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Joint RuSSIR/EDBT Summer School 2011
Monday August 15 – Friday August 19, 2011
Saint Petersburg, Russia
http://romip.ru/edbt-russir2011
CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS
The joint RuSSIR/EDBT 2011 Summer School will be held on August
15-19, 2011 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The school is co-organized
by Saint Petersburg State University (http://eng.spbu.ru), Russian
Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP, http://romip.ru),
and EDBT Association (http://www.edbt.org)
The mission of the school is to teach students about modern problems
and methods in Information Retrieval and Database Technology; to
stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and
to create environment for informal contacts between scientists,
students and industry professionals.
RuSSIR/EDBT 2011 School will offer up to seven courses (in parallel
sessions) and host approximately 150 participants.
The working language of the school is English. The target audience of
the school is advanced graduate and PhD students, post-doctoral
researchers, academic and industrial researchers, and developers.
The School Program Committee invites proposals for courses on a wide
range of IR and DB-related topics, including but not limited to:
– IR and DB theory, models, and query languages
– Data structures, algorithms, and indexing
– Multimedia databases and IR
– Natural language processing
– User interfaces
– Semantic Web and knowledge databases
– Text mining, information and fact extraction
– Mobile applications for IR and Databases
– Dynamic media and data streams
– Social search and personalization
– IR evaluation
– Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation
– Availability, reliability, and scalability
– Complex event processing
– Digital libraries, museums, and archives
– Spatial, temporal, and geographic databases
– XML and semistructured databases
– Scientific and statistical databases