[Asis-l] CIKM 2003

[Padmini Srinivasan]

Call for Participation.

Please join us for an exciting program of presentations, posters, workshops
and tutorials.  
Early bird deadline for registration: October 3, 2003.

Twelfth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM
2003
November 3-8, 2003
Hotel Inter-Continental
New Orleans, LA, USA
http://www.cikm.org/2003

Keynote Address	
Jamie Carbonell (Carnegie Mellon University)
Keynote Address
Peter Chen (Louisiana State University)

Query Expansion using Associated Queries.  Bodo Billerbeck (RMIT University), Falk 
Scholer (RMIT University), Hugh Williams (RMIT University), Justin Zobel (RMIT 
University)
A Study of Parameter Tuning for Term Frequency Normalization.  He Ben (University of 
Glasgow), Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)
Using Titles and Category Names from Editor-driven Taxonomies for Automatic Evaluation.
Steven Beitzel (Illinois Institute of Technology), Eric Jensen (Illinois Institute of
Technology), Abdur Chowdhury (AOL), David Grossman (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Probabilistically Controlling the Precision of Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Searches.
Sid-Ahmed Berrani (Thomson Multimedia R & D France), Laurent Amsaleg (IRISA-CNRS), Patrick Gros (IRISA-CNRS)
Replication and Retrieval Strategies of Multidimensional Data on Parallel Disks. 
Chung-Min Chen (Telecordia Technologies), Christine Cheng (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Multi-Resolution Modeling of Large scale Scientific Simulation Data.  Chuck Baldwin 
(Lawrence Livermore National Lab), Ghaleb Abdulla (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), 
Terence Critchlow (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)	
Visual Structures for Image Browsing.  Ricardo Torres (University of Campinas), 
Celmar Silva (University of Campinas), Claudia Medeiros (University of Campinas), 
Heloisa Rocha (University of Campinas)
Visualization of Communication Patterns in Collaborative Innovation Networks -
Analysis of some W3C working groups.  Peter Gloor (MIT Center for Coordination 
Science/ Dartmouth Tuck Center for Digital Strategies), Rob Laubacher (MIT Center 
for Coordination Science), Scott Dynes (Dartmouth Tuck Center for Digital 
Strategies), Yan Zhao (Dartmouth College)
Similarity among Melodies For Music Information Retrieval.  Takao Miura (HOSEI 
University), Isamu Shioy (SANNO University)
Efficient Region-Based Image Retrieval.  Roger Weber (ETH Zurich), Michael Mlivoncic 
(ETH Zurich)
Speech User Interfaces for Information Retrieval.  Yapin Zhong (Auburn University), 
Juan E. Gilbert (Auburn University)
The Power-Method: A Comprehensive Estimation Technique for Multi-Dimensional Queries.
Yufei Tao (City University of Hong Kong), Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon 
University), Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
High Dimensional Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries.  Amit Singh (Ohio State 
University), Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (Ohio State University), Ali Tosun (University 
of Texas at San Antonio)
Dimensionality Reduction using Magnitude and Shape Approximations.  Umit Yusuf Ogras 
(Ohio State University), Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (Ohio State University)
Semantic Web Unit Mining -- Finding and Classifying Subgraphs of Web Pages 
Corresponding to Semantic Concept Instances.  Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological 
University), Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University)
Question Answering from the Web Using Knowledge Annotation and Knowledge Mining 
Techniques.  Jimmy Lin (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory),
Boris Katz (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)
Learning Cross-document Structural Relationships using Boosting.  Zhu Zhang 
(University of Michigan), Jahna Otterbacher (University of Michigan), Dragomir 
Radev (University of Michigan)
A novel method for stemmer generation based on Hidden Markov Models.  Massimo Melucci
(University of Padova), Nicola Orio (University of Padova)
Statistical Transliteration for English-Arabic Cross Language Information Retrieval.
Nasreen AbdulJaleel (University of Massachusetts), Leah Larkey (University of 
Massachusetts)
Addressing the lack of direct translation resources for cross-language retrieval.
Lisa Ballesteros (Mount Holyoke College), Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield)
Efficient Data Access to Multi-channel Broadcast.  Wai Gen Yee (Illinois Institute 
of Technology), Shamkant B. Navathe (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Exploring Group Mobility for Replica Allocation in a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network.  Jiun-Lon
 Huang (National Taiwan University), Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University)
Misuse Detection for Information Retrieval Systems: A Preliminary Approach.  Rebecca 
