Topics of Interest
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We encourage submissions of high quality research papers on all topics in
the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge
management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following areas:
? From big data and big information to big knowledge (e.g., knowledge base
construction, data lakes, large-scale analytics) ? Data and information
acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, data quality, data
privacy, data wrangling) ? Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic
processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, data warehousing,
privacy and security, modelling) ? Infrastructures (e.g., cloud computing,
data intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, search
engine architectures) ? Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text,
sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, graph, multimedia, scientific, and
social media data) ? Integration of knowledge structures (e.g., natural
language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, exploiting
external sources, knowledge graphs) ? Analysis (e.g., OLAP, data mining,
machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, event detection and
tracking, deep neural networks, deep learning) ? Information access and
retrieval (e.g., ad hoc and web search, question answering and dialogue
systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender
and filtering systems) ? Data presentation (e.g., visualization,
summarization, readability, understandability, VR, speech output) ? Users
and interfaces for information and data systems (e.g., user behavior
analysis, user interface design, personalization, interactive analysis,
mobile computing, spoken interfaces) ? Crowdsourcing and exploitation of
online resources ? Evaluation (e.g., online and offline evaluation, study of
best practices) ? Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health
informatics, security, business intelligence, crisis informatics,
computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media,
recall-oriented search)


Submission and Review Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished full-length (10 page)
and short (4 page) research papers that are not previously published,
accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other
forum. Full-length papers should satisfy the standard requirements of
top-tier international research conferences. Short papers should describe
interesting ongoing work, new discoveries and insights, or summaries of
significant projects, and be material that is suited to poster presentation.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, as PDF formatted using the
ACM camera-ready templates
(http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Please use
sample-sigconf.tex as the template but remove the authors during submission.
Full papers cannot exceed 10 pages in length and short papers cannot exceed
4 pages in length. Papers should be submitted through the CIKM 2018 online
submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cikm2018).
The list of authors cannot be changed after a paper has been submitted for
review.

CIKM 2018 full and short paper review will be double-blind, and submissions
must be properly anonymized. Lack of anonymization may result in rejection
without review. Submissions will receive an "accept" or "reject" decision
based on the version that was submitted, and rejected full-length papers
will not be considered as short papers for poster presentation.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference
by paying a full registration before the final version submission deadline,
and must attend the conference and present the work as scheduled in the
conference program. Short paper presentations will be via a poster session,
and authors will be expected to prepare and present a poster in the usual
manner. Work that is not presented at the conference by one or more of its
authors may be removed from the ACM Digital Library and may be removed from
the final version of the proceedings. Once a paper is accepted, the list of
authors and their order can only be changed with permission of the General
Chair.


ACM Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment
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Authors are invited to follow the ACM Policy Against Discrimination and
Harassment
(https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/officers-ma
nual/policy-against-discrimination-and-harassment)


Important Dates
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Full and Short Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018
Full and Short Paper Submission Deadline: May 22, 2018
Full and Short Paper Acceptance Notification: August 6, 2018
Full and Short Research Paper Camera Ready Submission Deadline: August 27,
2018

All above deadlines are based on the Anywhere on Earth time


CIKM 2018 PC Chairs
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Full Paper Track:
James Allan, University of Massachusetts, USA
Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs Research, USA

Short Paper Track:
Rakesh Agrawal, Data Insights Labs, USA
Andrei Broder, Google Research, USA
Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA