Call for papers

Workshop theme:

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a popular way to build large scale information systems by using the principle of resource sharing. The P2P paradigm holds many promises, e.g. scalabity, failure resilience and increased autonomy of nodes. For these reasons P2P seems also to be an interesting architectural paradigm for realizing large scale information retrieval systems. However, search methods in P2P networks are still mostly limited to simple keyword queries and the use of advanced retrieval models is in its infancy.

Researchers from different areas, including database systems, distributed systems, networking and information retrieval, have recently started to work on efficient, yet semantically powerful search mechanisms in peer-to-peer systems. An important factor for making this research succesful will be an intensive exchange among researches from the relevant disciplines. Thus, this workshop--just as CIKM--aims at bringing the different communities together.

The workshop particularly encourages papers that address heterogeneous peer-to-peer networks (e.g., a variety of data types and service providers), as well as papers about methods that cope with partial and uncertain information. However, more broadly, papers are solicited on any topic related to information retrieval in peer-to-peer networks, including the topics listed below.

• Resource selection
• Query routing
• Data fusion
• Grids
• Retrieval Models
• Metadata management
• Multimedia retrieval
• Heterogeneous services
• Index structures
• Specific architectures
• Overlay Networks

Beside research papers, position papers which can drive interesting discussions will also be welcome.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers, and accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings.

Goal of the workshop:

This workshop aims at bringing together young researchers from Information Retrieval and Database Systems working on peer-to-peer information systems. Both communities have their own strategies at solving the problem of efficient and effective query routing in P2P networks, and a closer collaboration could have a large impact on future P2PIR research. As such, this proposed workshop continues the efforts from an SIGIR workshop last year on the same topic, and the primary goal is to foster the collaboration process started there.

In addition to presentations of accepted papers, several slots will be devoted to intensive dicussions in order to benefit from different views in the two research communities. foster collaboration. The topics will be fixed together with the participants prior to the workshop, to allow for preparation for both the moderators and the participants.

Submissions:

Authors should submit full papers (not exceeding 8 pages in ACM style) in PDF format via the online submission system.

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