CALL FOR PAPERS: Keyword Search on Structured Data

CALL FOR PAPERS: Keyword Search on Structured Data Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Guest Edtiors: Surajit Chaudhuri, Yi Chen, Jeffrey Xu Yu Web search engines have popularized the keyword search queries for text documents. With increasing number of consumers facing structured data stores, it is now also important to support keyword search queries efficiently over such data stores. Just as keyword search is popular over not only on web documents but also on the intranet of the enterprises, keyword search over databases is also important for structured data collections on the intranet and indeed on individual databases. However, due to the inherent ambiguity of keyword search queries and the richness of semantics attached to structured data, data, providing intelligent search results efficiently is extremely challenging. This special issue of TKDE on “Keyword Search on Structured Data” calls for original articles that propose innovative approaches to address this challenging task. Topics Original contributions, not currently under review or accepted by another j ournal, are solicited in areas including (but not limited to): • Keyword search on relational databases • Keyword search on XML data • Keyword search on extracted data from text documents • Keyword search on data streams and continuous monitoring systems • Enterprise search architectures • Ranking schemes for structured data • Query processing for keyword queries • Result presentation for keyword search • Query cleaning • Evaluation of result quality for keyword search Submission Guidelines Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published in recent issues of the journal or at http://www.computer.org/tkde/. Mandatory over-length page charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. Schedule Deadline for paper submission: April 30, 2010 Completion of first review: July 31, 2010 Minor/Major revision due: Sept 30, 2010 Final decision notification: Nov 15, 2010 Publication materials due: Dec 5, 2010 Publication date (tentative): May, 2011 Guest Editors Surajit Chaudhuri Microsoft Research, USA surajitc AT microsoft.com Yi Chen Arizona State University, USA yi AT asu.edu Jeffrey Xu Yu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong yu AT se.cuhk.edu.hk