CIKM 2008

CIKM 2008
Conference on Information and Knowledge Mining
Event in series	CIKM
Dates	Oct 26, 2008 (iCal) - Oct 30, 2008
Homepage:	www.cikm2008.org
Location
Location:	Napa Valley, CA, USA
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Important dates
Abstracts:	May 27, 2008
Submissions:	Jun 3, 2008
Notification:	Jul 15, 2008
Subevents: DOLAP 2008
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The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. An important part of the conference is the Workshops program which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives.

CIKM has a strong tradition of workshops devoted to emerging areas of database management, IR, and related fields. Workshops vary from year to year.

Focus

The topics of interest to the CIKM community include, but are not limited to the following areas:

• Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic modeling
• Development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases
• Automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases (especially raw text)
• Object-oriented DBMS
• Optimization techniques
• Transaction management
• High performance OLTP systems
• Security techniques
• Performance evaluation
• Hypermedia
• Unconventional applications
• Parallel database systems
• Physical and logical database design
• Data and knowledge sharing
• Interchange and interoperability
• Cooperation in heterogeneous systems
• Domain modeling and ontology-building
• Knowledge discovery in databases
• Information storage and retrieval and interface technology
• Concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing
• Digital Libraries
• Multimedia Databases

Program Committee

CIKM 2008 Program Committee by Area

• Database (Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo! Research, USA)
• Information Retrieval (Yi Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
• Knowledge Management (Alek Kolcz, Microsoft Live Labs, USA)
• Industry (Abdur Chowdury, Summize.com, USA)

CIKM 2008 Database

• Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo! Research, USA (Area Chair)

Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France (Assistant Area Chair)

Meta-reviewers (Track chairs)

Peter Boncz, CWI, The Netherlands Graham Cormode, AT&T Labs, USA Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece Carl-Christian Kanne, University of Mannheim, Germany Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Atsuyuki Morishima, University of Tsukuba, Japan Fatma Ozcan, IBM Almaden, USA Wang Chiew Tan, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University, USA

Program Committee Members

Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Waterloo, Canada Silvia Abrahao, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Eytan Adar, University of Washington, USA Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Reza Akbarinia, University of Waterloo, Canada Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Bernd Amann, LIP6, France Yuan An, Drexel University, USA Paul Aoki, Intel Research, USA Marcelo Arenas, PUC Chile, Chile Catriel Beeri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Omar Benjelloun, Google, USA Sonia Bergamaschi, Universita di Modena, Italy Enrico Bertini, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Angela Bonifati, CNR, Italy Luc Bouganim, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Tiziana Catarci, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Chee-Yong Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Kevin C. Chang, University of Illinois, USA Yi Chen, Arizona State University, USA ames Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK Junghoo (John) Cho, University of California Los Angeles, USA Byron Choi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Nilesh Dalvi, Yahoo! Research, USA Alexander Dekhtyar, California Polytechnic State University, USA Alin Deutsch, University of California San Diego, USA Xin (Luna) Dong, AT&T Labs, USA Amr El Abbadi, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Marcus Fontoura, Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio), Brazil Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA Benjamin Fung, Concordia University, Canada Ariel Fuxman, Microsoft Research, USA Helena Galhardas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Floris Geerts, University of Edinburgh, UK Michael Gertz, University of California at Davis, USA Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, USA Torsten Grust, Universitat Tubingen, Germany Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Chile Jayant Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India Sven Helmer, Birbeck University of London, UK Jan Hidders, University of Antwerp, Belgium Howard Ho, IBM Almaden, USA Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Panagiotis Ipeirotis, New York University, USA Zachary Ives, University of Pennsylvania, USA Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo! Research, USA Grigoris Karvounarakis, University of Pennsylvania, USA Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Microsoft Research, USA Yannis Kotidis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada Georgia Koutrika, Stanford University, USA Alberto Laender, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Paul Larson, Microsoft Research, USA Kristen LeFevre, University of Michigan, USA Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universitat, Germany Chen Li, University of California; Irvine, USA Feifei Li, Florida State University, USA Jie Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, UK Jayant Madhavan, Google Inc., USA Murali Mani, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Amelie Marian, Rutgers University, USA Andrew McGregor, University of California San Diego, USA Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Gerome Miklau, University of Massachussets, USA Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, UK Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State University, USA Mirella M Moro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Thomas Neumann, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Matthias Nicola, IBM Sillicon Valley Lab, USA Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Byung-Won On, University of British Columbia, Canada Esther Pacitti, INRIA Nantes, France Themis Palpanas, University of Trento, Italy Stelios Paparizos, Microsoft Research, USA Fabio Paterno, CNR-ISTI, Italy Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Geert Poels, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Sriram Raghavan, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Maya Ramanath, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Arnon Rosenthal, The Mitre Corporation, USA Gustavo Rossi, La Plata National University, Argentina Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome, Italy Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Yahoo! Research, USA Aya Soffer, IBM Research Haifa, Israel Ioana Roxana Stanoi, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Jimeng Sun, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne, Australia Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Dilys Thomas, Oracle, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada Agma Traina, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil Panagiotis Tsaparas, Microsoft Research, USA Kristin Tufte, Portland State University, USA Jean Vanderdonckt, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Vassilios Verykios, University of Thessaly, Greece Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA Wendy Hui Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yuqing Melanie Wu, Indiana University, USA Jun Yang, Duke University, USA Man Lung Yiu, Aalborg University, Denmark Cong Yu, Yahoo! Research, USA Jingren Zhou, Microsoft Research, USA

CIKM 2008 Information Retrieval

Yi Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA (Area Chair) David A. Evans, JustSystems Evans Research, USA (Assistant Area Chair)

Meta-reviewers (Track chairs)

Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, University of Washington, USA Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA David Hawking, Funnelback, Australia Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, USA KL Kwok, City University of New York, USA Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China Jian-Yun Nie, University de Montreal, Canada Jan Pedersen, Yahoo!, USA Tetsuya Sakai, NewsWatch, Japan Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK Luo Si, Purdue University, USA Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand

Program Committee Members

Nasreen AbdulJaleel, Appature Technologies Inc, USA Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy Omar Alonso, A9.com, USA Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy Einat Amitay, IBM Research Haifa, Israel Javed Aslam, Northeastern University, USA Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain Jing Bai, Yahoo!, USA Catherine Blake, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Gloria Bordogna, CNR IDPA, Italy Mohand Boughanem, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Eric Brown, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefan Buettcher, Google, USA Pavel Calado, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Fazli Can, Bilkent University, Turkey Guihong Cao, University of Montreal, Canada David Carmel, IBM Research Haifa, Israel Zheng Chen, Microsoft Research Asia, China Francine Chen, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Yun Chi, NEC Laboratories America, USA Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Francisco Couto, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Byron Dom, Yahoo! Inc., USA Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA Charles Elkan, University of California San Diego, USA Alexandre Falcao, State University of Campinas, Brazil Weiguo Fan, Virginia Tech, USA Li Fan, Yahoo!, USA Hui Fang, The Ohio State University, USA Ayman Farahat, Admob, USA Dennis Fetterly, Microsoft Research, USA James French, University of Virginia, USA Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University, USA Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research, USA Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, USA Gregory Grefenstette, CEA LIST, France Warren Greiff, MITRE Corporation, USA Hui Han, Yahoo!, USA Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh, USA Xiaofei He, Zhejiang University, China Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg, Germany Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands David Hull, Google, USA Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University, USA Rong Jin, Michigan State University, USA Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland Jaana Kekalainen, University of Tampere, Finland Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Irwin King, Chinese University Hong Kong, Hong Kong Brian Kirkegaard, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark Iraklis Klampanos, University of Glasgow, UK Jeongwoo Ko, Oracle, USA Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research, USA Oren Kurland, Technion, Israel Monica Landoni, University of Lugano, Switzerland Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark Victor Lavrenko, University of Edinburgh, UK Fotis Lazarinis, Technological Educational Institute, Greece Guy Lebanon, Purdue University, USA Dongwon Lee, Penn State University, USA Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA Yan Liu, IBM, USA Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia, China Jie Lu, IBM, USA Lita Lucian, Siemens, USA Andrew MacFarlane, City University London, UK James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University, USA Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University, USA Qiaozhu Mei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy Weiyi Meng, SUNY Binghamton; USA, USA Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research, UK Vibhu Mittal, Google, USA Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia Josiane Mothe, University Paul Sabatier, France Marc Najork, Microsoft Research, USA Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Arlindo Oliveira, echnical University of Lisbon and INESC, Portugal Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research, USA Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Benjamin Piwowarski, University of Glasgow, UK Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research, Spain Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Canada Monica Rogati, LinkedIn, USA Stefan Rueger, The Open University, UK Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK Giovanni Maria Sacco, Universita' di Torino, Italy Mehran Sahami, Stanford University, USA Klaus Schulz, University of Munich, Germany Hinrich Schutze, University of Stuttgart, Germany Xuehua Shen, Google, USA Dou Shen, Microsoft adCenter Labs, USA Paraic Sheridan, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Ireland Mario J. Gaspar da Silva, University of Lisboa, Portugal Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Dawei Song, Open University, UK Ohm Sornil, NIDA, Thailand Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research, USA Paul Thompson, Dartmouth College, USA Anastasios Tombros, Queen Mary University of London, UK Daniel Tunkelang, Endeca, USA Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Jesus Vilares, University of A Coruna, Spain Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA Jianqiang Wang, SUNY Buffalo, USA Ryen White, Microsoft Research, USA Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia Xiaoyun Wu, Google, USA Wensi Xi, Google, USA Rong Yan, IBM Research, USA Kiduk Yang, Indiana University, USA Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jeonghee Yi, Yahoo! Inc., USA Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Kai Yu, NEC Lab America, USA Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ya Zhang, Yahoo! Inc, USA Zhaohui Zheng, Yahoo! Inc, USA Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research, China Ding Zhou, Facebook, USA Shenghuo Zhu, NEC Laboratories America, USA Xiaoyan Zhu, Tsinghua University, China Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Ricardo da Silva Torres, University of Campinas, Brazil Arjen de Vries, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands Pablo de la Fuente, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain Zuobing Xu, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

