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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PIKM 2008

*** Early Registration Deadline: August 22, 2008 (23:59 EDT) ***
http://www.cikm2008.org/registration.php

Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management
In conjunction with
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM 2008
Napa Valley, California, October 30, 2008
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~aparna/PIKM2008CFP.htm

Accepted Full Papers:

Concurrency Control and Recovery for Multiversion Database Structures

• Tuukka Haapasalo, Ibrahim Jaluta, Seppo Sippu and Eljas Soisalon-Soininen.

Acquiring Advanced Properties in Ontology Mapping

• Suzette Stoutenburg.

Concept Search in Urdu

• Kashif Riaz.

An Extended Cooperative Transaction Model for XML

• Francis Gropengießer and Kai-Uwe Sattler.

Social Capital in Online Communities

• Matthew Smith.

Towards Privacy-Preserving Integration of Distributed Heterogeneous Data

• Pawel Jurczyk and Li Xiong.

Topic Models and a Revisit of Text-related Applications

• Viet Ha-Thuc and Padmini Srinivasan.

The Benefit of additional Semantics in Folksonomy Systems

• Fabian Abel.

A SQL Database System for Solving Constraints

• Sebastien Siva and Lesi Wang.

A Microscopic View on Community Detection in Complex Networks

• Yang Wang, Huaiming Song, Weiping Wang and Mingyuan An.

Accepted Poster Papers:

Defining Imprecise Regions Using the Web

• Robert Pasley.

Impact of Navigation Assistance on Users' Search Behaviour

• David J. Brenes and Daniel Gayo-Avello.

Mapping enterprise entities to unstructured text segments

• Falk Brauer, Alexander Löser and Hong-Hai Do.

Trajectory Data Management: A Semantic and Computational Approach

• Zhixian Yan.

Event Gazetteers for Navigating Humanities Resources

• Ryan Shaw.

Error recovery in human-computer interaction: a preliminary study in a database learning environment

• Lei Wu.

Clustering the Topics using TF-IDF for Model Fusion

• Muath alzghool and Diana Inkpen.

Network Dynamics of Scholarship:A Social Network Analysis of Digital Library Community

• Monica Sharma and Shalini Urs.

Understanding the Wikipedia Phenomenon: A Case for Agent Based Modeling

• Myshkin Ingawale.

Theme:

PIKM 2008 is a forum for graduate students in databases, information retrieval or knowledge management to present their preliminary work and get feedback from experienced researchers. The accepted papers will also be published in the workshop proceedings.

This workshop builds on the success of the PIKM 2007 workshop, held in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2007 in Lisboa, Portugal.

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Aparna Varde, Virginia State University, USA avarde@vsu.edu
Prasan Roy, Aster Data Systems, USA prasan.roy@asterdata.com

Program Committee:

Indrajit Bhattacharya, IBM Research, India
Francisco Couto, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Sreenivas Gollapudi, Microsoft Search Labs, USA
Katherine Herbert, Montclair State University, USA
Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University, USA
Giti Javidi, Virginia State University, USA
Mouna Kacimi, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany
Andreas Koeller, Oracle Corp., USA
Pawan Lingras, St. Mary's University, Canada
Bin Liu, Ajia Lighthorse Asset Management Inc., China
Murali Mani, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Florent Masseglia, INRIA, France
Thomas Neumann, Max Planck Institute, Germany
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Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Carolina Ruiz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Pierre Senellart, Telecom Paristech, France
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Li Xiong, Emory University, USA
Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Zhongfei Zhang, Binghamton University, USA