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 [email protected]. *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 *Track Programme Committee* (tba) -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
