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Event	Description
AMR 2006	4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval. University of Geneva, Switzerland. 27th - 28th July 2006. A specialist workshop on Multimedia IR.
ENQOIR 2009	The ENQOIR workshop targets to deeper understanding and disseminate knowledge on advances in evaluation and application of ontology-based information retrieval (ObIR). The main areas of the workshop is an overlap between three evaluation aspects in ObIR, namely, evaluation of information retrieval, evaluation of ontology quality’s impact on ObIR results, and evaluation of user interaction complexity. The main objective is to contribute to optimization of ObIR by systemizing existing body of knowledge on ObIR and defining a set of metrics for evaluation of ontology-based search. The long-term goal of the workshop is to establish a forum to analyze and proceed towards a holistic evaluation method for evaluation of ontology-based information retrieval systems.
CIKM 2009	Of interest to members working in the area of knowledge management and/or search.
3rd Annual Data Protection Practical Compliance Conference	Ireland\'s largest Data Protection Conference is a one-day event specifically designed to deliver the latest thinking in the rapidly expanding fields of data protection, data security and privacy. The keynote speaker is Billy Hawkes, the Data Protection Commissioner who will speak on ‘The good practice guide: how to avoid being investigated by the Commissioner’. Other topics include data sharing, dealing with data breaches, marketing, and training staff in data protection compliance. The Conference is produced in association with Data Protection Ireland journal and sponsored by Arthur Cox. Venue: Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland. For further information: PDP Conference booking line: +353 (0)1 657 1479.
SIGIR 2010	SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original papers, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems. SIGIR 2010 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR theory and foundation, techniques, and applications.
ECIR 2002	24th European Colloquim in Information Retrieval
ECIR 2003	25th European Conference on Information Retrieval
SIGIR 2003	The ACM SIGIR International Conference on Information Retrieval Research and Development
The International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE)	The IKE'04 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (PDPTA'04, CISST'04, IC-AI'04, IC'04, METMBS'04, CIC'04, ...)
ECIR 2004	26th European Conference on Information Retrieval
SIGIR 2004	The ACM SIGIR International Conference on Information Retrieval Research and Development
ECIR 2005	27th European Conference on Information Retrieval
AVIVDiLIb 2005	The 7th International Workshop on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization Focus on new solutions for ocntent organisation, access and interaction in Audiovisual digital libraries
PERVASIVE 2005	The 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Focus on ubiquitous, continuous, and self-organized technologies in IT applications which addresses some of the major issues in IR.
ISI-2005	IEEE International Conference: Intelligence and Security Informatics Focuses on security issues as pertaining to the intelligence community. Of particular interest to the IR community is the issue of Information Sharing and Data Mining theme of the conference, particularly the use of Digital Libraries as applied to archiving, preserving and searching intelligence information
MSW 2005	Multimedia and the Semantic Web One day workshop which aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the multimedia and Semantic Web domains in order to assist in forming bridges between the communities for mutual benefit.
COLIS 2005	The Fifth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science. The theme of the conference will be CONTEXT: nature, impact and role.
CoLIS 2005 Workshop	EVALUATING USER STUDIES IN INFORMATION ACCESS The complexity in designing, running and analysing a user study is substantially more time consuming and challenging than a simple comparison of empirical measures such as precision and recall. As a result many researchers shy away from the user studies. However, it is only with real user studies that the impact of state of the art research can be truly assessed and the merit of such research validated. As to how a user study should be performed in the context of information access, remains a challenge and those researchers wishing to perform such a study a re faced with many issues to ensure that the research is carried out in an appropriate and unbiased manner.
I-Know 2005	The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management The focus is on application-oriented research for Knowledge Management. The conference has a number of tracks, which include: Knowledge and Information Visualization (KIV'05), Knowledge Discovery and Semantic Technologies (KDaST'05) and Knowledge Sharing in Research and Higher Education (KSR'05).
