TSSG at SAC 2004

Boris Rousseau attended and presented last week at the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Hilton Park Hotel, from March 14-17, 2004. SAC 2004 was sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing and hosted by the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, Cyprus.

The SAC technical program offers a wide range of tracks covering major areas of computer applications. SAC's open call for Track Proposals resulted in the submission of 31 track proposal of which 26 were established to produce their own call for papers. In response to these calls, 787 papers were submitted, from which 280 papers were strongly recommended by the referees for acceptance.

The conference included two keynote addresses: "Towards secure systems programming languages" by Dr. Gilad Bracha, Sun Microsystems and "On Demand Business" by Dr Maurizio Benassi, IBM South Region, Italy. Boris presented on the Information Access and Retrieval Track his paper entitled "User Profile for Content Personalisation in Information Retrieval" (available here) It discusses the modeling, querying and storage of a generic user profile, and the matching of a user profile with content metadata to provide personalised information retrieval.