Call for Posters

Poster presentations provide researchers with a unique opportunity to present and to receive direct feedback from an expert audience about significant work in progress, bleeding-edge work, or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical fashion.

Interested Topics
We encourage submissions of high quality posters on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest in the three areas include, but are not limited to:

Database

Access methods and indexing
Authorization, data privacy and security
Concurrency control and recovery
Data adaptability, reusability and quality
Database languages, models and interfaces
Information integration, data provenance, probabilistic databases
Cloud computing, peer-to-peer, parallel and distributed databases
Query processing, optimization and performance
Semi-structured data processing, XML filtering and routing
Stream-based processing, real-time and network databases
String databases, blogs and social search
Systems, middleware, applications and experiences
Temporal, spatial, mobile, multimedia and scientific databases
Information Retrieval

Semi-Structured Information Retrieval
Semantic and Entity-Based Information Retrieval
Domain-specific IR (legal, genome, chemical, etc.)
Citation Analysis and Social Networks for IR
Distributed IR and Peer-to-Peer Search
Filtering (recommender systems, topic tracking)
User Modeling for IR, Search Personalization
User Analysis and Privacy
IR Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
IR Evaluation and User Studies
Language Specific IR (multi-lingual, NLP, question and answer)
Machine Learning for IR
Multimedia IR (Audio, Speech, Video, Image)
Web Search and Advertising
Adversarial IR and Spam
Novel IR Interfaces (mobile, explorative, interactive)
Foundation of Information Retrieval (theory, ranking, etc.)
Knowledge Management

Data mining theory, methods, and applications
Machine learning applications
Big data analytics
Data warehousing and business intelligence
Information extraction and filtering
Knowledge Synthesis and Visualization
Semantic Techniques
Social networks and social media
Knowledge management in innovative applications, such as healthcare information and network security intelligence