CFP: JoDI Special Issue on Performance in Digital Information Systems

["Ethan V. Munson" <munson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

			   Call for Papers
		    Journal of Digital Information
	       (http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/jodi/)

			   Special Issue on
	  Performance Issues in Digital Information Systems

			    Guest Editor:
			   Ethan V. Munson
	  Dept. of EECS, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
		      Milwaukee, WI  53201  USA
	    Tel: +1-414-229-4438      Fax: +1-414-229-2769
       E-Mail: munson@xxxxxxxxxx    URL: www.cs.uwm.edu/~munson

Keynote Articles:

Ophir Frieder
Florida Institute of Technology
"Performance Considerations in Information Retrieval Systems"

Edward A. Fox and Ghaleb Abdulla
Virginia Polytechnic University
"Characterizing Use of Digital Libraries and WWW Servers"


Scope:

Performance issues lie at the heart of computer science and these
issues are pervasive in research on digital information systems.
Digital libraries have tremendous potential to affect our access to
information, but the management of information on such a huge scale is
a daunting task.  Adding information to digital libraries requires
high performance tools for recognizing existing documents currently
stored on analog media such as paper, microfilm and videotape.  The
growing use of multimedia in modern documents brings with it all the
performance issues that arise with high data volume and real-time
delivery requirements.  The World Wide Web has transformed the way
people use computers and their level of interest in them, but it has
also spawned repeated complaints about delays in information delivery.
Even document authoring and browsing systems, which are generally
quite fast, must address performance issues because of their many
features and because every end-user is affected by how they perform.

The purpose of this special issue of the Journal of Digital
Information is to present articles which together show the range and
depth of research in performance issues for digital information
systems.  These articles may survey broad areas of research or may
focus on new developments and experimental results.  The research
areas that are appropriate include studies of performance issues in
any of the following areas:

-- Digital libraries
-- Hypermedia systems
-- Document databases
-- Document analysis systems
-- Hypertext and Hypermedia systems
-- The World Wide Web and other distributed information resources
-- Document authoring and browsing systems

Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically to the Guest
Editor, Ethan Munson, at the e-mail address above.  If electronic
submission is not possible, then four hardcopies of the article should
be sent to the US postal address above.  There is no formal length
limit for articles, but authors who wish to submit a long article
should contact the guest editor prior to submission.

Schedule:
* Submission deadline: August 31, 1998
* Acceptance notification: November 16, 1998
* Final manuscripts due: December 18, 1998
* Publication date: January 1999

The Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) is an electronic journal
that is primarily published via the WWW.  Submission guidelines for
JoDI are available at: 
	     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/jodi/submit.html