Workshops Program
All workshops will take place on Thursday Oct 30, 2008 at the main conference hotel (NV Marriott).
Accepted workshop papers will also be published in the CIKM
proceedings, and indexed in the ACM digital library.
One-Day Workshops
BooksOnline 2008 Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners,
in Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries,
eBooks, Human Computer Interaction, Publishing industry and on-line book
services, to map out the agenda for digital book research, producing a draft
research agenda for the next 5 years.
Organizers:
Paul Kantor (Rutgers LAIR Laboratory, USA) kantor@scils.rutgers.edu
Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research, UK) gabkaz@microsoft.com
Natasa Milic-Frayling (Microsoft Research, UK) natasamf@microsoft.com
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia) ross.wilkinson@csiro.au
Workshop Webpage: http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/BooksOnline08
DOLAP 2008 ACM Eleventh
International Workshop on Data Warehousing and
OLAP
DOLAP will focus on new research directions and emerging application domains
in the areas of Data Warehousing and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) technologies.
Organizers:
Alberto Abello (Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain) aabello@lsi.upc.edu
Il-Yeon Song (Drexel University, USA) songiy@drexel.edu
Workshop Webpage: http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/song/dolap/DOLAP08/DOLAP08-CfP-03.htm
DTMBIO
2008 ACM Second International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in
Bioinformatics
The focus of this workshop is to bring together researchers from data and text
mining and computational biology that want to integrate heterogeneous
structured and unstructured data, and to better embed literature information
into bioinformatics
solutions.
Organizers:
Min Song (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) min.song@njit.edu
Luke Huan (University of Kansas, USA) jhuan@ittc.ku.edu
Doheon Lee (KAIST, Korea) dhlee@kaist.ac.kr
Workshop Webpage: http://web.njit.edu/~song/dtmbio2008/home.html
GIR
2008 Fifth Workshop on Geographic Information
Retrieval
There is a need for specialised geographical information techniques that
exhibit geographical intelligence in recognising the presence of place names,
and other geographic references, in documents and user queries and provide
retrieval facilities that can make imprecise matches between geographical
query terms and the contents of documents. This workshop is intended to cover
a wide range of topics that are of particular concern to geographical
information retrieval.
Organizers:
Ross Purves (University of Zurich, Switzerland) ross.purves@geo.uzh.ch
Chris Jones (Cardiff University, UK) c.b.jones@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Workshop Webpage: http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir08/
iNEWS
2008 Improving Non English Web Searching
The main aims of the second edition of this workshop are to identify the
problems in web searching when working with non-English languages and to
propose solutions and tools so as to improve the existing
situation.
Organizers:
Fotis Lazarinis (Technological Educational Instituteof Mesolonghi, Greece) lazarinf@teimes.gr
Efthimis Efthimiadis (University of Washington, USA) efthimis@u.washington.edu
Jesus Vilares (University of A Coruna, Spain) jvilares@udc.es
John Tait (Information Retrieval Facility, Austria) john.tait@ir-facility.org
Workshop Webpage: http://rea.teimes.gr/lazarinf/iNEWS08/
LSDS-IR
2008 Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval
Scalability problems in information retrieval have to be addressed in the near
future, and new distributed applications are likely to drive the way in which
people use the Web. Distributed IR is the point in which these two directions
converge. This workshop will provide space for researchers to discuss these
problems and to define new directions for the work on distributed information
retrieval.
Organizers:
Sebastian Michel (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) sebastian.michel@epfl.ch
Gleb Skobeltsyn (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) gleb.skobeltsyn@epfl.ch
Wai Gen Yee (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) yee@iit.edu
Workshop Webpage: http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/LSDS-IR08/
ONISW
2008 Second International workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for
the Semantic Web
The main objective of the workshop is to bring
together researchers in Information Management interested in the relation
between ontology and information models, to present results and to discuss
theoretical aspects and good practice.
Organizers:
Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) elmasri@cse.uta.edu
Mathias Brochhausen (Institute of Formal Ontology, Germany) mathias.brochhausen@ifomis.uni-saarland.de
Martin Doerr (Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece) martin@ics.forth.gr
Hyoil Han (Drexel University, USA) hhan@ischool.drexel.edu
Workshop Webpage: http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/hhan/onisw2008/
PaIR
2008 Patent Information
Retrieval
The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for Information Retrieval
and Knowledge Management scientists as well as Patent Retrieval experts from
industry to
study the next generation of patent search
tools.
Organizers:
Helmut Berger (Matrixware Information Services Gmbh, Austria) h.berger@matrixware.com
Michael Dittenbach (Matrixware Information Services Gmbh, Austria) m.dittenbach@matrixware.com
Georg Sommer (Information Retrieval Facility, Austria) g.sommer@ir-facility.org
John Tait (Information Retrieval Facility, Austria) john.tait@ir-facility.org
Workshop Webpage: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/pair08
PIKM
2008 PhD workshop
The goal of this workshop is to encourage Ph.D. students to present their
dissertation research at a relatively early stage. The targeted students are
those with a focus in one or more of the CIKM research tracks, i.e.,
databases, information retrieval and knowledge management. This workshop will
enable them to present their Ph.D. dissertation proposals and/or ongoing
research on their dissertation
sub-problems.
Organizers:
Aparna Varde (Virginia State University, USA) avarde@vsu.edu
Prasan Roy (Aster Data Systems, USA) prasan.roy@asterdata.com
Workshop Webpage: http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~aparna/PIKM2008CFP.htm
SSM 2008 Search in Social Media
Social applications are the fastest growing segment of the web. Social media
establish new forums for content creation, and permit novel applications at
the intersection of people and information. The purpose of this workshop is to
focus the attention of the research community on search in particular kinds of
social media, such as blogs, and forums such as Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, and
the like.
Organizers:
Ian Soboroff (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) ian.soboroff@nist.gov
Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA) eugene@mathcs.emory.edu
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research, USA) ravikuma@yahoo-inc.com
Workshop Webpage: http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/
WICOW 2008 Second Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web
The workshop will focus on how to evaluate the credibility of
information on the Web. How can we extract credible information related to a
given topic, organize this information, detect its provenance, clarify the
background, and identify facts, and various
related opinions.
Organizers:
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) tanaka@dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Takashi Matsuyama (Kyoto University, Japan) tm@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang University, Singapore) seplim@ntu.edu.sg
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan) adam@dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Workshop Webpage: http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow2/
WIDM 2008 Tenth
International Workshop on Web Information and Data
Management
The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial
practitioners, and developers to study how Web information can be extracted,
stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users
for various advanced database and Web applications.
Organizers:
Chee-Yong Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) chancy@comp.nus.edu.sg
Neoklis Polyzotis (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA) alkis@cs.ucsc.edu
Workshop Webpage: http://widm2008.comp.nus.edu.sg/