<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><br> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br><br> 18th International Symposium on <br> String Processing and Information Retrieval<br> (SPIRE 2011)<br><br> October 17-21, 2011 -- Pisa, Italy<br> <a href="http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/">http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/</a><br><br> ########################################################<br> ## Save on your registration fee by registering ##<br> ## by October 10, 2011 ##<br> ########################################################<br><br><br><br> Sponsored by<br> Google<br> NoemaLife<br> Microsoft Research<br> Yahoo! Research<br> Twitter<br> Associazione Italiana di Informatica e Calcolo Automatico (AICA)<br> The ASSETS ICT PSP Project<br> Dipartimento ICT - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche<br><br><br><br><br>% ---------------------------------<br>% AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE<br>% ---------------------------------<br><br>You are cordially invited to participate in SPIRE 2011, the 18th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. The scope of the SPIRE series of symposia includes not only fundamental algorithms in string processing and information retrieval, but also SP and IR techniques as applied to areas such as computational biology, DNA sequencing, and Web mining. Given its interdisciplinary nature, SPIRE offers a unique opportunity for researchers from these different areas to meet and network. Typical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br><br>* String Processing: Dictionary algorithms, Text searching, Pattern matching, Text and sequence compression, Succinct and compressed indexing, Automata-based string processing;<br>* Biological Sequence Processing: Analysis of DNA and RNA sequencing data, Molecular sequence processing, Recognition of genes and regulatory elements, Comparative genomics and population genetics;<br>* Information Retrieval: Information retrieval models, Indexing, Ranking and filtering, Interface design for IR, Evaluation issues in IR, Text analysis, Text mining, Text classification and clustering, Information extraction, Language models and topic models for search related-tasks, Efficient implementation of IR systems, Algorithms and data structures for IR;<br>* Search-related tasks: Cross-lingual information retrieval, Multimedia / multi-modal information retrieval, Recommendation and collaborative filtering, Semi-structured data retrieval, Blog retrieval.<br><br><br>% ---------------------------------<br>% REGISTRATION<br>% ---------------------------------<br><br>Detailed registration information can be found at<br><br><a href="http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=244">http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=244</a><br><br><br>% ---------------------------------<br>% PROGRAM<br>% ---------------------------------<br><br>The SPIRE 2011 program features <br><br>* the SPIRE 2011 Tutorials day (Oct 17)<br>* the SPIRE 2011 Main Conference (Oct 18-20)<br>* the SPIRE 2011 Workshops day (Oct 21)<br><br>See <a href="http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=252">http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=252</a> and for the detailed program of the entire conference<br><br>% ---------------------------------<br>% MAIN CONFERENCE<br>% ---------------------------------<br><br>The SPIRE 2011 main conference features two invited talks:<br><br>* Erik Demaine (MIT), "Constructing Strings at the Nano Scale via Staged <br> Self-Assembly"<br><br>* Abdur Chowdhury (Twitter), (Title to be Announced)<br><br>plus 30 long papers and 10 short papers. <br><br>See <a href="http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=254">http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=254</a> for the list of accepted papers<br><br><br>% ---------------------------------<br>% TUTORIALS<br>% ---------------------------------<br><br>The SPIRE 2011 Tutorials day (Oct 17 -- see <a href="http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=257">http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=257</a> for details) features the following half-day tutorials:<br><br>- Introduction to Web Retrieval, by Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! <br> Research)<br>- Introduction to Sequence Learning, by Corinna Cortes (Google) & <br> Mehryar Mohri (New York University)<br>- Computational Geography, by Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo!Research) & Gary <br> Gale (Nokia)<br>- Space-Efficient Data Structures, by Francisco Claude (University of <br> Waterloo) & Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile)<br><br>## Tutorial attendance is free for everyone registered for the SPIRE 2011 main conference. ##<br><br>% ---------------------------------<br>% WORKSHOPS<br>% ---------------------------------<br><br>The SPIRE 2011 Workshops day (Oct 21 -- see <a href="http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=259">http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=259</a> for details ) features two full-day workshops:<br><br>- Workshop on the Algorithmic Analysis of Biological Data (WAABD 2011), organized by Concettina Guerra (University of Padova) et al.<br><br>- Workshop On Compression, Text, And Algorithms (WCTA 2011), organized by Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile)<br><br>## Workshop attendance is free for everyone registered for the SPIRE 2011 main conference. ##<br><br>% ---------------------------------<br>% PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>% ---------------------------------<br><br> Omar Alonso, Microsoft, US<br> Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy<br> Amihood Amir, Bar Ilan University, Israel<br> Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK<br> Rolf Backofen, University of Freiburg, Germany<br> Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain<br> Alvaro Barreiro, University of A Coruña, Spain<br> Philip Bille, Technical University, Denmark<br> Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Italy<br> Danny Breslauer, University of Haifa, Israel<br> Edgar Chávez, University of Michoacana, Mexico<br> Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada<br> Maxime Crochemore, King’s College London, UK<br> Brian Davison, Lehigh University, UK<br> Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montréal, Canada<br> Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa, Italy<br> Frantisek Franek, McMaster University, Canada<br> Leszek A. Gąsieniec, University of Liverpool, UK<br> Dora Giammarresi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy<br> Nazli Goharian, Georgetown University, USA<br> Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France<br> Concettina Guerra, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA<br> Antonio Gullì, Microsoft, UK<br> Jan Holub, Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic<br> Heikki Hyyrö, University of Tampere, Finland<br> Lucian Ilie, University of Western Ontario, Canada<br> Costas S. Iliopoulos, King’s College London, UK<br> Shunsuke Inenaga, Kyushu University, Japan<br> Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br> Takuya Kida, Hokkaido University, Japan<br> Marcin Kubica, University of Warsaw, Poland<br> Gregory Kucherov, University of Paris-Est MLV, France<br> Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research, Spain<br> Moshe Lewenstein, Bar Ilan University, Israel<br> Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia<br> Laurent Mouchard, University of Rouen, France<br> Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile, Chile<br> Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany<br> Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK<br> Kunsoo Park, Seoul National University, Korea<br> Laxmi Parida, IBM Research, US<br> Marco Pellegrini, IIT-CNR, Italy<br> Pierre Peterlongo, INRIA/Irisa, France<br> Andrea Pietracaprina, University of Padua, Italy<br> Ely Porat, Bar-Ilan University, Israel<br> Venkatesh Raman, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India<br> Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Google Research, US<br> Horacio Rodríguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain<br> Marie-France Sagot, INRIA, France<br> S. Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Canada<br> Leena Salmela, University of Helsinki, Finland<br> Jeanette Schmidt, Stanford University, USA<br> Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore<br> Steven Skiena, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA<br> Dina Sokol, City University of New York, USA<br> Jens Stoye, University of Bielefeld, Germany<br> Torsten Suel, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA<br> Fabio Vandin, Brown University, USA<br> Stéphane Vialette, University of Paris-Est MLV, France<br> Alain Viari, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France<br> Jeffrey S. Vitter, University of Kansas, USA<br> Oren Weimann, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel<br> Le Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University, US<br> Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil<br><br><br>% ---------------------------------<br>% ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br>% ---------------------------------<br><br>Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT<br> (General Chair)<br><br>Roberto Grossi, Università di Pisa, IT<br>Fabrizio Silvestri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT<br> (Program Co-Chairs)<br><br>Andrea Esuli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT<br> (Tutorials Chair)<br><br>Nadia Pisanti, Università di Pisa, IT<br> (Workshops Chair)<br><br><br>% ---------------------------------<br>% CONTACT INFORMATION<br>% ---------------------------------<br><br>Address any further inquiry to:<br><br>Fabrizio Sebastiani<br>Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione<br>Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche<br>Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1<br>56124 Pisa (ITALY)<br><br>Phone: +39.050.3152892<br>Fax: +39.050.3153464<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:genchair.spire2011@isti.cnr.it">genchair.spire2011@isti.cnr.it</a></body></html>