SPIRE'2000 - String Processing and Information REtrieval
September 22 - 24, 2000
A Coruña, Spain
Sponsored by CYTED-AMYRI Research Project
WHAT IS SPIRE'2000?
SPIRE'2000 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
which is in its seventh edition. The first four editions focused primarily on
string processing and originated in South America, and were called WSP
(South American Workshop on String Processing). They were held in Belo
Horizonte, Brazil (1993), Valparaíso, Chile (1995 and 1997), and Recife,
Brazil (1996).
Starting in 1998, at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the focus of the workshop was
broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its increasing
relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing.
SPIRE'99, at Cancun, Mexico, has continued this trend including also
the area of DNA computing and, as a result, there was several papers and
three invited talks on this topic. For SPIRE'2000 we expect to have
contributions from several related communities.
The SPIRE'2000 symposium aims at facilitating the potential benefits of
cross-fertilization between different fields. As such, it offers a singular
opportunity for researchers interested in working with problems related to
these areas. As in the past, the proceedings of SPIRE'2000 will be
published by IEEE CS Press.
TOPICS
SPIRE'2000 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information
retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, DNA computing, and
related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):
* String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern
matching, text compression, text mining, voice or natural language
processing, and automata based string processing.
* Information Retrieval (IR): IR modeling, indexing, ranking and filtering,
interface design, visualization, cross-lingual IR systems, multimedia IR,
digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, and Web related applications.
* Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications
in molecular biology, information encoding for DNA computing, evolution
and phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and
protein structure prediction.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: April 20th, 2000
Authors notification: May 31th, 2000
Camera ready: June 26th, 2000
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Partial list)
James Allan, Univ. of Massachussets, USA
Martyn Amos, Liverpool, UK
Alberto Apostolico, Purdue Univ. (USA) & Univ. of Padova (Italy)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Univ. de Chile, Chile
Nieves R. Brisaboa, Univ. de A Coruña, Spain
Fabio Crestani, ISCI, Berkeley, USA
Maxime Crochemore, Gaspard-Monge Institute,
University of Marne-la-Vallée, France
Pablo de la Fuente, Univ. de Valladolid, Spain, (Chair)
Max Garzon, Univ. of Memphis, USA
Natasha Jonoska, Univ. of South Florida, USA
Lila Kari, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada
John D. Kececioglu, University of Georgia, USA
Ruy Milidiu, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Giri Narasimhan, Univ. of Memphis, USA
Gonzalo Navarro, Univ. de Chile, Chile
Arlindo Oliveira, IST/INESC, Portugal
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, UFMG, Brazil
Wojtek Rytter, Liverpool University and Institute of
Informatics, Warsaw University
Marie-France Sagot, Pasteur Inst., France
Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, Great Britain
Jorma Tarhio, Univ. of Joensuu, Finland
Uzi Vishkin, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Nivio Ziviani, UFMG, Brazil
Justin Zobel, RMIT, Australia
INVITED SPEAKERS (Partial list)
Uzi Vishkin, Univ. of Maryland, USA
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are requested to:
- prepare an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most 15 pages in
standard 11pt Latex article style or equivalent.
- send the paper in standard postscript via e-mail (see address below) no
later than April 20th, 2000 to the chair of the Program Committee as
well as a message containing the paper title, the names of all authors,
an indication of the author to be contacted, and the affiliation of such
author (including full address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address).
E-mail: spire2000@infor.uva.es
- use the standard IEEE CS format for the final version of accepted papers,
which will have to be sent via ftp to the publisher either as postscript
or PDF.
SYMPOSIUM SITE
The symposium will take place in A Coruña (Spain).
A Coruña, a beautiful city placed in the north coast of the Iberian
Peninsula with more than 250.000 inhabitants, is one of Europe's main
ports. It is the capital of the most western located province in Spain
and belongs to a wide touristic area called "Rias Altas".
In A Coruña you can climb the Tower of Hercules, the oldest light house
still working in the world. Close to A Coruña you can visit one of the
main Christian Santuaries, Santiago de Compostela. The remains of St James
the Apostle, kept in the Cathedral and venerated for centuries by
thousands of pilgrims has converted the city into one of the capitals
of Christendom.
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
The local organization committee is chaired by Nieves R. Brisaboa from
Univ. of A Coruña, Spain. For any questions about local matters
please send e-mail to spire00@udc.es.
WEB HOMEPAGE
http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/spire2000/
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Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel : +44 (0) 114 22 22648
Department of Information Studies Fax : +44 (0) 114 27 80300
University of Sheffield, Western Bank mailto:m.sanderson@shef.ac.uk
Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/
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