DESIRES2020: Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems Don Orione Artigianelli Venice, Italy, September 15-18, 2020 |
Conference website | http://desires.dei.unipd.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=desires2020 |
Submission deadline | April 24, 2020 |
DESIRES is a biennial retreat-like systems-oriented conference emphasizing the innovative technological aspects of search and retrieval systems. DESIRES gathers researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss the latest innovative and visionary ideas in the field.
DESIRES mainly encourages papers about innovative and risky information access and retrieval system ideas, systems-building experience and insight, resourceful experimental studies, provocative position statements, and new application domains.
DESIRES is about discussing, learning and thinking about new ideas. Hence, no discussion will be shut off with the "let's take this offline" keyphrase, if we discuss longer than expected, we just slightly reschedule the next talks.
DESIRES is a single-track conference. To encourage authors to submit only their best work, each person can be an author or co-author of only a single paper or prototype (plus one abstract). That is, authors can submit only 1 (one) paper.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Papers (up to 6 pages + 1 page of references). Papers usually lack rigorous frameworks, simulations of performance, or prototype implementations but present a radical departure from conventional approaches that enable new applications. Accepted full papers will typically be presented in 20 minutes with (at least) 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will be a discussant for each paper that will read the paper in advance and prepare questions (plus questions from the audience).
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Prototypes (up to 4 pages + 1 page of references). The prototype descriptions generally are a detailed report on successes and mistakes. Accepted prototype papers will typically be presented in 10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions and discussion.
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Abstracts (up to 2 pages + 1 page of references). Ideas that are too half-baked for a paper or demo proposal are good candidates for an abstract. Any author of a paper or prototype demo may additionally submit one abstract. Abstracts are expected to have a single author. Accepted abstracts are presented in a gong-show style.
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*new* Open Problems in IR (1 page + 1 page of references). This is a new track. We are looking for abstract-like papers framing an important but unsolved problem in IR. "Open-Problems" papers are expected to have a single author. Any author of a paper, prototype demo, or abstract may additionally submit one "Open-Problems" paper.
Committees
General Chairs
- Omar Alonso (Curai, USA)
- Marc Najork (Google, USA)
- Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padua, Italy)
Program Committee
- Dyaa Albakour (Signal Media, UK)
- James Allan (University of Massachusetts, USA)
- Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde, UK)
- Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger, Norway)
- Alessandro Benedetti (Sease, UK)
- B. Barla Cambazoglu (RMIT University, Australia)
- Diego Ceccarelli (Bloomberg L.P., UK)
- Nick Craswell (Microsoft, USA)
- Jeff Dalton (University of Glasgow, UK)
- Arjen de Vries (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
- Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)
- Dennis Fetterly (Google, USA)
- Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google, USA)
- Paul Groth (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Parth Gupta (Amazon, USA)
- Claudia Hauff (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- Panos Ipeirotis (New York University, USA)
- Vasileios Kandylas (Microsoft, USA)
- Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Jussi Karlgren (Gavagai and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
- Emre Kiciman (Microsoft, USA)
- Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- Dave Lewis (Brainspace, A Cyxtera Business, USA)
- Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow, UK)
- Maria Maistro (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Edgar Meij (Bloomberg L.P., UK)
- Donald Metzler (Google, USA)
- Nicola Montecchio (Spotify, Germany)
- Jeremy Pickens (Catalyst Repository Systems, USA)
- Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
- Tony Russell-Rose (UXLabs, UK)
- Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University, Japan)
- Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay, India)
- Ian Soboroff (NIST, USA)
- Damiano Spina (RMIT University, Australia)
- Paul Thomas (Microsoft, USA)
- Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, Australia)
- Christophe Van Gysel (Apple Inc., USA)
- Olivier Van Laere (Apple Inc., USA)
- Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
- Wouter Weerkamp (904Labs, The Netherlands)
- Cong Yu (Google, USA)
- Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts, USA)
- Justin Zobel (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Advisory board
- Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy)
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates (NTENT, USA; UPF, Spain; Univ. de Chile)
- Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, USA)
- Shane Culpepper (RMIT University, Australia)
- Susan Dumais (Microsoft, USA)
- Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
- Donna Harman (NIST, USA)
- Kalervo Jarvelin (University of Tampere, Finland)
- Jan Pedersen (Twitter, USA)
- Gerhard Weikum (MPI, Germany)
Publication
The accepted (and presented) papers will be published as CEUR-WS proceedings freely available on-line: http://ceur-ws.org/ (Indexed by DBLP and Scopus). Modified or incremental versions of the papers included in the DESIRES proceedings can be submitted to other venues. The scope of DESIRES is discussing ideas, not tying them.
Venue
The conference is held at Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice, Italy.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to silvello@dei.unipd.it