CIKM 2008

Since 1992, the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. In CIKM 2008, we will continue the tradition of promoting collaboration among multiple areas. We encourage submissions of high quality papers on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Papers that bridge across these areas are of special interest and will be considered for a "Best Interdisciplinary Paper" award.

As CIKM 2008 will be held in Napa Valley, just one hour to the north of San Francisco, one of the goals of the conference is to embrace the innovative spirit of the Bay Area/Silicon Valley in bridging further the academic-commercial gap in the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. To help achieve this goal, we will have a series of invited speakers and an industry day (separate from the industry research track) where luminaries, primarily from industry and from the VC (Venture Capital) community, will provide insights on how DB/IR/KM technologies are/can be leveraged to make a billion-dollar success.

In addition to papers, CIKM 2008 is soliciting workshop and tutorial proposals on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management, especially proposals bridging these areas, or presenting new perspectives in these areas.

Important Dates

• Tutorial Day: October 26, 2008
• Conference: October {27, 28, 29} 2008
• Workshops: October 30, 2008 (and part of October 29)

Research and Industry Track

• Abstracts due: May 27, 2008
• Papers due: June 3, 2008
• Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2008
• Camera ready: August 15, 2008

Workshops

• Proposals due: April 15, 2008
• Notification of workshop proposal Acceptance: May 5, 2008
• Individual workshop papers due: July 15, 2008
• Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2008
• Camera ready: August 15, 2008

Tutorials

• Proposals due: July 15, 2008
• Notification of Acceptance: July 25, 2008

Registration

• Registration opens June 30, 2008
• Early registration deadline: August 15, 2008

Conference Dates

• Tutorial Day: October 26, 2008
• Conference: October 27, 28, 29, 2008
• Workshops: October 30, 2008 (and part of October 29 if required)

Areas of Interest

Topics of interest in the three tracks include, but are not limited to:

• Databases:
• Access methods and indexing
• Authorization, privacy and security
• Concurrency control and recovery
• Database languages and models
• Mobile databases and ubiquitous data management
• Peer-to-peer, parallel and distributed databases
• Query processing, optimization and performance
• Real-time and active databases
• Scientific and biological databases
• Semi-structured data and XML databases
• Stream-based processing and sensor databases
• Temporal, spatial and multimedia databases
• Information Retrieval:
• Cross-language and multi-lingual information retrieval
• Digital libraries
• Document summarization and question answering
• Document tracking, routing, and filtering
• Enterprise search
• Hypertext and hypermedia management
• Information retrieval applications (e.g., chemical, genomic or geographical information)
• Information retrieval evaluation, metrics
• Information retrieval models and theory
• Information visualization and exploration
• Interactive retrieval, user models and studies
• Interoperability and integration
• Machine learning for information retrieval
• Metadata extraction and generation
• Multi-media and content-based information retrieval
• Music retrieval
• Performance issues in information retrieval
• Personalized search and personal information management
• Question answering
• Semi structured information retrieval
• Test collections, experimental design
• Text classification and clustering
• Web and distributed information retrieval
• Knowledge Management:
• Advertising Online
• Classification and clustering
• Text classification and clustering
• Information filtering and recommender systems
• Data/information extraction and integration
• Explanation and Knowledge Provenance
• Frequent itemsets and sequential pattern mining
• Knowledge management and synthesis
• Link analysis and community discovery
• Mining and representing temporal and spatial data
• Mining and representing text and semi-structured data
• Pre-processing, post-processing and visual data mining
• Security and Privacy
• Semantic / Data Web
• Social Networks
• Web 2.0
• Industry track:
• Industrial Practice and Experience
• Technology for Developing Regions