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LSDS-IR 2008

6th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval

October 30, 2008
Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa: Napa Valley, California, USA
Co-located with CIKM 2008 www.cikm2008.org

http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/LSDS-IR08

AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Due to the dramatically increasing amount of available data, effective
and scalable solutions for data organization and search are essential.
Distributed solutions naturally provide promising alternatives to
standard centralized approaches. With the computational power of
thousands or millions of computers in clusters or P2P systems, the
challenges that arise are manifold, ranging from efficient resource
discovery to load balancing issues and distributed ranking problems.
This workshop will provide space for researchers to discuss these
problems and to define new directions for the work on distributed
information retrieval. We will also encourage submissions of position
papers, experiences, software demonstrations and posters in the area
of distributed information retrieval.

Topics of interest will include, but will not be limited to:

* Novel P2P IR applications/architectures
* Retrieval models for distributed and P2P IR
* Heterogeneous distributed data integration and organization
* Query routing in distributed environments
* Distributed ranking
* Distributed index structures
* Efficiency in distributed and P2P IR
* Scalability of distributed indexing and retrieval
* Multimedia retrieval for distributed and P2P IR
* Distributed indexing and retrieval of dynamic information sources
* Standards / benchmarks for P2P IR
* Grid IR
* Decentralized reputation management
* Distributed data provenance
* Tools for distributed IR

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract and paper submission deadline: July 15, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2008
Camera ready deadline: August 15, 2008 (hard deadline for publication)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers should not exceed 8 pages, double column, including figures,
tables and references in the standard ACM conference format. Papers
have to present original research contributions not concurrently
submitted elsewhere, and must be submitted electronically in printable
PDF format (other formats will be rejected).

Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process by at least three
members of the program committee. Notification and reviews will be
communicated via email.

All workshop proceedings will be printed along with the CIKM
proceedings by ACM. Best papers will be considered for publication on
a special issue of an international journal.

Submission Web site: TBA

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Sebastian Michel, EPFL, Switzerland
Gleb Skobeltsyn, EPFL, Switzerland
Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Ivana Podnar Zarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Roi Blanco, University of A Coruna, Spain
Abdur Chowdhury, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice, Italy
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Diego Puppin, Google, USA
Martin Rajman, EPFL, Switzerland
Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University, USA
Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece
Christos Tryfonopoulos, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece
Ivana Podnar Zarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia