Warm welcome to the 2022 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2022)! CIKM is traditionally held once a year at different locations all over the world. However, due to COVID 2019 pandemic, the last two years of CIKM conference were fully virtual. In 2022, it returns to the United States in Atlanta, GA and is held on October 17-21 at Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel in Atlanta Downtown. Although deemed to be a full physical conference, CIKM 2022 live streams all sessions over an Internet-based virtual platform, which enables attendees to attend the conference remotely with two-way live communication, and real-time interactions, the virtual attendees enjoy the full conference experience, making it the very first true hybrid (Physical and Virtual) edition of CIKM conference. CIKM 2022 is the 31st running of the conference, which remains the only conference that focuses on the management of both structured and unstructured data accepting research papers covering database, information retrieval, and knowledge management sub-disciplines of Computer Science. CIKM 2022 also accepts papers covering general areas of data science, and machine learning, covering both foundational work, and applications. CIKM has traditionally emphasized on relevance to industry and government applications; |