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
• tring 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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum.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. A selected number of accepted papers will be invited to submit expanded versions for publications in the Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) Journal, published by Springer-Verlag.

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, 2010
• Papers due: June 3, 2010
• Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2010
• Camera ready: August 15, 2010

Workshops and Tutorials

In addition to research and industry papers, CIKM 2010 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