PIKM 2008

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS: PIKM 2008

Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management In conjunction with ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM 2008 Napa Valley, California, October 26 to 30, 2008 http://www.cikm2008.org/workshops.php#PIKM_2008

Theme:

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 any of the CIKM research tracks, i.e., databases, information retrieval or knowledge management. Interdisciplinary work across the three tracks is particularly encouraged.

This workshop will enable graduate students to present their dissertation proposals and/or ongoing research on their dissertation sub-problems, giving them an opportunity to get feedback on their early work from researchers worldwide. Selected papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and the respective authors will give a talk on their dissertation at the workshop. This will give considerable recognition to their work.

There will be an award for the best paper presented at the workshop. In addition to the papers selected for oral presentation, there will be a few more papers selected for poster presentation at the workshop. All papers will appear in the workshop proceedings.

Submission Requirements:

A wide range of topics on any area in databases, information retrieval and knowledge management can be presented at this workshop. The areas of interest are similar to those at the CIKM 2008 main conference and can be found on the conference website.

Papers should be maximum 4 pages in length in ACM CIKM format. The Ph.D. student should be the first author on the paper. The student's Ph.D. advisor, committee members and others may be co-authors. Please note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the PIKM workshop.

Important Dates:

Draft papers due: July 5, 2008 Result notification: August 10, 2008 Camera Ready papers due: August 15, 2008

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Aparna Varde, Virginia State University, USA avarde@vsu.edu Prasan Roy, Aster Data Systems, USA prasan.roy@asterdata.com This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP