HICSS-40 CALL FOR PAPERS Information Retrieval and Digital Library Applications Mini-Track at the Thirty-ninth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences January 3 - 6, 2007 Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort and Spa on the Big Island 425 Waikoloa Beach Drive Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738 Tel: 1-808-886-1234 Fax: 1-808-886-2900 www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Mirror site: http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ *NOTE: The submission site is now open, deadline for paper submission June 15* We invite submission of original research papers to the Information Retrieval and Digital Library Applications Mini-Track (part of the Digital Media: Content and Communications Track) of HICSS-40. The mini-track will examine both theoretical and application issues related to information retrieval, cross-language document search, link-based web search, text summarization, and fact-based question-answering, as well as the applications of these technologies in Digital Libraries. We build upon a series of successful minitracks on Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries from 2003-2005. Particularly welcome are papers that investigate IR methods applied to Web documents, non-English documents, spoken document retrieval, and geographic information retrieval, and XML retrieval, as well as internal and distributed retrieval from digital libraries. Suggested Topics would include, but are not limited to the following areas * Information Retrieval Language Models, Algorithms and Tools * Fact-based Open-domain Question Answering * Web-based Information Retrieval -Topic Detection and Tracking over time * Geographic Information Retrieval * Information Visualization -Text Categorization and Summarization * Cross Language Retrieval * Speech and Broadcast Retrieval * XML Document and Component retrieval * Distributed Retrieval from Digital Libraries * IR Performance and Evaluation Papers will be refereed, and accepted papers will be published in the HICSS Conference proceedings by IEEE. Minitrack Co-Chairs: Ray R. Larson (Primary Contact) Associate Professor School of Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley 102 South Hall #4600 Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 Phone: (510) 642-6046 ray@sims.berkeley.edu Fredric C. Gey UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance University of California 2538 Channing Way, # 5100 Berkeley, CA 94720-5100 Phone: Campus: (510) 643-1298 Fax: (510) 643-8292 gey@berkeley.edu IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstracts - (Optional) Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at any time. June 15 - Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu). All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. August 15 - Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15 - Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee $525 applies. October 2 - General Registration fee $575 applies until December 10. December 10 - Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at conference rate. - Deadline to receive conference registration refund. - Late registration fee $675 applies. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-39. (Optional) Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content. Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, submit an abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on the Peer Review System website. CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague@hawaii.edu Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss@hawaii.edu Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis@indiana.edu