CIKM 2009 - The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM 2009

ACM Eighteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, November 2-6, 2009
Sponsored by: ACM SIGIR, SIGWEB

THEME: CIKM 2009 (ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management) will be held on November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong. Since 1992, 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 2009, 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. Topics of interest in the three tracks include, but are not limited to:

Databases:
Data Adaptability, Quality, Reusability and Adaptability
Information Integration,
Data Provenance,
Probabilistic Databases
Mobile and distributed data management
Query Optimization
Security and Data Privacy
Semantic Web
Streams, Network Databases
String Databases, Blogs and Social Search
Systems, Platforms, Middleware, Applications and Experiences
User experience (languages, models, interfaces)
XML Data Processing, Filtering, Routing, and Algorithms
Novel Data Management Tools
Data Warehousing and OLAP

Information Retrieval:
Citation Analysis, Social Networks for IR
Domain-specific IR (e.g., Legal IR, Genome, Mobile IR, IR for chemical structures)
Filtering (e.g., Routing, Collaborative filtering, Topic tracking, Recommender systems)
Foundation of Information Retrieval (e.g., theory, ranking)
IR Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
IR Evaluation
Language Specific IR (Multi-lingual, Cross-lingual, NLP)
Machine Learning for IR
Multimedia IR (Audio, Speech, Video, Image)
Semi-Structured Information Retrieval
User Modeling for IR, Search Personalization
Web Search, Advertising, Adversarial

Knowledge Management:
Advertising and Optimization
Classification and Clustering
Data pre- and post-Processing
Information Extraction
Information Filtering and Recommender Systems
Knowledge Synthesis and Visualization
Large-scale statistical techniques
Link and Graph Mining
Semantic Techniques
Temporal and Spatial data Mining
Text Mining

Industry track:
Industrial Practice and Experience
Technology for Developing Regions

Paper Submissions for CIKM 2009
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers cannot exceed 10 pages in length. In addition to the regular full-length papers, the program committee will accept some as poster papers(two pages). Note Submission procedure is the same for all areas. Uploading instructions and more detailed submission instructions for papers, workshop and tutorial proposals, are available at this conference website. One author per paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper if accepted for publication.


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A "Best Interdisciplinary Paper" award will be given to the best paper that bridges at least two of the general areas of interest to the conference, namely databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management.

Industrial Papers
Industry authors are also invited to submit papers describing solutions in the domains addressed by this conference, focusing on the technical aspects of their work. The submission procedure for industrial papers is the same as for research papers.