Event:CIKM 2008

The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. An important part of the conference is the Workshops program which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives.

CIKM has a strong tradition of workshops devoted to emerging areas of database management, IR, and related fields. Workshops vary from year to year.

Focus

The topics of interest to the CIKM community include, but are not limited to the following areas:

• Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic modeling
• Development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases
• Automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases (especially raw text)
• Object-oriented DBMS
• Optimization techniques
• Transaction management
• High performance OLTP systems
• Security techniques
• Performance evaluation
• Hypermedia
• Unconventional applications
• Parallel database systems
• Physical and logical database design
• Data and knowledge sharing
• Interchange and interoperability
• Cooperation in heterogeneous systems
• Domain modeling and ontology-building
• Knowledge discovery in databases
• Information storage and retrieval and interface technology
• Concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing
• Digital Libraries
• Multimedia Databases

Program Committee

CIKM 2008 Program Committee by Area

• Database (Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo! Research, USA)
• Information Retrieval (Yi Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
• Knowledge Management (Alek Kolcz, Microsoft Live Labs, USA)
• Industry (Abdur Chowdury, Summize.com, USA)

CIKM 2008 Database

• Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo! Research, USA (Area Chair)
• Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France (Assistant Area Chair)

Meta-reviewers (Track chairs)

• Peter Boncz, CWI, The Netherlands
• Graham Cormode, AT&T Labs, USA
• Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA
• Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece
• Carl-Christian Kanne, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada
• Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Atsuyuki Morishima, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Fatma Ozcan, IBM Almaden, USA
• Wang Chiew Tan, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
• Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University, USA

Program Committee Members

• Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Silvia Abrahao, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Eytan Adar, University of Washington, USA
• Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA
• Reza Akbarinia, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Bernd Amann, LIP6, France
• Yuan An, Drexel University, USA
• Paul Aoki, Intel Research, USA
• Marcelo Arenas, PUC Chile, Chile
• Catriel Beeri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Omar Benjelloun, Google, USA
• Sonia Bergamaschi, Universita di Modena, Italy
• Enrico Bertini, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
• Angela Bonifati, CNR, Italy
• Luc Bouganim, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
• Tiziana Catarci, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
• Chee-Yong Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Kevin C. Chang, University of Illinois, USA
• Yi Chen, Arizona State University, USA
• James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Junghoo (John) Cho, University of California Los Angeles, USA
• Byron Choi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Nilesh Dalvi, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Alexander Dekhtyar, California Polytechnic State University, USA
• Alin Deutsch, University of California San Diego, USA
• Xin (Luna) Dong, AT&T Labs, USA
• Amr El Abbadi, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
• Marcus Fontoura, Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio), Brazil
• Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA
• Benjamin Fung, Concordia University, Canada
• Ariel Fuxman, Microsoft Research, USA
• Helena Galhardas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
• Floris Geerts, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Michael Gertz, University of California at Davis, USA
• Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, USA
• Torsten Grust, Universitat Tubingen, Germany
• Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Jayant Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
• Sven Helmer, Birbeck University of London, UK
• Jan Hidders, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Howard Ho, IBM Almaden, USA
• Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Panagiotis Ipeirotis, New York University, USA
• Zachary Ives, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Grigoris Karvounarakis, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada
• Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Microsoft Research, USA
• Yannis Kotidis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
• Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada
• Georgia Koutrika, Stanford University, USA
• Alberto Laender, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Paul Larson, Microsoft Research, USA
• Kristen LeFevre, University of Michigan, USA
• Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universitat, Germany
• Chen Li, University of California; Irvine, USA
• Feifei Li, Florida State University, USA
• Jie Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, UK
• Jayant Madhavan, Google Inc., USA
• Murali Mani, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Amelie Marian, Rutgers University, USA
• Andrew McGregor, University of California San Diego, USA
• Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
• Gerome Miklau, University of Massachussets, USA
• Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, UK
• Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State University, USA
• Mirella M Moro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Thomas Neumann, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
• Matthias Nicola, IBM Sillicon Valley Lab, USA
• Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Byung-Won On, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Esther Pacitti, INRIA Nantes, France
• Themis Palpanas, University of Trento, Italy
• Stelios Paparizos, Microsoft Research, USA
• Fabio Paterno, CNR-ISTI, Italy
• Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
• Geert Poels, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
• Sriram Raghavan, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
• Maya Ramanath, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
• Arnon Rosenthal, The Mitre Corporation, USA
• Gustavo Rossi, La Plata National University, Argentina
• Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France
• George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome, Italy
• Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Aya Soffer, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
• Ioana Roxana Stanoi, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
• Jimeng Sun, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Dilys Thomas, Oracle, USA
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• Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Agma Traina, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
• Panagiotis Tsaparas, Microsoft Research, USA
• Kristin Tufte, Portland State University, USA
• Jean Vanderdonckt, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy
• Vassilios Verykios, University of Thessaly, Greece
• Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK
• X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA
• Wendy Hui Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
• Yuqing Melanie Wu, Indiana University, USA
• Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
• Man Lung Yiu, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Cong Yu, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Jingren Zhou, Microsoft Research, USA

