=Paper= {{Paper |id=Vol-2482/paper1 |storemode=property |title=CIKM 2018 Workshops: Preface |pdfUrl=https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2482/paper1.pdf |volume=Vol-2482 |authors=Alfredo Cuzzocrea,Francesco Bonchi,Dimitris Gunopulos |dblpUrl=https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cikm/X18 }} ==CIKM 2018 Workshops: Preface== https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2482/paper1.pdf
                             CIKM 2018 Workshops: Preface

             Alfredo Cuzzocrea                                      Francesco Bonchi            Dimitris Gunopulos
    University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR                               ISI Foundation             University of Athens
                Trieste, Italy                                         Turin, Italy               Athens, Greece
       alfredo.cuzzocrea@dia.units.it                            francesco.bonchi@isi.it           dg@di.uoa.gr



1     Introduction                                                      “From Big Data and Big Information to Big Knowl-
                                                                     edge” has been the main theme of both CIKM 2018
This paper briefly introduces the workshops that have
                                                                     main conference and CIKM 2018 workshops. Indeed,
been co-located with the 27th ACM International
                                                                     nowadays big data management and analytics (e.g.,
Conference on Information and Knowledge Manage-
                                                                     [ZE11, CCS12]), including advanced topics like knowl-
ment (CIKM 2018), held during October 22-26, 2018
                                                                     edge and information extraction from big data sources
in Turin, Italy.
                                                                     (e.g., [BCC+ 14, WYC+ 13]) and privacy-preserving big
   CIKM 2018 selected 9 workshops, which have been                   data management (e.g., [CB11]), play a critical role,
focused on several topics, all concerned with informa-               and they are attracting the attention from the commu-
tion and knowledge management in the big data era.                   nity more and more. Papers presented at these work-
The CIKM 2018 workshop are listed in the following:                  shops have been focused on these topics mainly, with
                                                                     relevant proposals that span from theory to practice
    • DAB 2018 – 2018 Workshop on Data and Algo-                     and high-impact research project results.
      rithms Bias;                                                      The workshops have finally originated in some rele-
                                                                     vant questions that correspond to some open problems
    • DTMBio 2018 – 12th International Workshop on
                                                                     in big data management and analytics research. In the
      Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics;
                                                                     following, we report on some among the most notice-
                                                                     able ones.
    • EYRE 2018 – 1st International Workshop on En-
      titY REtrieval ;                                               Open Big Data Open big data define the manage-
                                                                     ment, mining and analytics of big data in the so-called
    • GLARE 2018 – 1st International Workshop on                     open environments (e.g., industry 4.0 settings), where
      GeneraLization in informAtion REtrieval ;                      (big) data can be exchanged among heterogeneous sys-
                                                                     tems, and analytics processes must be designed as to
    • KDAH 2018 – 2018 International Workshop on
                                                                     capture the peculiarities and the (business) goals of
      Knowledge-Driven Analytics Impacting Human
                                                                     the different environments, simultaneously.
      Quality of Life;
                                                                     Big Data Quality Big data quality refers to the issue
    • LeDAM 2018 – 2018 International Workshop on                    of understanding the quality of big data sources. This
      Legal DAta Mining;                                             problem is strictly related to the so-called provenance
                                                                     problem (e.g., [CD18]). Indeed, when we process a
    • INRA 2018 – 6th International Workshop on
                                                                     big data source, usually we do not know the origin
      News Recommendation and Analytics;
                                                                     of such data, but simply use them. The challenge is
                                                                     thus determining models, techniques and algorithms
    • RDSM 2018 – 2nd International Workshop on Ru-
                                                                     to check about the quality of the (big) data source, in
      mours and Deception in Social Media;
                                                                     an automatic or semi-automatic manner.
    • SIR 2018 – 2018 International Workshop on So-                  Big Data in Emerging Domains The usage, pro-
      cial Interaction-based Recommendation.                         cessing and management of big data sources in emerg-
Copyright © CIKM 2018 for the individual papers by the papers'       ing domains, such as bio-medical systems, social net-
authors. Copyright © CIKM 2018 for the volume as a collection        works, sensor systems, and so forth, is, without doubts,
by its editors. This volume and its papers are published under
                                                                     one of the most relevant challenges of future years, as
the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC
BY 4.0).
practical issues pose the basis for relevant innovation
in science and technology.
   We firmly hope that papers of the CIKM 2018 work-
shops will represent a milestone in the exciting context
of big data research.

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