Cathey (Illinois Institute of Technology), Ling Ma (Illinois Institute of Technology),Nazli Goharian (Illinois Institute of Technology), David Grossman (Illinois 
Institute of Technology)
Margin-based Local Regression for Adaptive Filtering.  Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon 
University), Bryan Kisiel (Carnegie Mellon University)
Content-Based Retrieval in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks.  Jie Lu (Carnegie Mellon 
University), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)
A Reliable Storage Management Layer for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems.
Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo), Philip Tilker (University of Waterloo), 
Allen Tran (University of Toronto), Antonio Cheng (University of Toronto), Kevin 
Harris (University of Toronto)
Towards Integrative Enterprise Knowledge Portals.  Torsten Priebe (University of 
Regensburg), Guenther Pernul (University of Regensburg)
On the Complexity of Schema Inference from Web Pages in the Presence of Nullable 
Data Attributes.  Guizhen Yang (SUNY at Stony Brook), Michael Kifer (SUNY at Stony 
Brook), I. V. Ramakrishnan (SUNY at Stony Brook)
Text Classification from Positive and Unlabeled Documents.  Hwanjo Yu (University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign), Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Adding Numbers to Text Classification.  Sofus Macskassy (New York University), 
Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University)
Boosting Support Vector Machines for Text Classification through Parameter-free 
Threshold Relaxation.  James Shanahan (Clairvoyance Corporation), Norbert Roma 
(Clairvoyance Corporation)
Multi-Resolution Disambiguation of Term Occurrence.  Einat Amitay (IBM Haifa 
Research Lab), Rani Nelken (IBM Haifa Research Lab), Wayne Niblack (IBM Almaden 
Research Lab), Ron Sivan (IBM Haifa Research Lab), Aya Soffer (IBM Haifa Research 
Lab)
Flexible Intrinsic Evaluation of Hierarchical Clustering for TDT.  James Allan 
(University of Massachusetts), Ao Feng (University of Massachusetts), Alvaro Bolivar 
(University of Massachusetts)
Queueing Analysis of Relational Operators for Continuous Data Streams.  Qingchun 
Jiang (University of Texas at Arlington), Sharma Chakravarthy (University of Texas 
at Arlington)
Raindrop: A Uniform Algebraic Query System for XQueries on XML Streams.  Hong Su 
(Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Jinhui Jian (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), 
Elke Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Dynamically Maintaining Frequent Items Over A Data Stream.  Cheqing Jin (Fudan 
University), Weining Qian (Fudan University), Chaofeng Sha (Fudan University), 
Zhiyuan Cai (Fudan University), Aoying Zhou (Fudan University), Jeffrey Yu (Chinese 
University of Hong Kong)
Bootstrapping for Hierarchical Document Classification.  Giordano Adami (ITC-irst), 
Paolo Avesani (ITC-irst), Diego Sona (ITC-irst)
Lattice-based tagging using support vector machines.  James Mayfield (The Johns 
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), Paul McNamee (The Johns Hopkins 
University Applied Physics Laboratory), Christine Piatko (The Johns Hopkins 
University Applied Physics Laboratory)
Collaborative Filtering with Decoupled Models for Preferences and Ratings.  Jin Rong 
(Carnegie Mellon University), Luo Si (Carnegie Mellon University), ChengXiang Zhai 
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon 
University)
Efficient Multi-way Text Categorization via Generalized Discriminant Analysis
Tao Li (University of Rochester), Shenghuo Zhu (Amazon.com), Mitsunori Ogihara 
(University of Rochester)
Categorizing Web Queries According to Geographical Locality.  Luis Gravano (Columbia 
University), Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou (Columbia University), Richard Lichtenstein 
(Harvard University)
Index Construction for Linear Categorisation.  Vaughan Shanks (RMIT University), 
Hugh Williams (RMIT University)
Light-weight XPath Processing in XML Streams with Deterministic Automata.  Makoto 
Onizuka (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories)
Efficient Ordering for XML Data.  Damien K. Fisher (University of New South Wales), 
Franky Lam (University of New South Wales), William M. Shui (University of New South 
Wales) Raymond Wong (University of New South Wales)
Building XML Statistics for the Hidden Web.  Ashraf Aboulnaga (IBM Almaden Research 
Center), Jeffrey Naughton (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Representing interests as a hyperlinked document collection.  Michelle Fisher 
(University of Exeter), Richard Everson (University of Exeter)
Automated Index Management for Distributed Web Search.  Rinat Khoussainov (University
 College Dublin), Nicholas Kushmerick (University College Dublin)
Combining Link-Based and Content-Based Methods for Web Document Classification
