WWW 2013  Practice and Experience Track Call for Papers - full details can be found at http://www2013.org/authors/call-for-papers-practice-and-experience-track/

The Practice and Experience track solicits high quality papers reporting on practical issues and experiences encountered in applying novel research results and methods in
developing and deploying web-scale applications (commercial or academic), and in the use of real-world web-scale data for business insights and for user experience.
Articles should be written in a scientific rather than sales style if a product is described. Demonstrations (when appropriate) are encouraged as part of the submission
(via a URL to the actual system or a recording of its use).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following (all cases refer to Large-scale systems/applications and Big Data):

- Mobile, multi-screen, and multimedia applications
- Methodologies and insights from controlled experiments
- User modeling, personalization, privacy and anonymization
- Emerging markets and accessibility (web access beyond the first billion)
- Crowdsourcing and human computation
- Entity extraction, and knowledge building
- Computational advertising
- Batch and on-line processing and modeling
- Interactive visualization and monitoring
- Data-driven journalism, medicine, and finance
- User studies, ethnographic studies, and evaluation
- Personal information management
- Engagement metrics and economic models
- The web and the real world (online and offline behavior, Web Science, etc.)
- Search in novel domains and new search paradigms
- Experiences in developing, and using open source software
- Participatory platforms and grass-roots movements (e.g., citizen journalism, lobbying, etc.)
- Adversarial challenges (denial of service attacks, spoofing, spam, cloaking, etc.)
- Enterprise-specific deployments and systems
- Distributed computing and platforms
- Start-up experiences in developing, deploying, and scaling
- Insights and Business intelligence
- Applications in all areas (education, entertainment and games, politics, social media, etc.)

Important Dates

Abstract submission:
Monday, November 19th, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

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

Paper notifications: Friday, February 8th, 2013

Chairs
Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Yahoo! Labs – Spain
Haixun Wang, MSR – China

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