Innes A. Ferguson
Digital Library Group
Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.
17th Floor, Centre Point
103 New Oxford St.
London, WC1A 1EB, UK.


Submission deadline is February 14, 1997.


Timetable
=========

February 14, 1997	Submission deadline for papers
March 17, 1997		Author notification
April 11, 1997		Final camera ready copies due
April 30, 1997		Provisional list of participants due
August 23, 1997		Day of Workshop (Nagoya Congress Center)

The workshop activities will commence via an email discussion two months  
before IJCAI-97. From this phase a number of provisional discussion topics  
will be identified and submitted back to the confirmed participants. After  
the workshop, authors of the best papers will be invited to submit longer  
versions of their submissions for publication in a suitable journal or book.  
In addition, an article summarizing the notes and results of the workshop  
will be submitted to an appropriate and widely read publication.


Organizing Committee
====================

* Robin Burke (University of Chicago, USA)
* Ed Durfee (University of Michigan, USA)
* Innes Ferguson (chair) (Mitsubishi Electric Europe, UK, innes@dlib.com)
* Hiroyuki Kaji (Hitachi-Central Research Laboratory, Japan)
* Grigoris Karakoulas (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canada)
* Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA)
* Bruce Krulwich (Andersen Consulting, USA)
* David Lewis (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)
* Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University, USA)
* Stephen Marsh (National Research Council, Canada)
* Carlo Meghini (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
* Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Library and Information Science, Japan)


This call for papers can be found at:

	http://www.dlib.com/people/innes/aiindl/cfp.html


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