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1st workshop on Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval
in conjunction with
ECIR'08 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval

March 30, Glasgow UK

http://irlab.dc.fi.udc.es/ecir/
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Deadline for submissions January 25, 2008

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The workshop will be held during ECIR'08 in Glasgow (UK).

The call for papers aims at original high-quality presentations
dealing with typical and new efficiency issues in IR. Some of the
topics of the accepted contributions would include, but are not
limited to:

* exploiting compression in traditional/web IR systems,
* multi-core architectures for efficient traditional/web IR,
* caching for fast query processing,
* static/dynamic pruning for efficient traditional/web IR systems,
* efficient dynamic indexing,
* efficient filtering,
* load balancing,
* fast auto-completion,
* tolerant retrieval,
* scalable search in P2P architectures,
* efficient multimedia IR,
* scalable routing in distributed architectures,
* parallel and distributed techniques for IR.

The organisers will also conduct a guided discussion among all the
participants regarding to future trends in scalability of search
engines and new architectures, and the transferability of the research
results to a full production real environment. A discussion panel of
selected experts in the field will also be held. We are planning to
consider a selection of the best accepted papers for publication on an
special issue.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Jan 25: Paper submission deadline
* Feb 25: Notification to authors
* March 10: Camera-ready Copies of Papers to be received by the
Workshop Organisers
* March 30: Workshop

More information on the workshop's website: http://irlab.dc.fi.udc.es/ecir/

ORGANISERS
Roi Blanco (University of A Coruña)
Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)