CIKM 2007
Lisboa, Portugal

ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2007)      

http://www.fc.ul.pt/cikm2007/

November 6-8, 2007 Sana Lisboa Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal

Sponsored by: ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB

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 2007, 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

• 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 database
•  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 and query representation
• Document summarization and question answering
• Document tracking, routing, and filtering; recommenders
• Hypertext and hypermedia management
• Information retrieval applications, e.g., chemical or genomic information
• Information retrieval evaluation, metrics
• Information retrieval models and theory
• Information visualization and exploration
• Interactive retrieval, user models and studies
• Interoperability and integration (federation, harvesting, fusion, mediators, wrappers)
• Metadata extraction and generation
• Multi-media and content-based information retrieval, music retrieval
• Performance issues in information retrieval
• Personalization and personal information management
• Question answering
• Test collections, experimental design
• Text classification and clustering, machine learning
• Web and distributed information retrieval

Knowledge Management

• Classification and clustering
• Data/information extraction and integration
• Data mining applications
• Explanation and Knowledge Provenance
• Frequent itemsets and sequential pattern mining
• Knowledge management and synthesis
• Link analysis and community discovery
• Mining and representing data streams, web content, structure and usage data
• Mining and representing temporal and spatial data
• Mining and representing text and semi-structured data
• Mining and representing reviews, blogs & discussions
• Novel data mining algorithms
• Pre-processing, post-processing and visual data mining
• Security and privacy issues
• Semantic Integration

Paper Submissions

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). 

One author per paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper if accepted for publication. 

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

As in previous years, authors of the best papers will be invited to submit expanded versions for publication in a special issue of a major journal. 

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.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: May 14, 2007  OVER NOW!

Paper submission deadline: May 21, 2007 (at 23h59m59s GMT)

Notification to authors: July 16, 2007 (at 23h59m59s GMT)

Early Registration deadline: August 31, 2007 (at 23h59m59s GMT)

Conference: November 6-8, 2007

Workshops: November 9-10, 2007

Conference Organizers

General Chair: Mário J. Silva, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Program Chairs:

DB: Alberto Laender, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. 

IR: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain/Chile.

KM: Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University, USA.

Industry Track: Bjorn Olstad, FAST, Norway

Workshops Chair: Dongwon Lee, PSU, USA.

Local Arrangements Chair: Francisco Couto, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Publicity Chair: Pedro Fernandes, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Proceedings Chair: TBA.