Web search

Efficient, effective and intuitive web search is essential to allow users to properly take advantage of the enormous and diverse amount of information available on the Web. The fast change in web applications and content, caused by the evolution of social networks, microblogs and e-commerce systems, and the still growing number of users and content on the Web, present new challenges but also new opportunities for Web search.

We welcome original high-quality submissions related to all aspects of Web search, including, but not limited to, the following topics :

  • Web dynamics and search
  • Multifaceted and task-driven search
  • Enterprise, desktop and local search
  • Searching the Semantic/Data Web
  • Use of social metadata and annotations in search
  • Multimedia Web search
  • Mobile search and search interfaces
  • User interfaces for search interaction
  • Vertical and specialized search, including news, academic, e-commerce search
  • Implicit search, mashups, query completion, real time search
  • Search engine architecture and scalability
  • Efficiency issues in web search
  • Web crawling and content monitoring strategies
  • Federated, distributed, P2P search and meta search
  • Retrieval models, similarity measures, and ranking,including probabilistic and machine learning approaches
  • Web search evaluation and metrics
  • Diversification of search results
  • Personalized search and ranking
  • Security and privacy in Web search and mining

Program committee :

  • Anh, Vo
  • Arguello, Jaime
  • Baeza-Yates, Ricardo
  • Balog, Krisztian
  • Bennett, Paul
  • Calado, Pável
  • Castillo, Carlos
  • Chakrabarti, Soumen
  • Chang, Kevin
  • Chang, Yi
  • Cheng, Xueqi
  • Cristo, Marco
  • Croft, Bruce
  • De la Fuente, Pablo
  • De Vries, Arjen
  • Diaz, Fernando
  • Dupret, Georges
  • Gao, Bin
  • Giles, C. Lee
  • Gionis, Aristides
  • Goncalves, Marcos
  • Grefenstette, Gregory
  • Gurevich, Maxim
  • Hiemstra, Djoerd
  • Jones, Gareth
  • Kamps, Jaap
  • Kando, Noriko
  • Kotov, Alexander
  • Lalmas, Mounia
  • Li, Hang
  • Li, Lihong
  • Li, Tao
  • Lin, Chin-Yew
  • Liu, Jiahui
  • Manasse, Mark
  • Mitra, Prasenjit
  • Murdock, Vanessa
  • Myaeng, Sung-Hyon
  • Najork, Marc
  • Nejdl, Wolfgang
  • Nie, Jian-Yun
  • Ounis, Iadh
  • Racz, Balazs
  • Da Silva, Altigran S.
  • Schenkel, Ralf
  • Schmidt-Thieme, Lars
  • Schonfeld, Uri
  • Seung « na », Hoon
  • Shi, Shuming
  • Shokouhi, Milad
  • Silva De Moura, Edleno
  • Silvestri, Fabrizio
  • Suel, Torsten
  • Toyoda, Masashi
  • Veloso, Adriano
  • Viglas, Stratis
  • Vigna, Sebastiano
  • Wang, Kuansan
  • Wen, Ji-Rong
  • Xu, Jun
  • Zha, Hongyuan
  • Zhang, Min
  • Zhu, Shenghuo
  • Zhu, Xiaoyan
  • Ziviani, Nivio
  • Zobel, Justin