Tuesday,

November 6th

Wednesday,

November 7th

Thursday,

November 8th

Friday,

November 9th

8:30 - 11:00

Registration

Registration

Registration

Registration

09:00 - 10:15

P. Raghavan: 
Web Search: From Information Retrieval to Microeconomic Modeling 

Dan Suciu:
Management of Data with Uncertainties

Fernando Pereira: Learning to Join Everything

Workshops

10:15 - 10:30

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

Paper Session A1: XML query processing (DB)

Chair: Carlos A. Heuser

Paper Session A4: Record Linkage and Approximate Matching (DB)

Chair: Marcos A. Gonçalves

Paper Session A7: Graph Based Retrieval (IR)

Chair: Arlindo Oliveira

Workshops

Paper Session B1: Semantic Annotation (KM) Chair: Alfredo Goñi

Paper Session B4: Miscellaneous (IR)

Chair: Marc Najork

Paper Session B7:Explanation, Knowledge Provenance, and Knowledge Synthesis (KM)

Chair: Ophir Frieder

Paper Session C1: Natural Language I (IR)

Chair: Hugo Zaragoza

Paper Session C4: Query Expansion (IR)

Chair: Charles Nicholas

Paper Session C7: IR Evaluation (IR)

Chair: Charles Clarke

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

Paper Session A2: Enterprise Information Management (IND)

Chair: Lucio Tinoco

Paper Session A5: Query Processing (DB)

Chair: Prasenjit Mitra

Paper Session A8: Performance Issues (DB)

Chair: Alberto Laender

Workshops

Paper Session B2: Classification and Clustering I (KM)

Chair: Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues

Paper Session B5: Classification and Clustering II (KM)

Chair: Pavel Calado

Paper Session B8: Information Representation and Integration (KM)

Chair: Maarten Marx

Paper Session C2: Web Retrieval I (IR)

Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Paper Session C5: Semantic IR (IR)

Chair: Massimo Melucci

Paper Session C8: Natural Language II (IR)

Chair: James G. Shanahan

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

15:30 - 17:00

Paper Session A3: Spatio-Temporal Databases and Time Series Streams (DB)

Chair: Geneviève Jomier

Paper Session A6: OLAP and Multi-dimensional Databases (DB)

Chair: : Ee‐Peng-Lim

Paper Session A9:Indexing (IR)

Chair: Arlindo Oliveira

Workshops

Paper Session B3: Knowledge Synthesis (KM)

Chair: André O. Falcão

Paper Session B6: Information Extraction, Conceptual Clustering, and Prioritization (KM)

Chair: Dongwon Lee

Paper Session B9: Data Mining (KM)

Chair: EK Park

Paper Session C3: IR Modeling (IR)

Chair: Mounia Lalmas

Paper Session C6: Web Retrieval II (IR)

Chair: Edleno Silva de Moura

Paper Session C9: Natural Language III (IR)

Chair: Francisco Couto

17:00 - 19:00

Google Reception & Poster Session

19:00 - 22:00

Conference Banquet at Casino de Lisboa
(banquet directions)