CIKM 2003

ACM CIKM 2003 Call For Papers

12th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'03) 

November, 2-8 2003

Hotel Inter-Continental
New Orleans, LA, USA

Web site: http://www.cikm.org/2003 

Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS (pending approval) 

Since 1992, CIKM has brought together leading researchers and developers from 
several areas of information and knowledge management, database management 
systems (DBMS) and information retrieval (IR). We continue this tradition of 
collaboration between information and knowledge management. Only the highest 
caliber papers submitted to CIKM 2003 will be accepted. 

We have a special interest in papers that bridge the areas of databases and 
information retrieval. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: 

Data and Knowledge Sharing      
Interactive Data Exploration
Data Mining     
Intelligent Information Systems 
Knowledge Discovery     
Information Filtering and Summarization
IR Effectiveness and Efficiency 
Information Visualization
Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data    
Information Classification
Data Warehouses 
Intelligent Mediators
OLAP    
Data Management in Mobile Environments
Distributed Object Management   
KM Applications for Wireless Infrastructures
Digital Libraries       
Data Communications
Heterogeneous and Distributed Systems   
Multimedia Databases
Hypertext and Hypermedia        
Knowledge Management
Semi-Structured Data Management 
Collaborative Applications
Query Processing
Management of data streams
Data processing in sensor networks

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are 
not being considered in another forum. At least one author will be required to 
attend the conference to present the paper. Electronic submission of manuscripts
is required, preferably in PDF. 
Detailed instructions for electronic submission, will be available
at our website: http://www.cikm.org/2003. 
Interested individuals are also invited to submit proposals for tutorials.
Please check the web site for further instructions.

Important Dates:
May 20, 2003    Electronic abstract due
May 28, 2003    Full paper submission due, Tutorial proposals due
Aug. 5, 2003    Notification of acceptance
Sept. 3, 2003   Camera ready copy due

CIKM'03 Organizing Committee:

General Chair: Don Kraft, LSU
Honorary Chair: Charles Nicholas, UMBC
Treasurer:      Eun-Kyo Park, UMKC
Registration Chair:     Yugyung Lee, UMKC
Program Chair (IR):     Ophir Frieder, IIT
Program Chair (DB):     Joachim Hammer, University of Florida 
Program Chair (KM):     Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Program Chair (Industry):       Len Seligman, Mitre
Proceedings Chair:      Nazli Goharian, IIT
Workshop Chair: Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University 
Exhibits and Corporate Sponsors:        David Grossman, IIT
Tutorials Chair:        Allison Powell, CNRI
Publicity Chair:        Padmini Srinivasan, University of Iowa
Local Arrangements Chair:       Erin V. Collier, Tulane University
Local Arrangements Assistant Chair:     Carol Barry, LSU
Webmaster (Information Architect):      Gigi Phillips, LSU


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