CIR-05	International Workshop on Context-Based Information Retrieval (CIR-05)
PIA 2005	Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access at User Modelling 2005. Addresses the issue of using personalisation to improve the process of information retrieval.
AMR 2005	3rd international workshop co-located with the IJCAI 2005 in Edinburgh
IJCAI 2005	TheNineteenth International Joint Conference on Aritifical Intelligence.
INEX 2005 Workshop Element Retrieval Methodology	INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology 30 July 2005 The INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX), and the University of Glasgow invite participation in the INEX Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology. The annual INEX workshop examining element retrieval has shown improvements in retrieval precision, while at the same time raising new questions about element retrieval methodology. The annual evaluation workshop focuses on retrieval performance; this mid-year workshop will focus on methodology.
MRC2005	Modelling and Retrieval of Context Workshop held as part of IJCAI 2005. Covers context-aware applications for IT that are particularly relevant to IR. The goal is to bring members of different communities together to discuss their problems.
ICML 2005 Workshop	Learning in Web Search Workshop held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005). Addresses the issue of machine learning as applied to web search in both theory and applications.
IDDI-05	DEXA 2005 Workshop on Integrating Data Mining, Databases and Information Retrieval This workshop solicits papers on the issue of the problem of very large data sets looking at IR technologies and the problems researchers in the field share with others who work in Data Mining and Databases.
ISMIR 2005	The 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
TIR-05	The workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval (TIR-05) is held in conjunction with the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Koblenz, Germany. Focus and topics can be found on the workshop homepage.
ECDL 2005	The 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries The major European conference on digital libraries, and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field.
AIRS 2005	Second Asia Information Retrieval Symposium Covers all aspects of information retrieval from theories to user studies to applications.
CLIHC 2005	Interaction for Inclusion . Of particular interest to IR researchers and practitioners working in the area of HCI. Covers interactive systems development, methodologies and tools, evaluation reports, theories and models.
DocEng 2005	ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
DIR 2006	6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR'06)
ECIR 2006	28th European Conference on Information Retrieval
The Future of Web Search	A two day workshop on web search. 19th - 20th May 2006.
WWW 2006	15th International World Wide Web. 22nd –26th May 2006. A special conference track devoted to Web Search.
LIDA 2006	Libraries in the Digital Age. 29 May - 4 June 2006. An annual course and conference on Digital Libraries. http://www.ffos.hr/lida/
INFOSCALE 2006	1st International conference on scalable information systems. 30 May - 1 June 2006. A conference devoted to the issue of scability in information systems, with a theme on information retrieval.
FQAS 2006	Seventh International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems organised. Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca. A query answering conference with a number of themes of interest to IR researchers and practioners.
JCDL 2006	Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Opening Information Horizons. 11th -15th June 2006. A digital library conference which will be of interest to members working on search in such systems. Also includes a user access workshop.
Desktop Search Tools	Desktop Search Tools - Managing the Flight Deck. Bloomsbury Suite, SOAS. 14 June 2006. UKeiG Members’ Day and AGM, with a focus on desktop search. Please contact Christine Baker, Tel 01969 663749. Email: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk
AH'06	Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web- Based Systems. National College of Ireland 21st - 23nd June, 2006. A general conference on adaptive web based systems including at theme on IR.
VICMS	Visual Categorisation and Image Management Systems. University of Sunderland, St. Peter’s Campus. 28 June 2006. A one day multi-disciplinary workshop on categorising images, of particular interest to those interested in image retrieval.
NGITS'2006	6th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems. 4th to 6th July 2006. A general conference on promoting new research in information systems, including information retrieval.
IIIA-2006	International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access. Marina Congress Center. 6-8 July 2006. A workshop on uncertainty in information access using such methods as machine learning and probability theory.
IADIS'06	IADIS International Conference e-SOCIETY. 13th - 16th July 2006. A conference for members who are more interested in the soft side of information seeking and retrieval.
CEAS 2006	The Third Conference on E-mail and Anti-Span. 27th - 28th July 2006. A Conference of interest to those members who work on adversarial information retrieval.
