WWW 2014 Workshop - Connecting Online & Offline Life (COOL2014)

You are cordially invited to submit a contribution to "Connecting Online & Offline Life" (COOL2014), a one-day workshop of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'14), to be held in Seoul, Korea on April 8, 2014.

The cross-fertilization of social and technical systems research is rapidly
expanding: new fields of research, such as computational social science, data science, data-driven urban research and anthropology, are emerging and the big social data is revolutionizing many classical disciplines.

This workshop represents an effort toward melding these communities to trigger new collaborations and delineate future challenges.

Particular attention will be devoted, but not limited to, the following topics:

- Studying offline (real-world) human activities using online data
- Comparing social interactions on the web with offline ones
- Urban research and geo-social studies using web and social data
- Harnessing online data to understand and predict offline phenomena
- Studying human behaviors using online games
- Personal analytics and online sharing behaviors
- Social movements and the web
- Politics online and offline
- Crime on the web and crimes using the web

More information on COOL2014 can be found here: http://www.cool2014.com More information on WWW'14 can be found here: http://www2014.kr

On Twitter: @COOLws2014 (#cool2014): https://twitter.com/COOLws2014

Important Dates
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- Workshop paper deadlines: Jan 7, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
- Workshop paper notifications: Feb 4, 2014
- Workshop paper final copy hard deadline: Feb 12, 2014

Requirements
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Participants are invited to submit their papers via the EasyChair system at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cool2014

The authors will submit original research paper occupying up to 8 pages, including references. The paper must be written in English, and formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template.

Submissions must include the following information: title, list of authors with affiliations, abstract and full paper attachment. Accepted format is PDF only.

Publication
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All papers accepted in the workshop will appear in the WWW 2014 Conference proceedings and will be published through the ACM Digital Library.

More information, about selection, registration, etc., can be found here:
http://www.cool2014.com/?page_id=14

Special Issue: The best contributions will be considered for an invitation in extended version in the thematic series “Collective behaviors and Networks” published on EPJ Data Science (Springer).


Organizing Committee
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Emilio Ferrara, Indiana University, US
Yana Volkovich, Barcelona Media, Spain
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University, US
Young-Ho Eom, University of Toulouse, France

Program Committee
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Luca M. Aiello (Yahoo! Research)
Giovanni Ciampaglia (Indiana University)
Michele Coscia (Harvard University)
Pasquale De Meo (University of Messina)
Alessandro Flammini (Indiana University)
Santo Fortunato (Aalto University)
Matteo Gagliolo (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Bruno Goncalves (Aix-Marseille Université)
Maria Grineva (Yandex Labs)
Jerome Kunegis (University of Cambridge)
Andrea Lancichinetti (Northwestern University)
Illias Leontiadis (Telefonica Research)
Nicola Perra (Northeastern University)
Giovanni Petri (ISI Foundation)
Alexander Petersen (IMT Lucca)
Alessandro Provetti (Oxford-Man Institute)
Jose’ J. Ramasco (IFISC CSIC-UIB)
Giancarlo Ruffo (University of Turin)
Roberta Sinatra (Northeastern University)
Claudia Wagner (Leibniz Institute)
Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing)

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WWW 2014 Workshop - 4th Workshop on Data Extraction and Object Search (DEOS’14)

DEOS 2014: Fourth Workshop on Data Extraction and Object Search (April 7) in conjunction with WWW'14, April 7-11, Seoul, South Korea.

http://diadem.cs.ox.ac.uk/deos14/

Important Dates
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Paper submission: *Jan 7, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)* Paper notification: *Feb 4, 2014* Paper camera-ready copy: *Feb 12, 2014* (hard deadline) Workshop date: April 7, 2014
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Description
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The Fourth International Workshop on “Data Extraction and Object Search” (DEOS 2014) will take place as a satellite event of WWW 2014 in Seoul, South Korea, on April 7th, 2014.

Web data extraction is witnessing a renaissance. In an increasing number of applications such as price intelligence or predictive analytics, the value of data-driven approaches has been conclusively proven. However, the necessary data is often available only as HTML, e.g., in form of online shops of competitors that can serve as sources for pricing and offer data. DEOS is a regular forum for researchers and practitioners in data extraction and object search, to present and discuss ongoing work on data extraction and object search for products, events, reviews, and other types of structured data on the web.

This is the fourth installation of DEOS, the first held in Como in 2010, the second in Vienna in 2011, the third in Oxford in 2013. The workshop is supported by the ERC DIADEM grant (http://diadem.cs.ox.ac.uk/) and the Oxford Martin school (http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/). There is a small amount of travel support available from the sponsors.


Topics
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This installment of the workshop places a particular emphasis on benchmarking and effective evaluation measures for data extraction.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Large-scale data extraction approaches capable of dealing with a large number of websites without per-site supervision.
* Object identification and extraction approaches in domains such as products, events, reviews, forum posts, ...
* Reducing and simplifying supervision in wrapper induction and the use of crowdsourcing.
* Automatic crawling and exploration of web interfaces with a particular focus on highly-visual, scripted web applications.
* Information extraction meets data extraction including approaches that integrate information extraction, e.g., from product titles, with data extraction for mutual verification of the data.
* Automated data extraction approaches that identify wrappers fully automatically at high accuracy.
* Integration and cleaning of extracted web data for object search including approaches or tools for deduplication (intra- and inter-site) and for reconciliation of conflicting attribute values.
* Object search approaches and systems that provide a search interface to data extracted from the web.
* Evaluation, benchmarking, and replicability in web data extraction and object search.


Submissions
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DEOS’14 welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Benchmark papers are particularly encouraged and demonstration papers are also welcome.

Submitted papers should be 8 pages (4 pages for demo proposals, work in progress, or vision papers) maximum in length, including figures and references. The paper must be formatted as PDF according to style guidelines of ACM SIG Proceedings Template available here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

All papers should be submitted online on the workshop submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deos14.

Further information is available at http://diadem.cs.ox.ac.uk/deos14/.

Organization
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Tim Furche, University of Oxford, <tim@furche.net>
Giorgio Orsi, University of Oxford, <giorgio.orsi@cs.ox.ac.uk>
Paolo Merialdo, Università Roma Tre, <merialdo@dia.uniroma3.it>
Valter Crescenzi, Università Roma Tre, <crescenz@dia.uniroma3.it>

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WWW 2014 Workshop - 4th Joint Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2014)

 

1st CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4th Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2014)

Workshop to be held at the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW

2014) in Seoul, Korea

http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/webquality2014/

IMPORTANT DATES

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Jan 7, 2014: Paper submission deadline
Feb 4, 2014: Notification of acceptance
Feb 12, 2014: Camera ready copy deadline April 7, 2014: Workshop date
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OBJECTIVES

The Web and social media are growing both in size and complexity, as well as
playing an increasing role in our lives. Finding relevant, timely and
trustworthy content in a sea of seemingly irrelevant chatter remains a
challenging research issue. On one hand, this workshop deals with the more
blatant and malicious attempts that deteriorate web quality such as spam,
plagiarism, or various forms of abuse and ways to prevent them or neutralize
their impact on users' experience. On the other hand, it will also provide a
venue for exchanging ideas on quantifying and modeling issues of content
quality, credibility and author reputation.

The objective of the workshop is to provide the research communities working
on web quality topics with a survey of current problems and potential solutions.
It presents an opportunity for close interaction between researchers and
practitioners who may be focused on isolated sub-areas. We also want to
gather crucial feedback for the academic community from participants
representing major industry players on how web content quality research can
contribute to practice.

TOPICS

Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Assessing the credibility of content and people on the web and social media
* Measuring quality of web content
* Uncovering distorted and biased content
* Modeling author identity, trust, and reputation
* Role of groups and communities
* Multimedia content credibility

Fighting spam, abuse, and plagiarism on the Web and social media
* Reducing web spam
* Reducing abuses of electronic messaging systems
* Detecting abuses in internet advertising
* Uncovering plagiarism and multiple-identity issues
* Promoting cooperative behavior in social networks
* Security issues with online communication

Other topics are listed on the workshop website.

We invite two kinds of submissions: (i) full papers and (ii) short papers.
Full papers are limited to 8 pages, while short papers are limited to 4 pages.
Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the ACM style
guide http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
and submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webquality2014
The accepted papers will appear in ACM Digital Library.

ORGANIZERS

Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
Carlos Castillo (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
James Caverlee (Texas A&M University)
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

see the website

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WWW 2014 Workshop - The 4th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2014)

The 4th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2014) at WWW 2014

http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2014

7 April 2014, Seoul, Republic of Korea


THEME
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Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages

Microposts, such as Twitter status updates, Instagram likes and photos and Foursquare checkins, form a notable part of published web content. Smart phones, after overtaking sales of personal computers in 2012, now play a significant role in enabling ubiquitous communication, and have contributed to the steep increase in publication of Microposts, via native mobile apps and mobile-specific web sites. The increase in Micropost publication is evident across Twitter, where 500 million posts are now published every day, up from 175 million in 2012. Facebook sees 30 billion pieces of content shared on it every month. Such statistics reflect the growing production and consumption of data by users and the widespread sharing of information through social networks. The utility of Microposts is such that we are now providing up-to-date information about a range of topics formed in disparate contexts, providing information about emerging events, online presence, emergency response and c!
rowd movement. Being able to make sense of Microposts therefore impacts on the ability to act upon information quickly and effectively, and aids the understanding of evolving user behaviour, events and public perception and opinion about their worlds.

The central objective of the #Microposts workshop is to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to discuss and debate current efforts toward analysing and understanding Microposts. We define a Micropost as information published on the Web that is small in size (e.g. a Tweet, Facebook share, Instagram like) and that requires minimal effort to publish. Although individual Microposts are small, collectively they provide a rich source of current information about a range of topics across all walks of life. Gleaning information from such content effectively requires a degree of understanding of what is being discussed and, with very large amounts, semi- to fully automated analytical and extraction approaches.
The workshop aims to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; and to discuss applications of Micropost data in a variety of contexts, including emergency response, crowd and event tracking, public opinion and sentiment analysis. Enabling the understanding and application of Micropost content requires analytical techniques and tools that function at scale and that can handle the high rate at which Microposts are published. The workshop invites submissions that deal with publication rate and scale, and approaches that facilitate understanding of Microposts through their semantics and where available, contextual information.

Microposts are both a technical and a social phenomenon, and the nature of the challenge related to their treatment is therefore multi-disciplinary. We continue to promote a multidisciplinary workshop, as achieved in the past three in the series, by also encouraging social scientists and other non-Computer Science researchers to submit work that looks at the theories behind Micropost usage and communication through this medium. The workshop also encourages demonstration of practical application of the results of analysis of Micropost data, both within the research community and in everyday, real-world scenarios. We encourage submissions using this and last year’s challenge data for contributions to the main track.



TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The workshop will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the three areas below:

Data mining from Microposts
-Emergent semantics
-Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis -Network analysis and community detection -Influence detection and social contagion modelling -Prediction approaches -Linking Microposts into the Web of Data -Semantic entity disambiguation

Social & Web Science Studies
-Collective awareness
-Education & citizen empowerment, data journalism -Civil action, media & politics -Political and polemical aspects of Microposts -Ethics, legal and privacy issues -Psychological profiles and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interactions -Cultural and regional differences in access and use

Applications
-Collective intelligence, including user profiling, personalisation & recommendation -Business analytics & market intelligence -Event & topic detection and tendency tracking -Microposts as second screen to TV -Geo-localized, Micropost-based services -Public consensus & citizen participation -Security, emergency response & health -Linking social and physical signals, in, e.g., crowd tracking




ENTITY EXTRACTION & DISAMBIGUATION CHALLENGE
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#Microposts2014 will host an 'Entity Extraction & Disambiguation Challenge', where participants must label Microposts in a given dataset with the entities referenced and their semantic web URIs. Existing entity extraction and disambiguation tools are intended for use over news corpora and similar document-based corpora with relatively long length. The aim of the challenge is to foster research into novel, more accurate entity extraction and disambiguation for (much shorter) Micropost data. Detailed information on how to enter the challenge will be provided in a separate call for challenge submissions as well as on the workshop website.



WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
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A keynote address from an invited speaker will open the day. This will be followed by paper presentations. We will hold a poster and demo session to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants. The last set of presentations will be brief overviews of selected submissions to the Entity Extraction & Disambiguation Challenge The workshop will close with the presentation of awards for the best paper and the highest ranking challenge submission.


SUBMISSIONS
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* Full papers: 8 pages ACM SIG format
* Short and position papers: 4 pages ACM SIG format
* Demos & Posters: 2 pages ACM SIG format
* Challenge extended abstracts: 5 pages Springer LNCS format

Main track submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), and should include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 keywords.
Further detail for challenge submissions will be provided in a separate call.

Submission is via the EasyChair Conference System, at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2014. Where a submission includes additional material submission this should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents.

Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers at least 3 peer reviews.

The workshop proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital Library.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission deadline: ***7 Jan 2014***
Paper Notification: 4 Feb 2014
Camera-ready (hard) deadline (short & long papers): 12 Feb 2014

(all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)

Workshop program issued: 15 Mar 2014
Main track proceedings to be published by ACM
Workshop - 7 April 2014 (Registration open to all)



CONTACT
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E-mail: microposts2014@easychair.org
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910
Facebook Public Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/116134955169543
Twitter hashtag: #microposts2014
W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts


ORGANISERS
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Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK
Milan Stankovic, Université Paris-Sorbonne & Sépage, France
Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Birmingham, UK



CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE:
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Challenge Chairs:
A. Elizabeth Cano, Aston University, UK
Giuseppe Rizzo, Università degli studi di Torino, Italy

Dataset Chair:
Andrea Varga, The University of Sheffield, UK

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WWW 2014 Workshop - 4th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Proceedings published by ACM

4th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2014) 

in conjunction with WWW

2014 April 8, 2014, Seoul, Korea 

http://www.temporalweb.net/

After 3 successful editions, Tempweb workshop's specific focus on temporal
dimension is getting more and more relevant. Established fields of research
(IE/IR, Web mining , etc. ) are challenged to leverage time signals and
expressions to capture dynamics and trends and understand time
contextualization. The maturity of the Web, the emergence of large scale
repositories of Web material, makes this very timely and a growing set of
research and services are emerging that have this focus in common. Having a
dedicated workshop has proven relevant and fruitful to take a rich and
cross-domain approach to this new research challenge with a strong focus on
the temporal dimension. TempWeb will take place April 8, 2014 in conjunction
with the International World Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea.

TempWeb focuses on investigating infrastructures, scalable methods, and
innovative software for aggregating, querying, and analyzing heterogeneous
data at Internet scale. Particular emphasis is given to temporal data
analysis along the time dimension for Web data that has been collected over
extended time periods. A major challenge in this regard is the sheer size of
the data it exposes and the ability to make sense of it in a useful and
meaningful manner for its users. Web scale data analytics therefore needs to
develop infrastructures and extended analytical tools to make sense of the
mass of information that the historic and current web represent. Topics of
TempWeb therefore include, but are not limited to the following:

- Web scale data analytics
- Temporal Web analytics
- Distributed data analytics
- Web science
- Web dynamics
- Data quality metrics
- Web spam evolution
- Content evolution on the Web
- Systematic exploitation of Web archives
- Large scale data storage
- Large scale data processing
- Time aware Web archiving
- Data aggregation
- Web trends
- Topic mining
- Terminology evolution
- Community detection and evolution

Important Dates:
- Paper submission deadline: January 7, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: February 4, 2014
- Camera-ready copy deadline: February 12, 2014
- Workshop: April 8, 2014

Please post your submission (up to 8 pages) using the ACM template:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
at:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=tempweb2014

Workshop Team

PC-Chairs and Organizers:
Marc Spaniol (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany) Julien Masanès
(Internet Memory Foundation, France and Netherlands) Ricardo Baeza-Yates
(Yahoo! Labs, Spain)

Program Committee (tentative):
Eytan Adar (University of Michigan, USA) Omar Alonso (Microsoft Bing, USA)
Ralitsa Angelova (Google, Switzerland) Srikanta Bedathur (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Andras A. Benczur (Hungarian Academy of Science) Klaus Berberich (Max Planck
Institute for Informatics, Germany) Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Labs, Spain) Philipp
Cimiano (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Renata Galante (Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)
Scott Kirkpatrick (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel) Frank McCown
(Harding University, USA) Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University, USA)
Kjetil Nørvåg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Nikos
Ntarmos (University of Patras, Greece) Rodrygo Luis Teodoro Santos
(University of Glasgow, UK) Philippe Rigaux (CNAM and Mignify, France)
Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany) Pierre Senellart (Telecom
ParisTech, France) Torsten Suel (NYU Polytechnic, USA) Masashi Toyoda (Tokyo
University, Japan) Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK) Gerhard
Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

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Web Science track @ The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014)

 

WWW 2014 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

WEB SCIENCE TRACK
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference

April 7-11, 2014 / Seoul, Korea

http://www2014.kr

The International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) is an annual international conference focused on the future direction of the World Wide Web. This year, WWW 2014 will be held at Seoul, the heart of the Korean culture and education, as well as politics and economics. In recognition and support of the aims, values, and achievements of Web Science as a novel interdisciplinary research field, WWW 2014 will feature a Web Science Track.

Web Science focuses on the analysis and design of Web architecture and applications, as well as studies of the people, organizations, and policies that shape and are shaped by the Web. Accordingly, Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast information network of people and communities. It also includes the study of people and communities using the digital records of user activity mediated by the Web. An understanding of human behavior and social interaction can contribute to our understanding of the Web, and data obtained from the Web can contribute to our understanding of human behavior and social interaction.

*A journal special issue will be published with extended versions of selected papers from this track. All track papers will be published in the companion proceedings of the WWW conference. *

This track focuses on all aspects of Web Science. Papers that demonstrate interdisciplinary work will be particularly welcomed.

*Important Dates*

Full paper submission:
Monday, 16th December (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
Notifications of acceptance:
Monday, 27th January, 2014.

*Submission Requirements*

All submitted papers must:
• be written in English;
• contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
• be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
• be in PDF, and formatted for US Letter size;
• occupy no more than six pages in total. Papers longer than 6 pages could be rejected without review.

It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

Research papers should be submitted through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www14websci

For any inquires please contact the programme chairs at www14websci@easychair.org.
*Topics (non-exclusive list):*

▪ Analysis of human behavior and social interaction using data from social media, online networks and communities
▪ Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based large-scale human interaction and behavior
▪ Network analysis of the Web and of Web-based data
▪ Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing
▪ Structure and organization on the Web
▪ Social interaction with, and influence by, internet of things
▪ Web communities and online lifestyles
▪ Web, society, and innovation
▪ Intellectual property and the commons
▪ Governance, trust, and privacy
▪ Web access, literacy, and democracy
▪ Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web
▪ People-driven Web technologies, including social search, open data, and new interfaces

*Track Chairs*

Professor Sung-Hyon Maeng, KAIST, South Korea
Professor Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, UK

*Track Programme Chairs*

Dr Harith Alani, Knowledge Media Institute, UK
Dr Matthew Weber, Rutgers University, USA

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WWW 2014 Call for Papers - Research Track

WWW 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS - RESEARCH TRACK
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference
April 7-11, 2014 / Seoul, Korea
http://www2014.kr

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW 2014 will have 11 areas (or themes) for refereed paper presentations. and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting, new breakthrough work to the relevant area. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2014 will also have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speeches, tutorials, panels, a developer track, and poster and demo sessions.

The list of areas for this year is as follows:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Content Analysis
Crowd Phenomena
Internet Economics and Monetization
Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Semantic Web
Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart (Mobile) Devices
Web Mining
Web Search

Important Dates:

Research track abstract registration:
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Research track full paper submission:
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Notifications of acceptance:
Saturday, January 4th, 2014

Paper Submission Requirements:

All submitted paper must:

be written in English;
contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size;
occupy no more than ten pages, including the abstract and appendices, but excluding references.

It is the authors¡¯ responsibility to ensure that their submission adheres strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

Submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2014

General Chair:
Chin-Wan Chung (KAIST)

General Vice Chairs:
Sang-goo Lee (Seoul National University)
Sue Moon (KAIST)
In-soo Park (MOTIE/KATS)

PC Co-Chairs for Research Track:
Andrei Broder (Google)
Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University)
Torsten Suel (New York University)

Area Chairs:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Pearl Pu (EPFL)
Andrew Tomkins (Google)

Content Analysis
Seung-won Hwang (POSTECH)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University)

Crowd Phenomena
Panos Ipeirotis (NYU)
Stefano Leonardi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Internet Economics and Monetization
Arpita Ghosh (Cornell University)
Vanja Josifovski (Google)

Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Yongdae Kim (KAIST)

Semantic Web
Ramanathan Guha (Google)
Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)
Alessandro Panconesi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
Zhen Xiao (Peking University)
Malgorzata Steinder (IBM Research)

User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart Devices
Cecilia Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

Web Mining
Yukata Matsuo (University of Tokyo)
Rajeev Rastogi (Amazon)

Web Search
Junghoo Cho (UCLA)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo!)

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WWW 2013 Workshop - Mining Social network Dynamics (MSND 2013)

The 2nd International Workshop on 

Mining Social Network Dynamics (MSND 2013) 

To be held in conjunction with 

The 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

May 13 - 17, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

In the real-time Web, the latest evolution of the Web, information is
generated very quickly, consumed by millions of users, and updated rapidly
by others through commenting, replying, transferring, etc. This is practiced
by people who differ in culture, knowledge, background, ideology. Moreover,
information generally comes from several channels and is sent out to
different ones. This is amplified by the social networking phenomenon, the
social Web, which is nowadays a well established set of technologies, based
on which users and service providers can exchange messages through an
interaction network, share information and collaborate, advertise a product,
create communities and influence them, etc. Besides, there is an abundant
literature regarding the different aspects of social networks be it their
construction or the detection of nodes playing specific roles.

However, it is well established that there is currently unclear
understanding of the laws governing these social networks, in particular in
the way they evolve over time. Thus, it is difficult to draw a clear image
linking the existing models of social networks and the real underlying
social mechanisms. As a result, there is a big gap in the evaluation and the
concretization of most of the research efforts in this area. Furthermore,
due to the growing complexity of digital social networks and the huge
quantity of new data available everyday, it becomes crucial for the
researchers to provide a clear understanding of the dynamics of these
networks. It also becomes important for the community to not only understand
what is happening currently in the network but also to predict the next
evolution and monitor the trends in the network. To efficiently analyze
these networks, it is important to be able to predict the dynamics in its
different forms: the content evolution (i.e., hot!
topics evolution), network structure (e.g., creation of new relations),
and information diffusion, influence evolution, etc.

Following the success of the last year's version of this workshop
(http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/msnd/2012/), we are re-conducting it this year to
attract more researchers and make the event a central location where
researchers working on the issues of mining social network dynamics can meet
again to exchange ideas on open problems. We have also extended the topics
of interest for this workshop, with a particular interest towards dynamics.
And we aims at gathering researchers from the fields of social computing,
machine learning, and data mining to think about the obstacles that hurdle
the leveraging of understanding and capturing of social network dynamics. We
target researchers from both commercial and academic labs to join forces in
this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant
developments in the general area of mining social network dynamics and to
promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at
identifying techniques from the data !
mining and machine learning fields that will enable researchers to
understand the dynamic phenomena in social networks and social media, as
well as specify important directions for the research communities.
Understanding, capturing, mining and being able to predict dynamic behaviors
is interesting for several areas such as marketing, security, and Web
search. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following
topics (but not limited to):

o Information diffusion in social networks;
o Community extraction, analysis, and evolution;
o Detection of (possibly evolving) roles;
o Content evolution and tracking in social networks;
o Social Journalism and news dynamics;
o Social networks affective and sentiment analysis;
o Social media recommendations;
o Information quality and evolution in social content;
o Security and privacy in rapidly evolving social networks;
o Evaluation techniques and benchmarks;
o New challenges in mining social networks;
o Example studies and use cases of dynamics of social
networks.

Paper submission
Submissions need to be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings
Template. Two types of submissions are welcome: long papers with a limit of
8 pages or short ones with 4 pages length limit. We use the EasyChair system
for managing submissions, and the link to submit your paper is here:
http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/msnd/. Further information will be communicated
soon regarding this special issue.

Key dates:

o Submission deadline: February 12, 2013
o Acceptance notification March 15, 2013
o Camera-Ready submission March 25, 2013
o Workshop date: May 13, 2013

Workshop Co-Chairs:
o Hakim Hacid, Bell Labs, France.
o Shengbo Guo, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
o Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Program committee (under construction)
o Julien Bourdaillet, Xerox, USA
o Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH - ITI, Greece
o Amin Mantrach, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain,
o Yosi Mass, IBM Research, Israel,
o Alessandra Sala, Bell Labs, Ireland
o Anna Stavrianou, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
o Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
o Wei Peng, Xerox Research Centre Webster, USA
o Tetsuya Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan

Contact: msnd@eric.univ-lyon2.fr

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WWW 2013 Workshop - 2nd International Workshop on Large Scale Network Analysis (LSNA 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2nd International Workshop on Large Scale Network Analysis (LSNA 2013)

In conjunction with WWW 2013

May 14, 2013 -- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Website: http://www.largenetwork.org

Large amounts of network data are being produced by various modern
applications at an ever growing speed, ranging from social networks such as
Facebook and Twitter, scientific citation networks such as CiteSeerX, to
biological networks such as protein interaction networks. Network data
analysis is crucial to exploit the wealth of information encoded in these
network data. An effective analysis of these data must take into account the
complex structure including social, temporal and sometimes spatial
dimensions, and an efficient analysis of these data demands scalable
solutions. As a result, there has been increasing research in developing
scalable solutions for novel network analytics applications.

This workshop will provide a forum for researchers to share new ideas and
techniques for large-scale network analysis. We expect novel research works
that address various aspects of large scale network analysis, including
network data acquisition and integration, novel applications for network
analysis in different problem domains, scalable and efficient network
analytics algorithms, distributed network data management, novel platforms
supporting network analytics, and so on.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to the
following:
- Large scale network data acquisition, filtering, navigation, integration,
search and analysis
- Novel applications for network data with interesting analytics results
- Exploration of scalability issues in network analysis or modeling
- Distributed network data management
- Discussion on the deficiency of current network analytics or modeling
approaches and proposition on new directions for research
- Discovering unique features of emerging network datasets (e.g. new linked
data, new form of social networks)

Workshop program

The workshop hopes to accept 8~10 papers for oral presentations. Each paper
will have 25 minutes of time, including oral presentation and question &
answer. We plan to invite 4~6 keynote/industrial speakers in total: half of
them from IBM and half of them from other Internet companies. We hope these
speakers will provide a variety of perspectives on the topic of large-scale
network analysis from different institutions and companies. Each keynote
speech is planed to take 45~60 minutes and every industrial talk is planed
to take 30~45 minutes.

Confirmed keynote speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of
Yahoo! Research for Europe, Middle East and Latin America, leading the labs
at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, since 2006, as well as supervising
the lab in Haifa, Israel since 2008. He is also part time Professor at the
Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universitat
Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, since 2005. Until 2005 he was Professor
and Director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer
Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile. He obtained a
Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1989. Before he obtained
two masters (M.Sc. CS & M.Eng. EE) and the electrical engineering degree
from the University of Chile, Santiago. He is co-author of the best-seller
Modern Information Retrieval textbook, published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley
with a second enlarged edition in 2011, as well as co-author of the 2nd
edition of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures, Addison-W!
esley, 1991; and co-editor of Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Data
Structures, Prentice-Hall, 1992, among more than 300 other publications. He
has received the Organization of American States award for young researchers
in exact sciences (1993) and the CLEI Latin American distinction for
contributions to CS in the region (2009). In 2003 he was the first computer
scientist to be elected to the Chilean Academy of Sciences. During 2007 he
was awarded the Graham Medal for innovation in computing, given by the
University of Waterloo to distinguished ex-alumni. In 2009 he was named ACM
Fellow and in 2011 IEEE Fellow.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: February 25, 2013
Acceptance Notification: March 13, 2013
Camera-Ready Submission: March 27, 2013
Workshop Date: May 14, 2013


Submission Instructions

Submissions should present original results and substantial new work. This
workshop accepts both full papers (up to 10 pages) and short papers (up to 4
pages). Papers must conform to the ACM SIG format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submission
must be made at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsna2013

Program Chairs
- Qi He, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (heq@us.ibm.com)
- David Konopnicki, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Isreal (davidko@il.ibm.com)
- John McPherson, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (jmcphers@us.ibm.com)
- Jimeng Sun, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (jimeng@us.ibm.com)
- Yuanyuan Tian, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (ytian@us.ibm.com)
- Hanghang Tong, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (htong@us.ibm.com)

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WWW 2013 Workshop - 3rd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data ( LinkedLearning2013 )

LinkedLearning2013

3rd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data

(#lile2013)

- http://lile2013.linkededucation.org/ -

=> In conjunction with the World Wide Web Conference 2013 (WWW2013) Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, 14 May 2013

=> best paper award sponsored by LinkedUp (http://linkedup-project.eu)

=> proceedings published with ACM Digital Library


IMPORTANT DATES
====================================
* 25 February 2013: Full & short research paper submission deadline
* 04 March 2013: Poster & demo submission deadline
* 13 March 2012: Notification of acceptance
* 27 March 2012: Camera-ready paper
* 14 May 2012: LinkedLearning 2013 workshop day


OVERVIEW
========
Building on the previous editions and its growing community, Linked Learning
2013 will provide a forum to discuss approaches making use of Web Data
resources and technologies, especially linked data, for teaching, learning
and education. Distance teaching and openly available educational resources
on the Web are becoming common practices with public higher education
institutions as well as private training organisations realising the
benefits of online resources. However, while research in educational
technologies has been focusing on solving interoperability issues by
creating a variety of metadata formats and environments for the exchange of
educational resources, this has led to a very fragmented landscape of Web
standards and approaches. Consequently, it is not only the case that
interoperability between repositories of educational resources remains a
challenge, but also that educational Web resources remain underexploited, as
their connection, reuse and repurposing are !
barely supported by such technologies.

The very nature of the Linked Data approach offers promising solutions that
can address these open challenges. In addition, the Linked Data movement has
produced a vast body of knowledge and data which can substantially support
and contribute to educational services and content. Building on the
overwhelming success of earlier LILE editions, Linked Learning 2013 will
bring together researchers and practitioners making innovative use of Linked
Data technologies for educational purposes to discuss, exchange and
disseminate their work.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
==================
LILE2013 aims to become a highly interactive research forum for exploring
the promises of the Web of Linked Data in the broad area of education by
gathering researchers from the areas of the Semantic Web, Social Web,
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), Open Educational Repositories, and
Education. We will welcome high-quality papers about actual trends in (a)
how education takes advantage of the Web of Data, especially through Linked
Data technologies and (b) how Linked Data principles are being applied in
educational contexts. We will seek application-oriented, as well as more
theoretical papers and position papers in the following, non-exhaustive list
of topics:

* Linked data for informal learning and Web-based education
* Using the Web of Data for personalisation and context-awareness in E-Learning
* Usability and advanced user interfaces in learning environments and linked data
* Light-weight educational metadata schemas
* Exposing learning objects to the Web of Data
* Semantic & syntactic mappings between educational metadata schemas
* Controlled vocabularies, ontologies and terminologies for E-Learning
* Personal & mobile learning environments on the Web
* Learning flows and designs with Semantic Web technologies
* Linked data in (visual) learning analytics and educational data mining
* Linked data in organizational learning and learning organizations
* Linked data for harmonizing individual learning goals and organizational objectives
* Competency management with linked data
* Collaborative learning on the Web of Data
* Linked-data enhanced social learning


SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
==========================
We welcome the following types of contributions.

* Short (up to 3 pages) and full (up to 6 pages) research papers

* Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should not exceed 2 pages.

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according
to the ACM format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at

* http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lile2013

Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality,
technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least
one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.

The main workshop proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital
Library. Furthermore, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit
extended versions to a journal special issue.


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
===================
* Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center (DE)
* Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University (UK)
* Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University & Simon Fraser University (Canada)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
===================
* Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Ebrahim Bagheri,Ryerson University, Canada
* Dan Brickley, W3C & Google, UK
* Christopher Brooks, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
* Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Marco Antonio Casanova, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
* Anita De Waard, Elsevier, Netherlands
* Hendrik Drachsler, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
* Gianluca Demartini, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
* Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA
* Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
* Nikolas Dovrolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
* Hannes Ebner, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Faezeh Ensan, Athabasca University, Canada
* Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Tom Heath, Talis, UK
* Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany
* Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
* Eleni Kaldoudi, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
* Carsten Keßler, University of Münster, Germany
* Ivana Marenzi, L3S Research Center, Germany
* Lyndon Nixon, Semantic Technologies Institute, Austria
* Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador, Ecuador
* Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* Abelardo Pardo, University of Sydney, Australia
* Melody Siadaty,Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Davide Taibi, Institute for Educational Technologies, CNR, Italy
* Dhavalkumar Thakker, University of Leeds, UK
* Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK
* Carlo Torniai, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
* Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

For further questions please contact the organisers via
lile@linkededucation.org.

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WWW 2013 Workshop - 3rd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013)

in conjunction with WWW 2013

May 13, 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

http://www.temporalweb.net/

Proccedings published by ACM

Objectives:
The objective of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers of all domains (IE/IR, Web mining etc.) where the temporal dimension opens up an entirely new range of challenges and possibilities. The workshop's ambition is to help shaping a community of interest on the research challenges and possibilities resulting from the introduction of the time dimension in Web analysis.

TempWeb focuses on temporal data analysis along the time dimension for Web data that has been collected over extended time periods. A major challenge in this regard is the sheer size of the data it exposes and the ability to make sense of it in a useful and meaningful manner for its users. Web scale data analytics therefore needs to develop infrastructures and extended analytical tools to make sense of these. TempWeb will take place May 13, 2013 in conjunction with the International World Wide Web Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Workshop topics of TempWeb therefore include, but are not limited to following:
• Web scale data analytics
• Temporal Web analytics
• Distributed data analytics
• Web science
• Web dynamics
• Data quality metrics
• Web spam evolution
• Content evolution on the Web
• Systematic exploitation of Web archives
• Large scale data storage
• Large scale data processing
• Time aware Web archiving
• Data aggregation
• Web trends
• Topic mining
• Terminology evolution
• Community detection and evolution

Important Dates:
• Paper submission deadline: February 22, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2013
• Camera-ready copy deadline: April 3, 2013
• Workshop: May 13, 2013

Please post your submission (up to 8 pages) using the ACM template:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
at:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=tempweb2013

Workshop Officials:
PC-Chairs and Organizers:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Julien Masanès (Internet Memory Foundation, France and Netherlands)
Marc Spaniol (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

Program Committee (tentative):
Eytan Adar (University of Michigan, USA)
Omar Alonso (Microsoft Bing, USA)
Ralitsa Angelova (Google, Switzerland)
Srikanta Bedathur (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Andras A. Benczur (Hungarian Academy of Science)
Klaus Berberich (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Philipp Cimiano (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)
Scott Kirkpatrick (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel)
Michael Matthews (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Christian König (Microsoft Research, USA)
Frank McCown (Harding University, USA)
Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University, USA)
Kjetil Norvag (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Philippe Rigaux (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France)
Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany)
Pierre Senellart (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Torsten Suel (NYU Polytechnic, USA)
Masashi Toyoda (Tokyo University, Japan)
Peter Triantafillou (University of Patras, Greece)
Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany)

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WWW'13 Workshop : Web Intelligence & Communities (WI & C 2013)

WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'13)

CALL FOR PAPERS

5h International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'13)

http://wic.litislab.fr

to be held at the 2013 World Wide Web International Conferences (WWW'13)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013

*Important Dates:*

Paper submission deadline: February 25th, 2013
Acceptance notification : March 3rd, 2013
Camera ready paper : April 3rd, 2013
Workshop : May 13th or 14th, 2013

Proceedings published in ACM Digital Library series.

*INVITED SPEAKER*

We are honored to have a invited talk from
Prof. Virgílio A. F. Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
General Chair of WWW'13

*SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP*

Web Intelligence consists of a multidisciplinary area dealing with exploiting data and services
over the Web, to create new data and services using both Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Communities appear as a
first-class object in the areas of web intelligence and agent technologies, as well as a
crucial crossroads of several sub-domains (i.e. user modelling, protocols, data management,
data mining, content modelling, etc.). These sub-domains impact the nature of the communities
and the applications which are related to them. These applications are numerous, and the
success of well-known Social Network Sites for entertainment should not be allowed to
over-shadow the other application domains, for instance in education, health, design,
knowledge management, and so forth.

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working
on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual communities.
The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous
and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Communities expects contributions on topics such as:
   Multi-agent models and tools for Virtual Communities (VC)
   Services and Grid Services for VC, Service oriented architectures
   Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VC
   Web-based applications and platforms for VC
   Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
   Semantics and ontology engineering for VC
   Self-* models and techniques for VC
   Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
   Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VC
   Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
   Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VC
   VC and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
   Web intelligence, mobility and VC, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
   Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
   Surveys on WI and VC
   Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration and fusion
   Human-based behaviour patterns and modelling


*SUBMISSIONS*

The Web Intelligence and Communities workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical,
experimental, methodological as well as application papers.
Discussion papers and demonstration papers are also welcome.

Submitted papers should be 10 pages maximum in length (4 pages for the discussion and demonstration papers), including figures and references.
The paper must be formatted in pdf according to style guidelines of ACM SIG Proceedings Template available here:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All submissions should be done online on the workshop submission web site:  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wic2013

*CO-CHAIRS*

   * Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
   * Pierre Maret, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France
   * Laurent Vercouter, INSA de Rouen, France

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WWW 2013 - Call for Workshops

WWW 2013 Call for Workshops

WWW 2013 will feature a number of co-located workshops that are intended to provide
a forum for researchers and practitioners in Web technologies to discuss and
exchange positions on current and emergent Web topics. Workshop attendants will
exchange ideas and experiences, establish common ground in research areas or
practical problems, and hopefully identify new opportunities for collaboration and
new directions for future activity. Preference will be given to timely topics that
will favor highly interactive discussions. WWW 2013 will offer logistic support for
the workshops, where registration, catering, room allocation and audio/visual will
be arranged by the conference organizers. The supported workshops will take place on
the 13th and 14th of May 2013, before the main conference, at the conference venue.

A workshop proposal must include :
       • A concise title.
       • The names and affiliations of the organizers; a typical workshop should count no
more than three co-chairs affiliated with different organizations.
       • Proposed duration of the workshop (half or full day.)
       • Preference for a date; but, the proposal must not be conditioned on the workshop
date, since it is likely that some workshops will not get their preferred date
       • A statement of the workshop's objective/goals
       • A statement detailing: Why is the workshop topic important? Why is the workshop
timely? How is it relevant to WWW?
       • A two-paragraph description of the workshop topic and themes.
       • If the workshop was conducted before, where and when was it conducted? (Please
give details on number of attendees, number of submissions, and acceptance ratio.
       • A description of the workshop format – how many papers do you hope to present,
how many invited speakers, type of activities (e.g., short paper presentation,
invited talks, demos, posters, etc.), and an approximate timeline (breaks should be
synchronized with scheduled breaks if possible.)
       • A description of how workshop submissions will be evaluated, and a tentative PC
list (with indication of whether PC members have already been contacted and/or have
expressed interest.)
       • An indication on whether the workshop registration will be open to all interested
registered parties or limited.
       • A short bio of the workshop organizers, including a description of their
qualifications relative to the topic area, and past experience in
organizing/facilitating workshops or research meetings.

Submission:
Workshop proposals should be no more than five pages in length (10pt with reasonable
margins) and must be in PDF written in English.
Workshop proposals should be submitted through EasyChair at :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2013ws
Inquiries can be sent to: workshops@www2013.org

Important dates:
Workshop submission deadline: Nov 28th, 2012
Acceptance notification:      Dec 21st, 2012
Workshops dates:              May 13th and/or 14th, 2013

In your proposal, be aware that workshop proceedings will normally be published
through the ACM Digital Library, leading to the following tight production
deadlines:
Suggested workshop paper deadlines:      Feb 25th, 2013
Suggested workshop paper notifications:  March 13th, 2013
Workshop paper final copy hard deadline: April 3rd

Workshop chairs:
       • Leslie Carr (University of Southampton, UK)
       • Alberto Laender (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

To contact the workshop chairs, please email workshops@www2013.org

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22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) - Preliminary Call for Papers

Preliminary Call for Papers

22nd International World Wide Web Conference

WWW 2013 - May 13-17 - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

http://www2013.org/

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW
2013 will have 12 tracks (or themes) for refereed paper presentations and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting new breakthrough work. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2013 will have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speakers, tutorials, panels, a developers’ track, and a poster and demo session.

The CfP will be updated with more detailed info about individual tracks, their topics and program committee members. The conference web site will be updated regularly and monthly newsletters will keep you current with the latest information.

Important Dates

Main conference paper abstract registration:
Monday, November 19th, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Main conference full paper submission:
Monday, November 26th, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Paper notifications: Friday, February 8th, 2013

Organization

General chairs: Virgilio Almeida (UFMG), Hartmut Glaser (NIC.br), Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Program chairs: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Labs), Sue Moon (KAIST)

Tracks and Chairs

Behavioral analysis and personalization
Eugene Agichtein (Emory U), Yoelle Mareek (Yahoo! Labs)

Bridging structured and unstructured data Kevin Chang (UIUC), Peter Mika (Yahoo! Labs)

Content analysis
Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), (TBA)

Internet monetization and incentives
Vanja Josifovski (Google), David Pennock (MSR NYC)

Search systems and applications
Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Mumbai), Wei-Ying Ma (MSR Asia)

Security, privacy, trust, and abuse
Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS), (TBA)

Semantic web
Steffen Staab (U of Koblenz), (TBA)

Social networks and graph analysis
Sharad Goel (MSR NYC), Wolfgang Nejdl (U of Hannover), Ben Zhao (UCSB)

Software infrastructure and their performance, scalability, and availability Torsten Suel (PI), (TBA)

User interfaces, human factors, and smart devices James Landay (UW), Nuria Oliver (Telefonica R&D)

Web engineering
Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien), Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft),

Web mining
Tanya Berger-Wolf (UIC), Bing Liu (UIC), Kyuseok Shim (SNU)

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