CALL FOR PAPERS:Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and
Data Mining (WSDM2011)
February 9-12, 2011, Hong Kong
http://www.wsdm2011.org/
Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD and SIGWEB
Submission deadline: August 1, 2010
WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is the premier international ACM conference
covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the Web.
The 4th ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Hong Kong, during
February 9-12, 2011.
WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations related
to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an
emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval
and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economics
implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and
performance.
WSDM2011 will have keynotes, invited talks, full paper presentations,
posters, tutorials, workshops, social events, etc. Topics covered
include but are not limited to:
Web Search
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* Web Dynamics and Search
* Multifaceted and task-driven search
* Multimedia Web search
* Security and privacy in Web search and mining
* User interfaces for search interaction
* Distributed, meta, and peer-to-peer search
* Vertical portals and search
* Search quality benchmarking and evaluation
* Ranking and machine learning for ranking
Web Mining
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* Web measurements, Web evolution, Web models
* Clustering, classification, and summarization of Web data
* Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
* Multimodal data mining
* Data, entity, event and relationship extraction
* Sense and entity disambiguation
* Data integration and data cleaning
* Discovery-driven Web and social network mining
* Traffic and log analysis
* Algorithms and systems for Web-scale search and mining
Social Search and Mining
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* Social network analysis, theories, models, and applications
* Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks
* Social reputation, influence, and trust
* User profiling and recommendation systems
* User activity modeling and exploitation
* Personalized search and ranking
* Tags, Users, and Search
Important Dates
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Submission Deadline August 1, 2010
Notification of Decisions October 15, 2010
Conference Dates February 9-12, 2011
Paper Format
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Papers must report original research not accepted or under submission
to any journal or conference with public proceedings (previous
submissions in informal workshops or as posters are allowed, but must
be indicated). Papers must be formatted according to ACM guidelines
and style files to fit within 10 pages, including references,
diagrams, and appendices if any. A submitted paper must be self-
contained and in English.
Submissions
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Papers must be submitted in PDF format to the paper submission Web
site:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wsdm2011. PDF files
must have all non-standard fonts embedded. After upload, please check
the copy stored on the site. Submissions that do not view or print
properly may be rejected without a chance to rectify the problem.
Please contact
wsdm...@easychair.org for any questions.
Review Process
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Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC members and
one or two senior PC members and is single-blind (that is, the
identity of authors is known to the reviewers). Decisions will take
into account novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical
application, impact, and presentation.
Publication
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All accepted papers are published in the ACM Digital Library. Selected
accepted papers will be invited to submit their expanded versions for
publication in the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and
Technology (ACM TIST,
http://tist.acm.org) through an expedient review
and publication process.
Contact Information
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Irwin King
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
+(852) 2609 8398 voice
+(852) 2603 5024 fax
ki...@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king