[agents] International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2012): Call for Papers

[Prem Melville]

*Call for Papers*

*The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management*

*Oct. 29 – Nov. 2, 2012, Sheraton, Maui, Hawaii*

*http://www.cikm2012.org*

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Sponsored by: ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB



The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (*CIKM 2012*) will be held from October 29 to November 2, 2012
in Maui, Hawaii, USA. CIKM is a top-tier ACM conference in the areas
of *information
retrieval*, *knowledge management *and *database*. Since 1992, it has
successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the
three 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 2012, 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, data privacy and security

·       Concurrency control and recovery

·       Data adaptability, reusability and quality

·       Database languages and models

·       Information integration, data provenance, probabilistic databases

·       Mobile databases and distributed data management

·       Peer-to-peer, parallel and distributed databases

·       Query processing, optimization and performance

·       Real-time and active databases

·       Scientific and biological databases

·       Semantic Web

·       Semi-structured data processing, XML filtering and routing

·       Stream-based processing and network databases

·       String databases, blogs and social search

·       Systems, middleware, applications and experiences

·       Temporal, spatial and multimedia databases

·       User experience: languages, models, interfaces



*Information Retrieval*

·       Citation Analysis, Social Networks for IR

·       Distributed IR, Peer-to-Peer Search

·       Domain-specific IR (e.g., Legal, 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, Question
and Answer)

·       Machine Learning for IR

·       Multimedia IR (Audio, Speech, Video, Image)

·       Semi-Structured Information Retrieval

·       User Modeling for IR, Search Personalization

·       User Studies, Interactive Information Retrieval, Interfaces and PIM

·       Web Search, Advertising, Adversarial

·       Other topics related to IR (Privacy, Spam, Feature Engineering,
etc.)



*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

·       Biometrics



*Paper Submissions for CIKM 2012*

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/publications/proceedings-templates*

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ACM CIKM review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your
submission. Papers cannot exceed 10 pages in length. There is no short
paper track. The organizers may offer the authors of selected paper
submissions to prepare a shorter version of their paper for
presentation. Uploading
instructions and more detailed submission instructions for papers, and
workshop proposals, are available at the conference website *
http://www.cikm2012.org* **



Each accepted paper requires at least one full registration fee regardless
of the status of the registered author. Also, one of the authors (or a
qualified substitute) must give a presentation of the paper at the
conference. Otherwise, the paper will not be indexed by the ACM digital
library.



*Important Dates*

Full Papers

·       Abstracts due: May 18, 2012

·       Papers due: May 25, 2012

Poster papers due: June 15, 2012

Workshops

·         Proposals due: April 9, 2012

·         Papers due: June 29, 2012

Demonstrations papers due: June 23, 2012



*CIKM 2012 Organization Team*

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*Conference Chair*

Xue-wen Chen, Univ. of Kansas

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*Program Chairs*

Guy Lebanon, Georgia Institute of Technology (IR
track)

Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (KM Track)

Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research Asia (DB track)

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*Industry Chairs*

Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research* *

Dou Shen, CityGrid Media* *

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*Workshop Chairs *

Dimitrios Gunopulos, Univ. of Athens

Alin Dobra, Univ. of Florida

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*Local Chairs *

Lipyeow Lim, Univ. of Hawaii

Debasis Bhattacharya, Univ. of Hawaii

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*Sponsorship Chairs *

Yi Chang, Yahoo!

Ya Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.

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*Publicity Chairs *

Qi He, IBM Research

Prem Melville, IBM Research

Yilong Yin, Shandong Univ.

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*Proceedings Chair*

Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

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*Demonstration Chairs *

Amelie Marian, Rutgers Univ.* *

Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research* *

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*Poster Chairs *

Arvin Agah, Univ. of Kansas* *

Deng Cai, Zhejiang Univ.* *



*Award Chair *

Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern Univ.