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**The Web Conference 2024 will be held in Singapore, from May 13 to May 17, 2024

The committee led by our General Chairs: Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore) and Chong-Wah Ngo (Singapore Management University) welcome you to Singapore in May 2024!

The organizing committee is preparing an edition rich in scientific exchanges. In addition to the research tracks, The Web Conference 2024 will also feature a large number of usual events: Industry track, Workshops, Tutorials, Ph.D. symposium, Posters and Demos, as well as Special Days.

Check our website (https://www2024.thewebconf.org/).

**Welcome to TheWebConf 2024 Program Chairs!

We are proud to announce our PC Chairs for TheWebConf 2024:

  • Ravi Kumar, Google
  • Hady W. Lauw, Singapore Management University

**Key dates for authors

The Call for Papers (CFP) for The Web Conference 2024 research tracks is online: https://www2024.thewebconf.org/calls/research-tracks/.

Do not miss the deadlines for submitting papers:

  • Abstract: Thursday, October 5, 2023
  • Full paper: Thursday, October 12, 2023
  • Author response: December 1-7, 2023
  • Author and reviewer discussion: December 8-14, 2023
  • Notification: February 1, 2024

**Research Tracks and Track Chairs for The Web Conference 2024

There are 10 research tracks, and every submission will have to specify the track. The list of tracks and their chairs are given below, while track descriptions can be found on the CFP.

Economics, Online Markets, and Human Computation

  • Negin Golrezaei (MIT)
  • Senjuti Basu Roy (NJIT)
  • Grant Schoenebeck (U Michigan)

Graph Algorithms and Modeling for the Web

  • Sreenivas Gollapudi (Google)
  • Yizhou Sun (UCLA)
  • Charalampos Tsourakakis (BU)

Responsible Web

  • Badih Ghazi (Google)
  • Manish Raghavan (MIT)
  • Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)

Search

  • Hui Fang (U Delaware)
  • Makoto P. Kato (U Tsukuba)
  • Aixin Sun (NTU)

Security

  • Nicolas Christin (CMU)
  • Elena Ferrari (U Insubria)
  • Nick Nikiforakis (Stony Brook U)

Semantics and Knowledge

  • Raphaël Troncy (EURECOM)
  • María Poveda Villalón (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Social Networks, Social Media, and Society

  • James Caverlee (Texas A&M)
  • Flavio Chierichetti (Sapienza U Rome)
  • Yu-Ru Lin (U Pitt)

Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile, and WoT

  • Youngki Lee (Seoul National U)
  • Flora Salim (UNSW)
  • Gareth Tyson (HKUST)

User Modeling and Recommendation

  • Krisztian Balog (U Stavanger & Google)
  • Lina Yao (CSIRO’s Data61 & UNSW)
  • Xiangliang Zhang (UND)

Web Mining and Content Analysis

  • Jing Gao (Purdue)
  • Karthik Subbian (Amazon)
  • Wei Wang (UCLA)

We invite contributions to the Industry Track for Applied Research, the Special Track on Web4Good, workshops and tutorials of The Web Conference 2024 (formerly known as WWW). The Web Conference is the premier conference focused on understanding the current state and the evolution of the Web through the lens of different disciplines, including computing, computational social science, economics and political sciences.

**The Web Conference 2024 will be held in Singapore, from May 13 to May 17, 2024.

Check our website (https://www2024.thewebconf.org/).

**Key dates for authors submitting for the Industry Track and the Web4Good Track

  • Abstract: Thursday, November 2, 2023
  • Paper submission: Thursday, November 9, 2023
  • Notification: February 1, 2024 All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

**CFP for Industry Track at The Web Conference 2024

The realm of the Internet has demonstrated its remarkable potential as a rich domain for industrial exploration. Enterprises spanning the spectrum from modest startups to industry giants, regardless of their age, have consistently influenced the forefront of scientific and engineering advancements. In the Industry Track of The Web Conference 2024, we aim to spotlight this kind of impactful research conducted within practical contexts. We also wholeheartedly welcome submissions that delve into new technological progress, including but not limited to the application of Generative AI, across diverse industrial landscapes.

