The theme for CoLIS 5 will be the nature, impact and role of context within information-centred disciplines. Context is a complex, dynamic, and multi-dimensional concept that influences both humans and machines: how they behave individually and how they interact with each other. In CoLIS 5 we will take an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of context to help us understand define the theoretical approaches to modelling and understanding context, to incorporate contextual reasoning within technology and to develop a shared framework for promoting the exploration of context.

CoLIS 5 seeks to provide a broad platform for the examination of context as it relates to our theoretical, empirical and technical development of information-centred disciplines. Contributions are invited that address issues such: the relationship between context and information, investigations of context in information seeking environments, models of context and relevance, contextual issues in interactive information retrieval, contextual evaluations of information technologies, technical solutions to modelling context, context aware technologies for information access.

CoLIS seeks high quality research papers, tutorial and workshop proposals and submissions to the doctoral forum. All submissions should be in English, which is the official language of the conference.

Research Papers
The conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers that have not been previously published and are not under review for another conference or journal. Submissions are welcomed in any of the topic areas indicated below. All accepted research papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee on the basis of the originality of the research presented, the quality of the theoretical contribution made by the research, the validity and robustness of the methodology chosen, the significance of the results presented and the overall contribution to our understanding of context.

Research papers should be submitted through the conference submission website as PDF or postscript documents. Please use the first author's surname as the filename of the pdf. If you are submitting more than one paper add a number after the surname, e.g. smith1.pdf, smith2.pdf. The submission website will be live soon.

The first page must contain the title of the paper, an abstract of not more than 150 words, and up to 2 topic areas taken from the areas of interest shown below. Topic areas are necessary to ensure that your submission is reviewed by appropriate experts in your area of research. All submissions should be anonymous. No page should identify the authors or their affiliations. Authors who cite their previous work should refer to themselves in the third person, e.g. “In [9] Smith and Akkerman demonstrated that…”.

Papers should contain at most 5000 words. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare the final version of their paper in the LNCS style; we advise authors to use this style for initial submissions. Templates are available at the following address:
www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Papers that are clearly longer than the limit will be rejected immediately. All correspondence with authors will be through email.

Tutorials
The conference will begin with a full day of tutorials to be held on 5th June 2005. Each tutorial should be on a single topic related to the general area covered by the CoLIS conferences or the specific theme of CoLIS 5 which is Context: nature, impact and role. Proposals are solicited for tutorials for either half a day (three hours plus breaks), or full day (six hours plus breaks). Proposals must specify: the title of the tutorial; the length (half or full day); intended audience level (introductory, intermediate, advanced), name and full address of presenter(s) (affiliation, address, phone, fax, email); and a short biographical sketch of the presenter(s).

This is to be followed of a full description, of up to three pages, including the objectives, outline, and materials. Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the Tutorial Chair, Monica Landoni (monica.landonicis.strath.ac.uk), on or before the 7th February 2005.

Workshops
Proposals are solicited from individuals, groups, or organizations, for one-day or half-day workshops which will be held on the 9th June 2005, the day after the main conference program concludes. Proposals (up to three pages) should be submitted to the Workshop Committee Chair.