The goal of the PIKM workshop is to encourage Ph.D. students to present their dissertation research at a relatively early stage. The targeted students are those with a focus in any of the CIKM research tracks, i.e., databases, information retrieval or knowledge management. Interdisciplinary work across the three tracks is particularly encouraged.
It is noticed that a broad range of topics are addressed in CIKM related to various issues in databases and information systems, information retrieval and semantic web, knowledge management and data mining. The CIKM conference with its confluence several research tracks provides an excellent opportunity for learning about the latest developments in the respective fields. It provides a good forum for graduate students to expose their research at an early stage. Particularly, such a workshop encourages interdisciplinary studies across the three major fields addressed by CIKM: databases, information retrieval and knowledge management.
This workshop will enable graduate students to present their dissertation proposals and/or ongoing research on their dissertation sub-problems. It will give them an opportunity to get feedback on their early work from researchers worldwide. The reviewers’ comments will help them assess and possibly revise their work. Selected papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and the respective authors will give a talk on their dissertation at the workshop. This will give considerable recognition to the work of the students.
A wide range of topics on any area in databases, information retrieval and knowledge management can be presented at the PIKM workshop. The areas of interest are similar to those at the CIKM main conference and can be found on the CIKM 2007 website.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
The main idea of this workshop is to present Ph.D. proposals addressing all parts of the dissertation. The authors could be Ph.D. students or Masters students aspiring to get a Ph.D. having in mind a clear idea of a proposal. Students could also submit work on one or more sub-problems of their dissertation. The papers should address the research issues in their proposal focusing on the challenges in solving them. They could also include the proposed techniques to solve the given problems. Preliminary experimental evaluation may also be included if necessary. However it should be clear that the work is ongoing.
Papers should be maximum 8 pages in length in ACM CIKM
format. The graduate student should be the first author on the paper. The student’s
research advisor, committee members and others may be co-authors. Please note that at least one author of
each accepted paper is required to register for the PIKM workshop in order for
their paper to be included in the proceedings. All CIKM 2007 workshop proceedings
will be printed on CD together with the main CIKM proceedings.
Submission Site for Draft Papers
Submission Site for Camera Ready
Papers
Please submit to the one of the PIKM workshop co-chairs by email just in case you face a problem with the submission site.
IMPORTANT DATES
Draft
Paper Submission: August 5, 2007
Notification
of Acceptance: August 20, 2007
Camera
Ready Submission: August 29, 2007
WORKSHOP DATE: NOVEMBER 9,
2007
Note: All submission deadlines are 23:59:59 GMT
PIKM WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Aparna Varde Virginia State University, USA, avarde@vsu.edu
Jian Pei Simon Fraser University, Canada, jpei@cs.sfu.ca
STEERING COMMITTEE
Chabane Djerba, University of Science and Technology of Lille,
Daniel Keim,
Helena Galhardas, INESC-ID and Technical University of Lisbon,
Johannes Gehrke,
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Fatma Bouali, Lille 2 University,
Ernest Friedman-Hill, Sandia
National Labs,
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech,
Sreenivas Gollapudi,
Microsoft Search Labs,
Jiawei Han,
Vagelis Hristidis,
Giti Javidi, Virginia State University,
Andreas Koeller, Oracle Corp.,
Shuhua Lai,
Pawan Lingras,
St. Mary’s
Bin Liu, Ajia Lighthorse Asset Management Inc.,
Murali Mani,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Amelie Marian,
Florent Masseglia, INRIA, France
Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Virginia State University,
Stephen North, AT&T Labs,
Prasan Roy, Aster Data Systems,
Carolina Ruiz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Jaideep Vaidya,
Li Xiong,
Helen Yang,
Mohammed Zaki,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Zhongfei Zhang,
Binghamton University,
Panel: This would be an open forum for discussion. The presenting
students would get an opportunity to critique each other. Other attendees of
the workshop would be able to provide useful feedback to the students. The
entire audience would also be encouraged to a hold group discussion on the
latest developments in the fields addressed at the PIKM workshop.