CFP: ICADL2006 The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries

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Call For Papers

The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006)

November 27-30, 2006, Kyoto, Japan

http://www.icadl2006.org/

The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an
annual Asian event of international participation focusing on digital
libraries and related technologies. Inaugurated in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL
has since been hosted in Taipei, Taiwan (1999), Seoul, South Korea (2000),
Bangalore, India (2001), Singapore (2002), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2003),
Shanghai, China (2004) and Bangkok, Thailand (2005). The 9th ICADL
(ICADL2006) will be held in Kyoto, Japan in the late November. ICADL2006
provides an international forum for sharing experiences and up-to-date
technologies among researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and
policy makers from a variety of disciplines. ICADL2006, as well as the
previous ICADL conferences, focuses on the use, adoption and adaptation of
digital libraries, which include work surrounding digital libraries and
related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and
the associated usability and social issues. Kyoto, which is globally known
as the historical city and the heart of Japan, will welcome you to
ICADL2006 in a very beautiful autumn.

Submissions of papers, panels, tutorials, and workshops are invited in all
areas of digital libraries and related technologies, the management of
knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social
issues. Research, system, evaluation, policy, and position papers are all
invited. Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

    * Strategies with regards to
          o economic issues
          o legal issues
          o organizational issues
          o pedagogical issues
          o policy issues
          o social issues

    * Implementation experiences regading
          o collection development
          o international collaboration
          o quality of service
          o system evaluation
          o user communities
          o user studies

    * Systems
          o architecture
          o concepts and models
          o integration
          o interoperability

    * Techniques
          o Asian information processing
          o cross-language information access
          o human-computer interaction
          o information integration
          o information mining
          o information retrieval
          o localization
          o metadata
          o multimedia
          o ontologies
          o personalization
          o semantic web
          o semi-structured data management
          o Web cataloging
          o Web-page analysis

    * Management
          o access control
          o content management
          o intellectual property
          o security and privacy
          o service models

    * Application areas and concerns
          o digital archives and museums
          o digital preservation
          o knowledge management
          o education
          o e-science
          o Grid
          o scholarly publishing


Prospective authors from all parts of the world are invited to submit their
papers dealing with original work which, at the time of submission, is not
under review or has not been published or accepted for publication in a
journal or by another conference. Papers must be written in English,
conforming to the formatting instructions of LNCS, Springer. Each paper
must not exceed 10 pages. Only electronic submission (PDF format) is
accepted via the Web page in University of Tsukuba (in preparation) for
papers. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Based on
their recommendations, a decision will be made regarding rejection or
acceptance as poster (up to 2 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages), or long
paper (up to 10 pages).

The Conference Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series, Springer
as well as the previous ICADL's. Best paper awards also will be conferred
on the authors of the best paper(s) at the conference.


Honorary Conference Chair:

Makoto Nagao (NICT, Japan)

General Chair:

Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)

Program Co-Chairs:

Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia)
Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) 

Tutorial/Workshop Chair:

Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Finance Chair:

Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan)

Publication Chair:

Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Taro Tezuka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Kenji Hatano (Doshisha University, Japan)

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:

Satoshi Oyama (Kyoto University, Japan)
Akira Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

ICADL Steering Committee Chair:

EePeng Lim (NTU, Singapore)


Important Dates:

Submission of abstract           Jun 10, 2006
Submission of paper              Jun 20, 2006
Notification of acceptance       Aug 20, 2006
Submission of camera-ready       Sep 10, 2006
Conference date                  Nov 27-30, 2006

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