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

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

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).

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)