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CALL FOR INDUSTRY-TRACK PAPERS
The 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ACM CIKM 2010 Toronto, Canada, October 26-30, 2010 http://www.yorku.ca/cikm10 Sponsored by: ACM SIGIR, SIGWEB and SIGKDD #############################################################################

The Industry Track of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010) will bring together researchers and practitioners, providing a venue to showcase successful and innovative use of information and knowledge management technologies by industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Industry track papers may also serve to raise awareness of practical challenges and issues in applying research to real-world settings. Examples include, but are not limited to, scalability, efficiency, privacy, and ease of use or accessibility.

Industry-track authors are invited to submit original, technically-focused papers describing solutions, research issues, or case studies in any area of interest to the CIKM community. The submission procedure for industrial track papers is the same as for research track papers. Submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and chosen competitively, with accepted papers being selected for oral presentation.

Please submit your paper electronically, following instructions at the link:
http://www.yorku.ca/cikm10/how_to_submit.php

The due date for registering an initial abstract is **Thursday May 27, 2010** and the final paper is due one week later, on **Thursday June 3, 2010**.

Examples of application areas include, but are not limited to:

* Business intelligence and data warehousing
* Web search and advertising
* Technology for developing regions
* Mobile and wireless applications
* Health informatics
* Social media

Also welcome are analysis-oriented papers, such as:

* Case studies showing measurable benefits of deploying information/KM systems,
or comparative studies between systems
* Analysis of proprietary datasets
* Descriptions of important research problems from an industrial, government,
or non-profit organization perspective
* Studies highlighting practical issues that are key to successful applications,
including scalability, efficiency, privacy, security, ease of use/accessibility
and other challenges.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at the CIKM 2010 Conference and Industry Track!

Kevyn Collins-Thompson
CIKM 2010 Industry Track Chair

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Important Dates
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Abstracts due: ** May 27, 2010 **
Papers due: ** June 3, 2010 **
Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2010
Camera ready due: August 15, 2010
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Submission Process
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The submission procedure for industry papers is the same as for research papers.
For details about on-line submission guidelines and process, please visit:

http://www.yorku.ca/cikm10/how_to_submit.php

Industry authors are invited to submit papers describing solutions in domains addressed by this conference, focusing on the technical aspects of their work.
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.

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CIKM 2010 Industry Track Program Committee #############################################################################
CONTACT: Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research, USA (Chair)
Email: kevynct@microsoft.com

Steve Beitzel, Telcordia Technologies, USA Jidong Chen, EMC Research, China Nikesh Garera, Kosmix, USA David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Yoshinori Hara, Kyoto University, Japan Arvind Hulgeri, Persistent Systems, India Mizuho Iwaihara, Waseda University, Japan Giridhar Kumaran, Microsoft Corporation, USA Jonathan Ledlie, Nokia Research, USA Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Wen-Syan Li, SAP China Yan Liu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Einat Minkov, University of Haifa, Israel Sudarshan Murthy, Wipro Technologies, India Paul Ogilvie, m-Spoke, Inc., USA Fuchun Peng, Yahoo! Labs, USA Diego Puppin, Google, USA Prasan Roy, IBM Research, India Robert Warren, University of Zurich, Switzerland #############################################################################
Background on CIKM 2010
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The 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2010) will be held from October 26 to 30, 2010 in Toronto,Canada.
Since 1992, CIKM has established itself as a top-tier and premier conference in the areas of information retrieval, knowledge management and database, and has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the three 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 2010, we will continue the tradition of promoting collaboration among multiple areas. 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 (sponsored by Google). The graduate students travel awards will be sponsored by Microsoft.

For topics of interest, please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/cikm10/themes.php
For CFP in the PDF version, please download at:
http://www.yorku.ca/cikm10/cikm10-cfp.pdf