General CFP
| Data Mining | Industrial Practice and Experience | Internet Monetization |
Performance, Scalability and Availability | Rich Media | Search | Security and Privacy |
| Semantic / Data Web | Social Networks and Web 2.0 | User Interfaces and Mobile Web |
|Web Engineering | WWW in Ibero-America | XML and Web Data |

| Developers Track | Panels | Posters | Tutorials | Workshops |

Search

Web search engines are powerful tools that enable users to explore the rich information available on the world-wide web. While search engine design started as an engineering challenge, it has evolved into a thriving research area. The heterogeneity and volume of the data processed by search engines as well as the diversity of their user population have formed a fertile ground for the emergence of fascinating research problems. These problems call for the expertise of researchers from almost all fields of computer science.

The Search track welcomes contributions related to any area of Web search, including but not restricted to the following:

• Search engine infrastructure: crawling, indexing, and query processing
• Generic search platforms such as Map-Reduce
• Matching and relevance ranking of web documents
• Search advertising and contextual advertising: serving infrastructure, matching, relevance ranking, etc.
• Vertical search: multimedia, blogs, news, research papers, e-commerce, etc.
• Search engine evaluation and measurements
• Search user interfaces: natural language interfaces, summarization, suggestions, etc.
• Personalized search
• Negative content filtering: spam, porn, viruses, etc.
• Multiple collections: metasearch, rank aggregation, different media
• Query log analysis
• Semantic search: entity retrieval, geo/temporal search, sub/super-documents, etc.
• Query and search user modeling
• Multifaceted search
• Distributed and peer-to-peer search
• Enterprise and desktop search
• Security and privacy in web search
• Search and standards: RSS/ATOM, OpenSearch
• Novel search paradigms
• Search as an enabler of higher-level applications: implicit search, mashups, etc.

The program committee will give preference to papers focusing on core search technology over papers that focus on related areas, like theoretical computer science.

Paper formatting requirements are provided on the Submission page.

Track Chairs

• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
• Ziv Bar-Yossef, Google, Haifa, Israel

Program Committee

• Eytan Adar (University of Washnigton, USA)
  
• Einat Amitay (IBM, Israel)
  
• Aris Anagnostopoulos, (Yahoo, USA)
  
• Behshad Behzadi (Google, Switzerland)
  
• András A. Benczúr (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
  
• Paolo Boldi (Univ. Milano, Italy)
  
• David Carmel (IBM, Israel)
  
• Carlos Castillo (Yahoo, Spain)
  
• Charlie Clarke (U. Waterloo, Canada)
  
• Nick Craswell (Microsoft, UK)
  
• Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay, India)
  
• Kevin Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  
• Lee-Feng Chien (Google, China)
  
• Steve Chien (Microsoft, USA)
  
• Abdur Chowdhury (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
  
• Brian Davison (Lehigh, USA)
  
• Susan Dumais (Microsoft, USA)
  
• Nadav Eiron (Google, USA)
  
• Hui Fang (Ohio State, USA)
  
• Paolo Ferragina (Univ. Pisa, Italy)
  
• Marcus Fontoura (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
  
• Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Yahoo, USA)
  
• Ashutosh Garg (Ghumroo Inc., USA)
  
• Mario Gaspar da Silva (Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal)
  
• Luis Gravano (Columbia, USA)
  
• Antonio Gulli (Ask, Italy)
  
• Maxim Gurevich (Technion, Israel)
  
• David Hawking (CSIRO, Australia)
  
• Monika Henzinger (EPFL, Switzerland)
  
• Panagiotis Ipeirotis (New York University, USA)
  
• Jeanette Janssen (Dalhousie U, Canada)
  
• Glen Jeh (Google, USA)
  
• Rosie Jones (Yahoo, USA)
  
• Vanja Josifovski (Yahoo, USA)
• Irvin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
  
• Georgia Koutrika (Stanford University, USA)
  
• Amy Langville (College of Charleston, USA)
  
• Ronny Lempel (Yahoo, Israel)
  
• Hang Li (Microsoft, China)
  
• Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft, China)
  
• Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
  
• Dmitri Loguinov (Texas A&M University, USA)
  
• Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft, China)
  
• Kevin McCurley (Google, USA)
  
• Massimo Melucci (Univ. Padua, Italy)
  
• Christopher Olston (Yahoo, USA)
  
• Iadh Ounis (Univ. of Glasgow, UK)
  
• Marius Pasca (Google, USA)
  
• Balazs Racz (Google, Switzerland)
  
• Sriram Raghavan (IBM, USA)
  
• Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Google, Brazil)
  
• Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, Holland)
  
• Daniel Rose (A9, USA)
  
• Edleno Silva de Moura (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil)
  
• Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
  
• Altigran Soares da Silva (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil)
  
• Torsten Suel (Yahoo, USA)
  
• Andrew Tomkins (Yahoo, USA)
  
• Panayiotis Tsaparas (Microsoft, USA)
  
• Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece)
  
• Erik Vee (Yahoo, USA)
  
• Sebastiano Vigna (Univ. Milan, Italy)
  
• Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck, Germany)
  
• Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo, Spain)
  
• Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Tech, USA)
  
• Lei Zhang (Microsoft, China)
  
• Min Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
  
• Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)
  
• Nivio Ziviani (UFMG, Brazil)