7th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR'09)
The Web is continuously growing. Currently, there are more than 20 billions pages (some sources suggest 100 billions), compared to less than 1 billion documents in 1998. Traditionally, Web-scale search engines employ large and highly replicated systems, operating on computer clusters in one or few data centers. Coping with the increasing number of user requests and indexable pages requires adding more resources. However, data centers cannot grow indefinitely. Scalability problems in information retrieval have to be addressed in the near future, and new distributed applications are likely to drive the way in which people use the Web. Distributed IR is the point in which these two directions converge. This workshop will provide space for researchers to discuss these problems and to define new directions for the work on distributed information retrieval.
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Jul 23, 2009 from 09:00 am to 05:00 pm |
| Where | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Contact Name | Gleb Skobeltsyn |
| Contact Email | gleb.skobeltsyn@epfl.ch |
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Topics
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
- Claudio Lucchese, National Research Council - ISTI, Italy
- 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
- 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
- Gregory Buehrer, Microsoft Live Labs, USA
- Roi Blanco, University of A Coruna, Spain
- Fabrizio Falchi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
- Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
- Claudio Lucchese, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Sebastian Michel, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
- Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice, Italy
- Josiane Xavier Parreira, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
- Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Diego Puppin, Google, USA
- Martin Rajman, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Gleb Skobeltsyn, EPFL, Switzerland
- Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University, USA
- Christos Tryfonopoulos, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
- Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
- Ivana Podnar Zarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic
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