Last CFP: Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval

Apologies for the widespread distribution.

1st Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information
Retrieval (LSDS-IR)
 July 27, 2007 - to be held at ACM SIGIR 2007, Amsterdam

URL: http://www.tel.fer.hr/lsds-ir/


1- Motivation:
The Web is growing and the demand for fast, accurate search grows
accordingly. To fulfill such a demand, information retrieval (IR)
systems have to be capable of accommodating growth as well as
processing a large number of queries. As the volume of data and the
number of users are not trivial, there is a need for investigation on
systems that are truly able to perform well under such conditions.   


2- Scope:
The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers
interested in the design and implementation of IR systems to discuss
ongoing work in the area along with future directions. In particular,
it will focus on scalability and efficiency issues in large-scale
distributed systems for IR. Equally interesting to this venue are
novel applications for large-scale distributed IR architectures.
Applications such as P2P Search and Community-based P2P file sharing
leverage the resources contributed by the participant peers, whereas
in Grid systems applications can potentially use the large amount of
processing capacity available to provide more sophisticated services.
Thus, new paradigms or ways of leveraging all the resources of
large-scale systems are of high interest to this venue.

In more detail, we expect submissions on the following topics:

  - Efficiency and scalability in distributed IR
  - Novel applications for distributed IR architectures
  - P2P IR
  - Retrieval models for distributed IR
  - Heterogeneous distributed data integration and organization
  - Resource selection and query routing
  - Distributed ranking
  - Distributed crawling
  - Multimedia retrieval for distributed IR
  - Indexing and retrieval of dynamic information sources
  - Grid IR


3- Submission:
This venue accepts submissions of position papers (up to 5 pages) and
research papers (up to 8 pages). Submissions must be in English, and
must contain original work. All papers, independent of being a
position or a research paper, must be able to generate discussion
during the workshop, and consequently the PC will favor original and
controversial ideas. The format is ACM (option 2 in
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), and submission
instructions are available at the workshop web site.


4- Workshop format:
The papers accepted for presentation will be assigned a 25 minute
slot, where 20 minutes is allocated for presentation and 5 minutes for
questions. In the end of each session, there will be a 15 minute panel
with the presenters of the session. Workshop proceedings will be
available at the workshop, printed by the SIGIR conference
organization. The workshop organizers are considering a special issue
on a journal after the workshop. 


5- Important dates:
Submission deadline: June 1, 2007
Acceptance notification: June 29, 2007
Camera-ready submission: July 5, 2007


6- Organization:

Main organizers:
Flavio Junqueira, Vassilis Plachouras (Yahoo! Research Barcelona)
Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI-CNR)
Ivana Podnar (University of Zagreb)


Program committee:

Karl Aberer, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research 
Fidel Cacheda, University of A Coruña 
Abdur Chowdhury, Illinois Institute of Technology 
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen 
Ronny Lempel, IBM Research Haifa 
Jie Lu, Carnegie Mellon University 
Massimo Marchiori, University of Padova and UTILABS
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S/University of Hannover 
Gregory Newby, University of Alaska 
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow 
Diego Puppin, Italian National Research Center 
Thomas Risse, L3S/University of Hannover 
Luo Si, Purdue University 
Umberto Straccia, Italian National Research Center 
Christos Tryfonopoulos, Max Planck Institute 
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business 
Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute 
Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University 
Justin Zobel, RMIT University