6th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR'08)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Novel P2P IR applications/architectures
• Retrieval models for distributed and P2P IR
• Heterogeneous distributed data integration and organization
• Query routing in distributed environments
• Distributed ranking
• Distributed index structures
• Efficiency in distributed and P2P IR
• Scalability of distributed indexing and retrieval
• Multimedia retrieval for distributed and P2P IR
• Distributed indexing and retrieval of dynamic information sources
• Standards / benchmarks for P2P IR
• Grid IR
• Decentralized reputation management
• Distributed data provenance
• Tools for distributed IR

Workshop chairs

• Sebastian Michel, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Gleb Skobeltsyn, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

Steering Committee

• Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
• Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
• Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Ivana Podnar Zarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Program Committee

• Karl Aberer, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
• Roi Blanco, University of A Coruna, Spain
• Abdur Chowdhury, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
• Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
• Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
• Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
• Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice, Italy
• Josiane Xavier Parreira, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
• Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
• Diego Puppin, Google, USA
• Martin Rajman, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University, USA
• Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece
• Christos Tryfonopoulos, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
• Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece
• Ivana Podnar Zarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia