SIGIR 2005 workshop:
Heterogeneous and Distributed Information Retrieval

August 19th, 2005 - Salvador, Brazil

Call for Papers

In the last few years there have been the explosion in the use of
heterogeneous distributed systems. Ranging from simple Network of
Workstations to the more modern and complex Grid systems, the adoption
of distributed systems instead of massively parallel supercomputers
has been preferred due to their reduced cost of ownership. These kinds
of systems pose many challenges in terms of information access,
storage and retrieval. Usually, in fact, instead of having collections
stored at a single site they are collected, and sometimes managed, at
different sites (possibly owned by different institutions). Particular
interest has been expressed on architectures and specifications for
information retrieval in the context of heterogeneous distributed
computing systems.

This workshop will focus on new methods and algorithms to efficiently
and effectively access data distributed over large heterogeneous
distributed systems. The workshop particularly encourages papers that
address the creation and the search in distributed, dynamic
information systems as well as papers presenting novel architectural
solution for these systems. However, more broadly, papers are
solicited on any topic related to information retrieval in distributed
architectures, including the topics listed below.

List of topics:
	* Meta-IR: coping with heterogeneous distributed data
	* Algorithms for distributed IR
	* Grid IR
	* Peer-to-Peer (P2P) IR
	* Complex queries specification and resolution
	* Collection selection
	* Query routing (especially in Grid and P2P systems)
	* Data fusion
	* Query execution scheduling
	* Index structures
	* Specific architectures
	* Scalability
	* Fault tolerance
	* Privacy
	* Applications 

More information can be found at the workshop website:
http://hdir2005.isti.cnr.it

Submissions:
Authors should submit full papers using the same guidelines as the
main conference. Paper length must not exceed ten pages. More
information on the format could be found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Submissions should be e-mailed to Fabrizio Silvestri
(fabrizio.silvestri+hdir@isti.cnr.it). All submissions will be
referred by at least 3 members of the PC.

Important Dates
June 15		Paper submissions due
July 1		Notifications of acceptance
July 15		Camera-ready copy due
August 19	Workshop