mounia lalmas utwbfzdcsqmulacuk first call papers cikm 2008 acm seventeenth conference information knowledge management october 2630 2008 napa valley marriott hotel spa california httpwwwcikm2008org sponsored acm sigir sigweb pending approval since 1992 acm conference information knowledge management cikm successfully brought together leading researchers developers database information retrieval knowledge management communities purpose conference identify challenging problems facing development future knowledge information systems shape future research directions publication high quality applied theoretical research findings cikm 2008 continue tradition promoting collaboration among multiple areas encourage submissions high quality papers topics general areas databases information retrieval knowledge management papers bridge across areas special interest considered best interdisciplinary paper award cikm 2008 held napa valley one hour north san francisco one goals conference embrace innovative spirit bay areasilicon valley bridging academiccommercial gap database information retrieval knowledge management communities help achieve goal series invited speakers industry day separate industry research track luminaries primarily industry vc venture capital community provide insights dbirkm technologies arecan leveraged make billiondollar success addition papers cikm 2008 soliciting workshop tutorial proposals topics general areas databases information retrieval knowledge management especially proposals bridging areas presenting new perspectives areas areas interest topics interest three tracks include limited databases access methods indexing authorization privacy security concurrency control recovery database languages models mobile databases ubiquitous data management peertopeer parallel distributed databases query processing optimization performance realtime active databases scientific biological databases semistructured data xml databases streambased processing sensor databases temporal spatial multimedia databases information retrieval crosslanguage multilingual information retrieval digital libraries document summarization question answering document tracking routing filtering enterprise search hypertext hypermedia management information retrieval applications eg chemical genomic geographical information information retrieval evaluation metrics information retrieval models theory information visualization exploration interactive retrieval user models studies interoperability integration machine learning information retrieval metadata extraction generation multimedia contentbased information retrieval music retrieval performance issues information retrieval personalized search personal information management question answering semi structured information retrieval test collections experimental design text classification clustering web distributed information retrieval knowledge management advertising online classification clustering text classification clustering information filtering recommender systems datainformation extraction integration explanation knowledge provenance frequent itemsets sequential pattern mining knowledge management synthesis link analysis community discovery mining representing temporal spatial data mining representing text semistructured data preprocessing postprocessing visual data mining security privacy semantic data web social networks web 20 industry track industrial practice experience technology developing regions paper submission authors invited submit original unpublished research papers considered publication forum manuscripts submitted electronically pdf format formatted using acm cameraready templates available httpwwwacmorgsigspubsproceedtemplatehtml papers exceed 10 pages length addition regular fulllength papers program committee accept poster papers two pages submission procedure areas uploading instructions detailed submission instructions papers workshop tutorial proposals made available conference website wwwcikm2008org shortly one author per paper required register attend conference present paper accepted publication best interdisciplinary paper award given best paper bridges least two general areas interest conference namely databases information retrieval knowledge management industry authors also invited submit papers describing solutions domains addressed conference focusing technical aspects work submission procedure industrial papers research papers important dates research industry track abstracts due may 27 2008 papers due june 3 2008 notification acceptance july 10 2008 camera ready august 15 2008 workshops proposals due april 15 2008 notification workshop proposal acceptance may 5 2008 individual workshop papers due july 15 2008 notification acceptance august 10 2008 camera ready august 15 2008 tutorials proposals due july 15 2008 notification acceptance july 25 2008 conference dates tutorial day october 26 2008 conference october 27 28 29 2008 workshops october 30 2008 part october 29 required organizers conference chair james g shanahan independent consultant usa db area chair sihem ameryahia yahoo research usa db assistantchair ioana manolescu inria france ir area chair yi zhang university california santa cruz usa ir assistantchair david evans justsystems evans research usa km area chair alek kolcz microsoft research km assistantchair keysun choi department head professor computer science kaist korea industry chair abdur chowdury summizecom usa proceedings chair diane kelly university north carolina usa tutorials chair neel sundaresan ebay research labs usa workshops chair gregory grefenstette cea list france treasurer ryen w white microsoft research local area chair goutham kurra turn inc usa sponsorship chair yan qu advertisingcom usa pr chair mounia lalmas queen mary university london uk web master disco gerdes 34s58w web development contact info cikm2008 dot org prof mounia lalmas department computer science 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