International Workshop on Search Computing, Brussels 2012

Search has become an important and necessary component of many diverse ICT applications. A large number of business and application areas depend on the efficiency and availability of search techniques that are capable to process and retrieve heterogeneous and dispersed data. Search techniques are directly related to a number of research topics and challenges ranging from multimodal analysis and indexing to affective computing and human aspects as well as to various socio-economic challenges including standardization, legal and social issues.

The program includes invited talks from experts coming from industry, academia and policy organizations covering various topics of Search Computing such as

• Social Media and Mobile Search
• Search in Large-Scale Multimedia Data
• Enterprise Search
• Media Search
• Search and Technology Transfer

To find out more please visit the workshop´s website.