2002 Proceeding- General Chair:
- Charles Nicholas,
- Program Chairs:
- David Grossman,
- Konstantinos Kalpakis,
- Sajda Qureshi,
- Han van Dissel,
- Len Seligman
Welcome to the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management! The organizers and sponsors of CIKM'02 join me in the hope that this conference proves to be an opportunity for the sharing of knowledge, and the creation and renewal of friendships.The first CIKM conference took place about ten years ago. In cybertime that is truly ancient history, and you may agree that the world has changed in many ways since then. One thing that has not changed is the need for scientists to meet each other, to exchange ideas, and to welcome new members of the scientific community. To the extend that CIKM does this, it serves its purpose.
On scalable information retrieval systems
Implementing scalable information retrieval systems requires the design and development of efficient methods to ingest data from multiple sources, search and retrieve results from both English and foreign language document collections and from ...
Future directions in data mining: streams, networks, self-similarity and power laws
How to spot abnormalities in a stream of temperature data from a sensor? Or from a network of sensors? How does the Internet look like? Are there 'abnormal' sub-graphs in a given social network, possibly indicating, e.g., money-laundering rings?We ...
Knowledge and information management: is it possible to do interesting and important research, get funded, be useful and appreciated?
The survey of the CIKM Call for Papers for the period 1998 - 2002 demonstrates that the CIKM organizers very accurately "identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems [in] applied and theoretical ...
