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CoLIS 5 Context: Nature, Impact and Role 
Fifth International Conference on Conceptions of
Library and Information
Science
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 4-9 June
2005

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIAL, WORKSHOP AND DOCTORAL
FORUM CONTRIBUTIONS

CoLIS 5 is the fifth in the series of
international conferences whose
general aim is to provide a broad forum for
critically exploring and
analysing research in areas such as computer
science, information
science and library science. The theme for CoLIS
5 will be the nature,
impact and role of context within
information-centred research and
technologies. 

Context is a complex, dynamic, and
multi-dimensional concept that
influences both humans and machines: how they
behave individually and
how they interact with each other. In CoLIS 5 we
will take an
interdisciplinary approach to the issue of
context to help us define the
theoretical approaches to modelling and
understanding context, to
incorporate contextual reasoning within
information access technology
and to develop a shared framework for promoting
the exploration of
context. 
 
Contributions are invited that address issues
such: the relationship
between context and information, investigations
of context in
information seeking environments, models of
context and relevance,
contextual issues in interactive information
retrieval, and contextual
evaluations of information technologies. CoLIS5
is particularly
interested in technical issues involved in
modelling context, and
methodologies for providing and evaluating
context-sensitive
technologies for information access.
 
Submissions
CoLIS 5 invites submissions of high quality
research papers, proposals
for half or full day tutorials, proposals for one
day workshops and
contributions to the Doctoral Forum. All
submissions will be reviewed by
the international program committee. All accepted
research papers will
be published in the conference proceedings by
Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Submissions guidelines for all
types of contributions, including a full list of
topic areas, are
available at the conference website:
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/

Important dates
7 February 2005: Deadline for all submissions.  
7 March 2005: Author notification 
21 March 2005: Final camera-ready copy 
4 June 2005: Doctoral Forum day
5 June 2005: Tutorials
6-8 June 2005: Plenary conference
9 June 2005: Workshops

Invited speakers
Prof. David Blair, University of Michigan
Business School and 
Prof. Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University
School of Computing

Organisation 
Conference Chairs: 
Fabio Crestani. University of Strathclyde, UK
Ian Ruthven. University of Strathclyde, UK. 

Tutorials chair: 
Monica Landoni. University of Strathclyde, UK. 
Workshops Chair: 
Jonathan Furner. University of California, Los
Angeles, US. 
Doctoral Forum Chair: 
Pia Borlund. Royal School of Library and
Information Science, Denmark. 

About the venue
Glasgow is Scotland's largest city and the
cultural, commercial and
convention capital of Scotland. Surrounded by
some of the most
breathtaking scenery in Western Europe, the city
is one of the liveliest
and most cosmopolitan destinations in Europe.
Glasgow boasts world
famous art collections, the best shopping in the
United Kingdom outside
London, and the most vibrant nightlife in
Scotland. 

For more information please visit the conference
website at
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/

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Ian Ruthven 
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow G1 1XH
Email: Ian.Ruthven at cis.strath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 548 3098
Fax: +44 141 552 5330
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/people/biography/ir/
CoLIS 5 - http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/
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