CFP: Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2008

(apologies for multiple postings)

* Second Call For Papers*

*First ACM International Conference on*
*Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2008*
*February 11-12, 2008, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA*

*Abstract deadline: July 30, 2007*
Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD and SIGWEB

WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is a brand new ACM conference  intended to be
complementary to the World Wide Web Conference tracks in search and data
mining.  The pace of innovation in these areas has reached a level that
requires more than one premier annual venue. WSDM invites original, high
quality submissions related to search and data mining on the Web, with an
emphasis on practical but principled novel models, algorithm design and
analysis, economics implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of
accuracy and performance. More details are at http://wsdm2008.org/ .

Topics of interests include but are not limited to the following:

    * Crawling the Web and monitoring change
    * Text indexing, index caching, query processing
    * Search engine architecture
    * Novel query languages
    * Security and privacy in Web search and mining
    * Distributed, meta, and peer-to-peer search
    * Vertical portals and search
    * Ranking and machine learning for ranking
    * Personalized search and ranking
    * User profiling and recommendation systems
    * Multifaceted and task-driven search
    * User activity modeling and exploitation
    * Algorithmic aspects of Web advertising related to sponsored search and
content match
    * Multimedia Web search
    * User interfaces for search interaction
    * Search quality benchmarking and evaluation
    * Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks
    * Summarization, clustering, classification of Web data
    * Wrapper induction
    * Data integration and data cleaning
    * Information extraction, slot-filling
    * Entity and relationship extraction
    * Sense and entity disambiguation
    * Discovery-driven Web and social network mining
    * Web measurements, Web evolution, Web models
    * Traffic and log analysis
    * Site-level and other aggregate analysis
    * Algorithms and systems for Web-scale search and mining

*Paper Format*

Papers must report original research not accepted or under submission to any
journal or conference with public proceedings (previous submissions in
informal workshops or as posters are allowed, but must be indicated). Papers
must be formatted according to ACM guidelines and style
files<http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html>to fit within
10 pages, including diagrams and appendices if any. A
submitted paper must be self-contained. If absolutely necessary, one or two
citations may be flagged as compulsory reading before evaluating the
submission. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM)<http://www.acm.org/>,
and will also be accessible to the general public via the conference Web
site.

*Submissions*

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to the paper submission Web
site<http://www.easychair.org/WSDM2008/>.
PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. After upload, please
check the copy stored on the site. Submissions that do not view or print
properly may be rejected without a chance to rectify the problem.  Please
contact wsdm2008-bC77Qfv0vuxrovVCs/[email protected] for any questions.
*Review Process*

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC members and one or
two senior PC members. Decisions will take into account novelty, technical
depth, elegance, practical application, impact, and presentation.  For some
papers, the PC may ask for clarifications from the authors during an author
feedback phase.

*Important Dates*

Abstract submission - July 30, 2007, 17:00, PDT (24:00 GMT)
Full paper submission - August 6, 2007, 17:00, PDT (24:00 GMT)
Notifications - October 17, 2007
Conference dates - February 11-12, 2008

*Conference location*
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

*Program Committee Co-Chairs*
Andrei Broder (Yahoo!)
Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay)

Senior Program Committee

Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo!
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Google & Technion
Andras Benczur, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Charles Elkan, UCSD
Monika Henzinger, EPFL & Google
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell
Kevin McCurley, Google
Rajeev Motwani, Stanford
Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo!
Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik