Call for Full Research Papers

The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining, and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM 2025 will take place between Nov 10-14, 2025 in Coex, Seoul, Korea.

CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future.

Important Dates

All deadlines are at 11:59pm in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

• Full Papers Abstract Deadline: May 16, 2025
• Full Papers Final Deadline: May 23, 2025
• Papers Notifications: August 4, 2025
• Camera Ready Deadline: August 27, 2025
• Registration: To be updated

Topics of Interest

We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Data acquisition and processing (e.g., IoT Data, Data Quality, Data Privacy, Mitigating Biases, Data Wrangling, Data exploration, Data Preparation, Valuation, and Trading)
• Data Integration and aggregation (e.g., Semantic Processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graph, data warehousing, data lake, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility)
• Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware)
• Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, time series, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graph, multimedia, scientific, and social media data)
• Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, algorithmic interpretability)
• Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction)
• Information access and retrieval (e.g., Information Retrieval with Large Language Models, Question Answering and Dialogue Systems, Open-ended Question Answering Systems, Generation of Knowledge Graphs from Unstructured data, Retrieval Models, Query Processing, Personalization, Recommender Systems, Filtering Systems)
• Users and interfaces for information systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces)
• Evaluation (e.g., performance studies, benchmarks, online and offline evaluation, best practices)
• Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, crowdsourcing in the era of large language models)
• Mining multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge representations)
• Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output)
• Fairness, Ethics, and Explainability in Information and Knowledge Management (e.g., fairness, accountability, ethics, explainability)
• Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social networks, education, business)
• Generative AI for Data and Knowledge Management (e.g., GenAI for structured and unstructured data processing, GenAI for data synthesis and simulation, GenAI for information summarization, content creation, and visualization)
• Resource Efficient Generative AI models for knowledge management (e.g., model compression, distributed learning, and leveraging edge computing to reduce computational overhead.)

Paper Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original, full-length research papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. Full-length papers should satisfy the standard requirements of top-tier international research conferences.

• Format: Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2025 Easychair site in PDF format, using the 2-column ACM sigconf template.
• Page Limit: Full papers cannot exceed 9 pages, including an appendix, plus unlimited pages for the GenAI Usage Disclosure section and references.
• Anonymity: The review of manuscripts will be double-blind. Submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review.
• Usage of Generative AI:
  • Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as part of the paper’s experimental analysis.
  • AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work (e.g., grammar checks, word autocorrect), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed.
  • A “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section must be included at the end of the main contents and appendix, right before the references. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the page limit.
  • Authors must provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data).
  • All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI.

Please check our attendance policy in case of severe travel restrictions.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Seoul, Korea as scheduled in the conference program.

The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Dual Submission Policy

Submitting papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been published, accepted for publication, or submitted in parallel to other conferences is not allowed. However, it is allowed to make an abstract submission by May 16, 2025 (without uploading the paper PDF) for a paper that is still under review as long as the ongoing review process ends by the full paper final deadline of May 23, 2025. You need to withdraw your submission in case the paper is accepted or still under review by May 23, 2025.

Authors are allowed to submit papers that have been presented or are to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit anonymized work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). In this case, the authors must modify the title and abstract while refraining from citing the manuscript to preserve anonymity.

Authorship Policy

Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. The full list of author names, including the ordering, must be finalized by the paper submission deadline.

Conflict of Interest Policy

All authors must adhere to the ACM Conflict of Interest policy. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/conflict-of-interest.

Desk Rejection Policy

Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs.

ACM Policy Against Harassment

All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment.

PC Chairs Contact Information

For more information, contact the PC chairs at cikm2025-pc@easychair.org.

• Carl Yang, Emory University, USA
• Senjuti Basu Roy, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
• Jessie Li, Yunqi Academy of Engineering, China
• Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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