CFP - Workshop on efficiency issues in information retrieval

(apologies for cross-postings)
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1st workshop on Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval
in conjunction with
ECIR'08 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval

March 30, Glasgow UK

http://irlab.dc.fi.udc.es/ecir/
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Deadline for submissions January 25, 2008

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The workshop will be held during ECIR'08 in Glasgow (UK).


The call for papers aims at original high-quality presentations
dealing with typical and new efficiency issues in IR. Some of the
topics of the accepted contributions would include, but are not
limited to:

 * exploiting compression in traditional/web IR systems,
 * multi-core architectures for efficient traditional/web IR,
 * caching for fast query processing,
 * static/dynamic pruning for efficient traditional/web IR systems,
 * efficient dynamic indexing,
 * efficient filtering,
 * load balancing,
 * fast auto-completion,
 * tolerant retrieval,
 * scalable search in P2P architectures,
 * efficient multimedia IR,
 * scalable routing in distributed architectures,
 * parallel and distributed techniques for IR.

The organisers will also conduct a guided discussion among all the
participants regarding to future trends in scalability of search
engines and new architectures, and the transferability of the research
results to a full production real environment. A discussion panel of
selected experts in the field will also be held. We are planning to
consider a selection of the best accepted papers for publication on an
special issue.

IMPORTANT DATES

 * Jan 25: Paper submission deadline
 * Feb 25: Notification to authors
 * March 10: Camera-ready Copies of Papers to be received by the
Workshop Organisers
 * March 30: Workshop

More information on the workshop's website: http://irlab.dc.fi.udc.es/ecir/

ORGANISERS
     Roi Blanco (University of A Coruña)
     Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)

 Program Committee:

   * Ranieri Baraglia - ISTI/CNR
   * Alvaro Barreiro - University of A Coruña
   * Fidel Cacheda - University of A Coruña
   * Massimo Coppola - ISTI/CNR
   * Aristides Gionis - Yahoo! Research, Barcelona
   * Antonio Gulli - Ask.com
   * Jie Lu - IBM Research
   * Raffaele Perego - ISTI/CNR
   * Ivana Podnar Zarko - FER, University of Zagreb
   * Christos Tryfonopoulos - Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
   * Hugh Williams - Microsoft Corporation
   * Justin Zobel - NICTA, Australia