CIKM 2008 Information Retrieval

• Yi Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA (Area Chair)
• David A. Evans, JustSystems Evans Research, USA (Assistant Area Chair)

Meta-reviewers (Track chairs)

• Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, University of Washington, USA
• Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• David Hawking, Funnelback, Australia
• Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
• Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
• Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, USA
• KL Kwok, City University of New York, USA
• Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Jian-Yun Nie, University de Montreal, Canada
• Jan Pedersen, Yahoo!, USA
• Tetsuya Sakai, NewsWatch, Japan
• Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK
• Luo Si, Purdue University, USA
• Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand

Program Committee Members

• Nasreen AbdulJaleel, Appature Technologies Inc, USA
• Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
• Omar Alonso, A9.com, USA
• Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
• Einat Amitay, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
• Javed Aslam, Northeastern University, USA
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain
• Jing Bai, Yahoo!, USA
• Catherine Blake, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Gloria Bordogna, CNR IDPA, Italy
• Mohand Boughanem, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
• Eric Brown, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Stefan Buettcher, Google, USA
• Pavel Calado, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Fazli Can, Bilkent University, Turkey
• Guihong Cao, University of Montreal, Canada
• David Carmel, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
• Zheng Chen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Francine Chen, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
• Yun Chi, NEC Laboratories America, USA
• Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Francisco Couto, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Byron Dom, Yahoo! Inc., USA
• Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
• Charles Elkan, University of California San Diego, USA
• Alexandre Falcao, State University of Campinas, Brazil
• Weiguo Fan, Virginia Tech, USA
• Li Fan, Yahoo!, USA
• Hui Fang, The Ohio State University, USA
• Ayman Farahat, Admob, USA
• Dennis Fetterly, Microsoft Research, USA
• James French, University of Virginia, USA
• Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University, USA
• Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, USA
• Gregory Grefenstette, CEA LIST, France
• Warren Greiff, MITRE Corporation, USA
• Hui Han, Yahoo!, USA
• Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
• Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Xiaofei He, Zhejiang University, China
• Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg, Germany
• Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• David Hull, Google, USA
• Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
• Rong Jin, Michigan State University, USA
• Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Jaana Kekalainen, University of Tampere, Finland
• Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Irwin King, Chinese University Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Brian Kirkegaard, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark
• Iraklis Klampanos, University of Glasgow, UK
• Jeongwoo Ko, Oracle, USA
• Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA
• Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Oren Kurland, Technion, Israel
• Monica Landoni, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark
• Victor Lavrenko, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Fotis Lazarinis, Technological Educational Institute, Greece
• Guy Lebanon, Purdue University, USA
• Dongwon Lee, Penn State University, USA
• Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA
• Yan Liu, IBM, USA
• Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Jie Lu, IBM, USA
• Lita Lucian, Siemens, USA
• Andrew MacFarlane, City University London, UK
• James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Qiaozhu Mei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy
• Weiyi Meng, SUNY Binghamton; USA, USA
• Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research, UK
• Vibhu Mittal, Google, USA
• Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Josiane Mothe, University Paul Sabatier, France
• Marc Najork, Microsoft Research, USA
• Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
• Arlindo Oliveira, echnical University of Lisbon and INESC, Portugal
• Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
• Benjamin Piwowarski, University of Glasgow, UK
• Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research, Spain
• Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Monica Rogati, LinkedIn, USA
• Stefan Rueger, The Open University, UK
• Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Giovanni Maria Sacco, Universita' di Torino, Italy
• Mehran Sahami, Stanford University, USA
• Klaus Schulz, University of Munich, Germany
• Hinrich Schutze, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Xuehua Shen, Google, USA
• Dou Shen, Microsoft adCenter Labs, USA
• Paraic Sheridan, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Ireland
• Mario J. Gaspar da Silva, University of Lisboa, Portugal
• Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
• Dawei Song, Open University, UK
• Ohm Sornil, NIDA, Thailand
• Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research, USA
• Paul Thompson, Dartmouth College, USA
• Anastasios Tombros, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Daniel Tunkelang, Endeca, USA
• Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Jesus Vilares, University of A Coruna, Spain
• Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
• Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
• Jianqiang Wang, SUNY Buffalo, USA
• Ryen White, Microsoft Research, USA
• Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
• Xiaoyun Wu, Google, USA
• Wensi Xi, Google, USA
• Rong Yan, IBM Research, USA
• Kiduk Yang, Indiana University, USA
• Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
• Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Jeonghee Yi, Yahoo! Inc., USA
• Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Kai Yu, NEC Lab America, USA
• Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Ya Zhang, Yahoo! Inc, USA
• Zhaohui Zheng, Yahoo! Inc, USA
• Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research, China
• Ding Zhou, Facebook, USA
• Shenghuo Zhu, NEC Laboratories America, USA
• Xiaoyan Zhu, Tsinghua University, China
• Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Ricardo da Silva Torres, University of Campinas, Brazil
• Arjen de Vries, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
• Pablo de la Fuente, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
• Zuobing Xu, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

CIKM 2008 Knowledge Management

• Alek Kolcz, Microsoft Live Labs, USA (Area Chair)
• Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea (Assistant Area Chair)

Meta-reviewers (Track chairs)

• Naoki Abe, IBM Research, USA
• Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
• Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Hsin-His Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Dennis Decoste, Microsoft Live Labs, USA
• Ryaid Ghani, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
• Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Joost Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA
• Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Alexander Tuzhilin, Stern School of Business New York University, USA

Program Committee Members

• Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Aijun An, York University, Canada
• Michael Berthold, University of Konstanz, Germany
• Mikhail Bilenko, Microsoft Research, USA
• Jean-Francois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France
• Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Greg Buehrer, Microsoft Live Labs, USA
• Michael Burl, JPL/NASA, USA
• Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
• Rebecca Cathey, BAE Systems, USA
• Edward Chang, Google Research, Cambodia
• Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan Univiersity, Taiwan
• David Cheung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• David Cieslak, Notre Dame, USA
• Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
• Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Ian Davidson, University of California Davis, USA
• Luc De Raedt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Martin Dzbor, Knowledge Media Institute, UK
• Andre Falcao, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Wei Fan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
• George Forman, HP Labs, USA
• Vasco Furtado, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil
• Johannes Furnkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy
• Minos Garofalakis, Yahoo! Research and UC-Berkeley, USA
• Amol Ghoting, IBM Research, USA
• Natalie Glance, Google, USA
• Eric Glover, searchme, USA
• Shantanu Godbole, IBM Research, India
• Nazli Goharian, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Fernando Gomez, University of Central Florida, USA
• Joshua Goodman, Microsoft, USA
• Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Tom Gruber, Active Technologies, USA
• Greg Hamerly, Baylor University, USA
• Otthein Herzog, TZI Universitaet Bremen, Germany
• Wynne Hsu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Live Labs, USA
• Arantza Illarramendi, University of Basque Country, Spain
• Nathalie Japkowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Szymon Jaroszewicz, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
• Rosie Jones, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA
• Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software Inc., USA
• Eamonn Keogh, University of California Riverside, USA
• Adam Kowalczyk, National ICT Australia, Australia
• Stepen Kwek, Microsoft Corp, USA
• Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Ping Li, Cornell University, USA
• Dekang Lin, Google, USA
• Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
• Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA
• Marco Maggini, University of Siena, Italy
• Mark Maloof, Georgetown University, USA
• Stan Matwin, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Prem Melville, IBM Research, USA
• Rosa Meo, University of Torino, Italy
• Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA
• Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Ion Muslea, Language Weaver, USA
• Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville, USA
• Jennifer Neville, Purdue University, USA
• Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
• Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK
• Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas El Paso, USA
• Alexandrin Popescul, Yahoo!, USA
• Katharina Probst, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
• Shyamsudar Rajaram, HP Labs, USA
• Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, USA
• Rajeev Rastogi, Yahoo! Labs Bangalore, India
• Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University, USA
• Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Einoshin Suzuki, Kyushu University, Japan
• Ernest Teniente, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University, USA
• Wei Wang, University of North Carolina, USA
• Haixun Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan
• Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
• Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA
• Jeffrey Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
• Scott Wen-tau Yih, Microsoft Research, USA
• Lei Yu, Binghamton University, USA
• Osmar Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada
• Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Jianping Zhang, MITRE, USA
• Zhongfei Zhang, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
• Elena Zheleva, University of Maryland, USA

CIKM 2008 Industry

• Abdur Chowdury, Summize.com, USA (Area Chair)

Program Committee Members

• Adam Beguelin, Independent, USA
• Steve Beitzel, Telcordia Technologies, USA
• Eric Burger, SIP Forum, USA
• Serg Egelman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Garry Faulkner, Harris Corporation, USA
• Jan Gehrke, University of Bremen, Germany
• David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Jim Jansen, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Eric Jensen, Summize, USA
• Hagen Langer, University of Bremen, Germany
• Greg Linden, Microsoft Live Labs, USA
• Craig Murray, University of Maryland, USA
• Diego Puppin, Google, USA
• Kush SidhuKullabs, Kullabs, USA
• Jianping Zhang, Mitre, USA