DIMACS Workshop on Social and Collaborative Information Seeking (SCIS)

May 14 - 15, 2015
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, chirags at rutgers.edu

Rob Capra, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, rcapra at unc.edu

Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, preben at dsv.su.se

Increasingly, people are utilizing collaboration and sharing technologies to address needs in their work and personal lives. Information plays a key role in today’s world, and many problems require us to use social and collaborative ties to search for and locate information. Examples range from corporate teams doing business intelligence gathering to a couple planning their vacation to a diabetes patient looking for information and support regarding treatment options.

The workshop on social and collaborative information seeking (SCIS), sponsored by NSF-sponsored Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), is designed to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds who are experts and innovators in studying SCIS, with a goal of outlining a “research roadmap” of challenges as an outcome of the workshop. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Theories and models for SCIS and related areas such as social search and collaborative search;
• User interfaces, algorithms, and systems for supporting SCIS;
• SCIS applications and use cases in different domains, such as education, healthcare, office work, and intelligence analysis;
• Evaluation measures for SCIS systems; and
• Methodologies for studying SCIS.

The workshop will last 1.5 days, with invited short talks, poster/demo session, and breakout groups to chart research agenda and discuss methods in the area of SCIS. Invited guests include distinguished scholars from industry and academia.

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