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Second CALL FOR PAPERS
Hypertext 2009
The Twenty-First ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
TRACK 2: PEOPLE, RESOURCES, AND ANNOTATIONS
http://www.ht2009.org/track2.php
June 29th - July 1st, 2009,
Torino, Italy
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SCOPE
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The ACM Hypertext Conference is the main venue for high quality
peer-reviewed research on "linking." The Web, the Semantic Web, the
Web 2.0, and Social Networks are all manifestations of the success
of the link. The Hypertext Conference provides the forum for all
research concerning links: their semantics, their presentation, the
applications, as well as the knowledge that can be derived from
their analysis and their effects on society.
Hypertext 2008, held in Pittsburgh, was a real success. The number
of submissions and attendees was up, a successful Student Research
Competition took place, and a rejuvenated social linking track added
new ideas and connections to the traditional core of the conference.
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TRACK 2: PEOPLE, RESOURCES, AND ANNOTATIONS
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One of the most exciting recent developments in Web science is the
rise of social annotation, by which users can easily markup other
authors' resources via collaborative mechanisms such as tagging,
filtering, voting, editing, classification, and rating. These social
processes lead to the emergence of many types of links between
texts, users, concepts, pages, articles, media, and so on. We
welcome submissions on design, analysis, and modeling of information
systems driven by social linking. Topics of interest include but are
not limited to:
* Applications to search, retrieval, recommendation, and navigation
* Explicit vs. inferred social links (e.g. mining query logs)
* Integration of different social networks (e.g. links between blogs
and bookmarking systems)
* Socially induced measures of similarity, relatedness, or distance
* Co-evolution of social, information, and semantic networks
* Analysis of the structure and the dynamics of social information
networks
* Behavioral patterns of social linking
* Linguistic analysis of social annotation spaces
* Formal and generative models of social annotation
* Unstructured vs. structured social knowledge representations
* Implementation and scalability of social link representations
* Automatic and user-based evaluation
* Emergent semantics in social networks
* Robustness against spam and other forms of social abuse
* Design of collaborative annotation mechanisms
* Critical mass and incentives of social participation (e.g. games)
* User interfaces for collaborative annotation
For additional information on the track and the Program Committee,
please visit http://www.ht2009.org/track2.php
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Technical tracks paper submission deadline: February 2nd, 2009
* Notification to authors: March 16th, 2009
* Camera-ready (final papers to ACM): April 6th, 2009
LOCATION AND DATES
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Hypertext 2009 will be held from June 29th to July 1st at the Villa
Gualino Convention Center, on the hills overlooking Torino.
The capital of the Piedmont region, Torino lies at the foot of the
Alps, the majestic mountains that hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics.
First the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, then one of the European
centers of baroque, today Torino is a dynamic city known for its
industry, art and culture, sports, research and education, and
cuisine.
The timing of Hypertext 2009 provides an excellent opportunity to
visit Italy in conjunction with the International Conference on User
Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization in Trento (UMAP 2009 -
http://umap09.fbk.eu/), and the International Workshop and Conference
on Network Science in Venice (NetSci 2009 - http://www.netsci09.net/).
PROGRAM
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Hypertext 2009 will feature two stellar keynote speakers: Lada Adamic
(University of Michigan) is a noted scholar of social networking and
the winner of the 2008 Engelbart Award; Ricardo Baeza-Yates is
Vice-President of Yahoo! Research for Europe and Latin America,
leading the labs in Spain, Chile, and Israel.
In the conference technical program, professionals from academia,
industry, and the media will present innovative ideas and tools
exploiting the broad range of links increasingly connecting people,
information, communities, and structures. Research topics will be
organized into three tracks:
track 1. Information Structure and Presentation (Chairs: Peter
Brusilovsky and Cristina Gena)
track 2. People, Resources, and Annotations (Chairs: Andreas Hotho and
Vittorio Loreto)
track 3. Hypertext and Community (Chairs: Mark Bernstein and Antonio Pizzo)
The attendees of Hypertext 2009 will also have a chance to experiment
with applications mixing real-world data and on-line data. We will
deploy active RFID tags in the badges of volunteers and run a data
collection platform tracking the real-time relations of physical
proximity between the attendees. The data collection and visualization
systems will be provided by the SocioPatterns project
(http://www.sociopatterns.org), and will expose API methods that allow
developers to mash up real-world links between the attendees with other
types of linking information from the Web.
SUBMISSIONS
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Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation,
simulation, analysis, or application. Authors are invited to submit
papers presenting original, not previously published works. Submission
categories may include regular research papers (max 10 pages)
discussing mature work, and short papers (max 5 pages) describing
preliminary results of on-going work or novel thought-provoking ideas.
All submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG
proceedings template
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and
submitted via EasyChair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht2009). Accepted papers
will appear in the Hypertext 2009 Conference Proceedings and also be
available through the ACM Digital Library.
ORGANIZATION
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
* Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation, Torino)
* Giancarlo Ruffo (University of Torino)
PROGRAM CHAIR:
* Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)
WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS:
* Santo Fortunato (ISI Foundation, Torino)
* Rossano Schifanella (University of Torino)
TREASURER:
* Roberto Palermo (ISI Foundation, Torino)
Track 2 Chairs:
* Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel (Germany)
* Vittorio Loreto, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Senior Track 2 Program Committee:
* Wendy Hall University of Southampton (UK)
* Bernardo Huberman HP Labs (USA)
* Peter Mika Yahoo! Research Barcelona (Spain)
* Jon Kleinberg Cornell University (USA)
* Frank Smadja Toluna (France)
* Steffen Staab University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
* Gerd Stumme University of Kassel (Germany)
Track 2 Program Committee:
* Ruj Akavipat Indiana University (USA)
* Harith Alani University of Southampton (UK)
* Andrea Baldassarri Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
* Dominik Benz University of Kassel (Germany)
* Johan Bollen LANL (USA)
* Shannon Bradshaw Drew University (USA)
* Andrea Capocci Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
* Riley Crane ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
* Debora Donato Yahoo! Research Barcelona (Spain)
* Scott Golder Cornell University (USA)
* Paul Heymann Stanford University (USA)
* Bettina Hoser University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
* Pranam Kolari Yahoo! (USA)
* Renaud Lambiotte Imperial College London (UK)
* Jure Leskovec Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
* Marc Light he Thomson Corporation (USA)
* Ana Maguitman Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina)
* Massimo Marchiori University of Padova (Italy)
* Ben Markines Indiana University (USA)
* Mark Meiss Indiana University (USA)
* Evangelos Milios Dalhousie University (Canada)
* Claudia Müller University of Stuttgart (Germany)
* Jacob Ratkiewicz Indiana University (USA)
* Heather Roinestad Indiana University (USA)
* Vito Servedio Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
* Markus Strohmaier Graz University of Technology (Austria)
* Martin Svensson Ericsson Research (Sweden)
* Karin Verspoor LANL (USA)
* Alan Wexelblat HOVIR (USA)
* Le-Shin Wu Indiana University (USA)
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Universitaet Kassel Fax.: +49-(0)561-804-6259
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