Call for papers

6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

(WSDM 2013)

February 4-8, 2013, Rome, Italy

Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD and SIGWEB

http://wsdm2013.org

WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is one of the premier conferences covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the Web. The Sixth ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Rome, Italy during February 6-8, 2013. February 4 will be dedicated to the doctoral consortium; whereas February 5 will be dedicated to tutorials, workshops and data challenge.

WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.

WSDM 2013 is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as refereed full papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to:

Web Search

Web dynamics and search
Multifaceted and task-driven search
Multimedia Web search
Security and privacy in Web search and mining
User interfaces and interaction
User and search modeling
Personalized search and ranking
Distributed, meta, and peer-to-peer search
Vertical portals and search
Search quality benchmarking and evaluation
Search result ranking and assistance
Searching social and real-time content
Algorithms and systems for web-scale search
Sponsored Search and Computational Advertising

Web Mining

Web measurements, Web evolution, Web models
Clustering, classification, and summarization of Web data
Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
Multimodal data mining
Data, entity, event and relationship extraction
Sense and entity disambiguation
Data integration and data cleaning
Discovery-driven Web and social network mining
Traffic and log analysis
Algorithms and systems for Web-scale mining

Social Search and Mining

Social network analysis, theories, models, and applications
Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks
Influence spreading and viral marketing in social networks
Social reputation, influence, and trust
User profiling and recommendation systems
User activity modeling and exploitation
Tags, users, and search
Collaborative search and question answering
Searching social media and collaboratively generated content

Conference organization

Conference General Chairs:

Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza University of Rome
Alessandro Panconesi, Sapienza University of Rome

Program Committee Chairs:

Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa
Aristides Gionis, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona

Local Chairs:

Aris Anagnostopoulos, Sapienza University of Rome
Flavio Chierichetti, Cornell University

Publicity Chair and Web Presence:

Aris Anagnostopoulos, Sapienza University of Rome

Treasurer and Registration Chair:

Luca Becchetti, Sapienza University of Rome

Sponsor Chair:

Alessandro Panconesi, Sapienza University of Rome

Proceedings Chair:

Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI CNR, Pisa

Senior Program Committee:

Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo! Research, USA
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota, USA
Roberto Bayardo, Google, USA
Klaus Berberich, MPI fur Informatik, Germany
Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay, India
Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Massimiliano Ciaramita, Google, Switzerland
Antonio Gulli, Microsoft, UK
Monika Henzinger, University of Vienna, Austria
Yehuda Koren, Yahoo! Research, Israel
Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada
Silvio Lattanzi, Google, USA
Kristen Lefevre, University of Michigan, USA
Hang Li, Microsoft Research, China
Amelie Marian, Rutgers University, USA
Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University, USA
Kamesh Munagala, Duke University, USA
Jennifer Neville, Purdue University, USA
Rina Panigrahy, Microsoft Research, USA
Filip Radlinski, Microsoft Research, UK
Luo Si, Purdue University, USA
Sergei Vassilvitskii, Yahoo! Research, USA
Sebastiano Vigna, University of Milan, Italy
Qiang Yang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Cheng Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Steering Committee:

Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft, USA
Ricardo Baeza-Yates,Yahoo!, University of Chile, Spain
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Technion, Google, Israel
Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay, India
Monika Henzinger, EPFL, Google, Switzerland
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA
Marc Najork, Microsoft, USA

Key Dates

Paper abstracts due: Jul. 31, 2012
Papers due: Aug. 7, 2012
Paper notifications: Oct. 26, 2012
Camera ready deadline: Nov. 30, 2012
Conference: Feb. 6-8, 2013

All deadlines are 11.59pm, anywhere in the world (Alofi time).

Paper Format
Papers must report original research not accepted or under submission to any journal or conference with public proceedings (previous submissions in informal workshops or as posters are allowed, but must be indicated). Papers must be formatted according to ACM guidelines and style files to fit within 10 pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices if any. A submitted paper must be self-contained and in English.

Submissions
Papers must be submitted in PDF format to the paper submission web site. PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. After upload, please check the copy stored on the site. Submissions that do not view or print properly may be rejected without a chance to rectify the problem. Please contact wsdm2013 [at] easychair.org for any questions on the submission or review process.

Review Process
The review process will be single-blind (that is, the identity of authors is known to the reviewers). Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC members and one or two senior PC members. The acceptance decisions will take into account paper novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical or theoretic impact, and presentation.

Publication and Presentation
All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author should register for each paper before the camera-ready submission. At the conference, all the papers will be allocated a slot at the interactive poster session to encourage discussion. Additionally, selected papers will be presented during the plenary oral sessions; others will be included in a short "madness" session.

Workshops

Workshop Chair: Sebastiano Vigna, University of Milan

Key Dates
Workshop proposals due: Jun. 29, 2012
Workshop notifications: Aug. 3, 2012
Workshop papers due: Nov. 30, 2012
Workshops: Feb. 4-5, 2013

For the full CFP see the call for workshops.

Tutorials

Tutorial Chair: Paolo Boldi, University of Milan

Key Dates
Tutorial proposals due: Aug. 31, 2012
Tutorial notifications: Oct. 12, 2012
Tutorial camera ready: Nov. 2, 2012
Tutorial: Feb. 4-5, 2013

For the full CFP see the call for tutorials.

Data Challenge

Data Challenge Chairs:

Paolo Boldi, University of Milan
Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel

Key Dates
Launch Data Challenge: Aug. 31, 2012
End Data Challenge: Dec. 14, 2012
Data Challenge presentations: Feb. 5, 2013

For more information see the data challenge page.

Doctoral Consortium

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:

Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI CNR, Pisa
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona

Key Dates
Doctoral Consortium submissions due: Sep. 14, 2012
Doctoral consortium notifications: Oct. 26, 2012
Camera ready deadline: Nov. 30, 2012
Doctoral Consortium: Feb. 4, 2013

For more information see the doctoral consortium page.

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