Call for Participation: Journal - Information Sciences [http://ees.elsevier.com/ins/]

"Jim Jansen" <[email protected]> Sat, 24 May 2008 07:56:40 -0400
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CALL FOR PAPERS=20

Web Search

Journal - Information Sciences [http://ees.elsevier.com/ins/]

Special Issue Editors:=20
Professor Amanda Spink=20
Faculty of Information Technology=20
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Jim Jansen=20
College of Information Sciences and Technology=20
The Pennsylvania State University
Email: [email protected]

This special issue of the journal Information Sciences seeks papers reporti=
ng empirical studies related to Web search. Web search engines have emerged=
 as one of the dominant information technologies of modern life. Web search=
 is an important multidisciplinary research area for information science, c=
omputer science, cognitive science, human-computer interaction and informat=
ion systems. High quality research papers are sought in the following areas=
, including but not limited to:

Adversarial Web Search
Click/Advertising Techniques
Mobile Search
Personalization
Question Answering
Search Algorithms
Search Engine Evaluation=20
Semantic/Data Web=20
User Modeling/Usability
XML and Web Data=20
Web Data Mining
Web Interfaces=20
Web Log Analysis

SUBMISSION INFORMATION=20

Potential contributors are invited to submit a paper via email to the Speci=
al Issue Editors by August 30, 2008. Authors will be notified by November 1=
, 2008 as to the status of their paper. Final revised manuscripts should be=
 not more than 25 pages single-spaced in length and are due on December 1, =
2008.=20

INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to:

Professor Amanda Spink - [email protected]
Dr. Jim Jansen - [email protected]
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<DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" color="#000000">CALL FOR PAPERS <BR><BR>Web Search<BR><BR>Journal &#8211; Information Sciences [http://ees.<wbr>elsevier.<wbr>com/ins/]<BR><BR>Special Issue Editors: <BR>Professor Amanda Spink <BR>Faculty of Information Technology <BR>Queensland University of Technology, Australia<BR>Email: ah.spink@qut.<wbr>edu.au<BR><BR>Dr. Jim Jansen <BR>College of Information Sciences and Technology <BR>The Pennsylvania State University<BR>Email: jjansen@acm.<wbr>org<BR><BR>This special issue of the journal Information Sciences seeks papers reporting empirical studies related to Web search. Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant information technologies of modern life. Web search is an important multidisciplinary research area for information science, c
 omputer science, cognitive science, human-computer interaction and information systems. High quality research papers are sought in the following areas, including but not limited to:<BR><BR>Adversarial Web Search<BR>Click/Advertising Techniques<BR>Mobile Search<BR>Personalization<BR>Question Answering<BR>Search Algorithms<BR>Search Engine Evaluation <BR>Semantic/Data Web <BR>User Modeling/Usability<BR>XML and Web Data <BR>Web Data Mining<BR>Web Interfaces <BR>Web Log Analysis<BR><BR>SUBMISSION INFORMATION <BR><BR>Potential contributors are invited to submit a paper via email to the Special Issue Editors by August 30, 2008. Authors will be notified by November 1, 2008 as to the status of their paper. Final revised manuscripts should be not more than 25 pages single-spaced in length and are
  due on December 1, 2008. <BR><BR>INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS<BR>	<BR>Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to:<BR><BR>Professor Amanda Spink &#8211; ah.spink@qut.<wbr>edu.au<BR>Dr. Jim Jansen &#8211; jjansen@ist.<wbr>psu.edu<BR></FONT><IMG height="1" src width="1"> <BR><SPAN style="COLOR: white;"></SPAN> 





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