SIGIR 2006	29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, 6-11 August 2006
SIGIR 2006 WORKSHOP ON XML ELEMENT RETRIEVAL METHODOLOGY	The purpose of this SIGIR workshop is to raise issues and promote discussion on the methodology of XML retrieval (XML-IR). Conducting the workshop at SIGIR provides an opportunity for IR researchers, who may not be aware of work and progress in the area of XML-IR, to participate. It will also allow researchers who have researched the area of XML-IR to participate and exchange ideas and experience with the other members of the community. Opinion papers discussing XML element retrieval, and related issues, are sought (closing date for submissions: 23 June 2006). Topics include but are not limited to Theory, Application, Interaction, Measurement, Judgment, and Experience. Note that relevance ranking algorithms are excluded (they are the focus of the annual INEX workshop). This workshop is open to all interested parties. Submission of an opinion paper is not required (but is encouraged). Places are limited and preference will be given to authors of accepted papers. For further details please refer to the workshop website http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/sigirmw
Hypertext 2006	Seventeenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. 23rd - 25th August 2006. A conference which will be of interest to members who work in the area of search by browsing.
TIR-06	3rd International Workshop on Text- Based Information Retrieval. 29 August 2006. A one day workshop on text retrieval using AI methods, in what can only be described as a very beautiful location.
I-KNOW '06	6th International Conference on Knowledge Management. 6th September 2006. With one day workshops on the issue of knowledge organisation and information retrieval and visualisation in IR.
HCI 2006 : ENGAGE	The 20th British HCI Group conference in co-operation with ACM. Queen Mary, University of London. 11th - 15th September 2006. A well regarded HCI conference, which will be of interest to members who have a particular interest in human factors in IR.
ECDL 2006	10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. 17-22 September 2006. A major European digital library conference, which also hosts the CLEF 2006 cross language IR workshop.
EMCL/PKDD 2006	The 17th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases Workshop and challenge of Spam filtering. Between 18-22 September 2006. A TREC like evaluation workshop on Spam filtering held at a dual AI conference.
ICIIP 2006	4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing. Between 20th - 23th September, 2006. A broad based AI conference on information systems, with a theme on information retrieval.
SPIRE 2006	SPIRE 2006 is the thirteenth edition of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. The first four editions were called WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing). Since 1998 the focus of the symposium was broadened to include information retrieval. Starting in 2000 Europe has been the conference venue on even years.
IWRIDL06	International Workshop On Research Issues in Digital Libraries The number of Digital Library initiatives worldwide has been increasing in recent times. The problem of organizing and accessing information from these digital libraries has given rise to research issues like indexing and retrieval, multilingual and multimedia information processing, natural language processing and many others. This workshop is intended to give participants a better understanding of these issues, along with an awareness of state-of-the-art tools and technologies involved in digital libraries, through invited lectures by internationally renowned researchers, practitioners, and developers. Interested participants from academia, government and industry are invited to attend the workshop to exchange views and to help formulate future directions of research in this exciting area. The workshop will address the following sub-areas: Indexing/Retrieval Multilingual Information Access Natural Language Processing Document Analysis and Processing IR/DL Tools Standardization Issues (Archiving, Annotation, Metadata) We are delighted to have among us as Contributors : Karen Sparck Jones (confirmed) Donald H. Kraft (confirmed) Important Dates: Position Paper- 4th Oct. 2006 Registration- 31st Oct. 2006 Workshop- 12th - 15th Dec. 2006
ECIR 2007	The 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval.
TLIR'07	First Int. Workshop on Teaching and Learning of IR. It is very important that both undergraduate and postgraduate students understand the basis of IR discipline, not just with the aim of conducting research in the future, but also as a way of learning how search engines work, which are essential tools to use for their own benefit on a daily basis. One way to improve the profile of the subject is to create a common space where IR lecturers and researchers can share their experiences and opinions in the field of IR teaching at any of the educational levels (primary, secondary and tertiary). The aim of the workshop is to provide this common space. Contact: Andrew MacFarlane
Search Engines Strategies	An event for search engine marking and optimization held by Incisive Media
CORIA 2007	The 4th Conference on Information Retrieval and Its Applications
DIR 2007 - 7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop	The primary aim of the DIR 2007 Workshop is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval (IR) and related disciplines can exchange and present innovative research developments.
