LSDS-IR 2008: accepted papers and call for participation

"Gleb Skobeltsyn" <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:31:18 -0000
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LSDS-IR 2008: 6th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for
Information Retrieval
http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/LSDS-IR08

October 30, 2008
Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa: Napa Valley, California, USA
Co-located with CIKM 2008 http://www.cikm2008.org

Tentative program:

Keynote:=20=20=20=20=20=20

Title: "Search Engine Architectures from Conventional to P2P".
Speaker: Torsten Suel (Polytechnic University, USA)

Accepted papers:

Propagation-Vectors for Trees (PVT): Concise yet Effective Summaries
for Hierarchical Data and Trees. Venkata S. Cherukuri, K. Selcuk
Candan (Arizona State University, USA)

Routing of Structured Queries in Large-Scale Distributed Systems.
Judith Winter (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)

Cost-Effective Spam Detection in P2P File-Sharing Systems. Dongmei Jia
(Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA)

Managing Collaborative Feedback Information for Distributed Retrieval.
Pascal Felber, Toan Luu, Martin Rajman, =C9tienne Rivi=E8re (Universit=E9 d=
e
Neuch=E2tel / EPFL, Switzerland)

Peer-to-Peer Similarity Search over Widely Distributed Document
Collections. Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N=F8rv=E5g, Michalis
Vazirgiannis (AUEB, Greece / NTNU, Norway)

A Metric Cache for Similarity Search. Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio
Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fausto Rabitti (ISTI-CNR
Pisa / Universita di Venezia, Italy)

Building Self-Organized Image Retrieval Network. Stanislav Barton,
Vlastislav Dohnal, Jan Sedmidubsky, Pavel Zezula (Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic)

A Measure for Cluster Cohesion in Semantic Overlay Networks. Paraskevi
Raftopoulou, Euripides G.M. Petrakis (Max-Planck Institute for
Informatics, Germany / Technical University of Crete, Greece)

Integral based Source Selection for uncooperative Distributed
Information Retrieval environments. Georgios Paltoglou, Michail
Salampasis, Maria Satratzemi (University of Macedonia / ATEI,
Thessaloniki, Greece)

Ranking Information Resources in Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval: an
Experimental Study. Hans Witschel (University of Leipzig, Germany)

More information is available at http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/LSDS-IR08.



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            <p>LSDS-IR 2008: 6th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed System=
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Information Retrieval<br>
<a href=3D"http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/LSDS-IR08">http://lsirwww.<wbr>epfl.ch/LS=
DS-<wbr>IR08</a><br>
<br>
October 30, 2008<br>
Napa Valley Marriott Hotel &amp; Spa: Napa Valley, California, USA<br>
Co-located with CIKM 2008 <a href=3D"http://www.cikm2008.org">http://www.ci=
km2008<wbr>.org</a><br>
<br>
Tentative program:<br>
<br>
Keynote:      <br>
<br>
Title: &quot;Search Engine Architectures from Conventional to P2P&quot;.<br=
>
Speaker: Torsten Suel (Polytechnic University, USA)<br>
<br>
Accepted papers:<br>
<br>
Propagation-<wbr>Vectors for Trees (PVT): Concise yet Effective Summaries<b=
r>
for Hierarchical Data and Trees. Venkata S. Cherukuri, K. Selcuk<br>
Candan (Arizona State University, USA)<br>
<br>
Routing of Structured Queries in Large-Scale Distributed Systems.<br>
Judith Winter (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)<br>
<br>
Cost-Effective Spam Detection in P2P File-Sharing Systems. Dongmei Jia<br>
(Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA)<br>
<br>
Managing Collaborative Feedback Information for Distributed Retrieval.<br>
Pascal Felber, Toan Luu, Martin Rajman, =C9tienne Rivi=E8re (Universit=E9 d=
e<br>
Neuch=E2tel / EPFL, Switzerland)<br>
<br>
Peer-to-Peer Similarity Search over Widely Distributed Document<br>
Collections. Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N=F8rv=E5g, Michalis<br>
Vazirgiannis (AUEB, Greece / NTNU, Norway)<br>
<br>
A Metric Cache for Similarity Search. Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio<br>
Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fausto Rabitti (ISTI-CNR<br>
Pisa / Universita di Venezia, Italy)<br>
<br>
Building Self-Organized Image Retrieval Network. Stanislav Barton,<br>
Vlastislav Dohnal, Jan Sedmidubsky, Pavel Zezula (Masaryk University,<br>
Brno, Czech Republic)<br>
<br>
A Measure for Cluster Cohesion in Semantic Overlay Networks. Paraskevi<br>
Raftopoulou, Euripides G.M. Petrakis (Max-Planck Institute for<br>
Informatics, Germany / Technical University of Crete, Greece)<br>
<br>
Integral based Source Selection for uncooperative Distributed<br>
Information Retrieval environments. Georgios Paltoglou, Michail<br>
Salampasis, Maria Satratzemi (University of Macedonia / ATEI,<br>
Thessaloniki, Greece)<br>
<br>
Ranking Information Resources in Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval: an<br>
Experimental Study. Hans Witschel (University of Leipzig, Germany)<br>
<br>
More information is available at <a href=3D"http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/LSDS-IR0=
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