WWW 2018

'' The Web Conference (formerly www conference) is a yearly international conference on the topic of the future directions of the World Wide Web.

It began in 1994 at CERN and is organized by the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2). The Conference aims to provide the world with a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conference brings together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures — indeed all those who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer.

Starting with 2018 edition, the conference series previously known as World Wide Web Conference (WWW) has been rebranded as The Web Conference. The IW3C2 took this decision to allow a better visibility of this event, especially on social networks. With the change of hashtag (#www2015, #www2016, #www2017), the communication underwent a rupture every year. The new single hashtag #thewebconf that will now persist for all future editions solves this problem. The old style hashtag (ie #www2018) should be temporarily used next to the new one to ensure the transition. A second benefit is to give the series a graphic identity that will be declined for each annual edition. This identity may also be declined for other events to be organized around the main conference. ''

Important Dates
Schedule for Technical Papers
 * Publication of joint Call For Paper : 20 June 2017
 * Research tracks abstracts submission deadline : 26 October 2017
 * Research tracks full papers submission deadline : 31 October 2017
 * Workshop proposal submission deadline : 11 November 2017
 * Tutorial proposal submission deadline : 22 November 2017
 * Workshops proposal acceptance notification : 30 November 2017
 * Tutorial Acceptance notification : 14 December 2017
 * Research tracks acceptance notification : 22 December 2017
 * PHD symposium abstracts submission deadline : 05 January 2018
 * PHD symposium full papers submission deadline : 07 January 2018
 * Workshops papers submission deadline : 10 January 2018
 * Developers track papers submission deadline : 10 January 2018
 * Poster papers submission deadline : 10 January 2018
 * Demos papers submission deadline : 10 January 2018
 * PHD symposium papers acceptance notification : 05 February 2018
 * PHD symposium papers final version due : 12 February 2018
 * Research tracks papers final version due : 14 February 2018
 * Workshops papers acceptance notification : 14 February 2018
 * Developers track papers acceptance notification : 14 February 2018
 * Poster papers acceptance notification : 14 February 2018
 * Demos papers acceptance notification : 14 February 2018
 * Poster papers final version due : 25 February 2018
 * Demos papers final version due : 25 February 2018
 * Developers track papers final version due : 28 February 2018
 * Workshops papers final version due : 04 March 2018

Schedule for alternate paper tracks Schedule for other tracks
 * Journal paper selection of invitations to be sent : 27 September 2017
 * Journal paper self promoting authors contact deadline : 13 October 2017
 * Journal paper abstracts submission deadline : 18 October 2017
 * Cognitive Computing track abstracts submission deadline : 26 October 2017
 * Web programming full papers submission deadline : 10 November 2017
 * International project full papers submission deadline : 13 November 2017
 * Cognitive Computing track full papers submission deadline : 14 November 2017
 * Journal paper acceptance notification : 21 November 2017
 * Journal paper camera ready submission deadline : 05 December 2017
 * Misinfo full papers submissions form open : 06 December 2017
 * Cognitive Computing track acceptance notification : 22 December 2017
 * Web programming acceptance notification : 22 December 2017
 * Misinfo full papers submission deadline : 05 January 2018
 * The BIG Web papers submission deadline : 10 January 2018
 * International project acceptance notification : 15 January 2018
 * The BIG Web acceptance notification : 07 February 2018
 * Misinfo papers acceptance notification : 14 February 2018
 * Web programming final version due : 14 February 2018
 * Cognitive Computing track papers final version due : 14 February 2018
 * Misinfo papers final version due : 25 February 2018
 * Industry track papers final version due : 25 February 2018
 * The BIG Web papers final version due : 01 March 2018
 * The BIG Web 2018 : 23 – 24 April 2018
 * Hackathon/Hackateen registrations open : 10 October 2017
 * Challenge proposal submission deadline : 20 October 2017
 * Challenges chosen/merged – notification sent : 27 October 2017
 * Training data ready and challenges CFP sent : 01 December 2017
 * Hackathon/Hackateen registrations close : 01 January 2018
 * Developers track papers submission deadline : 10 January 2018
 * Demos papers submission deadline : 10 January 2018
 * Challenge papers submission deadline : 12 January 2018
 * Panel proposal submission deadline : 15 January 2018
 * Challenge papers acceptance notification : 14 February 2018
 * Challenge test data published : 14 February 2018
 * Developers track papers acceptance notification : 14 February 2018
 * Demos papers acceptance notification : 14 February 2018
 * Panel Acceptance notification : 15 February 2018
 * Demos papers final version due : 25 February 2018
 * Developers track papers final version due : 28 February 2018
 * Hackathon/Hackateen submission deadline : 01 April 2018
 * Exhibition & living space : 23 – 27 April 2018
 * Challenge – proclamation of winners : During the conference
 * Minute of madness story submission (early submissions encouraged) : 24 April 2018
 * Minute of madness acceptance notification : 25 April 2018

Schedule for special events
 * Seoul Test of Time Award nominations deadline : 03 December 2017

Schedule for colocated events
 * W4A full papers submission deadline : 12 January 2018
 * W4A papers acceptance notification : 12 February 2018

All submission deadlines are at 9:00pm HAST.

