Special Issue on New Avenues in Search

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Special Issue on New Avenues in Search Search is still at the forefront of Web applications, and has meanwhile gained importance far beyond simple information acquisition. Indeed, search is not only the most frequent application executed on the Web, it has also found its way into other platforms for organizing large collections of items or information (e.g., iTunes, file systems). Moreover, search platforms are the base of online advertising and hence the primary vehicle for creating revenues for many companies. It is therefore not surprising that the interest in search as a research topic is still of increasing interest; this is confirmed, for example, by the large number of search engines (more than 1,400) observed by Charles Knight for his altsearchengines.com site. Indeed, the core question of every search engine ("what does the user have in mind when posing a query?", “what is the actual meaning behind a search query?”) is still largely unresolved. This special IJSWIS issue on New Avenues in Search is intended to capture some of the many activities currently going on in search that involve or focus on the use of semantic (Web) techniques and technologies. We therefore welcome papers reporting original research relevant to the various aspects of search and that have been driven in the direction of the semantic web, including, but not limited to - search techniques involving semantic techniques - search heuristics - universal search - computation and search - personalized and social search - faceted search - media search, e.g., in videos and music - meta-search - clustering and aggregation in search - application-specific search, e.g., in digital archives. Submission Guidelines: Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. If they have previously been published in a conference, a minimum of 30% of new material is required both in conceptual terms and in depth/detail. Submitting authors should follow the Style and Author Guidelines for regular IJSWIS papers available at http://www.idea-group.com/ijswis. Please submit your paper electronically to either of the co-editors. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: December 31, 2009 Completion of First-Round Reviews: February 28, 2010 Revised Papers (after Revisions): April 15, 2010 Publication Materials Due: May 15, 2010 Publication: in a Fall 2010 issue. Special Issue Guest Editors: Alexander Loeser, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, aloeser@cs.tu-berlin.de Darrell D.E. Long, University of California, Sanata Cruz, USA, darrell@cs.ucsc.edu Gottfried Vossen, University of Munster, Germany, vossen@uni-muenster.de,