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The Anti-Social Web (WebQuality 2012)

Submitted by ChaTo on Tue, 2012/01/17 - 18:35

The Anti-Social Web: Credibility and Quality Issues on the Web and Social Media (WebQuality 2012) is a workshop to be held at the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012) in Lyon, France.

The workshop will provide the research communities working on web quality, web spam, abuse, credibility, and reputation topics with a survey of current
problems and potential solutions:

Assessing the credibility of content and people on the web and social media

  • Measuring quality of web content
  • Uncovering distorted and biased content
  • Modeling author identity, trust, and reputation
  • Role of groups and communities
  • Multimedia content credibility

Fighting spam, abuse, and plagiarism on the Web and social media

  • Reducing web spam
  • Reducing abuses of electronic messaging systems
  • Detecting abuses in internet advertising
  • Uncovering plagiarism and multiple-identity issues
  • Promoting cooperative behavior in social networks
  • Security issues with online communication

Other topics are listed on the workshop website:

http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/webquality2012/

Full papers are limited to 8 pages, while short papers to 4 pages. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM style guide and submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webquality2012 As in previous years, we are making arrangements to include the accepted papers in the ACM Digital Library.

Important dates

  • Feb 14, 2012: Paper submission deadline
  • Mar 4, 2012: Notification of acceptance
  • Mar 20, 2012: Camera ready copy deadline
  • Apr 16, 2012: Workshop date

Organizers

  • Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
  • Carlos Castillo (Yahoo! Research)
  • Zoltan Gyongyi (Google Research)
  • Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University)

Program committee

  • Ching-man Au Yeung (Astri)
  • James Caverlee (Texas A&M University)
  • Matt Cutts (Google)
  • Brian Davison (Lehigh University)
  • Dennis Fetterly (Microsoft)
  • Andrew Flanagin (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Panagiotis Metaxas (Wellesley College)
  • Miriam Metzger (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Masashi Toyoda (University of Tokyo)
  • Steve Webb (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland)