Paper Submission: June 21, 2012
Authors Notification: July 10, 2012
Final Paper Submission and Registration: July 24, 2012
In conjunction with International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management – IC3K 2012 – 04 – 07 October, 2012 – Barcelona, Spain.
Scope
Nowadays users are more and more interested in information rather than in mere raw data. The huge amount of accessible data sources is growing rapidly. This calls for novel systems providing effective means of searching and retrieving information with the fundamental goal of making it exploitable by humans and machines.
DART focuses on researching and studying new challenges in distributed information filtering and retrieval. In particular, DART aims to investigate novel systems and tools to distributed scenarios and environments. DART will contribute to discuss and compare suitable novel solutions based on intelligent techniques and applied in real-world applications.
Information Retrieval attempts to address similar filtering and ranking problems for pieces of information such as links, pages, and documents. Information Retrieval systems generally focus on the development of global retrieval techniques, often neglecting individual user needs and preferences.
Information Filtering has drastically changed the way information seekers find what they are searching for. In fact, they effectively prune large information spaces and help users in selecting items that best meet their needs, interests, preferences, and tastes. These systems rely strongly on the use of various machine learning tools and algorithms for learning how to rank items and predict user evaluation.Topics of Interest
Topics of interest will include (but not are limited to):
- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Web Personalization and Recommendation
- Web Advertising
- Web Agents
- Web of Data
- Semantic Web
- Linked Data
- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Search for Social Networks and Social Media
- Natural Language and Information Retrieval in the Social Web
- Real-time Search
- Text categorization
If you are interested and have the time (or graduate students with the time), abstracts from prior conferences are here. Would be a useful exercise to search out publicly available copies. (As far as I can tell, no abstracts from DART.)