Final CfP ACM SAC 2008 - AIR Track: Deadlines extension

Final Call for Papers 
Deadlines Extension 
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Special Track on: INFORMATION ACCESS AND RETRIEVAL
www.disco.unimib.it/IAR2008
23rd  ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008)
www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 16 - 20, 2008
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Important Dates

Sept 16, 2007: Submission of papers by authors
Oct  19, 2007: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
Oct  30, 2007: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
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Over the past twenty two years, the Annual ACM Symposium on Applied 
Computing (SAC) has become a primary forum for applied computer 
scientists and application developers from around the world to interact 
and present their work. 
SAC 2008 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied 
Computing (SIGAPP): its proceedings are published by ACM in both printed 
form and CD-ROM; they are also available on the web through ACM's Digital 
Library. 
In 2008 it is hosted by The University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) and the 
Federal University of Ceará (UFC). 
Visit the SAC 2008 home page for further information: 
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/
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Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval (SAC-IAR)

The research context of information access and retrieval aims at modelling, 
designing and implementing systems able to provide fast and effective content-based 
multimodal access to a large amount of multimedia information. 
Information Retrieval (IR) can be considered as the first historical research area 
aimed at defining systems for the automatic access to huge amounts of information. 
Information Retrieval technologies are currently being used in many different 
application contexts that go far beyond the initial scope of their design. 
The application of models and techniques proposed and tested in standard experimental 
contexts to new application areas is a very challenging task that is worth of great 
attention by the researchers.
Nowadays there is a growing need to access and retrieve relevant information across 
media, across languages and across modalities. 
With the expansion of the Internet and of the Web, other access techniques have been 
identified and developed, such as Recommender Systems and Information Filtering systems, 
Question Answering Systems and Metasearch engines. 
The current trends of the research in information access and retrieval include 
document indexing, document classification and categorization, user interfaces, 
information visualisation, query languages, topic detection, management of multi-lingual 
and multimodal information access and retrieval, etc. 
This special track is the seventh edition in the context of SAC and is concerned with 
he theory, implementation and evaluation of information access technologies to novel 
application areas and novel contexts. 
We invite submission of original research contributions, and experimentations in emerging 
fields such as mobile Information Retrieval and Interfaces for information access and 
presentation.  
The topics of interest include:
- document classification and categorization, 
- information visualisation and user interfaces, 
- query languages, 
- topic detection, 
- management of multi-lingual information, 
- content indexing of audio-visual information,
- Information extraction and mining
- Modeling user context,
- Ontology based IRSs, 
- Spoken IR,
- Search engines,
- Mobile search engines,
- models of information access and retrieval, 
- applications of advanced information access and retrieval systems, 
- multimedia and multimodal information access and retrieval, 
- content-based and collaborative information filtering, 
- distributed information access and retrieval. 
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Track Chairs

Gabriella Pasi
Department of Informatics,
Systems and Communication (DISCo),
University of Milano Bicocca,
Milano, Italy
[email protected]
Gloria Bordogna, 
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 
IDPA ,
Dalmine (BG),
Italy. 
[email protected]

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Guidelines for Submission

Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. 
This includes three categories of submissions: 
1) original and unpublished research; 
2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, 
business, government, education and industry; and 
3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. 
Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process 
by at least three referees. 
The accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC 2008 
proceedings. 
Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or PS format 
via the electronic submission system at  http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2008/. 
Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, 
such as US letter and A4. 
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear
in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. 
This is to facilitate blind review.  
The templates files of papers can be found at 
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/. 
The total number of pages per paper is five (5) pages. 
A maximum of three (3) additional pages may be included for additional fee.

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Contacts:  
Gabriella Pasi
Department of Informatics,
Systems and Communication (DISCo),
University of Milano Bicocca,
Milano, Italy
Email: [email protected]
Tel:
 +39-024487847
Fax:
 +39-0264487805
Gloria Bordogna, 
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 
IDPA ,
Dalmine (BG),
Italy. 
Email : [email protected]
Tel:
+390356224262
Fax:
+390356224260
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