Topics of Interest

The topics of interest in CIKM 2005 include but are certainly not limited to:

• Management of stream data
• Relational database technology
• Data warehouses, OLAP, and data mining
• Data privacy and security
• Intellegent mediators
• Peer-to-peer information systems
• Web and distributed information retrieval
• Cross-language and multi-lingual information retrieval
• Text classification and clustering
• Information filtering and recommender systems
• Management of hypertext and multimedia data
• Knowledge and information extraction
• Document summarization and question answering
• Metadata generation
• Digital libraries
• Management of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
• Distributed and heterogeneous information management
• Personalized information management
• Knowledge management in bioinformatics, sensor networks, and mobile- and wearable-computing applications
• Management of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
• Information visualization and interactive data exploration
• Evaluation, test collections, experimental design and metrics for Information Systems

Research Paper Submissions (Updated)

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum.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 camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. A website with camera-ready instructions is available at http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/cikm.htm. Papers cannot exceed 8 pages in length. The electronic submission Web site for research papers is available at https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/CIKM2005/. In addition, posters will be presented at the conference and poster papers (2 pages) will be published in the conference proceedings.
One author per paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper if accepted for publication.

Update: camera-ready instructions
are now available at http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/cikm.htm.

"Best Interdisciplinary Paper" Award

A "Best Interdisciplinary Paper" award will be given to the best paper that bridges at least two of the general areas of interest to the conference, namely databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management.

Special Journal Issue

As in the previous years it will be aimed again at publishing expanded versions of accepted papers in a special issue of a journal.

Industry Track Submissions

We invite authors from industry to submit papers that describe solutions in all the information and knowledge management areas addressed by this conference. The focus of submitted papers should be on the technical aspects of the work, like:

• which problems were addressed by the solution?
• what are the relevant implementation details?
• were new research problems discovered while implementing the application?
• most important: what are the lessons learned?

By May 31st, 2005 (firm), please submit one of the following to the industry track chair, Wilfried Teiken (wteiken@us.ibm.com):

• 1-2 page abstract (in PDF) describing your proposed presentation, or
• full paper (up to 5.000 words). The submission may be sent in PDF. Accepted papers have to be available as PDF, for camera-ready templates see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. There will be camera-ready instructions at http://www.tzi.de/CIKM2005/ soon.

We encourage you to also include some draft presentation slides (in PDF) that help outlining the intended presentation. If you intend to give a live demo please include all necessary information about the requirements.

Important Dates