CALL FOR PAPERS: PIKM 2007 (PH.D. WORKSHOP IN CIKM 2007)
1st ACM International Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and
Knowledge Management
Lisboa, Portugal, November 9, 2007
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~jpei/PIKMworkshopCFP.htm
The goal of the PIKM workshop is to encourage Ph.D. students to
present their dissertation research at a relatively early stage. The
targeted students are those with a focus in any of the CIKM research
tracks, i.e., databases, information retrieval or knowledge
management. Interdisciplinary work across the three tracks is
particularly encouraged.
It is noticed that a broad range of topics are addressed in CIKM
related to various issues in databases and information systems,
information retrieval and semantic web, knowledge management and data
mining. The CIKM conference with its confluence several research
tracks provides an excellent opportunity for learning about the
latest developments in the respective fields. It provides a good
forum for Ph.D. students to expose their research at an early stage.
Particularly, a workshop in CIKM for Ph.D. students encourages
interdisciplinary studies across the three major fields addressed by
CIKM: databases, information retrieval and knowledge management. This
unique advantage can benefit both the students and the CIKM conference.
This workshop will enable Ph.D. students to present their
dissertation proposals and/or ongoing research on their dissertation
sub-problems. It will give them an opportunity to get feedback on
their early work from researchers worldwide. The reviewers°Ø comments
will help them assess and possibly revise their work. Selected papers
will be published in the workshop proceedings and the respective
authors will give a talk on their dissertation at the workshop. This
will give considerable recognition to the work of the students.
A wide range of topics on any area in databases, information
retrieval and knowledge management can be presented at the PIKM
workshop. The areas of interest are similar to those at the CIKM main
conference and can be found on the CIKM 2007 website http://
www.fc.ul.pt/cikm2007/Call-for-Papers.html
The main idea of this workshop is to present Ph.D. proposals
addressing all parts of the dissertation. However, students could
also submit work on one or more sub-problems of their dissertation.
The papers should address the research issues in their proposal
focusing on the challenges in solving them. They could also include
the proposed techniques to solve the given problems. Preliminary
experimental evaluation may also be included if necessary. However it
should be clear that the work is ongoing.
Papers should be maximum 8 pages in length in ACM CIKM format. The
Ph.D. student should be the first author on the paper. The student°Øs
Ph.D. advisor, committee members and others may be co-authors. Please
note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to
register for the PIKM workshop in order for their paper to be
included in the proceedings. All CIKM 2007 workshop proceedings will
be printed on CD together with the main CIKM proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
Draft Paper Submission: July 23, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2007
Camera Ready Submission: August 31, 2007
Workshop Date: NOVEMBER 9, 2007
Note: All submission deadlines are 9 p.m. Pacific Standard Time
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Aparna Varde Virginia State University, USA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jian Pei Simon Fraser University, Canada, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
STEERING COMMITTEE
Chabane Djerba, University of Science and Technology of Lille, France
Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany
Helena Galhardas, INESC-ID and Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Fatma Bouali, Lille 2 University, France
Ernest Friedman-Hill, Sandia National Labs, USA
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
Sreenivas Gollapudi, Microsoft Search Labs, USA
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University, USA
Andreas Koeller, Oracle Corp., USA
Shuhua Lai, Virginia State University, USA
Pawan Lingras, St. Mary°Øs University, Canada
Bin Liu, Ajia Lighthorse Asset Management Inc., China
Murali Mani, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Amelie Marian, Rutgers University, USA
Florent Masseglia, INRIA, France
Stephen North, AT&T Labs, USA
Prasan Roy, IBM Research, India
Carolina Ruiz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
Li Xiong, Emory University, USA
Helen Yang, Virginia State University, USA
Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Zhongfei Zhang, Binghamton University, USA
HIGHLIGHTS
Keynote: The keynote talk would be focused on topics such as
narrating the experiences of fresh doctorates in their job search and
providing useful information to students during their Ph.D. studies.
It would be useful to Ph.D. students at all levels. They would also
to be useful to the attendees such as the advisors, committee members
and prospective employees of such students.
Panel: This would be an open forum for discussion. The presenting
students would get an opportunity to critique each other. Other
attendees of the workshop would be able to provide useful feedback to
the students. The entire audience would also be encouraged to a hold
group discussion on the latest developments in the fields addressed
at the PIKM workshop.
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Ernest Friedman-Hill
Advanced Software Research Phone: (925) 294-2154
Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234
PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Livermore, CA 94550 http://www.jessrules.com
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