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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
ACM Web
Science Conference (WebSci’14), June 23-26, 2014
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Deadline for workshop proposals: January 17th, 2013
Notification
of Acceptance: January 31st, 2014
Workshops Date: June 23 2014
Call
for Workshops and Tutorials
The Web
is the largest information network ever devised. It opens a
universally accessible space for communication and knowledge
sharing, with vast effects on society that we are just
starting to grasp. Web Science is the emerging field that
studies the structure, function and evolution of the WWW to
ultimately unravel the social potentials and consequences of
this ubiquitous network.
The Web
Science conference will start with tutorials and workshops
that will promote in-depth training and discussions with the
goal of understanding how people, organizations, applications,
and policies shape and are shaped by the Web. In agreement
with the spirit of the conference, the tutorials and workshops
are intended to create opportunities for interdisciplinary
discussion around themes and methods that are central to the
study of the Web. The list of themes includes, but is not
restricted to,
1.
Methods for data mining and network research;
2. The study of social dynamics (i.e. political campaigns,
censorship) using Web data;
3. The
relationship between technical design and individual behaviour
(i.e. the impact of by-default design on privacy);
4. The
future of the Web in an era of increasing mobile applications;
5. The
incentives and limits of regulation;
6.
Participatory systems and crowdsourcing;
7. The
dynamics of information creation (supply) and consumption
(demand) and its relation to real world events.
We will
give priority to proposals that approach their topic from the
perspective of various disciplines, spanning the divide
between the social and computer sciences. Tutorials and
workshops can be designed as half or full day events.
Workshops can have a mixture of panel presentations and
invited speakers, but presentations should reflect the
diversity of approaches that characterize the
multidisciplinary nature of Web Science.
Submission
Tutorial and workshop proposals should contain the following
information:
1.
Title summarizing the tutorial goals or workshop theme.
2.
Details of the organizing committee, including names and
institutional affiliations.
3. Max
two-page description about the relevance, motivation and goals
of the tutorial or workshop.
4.
Schedule of sessions, panels, and talks (half or full day).
5.
Names of instructors and potential invited speakers.
6. For
workshops, selection criteria for papers to be presented.
7.
Tutorial or workshop website URL (advisable).
It is
the prerogative of organizers to decide whether to have an
open call for participants and papers, or arrange panels by
invitation only (for workshops), as well as deciding the
duration (full or half-day) of the event. Proposals should
include as many details as possible about sessions, speakers,
and talks: they will be evaluated by their coherence and
ability to address the stated goals.
Is is
the responsibility of organizers to advertise their event, and
(for workshops) constitute a program committee to review and
select papers, manage the review process, and possibly arrange
for selected papers to be published in a special issue of a
to-be-identified journal.
We
advise proposals to have, at the time of submission, a website
describing the event and, if applicable, information about
similar events held in the past. Selected tutorials and
workshops will be linked from the main conference site.
Review
The Web Science workshop chairs will review each submission
and select those with the higher scores on originality and
relevance of the proposed topic, its interdisciplinarity,
rigor of the review process, coherence with the conference
aims, and potential to attract a large audience .
Deadlines
* January 17th 2013: Proposal Submissions
*
January 31st 2013: Notification of acceptance
*
February 15th 2013: Final website due
Workshop
Chairs
Sandra González-Bailón, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia (PA), USA
Alessandro
Flammini, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), USA
Daniela Paolotti, ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy
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Jared Lorince
PhD student, ABC West Lab
Cognitive Science //
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Indiana University,
Bloomington