[ecrea] 2nd CFP Web Science Summer School

2nd CFP for annual WSTNet Web Science Summer School 2017 
(http://wwsss17.com/).

Wendy Hall, Cua Tat-Seng, Jeremy Wyatt and Peter Burnap are among 
confirmed speakers.

Web Science is a new interdisciplinary field seeking to understand how 
the Web is transforming society.

The school invites participants from a wide range of disciplines 
interested in the Word Wide Web as a socio-technical system.
Students are expected to have a great interest in latest trends in the 
field, in acquiring data mining skills and in team work experience.

General application deadline is February 15, 2017.

School fee is only 200 euros; a limited number of travel grants will be 
available.

HSE & ITMO students – free (on competitive basis).
Dates & location: 1-8 July 2017, St.Petersburg, Russia.

CFP: 
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BxclrWrMD6W1RTZVQ1FRcEZrUDA

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ANNUAL WSTNet WEB SCIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


WWSSS’17, the annual Summer School in Web Science (wwsss17.com) will be 
held on July 1-8, 2017 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Web Science is a new 
interdisciplinary field seeking to understand how the Web is 
transforming society; for that, it uses advanced methods from both 
social science and computer science. The school invites participants 
from a wide range of disciplines interested in the Word Wide Web as a 
socio-technical system. It is not required to have profound knowledge in 
each topic, but students are expected to have a great interest in latest 
trends in the field, in acquiring data mining skills and in team work 
experience.

WWSSS is an offspring activity of the international W eb S cience T rust 
and is   supervised by its steering c ommittee that ensures its quality. 
WWSSS’17 is  co-organized by the L aboratory f or Internet  S tudies  at 
 the  National  Research  University  Higher  School  of  Economics and 
 the Laboratory of computer technologies at ITMO u niversity . The 
previous school,   WWSSS’16, was held at the Institute for Web Science 
and Technologies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.

Confirmed speakers and tentative topics
Introduction to Web Science	Wendy Hall, Director of the Web Science 
Institute at the
university of Southampton, UK, and director of Web Science Trust

Multimedia analysis	Chua Tat-Seng, director of Extreme Search Center, 
National
University of Singapore

Digital health and online interventions

Jeremy Wyatt, Professor of Digital Healthcare and Director of the Wessex 
Institute of Health & Research, university of Southampton, UK


Risky content detection online	Peter Burnap, director of Social Data 
Science Lab at Cardiff
university, UK
Cities online	Anastasios Noulas, research associate at Computer 
laboratory, university of Cambridge, UK


Online experiments for psychology and wider social science

Milena Tsvetkova, postdoc researcher at Oxford Internet Institute, UK



The concept of the school
The school will include lectures tackling major trends in respective 
subfields of Web science, practical tutorials focused on hands-on 
training in data processing, analysis and methods, and team work. As 
promotion of interdisciplinary communication and collaboration is a key 
goal of the school, the teams will be formed of students from different 
disciplines. They will work on specific tasks linked to the datasets 
provided, and will be mentored by the local instructors. All teams will 
be expected to present the results of their work on the last day of the 
school. In addition, each student will have to participate in the poster 
session with a poster about his/her current work. School participation 
is conditional upon poster submission, while obtaining the school 
certificate is conditional upon successful team work presentation. The 
school will include one day of cultural / social activities in the 
middle, while the last day will be opened with a lecture from a Russian 
internet industry speaker. As the school aims at the balance between 
computer science and social science, it is hosted jointly by the two 
universities that are Russia’s leaders in the respective fields, which 
means that it will be held in two venues successively.

Organizing committee Andrey Filchenkov, ITMO Alex Farseev, NUS
Alexander Boukhanovsky, ITMO Alexander Bugrovskiy, ITMO Daniel 
Alexandrov, HSE
Dariya Yudenkova, HSE Kseniya Buraya, ITMO Olessia Koltsova, HSE Sergey 
Koltsov, HSE
Svetlana Popova, SPbSU / ITMO Vladimir Parfenov, ITMO
Yuri Rykov, HSE

Steering committee
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau Les Carr, University of 
Southampton
Guus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam
Conor Hayes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute Jim Hendler, 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Terms of participation
The target audience of the school is advanced graduate and PhD students, 
post-doctoral researchers, academic and industrial researchers and 
analysts. The school will be open to about 30 qualified, motivated and 
pre-selected candidates from around the world. Above this, up to 20 ITMO 
and HSE students may be accepted on the competitive basis. The working 
language of the school is English. School fees are: early registration - 
200 euros, late registration - 300 euros.  The host universities provide 
free participation for up to 20 students from HSE and ITMO on a 
competitive basis. The school offers visa support and assistance with 
accommodation in low-cost hostels near the school venues.

How to apply?
To apply for participation visit WWSSS’17 website (wwsss17.com) and 
follow the instructions. You will have to submit the following documents:
●	A poster paper. Poster papers are two-page documents in English that 
describe applicants' early-stage, ongoing or completed 
research/educational projects. Research results published before and 
work in progress are accepted.
●	Resume


Important dates
February 15, 2017	Application deadline for general participants. March 
1, 2017	Notification of acceptance for general participants. March 1- 
April 15, 2017	Early bird payment
April 16 - June 30, 2017	Late payment
April 20, 2017	Application deadline for HSE and ITMO students

May 1, 2017	Notification of acceptance for HSE and ITMO students July 
1-8, 2017	School dates

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