[CFChapters] Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for Improved User Modeling

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CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for 
Improved User Modeling


A book edited by
Max Chevalier, Christine Julien and Chantal Soulé-Dupuy
Institut de Reherche en Informatique de Toulouse IRIT – UMR 5505, France.

Proposals Submission Deadline: 15 October 2007
Full Chapters Due: 20 February 2008


Link to the related Web Site: http://www.irit.fr/~Max.Chevalier/AppelUM_GB.htm


INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, information workers (individuals or professionals) are facing a 
lot of information sources (intranet/internet…). The challenge is to find 
relevant information within the huge amount of available information within 
these numerous sources. Adaptive or Personalized approaches tend to help 
users during this task. Besides these “solitary” approaches, evolutions of 
such approaches can be seen through systems that take into account a group 
(formal or informal) of users in order to improve search access and 
retrieval: Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access 
systems. One of the main challenge of such approaches is the way users and 
communities are modeled and the way these models are exploited to improve 
the user’s satisfaction. A variety of techniques have been adopted to 
address this challenge: context acquisition, community model, community of 
practice building... Research in these areas suggests an alternative 
promising approach in helping users to find relevant information.
User modeling for Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access 
refers to a family of techniques concerning the model of user’s information 
needs, relationships, behavior or context and their exploitation in order 
to improve the relevance of information offered to users.
Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for 
Improved User Modeling presents current state-of-the-art developments in 
this area and also includes case studies, challenges and trends. 
Contributors will have the opportunity to inform and educate academics, 
researchers, information retrieval product managers and software 
developers, librarians and students in the area of information systems.


TOPICS

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Models (profile, context, user and community needs and behavior, Social 
information seeking)
* User context acquisition
* Mechanisms for personalization
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based information retrieval 
systems
* Social navigation processes and metaphors for searching information
* Collaborative browsing
* Collaborative querying
* Adapted content delivery
* Cooperative software agents for information retrieval
* Collaborative filtering and recommender systems
* Evaluation of adaptive systems, algorithms and interfaces
* Social informatics
* Social networks and information retrieval
* Architecture for personalized retrieval and access
* Adaptive information retrieval and access
* Personalization techniques
* Usability in adapted information retrieval and access
* Applications and case studies
* Trends and challenges

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Potential contributors are invited to submit a 3-5 pages chapter proposal 
by 15 October 2007 detailing the background, motivations and structure of 
the proposed chapter. All inquiries can be sent electronically (PDF/RTF/DOC 
files). Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 31 October 2007 
on the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational 
guidelines. Full chapters are due on 20 February 2008 and should be at 
least 8,500-10,000 words in length. All submitted chapters will be reviewed 
on a three-blind review basis. Final revised manuscripts are due on 15 May 
2008.
The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group 
Inc.), publisher of the IGI Publishing (Idea Group Publishing), Information 
Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Information Science 
Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) imprints, in early 2009.

15 October 2007         Chapter proposal due

31 October 2007 Notification of acceptance

20 February 2008        Full chapter due

20 April 2008           Notification

15 May 2008             Revised chapter due

15 June 2008            Final Notification of acceptance


INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS

Inquiries and submissions (PDF/RTF/DOC files) can be forwarded by mail to:

Dr. Max CHEVALIER ([email protected]) and Dr. Christine JULIEN 
([email protected])

Contact information:
Max Chevalier/Christine Julien/Chantal Soulé-Dupuy
IRIT/SIG/D2S2
118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 09
FRANCE
Tel: (33) 56155-7443 or (33) 56155-6322
Fax: (33) 56155-6258