[ecrea] WebSci '18 CFP

*Call for Papers*

10th International ACM Web Science Conference 2018

27-30 May 2018 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

*Paper due February 11, 2018*

The 10th International ACM Conference on Web Science in 2018 (WebSci’18) 
is a unique conference where a multitude of disciplines converge in a 
creative and critical dialogue with the aim of understanding the Web and 
its impacts. WebSci’18 welcomes participation from diverse fields 
including (but not limited to) art, anthropology, computer and 
information sciences, communication, economics, humanities, informatics, 
law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and 
sociology. We particularly welcome contributions that seek to cross 
traditional disciplinary boundaries. We are seeking papers that describe 
original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, 
as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and 
important research-in-progress.

Possible topics for submissions include (but are not limited to) the 
following:


  * Current theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges
    of Web Science:
  * Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and
    people in the Web
  * Interdisciplinarity in Web Science
  * Modeling Web-related structures, data, users and behaviours
  * Impact of big data on the development of Web Science
  * Web Science approaches to data science, data analytics, and the Web
    of data
  * Detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in Web data
  * Data curation and stewardship in Web Science
  * Sharing Web research data, Web archiving, and scholarly uses of Web
    archives
  * The psychological, sociological, legal and technological aspects
    related to the temporal and spatial dimensions of the web as a
    repository of information


Web practices of individuals, collectives, institutions, and platforms:


  * The architecture and philosophy of the Web
  * Social machines, crowd computing, collective intelligence, and
    collaborative production
  * Health and well-being online
  * Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web
  * Web Science and the Internet of Things
  * Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation
  * Analysis of online social and information networks, social media
    analyses
  * Governance, democracy, access, intellectual property:
  * Personal data and privacy
  * Anonymity, security and trust for Web access
  * Web access, literacy, divides, and development
  * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web


*Submission*

WebSci18 is a selective conference with a rigorous review process. 
Reviewing will be single-blind (authors are identified on submissions; 
reviewers are anonymized). To accommodate the distinct traditions of Web 
Science’s many disciplines, we allow for two different paper submission 
formats: full papers and short papers.

Full papers are up to 8-10 pages long, ACM double column. Full papers 
should present new and substantial theoretical, empirical, 
methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or 
practice. Full papers include an abstract, an introduction, sections and 
especially significant conclusions and should be well on top of the 
current literature in the field as evidenced by appropriate referencing. 
Full papers should be original work that has not been previously 
published. Full papers are presented through regular talks. The program 
committee may decide to recommend full papers that were rejected as such 
to be accepted as short papers, if the authors agree.

Short papers are 3-5 pages long, ACM double column. Short papers should 
present new ideas and/or work in progress that may have significant 
impact to or implications for the progress of the Web and Web Science. 
Short papers should include an abstract, an introductory paragraph and 
appropriate references. Short papers should be original work that has 
not been previously published. Short papers are assigned short talks.

Both types of accepted submissions will be included in the proceedings, 
which will be archived by the ACM Digital Library. However, in order to 
accommodate the publication priorities of different scientific 
communities, we allow authors to opt out of having their contribution 
appear in the published proceedings (thus allowing the authors to retain 
the right to publish later in academic journals).

Furthermore, the WebSci18 Scientific Program Chairs intend to organize a 
special issue of The Journal of Web Science. Authors of selected full 
and short papers and extended abstracts will be contacted and invited to 
submit a full-length journal paper for the special issue. All papers 
invited to this submission will go through a peer-review process before 
receiving final approval.

*Submission Instructions:*

Full and short paper submissions should be formatted according to the 
official ACM SIG Conference Proceedings

See http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ;(From the zip 
files provided, please select the SIGCONF version.

You can find the WebSci’18 paper submission pages at Easychair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci18

*Important dates*

February 11, 2018 (Sunday): Submission of long papers and short papers: 
PDFs of these submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair by this date.

March 23 , 2018 (Friday): Notification of Acceptance: Acceptances and 
rejections of long papers and short papers are sent out.

April 13, 2018 (Friday): Final Publication version due. Presenters who 
do not opt out of having their contribution appear in the ACM 
proceedings must upload the camera-ready copy of their paper to 
EasyChair by this date.

*Program Chairs*

Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, the Netherlands

Matthew S. Weber, Rutgers, USA

*Senior PC members:*

Ricardo Baeza‑Yates, Yahoo Labs

Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California

Susan Halford, University of Southampton

Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara

Katharina Kinder‑Kurlanda, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Markus Luczak‑Roesch, Victoria University of Wellington

Wagner Meira Jr., UFMG

Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover

Isabella Peters, ZBW

Steffen Staab, Institut WeST, University Koblenz‑Landau and WAIS, 
University of Southampton

Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute

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