I wish to welcome you to the Thirteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. This conference remains a premier international meeting in the areas of information retrieval, database systems, and knowledge management. Since 2004 has been referred to as the "Year of the Search Engine" and numerous organizations constantly discuss the need to integrate structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data, this year's program is particularly relevant.
The EDAM project: mining mass spectra and more
The EDAM project is a collaborative effort between computer scientists and environmental chemists at Carleton College and UW-Madison. The goal is to develop data mining techniques for advancing the state of the art in analyzing atmospheric aerosol ...
Of parts and relationships: an unending quest
Systems biology is a field which focuses on the interpretation of large, diverse sets of biological measurements in order to elucidate the complex mechanisms that underly important and (seemingly simple) macroscopic phenotypes. The problem at hand is ...
The semantic web: managing knowledge for planet earth
The Semantic Web (SWeb) is a vision - actually, a number of visions - which is beginning to show some signs of potential reality. The core of the vision is a synergy between machine-accessible knowledge and the global reach of the Web. The deployment of ...
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