CIDM 2007 Session	A Session at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007).
WWW 2007	The Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007). The most highly regarded web conference, with a theme on IR.
NTCIR-6 Pre-Meeting Workshop (PMW)	NTCIR-6 Pre-Meeting Workshop (PMW) on Information Access Evaluation May 15, 2007 @ NII, Tokyo, Japan. Following the success of Open Submission Sessions over the last two years, NTCIR will hold a Pre-Meeting Workshop (PMW) on evaluation in Information Access, which will run the day before the main sessions of NTCIR start. IMPORTANT DATES: December 15, 2006: Submissions due February 15, 2007: Notifications of acceptance March 15, 2007: Final manuscripts due May 15, 2007 (Day 1 of the NTCIR-6 Workshop Meeting): PMW takes place Contact: Mark Sanderson
DMIR 2007	The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Data Mining and Information Retrieval (IEEE DMIR 2007). A conference on the issues of information retrieval and data mining.
AGM 2007 + Talk	Celebrating 50 years of the BCS and over 30 years of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group This year the AGM will be held on the evening of the Tuesday 22nd of May, together with a talk to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the BCS. The talk is entitled Past, Present and Future of Information Retrieval and will be given by Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen of the University of Glasgow. These events are free, and we welcome all IRSG members to attend both the AGM and the Talk.
Search Solutions	The IRSG's continuation of the Industry Day held in 2006. This event will comprise of a series of invited speakers from leading search engine companies.
RIAO 2007	A tri-annual conference on both scientific and industrial solutions to information processing problems.
ICAIL 2007	The Eleventh International Conference on Artifical Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2007). An AI and Law conference which has a theme on Information Retrieval.
i3	Information: Interaction and Impact (i3). A conference on the impact of user interactions in information, and the technology which mediates this - including IR.
UM 2007	The 11th International Conference on User Modelling (UM 2007) A general user modelling conference, which will be of interest to members interested in modelling user behaviour in IR.
SSMS 2007	Summer School on Multimedia Semantics: Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications A week long summer school on multimedia with focus on Retrieval.
IAPR MLDM 2007	The 5th IAPR International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining A general AI Conference with several themes of interest to IRSG members, such as classification, image retrieval, etc ).
SIGIR 2007	The 30th annual SIGIR conference will be held from 23 to 27 July 2007 at the grand hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam. SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the field of information retrieval.
FDIA 2007	The BCS-IRSG is proud to launch a new symposium called Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA).
ESSIR 2007	27-31 August 2007, This five-day school (Monday to Friday) will give participants a grounding in the core subjects of Information Retrieval, such as Architecture, IR models and Evaluation as well as various important applications such as Web IR, Interactive IR, XML Retrieval, Question Answering and Multimedia Retrieval. Moreover, ESSIR 2007 has a strong focus on large-scale IR and covers some recent and trendy topics and applications in IR, such as Distributed and Peer-to-Peer IR, Web Usage and Mining, Intranet/Enterprise search, Blogs Retrieval and Information Retrieval in Context. The target audience of the Summer School are advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic and industrial researchers and developers. The Summer School will include lectures from leading researchers in their fields, as well as demonstrations and panels.
ESSIR 2007	The BCS-IRSG is proud to support the European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2007). The 6th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2007) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, hosted by the Information Retrieval Group of the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. This five-day school (Monday to Friday) will give participants a grounding in the core subjects of Information Retrieval, such as Architecture, IR models and Evaluation as well as various important applications such as Web IR, Interactive IR, XML Retrieval, Question Answering and Multimedia Retrieval. Moreover, ESSIR 2007 has a strong focus on large-scale IR and covers some recent and trendy topics and applications in IR, such as Distributed and Peer-to-Peer IR, Web Usage and Mining, Intranet/Enterprise search, Blogs Retrieval and Information Retrieval in Context. The target audience of the Summer School are advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic and industrial researchers and developers. The Summer School will include lectures from leading researchers in their fields, as well as demonstrations and panels.
