CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIAL, WORKSHOP AND DOCTORAL FORUM CONTRIBUTIONS
Deadline: 7 February 2005
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4-9 June 2005, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 
Context: Nature, Impact and Role
Fifth International Conference on Conceptions of
Library and Information Science
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/

CoLIS 5 is the fifth in the series of international conferences
whose general aim is to provide a broad forum for critically
exploring and analysing research in areas such as computer science,
information science and library science. The theme for CoLIS 5 will
be the nature, impact and role of context within information-centred
research and technologies.

Context is a complex, dynamic, and multi-dimensional concept that
influences both humans and machines: how they behave individually
and how they interact with each other. In CoLIS 5 we will take an
interdisciplinary approach to the issue of context to help us define
the theoretical approaches to modelling and understanding context,
to incorporate contextual reasoning within information access
technology and to develop a shared framework for promoting the
exploration of context.

Contributions are invited that address issues such: the relationship
between context and information, investigations of context in
information seeking environments, models of context and relevance,
contextual issues in interactive information retrieval, and
contextual evaluations of information technologies. CoLIS5 is
particularly interested in technical issues involved in modelling
context, and methodologies for providing and evaluating
context-sensitive technologies for information access.

Submissions

CoLIS 5 invites submissions of high quality research papers,
proposals for half or full day tutorials, proposals for one
day workshops and contributions to the Doctoral Forum. All
submissions will be reviewed by the international program
committee. All accepted research papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series. Submissions guidelines for all types
of contributions, including a full list of topic areas, are
available at the conference website:
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/

Important dates:
  7 February 2005: Deadline for all submissions.
  7 March 2005: Author notification
 21 March 2005: Final camera-ready copy
  4 June 2005: Doctoral Forum day
  5 June 2005: Tutorials
6-8 June 2005: Plenary conference
  9 June 2005: Workshops

Invited speakers:
Prof. David Blair, University of Michigan Business School, USA
Prof. Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University School of Computing, UK

Organisation

Conference Chairs:
Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Tutorials chair:
Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Workshops Chair:
Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles, US.

Doctoral Forum Chair:
Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science, DK.

About the venue

Glasgow is Scotland's largest city and the cultural, commercial and
convention capital of Scotland. Surrounded by some of the most
breathtaking scenery in Western Europe, the city is one of the
liveliest and most cosmopolitan destinations in Europe. Glasgow
boasts world famous art collections, the best shopping in the
United Kingdom outside London, and the most vibrant nightlife in
Scotland.

For more information please visit the conference website at
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/