[CFChapter] D-5 ! Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for Improved User Modeling

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*Reminder*: still few days to submit your chapter proposal for the book 
" *Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques 
for Improved User Modeling*".
*Proposals Submission Deadline: 15 October 2007*
 
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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
University of 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 
<http://www.irit.fr/%7EMax.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 challenges 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 and 
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])

Contact information:

Max Chevalier/Christine Julien/Chantal Soulé-Dupuy
University of Toulouse
IRIT - UMR 5505, SIG/D2S2
118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 09
FRANCE
Tel: (33) 56155-7443 or (33) 56155-6322
Fax: (33) 56155-6258

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