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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Fabio Crestani Ian Ruthven (Eds.)

Context: Nature, Impact, and Role 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Sciences, CoLIS 2005 Glasgow, UK, June 4-8, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Fabio Crestani Ian Ruthven University of Strathclyde Department of Computer and Information Sciences Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK E-mail: {f.crestani, ian.ruthven}@cis.strath.ac.uk

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Preface

CoLIS 5 was the fifth in the series of international conferences whose general aim is to provide a broad forum for critically exploring and analyzing research in areas such as computer science, information science and library science. CoLIS examines the historical, theoretical, empirical and technical issues relating to our understanding and use of information, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to research. CoLIS seeks to provide a broad platform for the examination of context as it relates to our theoretical, empirical and technical development of information-centered disciplines. The theme for CoLIS 5 was the nature, impact and role of context within in