The Industry Track welcomes contributions showcasing original results obtained in an industrial environment, having clear industry relevance, and highlighting new research challenges motivated by practical tasks and practical settings. The Industry Track is distinct from the Research Track in that submissions focus on applied work describing e.g., the implementation of a system, the acquisition of data, or the application of a methodology, that solves a significant real-world problem and demonstrates benefits as well as impact. Submissions must clearly describe how their work has been deployed or released, and for how long.

Each submission must include at least one author with a non-academic affiliation. The Industry Track is chaired by:

  • Qi He, Nextdoor
  • Neel Sundaresan, Microsoft
  • Hao Wang, Norweigian University of Science and Technology

Contact: TheWebConf24-industry@easychair.org https://www2024.thewebconf.org/calls/industry/

**CFP for Web4Good (Sustainable Development and Vulnerable Populations) at The Web Conference 2024

Today’s web and social media solutions do not sufficiently address societal problems related to environmental sustainability, climate action, and vulnerable populations. Moreover, recent trends point towards new risks such as the massive usage of large language models (LLMs) or GenAI applications. Training these systems is computationally expensive and, therefore, an energy-intensive process that amplifies current climate impacts. Besides, these systems are often trained using biassed and uncontrolled datasets, risking significant impacts to vulnerable populations.

We seek papers in which web and social media technologies are investigated, developed or applied to these topics, particularly among vulnerable or marginalized communities and the fostering of sustainable development and healthy human societies.

The goal of this track is to gather researchers and developers from academia, industry, and civil society to present and debate methods for achieving a Web that is inclusive, non discriminative, sustainable, ethical, open, and that can appropriately address emergent societal challenges towards a Web for Good. To achieve this, we look for contributions that describe research results, tools, design techniques and experiments that are being developed to deal with these topics as well as how to develop new partnerships for the data age (Data Collaboratives) to unlock both data and data science capabilities.

Web4Good is chaired by:

  • Ellie Graeden, Georgetown University
  • Alex Jaimes, Dataminr
  • Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Meta

Contact: TheWebConf24-web4good@ACM.org https://www2024.thewebconf.org/calls/web4good/

**Call for Workshops Proposals at The Web Conference 2024

We invite proposals for workshops to be held at The Web Conference 2024. Workshops will take place in the first two days (May 13-14, 2024).

The Web Conference 2024 will feature a number of co-located workshops that are intended to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in Web technologies to discuss and exchange positions on current and emergent Web topics. Workshop participants will be given the opportunity to exchange ideas, learn cutting-edge science and technological advancements for the Web, establish common ground in research areas or applied problems, and identify new opportunities for collaboration and new directions for future work.

  • Workshop proposal submission: November 9, 2023
  • Workshop proposal notification: November 30, 2023
  • Workshop paper submission: February 5, 2024
  • Workshop paper notification: March 4, 2024
  • Workshop paper camera-ready: March 11, 2024
  • Workshops: May 13 - 14, 2024 All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Workshop Chairs:

  • Jisun An, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Eric Gaussier, University Grenoble Alps
  • Xia "Ben" Hu, Rice University

Contact: TheWebConf24-workshops@easychair.org https://www2024.thewebconf.org/calls/workshops/

**Call for Tutorial Proposals at The Web Conference 2024

We invite proposals for tutorials to be held at The Web Conference 2024. Tutorials will take place in the first two days (May 13-14, 2024).

We welcome tutorial proposals on current and emerging topics related to the World Wide Web, broadly construed to include mobile and other Internet and online-enabled modes of interaction and communication (such as those covered by the research tracks). Tutorials are intended to provide a high-quality learning experience to conference attendees. It is expected that tutorials will address an audience with a varied range of interests and backgrounds: beginners, developers, designers, researchers, practitioners, users, lecturers, and representatives of governments and funding agencies who wish to learn new technologies.

