Call for Papers: ISMIR 2003 - Int'l conference on music information retrieval

["Susan Emilie Manus" <sman@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

We are hoping to solicit a good number of papers on intellecutal
property 
issues at this year's ISMIR, so I hope that the announcement below will
be of interest to the digital copyright list.  I would  appreciate it if
you could pass this information along as appropriate.  Thank you for
your assistance.

Sue Manus
Library of Congress
Co-chair, ISMIR 2003
                              
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[This CFP is crossposted to several mailing lists and
newsgroups. Apologies for multiple reception]

ISMIR 2003 - 4th International Conference on Music Information
Retrieval
http://ismir2003.ismir.net/
October 26-30, 2003
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials, Panels and Exhibits
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The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international
forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical
materials. It reflects the tremendous growth of music-related data
available either locally or remotely through networks and the
consequent need to search this content and retrieve music and musical
information efficiently and effectively.

This area presents vast challenges for those who need to organize and
structure musical data, provide tools to search and retrieve, and use
these tools efficiently. Music representation needs to be multi-
dimensional and time-dependent; audio data is voluminous, requiring
particular care in storage and transmission while preserving quality;
the need for descriptive information about what is musically
significant addresses a large spectrum of internal and external
characteristics, from acoustic to musicological and cultural features;
intellectual property rights issues (about what can be made available
to whom and how) are complex, involve a variety of individuals and
organizations, and vary from country to country.

All of these concerns are of interest to education, academia,
entertainment and industry. This conference thus aims at providing a
place for the exchange of news, issues and results, by bringing
together researchers and developers, educators and librarians,
students and professional users, working in fields that contribute
significantly to this multidisciplinary domain, to present original
theoretical or practical work in peer-reviewed contributions (papers,
posters). It will also serve as a discussion forum (panels), provide
introductory and in-depth information in specific domains (tutorials),
and show current products (exhibits).

Detailed information about the conference and its organization is
available on its Web site (http://ismir2003.ismir.net/).

Domains and Topics of Interest
==============================

ISMIR 2003 solicits original contributions in the following domains,
as they apply to music information retrieval(this is a non-exclusive
list):

* Algorithms and methods for classification, clustering,
  probabilistic modelling, association analysis
* Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning
* Databases and data mining
* Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and systems design
* Intellectual property rights issues
* Knowledge representation, discovery and acquisition
* Music perception and cognition
* Music representation and formal models of music
* Soft computing (neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary
  computation)
 
Typical topics of interest, inasmuch as they relate to music
information retrieval, are:

* Automatic summarization, citing, excerpting, downgrading,
  transformation (including associated intellectual property issues)
* Business models and experience
* Formal models of music and their digital representations
* Intellectual property rights issues (nationally and
internationally),
  digital rights management, identification and traceability
* Music digital libraries and archives,
  content management systems and frameworks for music
* Music indexing and metadata (authoring and generation)
* Music recognition (printed, audio)
* Music representation, coding, language modelling
* Music similarity metrics (perceptual criteria such as pitch, rhythm,
  timbre; musical criteria such as form, genre, etc.)
* Musical styles and genres
* Query languages for music IR (expressiveness, complexity)
* Real-time applications of automated music identification and
  recognition, such as score following, automatic accompaniment
* Routing and filtering for music and music queries
* Semantic Web and musical digital objects: intelligent agents,
  ontologies, topic maps, metadata, indexation, markup languages
* Socio-cultural aspects
* Standards (RDF, XML, INDECS, MPEG, Dublin Core, *MARC, Z39.50...)
and
  other metadata or protocols for music information handling and
  retrieval (CDDB, ...)
* Systems issues (performance, compression, scalability, databases,
  architecture, distributed search, multi-agent systems, mobile
  applications)
* User interfaces and usability
* Validation (user needs and expectations, evaluation of music IR
  systems, building test collections, experimental design and metrics)

General information on the conference is available on its Web site
(http://ismir2003.ismir.net/) and will be regularly posted in the
music-ir mailing list (information on subscription available on the
conference site).

