CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

We cordially invite you to join us at:

Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2011)

February 9-12, 2011, Hong Kong
http://www.wsdm2011.org/

Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD and SIGWEB

Early registration deadline: December 15, 2010
http://www.wsdm2011.org/wsdm2011/register

WSDM2011 is the premier international ACM conference covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the Web. The 4th ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Hong Kong, during February 9-12, 2011.

WSDM2011 will have keynotes, paper presentations, posters, tutorials, workshops, social events, and more.

Keynotes

http://www.wsdm2011.org/wsdm2011/keynotes/

Christos Faloutsos, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University on Mining Billion-node Graphs: Patterns, Generators and Tools
Harry Shum, VP of Search Product Development, Microsoft on Bing Dialog Model: Intent, Knowledge and User Interaction

Workshops

http://www.wsdm2011.org/wsdm2011/workshops/

Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM 2011) (http://ir.ischool.utexas.edu/csdm2011/)
Workshop on User Modelling for Web Applications (http://research.yahoo.com/workshops/umwa2011/)

Tutorials

http://www.wsdm2011.org/wsdm2011/tutorials/

Crowdsourcing 101: Putting the “Wisdom of the Crowd” to Work for You
Introduction to Display Advertising
Exploiting Statistical and Relational Information on the Web and in Social Media
Web Retrieval: The Role of Users

Program (Tentative)

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Workshops and Tutorials

Thursday, February 10, 2011

8:30 - 8:40 Opening Ceremony
8:40 - 9:40 Keynote I - Christos Faloutsos
9:40 - 10:30 Oral Session 1: Web Search I
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:30 Oral Session 2: Social Search and Mining I
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:40 Oral Session 3: Web Search II
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break
15:40 - 17:15 Poster Session I

Friday, February 11, 2011

8:30 - 9:30 Keynote II - Harry Shum
9:30 - 10:20 Oral Session 4: Social Search and Mining II
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:30 Oral Session 5: Web Search III
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:40 Oral Session 6: Social Search and Mining III
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break
15:40 - 17:15 Poster Session II
17:30 - 19:30 Excursion
19:30 Banquet

Saturday, February 12, 2011

9:00 - 10:40 Oral Session 7: Web Mining
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:40 Oral Session 8: Web Search IV
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 WSDM General Meeting
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 - 17:00 Oral Session 9: Social Search and Mining IV
17:00 Closing Ceremony

Hotel Accommodations

http://www.wsdm2011.org/wsdm2011/accommodations/

The official WSDM2011 conference hotel is the Sheraton Hotel and Tower (http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=482).

A limited number of rooms is made available to the conference delegates at a very reasonable rate on a first-come-first-served basis. Please check the website and make your reservation early.

Travel Information

http://www.wsdm2011.org/wsdm2011/travel/

Travel Grants Information

http://www.wsdm2011.org/wsdm2011/grants

Contact Information

For general information on WSDM2011, please contact:

WSDM2011 General Secretariat
wsdm2011@gmail.com
http://www.wsdm2011.org