ICTIR 2007	Location: Budapest, Hungary Date: 18-20 October, 2007 Purpose It is commonly agreed that the term 'information retrieval' (IR) refers to fetching information relevant to users' information needs from recorded -- using primarily, albeit not exclusively, (generally networked) computer systems -- information. As such, IR -- building firmly on its library science roots -- has by now proved to stretch beyond information and computer sciences, reaching mathematics and linguistics, tackling and challenging new areas like physics, philosophy, sociology, or biology. It is the broad goal of the 1st ICTIR 2007 to be the forum that reflects just this new, multi-valued meaning of IR in terms of new and original results. The purpose of ICTIR'07 is to present, discuss, analyze and integrate new theoretical results in IR, including the traditional and already well-established fields and approaches in IR, but also welcoming new approaches coming from, e.g., physics, linguistics, biology, philosphy, and other areas. Experimental or practical results from new paradigms will be considered as well.
INEX 2007	Evaluating the effectiveness of XML retrieval systems requires a test collection where the relevance assessments are provided according to a relevance criterion, which takes into account the imposed structural aspects. In 2002, the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) started to address these issues. The aim of the INEX initiative is to establish an infrastructure and provide means, in the form of a large XML test collection and appropriate scoring methods, for the evaluation of content-oriented XML retrieval systems. Evaluating retrieval effectiveness is typically done by using test collections assembled specifically for evaluating particular retrieval tasks. A test collection as such has been built as a result of many rounds of INEX (annually since 2002). In INEX 2007, participating organizations will be able to compare the retrieval effectiveness of their XML retrieval systems and will contribute to the construction of a new XML test collection based on the Wikipedia. The test collection will also provide participants a means for future comparative and quantitative experiments.
International Conference on Content Based Image	ICCBIR-2008 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multi media database and image retrieval. A unique feature of the conference is the high level of participation from practitioners. Applications papers and presentations suitable for a wide audience are therefore particularly welcome. Important Dates: Abstract Submission 25th January 2008 Paper Submission 25th February 2008 Acceptance notification 25th April 2008 Final paper due 26th May 2008
ECIR 2008	The 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, 30th March - 3rd April 2008, organised by the University of Glasgow, in cooperation with The Open University and BCS-IRSG, supported by ACM SIGIR.
4th Annual Freedom of Information Conference	The Annual Conference brings together the UK\'s leading FOI experts for an invaluable 2-day learning and networking experience.
13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems	Since 1995, the NLDB conference, with high impact factor, has aimed at bringing together researchers, industrials and potential users interested in various applications of Natural Language in the Web and database driven information systems area. NLDB 2008 invites researchers to submit papers on recent, unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language processing and management related to information systems. The Program Committee also encourages people from the industry to submit papers reporting on industrial projects.
Workshop E-Government and Digital Archives (Informatik 2008)	Call for Papers: Workshop E-Government and Digital Archives During the German Computer Science conference Informatik 2008, a workshop about EGovernment and Digital Archives is scheduled to take place at the 11th of September 2008. As eGov can also be web sites and web base eGov applications the archiving of them or accessing digital archives via web can be from interest as topic as well I hope you will interested as well. The conference Informatik 2008 will be held in Munich, Germany, September 8-13, 2008. The URL for the conference is http://www.informatik2008.de The Workshop URL is http://www.hauptstaatsarchiv.hessen.de/egovda It is our pleasure to invite all members of the archival and computer science community to submit papers for the workshop. Please note that the submission deadline is April 28. We are looking forward to receiving your paper contributions.
