CALL FOR ABSTRACTS BCS IRSG Industry Day in association with 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006) 13th April 2006, British Computer Society Headquarters, London, UK http://ecir2006.soi.city.ac.uk/index.php?page=indust DESCRIPTION: For the first time in its history, ECIR will be followed by a special day devoted to the interests and needs of Information Retrieval practitioners. The Industry Day after ECIR 2006 is devoted to the challenges involved in designing and developing operational IR products and services, and aims to build bridges between IR specialists in industry and academia. This forum presents an opportunity for commercial organisations and individuals to share their work with a wider audience, and for researchers to learn more about the issues and problems faced by IR practitioners in developing practical solutions for the information search and retrieval industry. The scope of Industry Day 2006 covers all the areas addressed by ECIR 2006 (http://ecir2006.soi.city.ac.uk/index.php?page=call), but we are particularly interested in presentations and demonstrations of the following: * search engines (web & enterprise) * information architecture & navigation * knowledge & content management * data mining & visualisation VENUE: Industry Day 2006 will be held at the BCS London Office, Southampton Street, WC2E 7HA (http://www.bcs.org/BCS/Contact/Maps.htm). This location is 10 mins by Tube from the main ECIR conference venue. A separate one-day registration rate will be available. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Abstracts for 30-minute presentations should be submitted in plain ASCII by e-mail to the BCS IRSG: irsgevents AT bcs.org Accepted abstracts (or complete papers, should authors choose to submit them), will be published in the workshop proceedings. Final versions of abstracts/papers should be in PDF - authors of accepted presentations will be given formatting details in due course. Submissions will be reviewed by IR practitioners on the basis of the originality and authority of the work, and the contribution to the IR profession. For further details please refer to the conference web site: http://ecir2006.soi.city.ac.uk/index.php?page=indust IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts due: Friday 2 December 2005 Notification to authors: Friday 13th January 2006 Submission of camera-ready copy: Monday 13th February 2006 ECIR Conference: 10th to 12th April 2006 IRSG Industry Day: 13th April 2006 LOCAL ORGANISERS: Tony Rose Alex Bailey Andrew MacFarlane