Call for Papers: CIKM 2011

A call for papers has been issued for CIKM 2011: The 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, to be held 24-28 October 2011 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Dr. Peter Jackson of Thomson Reuters is scheduled to speak at the conference’s Industry Event.

Here are the submission deadlines:

• Workshop Proposals Due: March 28, 2011;
• Tutorial Proposals Due: April 26, 2011;
• Full Papers: Abstracts Due: May 17, 2011;
• Full Papers: Complete Papers Due: May 24, 2011;
• Posters Due: May 30, 2011;
• Demonstration Papers Due: June 26, 2011;
• Workshop Papers Due: June 29, 2011.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

Databases

• Access methods and indexing
• Authorization, data privacy and security
• Concurrency control and recovery
• Data quality, provenance, adaptability and reusability
• Data exchange, integration, evolution and migration
• Database languages and models (e.g., fuzzy data, probabilistic databases, meta-data management)
• Domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text)
• Dynamic aspects of databases (updates, views, real-time data, sensor data, active databases, data streams)
• Mobile, parallel and distributed data management (including cloud computing)
• Novel/advanced applications
• Query processing, optimization and performance
• Semantic Web and ontologies
• Semi-structured data processing, XML filtering and routing
• String databases, blogs and social search
• Systems, platforms, middleware and experiences
• Workflow, Web services and Web Service Composition

Information Retrieval

• Aggregated search, Enterprise search, Desktop search
• Personalised and collaborative search
• Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
• Distributed IR, Peer to peer IR
• Domain-specific IR: genomic, legal, mobile, patents, …
• Evaluation, Test collections, Crowdsourcing for IR evaluation
• Foundations of IR: Theory, Formal models
• HCIR, User Interfaces, Interactive IR, User models, User studies
• Language technologies for IR (NLP, IE, Summarization, QA, …)
• Machine Learning for IR
• Multimedia IR: audio, speech, image, video, and cross-media
• Semi-structured information retrieval, Semantic search
• System Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
• Web IR and Social media search
• Other topics related to IR (Adverserial IR, Advertising, Privacy, Text Mining, etc.)

Knowledge Management

• Advertising and optimization
• Classification and clustering
• Data pre- and post-processing
• Domain-specific and cross-domain knowledge management
• Evaluation measures, methods and frameworks
• Information Extraction
• Information Filtering and Recommender Systems
• Knowledge and privacy (e.g., privacy-preserving data publishing and mining)
• Knowledge synthesis and visualization
• Large-scale statistical techniques
• Link and graph Mining
• Mining the usage, consumption and production of resources
• Semantic techniques
• Temporal, Spatial and Ubiquitous Data Mining
• Text Mining
• Web and Social Knowledge Management

Industry Research Track

• Industrial Practice and Experience
• Technology for Developing Regions

For more information, please see the call for papers.

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