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<div dir="auto"><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">============================================================</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> CIKM 2021: The 30th ACM International Conference</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> on Information and Knowledge Management</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> 1 - 5 November 2021, Online</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> (Queensland, Australia)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> http://www.cikm2021.org </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">============================================================</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future. CIKM 2021 will take place online from 1-5 November 2021 in a lively and interactive manner. Now in its 30th year, CIKM is a leading international forum for research into information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances in data and knowledge bases. The list of keynote speakers for this year CIKM is available here: </span><span style="color:#d5dade;font-family:Arial;font-size: 10.5pt">https://www.cikm2021.org/programme/keynote-speakers</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Registration Fees</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">All registration fees are quoted in US Dollars – USD</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"><span style="white-space:pre">Category - Author Author Registration (Until 15th September)</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Author ACM-SIG Member</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"><span style="white-space:pre">[Either Professional or Student] $279</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"><span style="white-space:pre">Author Non-Member $329</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"><span style="white-space:pre">Category – Workshop Author Workshop Author Registration (Until 25 October)</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"><span style="white-space:pre">AUTHOR AnalytiCup or Workshop $49</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">(with full access to conference)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"><span style="white-space:pre">Category - Attendee Attendee Registration (Until 25 October)</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"><span style="white-space:pre">Conference Attendee $49</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">ACM-SIG Member</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Accepted memberships include ACM, SIGIR and SIGweb.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">To join SIGIR as a member, please visit this link: https://sigir.org/general-information/membership/</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">To join SIGWEB as a member, please visit this link: https://www.sigweb.org/about-sigweb/join-acm-sigweb</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">To join ACM, please visit this link:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;font-family:Arial;font-size: 10.5pt">https://www.acm.org/membership/join</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Registration includes</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Admission to all sessions, including, plenary keynotes, main tracks sessions, posters, workshops, tutorials, and AnalytiCup</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Access to digital copy of the proceedings</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Gift: CIKM-21 polo shirt. Register by the early deadline of 15 September to get the shirt before the conference</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Author Registration Policy</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* All author registrations should be received by 15 September in order to have the papers included in the proceedings. Only papers covered by a registration will be included in the conference proceedings.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* At least one author from each paper must register for the conference.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: Each accepted paper must have an author registration fee paid. For example, if you are the solo author of two papers, you should pay the registration fee twice. On the other hand, if you are an author of two papers, each with other co-author, you may decide to register yourself for one of the papers, and one of your co-authors for the other paper.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Registration Methods</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Please register through the online registration system. Methods of payment accepted include credit card and wire transfer. Any queries email: cikm21@uq.edu.au</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Register: https://cvent.me/av1nnD</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Topics of Interest</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Conference sessions will include papers on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modeling, information </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> credibility)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graph, multimedia, scientific, and social media data)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, understanding, interpretability)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Information access and retrieval (e.g., ad hoc and web search, facets and entities, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender and filtering systems)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Users and interfaces for information and data systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Understanding multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">CIKM 2021 Terms & Conditions</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* Registrations are accepted only on full completion of the online registration form.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* No booking will be confirmed until the registration payment is received in full.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* CIKM 2021 Committee reserves the right to alter any of the program or other arrangements for this conference; including cancellation or postponement of the conference should unforeseen circumstances require it. The organisers accept no responsibility for resulting costs or inconvenience to participants in this case.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* It is the responsibility of the author or participant to ensure that adequate internet connectivity is available at their place of viewing for the duration of the online conference.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Cancellation Policy</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Requests for cancellations or changes must be sent in writing to the registration desk: cikm21@uq.edu.au</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">If you cancel your registration:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* By 25 October Attendee registrations will receive a 50% refund</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* No refunds issued from 26 October 2021</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* There is no refund for non-attendance</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">* No refunds for Author registrations</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">ACM Policy Against Discrimination</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">All authors and participants must adhere the ACM discrimination policy.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">For full details, please visit this site:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/officers-manual/policy-against-discrimination-and-harassment</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">----------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Contact Information</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">----------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#d5dade;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">For any registration-related issues or queries please send an email to: cikm21@uq.edu.au</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span></div>
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<div dir="auto">Dr. Aldo <strong>Lipani</strong> | <a href="https://aldolipani.com" target="_blank">aldolipani.com</a><br />
Asst. Prof. in Machine Learning<br />
University College London (UCL)</div>
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