P2PSearch 2008

The Second International Workshop on  Peer-to-Peer Computing for Information Search (P2PSearch 2008)

http://admis.fudan.edu.cn/p2psearch08 in conjunction with FGCN 2008 13-15 December, 2008, Hainan Island, China

Following the success of the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing for Information Search (P2PSearch 2007), the Second International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing for Information Search (P2PSearch 2008) will be held in Hainan, China, in conjunction with FGCN 2008.

P2Psearch 2008 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working on P2P based information search (including Web search) from different disciplines. We invite papers that facilitate better understanding of challenges of P2P information search, apply ideas and techniques from different aspects, and propose innovative solutions to those challenges. Papers reporting original research, applications, development of prototypes, industrial experiences, technologies and standards are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Systems and Architectures for P2P Based Web Search * Web Crawling under P2P Environments * Distributed Ranking in P2P Networks * P2P Information Search Systems and Architectures * Models and Query Languages for P2P Information Search * Indexing, Caching and Replication Techniques for P2P Search Systems * Metadata for P2P Information Search * P2P Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery for Information Search * Adaptive P2P Information Search * Mobile P2P Information Search * P2P Multimedia Information Search * Security and Robustness in P2P Information Search * Efficiency and Scalability in Distributed Information Search * P2P Information Retrieval * Heterogeneous Distributed Data Integration and Organization * Resource Selection and Query Routing * Indexing and Retrieval of Dynamic information Sources * Keyword Search over Distributed Databases

Submission

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Papers describing ongoing or completed research and development efforts are sought. Submissions must not exceed 6 pages and the paper must follow IEEE conference format. Interested authors should electronically submit a PDF file of the paper through the FGCN 2008 Online Submission System (http://submission.sersc.org/P2PSearch2008/).

Publication

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All accepted papers in P2PSearch will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), included in IEEEXplore database and indexed by EI.

Important Dates

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Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 2008 Camera Ready Papers Due: September 20, 2008 Workshop: December 13, 2008

Workshop Chairs

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Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China) Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)

Program Committee Members (tentative)

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Yafei Dai (Peking University, China) Guihai Chen (Nanjing University, China) Jianhua Feng (Tsinghua University, China) Jihong Guan (Tongji University, China) Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan) Haibo Hu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China) Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) Yuh-Jzer Joung (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Dik Lun Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Wang-Chien Lee (Penn State University, USA) Dongsheng Li (National University of Defense Technology, China) Anirban Mondal (University of Tokyo, Japan) Weining Qian (Fudan University, China) Lidan Shou (Zhejiang University, China) Xueyan Tang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Guoren Wang (Northeastern University, China) Dan Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Linhao Xu (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Demetris Zeinalipour-Yazti (Open University of Cyprus) This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP