Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Ph.D. Workshop in Information and Knowledge Management

The publication date is one day earlier then the EST date to provide the proceedings to attendees in Australian on the first day of the conference It is our pleasure to host PIKM, the PhD workshop in Information and Knowledge Management, in conjunction with the ACM CIKM 2015 conference in Melbourne, Australia. PIKM has been a mpopular event in CIKM since its inception in 2007. This is the 8th time PIKM is being held and has attracted participants from all over the world. PIKM provides PhD students an opportunity to present their dissertation proposals and/or early doctoral research worldwide and get recognition for their work. It gives them valuable feedback at a relatively early stage from experts in their field in academia and industry. This helps them assess their work with respect to its novelty, technical contributions and real-world applications. Moreover, PIKM also presents a panorama of upcoming doctoral work to established researchers in information and knowledge management. It gives them an idea of the interesting topics that attract fresh doctorates. It could help them tap this potential at an early stage through summer internships, research collaborations and more. There have been 16 submissions to PIKM2015 of which 5 have been accepted as full papers. A significant highlight of PIKM 2015 includes both poster and oral presentations for all accepted papers to increase visibility and interaction. Another distinguished aspect this year is a career development session consisting of a mentoring presentation, from an experienced researcher, which emphasizes the importance of seeking opportunities and developing the needed skills to be successful after the PhD. We encourage participants to attend the keynote and invited talks. These valuable and insightful talks can help PhD students in their career: Keynote: "Why Researchers are Managers", Dr. Gerard de Melo (Tsinghua University, China) Invited talk in the career development session: "Beyond The Thesis: Completing A Successful PhD", Prof. Justin Zobel (University of Melbourne, Australia) The PIKM 2015 team includes Program Committee members from 11 countries spanning 4 continents. These comprise a good balance of industry and academia. We thank the reviewers for providing quick and useful feedback to the students amidst their busy schedule of work. In recent years, PIKM has been giving a best reviewer award in order to honor the exceptional contributions of a PC member, analogous to the best paper award that provides recognition to outstanding PhD student research. This year, the best paper award goes to Shady Elbassuoni from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. We sincerely applaud him for his time and effort in providing excellent and detailed reviews. The best paper award will be announced during the PIKM workshop at the CIKM conference. Both these awards consist of ACM certificates.