WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is a young ACM conference intended to be the publication venue for research in the areas of search and data mining. Indeed, the pace of innovation in these areas prevents proper coverage by conferences of broader scope. The high attendance at the first two WSDMs, held at Stanford University and Barcelona in February 2008 and 2009, has confirmed community interest in a more focused venue.

WSDM publishes original, high quality submissions related to search and data mining on the Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search and retrieval, algorithm design and analysis, economics implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.

• Date: February 9-12, 2011
• Location: Hong Kong
• Venue: Sheraton Hotel and Towers
• Highlights
  • Single-Track oral presentations (~ 16%)
  • Poster presentations (~20%)
  • Plenary Speakers
  • Workshops, Forums, Panels
  • Tutorials
  • Awards
  • Exhibition
  • Social Events
    • Banquet

• Association for Computing Machinery
  • SIG IR
  • SIG KDD
  • SIG MOD
  • SIG Web
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Six full complementary registrations for the conference
• Advance recognition as a Platinum supporter in electronic communications and on the web
• Placement in the souvenir bag
• A regular table for exhibition

• Three full complementary registrations for the conference
• Advance recognition as a Gold supporter in electronic communications and on the web
• Placement in the souvenir bag
• A small table for exhibition

• Two full complementary registrations for the conference
• Advance recognition as a Silver supporter in electronic communications and on the web
• Placement in the souvenir bag

• One full complementary registrations for the conference
• Advance recognition as a Bronze supporter in electronic communications and on the web
• Placement in the souvenir bag

• Plenary Session With Keynote Speaker
• VIP Reception
• General Reception
• Networking Lunch
• Recognition Lunch
• Award Banquet & Ceremony (Banquet Talk)
• Awards
  • Best Paper Award
  • Best Student Paper Award
  • Best Student Presentation Award
  • Best Poster Award
  • Best Student Poster Award
  • Young Investigator Award
  • WSDM Service Award
• Student Forum/Program
• Student Travel Grants/Scholarship
• Excursion
• Internet Cafe
• Conference Program
• Conference Signage
• Souvenirs
  • Conference bags
  • Note Pads
  • Lanyards

Sponsorship includes:

• Recognition of sponsorship on conference signage and conference program
• Acknowledgment of sponsorship on the WSDM2011 website

• Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Christos Faloutsos, CMU, USA

• Kai Yu, NEC Laboratories, USA

• Steven C.H. Hoi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Hongbo Deng, UIUC, USA
• Hao Ma, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Hong Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Shenghuo Zhu, NEC Laboratories, USA
• Yi Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
• Raman Chandrasekar, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
• Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
• Richard Sia, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
• Albert Au Yeung, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
• William Chang, Baidu, China
• Gordon Sum, Tencent,
• Eytan Adar, University of Michigan, USA
• Xifeng Yan, UCSB, USA
• Fan Guo, CMU, USA
• Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Michael Lyu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Dan Hong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Tak-Lam Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

• Michael Chiu-Lung Chau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Hong Cheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Rakesh Agrawal (Microsoft)
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo!, Univ. of Chile)
• Ziv Bar-Yossef (Technion, Google)
• Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay)
• Monika Henzinger (EPFL, Google)
• Jon Kleinberg (Cornell)
• Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo!)