CIKM 2008 Knowledge Management

Alek Kolcz, Microsoft Live Labs, USA (Area Chair) Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea (Assistant Area Chair)

Meta-reviewers (Track chairs)

Naoki Abe, IBM Research, USA Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA Hsin-His Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Dennis Decoste, Microsoft Live Labs, USA Ryaid Ghani, Accenture Technology Labs, USA Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Joost Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China Alexander Tuzhilin, Stern School of Business New York University, USA

Program Committee Members

Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Aijun An, York University, Canada Michael Berthold, University of Konstanz, Germany Mikhail Bilenko, Microsoft Research, USA Jean-Francois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA Greg Buehrer, Microsoft Live Labs, USA Michael Burl, JPL/NASA, USA Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Rebecca Cathey, BAE Systems, USA Edward Chang, Google Research, Cambodia Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan Univiersity, Taiwan David Cheung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong David Cieslak, Notre Dame, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Ian Davidson, University of California Davis, USA Luc De Raedt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Martin Dzbor, Knowledge Media Institute, UK Andre Falcao, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Wei Fan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA George Forman, HP Labs, USA Vasco Furtado, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil Johannes Furnkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy Minos Garofalakis, Yahoo! Research and UC-Berkeley, USA Amol Ghoting, IBM Research, USA Natalie Glance, Google, USA Eric Glover, searchme, USA Shantanu Godbole, IBM Research, India Nazli Goharian, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Fernando Gomez, University of Central Florida, USA Joshua Goodman, Microsoft, USA Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Tom Gruber, Active Technologies, USA Greg Hamerly, Baylor University, USA Otthein Herzog, TZI Universitaet Bremen, Germany Wynne Hsu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Live Labs, USA Arantza Illarramendi, University of Basque Country, Spain Nathalie Japkowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada Szymon Jaroszewicz, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland Rosie Jones, Yahoo! Research, USA Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software Inc., USA Eamonn Keogh, University of California Riverside, USA Adam Kowalczyk, National ICT Australia, Australia Stepen Kwek, Microsoft Corp, USA Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China Ping Li, Cornell University, USA Dekang Lin, Google, USA Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia, China Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA Marco Maggini, University of Siena, Italy Mark Maloof, Georgetown University, USA Stan Matwin, University of Ottawa, Canada Prem Melville, IBM Research, USA Rosa Meo, University of Torino, Italy Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo, Japan Ion Muslea, Language Weaver, USA Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville, USA Jennifer Neville, Purdue University, USA Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas El Paso, USA Alexandrin Popescul, Yahoo!, USA Katharina Probst, Accenture Technology Labs, USA Shyamsudar Rajaram, HP Labs, USA Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, USA Rajeev Rastogi, Yahoo! Labs Bangalore, India Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University, USA Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Einoshin Suzuki, Kyushu University, Japan Ernest Teniente, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University, USA Wei Wang, University of North Carolina, USA Haixun Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA Jeffrey Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Scott Wen-tau Yih, Microsoft Research, USA Lei Yu, Binghamton University, USA Osmar Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Jianping Zhang, MITRE, USA Zhongfei Zhang, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Elena Zheleva, University of Maryland, USA

CIKM 2008 Industry

Abdur Chowdury, Summize.com, USA (Area Chair)

Program Committee Members

Adam Beguelin, Independent, USA Steve Beitzel, Telcordia Technologies, USA Eric Burger, SIP Forum, USA Serg Egelman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Garry Faulkner, Harris Corporation, USA Jan Gehrke, University of Bremen, Germany David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jim Jansen, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Eric Jensen, Summize, USA Hagen Langer, University of Bremen, Germany Greg Linden, Microsoft Live Labs, USA Craig Murray, University of Maryland, USA Diego Puppin, Google, USA Kush SidhuKullabs, Kullabs, USA Jianping Zhang, Mitre, USA