3rd Annual Data Protection Practical Compliance Conference	Ireland\'s largest Data Protection Conference is a one-day event specifically designed to deliver the latest thinking in the rapidly expanding fields of data protection, data security and privacy. The keynote speaker is Billy Hawkes, the Data Protection Commissioner who will speak on ‘The good practice guide: how to avoid being investigated by the Commissioner’. Other topics include data sharing, dealing with data breaches, marketing, and training staff in data protection compliance. The Conference is produced in association with Data Protection Ireland journal and sponsored by Arthur Cox. Venue: Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland. For further information: PDP Conference booking line: +353 (0)1 657 1479
7th Annual Data Protection Compliance Conference	Keynote speaker: Richard Thomas, the UK Information Commissioner. Information professionals will find it invaluable to attend this important two-day event, which provides delegates with up to the minute compliance advice and unparalleled networking opportunities. The Conference is run in association with Privacy & Data Protection Journal ( http://www.pdpjournal.com ) and is accredited by the Law Society with 12 CPD Points.
Tenth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2008)	The ASSETS series of conferences is aimed at providing a technical forum for presenting and disseminating innovative research results that address the use of computing and information technologies to help persons with disabilities.
Second Information Interaction in Context	IIiX invites research contributions that approach information contexts from a broad range of perspectives, such as context surrounding documents, context influencing seeking, humans and their tasks, the context of information seekers and providers, the context of interactive search, and the technical contexts of information systems.
AIR 2008	As a continuation of the successful workshop in 2006, the Second International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval will be held in conjunction with the IIiX 2008 conference. The workshop will be revolved around the following themes: * Adaptive retrieval models * Adaptive result presentation * Adaptive user modeling * Context modelling * Interactive multimedia retrieval * Test collection building for the evaluation of adaptive systems The workshop focuses especially on researchers who have interest in context sensitive retrieval, personalization systems, adaptive retrieval models, implicit feedback systems, test collection building for interactive evaluation, interactive and adaptive multimedia retrieval and evaluation methodologies. The workshop will be held on the Saturday, 18th October 2008 immediately after the IIiX 2008 conference
7th International Semantic Web Conference	A conference of interest to members working in the area of semantic search. Karlsruhe, Germany, 26th- 30th October 2008.
ACM Seventeenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008)	A conference with a number of major themes of interest to members including IR and information management. Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa, California, US
LSDS-IR 2008: 6th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval	The workshop is collocated with CIKM\'08. Due to the dramatically increasing amount of available data, effective and scalable solutions for data organization and search are essential. Distributed solutions naturally provide promising alternatives to standard centralized approaches. With the computational power of thousands or millions of computers in clusters or P2P systems, the challenges that arise are manifold, ranging from efficient resource discovery to load balancing issues and distributed ranking problems. This workshop will provide space for researchers to discuss these problems and to define new directions for the work on distributed information retrieval. We will also encourage submissions of position papers, experiences, software demonstrations and posters in the area of distributed information retrieval.
XIV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (jointly with the V Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems) - WebMedia 2008	WebMedia, now in its fourteenth edition, constitutes the most important forum for researchers and professionals regarding the multimedia and hypermedia areas, as well as the World Wide Web.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval	The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. All papers in the main track must be high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia exploration, summarization and retrieval.
ECIR 2009	ECIR is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of information retrieval. The 31th European Conference on Information Retrieval will be held in Toulouse, France, 6th-9th April 2009, organised by IRIT, in cooperation with BCS-IRSG and ACM SIGIR. The proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag.
Search Solutions 2009	Search Solutions is a special one-day event dedicated to the latest innovations in information search and retrieval. In contrast to other major industry events, Search Solutions aims to be highly interactive and collegial (with attendance limited to 60-80 delegates) and features a high quality technical programme.
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2009)	The primary focus of KDIR is to provide a major forum for the scientific and technical advancement of knowledge discovery and information retrieval.
FQAS 2009	A conference more focused on query and answering type problems.
ECIR 2010	The annual conference of the IRSG.
ECIR 2011	The annual conference of the IRSG.