10th SPIRE (String Proc & Inf. Retrieval)

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                               CALL FOR PAPERS

     SPIRE 2003 - 10th International Symposium on String Processing and
                            Information Retrieval

                  http://database.cs.ualberta.ca/spire03/
                      http://acai.ppgi.fua.br/spire03

                       October 08-10, Manaus - Brazil

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The SPIRE 2003 Symposium

SPIRE 2003 is the tenth edition of the International Symposium on String
Processing and Information Retrieval. It has its origins in the South
American Workshop on String Processing which was first held in Belo
Horizonte, Brazil, in 1993. Starting in 1998, the focus of the symposium was
broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its increasing
relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing. The
scope of the symposium includes not only string processing and information
retrieval in general, but also contributions in different application areas
like biocomputing, DNA sequencing, WWW based IR systems and IR related
languages like SGML and XML. Given its inter-disciplinarity, it offers a
singular opportunity for researchers interested in working in these areas.

Some recent SPIRE editions (along with pointers to their proceedings):

   * 9th SPIRE - Lisbon, Portugal. September 2002 (Proceedings at
     Springer-Verlag's site).
   * 8th SPIRE - Laguna San Rafael, Chile. November 2001 (Proceedings at
     IEEE CS's site).
   * 7th SPIRE - A Coruña, Spain. September 2000 (Proceedings at IEEE CS's
     site).
   * 6th SPIRE - Cancun, Mexico. September 1999 (Proceedings at IEEE CS's
     site).

Invited Talks (confirmed)

   * Finding Patterns on the Web by Krishna Bharat (Google, Inc.), and
   * Current Challenges in Bioinformatics by Joao Meidanis, State Univ. of
     Campinas and Scylla Bioinformatics.

Symposium Venue

The symposium will take place in Manaus, a city that lies at the confluence
of the Amazon and the Negro rivers and is located in the heart of the Amazon
rain forest - hence offering innumerous opportunities for ecotourism. Manaus
is known by its unique and beautiful natural resources, folklore, and by a
cuisine full of delicious regional flavors. Besides the natural attractives,
Manaus is also an industrial city that has roughly 1.3 million inhabitants
and presents a complete infra-structure for tourists and business visitors.
 SPIRE'03 will be co-located with the 18th edition of the Brazilian
Symposium on Databases, which should attract more than 500 attendees.

Important Dates:

   * Abstract submission: April 21st, 2003 (open)
   * Paper submission: April 28th, 2003
   * Authors notification: June 16th, 2003
   * Camera ready: July 16th, 2003

Topics

SPIRE 2003 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
     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,
     protein structure prediction.
   * Information Retrieval languages and applications: XML, SGML,
     information retrieval from semi-strutured data, text mining and
     generation of structured data from text.

Organization:

   * General Chair: Edleno Silva de Moura, UFAM - Brazil.
   * Program Committee Chair: Mario A. Nascimento, Univ. of Alberta - Canada.
   * Publications Chair: Arlindo Oliveira, Inesc - Portugal.
   * Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Altigran Soares da Silva, and Tanara
     Lauschner  UFAM - Brazil.
   * Program Committee:
        o Alberto Apostolico (Purdue Univ., USA)
        o Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad de Chile)
        o Michael Benedikt (Bell Labs, USA)
        o Elisa Bertino (Univ. of Milan, Italy)
        o Nieves Brisaboa (Universidad de A Coruna, Spain)
        o Edgar Chavez (Universidad Michoacana, Mexico)
        o Roger Chiang (Univ. of Cincinnati, USA)
        o Stavros Christodoulakis (Technical University of Crete)
        o Maxime Crochemore (Universite de Marne-la-Vallée, France)
        o Bruce Croft (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA)
        o Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA)
        o Juliana Freire (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA)
        o Ophir Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
        o Pablo de La Fuente (Univ. of Valladolid)
        o Norbert Fuhr (Univ. of Duisburg, Germany)
        o Gaston Gonnet (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
        o David Grossman (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
        o David Hawking (Australian National Univ.)
        o Carlos Alberto Heuser (UFRGS, Brazil)
        o Thomas Roelleke (Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK)
        o Costas Iliopoulos (King's College London, UK)
        o Alberto Laender (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
        o Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)
        o Dekang Lin (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
        o Joel Martin (National Research Council Canada)
        o Joao Meidanis (Univ. of Campinas, Brazil)
        o Massimo Melucci (Univ. of Padova, Italy)
        o Alistair Moffat (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
        o Gonzalo Navarro (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
        o Charles Nicholas (Univ. Maryland at Baltimore County, USA)
        o Jian-Yun Nie (Univ. of Montreal)
        o Arlindo Oliveira (INESCC, Portugal)
        o Gabriella Pasi (CNR Italy)
        o Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
        o Altigran Silva (Federal Univ. of Amazonia, Brazil)
        o Marie-France Sagot (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)
        o Fabrizio Sebastiani (CNR, Italy)
        o Ayumi Shinohara (Kyushu Univeristy, Japan)
        o Amit Singhal (Google, USA)
        o Dan Suciu (Univ. of Washington, USA)
        o Jorma Tarhio (Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland)
        o Ulrich Thiel (GMD-IPSI, Germany)
        o Frank Tompa (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)
        o Nivio Ziviani (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
        o Justin Zobel (RMIT, Australia)

Submission Guidelines

Submission must be in the camera ready format required by Springer-Verlag 
LNCS (for details and templates, please refer to Springer-Verlag's 
Information for Authors page) and must be no longer than 14 pages - papers 
not following these directions risk being rejected without being reviewed.  
Authors should understand that, upon recommendation by the Program Committee, 
a few papers may be accepted as short papers, nevertheless all submissions 
will be initially considered as full papers.  Submission of a paper implies 
that, in case of its acceptance, at least of the authors will register at 
the Symposium as well as present it on-site.

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