  • Tutorial proposal submission deadline: November 9, 2023
  • Tutorial proposal notification: December 14, 2023
  • Tutorial online material due: April 10, 2024
  • Tutorial presentation: May 13 or 14, 2024 All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Tutorial Chairs:

  • Pablo Cesar, TU Delft and CWI
  • Cong Gao, Nanyang Technological University
  • Liqiang Nie, NIT Shenzhen

Contact: TheWebConf24-tutorials@easychair.org https://www2024.thewebconf.org/calls/tutorials/

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The ACM Web Conference 2024 Newsletter #3 - Calls for Short Papers, Demo, PhD Symposium, and Nominations for the Seoul Test of Time Award of The ACM Web Conference 2024

The Web Conference is the premier conference focused on understanding the current state and the evolution of the Web through the lens of different disciplines, including computing, computational social science, economics and political sciences. The 2024 conference will take place in Singapore, from May 13 to 17, 2024.

The following important dates apply to the Short Papers, Demo, and PhD Symposium:

  • Paper submission: February 5, 2024
  • Notification to authors: March 4, 2024
  • Camera ready: March 11, 2024 All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

** Call for Short Papers

The Short Papers Track is a forum to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners by allowing them to present their new and innovative work. In addition, the track will enable conference attendees to learn novel ongoing research projects through informal interactions. Submitted posters are expected to be aligned with one or more of the relevant topics of The Web Conference community (such as those covered by the research tracks).

Short Papers Co-Chairs:

  • Alexandros Ntoulas (University of Athens)
  • Sinno Pan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Contact: TheWebConf24-shortpapers@easychair.org

** Call for Demo

The Demo Track is a forum to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners by allowing them to demonstrate their new and innovative work. In addition, the track will enable conference attendees to learn novel ongoing research projects through informal interactions. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system. Submitted demos are expected to be aligned with one or more of the relevant topics of The Web Conference community (such as those covered by the research tracks).

Demo Co-Chairs:

  • Xiangnan He (University of Science and Technology, China)
  • Tong Zhao (Uber)

Contact: TheWebConf24-demo@easychair.org

** Call for PhD Symposium

The PhD Symposium of The Web Conference 2024 welcomes submissions from PhD students on their ongoing research related to the main conference topics (for example, see also the research tracks). We are particularly interested in submissions aimed to enhance our understanding of the Web, provide intuitive access to Web information and knowledge, strengthen the positive impact of the Web on society, take advantage of the Web of Things and enhance security, privacy protection, and trust.

The goal of the PhD Symposium is to provide a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods, and results. The symposium aims to provide students guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to the World Wide Web. Finally, the symposium aims to enable PhD students to interact with other participants of The Web Conference and potential collaborators by stimulating the exchange of ideas and experiences.

PhD Symposium Co-chairs:

  • Haewoon Kwak (Indiana University Bloomington)
  • Vagelis Papalexakis (University of California, Riverside)
  • Xiang Wang (University of Science and Technology, China)

Contact: TheWebConf24-phdsymposium@easychair.org

** Call for Nominations for the Seoul Test of Time Award of The ACM Web Conference 2024

We invite the Web Conference community to submit nominations for the Seoul Test of Time Award, which will be presented at The ACM Web Conference 2024 in May 2024 in Singapore. The award will be given to a paper that has been published in The Web Conference series, formerly known as WWW.

Inaugurated in 2015, the Seoul Test of Time Award is made possible by the generous contributions of the organizers of the WWW’2014 conference, held in Seoul, South Korea. A list of the previous award winners is available online.

This year, we will focus on papers that were published in the research track of the conference proceedings in 2014 or before, and which demonstrated a lasting significant scientific, technical, industrial, or social impact over the years.

If you intend to nominate a paper, you should have no conflict of interest with any of the authors of the paper. To nominate a paper, please upload it to EasyChair on or before January 19, 2024, completing the submission form as follows:

  • Address for Correspondence: The nominator should enter their own details in that field.
  • Author Information: The nominator should enter their own details in that field.
  • Title and Abstract: The nominator should enter the title of the paper in the Title field and use the abstract field for their supporting case. The case should include evidence of significant scientific, technical, industrial, and social impact, including citation counts from DBLP or Google Scholar (supported by a link). Finally, the nominator should indicate whether they would like their identity to remain confidential.
  • Keywords: The nominator should select at least three keywords (one per line) characterizing the submission.
  • No COI: The nominator must check this checkbox to confirm the absence of a Conflict of Interest with all authors of the nominated paper.
  • Paper: Upload the PDF of the nominated paper as it appeared in the conference proceedings.

