LSDS-IR 2008

LSDS-IR 2008
 * CALL FOR PAPERS ****

6th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval

October 30, 2008 Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa: Napa Valley, California, USA Co-located with CIKM 2008 www.cikm2008.org

http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/LSDS-IR08

AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Due to the dramatically increasing amount of available data, effective and scalable solutions for data organization and search are essential. Distributed solutions naturally provide promising alternatives to standard centralized approaches. With the computational power of thousands or millions of computers in clusters or P2P systems, the challenges that arise are manifold, ranging from efficient resource discovery to load balancing issues and distributed ranking problems. This workshop will provide space for researchers to discuss these problems and to define new directions for the work on distributed information retrieval. We will also encourage submissions of position papers, experiences, software demonstrations and posters in the area of distributed information retrieval.

Topics of interest will include, but will not be limited to:


 * Novel P2P IR applications/architectures
 * Retrieval models for distributed and P2P IR
 * Heterogeneous distributed data integration and organization
 * Query routing in distributed environments
 * Distributed ranking
 * Distributed index structures
 * Efficiency in distributed and P2P IR
 * Scalability of distributed indexing and retrieval
 * Multimedia retrieval for distributed and P2P IR
 * Distributed indexing and retrieval of dynamic information sources
 * Standards / benchmarks for P2P IR
 * Grid IR
 * Decentralized reputation management
 * Distributed data provenance
 * Tools for distributed IR

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract and paper submission deadline: July 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2008 Camera ready deadline: August 15, 2008 (hard deadline for publication)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers should not exceed 8 pages, double column, including figures, tables and references in the standard ACM conference format. Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere, and must be submitted electronically in printable PDF format (other formats will be rejected).

Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process by at least three members of the program committee. Notification and reviews will be communicated via email.

All workshop proceedings will be printed along with the CIKM proceedings by ACM. Best papers will be considered for publication on a special issue of an international journal.

Submission Web site: TBA

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Sebastian Michel, EPFL, Switzerland Gleb Skobeltsyn, EPFL, Switzerland Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy Ivana Podnar Zarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Roi Blanco, University of A Coruna, Spain Abdur Chowdhury, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice, Italy Josiane Xavier Parreira, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR, Italy Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Diego Puppin, Google, USA Martin Rajman, EPFL, Switzerland Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University, USA Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece Christos Tryfonopoulos, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece Ivana Podnar Zarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP