November 14th, 2025, Seoul, Korea
Welcome to the Second International Workshop on Decentralized Search and Recommendation (DESERE 2025), to be held in conjunction with CIKM 2025 at Seoul, Korea on 14 November 2025. Building on the success of the inaugural DESERE workshop at The Web Conference 2024, this edition continues to advance the discourse on decentralized information access, with a particular focus on privacy-preserving infrastructures and retrieval algorithms for user-controlled data.
Important Dates
Paper Submission: August 31, 2025 September 17, 2025
Paper Notification: September 30, 2025
Camera-Ready: October 20, 2025 October 27, 2025
Workshops: November 14, 2025
Camera-Ready Instructions
- Formatting: Use the official CEURART single-column style. Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw Offline package (LaTeX + ODT): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
- Paper length: short papers 5–9 pages (no strict upper limit).
- Generative AI declaration (2025): Include a brief “Declaration on Generative AI” describing any AI tool use.
- Author agreement (CC BY 4.0): One per paper, signed by the corresponding author (handwritten pen-on-paper, then scanned as PDF/JPG). Use NTP if no copyrighted third-party material: https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2025-06-10 Use TP if such material is included: https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2025-06-10 Suggested filename: AUTHOR-AGREEMENT-paper1.pdf, AUTHOR-AGREEMENT-paper2.pdf, …
- Submission package: Final PDF plus source files (LaTeX preferred).
Contact Information
Email: espresso@groups.soton.ac.uk