Please contact TWC2024SeoulToT@easychair.org if you have any questions.

Thank you for your interest in The ACM Web Conference!

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The ACM Web Conference 2024 Newsletter #4 - Selected Workshops and Tutorials, together with Calls for Resource, Health Day, History of the Web, Emerging World Symposium and Artifact Badging

The Web Conference is the premier conference focused on understanding the current state and the evolution of the Web through the lens of different disciplines, including computing, computational social science, economics and political sciences.

** Selected Workshops

The Web Conference 2024 selected 16 workshops! Congratulations to all the selected workshops.

Find the links at: https://www2024.thewebconf.org/program/workshops/

** Selected Tutorials

The Web Conference 2024 selected 20 tutorials! Congratulations to all the selected tutorials.

Find the links at: https://www2024.thewebconf.org/program/tutorials/

** Call for Resource Papers

This year, The Web Conf includes a dedicated Resource track, distinct from the academic tracks. In this track we focus on the underpinning foundations that led to novel research results or deployed industry solutions. We invite submissions on the following, non-exhaustive list of topics:

  • Insights on designing and implementing data pipelines including data acquisition, cleaning, deduplication, and enrichment.
  • Documentation of the preparation of datasets, the creation of AI models, or the development of related open source software and open standards.
  • Experience descriptions and challenges with the development of new Web standards, or failed attempts thereof, for example, due to disagreement with browser vendors.
  • Discussions of ethical questions that arise, like the exclusion of marginalized user groups when only building with ableist resources for the Web, for example, by using language-biased AI training material.
  • Explanations of development journeys that resulted in published research or deployed solutions.

Important Dates

  • Paper submission: February 5, 2024
  • Notification to authors: March 4, 2024
  • Camera ready: March 11, 2024 All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Resource Co-Chairs:

  • Michael Hausenblas (AWS)
  • Thomas Steiner (Google)

Contact: TheWebConf24-resource@easychair.org

** Call for Health Day Extended Abstracts

The emergence of novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies is poised to significantly transform clinical care practices. These advancements are opening new avenues in healthcare delivery and medical research, ultimately enhancing patient outcomes. AI and ML have already demonstrated substantial potential in catalyzing the digital health revolution. This includes early prediction of disease risks, improved forecasting of patient prognosis, and the development of personalized treatment plans to optimize healthcare delivery. Significant achievements have been made in the application of computer vision models for medical imaging, illustrating the robust capabilities of these technologies. Additionally, the use of reinforcement learning models for intervention recommendations presents promising opportunities for further innovation. Moreover, the rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked extensive discussions about their potential to reimagine various healthcare practices. This underscores the pivotal role of AI and ML in shaping the future of healthcare, offering a glimpse into a more efficient and effective medical landscape.

The Health Day is a forum to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in the Healthcare AI and ML field by allowing them to present their new and innovative work . In addition, the track will enable conference attendees to learn novel ongoing research projects through informal interactions.

We welcome any submissions that address the broad goals of the Health Day and look forward to seeing the diverse ways in which authors will approach these themes. We especially encourage submissions in the following areas:

  • AI-Driven Diagnostics and Prognostics
  • Personalized Medicine through Machine Learning
  • AI in Medical Imaging
  • AI in Drug Discovery and Development
  • AI for Epidemic Prediction and Management
  • AI in Mental Health
  • Reinforcement Learning in Clinical Decision Support
  • AI and Telemedicine
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Healthcare
  • Interoperability and Integration of AI Systems in Healthcare
  • AI for Healthcare Accessibility and Equity
  • Ethical Implications of AI in Healthcare

Important Dates

  • Paper submission: February 5, 2024
  • Notification to authors: March 4, 2024
  • Camera ready: March 11, 2024
  • Health Day: May 14, 2024 (to be confirmed) All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Health Day Co-Chairs:

  • Mengling Feng (National University of Singapore)
  • Xia "Ben" Hu (Rice University)

Contact: TheWebConf24-health@easychair.org

** Call for Papers: History of the Web

All the evidence indicates that with Generative AI we are going through a transformation right now that may be comparable to that caused by the emergence of the World Wide Web. What lessons have we learnt over the last 30+ years since that revolution? Are any of these lessons transferable to the current large transformation we are undergoing? How has the Web changed how we work, socialise and live?

