CIKM 2000

News and Announcements

Conference Program
   Preliminary Schedule
   Tutorials
   Workshops and Symposia
   -- DOLAP 2000 
   -- ACM GIS 2000 
   -- NPIVM 2000

Registration
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Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM)

McLean, VA (near Washington, DC)
November 6-11, 2000

Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS

The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. An important part of the conference is the Workshops program which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives.


News

Registration for CIKM 2000 is now open. The early registration deadline is October 13.

U.S. Citizens, please note! November 7th is election day. Unless you are registered to vote in or around Washington, DC, you will want to arrange an absentee ballot.

All papers submitted to CIKM 2000 have been reviewed, and authors were notified on July 23, 2000. If you did not receive your email notification, contact Ian Soboroff as soon as possible. The final camera-ready version of accepted papers were due on September 8, 2000.

The original Call for Papers is available.


Conference
Program

The CIKM 2000 Technical Program will take place on Tuesday, November 7 through Thursday, November 9. The program features parallel technical sessions, panels, and keynote addresses by Erik Thomsen of Dimensional Systems and Dr. Ed Fox of Virginia Tech.

Four tutorials will be offered on Monday, November 6. These tutorials offer in-depth coverage of topics in information retrieval, software agents, and mobile systems.

Finally, the conference will be followed by three workshops:
Nov 10-11 Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS2000) (two days)
Nov 10 Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP2000) 
Nov 10 New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation (NPIVM2000)

 


Registration

Registration for CIKM 2000 is open! You can register online, or fill out a registration form and send it to the address indicated at the top of the form. The early registration deadline is October 13th.

The conference sessions will be held in facilities provided at the SAIC campus at 1710 SAIC Drive, McLean, VA 22102. Conference attendees may freely use the SAIC Shuttle (Tower III Lobby is the conference stop), which connects to the Dunn Loring subway station on the Orange Line. Here is a list of recommended restaurants close to SAIC.

Two conference hotels have been selected. The Tyson's West Park Hotel is within walking distance of the SAIC facilities. The Hilton a short cab ride away, and there is a complimentary limo available from the Hilton to SAIC. Note: To get the conference room rates listed below, bookings must be made by the dates indicated:

Hilton McLean Tyson's Corner

7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22102
Reservations: 800-774-1500
Local Phone: 703- 847-5000
Rate: $181/night (mention ACM and/or CIKM 2000)

Best Western Tyson's Westpark Hotel

8401 Westpark Drive, McLean, VA 22102
Reservations: 800-780-7234
Local Phone: 703-734-2800

NO MORE ROOMS AVAILABLE

The closest airport to the conference and hotels is Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD); the next closest is Reagan National Airport (DCA), but note that few if any international flights go there. Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) is also in the area, but is at least a two hour drive from the conference.

For travel to the hotels, the recommended shuttle services are:

  • Tysons Westpark Hotel: MTM, (800) 686-0003 (serves both Dulles and Reagan airports)
  • Hilton: Supershuttle, about $10, at (800) BLUE-VAN (serve all three airports in the area) (They do have a shuttle, which runs to a Metro station.)


This page is maintained by the conference webmaster, Ian Soboroff.