CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM OSNeHM 2023
First International workshop on
Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse
co-located with
The Web Conference 2023
Austin, Texas, USA
APRIL 30 - MAY 4, 2023
https://osnehm.iit.cnr.it/
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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The cyber and physical worlds are increasingly becoming
indistinguishable. This is fostered by enabling technologies such as IoT
and pervasive networks, advanced data management and analytics
techniques, and advanced platforms with massive diffusion, chiefly among
them Online Social Networks. Whatever we do in one world has immediate
consequences on the other world, thanks to a constant flow of data - and
online analytics - between the two worlds.
In this context, the vision of the Metaverse provides additional
perspectives, augmenting human interactions with things and other humans
across the two worlds. The role of the humans in this socio-technical
complex system is key, and still largely unexplored. Quite
interestingly, while new tools characteristic of the cyber-physical
world - OSN among them - have been designed to largely extend human
capabilities, the real interplay between these tools and human
behaviours and cognitive constraints often result in unexpected results.
Therefore, while humans are in principle at the center of the
cyber-physical convergence and, thus -- in the perspective -- of the
Metaverse, the interplay between both worlds and the technical solutions
underpinning this convergence are hitherto largely unexplored and yet to
be understood. This is a big gap our community should feel, in order to
develop cyber-physical worlds (and the Metaverse) as a truly
human-centric environment.
OSNeHM’s main theme will be the role of Online Social Networks in such a
human-centric cyber-physical convergence leading to the Metaverse. It
will provide a forum for discussion on early yet principled approaches
and results on all aspects related to this theme. A special emphasis
will be devoted to the characterisation of the individual and social
behaviour of humans, using OSN as “big data microscopes” for collecting
and analysing big data via robust big data analytics. Papers discussing
solutions focusing on the interplay between social and technical (online
and offline) worlds will be high welcome. On the other hand, the
workshop will welcome papers proposing novel technical solutions to
support human-centric approaches to the evolution of OSN in the
perspective of the Metaverse.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
* OSNeHM platforms, protocols and applications;
* OSN and Metaverse services & applications;
* Decentralised, mobile and location-based OSNeHM;
* Trust, reputation, privacy and security in OSNeHM;
* Dynamics of trends, information and opinion diffusion in OSNeHM;
* Fake news, toxicity radicalization and disinformation in OSNeHM;
* Detecting, modeling and tackling Online harms in OSNeHM;
* Recommendations and advertising in OSNeHM;
* Measurement, analysis and modeling of popular OSN (Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, Flickr, etc.),
including decentralized ones (e.g., Mastodon, Pleroma, ...);
* Data mining, and machine learning in OSNeHM systems;
* Social media analysis and social analytics in the perspective of OSNeHM;
* Information extraction and search in OSNeHM;
* Complex-network analysis of OSNeHM;
* Modeling of social behavior through OSN data;
* Crowdsourcing and OSNeHM;
* Multidisciplinary applications of OSNeHM (economics, medicine,
society, politics,
homeland security, psychology, etc.)
PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Papers that have been previously published or are under review for
another journal, conference or workshop will not be considered for
publication. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in length
(maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for
appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references). Papers must be submitted
in PDF format according to the ACM template published in the ACM
guidelines, selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. The PDF files must
have all non-standard fonts embedded. Workshop papers must be
self-contained and in English.
Submissions that do not follow these guidelines may be rejected without
review.
Further, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper has to
register for the main conference. Workshop attendance is only granted
for registered participants. Accepted papers will be included in the
workshop proceedings, which will be published as companion proceedings
of The Web Conference, and indexed according to the main conference policy.
Please follow the submission link at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997356 and select the
full name of the workshop in the submission list.
AWARDS AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS
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We will consider assigning a best paper award.
We will organise a special issue on the Elsevier Online Social Networks
and Media (OSNEM) Journal
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/online-social-networks-and-media/
soliciting submissions of extended versions of particularly promising
papers.
OSNEM is a recent yet very well-reputed (Q1 SJR) journal covering, among
others, 100% of the workshop topics.
IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines are AoE)
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23rd January 2023: Abstract submission deadline
6th February 2023: Workshop paper submission deadline
6th March 2023: Workshop paper (acceptance) notification
20th March 2023: Workshop papers camera-ready deadline
31st March 2023: Final program (with duration) provided to Workshop
Track leads
1st or 2nd May 2023: Workshops at WWW2023
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Workshop chairs:
* Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
* Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
* Jussara M. Almeida, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
* Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Technical Program Committee (TBC)
For more information, please write to the workshop co-chairs at osnehm23
<at> iit <dot> cnr <dot> it
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