SEARCH SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

Topics

• Querying and searching the Semantic/Data Web, including combinations with statistics, soft computing and distributed approaches
• Use of social metadata and annotations in search and mining
• Indexing and retrieval of Web rich-media content
• Verticals and specialized search: multimedia, blogs, news, academic, e-commerce, etc.
• Faceted, enterprise, desktop, local, and mobile search
• Search engine architecture and scalability, including indexing, index compression, index distribution
• Efficiency issues in query processing, including index access, caching, and early termination
• Web crawling: high performance crawling, refresh crawling, focused crawling, content monitoring, and other crawling strategies and applications
• Semantic search: entity retrieval, geo/temporal search, sub/super-documents
• Federated, distributed, and P2P search, meta search, rank aggregation
• Enabling higher-level applications: implicit search, mashups, query completion, real time search

Track Chairs

• Junghoo Cho, University of California, Los Angeles
• Torsten Suel, NYU Poly, USA

Program Committee