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==INFORMATIK 2010 Workshop on "Web Science"==
co-located with GI-Jahrestagung 2010
http://aksw.org/WebScienceWorkshop
Web science is often referred to as the "science of decentralized
information systems".
While novel technologies such as semantic web, web services, and cloud
computing are germane to the broad proliferation of Web technologies, we
also need to understand phenomena of the Web in the small as well as in
the large, in order to retain its usefulness and benefit to people. This
is in the center of attention of Web science and includes besides the
mentioned technological approaches, research related to online
communities, information diffusion on the Web, Web governance, global
network structures beyond the individual communities on the Web, growth
analysis, incentive and monetization systems.
This workshop provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to
exchange preliminary results, new concepts and methodologies in this area.
===Topics of interest ===
* Web Governance incl. Provenance, Licensing, Data Security, Access
Control
* Open Knowledge ecosystems on the Web, such as Open Governmental Data,
Open Scientific Data
* Information quality assessment
* Quality, coherence and user interaction on the Linked Data Web
* Social computing applications such as collaborative filtering,
community-based information retrieval and recommendation,
collaborative bookmarking, tagging and multi-agent systems
* Static and dynamic models of Web structure and Web growth
* Analysis of network structures within and beyond individual
communities on the Web
* Incentive and monetization systems
* Information diffusion on the Web,
* Web and Web application governance,
* Novel visualisation techniques for Web related data
* Integrating computational network analysis and semantic web
techniques, for example to enhance the mainly structure-based network
analysis by semantic information
* Case studies of communities such as Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter,
World of Warcraft, open source software as well as empirical findings
in social computing-related applications
In particular, we aim at collecting a set of requirements, architectural
styles and metaphors for Web science.
It is the target of such terminology and figures to build bridges of
understanding between the different communities serving the need to
appropriately //analyse// and //develop// social Web applications.
===Important Dates===
* 07.05.2010 **Paper Submission**
* 24.05.2010 **Acceptance Notification**
* 30.06.2010 **Final paper version due**
* 28.09.2010 **Workshop in conjunction with the GI-Jahrestagung**
===Contact and Organisation===
Sören Auer, AKSW, University of Leipzig
Claudia Müller-Birn, Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Steffen Staab, WeST, University of Koblenz-Landau
===Website===
http://aksw.org/WebScienceWorkshop
