CfP LocWeb 2021 @ WWW2021 - 11th International Workshop on Location and the Web =========================================================== LocWeb 2021 11th International Workshop on Location and the Web https://dhere.de/locweb/locweb2021/ April 2021 Ljubljana, Slovenia (Online) In conjunction with The Web Conference 2021 29th International World Wide Web Conference https://www2021.thewebconf.org/ https://twitter.com/locweb =========================================================== Important dates =============== Paper submission deadline: 11.Jan.2021 Paper acceptance notifications: 08.Feb.2021 Camera ready, hard deadline: 1.Mar.2021 Workshop: April 2021 =============== Location and geospatial analytics are important aspects in a wide range of Web research and systems. The location topic is seen as a cross-cutting issue equally concerning information access, semantics and standards, social analysis and mining, and Web-scale systems and services. We believe that the Web conference should contain a workshop exploring the connection of the Web to the real physical and spatial world. As a cross-cutting issue, location can vastly benefit from this dedicated venue. We aim for a highly interactive, collaborative full day workshop with ample room for discussion and demos that will explore and advance the topic, with contributions from research and industry. LocWeb 2021 will continue a successful workshop series at the intersection of location-based analytics and Web architecture. It focuses on Web-scale services and systems facilitating location-aware information access as well as spatial social behavior analytics as part of social computing. Location has high importance in Web-based designs, and it continues to provide challenging research questions. It additionally has a role in large systems of social and societal importance, and we aim to explore this connection further under the topics of data science for social good and in ways to improve people’s lives. Furthermore, the past year has brought massive disruptions in how we go about our lives, how we use and experience the physical world around us, and a move to virtual spaces. The workshop also examines these shifts. The objective of the workshop is to bring together a community of researchers at the intersection of location and the Web, under the main topic of spatial social behavior, location-aware information access, Web-scale systems, and societal and social good. LocWeb addresses location as a cross-cutting issue in web research and technology that connects the online world to the physical spatial world. It examines location aspects in the domains of social computing, search, analytics, mobility, apps, services, standards, and systems. It also opens up larger societal challenges, the use of such systems, their governance questions, and the connection to spatial data science for social good. Another topic we would like to explore this year is the blurring of physical and virtual/online spaces, which has been accelerated with the mass move to online sessions and conferences due to Covid-19 mitigation measures. This has shifted the understanding and experience of physical locations for collaboration. Much work has appeared in the meantime analysing large-scale shifts in mobility patterns, thus bridging the physical and virtual implications. In a way, location has diffused into the background for certain activities that were before decidedly physical, but the understanding of experience of place can allow new perspectives. LocWeb will solicit submissions under the main theme of Web-scale Location-Aware Information Access and spatial social computing. Subtopics include (i) geospatial semantics, systems, and standards; (ii) large-scale geospatial and geo-social ecosystems; (iii) mobility; (iv) location in the Web of Things; and (v) mining and searching geospatial data on the Web. The workshop encourages work describing Web-mediated or Web-scale approaches that build on reliable foundations, and that thoroughly understand and embrace the geospatial dimension. Topics of Interest ================== - Location-Aware Information Access - Spatial Social Behavior - Location-Aware Web-Scale Systems and Services - Geospatial Data Science for Social Good - Experience of virtual and physical place through online mediation - Physical and virtual/online spaces for collaboration and information access - Urban Planning and Citizen Engagement - Geospatial aspects of Smart Cities - Location in the Internet/Web of Things - Open Geospatial Web Data - Location prediction in social media and the Web - Influence modeling and processing in static and dynamic spatio-social graphs - Evaluation of frameworks, metrics and algorithms - Large-scale Geospatial Ecosystems - Standards for Location and Mobility Data - Modeling Location and Location Interaction - Location-Based Social Networks - Geospatial Web Search and Mining - Mobile Search and Location-Based Recommendation Submission Instructions ======================= We solicit full papers of 6-8 pages, and short papers of up to 4 pages describing work-in-progress or early results. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research that is not being considered for publication in any other forum. Workshop submissions will be evaluated based on the quality of the work, originality, match to the workshop themes, technical merit, and their potential to inspire interesting discussions. The review process is single blind, so please provide your name and affiliation. Please submit to the LocWeb workshop through Easychair, link at https://dhere.de/locweb/locweb2021/ Presenters are encouraged to bring demos to the workshop, to facilitate discussion and make the workshop more interactive. Workshop Organizers =================== Dirk Ahlers, NTNU, Norway Erik Wilde, Axway Rossano Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy Jalal S. Alowibdi, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Technical Program Committee (tentative) ======================================= TBD