Marco Cristo (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Pavel Calado (Federal University 
of Minas Gerais), Edleno Moura (Federal University of Amazonas), Nivio Ziviani 
(Federal University of Minas Gerais), Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Federal University of 
Minas Gerais)
HyperThesis: The gRNA Spell on the Curse of Bioinformatics Applications Integration
Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University), Vivek Vedagiri (HeliXense Pte 
Ltd), Amey Laud (HeliXense Pte Ltd)
Information Extraction from Biomedical Literature: Methodology, Evaluation and 
an Application.  L. Venkata Subramaniam (IBM India Research Lab), Sougata Mukherjea 
(IBM India Research Lab), Pankaj Kankar (IBM India Research Lab), Biplav Srivastava 
(IBM India Research Lab), Vishal S. Batra (IBM India Research Lab), Pasumarti V. 
Kamesam (IBM India Research Lab), Ravi Kothari (IBM India Research Lab)
Mining Multiple Phenotype Structure Underlying Gene Expression Profiles.  Chun Tang 
(State University of New York at Buffalo), Aidong Zhang (State University of New 
York at Buffalo)
Efficient Query Evaluation using a Two-Level Retrieval Process.  Andrei Broder (IBM 
T.J. Watson Research Center), David Carmel (IBM Research in Haifa), Miki Herscovichi 
(IBM Research in Haifa), Aya Soffer (IBM Research in Haifa), Jason Zien (IBM Almaden 
Research Center)
Operational Requirements for Scalable Search Systems.  Abdur Chowdhury (AOL), Greg Pass (AOL)
Online Duplicate Document Detection: Signature Reliability in a Dynamic Retrieval 
Environment.  Jack Conrad (Thomson Legal & Regulatory), Xi Guo (Thomson Legal & 
Regulatory), Cindy Schriber (Thomson at West)
Hierarchical Graph Indexing.  James Abello (DIMACS Center/Rutgers University), 
Yannis Kotidis (AT&T Labs)
iTopN: Incremental Extraction of the N Most Visible Objects.  Linas Bukauskas 
(Aalborg University), Leo Mark (Georgia Institute of Technology), Edward Omiecinski 
(Georgia Institute of Technology), Michael Boehlen (Aalborg University)
Time-based Language Model.  Xiaoyan Li (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), 
W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Exploiting Syntactic Structure of Queries in Language Modeling Approach to IR
Munirathnam Srikanth (State University of New York at Buffalo), Rohini Srihari 
(State University of New York at Buffalo)
A Unified Model for Metasearch, Pooling, and System Evaluation.  Javed Aslam 
(Dartmouth College), Virgiliu Pavlu (Dartmouth College),  Robert Savell (Dartmouth 
College)
KM Panel: Managing Knowledge is about Mobilizing Data.
Chair: Victor Winter; Panelists: Sajda Qureshi and Otthein Herzog
Industry Session 1: Information Retrieval
Intelligent Meta-Search Engine for Knowledge Management: iXmetafind and Pinpoint 
Eui-Hong (Sam) Han (iXmatch), George Karypis (iXmatch), Doug Mewhort (Sagebrush), 
Keith Hatchard (Sagebrush)
SQL Text Parsing for Information Retrieval.  David Holmes (NCR)
Industrial Evaluation of a Highly-Accurate Academic IR System.  Tahia Infantes-Morris
 (Harris Government Communications Systems), Philip Bernhard (Harris Government 
Communications Systems), Kevin Fox (Harris Government Communications Systems), Gary 
Faulkner (Harris Government Communications Systems), Kristina Stripling (Harris 
Government Communications Systems)
Industry Session 2: Mediation and Data Sharing
Ontologies for Semantically Interoperable Systems.  Leo Obrst (MITRE)
The VirGIS WFS-Based Spatial Mediation System.  Omar Boucelma (LSIS/CNRS), Jean-Yves 
Garinet (Communications & Systems), Zoe Lacroix (Arizona State University)
Securely Sharing Neuroimagery.  Kenneth Smith (MITRE)
Industry Session 3: Data Analysis, Mining, and Managing XML 
Lessons from the Implementation of an Adaptive Parts Acquisition ePortal
Rafael Alonso (Sarnoff), Jeffrey A. Bloom (Sarnoff), Hua Li (Sarnoff)
Event Analyzer: a tool for sequential data processing.  Lilian Harada (Fujitsu 
Laboratories Ltd.), Yuuji Hotta (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.), Naoki Akaboshi 
(Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.), Kazumi Kubota (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.), Tadashi 
Ohmori (The University of Electro-Communications), and Riichiro Take (Fujitsu 
Laboratories Ltd.)
XML Parsing: A Threat to Database Performance.  Matthias Nicola (IBM), Jasmi John (IBM)
Managing IFC in Civil Engineering Projects.  Renaud Vanlande (Active3D-Lab), 
Christophe Cruz (Active3D-Lab), Christophe Nicolle (Universite de Bourgogne)
Tutorials:
Information Visualization (Chaomei Chen)
Data Mining for Intrusion Detection and Computer Security: Techniques,
Applications and Systems (Jian Pei, et al.)
Information Extraction: Theory and Practice (Ronen Feldman)
Clustering Large and High-Dimensional Data (Jacob Kogan, et al.)
Workshops:
DOLAP 2003 Workshop
First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases (MMDB 2003)
The 11th International Symposium of ACM GIS
Fifth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'03)