CALL FOR PAPERS

"Advances in Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval"
special topic issue

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Kluwer ISSN 1386-4564

Submissions are cordially requested dealing with, but not necessarily
limited to, the following areas:

Information Retrieval
Information Filtering
Information Mining
Indexing and Retrieval
Hypermedia
World Wide Web Retrieval
Digital Libraries
Evaluation
User Modeling, and User Tasks
Semantic Web and Ontologies

where the different entities involved (e.g., documents, queries,
relevance, effectiveness, users, etc.) are modeled using any of,
but not necessarily limited to, the following approaches:

Classical Sets
Fuzzy Sets
Rough Sets
Vectors
Linear Space
Similarity Functions
Probability
Theory of Uncertainty
Functional Analysis
Algebra
Topology
Metric Spaces
Euclidean Geometry
Non-Euclidean Geometries
Boolean Logic
Non-standard Logics
Fuzzy Logic
Quantum Logic
Matroid Theory
Graph Theory
Theory of Computation
Recursion Theory
Information Theory
Artificial Intelligence

The ideal paper may be theoretical, experimental or applied,
and it should make a substantial, clear contribution to the field.
The submissions will be peer reviewed. Authors should submit
their contribution with the understanding that their manuscript
is not under simultaneous consideration by any other publisher,
and that it has not been published elsewhere in a substantially
similar form or content. Authors are suggested to use the style
for manuscript and illustrations as shown at
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1386-4564
("Authors Instructions")

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Deadline for submission: 31 January 2003

Submit by email to: dominich@dcs.vein.hu
(please use the "IR_MF/IR Submission" in the subject line)

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Sandor Dominich (University of Veszprem, Hungary)
Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, England, U.K.)
C.J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.)

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