Call for papers

August 25, 2024

AP-iConference 2024


4-6 December 2024 (online and onsite conference)

AP-iConference is an annual event for information field researchers in the Asia Pacific region that started in 2014. In recent years, AP-iConference has been held together with ICADL. iSchools, ICADL, A-LIEP and ALIRG have jointly hosted doctoral consortiums there. This event is planned based on this tradition and to provide a larger community for the participants.

Highlights:

  • One Keynote: (ICADL/AP-iConference Joint, TBA)
  • Panel for Young Researchers
  • Paper Presentation Sessions
  • Student Symposium Sessions

Call For Participation: Papers and Student Symposium

Generation Researchers in the Information Field (Jointly Organized by Asia Pacific Chapter of iSchools, ICADL, A-LIEP and ALIRG)

The paper sessions offer a great chance for researchers in the information field to share their recent research ideas and results and to get feedback from general and interdisciplinary audiences.

The student symposium sessions give a place for graduate students to present and discuss their studies with mentors from iSchools, ICADL, A-LIEP and ALIRG, as well as to build networks for future international collaborations. The organizations have jointly hosted doctoral consortiums for recent years. This symposium is planned based on this tradition and to provide a larger community for the participants.

Topics

We invite submissions on diverse topics related to digital libraries and related fields including (but not limited to):

  • Information behavior
  • Social, cultural, health and community informatics
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Education in Library and Information Science
  • Information systems
  • Social computing
  • Information policy
  • Knowledge management
  • Information retrieval
  • Information services
  • Information organization
  • Digital curation and preservation
  • Digital libraries
  • Bibliometrics and scholarly communication
  • History and philosophy of information
  • Participatory cultures
  • Digital youth
  • Social computing
  • Human computer interaction
  • Knowledge infrastructures
  • Computer-supported cooperative work
  • Data, text and knowledge mining
  • Computational social science
  • Digital humanities
  • Network science
  • Information and communication technology for development
  • Data science
  • Information economics
  • Information work and workers
  • User experience and design

Submission and Presentation

We solicit two types of submission:

  1. Short Paper: 6-8 pages + references following the Springer Computer Science Proceedings guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). The review process is double-blind. At least 3 Program Committee members will review each submission. All accepted papers will be published in the proceeding of ICADL as a special track. Each accepted paper must be presented by at least one of the co-authors. Sufficient time will be given to the oral presentation for accepted papers in all submission categories either in-person or using an online presentation platform to be chosen later. We highly encourage to submit papers on AI for information services that covers a wide range of topics as we are aiming to organize a special issue later for accepted papers (journal TBA).
  2. Student Symposium: proposals for presentation from graduate students, including not only Ph.D candidates but also master-level students. The symposium includes two tracks - on going and finished research presentations and research plan for doctoral degree. Members of the organizing team and leading researchers from iSchools, ICADL, A-LIEP and ALIRG will participate in the event and give comments and suggestions to help students brush up the research and to build up their research plans.
    • Track 1 : On-going and finished research. -- Proposals may be made by one or more authors. The first author should be a student and present his/her research at the symposium.
    • Track 2 : Research plans for pursuing doctoral degrees (Doctoral Consortium Sessions) -- Proposals should be made by a doctoral student.

    • Acceptable file formats: MS Word and PDF
    • Submission System: TBA
    • All proposals should be written in English and include the followings:
      • For Track 1:

        Section 1: Author(s): name, their institutional affiliations, five to ten keywords.
        Section 2: Abstract (no more than 500 words)

      • For Track 2:

        Section 1: A short (100 to 150 words) introductory statement explaining: who the applicant is, their institutional affiliation, supervisors, and (provisional) thesis title, five to ten keywords; the applicant’s current stage of their graduate career (beginning, completion of required courses or initial candidacy stage, full doctoral status, data collection and analysis, about to submit thesis etc.); an explanation of what they hope to get out of attendance at the symposium.
        Section 2: A research statement of no more than 500 words describing their dissertation project.

Submissions of papers and student symposiums will be via Easychair, the same as ICADL main conference paper submissions (https://easychair.org/cfp/icadl2024). Authors of accepted submissions have to present their work at the paper sessions or graduate student sessions.

Important Dates (tentative)

The schedule is shown below. All the dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone:

  • Submission Deadline: August 25, 2024
  • Acceptance Notification: September 20, 2024
  • Camera Ready Copy: September 29, 2024

Please check ICADL 2024 homepage for the updates on the graduate student sessions and general information about ICADL 2024 and AP-iConference 2024.

Organizers

Program Committee:

  • Ping Wang (Central China Normal Univerisity)
  • Hui Chen (Central China Normal University)
  • Anita Dewi (Charles Sturt University)
  • Vi Truong (Charles Sturt University)
  • Naya Sucha-xaya (Chulalongkorn University)
  • Linlin Zhu (Jilin University)
  • Yi Song (Jilin University)
  • Md Khalid Hossain (Monash University)
  • Misita Anwar (Monash University)
  • Chao Min (Nanjing University
  • Lei Hou (Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology)
  • Xue Pan (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology)
  • Qiao Li (Nankai University)
  • Yao Zhang (Nankai University)
  • Lee Chei Sian (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Dion Goh (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Joanna Sin (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Wei Jeng (National Taiwan University)
  • Yi Bu (Peking University)
  • Di Wang (Renmin University of China)
  • Zekun Yang (Renmin University of China)
  • Houqiang Yu (Sun Yat-Sen University)
  • Peng XIAO (Sun Yat-sen University)
  • Youngseek Kim (Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Rahmi (Universitas Indonesia)
  • Iyra S. Buenrostro-Cabbab (University of the Philippines Diliman)
  • Hiroyoshi Ito (University of Tsukuba)
  • Masaki Takeda (University of Tsukuba)
  • Claire Timpany (University of Waikato)
  • Nicholas Vanderschantz (University of Waikato)
  • Shaobo Liang (Wuhan University)
  • Dion Goh (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Joanna Sin (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Jin Cheon Na (Nanyang Technological University)

AP-iConference 2024 Co-Chairs:

  • Chei Sian Lee (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Yi Bu (Peking University)

AP-iSchool Chair

  • Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba)

AP-iNext Generation Chairs:

  • Di Wang (Renmin University of China) - Chair
  • Misita Anwar (Monash University) - Chair Elect