The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012) will be 
held from October 29 to November 2, 2012 in Maui, Hawaii, USA. CIKM is a top-tier ACM conference 
in the areas of information retrieval, knowledge management and database. Since 1992, it has 
successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the three communities. 
The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of 
future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the 
publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. In CIKM 2012, we will 
continue the tradition of promoting collaboration among multiple areas. We encourage submissions 
of high quality papers on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, 
and knowledge management. Papers that bridge across these areas are of special interest and will 
be considered for a "Best Interdisciplinary Paper" award. Topics of interest in the three tracks 
include, but are not limited to:

 

Databases

·       Access methods and indexing

·       Authorization, data privacy and security

·       Concurrency control and recovery

·       Data adaptability, reusability and quality

·       Database languages and models

·       Information integration, data provenance, probabilistic databases

·       Mobile databases and distributed data management

·       Peer-to-peer, parallel and distributed databases

·       Query processing, optimization and performance

·       Real-time and active databases

·       Scientific and biological databases

·       Semantic Web

·       Semi-structured data processing, XML filtering and routing

·       Stream-based processing and network databases

·       String databases, blogs and social search

·       Systems, middleware, applications and experiences

·       Temporal, spatial and multimedia databases

·       User experience: languages, models, interfaces

 

Information Retrieval

·       Citation Analysis, Social Networks for IR

·       Distributed IR, Peer-to-Peer Search

·       Domain-specific IR (e.g., Legal, Genome, Mobile IR, IR for chemical structures)

·       Filtering (e.g., Routing, Collaborative filtering, Topic tracking, Recommender systems)

·       Foundation of Information Retrieval (e.g., theory, ranking)

·       IR Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency

·       IR Evaluation

·       Language Specific IR (Multi-lingual, Cross-lingual, NLP, Question and Answer)

·       Machine Learning for IR

·       Multimedia IR (Audio, Speech, Video, Image)

·       Semi-Structured Information Retrieval

·       User Modeling for IR, Search Personalization

·       User Studies, Interactive Information Retrieval, Interfaces and PIM

·       Web Search, Advertising, Adversarial

·       Other topics related to IR (Privacy, Spam, Feature Engineering, etc.)

 

Knowledge Management

·       Advertising and Optimization

·       Classification and Clustering

·       Data pre- and post-Processing

·       Information Extraction

·       Information Filtering and Recommender Systems

·       Knowledge Synthesis and Visualization

·       Large-scale statistical techniques

·       Link and Graph Mining

·       Semantic Techniques

·       Temporal and Spatial data Mining

·       Text Mining

·       Biometrics

 

Paper Submissions for CIKM 2012

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered 
for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PDF format 
and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at: 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates


ACM CIKM review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission. Papers cannot 
exceed 10 pages in length. There is no short paper track. The organizers may offer the authors of 
selected paper submissions to prepare a shorter version of their paper for presentation. Uploading 
instructions and more detailed submission instructions for papers, and workshop proposals, are 
available at the conference website http://www.cikm2012.org 

Each accepted paper requires at least one full registration fee regardless of the status of the 
registered author. Also, one of the authors (or a qualified substitute) must give a presentation 
of the paper at the conference. Otherwise, the paper will not be indexed by the ACM digital 
library.

 

Important Dates

Full Papers 

·       Abstracts due: May 18, 2012

·       Papers due: May 25, 2012

Poster papers due: June 15, 2012

Workshops 

·         Proposals due: April 9, 2012

·         Papers due: June 29, 2012

Demonstrations papers due: June 23, 2012

 

CIKM 2012 Organization Team

 

Conference Chair 

Xue-wen Chen, Univ. of Kansas

 

Program Chairs 

Guy Lebanon, Georgia Institute of Technology (IR track)                       

Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (KM Track)

Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research Asia (DB track)

 

Industry Chairs 

Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research 

Dou Shen, CityGrid Media 

 

Workshop Chairs 

Dimitrios Gunopulos, Univ. of Athens 

Alin Dobra, Univ. of Florida

 

Local Chairs 

Lipyeow Lim, Univ. of Hawaii 

Debasis Bhattacharya, Univ. of Hawaii

 

Sponsorship Chairs 

Yi Chang, Yahoo!

Ya Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. 

 

Publicity Chairs 

Qi He, IBM Research

Prem Melville, IBM Research

Yilong Yin, Shandong Univ. 

 

Proceedings Chair 

Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

 

Demonstration Chairs 

Amelie Marian, Rutgers Univ. 

Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research 

 

Poster Chairs 

Arvin Agah, Univ. of Kansas 

Deng Cai, Zhejiang Univ. 

 

Award Chair 

Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern Univ.