Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. Search Solutions consists of two parts: a tutorial day and a conference day. We invite tutorial proposals which focus on any area of the practical application of search technologies to real world problems, for the tutorial day due to take place on 21st Nov 2023 before the conference day on 22nd Nov 2023. Tutorials in previous years have included: designing usability for search, multimedia information retrieval, evaluation, pattern search, city search in SmartCities, text analysis, introduction to natural language processing and introduction to reinforcement learning, Apache Solr and open-source technologies, etc. The details of the previous tutorials can be found here: <>https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informat... https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/conferences-and-events/search-solutions/.

Tutorials Proposals for both full day (5-6 hours including breaks and lunch) and half day (2-3 hours including breaks) tutorials are invited. The tutorials will take place on Tuesday 21st November 2023 at the BCS offices in London and/or online depending on the situation near the time. We encourage in person tutorials at the BCS offices if possible.

Proposal submission Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the tutorial chair (h.liu@soton.ac.uk mailto:h.liu@soton.ac.uk) by midnight Monday 11th Sep 2023, using the following template: Name of presenter(s): please list the names and affiliations of presenter(s). Title: title of the tutorial. Contact details: email and snail mail address, phone numbers etc. Type of tutorial: half day or full day. Delivery format: Online only or in person only or could be both Tutorial Abstract: for publicity. Target audience: please outline the practitioner audience to be addressed. Learning outcomes: what would the practitioners gain from attending this tutorial? Tutorial schedule and description: provide a draft schedule and detailed description of each of the items. Tutorial logistics/materials: required media and formats for tutorial. What will be provided to attendees (e.g. slides). Bio of presenter(s): including track record of presenting tutorials, lecturing experience etc. (200/300 words)

Selection Procedure All tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chair and approved by the organising committee. The selection criteria will focus on the quality of the tutorial content and the appropriateness of it to the main theme of search solutions.

Contact Tutorial Chair: Dr Haiming Liu, h.liu@soton.ac.uk mailto:h.liu@soton.ac.uk

Dr Haiming Liu, PhD, PgCAP, SFHEA Associate Professor @ Web and Internet Science (WAIS) Research Group Director of Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ Email: h.liu@soton.ac.uk mailto:h.liu@soton.ac.uk