SISAP 2009

2nd International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2009)

http://www.sisap.org/2009

August 29 - 30, 2009 Prague, Czech Republic

BACKGROUND:

The International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is a conference devoted to similarity searching, with emphasis on metric space searching. It aims to fill in the gap left by the various scientific venues devoted to similarity searching in spaces with coordinates, by providing a common forum for theoreticians and practitioners around the problem of similarity searching in general spaces (metric and non-metric) or using distance-based (as opposed to coordinate-based) techniques in general.

SISAP aims to become an ideal forum to exchange real-world, challenging and exciting examples of applications, new indexing techniques, common testbeds and benchmarks, source code, and up-to-date literature through a Web page serving the similarity searching community. Authors are expected to use the testbeds and code from the SISAP Web site for comparing new applications, databases, indexes and algorithms.

After the very successful first event in Cancun, Mexico in 2008, the second SISAP will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 29-30, 2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers on their research in similarity search and applications. The proceedings of SISAP 2009 will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. A special issue with the extended versions of the best SISAP 2009 papers will appear in an internationally recognized journal (subject to additional reviewing). Contributions to the conference should fall into the following categories:

Full papers: - Basic techniques: general methods that apply to arbitrary metric spaces, nonmetric or (dis)similarity spaces, or high-dimensional vector spaces. We strongly encourage that those be accompanied with an open-source implementation conforming the interface of the Web site and to be tested with a relevant subset of the spaces included in the Web site. This will favor uniform comparison and also permit comparing the technique with future developments. - Applied techniques: methods that apply to specific similarity search problems. Those papers are also encouraged to contribute with the code and, especially, with the similarity computation function and the datasets related to the specific problem they address (if they are new), for the Web site.

Posters: - Domain-specific spaces and similarities: papers that challenge and motivate for searching in new spaces (i.e. domain-specific similarity search). This type of contribution is expected to provide a thorough study of the non/metric space properties (e.g., its intrinsic dimension) or the similarity measure, and must include code for the similarity computation and datasets for the Web site. For this kind of paper a real-world domain-specific application of similarity search is expected (e.g., multimedia databases, (bio)chemical & medical databases, biometric databases, scientific & sensory databases, etc.).

Demos: Similarity retrieval engines: papers that present prototypical non-commercial engine entirely devoted to similarity search applications. The presentation should cover the domains of applicability (e.g., image retrieval system), the architecture, scalability, user interfaces, optional comparison with similar engines, etc. This type of contribution must include either an installation package of the demo application + database, or must be installed as a web application accessible to the SISAP PC.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Range search * knn search * Limited-range knn search * Reverse knn search * New complex similarity query types * Similarity joins * Clustering (applied to indexing) * Parallelism & distributed algorithms * Approximate searching * Computation of intrinsic dimension * Cost models * Embeddings * Languages for similarity databases

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

We remark that reviewing is double-blind, so please do not include author information nor any data that discloses authorship in an obvious way. Submissions must not exceed 8 pages (full paper), or 2 pages (poster or demo) and must adhere to the standard 8.5" X 11" IEEE camera-ready format. Formatting instructions and LaTeX macros are available on the IEEE Computer Society site.

Additional appendixes can use more pages but they will be read at the discretion of the reviewer, so they should not be used for material that is essential to understand the relevance of the contribution.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract submission:       March 29, 2009 Paper submission:          April 5, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2009 Final version:             June 7, 2009

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Edgar Ch?vez, Universidad Michoacana, M?xico Paolo Ciaccia, Universit? di Bologna, Italy Alfredo Ferro, Universit? di Catania, Italy Daniel Keim, Universitat Konstanz, Germany Daniel Miranker, University of Texas at Austin, USA Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile Marco Patella, Universit? di Bologna, Italy Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA Tomas Skopal (co-chair), Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Pavel Zezula (co-chair), Masaryk University, Czech Republic

NEAR-BY EVENTS:

The term of SISAP workshop was planned to take place between two important database events - VLDB 2009 (Aug 24-28, Lyon, France) and DEXA 2009 (Aug 31-Sep 4, Linz, Austria) conferences. In particular, travelling from Prague to Linz takes a few hours by car or train (200 km).

MORE INFORMATION & WEB OF THE WORKSHOP:

http://www.sisap.org/2009 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP