Call for Papers

              Special Topic Issue of _JASIST_

                  Web Retrieval and Mining

The  next  Special  Topics Issue of the _Journal of the American Society
for  Information  Science  and  Technology_ (JASIST)  is  scheduled  to
come out in 2003 on the topic of Web Retrieval and Mining.  The guest
editor for this special issue will be Hsinchun Chen of the University of
Arizona.

Specific  topics  of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following: Papers on  emerging  IR,  visualization,  and analysis
techniques, applications, and case studies that use Internet as a
prime  means  for  delivery  are sought.  Subtopics of interest include,
but not limited to:

     * Text mining on the web
     * Multimedia web retrieval and mining
     * Web visualization
     * Web intelligence
     * Multilingual issues on the web
     * Wireless web retrieval and visualization
     * HCI principles for web retrieval
     * Web-based usability methodology

Inquiries   can   be   made   to   the  guest  editor(s)  at
hchen@bpa.arizona.edu.

Manuscript submissions (four copies of  full  articles) should be
addressed to:

     Professor Hsinchun Chen
     Department of Management Information Systems
     Karl Eller Graduate School of Management
     McClelland Hall
     University of Arizona
     Tucson, AZ  85721

     (520) 621-4153  voice
     (520) 621-2433  fax
     hchen@bpa.arizona.edu

The  deadline  for accepting manuscripts for consideration for
publication in this special  issue  is  October  1, 2001.  All
manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees, and those
accepted will be published in a  special issue  of  _JASIST_.   Original
artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be required
for all accepted papers.

A  copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web,
as is further information about _JASIST_, at
http://www.asis.org/.