Call For Papers

We encourage submissions of high quality papers on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Papers that bridge across these areas are of special interest and will be considered for a "Best Interdisciplinary Paper" award. Topics of interest in the three areas include, but are not limited to:

Databases:

Access methods and indexing

Authorization, data privacy and security

Concurrency control and recovery

Data adaptability, reusability and quality

Database languages and models

Information integration, data provenance, probabilistic databases

Mobile databases and distributed data management

Peer-to-peer, parallel and distributed databases

Query processing, optimization and performance

Real-time and active databases

Scientific and biological databases

Semantic Web

Semi-structured data processing, XML filtering and routing

Stream-based processing and network databases

String Databases, Blogs and Social Search

Systems, middleware, applications and experiences

Temporal, spatial and multimedia databases

User experience: languages, models, interfaces

Information Retrieval:

Citation Analysis, Social Networks for IR

Domain-specific IR (e.g., Legal IR, Genome, Mobile IR, IR for chemical structures)

Filtering (e.g., Routing, Collaborative filtering, Topic tracking, Recommender systems)

Foundation of Information Retrieval (e.g., theory, ranking)

IR Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency

IR Evaluation

Language Specific IR (Multi-lingual, Cross-lingual, NLP, Question and Answer)

Machine Learning for IR

Multimedia IR (Audio, Speech, Video, Image)

Semi-Structured Information Retrieval

Distributed IR, Peer to Peer Search

User Modeling for IR, Search Personalization

Web Search, Advertising, Adversarial

Other topics related to IR (Privacy, Spam, Feature Engineering, et. al.)

Knowledge Management:

Advertising and Optimization

Classification and Clustering

Data pre- and post-Processing

Information Extraction

Information Filtering and Recommender Systems

Knowledge Synthesis and Visualization

Large-scale statistical techniques

Link and Graph Mining

Semantic Techniques

Temporal and Spatial data Mining

Text Mining

Industry track:

Industrial Practice and Experience

Technology for Developing Regions

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Paper Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates.

Papers cannot exceed 10 pages in length. While there is no separate short paper/poster submission category, the programm committee will accept some full papers submissions as poster papers.

Uploading instructions and more detailed submission instructions are available on the How to Submit page of this site.

One author per paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper if accepted for publication.

A "Best Interdisciplinary Paper" award will be given to the best paper that bridges at least two of the general areas of interest to the conference, namely databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management.

Industrial Papers

Industry authors are also invited to submit papers describing solutions in the domains addressed by this conference, focusing on the technical aspects of their work. The submission procedure for industrial papers is the same as for research papers.

All accepted papers will be published in the CIKM proceedings, which will be distributed in CD-ROM at the conference. All papers will be indexed in the ACM digital library.

Accepted workshop papers will also be published in the CIKM proceedings, and indexed in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates

Research and Industry Track

Abstracts due: May 27, 2008 Closed

Papers due: June 3, 2008 Closed

Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2008

Camera ready August 15, 2008

Workshops and Tutorials

In addition to research and industry papers, CIKM 2008 is soliciting workshop and tutorial proposals on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management, especially proposals bridging these areas, or presenting new perspectives in these areas. Full details can be found on the call for workshop proposals page and the call for tutorial proposals page, respectively.