iSWAG 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS
First International Symposium on Web Algorithms (iSWAG 2015)
June 2-4, 2015
Deauville, Normandy, France

http://iswag-symposium.org/

We invite you to submit a paper to the First International Symposium on
Web Algorithms (iSWAG 2015).
iSWAG is a new symposium that covers research in the areas of algorithms
for solving web related problems. The first symposium will be held in
Deauville, Normandy, France in June 2-4, 2015.
iSWAG seeks innovative papers with strong applicative impact.
The symposium will be highly selective, with both invited talks and
refereed full papers presented either in oral sessions or in poster
sessions.


Topics covered include but are not limited to:
* Web search
* Adversarial information retrieval
* Privacy in web search
* User interfaces and interaction
* User and search modeling
* Personalized search and ranking
* Search quality evaluation
* Search result ranking
* Searching social and real-time content
* Algorithms and systems for web-scale search
* Sponsored search and computational advertising
* Sentiment analysis in social networks and blogs
* Algorithms and systems for web-scale mining
* Social networks analysis
* Influence spreading and viral marketing in social networks
* Trust and reputation in social networks
* Recommender systems
* Collaborative search
* Dealing with collaboratively generated content
* Crowd computing
* Clustering and classification of web data
* Graph mining

Papers emphasizing novel algorithmic approaches are particularly
encouraged. Application-oriented papers that make innovative technical
contributions to research are welcome. Papers on new and emerging topics
are also welcome.
Authors are explicitly discouraged from submitting papers that do not
present clearly their contribution with respect to previous works, that
contain only incremental results, and that do not provide significant
advances over existing approaches.
Papers must be submitted following the template available on the
submission webpage. This is a standard 2 column format. Papers are
limited to 6 pages.

Important dates
* Paper abstracts due: November 14, 2014
* Papers due: November 21, 2014
* Paper notifications: February 6, 2015
* Conference: June 2-4, 2015

Scientific committee

* Serge Abiteboul (Directeur de Recherche, INRIA, Académie des sciences)
* Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo!, VP of Research for Europe and Latin
America, leading the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and
Santiago, Chile).
* Andrei Broder (Distinguished Scientist at Google)
* Mark Manasse (Principal Researcher, Microsoft research)
* Julita Vassileva (Professor, University of Saskatchewan)

Program committe

* Bernd Amann, LIP6 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie
* Andras Benczur, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
* Anne Boyer, Université de Lorraine
* Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute
* Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano
* Jérôme Darbon, UCLA & CNRS – ENS de Cachan
* Martine de Cock, Ghent University
* Gael Dias, University of Normandy
* Antoine Doucet, University of La Rochelle
* Aris Gionis, Aalto University
* David Gross-Amblard, IRISA
* Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica
* Georgia Koutrika, Hewlett-Packard
* Oren Kurland, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
* Thomas Largillier, University of Normandy
* Kyumin Lee, Utah State University
* Daniel Lemire, UQAM
* Nelly Litvak, University of Twente
* Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva
* Amélie Marian, Rutgers University
* Samuel Nowakowski, Université de Lorraine
* Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca
* Sylvain Peyronnet, ix-labs
* Philippe Rigaux, Lab. CEDRIC, CNAM
* Azim Roussanaly, Université de Lorraine
* Yue Shi, Delft University of Technology
* Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan
* Michalis Vazirgiannis, Ecole Polytechnique
* Suzan Verberne, Radboud University Nijmegen
* Josiane Xavier Parreira, DERI
* Xiwang Yang, Facebook

Organizing committee

* Jérôme Darbon (Université of California at Los Angeles – UCLA & CNRS – ENS de Cachan)
* Thomas Largillier (University of Normandy)
* Sylvain Peyronnet (ix-labs) – General chair