Paper Submissions
=================

* Paper submissions are not to exceed 8 pages (including references
  and appendices) and must be formatted according to the following
  guidelines:
  page size: "US letter", font size: 10pt or larger, single column
  layout, all page margins at least 2.5cm (or 1 inch).
* Papers should include a 150-200 words abstract
  and a list of 2-5 keywords related to their content.
* Submission must consist of original contributions (not previously
  published, and not currently being considered for publication
  elsewhere).
* To submit, send your paper as an uncompressed PDF file (strongly
  preferred) or MS Word file via email to ismir2003-papers@xxxxxxxxx
* Submissions must be received by April 25, 2003.
* Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their submissions
  by June 27, 2003.
* Accepted papers will be allocated up to 8 pages in the ISMIR 2003
  proceedings and 25min presentation time at the ISMIR 2003
conference.
* Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide camera-ready
  copies of their papers that are formatted according to a template
that
  will be made available to them with the notification of acceptance.
* For each accepted paper, at least one author has to register for the 
    
  ISMIR 2003 conference.

Posters
=======

Posters provide an excellent opportunity for presenting preliminary or
intermediate results or work that is primarily targeted towards a
small subset of the ISMIR community.

* Submission should consist of an extended abstract of
  750-1,000 words (2 pages maximum, including a list of 2-5 keywords
  related to their content and references).
* Extended abstracts must be formatted according to the following
  guidelines: page size: "US letter", font size: 10pt or larger, single

  column layout, all page margins at least 2.5cm (or 1 inch).
* To submit, send your poster abstract as an uncompressed PDF file
  (strongly preferred) or MS Word file via email to
  ismir2003-papers@xxxxxxxxx
* Submissions must be received by April 25, 2003.
* Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their submissions by

  June 27, 2003.
* Accepted posters will be presented at a plenary poster session during

  the ISMIR 2003 conference; authors will be informed about the space 
  available for each poster with their notification of acceptance.
* Authors are encouraged to bring laptop computers to supplement their
  poster presentations with system demonstrations; we hope to provide
  wireless internet access for the poster session.
* Accepted posters will also be allocated up to 2 pages for the
  extended abstract in the ISMIR 2003 proceedings;
  authors will be asked to provide camera-ready copies
  of their extended abstracts that are formatted according to a
template 
  that will be made available to them with the notification of
acceptance.
* For each accepted poster, at least one author has to register for the

  ISMIR 2003 conference.

Tutorials
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The first afternoon of the conference (Oct 26, 2003) will consist of a
parallel session of tutorials each concentrating on a single topic
presented either at an introductory level or in depth, lasting 3 hours
(plus a break).
                                                                       
      
* Submissions should consist of a 3-5 page abstract including:
  1. Intended audience and objectives of the tutorial
  2. Tutorial outline
  3. Overview of materials made available to the attendees
  4. Biography of the presenter(s)
* Submissions must be received by March 7, 2003.
* To submit, send your tutorial proposal via email
  to ismir2003-tutorials@xxxxxxxxx  
                                          
Panels
======

A roster of special panels is planned. These panels are meant to
foster discussion on a specific topic of interest to the community, as
well as real-world implementations and experience reports.
                                                                       
    
* Submissions should consist of a 1-2 page abstract including:
  1. The topic and issues to be discussed.
  2. The intended and expected audience.
  3. Biography of the moderator(s).
* Submissions must be received by March 7, 2003.
* To submit, send your panel proposal via email to
ismir2003-panels@xxxxxxxxx
                                                                       
    
Exhibits                                                               
    
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Throughout ISMIR 2003, space will be available for publishers,
booksellers, software merchants, service providers, systems vendors
and any other companies interested in exhibiting their products.

* Deadline for full applications is September 30, 2003.
* Interested exhibitors should request information and/or apply via 
  email to ismir2003-exhibits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx