[dbjapan] Final CfP: WWW2011 workshop WebQuality 2011: Deadline Extended and Keynote Information

[Adam Jatowt <adam [at] dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

                 Final CALL FOR PAPERS (EXTENDED DEADLINE)


Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2011)
Held at the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011) in
Hyderabad, India

<http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/webquality2011>


IMPORTANT DATES

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7  Feb 2011 Paper submission (extended)
24 Feb 2011 Acceptance notification (extended)
3  Mar 2011 Camera-ready versions due (extended)
28 Mar 2011 Workshop
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TOPICS

The workshop will provide the research communities working on web
spam, abuse, credibility, and reputation topics with a survey of
current problems and potential solutions. We solicit the following
types of submissions on any aspect of web content quality:

* Full papers, describing contributions to the field, and
* Short papers, presenting work in progress.

Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

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.

Full papers are limited to 8 pages, while short papers to 4 pages.
Papers should be formatted according to the ACM style guide
<http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> and
submitted via <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webquality2011>.

KEYNOTE

Speaker: Elisa Bertino

Short bio: Elisa Bertino is professor of at the Computer at the
Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University and Research
Director of CERIAS. Her main research interests cover many areas in
the fields of information security and database systems. Her research
combines both theoretical and practical aspects, addressing as well
applications in a number of domains, such as medicine and humanities.
She is co-editor in chief of VLDB Journal and she is currently a
member of the editorial boards of several international journals,
including ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, IEEE
Internet Computing, IEEE Security&Privacy, Acta Informatica.

Title: (to be announced)


ORGANIZERS

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

James Caverlee (Texas A&M University)
Gordon Cormack (University of Waterloo)
Matt Cutts (Google)
Brian Davison (Lehigh University)
Dennis Fetterly (Microsoft)
Andrew Flanagin (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Miriam Metzger (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Andrew Tomkins (Google)
Masashi Toyoda (University of Tokyo)
Steve Webb (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Min Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland)