<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_417877576748222611docs-internal-guid-e12bd28f-7fff-0753-955c-2ad1ed452d2e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT** </span></p></span><span id="gmail-m_417877576748222611docs-internal-guid-e12bd28f-7fff-0753-955c-2ad1ed452d2e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year, CIKM 2020 will become a fully VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, with reduced fees, no travel involved, and presentations given via pre-recorded videos, followed by synchronized online discussions during the scheduled conference period.</span></p></span><span id="gmail-m_417877576748222611docs-internal-guid-e12bd28f-7fff-0753-955c-2ad1ed452d2e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To reflect this change, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">submission deadlines have been revised</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (see below).</span></p></span><span id="gmail-m_417877576748222611docs-internal-guid-e12bd28f-7fff-0753-955c-2ad1ed452d2e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">** CALL FOR FULL AND SHORT RESEARCH  PAPERS **</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CIKM 2020</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Galway, Ireland, Oct. 19th-23rd, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><a href="https://cikm2020.org/call-for-papers-full-and-short-research-papers/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://cikm2020.org/call-for-papers</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2020 Theme: Data and knowledge for the next generation: sustainability, transparency and fairness</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is a key event for the international academic, business and government communities to discuss research on information retrieval, data science, and knowledge management. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full and Short Research Papers</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NEW IMPORTANT DATES</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full and Short Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: May 8, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full and Short Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full and Short Paper Acceptance Notification: July 17, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full and Short Research Paper Camera Ready Submission Deadline: August 17, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anywhere on Earth time</span></p><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics of Interest</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Data and information acquisition and preprocessing</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (e.g., data crawling, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, and data wrangling)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Integration and aggregation </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, (knowledge) graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modelling, information credibility)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Efficient data processing </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customised hardware)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Analytics and machine learning</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, understanding, and interpretability)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Neural Information and knowledge processing </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(e.g. graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Information access and retrieval </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(e.g., facets and entities, web search, question answering, and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender and filtering systems)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Special data processing</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graph, multimedia, scientific, and social media data)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Understanding multi-modal content</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Data presentation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, understandability, transparency, VR, speech input and output)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Users and interfaces for information and data systems</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (e.g., user behaviour analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Crowdsourcing</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimisation, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:46pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Comparative evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices)</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Check our </span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/sponsorship/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sponsorship options</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for an opportunity to reach out to the experts in the domain! </span></p><br></span></div>