Call for Participation

ACM Seventeenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM 2008

October 26-30, 2008, Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa, California, USA.

Corporate supporters
Keynote speakers
Conference Themes
Registration and Hotel
Important Dates
Papers and posters
Industry Event, Workshops, Tutorials
Student travel support
Information about hotel, travel, and Napa Valley
Organizing Committee
Future CIKMs (2009, 2010)

Corporate Supporters

Gold: Information Retrieval Facility, Microsoft, SearchMe.com

Silver: Advertising.com, Ask.com, eBay Research Labs, Yahoo! Research

Bronze: A9.com, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Exalead.com, Justsystems Evans Research, LinkedIn, UMBC

Video Supporter: Videolectures.net

Book exhibits: Springer, Cambridge University Press

Supported by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGWEB

Keynote Speakers

Databases: Rakesh Agrawal (Microsoft Search Labs, USA)

Information Retrieval: Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

Knowledge Management: Pedro Domingos (University of Washington, USA)

Conference Themes

Since 1992, the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. In CIKM 2008, we will continue the tradition of promoting collaboration among multiple areas. CIKM 2008 topics are in the broad areas of Databases, Information Retrieval, and Knowledge Management. CIKM 2008 also includes an Industry track.

Registration and Hotel

Registration has opened.

October is peak season in Napa. That combined with several other major events will lead to a a high hotel occupancy rate. To ensure that your accommodation is secured, we strongly encourage you to complete your reservation before August 25, 2008 in order to enjoy the special rate. For more details on this, see the location information page.

Important Dates

Registration opens July 30, 2008
Early registration ends: August 22, 2008 (until 11:59 PM East Coast Time 8/22/2008)
Tutorial Day: October 26, 2008
Conference: October {27, 28, 29} 2008
Workshops: October 30, 2008 (and part of October 29)

Paper Acceptance Rates

The top 17% of submitted papers were accepted for full paper presentations. Here is a breakdown by area for both papers and posters:

Area	Papers Accepted	Posters Accepted

Information Retrieval	58	54
Knowledge Management	45	41
Databases	24	24
Industry	5	4
Overall	131	124
Acceptance	17%	16%

Overall number of submissions: 772 The full lists of accepted papers and posters.

Industry Day

Co-organized by Marius Pasca (Google, USA) and James G. Shanahan (Church and Duncan Group, USA)

As CIKM 2008 will be held in Napa Valley, just one hour to the north of San Francisco, one of the goals of the conference is to embrace the innovative spirit of the Bay Area/Silicon Valley in bridging further the academic-commercial gap in the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. To help achieve this goal, we will having an industry day (separate from the industry research track) where luminaries, primarily from industry and from the VC (Venture Capital) community, will provide insights on how DB/IR/KM technologies are/can be leveraged to make a billion-dollar success.

Confirmed speakers and panelists include:

Andrei Z. Broder (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Steven Gary Blank (Stanford University, USA)
Christopher J. C. Burges (Microsoft Research, USA)
Doug Cutting (Yahoo!, USA)
Omar Hamoui (AdMob, USA)
Ronny Kohavi (Microsoft, USA)
Peter Norvig (Google, USA)
Daniel E. Rose (A9.com, USA)
Peter Rip (Crosslink Capital, USA)

Workshops

BooksOnline 2008 - Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories
DOLAP 2008 - ACM Eleventh International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP
DTMBIO 2008 - ACM Second International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics
iNEWS 2008 - Improving Non English Web Searching
GIR 2008 - Fifth Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval
LSDS-IR 2008 - Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval
ONISW 2008 - 2nd International Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web
PaIR 2008 - Patent Information Retrieval
PIKM 2008 - PhD Workshop
SSM 2008 - Search in Social Media
WICOW 2008 - Second Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web
WIDM 2008 - Tenth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management

Tutorials

Algorithmic Challenges in Online Advertising, Deepak Agarwal and Deepayan Chakrabarti
Data Stream Query Processing, Divesh Srivastava
Electronic Contract Systems: Background and Research Challenges, Kamalakar Karlapalem and P. Radha Krishna
Evolution of Rule-based Information Extraction: from Grammars to Algebra, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Sriram Raghavan and Huaiyu Zhu
Information and Knowledge Management with Graphs and Matrices, Fei Wang, Tao Li and Chris Ding
Large Array Databases: Prospects and Challenges, Peter Baumann
Large Graph Mining: Patterns, Tools, and Case Studies, Christos Faloutsos and Hanghang Tong
Log-Linear Models and Conditional Random Fields, Charles Elkan
Machine Learning for Information Retrieval, Rong Jin and Yi Zhang
Matrix and Tensor Models for Information Retrieval, Ajit Paul Singh and Geoffrey Gordon
Process Mining: Beyond Business Intelligence, Wil van der Aalst
Virtualization and Databases: State of the Art and Challenges, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Christiana Amza and Kenneth Salem
Web Evolution: Models, Methods, and Mining, Sourav S Bhowmick and Qiankun Zhao
Web search log analysis and user behavior modeling, Peiling Wang and Lei Wu

Student Travel Support

CIKM invites applications for awards to help cover the cost of travel, subsistence, and registration to CIKM 2008 for students. Click here for details.

Hotel Information

CIKM 2008 will take place at the Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa, 3425 Solano Avenue, Napa, CA 94558. As the conference will take place during peak season it is advisable to MAKE A HOTEL RESERVATION IMMEDIATELY. Information about the hotel and booking.

Travel Information

Travel information.

Napa Valley

Napa Valley recreational opportunities abound. Whether you are interested in the most athletic of activities or your pursuits are more leisurely, there is plenty to be found in Napa County.

Organizers

Conference Chair: James G. Shanahan (Church and Duncan Group, USA)
Database Area Chair: Sihem Amer-Yahia (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Information Retrieval Area Chair: Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Knowledge Management Area Chair: Alek Kolcz (Microsoft Live Labs, USA)
Industry Chair: Abdur Chowdury (Summize.com, USA)
Proceedings Chair: Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina, USA)
Tutorials Chair: Neel Sundaresan (eBay Research Labs, USA)
Workshops Chair: Gregory Grefenstette (CEA LIST, France)
Treasurer: Ryen W. White (Microsoft Research)
Local Area Chair: Goutham Kurra (Turn Inc, USA)
Sponsorship Chair: Yan Qu (Advertising.com, USA)
PR Chair: Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Web Master: Disco Gerdes (Twinnov Web Development)

Program Committee

The of meta-reviewers and program committee members for all areas.

Contact

info {at} cikm2008 {dot} org

Future CIKMs

For more details see: CIKMconference.org

CIKM 2009
Beijing, China, October 27-31, 2009
General Chairs
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
Wei Li, Beihang University, China
Email: "Il Yeol Song" songiy___at___drexel.edu

CIKM 2010
Toronto, Canada, October 25-29, 2010
General Chair, Jimmy Huang, University of York, Canada
Email: "Jimmy Huang" jhuang___at__yorku.ca