With almost 200 participants and publications from each of the three subfields as well as contributions presenting integrated approaches, HIM '95 was a great success. A variety of recently appearing, popular information systems can be seen as variations of HIM systems. The World Wide Web, Digital Libraries, Teleteaching, Video on Demand or Personalized Information Systems are examples of these new applications. HIM '97 seeks original papers on significant contributions to the broad fields of Hypertext, Information Retrieval and Multimedia covering the underlying theories, models, and implementations. Work dealing with the handling of all types of information in HIM systems is welcome.
Papers describing approaches for the integration of the three subfields are especially relevant.
We encourage discussions of experimental studies, tests of usability, explorations of information systems behavior, reports on large-scale system performance, and demonstrations of advanced approaches. Papers may be written in either language, but must have an abstract in English. The length of the paper should not exceed 5000 words. Demonstrations provide an excellent opportunity for first-hand, interactive experience with HIM systems. Presentations of experimental as well as commercial systems are welcome.