WSDM 2009 - Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

New Late Breaking-Results Deadline: November 17, 2008, 11:59 pm UTC-10 (Hawaii) (~~Nov. 3rd~~)

New: A prize, sponsored by Telefonica Research, will be given to the best late-breaking results contribution.

The purpose of the new WSDM late breaking results sessions is to allow the presentation of more recent, more risky and ground-breaking, innovative research ideas, methods, results, and position statements. Late breaking results will be presented in short talk format in the main track of the conference and the accepted papers will be published on the conference website.

Late breaking results submissions will be held to the same standards of scientific quality as full papers. Evaluation criteria will include novelty and significance of the contribution to the field, quality of research, quality of writing, and contribution to conference program diversity. The highest weight will be placed on novelty of the contribution, so authors should clearly state and support novelty claims by comparing and contrasting the work to previous research. Incremental research is discouraged for this call.

The topics include all WSDM'09 topics. Topics that are especially encouraged include:

Vertical portals User profiling and modeling	Culture-aware data mining, user modeling, and applications Socio-economic perspectives on mining
Ranking and machine learning for ranking Information extraction and summarization	New perspectives on social-network and social-media analysis Human-centered and discovery-driven mining
Novel query languages	Location-aware and pervasive data mining and modeling
User interfaces for non-traditional search	Security and privacy
Data integration	Distributed search

Paper Format: papers should be a maximum of 4 pages long, and must report original research not accepted or under submission to any journal or conference with public proceedings (previous submissions in informal workshops or as posters are allowed, but must be indicated). Short versions of papers already accepted at WSDM are not allowed. Short versions of rejected papers from the main WSDM CFP are allowed, but the WSDM reviews must be included along with a rebuttal. Papers should be 4 pages max. and must be formatted according to ACM guidelines and style files.

Submissions: papers must be submitted in PDF format to the paper submission Web site. PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. After upload, please check the copy stored on the site. Submissions that do not view or print properly may be rejected without review. Please contact wsdm2009breaking@easychair.org for any questions.

Review Process: each paper will be reviewed by two authors (circular reviewing) and at least two regular PC members and one senior PC member.

Important Dates: late-breaking results submission November 17, 2008, 11:59 pm UTC-10 (Hawaii) (~~November 3rd~~); notification December 15th, 2008.

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