FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2nd BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access 2008 (FDIA 2008)
London, UK, September 22, 2008

http://irsg.bcs.org/fdia2008

OVERVIEW
At the first symposium held last year, the aim was to provide a forum where future directions of information access can be presented and discussed in an open and friendly environment. The focus of the 2nd Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access will be to continue this theme by dedicating an entire day to the discussion and promotion of such research in a fun, entertaining and exciting way.

Why future directions,, because we want to encourage submission that focus on the early research such as pilot studies, presenting challenges and future opportunities, conceptual and theoretical work, and the contributions from doctoral work.

Why Information Access, because it captures the broader ideas of information retrieval, storage and management to include interaction and usage.

SYMPOSIUM AIMS
The objectives of the IRSG FDIA Symposium are:
* To provide an accessible forum for new researchers to share and discuss their research and projects:
particularly PhD students, researchers new to the field, and post doctoral researchers
* To help foster formative and tentative research ideas.
* To encourage discussion and successful progression.
* To share outcomes of doctoral work.

CALL FOR PAPERS
This symposium calls for research papers to be submitted on topics about Information Access. We especially encourage early research which presents initial work that survey and present future challenges and opportunities, present pilot studies, explore conceptual or theoretical models, etc.

Submission focusing on new directions and emerging work in Information Access/Retrieval which create discussion and provoke reaction are strongly encouraged. Submissions should provide the necessary background and motivation of the topic, so as to maximize the benefit to the author and fellow participants.

A paper should aim to include the following:
* Motivation for the research
* Background and related work (with key references)
* Particular issues highlighted for discussion and main research questions/challenges

A paper may also wish to include:
* Description of proposed or performed research
* Outline of Conceptual/Theoretical Models
* Research methodology and experiments


Areas of research include, but are not limited to:
Databases
Information Retrieval
Human Computer Interaction
Multimedia and Multimodal
Knowledge Management
Bio, Chemo, Med, Eco, etc. Informatics


All papers will be peer reviewed by at least one senior researchers on the Programme Committee. Papers should be around 4-8 pages in length in eWics Format using the Word or Latex templates (submitted in PDF).


IMPORTANT DATES
Papers submission: July 1st, 2008
Notification of acceptance: August 4th, 2008
Camera-ready papers: August 25th, 2008
Symposium: September 22nd, 2008


ORGANIZATION
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow
Ayse Goker, City University
Andy MacFarlane, City University
Murat Yakici, University of Glasgow

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Alex Bailey, Google
Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research
Juan Manuel Fernandez Universidad de Granada
Norbert Fuhr Universitat Duisburg Essen
Gareth Jones Dublin City University
Gabriella Kazai Microsoft Research
Udo Kruschwitz, Univesity of Essex
Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde
David Losada Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Andy MacFarlane City University
Massimo Melucci University of Padua
Micheal Oakes University of Sunderland
Steve Roberston Microsoft Research
Stefan Rueger Open University
Ian Ruthven University of Strathclyde
Mark Sanderson University of Sheffield
Dawei Song Open University
Jun Wang University College London
Maarten de Rijke University of Amsterdam