[DMANET] SPIRE 2012 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

19th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
(SPIRE 2012)

October 21 - 25, 2012 -- Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
http://spire2012.unab.edu.co


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Save on your registration fee by registering by October 11, 2012

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******* SPONSORED BY

* Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, COLCIENCIAS
* Secretaría de Tecnologías de Información de Santander
* Google
* Yahoo! Research
* ElectroSoftware
* Red Universitaria Mutis
* Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga


******* AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE

You are cordially invited to participate in SPIRE 2012, the 19th
International Symposium on String Processing and Information
Retrieval. The scope of the SPIRE series of symposia includes not only
fundamental algorithms in string processing and information retrieval,
but also SP and IR techniques as applied to areas such as
computational biology, DNA sequencing, and Web mining. Given its
interdisciplinary nature, SPIRE offers a unique opportunity for
researchers from these different areas to meet and network.

Typical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* String Processing: Dictionary algorithms, Text searching, Pattern
matching, Text and sequence compression, Succinct and compressed
indexing, Automata-based string processing;

* Biological Sequence Processing: Analysis of DNA and RNA sequencing
data, Molecular sequence processing, Recognition of genes and
regulatory elements, Comparative genomics and population genetics;

* Information Retrieval: Information retrieval models, Indexing,
Ranking and filtering, Interface design for IR, Evaluation issues in
IR, Text analysis, Text mining, Text classification and clustering,
Information extraction, Language models and topic models for search
related-tasks, Efficient implementation of IR systems, Algorithms and
data structures for IR;

* Search-related tasks: Cross-lingual information retrieval,
Multimedia / multi-modal information retrieval, Recommendation and
collaborative filtering, Semi-structured data retrieval, Blog
retrieval.


******* REGISTRATION

Detailed registration information can be found at
http://spire2012.unab.edu.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=16&Itemid=16


******* PROGRAM

The SPIRE 2012 program features

* the SPIRE 2012 Tutorials day (Oct 21)
* the SPIRE 2012 Workshops day (Oct 22)
* the SPIRE 2012 Main Conference (Oct 23-25)

For the detailed program of the entire conference see:
http://spire2012.unab.edu.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=26&Itemid=26


******* MAIN CONFERENCE

The SPIRE 2012 main conference features three invited talks:

* Amihood Amir: Approximate Period Detection and Correction
* Ricardo Baeza-Yates: Usage Data in Web Search: Benefits and Limitations
* Ian Witten: Semantic document representation: do it with Wikification

Plus 26 long papers and 9 short papers.

For the list of accepted papers see:
http://spire2012.unab.edu.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=24&Itemid=24


******* TUTORIALS

The SPIRE 2012 Tutorials day (Oct 121 -- see
http://spire2012.unab.edu.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=19&Itemid=19
for details) features the following half-day tutorials:

* Information Dissemination in Social Networks, by Aristides Gionis -
Yahoo! Research, Barcelona
* Evaluation Metrics for Information Access, by Enrique Amigó and
Julio Gonzalo - UNED, Madrid
* Space-Efficient Data Structures, by Francisco Claude - University
of Waterloo and Gonzalo Navarro - Univ. of Chile

Tutorial attendance is free for everyone registered for the SPIRE 2012
main conference.


******* WORKSHOPS

The SPIRE 2012 Workshops day (Oct 22 -- see
http://spire2012.unab.edu.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=21&Itemid=21
for details ) features two full-day workshops:

* Workshop on the Algorithmic Analysis of Biological Data (WAABD
2012), organized by Nadia Pisanti (Univ. of Pisa, Italy), et al.
* Workshop On Compression, Text, And Algorithms (WCTA 2012),
organized by Gonzalo Navarro, (University of Chile)

Workshop attendance is free for everyone registered for the SPIRE 2012
main conference.


******* LATIN AMERICAN WEB CONFERENCE

This year, the last day of SPIRE will hold joint-sessions along with
LA-WEB 2012. For more information about LA-WEB 2012 see:
http://laweb2012.unab.edu.co


******* PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Giambattista Amati, Fundazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Amihood Amir, Bar Ilan U., Israel
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
Paolo Boldi, U. Degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Liliana Calderón-Benavides, U. Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon, USA
Edgar Chavez, U. Michoacana, Mexico (co-chair)
Francisco Claude, University of Waterloo
Cesar A. Collazos, U. Del Cauca, Colombia
Fabio Crestani, UNISI, Switzerland
Marco Cristo, U. Amazonas, Brazil
Maxime Crochemore, King's College, UK
Bruce Croft, U. Massachusets, USA
Edleno Silva De Moura, U. Amazonas, Brazil
Marcos Goncalves, U. Minas Gerais, Brazil
Cristina González-Caro, U. Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia
Concettina Guerra, Georgia Tech, USA
Jan Holub, Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Lucian Ilie, U. of Western Ontario, Canada
Costas Iliopoulos, King's College London, UK
Shen Jialie, SMU, Singapore
Gregory Kucherov, Univ. Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Alberto Laender, U. Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research
Moshe Lewenstein, Bar Ilan U., Israel
Alistair Moffat, U. Melbourne, Australia
Veli Mäkinen, U. Helsinki, Finland
Gonzalo Navarro, U. Chile, Chile
Laxmi Parida, IBM, USA
Kunsoo Park, Seoul National University, Korea
Marco Pellegrini, IIT CNR, Italy
Yoan Pinzon, U. Nacional, Colombia
Simon Puglisi, RMIT, Australia
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Google & UFMG
Luis M. S. Russo, U. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Rahul Shah, Lousiana State U., USA
Torsten Suel, NYU-POLY, USA
Esko Ukkonen, U. Helsinki, Finland
Adriano Veloso, U. Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jeff Vitter, The University of Kansas, USA
Nivio Ziviani, U. Minas Gerais, Brazil (co-chair)


******* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Liliana Calderón-Benavides
Cristina González-Caro
Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia
(General Chairs)

Edgar Chávez, Universidad Michoacana, México
Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
(Program Committee Chairs)

Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy
(Tutorials Chair)

Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile, Chile
(Workshops Chair)


******* CONTACT INFORMATION

Address any further inquiry to:

Liliana Calderón Benavides / Cristina González-Caro
Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga
Avenida 42 No. 48 - 11. PC. 680003
Bucaramanga, Colombia

Phone: +57 7 6436111 ext. 617 - 345
Fax: +57 7 6436111 ext. 428

E-mail: spire2012@unab.edu.co


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19th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval - SPIRE 2012
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
October 21 - 25, 2012

Website: http://spire2012.unab.edu.co

e-mail: spire2012@unab.edu.co
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