Committees

 * Local Organizing Co-Chairs
 * has local chair::Pierre-Antoine, associate professor, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
 * has local chair::Fabien Gandon, Research Director, INRIA, France
 * has local chair::Lionel Médini, associate professor, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
 * has local chair::Laurent Flory, Chief Information Officer, Université de Lyon, France
 * has local chair::Frédérique Laforest, Professor at Université Jean Monnet, France
 * has local chair::Luc Mariaux, researcher at Computer Resources Center of Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France


 * PC Co-Chairs
 * has program chair::Mounia Lalmas, Research Director at Yahoo, country
 * has program chair::Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow, New York University, USA


 * Crowdsourcing and Human Computation for the Web
 * Gianluca Demartini (University of Queensland)
 * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology)


 * Health on the Web
 * William Hersh (Oregon Health & Science University)
 * Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research)


 * Intelligent and Autonomous Systems on the Web
 * Gerard de Melo (Rutgers University)
 * Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)


 * Security and Privacy on the Web
 * Emiliano De Cristofaro (University College London)
 * Vitaly Shmatikov (Cornell Tech)


 * Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms for the Web
 * Leman Akoglu (Carnegie Mellon)
 * Francesco Bonchi (ISI Foundation)
 * Yelena Mejova (Qatar Computing Research Institute)


 * User Modeling, Personalization and Experience
 * Shlomo Berkovsky (CSIRO, Australia)
 * Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
 * Mihajlo Grbovic (AirBnB)


 * Web and Society
 * Steffen Staab (Universität Koblenz-Landau & University of Southampton)
 * Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU)


 * Web Content Analysis, Semantics, and Knowledge
 * Amr Ahmed (Google, USA)
 * Harith Alani (Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK)


 * Web Economics, Monetisation, and Online Markets
 * Aaron Roth (University of Pennsylvania)
 * Jennifer Wortman Vaughan (Microsoft Research)


 * Web of Things, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
 * Licia Capra (University College London, UK)
 * Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)


 * Web Search and Mining
 * Fernando Diaz (Spotify, USA)
 * Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)
 * Emine Yilmaz (University College London, UK)


 * Demos
 * Paul Groth (Elsevier Labs, The Netherlands)
 * Amélie Gyrard (Univ. St-Etienne, France)


 * Posters
 * Filip Radlinski (Google, UK)
 * Serena Villata (CNRS, France)


 * Tutorials
 * Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France)
 * Mary-Ellen Zurko (Independent Consultant, US)


 * Workshops
 * Eyhab Al-Masri (Univ. of Washington, USA)
 * Marie-Christine Rousset (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, IUF, France)

Alternate paper tracks in alphabetical order:


 * Cognitive Computing Track
 * Naif Radi Aljohani (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia)
 * Amir Hussain, (University of Stirling, Unite Kingdom)
 * Jiebo Luo, (University of Rochester, USA)
 * Miltiadis D. Lytras (The American College of Greece, Greece)
 * Jacky Xi Zhang, (Tianjin University, P. R. China)


 * International Project track
 * Manuel Tomas Carrasco Benitez (European Commission, Luxembourg)
 * Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA)
 * Irwin King (The Chinese University, Hong Kong)
 * Moussa Lo (Univ. Gaston Berger, Senegal)
 * Erik Mannens (Univ. Gent, Belgium)
 * Daniel Schwabe (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)


 * Journal paper
 * Claudia d’Amato (University of Bari, Italy)
 * Francesco Marcelloni (University of Pisa, Italy)
 * Rudi Studer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)


 * Journalism, Misinformation, act Checking track
 * Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia (Indiana University Network Science Institute)
 * Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences Institute)
 * Panagiotis Takis Metaxas (Wellesley College)


 * The BIG Web
 * Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google, US)
 * Kira Radinsky (eBay, Israël)


 * Web Programming
 * Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, South Korea)
 * Manuel Serrano (INRIA, France)

Other tracks in alphabetical order:
 * Challenge track
 * Mathieu d’Aquin (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland)
 * Elena Cabrio (Univ. Nice, France)


 * Developers
 * Amy Guy (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)
 * Thomas Steiner (Google, Germany)


 * Exhibition Hyperspot
 * Maud Charaf (Digital League, France)
 * Christophe Gravier (Univ. St-Etienne, France)
 * Frédérique Laforest (Univ. St-Etienne, France)
 * Julien Subercaze (Univ. St-Etienne, France)


 * French Tech
 * Maud Charaf (Digital League, France)


 * Hackathon / Hackateen
 * Vincent Achille (Inwicast, France)
 * Michel Buffa (Univ. Nice, France)
 * Amélie Cordier (Hoomano, France)


 * Industry track
 * Freddy Lécué (Accenture, Irlande)
 * Natasha Noy (Google, US)


 * Minute of Madness track
 * Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
 * Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University, Belgium)


 * MOOC track
 * Catherine Faron-Zucker (Univ. Nice, France)


 * Offs
 * Christophe Mathieu (ECAM – France)
 * Alain Mille (Univ. Lyon, France)


 * Panels
 * Angela Bonifati (Univ. Lyon, France)
 * Romain Vuillemot (Univ. Lyon, France)


 * PhD track
 * Sylvie Calabretto (Univ. Lyon, France)
 * Lalana Kagal (MIT, US)
 * Maria Maleshkova (KIT, Germany)


 * Proceedings Content
 * Előd Egyed-Zsigmond (Univ. Lyon, France)
 * Ivan Herman (W3C/CWI, The Netherlands)


 * Proceedings Web App & metadata
 * Anna Lisa Gentile (IBM, US)
 * Lionel Médini (Univ. Lyon, France)
 * Andrea Nuzzolese (ISTC-CNR, Italy)

Colocated event:
 * Web For All
 * Chris Bailey (System Concepts, UK)
 * Jeffrey P. Bigham (Carnegie Mellon University, US)