日本データベース学会の皆様， 北海道大学の喜田です． １０月にイタリアのピサにて 「文字列処理と情報検索に関する国際会議（SPIRE）」が開催されます． 論文投稿締め切りは４月２０日です． 是非ご投稿をご検討ください．よろしくお願いいたします． %------------------------------------------------% 喜田 拓也（キダ タクヤ） 北海道大学大学院 情報科学研究科 コンピュータサイエンス専攻 知識ソフトウェア科学講座 情報知識ネットワーク研究室 准教授 〒060-0814 札幌市北区北14条西9丁目 Tel: 011-706-7679 E-mail: kida@ist.hokudai.ac.jp ----------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers 18th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2011) Pisa, Tuscany, Italy October 17--21, 2011 http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/ SPIRE 2011 is the 18th edition of the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. It will will take place at the National Council of Research campus (“Area della Ricerca del CNR”) in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, and will be co-organized by the Institute for the Science and Technologies of Information of the Italian National Council of Research (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa. SPIRE 2011 will feature invited talks by Erik Demaine (MIT) and Abdur Chowdhury (Twitter). SPIRE 2011 will also feature a full day of tutorials and a full day of workshops. See http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/ if you are interested in submitting either a tutorial or a workshop proposal. The scope of the SPIRE series of symposia includes not only fundamental algorithms in string processing and information retrieval, but also SP and IR techniques as applied to areas such as computational biology, DNA sequencing, and Web mining. Given its interdisciplinary nature, SPIRE offers a unique opportunity for researchers from these different areas to meet and network. Typical topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * String Processing: Dictionary algorithms, Text searching, Pattern matching, Text and sequence compression, Succinct and compressed indexing, Automata-based string processing; * Biological Sequence Processing: Analysis of DNA and RNA sequencing data, Molecular sequence processing, Recognition of genes and regulatory elements, Comparative genomics and population genetics; * Information Retrieval: Information retrieval models, Indexing, Ranking and filtering, Interface design for IR, Evaluation issues in IR, Text analysis, Text mining, Text classification and clustering, Information extraction, Language models and topic models for search related-tasks, Efficient implementation of IR systems, Algorithms and data structures for IR; * Search-related tasks: Cross-lingual information retrieval, Multimedia / multi-modal information retrieval, Recommendation and collaborative filtering, Semi-structured data retrieval, Blog retrieval. SPIRE 2011 welcomes either long papers (12 pages) or short papers (6-pages). Submissions must be _anonymous_ and formatted using the Springer LNCS style. At least three reviewers will evaluate each paper in _double-blind mode_ based on its originality, quality, methodological robustness, and significance of theoretical and/or practical contribution. Papers must be in English, must be unpublished, and must not be under submission at another conference or journal for the entire duration of the SPIRE 2011 reviewing process. By submitting a paper, its authors commit to having the paper presented at the conference by at least one of them; an accepted paper will not be published in the proceedings, and will thus be removed from the program, if none of its authors have registered for the conference by the time (July 15, 2011) the camera-ready copy of the paper is due. All papers will be refereed according to the usual scientific standards. Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, which will be distributed to all delegates at the symposium. Revised and extended versions of selected SPIRE 2011 papers will appear in a Special Issue of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms devoted to SPIRE 2011. SPIRE 2011 General Chair Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Council of Research, IT SPIRE 2011 Program Chairs Roberto Grossi, University of Pisa, IT Fabrizio Silvestri, National Council of Research, IT SPIRE 2011 Tutorials Chair Andrea Esuli, National Council of Research, IT SPIRE 2011 Workshops Chair Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, IT SPIRE 2011 Program Committee - see http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=83 - Important Dates Paper Submission: April 20, 2011 Accept/Reject notification: June 15, 2011 Camera-ready copy due: July 15, 2011 Conference: October 17-21, 2011