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DBRank 2010 : The 4th International Workshop on Ranking in Databases | |||||||||||
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Call for Papers The 4th International Workshop on Ranking in Databases DBRank 2010 In Conjunction with ICDE 2010 March 1st, 2010, Long Beach, California, US http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dbrank/2010/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 20, 2009 Following the success of DBRank 2007, 2008, and 2010 this year DBRank will again be held in conjunction with ICDE 2010. The Fourth International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2010) focuses on the semantics, the modeling and the implementation of ranking and ordering in database systems and applications. In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest in developing effective techniques for ad-hoc search and retrieval in relational XML databases, text and multimedia databases, scientific information systems, biological databases, and so on. In particular, a large number of emerging applications require exploratory querying on such general-purpose or domain-specific databases; examples include users wishing to search bibliographic databases or catalogs of products such as homes, cars, cameras, restaurants, photographs, etc. To address the limitations of the traditional Boolean retrieval model in these emerging ad-hoc search and retrieval applications, Top-k queries and ranking query results are gaining increasing importance. In fact, in many of these applications, ranking is an integral part of the semantics, e.g., keyword search, similarity search in multimedia as well as document databases. The increasing importance of ranking is directly derived from the explosion in the volume of data handled by current applications. The user would be overwhelmed by too many unranked results. Furthermore, the sheer amount of data makes it almost impossible to process queries in the traditional compute-then-sort approach. Hence, ranking comes as a great tool for soliciting user preferences and data exploration. Ranking imposes several challenges for almost all data-centric systems. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: * Ranking relational data * Rank-aware query processing and optimization * New fundamental developments in top-k algorithms * Cost-models for top-k algorithms and operators * User preference specification and query languages * Ranking in Web and XML databases * Ranking in distributed and peer-to-peer databases * Ranking as a data exploration tool * Ranking queries in data streams and continuous monitoring systems * Applications of ranking and top-k retrieval from databases * Ranking multimedia data * Domain-specific ranking * Multidimensional data analysis using ranking tools * Personalized ranking functions * Learning user preferences and ranking functions * Ranking and information extraction ------------- Conference website ------------- http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/dbrank/2010/ ------------- Important Dates (all deadlines are at 5:00pm, Pacific Standard Time) ------------- Paper Submission: November 20, 2009 Author Notification: December 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Version: January 5, 2010 ------------- Program Co-Chairs ------------- Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, New York University Am?lie Marian, Rutgers University ------------- Guest speaker ------------- Alon Halevy, Google Research ------------- Program Committee ------------- Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA Nicolas Bruno, Microsoft Research, USA Kaushik Chakrabarti, Microsoft Research, USA Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Jan Chomicki, University of Buffalo, USA Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Leonidas Fegaras, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Marios Hadjieleftheriou, AT&T, USA Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University, USA Ihab Ilyas, University of Waterloo, Canada Alpa Jain, Yahoo! Labs, USA Werner Kiessling, University of Augsburg, Germany Arnd Christian K?nig, Microsoft Research, USA Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada Chengkai Li, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Heikki Mannila, HIIT, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China Themis Palpanas, University of Trento, Italy Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Martin Theobald, Stanford University, USA Xiaokui Xiao, Cornell University, USA Jun Yang, Duke University, USA Ke Yi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Man-Lung Yiu, Aalborg University, Denmark Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, USA Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia ------------- Steering Committee ------------- Gautan Das, University of Texas at Arlington Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University Ihab F. Ilyas, University of Waterloo --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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