Second Call for Papers and Conference Updates I International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006 Mirida, SPAIN, October 25th-28th, 2006 http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/ Abstract Submission Deadline Extended: May 15th, 2006 Dear colleague, In addition to the features informed in the CFP, InSciT2006 is pleased to announce some relevant news about the conference, including new keynote speaker, workshops, journal special issues and accommodation arrangements. Please read it through to know more. PLENARY SPEAKERS (confirmed) Dr. Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA. JASIS&T Editor. Lecture: Intelligent Methods in Models of Text Information Retrieval: Implications for Society Dr. Wolfgang Glanzel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Scietometrics Co-Editor (Title to be announced) Dr. Felix de Moya Anegsn, University of Granada, SPAIN. Main researcher of SCImago Research Group. (Title to be announced) Dr. Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, Editor of Information Visualization, USA. Lecture: Visual analysis of concept change and information diffusion CONTRIBUTIONS Incoming contributions are following a good rate, acceptance letters have started to be sent. A 400 papers proceedings book is expected to be distributed among the attendees. In addition to regular papers, it is also possible to submit proposals to the half-day International Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge, led by Dr. Chaomei Chen and to the full-day Specialized Session on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Life Sciences, led by Dr. A. Fazel Famili. More info: http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/submit.htm http://www.insatc.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm WORKSHOPS / SESSIONS InSciT2006 is pleased to announce the inclusion of one workshop and one specialized session into the conference scientific program. Both sessions have been set up in order to extend the conference target audience, as reaching the widest range of research communities is one of the major goals of the conference. Find below full details about these new and exciting tracks of InSciT2006. -- International Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/inscit2006workshop October 26th (half-day workshop) -- Specialized Session on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Life Sciences: Current Trends and Future Directions October 27th (full-day session) http://www.insatc.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm THEMES Major topics include the following, for a comprehensive list of topics covered by InSciT2006 visit: http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/topics.htm Information Retrieval Digital Libraries Hypertext and Hypermedia Systems Metadata Electronic Publishing Knowledge and Information Management Science and Information Mapping Data Mining Human-Computer interaction Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing Information Visualization Social Networks Databases CONFERENCE PUBLICATION - PROCEEDINGS All accepted papers presented at InSciT2006, both in the regular tracks and specialized sessions and workshops will be published as book chapters in the Conference Proceedings Book, which will be jointly edited by the University of Extremadura and the Open Institute of Knowledge. The title of the publication is expected to be "Current Research in Information Sciences and Technologies. Multidisciplinary approaches to global information systems" and it will contain an International Serial Book Number (ISBN). INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS SPECIAL ISSUES Confirmed journals: (being updated) http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/publication.htm -- Information Visualization. Published by Palgrave Macmillan Journals. ISSN: 1473-8716 5-7 selected papers of the Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge will form a special issue of this journal. -- The International Information and Library Review Published by Elsevier. ISSN: 1057-2317 A selection of high quality papers presented in InSciT2006 will undergo an extension and revision process to become journal articles of a IILR special issue. At this moment is also being considered to produce a special issue of Information Sciences, published by Elsevier. ISSN: 0020-0255 ACCOMMODATION InSciT2006 has agreed with Rural Plan (a local travel agency) an accommodation service available for the conference attendees. Please, note that through this service a wide hotel category range is provided in order to adapt the offer to the widest range of budgets. Thus, from five-stars hotels to two-stars and hostels are offered through the conference organization. All hotels showed have been checked for a standard of quality. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/accommodation.htm Thank you in advance and do not hesitate to contact us for any suggestion or inquiry. We would also appreciate it if you could disseminate this Call for Papers within your Department or Institution. Dr. Vicente Guerrero Bote InSciT2006 Conference Chairman University of Extremadura http://alcazaba.unex.es/~vicente Borja Gonzalez InSciT2006 Secretariat http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/secretariat.htm Email: inscit2006@instac.es ========================================================================= International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006 Mirida, SPAIN, October 25th-28th, 2006 http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/ Dear colleague, On behalf of the organizers, you are cordially invited to send abstracts of your best research for presentation at the forthcoming 1st International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies (InSciT2006) that will be held in October 2006 in Merida (Spain). Information Science is the interface of a number of scientific disciplines, all related to the diverse aspects of the information access, management, retrieval and usage. A number of approaches to the same object of study, the information, converge in this space: technological, mathematical, linguistic, and cognitive aspects as well as those related to the Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing or Human-Computer Interaction, organizational aspects and so on. All these approaches shape the wide range of domains which must interact in order to find the solutions to the problems we all face when deploying and improving these information systems. InSciT2006, with a strong multi and inter disciplinary focus, aims at creating a forum in Spain where gather together researchers and practitioners coming from the widest range of knowledge domains involved in the study of information. CONTRIBUTIONS We seek submissions related to any aspect of information sciences and technologies, particularly those which link a number of topics included in the programme (see below). Research and Applications articles should be of high quality, reporting original research and contributions to information science research. Submissions must include a title and a 500 word extended abstract of the proposed paper. Abstracts will be refereed. An abstract template is available to help you produce your abstract as well as a submission form to submit it to the conference. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/submit.htm Final papers will be published in the proceedings and presented at the conference. Papers may be in English or Spanish. Deadline for abstracts is May 1st, 2006. Approval will be notified 10-15 days after abstract reception. Final papers (3000-4000 words) must be received in camera-ready form by June 30, 2006. PLENARY SPEAKERS Dr. Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA. Editor of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, JASIST. (Title to be announced) Dr. Wolfgang Glanzel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Co-Editor of Scietometrics (Title to be announced) Dr. Felix de Moya Anegon, University of Granada, SPAIN. Main researcher of SCImago Research Group. (Title to be announced) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 1st, 2006 Full Paper submission for publication: June 30th, 2006 THEMES Major topics include the following (accompanied by some subtopics), for a comprehensive list of topics covered by InSciT2006 visit: http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/topics.htm Information Retrieval Formal models and methods and language models Information needs, seeking, searching, and uses User interfaces for IR systems Ubiquitous IR and Mobile platforms Web IR systems Digital Libraries Emerging Concepts of Digital Libraries, Digital Resources, Digital Content, Digital Objects Distributed digital collections User Studies and System Evaluation Digital Library Applications Social, organizational and economic issues Hypertext and Hypermedia Systems Web Hypermedia Technologies Linking vs Relationship: relationship concepts and models Blogging Hypertext and hypermedia tools Hypermedia and The Semantic Web Metadata Metadata design and semantics Ontologies, vocabularies and thesauri Metadata-based information retrieval and browsing Electronic Publishing Electronic publishing research (platforms, systems, software) Scholarly communication and electronic publishing Self-archiving, repositories, disciplinary archives and Eprints Knowledge and Information Management Knowledge and Information Extraction Content Management in organizational environments Science and Information Mapping Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Research Performance Studies of Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity and Research Collaboration Knowledge Mapping and Visualization Data Mining Distributed data mining Collaborative filtering/personalization - usage mining - user access patterns discovering and interpreting Data manipulation: clearing, integration, transformation, compression, reduction Human-Computer interaction Interface Design for Digital Libraries, IR systems, and in general for multimedia information systems Cognitive models used in information processes Ergonomics in HCI Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Fuzzy Logia Artificial Neuronal Networks Intelligent Information Retrieval Relevance evaluation using IA techniques Natural Language Processing Discourse processing Language understanding Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language Human language technologies Information Visualization Information visualization environments Visual data modelling Application areas of visual information systems Social Networks Social Network Analysis Communities of Practices Social Networks in organizational contexts Databases Data Models and Database Design Distributed and Multidimensional Databases Multimedia Database Systems CONFERENCE PUBLICATION - PROCEEDINGS Proceedings Book All accepted papers to be presented at InSciT2006 will be published as book chapters in the Conference Proceedings Book, which will be jointly edited by the University of Extremadura and the Open Institute of Knowledge. This volume will be distributed amongst the attendees during the conference. Furthermore, every paper will be published in the Open Digital Library, currently being developed by the Open Institute of Knowledge, and made available to be read on-line so as to maximize its international visibility and impact. The title of the publication is expected to be "Current Research in Information Sciences and Technologies. Multidisciplinary approaches to global information systems" and it will contain an Interantional Serial Book Number (ISBN). International Journals special issues In addition, a selected number of accepted papers will be considered, under amendment / extension in order to meet journal requirements, for publication in several collaborating international journals, with which InSciT2006's Organization is currently reaching agreements. These set of papers, selected by the international advisory committee after the conference, will be of high-quality (break-through work) and a new round of a very strict review will follow. This is intended to maximize the international visibility and impact of papers presented at InSciT2006. Please refer to the conference website for details. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/publication.htm VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM The Virtual Symposium is intended for those researchers interested in participating but unable to attend to InSciT2006. Virtual participants will contribute submitting their presentations in a power point (PPT) compatible format that will be exposed at the computer area, located alongside the poster and surrounding areas. Virtual participation will be considered in the same way as the physical one, that is, each virtual presentation will have an associated paper published in the Conference Proceedings. Also, the full documentation set, including the proceedings as well as presentation certificates will be sent by post to their authors. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/submit.htm COLLABORATION, RESEARCH PROJETCS AND PhD TUTOR SEARCH. InSciT2006 organization will publish and distribute, jointly with the hand program, a booklet where the participating research groups can publish its achievements. This is intended to promote contacts among the participants and find possible partners for future collaboration in research projects or calls for collaborative EU research funds, i.e. within Framework Programs. In addition, interested students attending to InSciT2006 will be encouraged to publish their CV in order to find PhD tutors from abroad. EXHIBITION AND SPONSORSHIP For issues regarding Commercial Exhibition and Sponsorship, please refer to the Conference website. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/sponsor.htm http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/exhibition.htm Thank you in advance and do not hesitate to contact us for any suggestion or inquiry. We would also appreciate it if you could disseminate this Call for Papers within your Department or Institution. Dr. Vicente Guerrero Bote InSciT2006 Conference Chairman University of Extremadura http://alcazaba.unex.es/~vicente Borja Gonzalez InSciT2006 Secretariat http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/secretariat.htm Email: inscit2006@instac.es International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006 Mirida, SPAIN, October 25th-28th, 2006 http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/ Dear colleague, On behalf of the organizers, you are cordially invited to send abstracts of your best research for presentation at the forthcoming 1st International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies (InSciT2006) that will be held in October 2006 in Merida (Spain). Information Science is the interface of a number of scientific disciplines, all related to the diverse aspects of the information access, management, retrieval and usage. A number of approaches to the same object of study, the information, converge in this space: technological, mathematical, linguistic, and cognitive aspects as well as those related to the Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing or Human-Computer Interaction, organizational aspects and so on. All these approaches shape the wide range of domains which must interact in order to find the solutions to the problems we all face when deploying and improving these information systems. InSciT2006, with a strong multi and inter disciplinary focus, aims at creating a forum in Spain where gather together researchers and practitioners coming from the widest range of knowledge domains involved in the study of information. CONTRIBUTIONS We seek submissions related to any aspect of information sciences and technologies, particularly those which link a number of topics included in the programme (see below). Research and Applications articles should be of high quality, reporting original research and contributions to information science research. Submissions must include a title and a 500 word extended abstract of the proposed paper. Abstracts will be refereed. An abstract template is available to help you produce your abstract as well as a submission form to submit it to the conference. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/submit.htm Final papers will be published in the proceedings and presented at the conference. Papers may be in English or Spanish. Deadline for abstracts is May 1st, 2006. Approval will be notified 10-15 days after abstract reception. Final papers (3000-4000 words) must be received in camera-ready form by June 30, 2006. PLENARY SPEAKERS Dr. Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA. Editor of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, JASIST. (Title to be announced) Dr. Wolfgang Glanzel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Co-Editor of Scietometrics (Title to be announced) Dr. Felix de Moya Anegon, University of Granada, SPAIN. Main researcher of SCImago Research Group. (Title to be announced) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 1st, 2006 Full Paper submission for publication: June 30th, 2006 THEMES Major topics include the following (accompanied by some subtopics), for a comprehensive list of topics covered by InSciT2006 visit: http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/topics.htm Information Retrieval Formal models and methods and language models Information needs, seeking, searching, and uses User interfaces for IR systems Ubiquitous IR and Mobile platforms Web IR systems Digital Libraries Emerging Concepts of Digital Libraries, Digital Resources, Digital Content, Digital Objects Distributed digital collections User Studies and System Evaluation Digital Library Applications Social, organizational and economic issues Hypertext and Hypermedia Systems Web Hypermedia Technologies Linking vs Relationship: relationship concepts and models Blogging Hypertext and hypermedia tools Hypermedia and The Semantic Web Metadata Metadata design and semantics Ontologies, vocabularies and thesauri Metadata-based information retrieval and browsing Electronic Publishing Electronic publishing research (platforms, systems, software) Scholarly communication and electronic publishing Self-archiving, repositories, disciplinary archives and Eprints Knowledge and Information Management Knowledge and Information Extraction Content Management in organizational environments Science and Information Mapping Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Research Performance Studies of Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity and Research Collaboration Knowledge Mapping and Visualization Data Mining Distributed data mining Collaborative filtering/personalization - usage mining - user access patterns discovering and interpreting Data manipulation: clearing, integration, transformation, compression, reduction Human-Computer interaction Interface Design for Digital Libraries, IR systems, and in general for multimedia information systems Cognitive models used in information processes Ergonomics in HCI Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Fuzzy Logia Artificial Neuronal Networks Intelligent Information Retrieval Relevance evaluation using IA techniques Natural Language Processing Discourse processing Language understanding Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language Human language technologies Information Visualization Information visualization environments Visual data modelling Application areas of visual information systems Social Networks Social Network Analysis Communities of Practices Social Networks in organizational contexts Databases Data Models and Database Design Distributed and Multidimensional Databases Multimedia Database Systems CONFERENCE PUBLICATION - PROCEEDINGS Proceedings Book All accepted papers to be presented at InSciT2006 will be published as book chapters in the Conference Proceedings Book, which will be jointly edited by the University of Extremadura and the Open Institute of Knowledge. This volume will be distributed amongst the attendees during the conference. Furthermore, every paper will be published in the Open Digital Library, currently being developed by the Open Institute of Knowledge, and made available to be read on-line so as to maximize its international visibility and impact. The title of the publication is expected to be "Current Research in Information Sciences and Technologies. Multidisciplinary approaches to global information systems" and it will contain an Interantional Serial Book Number (ISBN). International Journals special issues In addition, a selected number of accepted papers will be considered, under amendment / extension in order to meet journal requirements, for publication in several collaborating international journals, with which InSciT2006's Organization is currently reaching agreements. These set of papers, selected by the international advisory committee after the conference, will be of high-quality (break-through work) and a new round of a very strict review will follow. This is intended to maximize the international visibility and impact of papers presented at InSciT2006. Please refer to the conference website for details. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/publication.htm VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM The Virtual Symposium is intended for those researchers interested in participating but unable to attend to InSciT2006. Virtual participants will contribute submitting their presentations in a power point (PPT) compatible format that will be exposed at the computer area, located alongside the poster and surrounding areas. Virtual participation will be considered in the same way as the physical one, that is, each virtual presentation will have an associated paper published in the Conference Proceedings. Also, the full documentation set, including the proceedings as well as presentation certificates will be sent by post to their authors. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/submit.htm COLLABORATION, RESEARCH PROJETCS AND PhD TUTOR SEARCH. InSciT2006 organization will publish and distribute, jointly with the hand program, a booklet where the participating research groups can publish its achievements. This is intended to promote contacts among the participants and find possible partners for future collaboration in research projects or calls for collaborative EU research funds, i.e. within Framework Programs. In addition, interested students attending to InSciT2006 will be encouraged to publish their CV in order to find PhD tutors from abroad. EXHIBITION AND SPONSORSHIP For issues regarding Commercial Exhibition and Sponsorship, please refer to the Conference website. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/sponsor.htm http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/exhibition.htm Thank you in advance and do not hesitate to contact us for any suggestion or inquiry. We would also appreciate it if you could disseminate this Call for Papers within your Department or Institution. Dr. Vicente Guerrero Bote InSciT2006 Conference Chairman University of Extremadura http://alcazaba.unex.es/~vicente Borja Gonzalez InSciT2006 Secretariat http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/secretariat.htm Email: inscit2006@instac.es