This Web Conference Track is dedicated to answering the above and acting as a verified record of this amazing technology’s history. Capturing, reflecting upon and understanding what happened will help us through this and future technologically founded revolutions.

With its initial invention in 1989 we are now well over one whole generation away from its beginnings in CERN. In a few decades we will be relying more on written rather than verbal recollection to understand the events, impact and rationales. This Track will aid in the ongoing development of the written historical record.

Important Dates

  • Paper submission: Monday, February 5th, 2024
  • Notification: Monday, February 19th, 2024 All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

History of the Web Co-Chairs:

  • Lora Aroyo (Google)
  • John Domingue (Open University)

Contact: TheWebConf24-history@ACM.org

** Call for Emerging World Symposium Papers

The goal of the Emerging World Symposium is to provide a platform for students, researchers, and practitioners from developing countries (e.g., countries in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia) to present their work and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods, and results. The symposium will enable conference attendees to learn about novel ongoing research projects in the developing world through informal interactions. The symposium will also provide the students and researchers with guidance on various aspects of their research work from established researchers of the World Wide Web community. The symposium aims at enabling interactions with other participants of The Web Conference and potential collaborations by stimulating the exchange of ideas and experiences.

Submitted papers are expected to be aligned with one or more of the relevant topics of The Web Conference community (such as those covered by the research tracks).

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: February 5, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: March 4, 2024
  • Camera-ready version: March 11, 2024
  • Emerging World Symposium: May 13, 2024 (to be confirmed) All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Emerging World Symposium Co-chairs:

  • Wynne Hsu (National University of Singapore)
  • Vincent Oria (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
  • Grace Hui Yang (Georgetown University)

Contact: TheWebConf24-DEI@ACM.org

** Call for Artifact Badging

We invite authors of accepted papers in all tracks of The Web Conference to apply for the "Artifacts Available" badge in the ACM Digital Library and on the conference website.

We would like to encourage sharing, discovery, and reuse of artifacts, such as datasets, ML models, software associated with the conference papers. At this stage, we welcome submissions only from accepted papers. The artifact submissions will undergo a light review and will be awarded with “Artifacts Available” badge in the ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: submit your artifacts at the same time as the camera-ready version of your paper.

  • Main Proceedings: February 18, 2024
  • Companion Proceedings: March 11, 2024 All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Artifact Badging Co-Chairs:

  • Valentina Ivanova (RISE)
  • Natasha Noy (Google)

Contact : TheWebConf24-artifact@ACM.org

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The ACM Web Conference 2024 Newsletter #5 - Accepted Papers in the Research, Industry, and Web4Good tracks, together with Call for Registration

The Web Conference is the premier conference focused on understanding the current state and the evolution of the Web through the lens of different disciplines, including computing, computational social science, economics and political sciences.

** Accepted Research Papers

The ten research tracks collectively receive 2008 valid submissions, which represents 6% growth overall. TheWebConf PC chairs and Senior Area Chairs supported by an enormous program committee have accepted 405 papers for an acceptance rate of 20.2%.

Find the list of accepted papers at: https://www2024.thewebconf.org/accepted/research-tracks/

** Accepted Web4Good Papers

The Web4Good special track receive 122 valid submissions, of which 23 were accepted for an acceptance rate of 18.9%.

Find the list of accepted papers at: https://www2024.thewebconf.org/accepted/web4good/

** Accepted Industry Track Papers

The Industry Track receive 246 valid submissions, of which 52 were accepted for an acceptance rate of 21.1%.

Find the list of accepted papers at: https://www2024.thewebconf.org/accepted/industry/

** Registration is Open

The Web Conference 2024 will run as a mostly in-person conference, and remote attendance is supported to some degree via Zoom and Whova. Registration is now open, with an attractive Early Bird rate available till 31 March 2024.

Find the registration link at: https://www2024.thewebconf.org/attending/registration/