CALL FOR PAPERS

Second International Symposium on Web Algorithms (iSWAG 2016)
June 9-10, 2016
Deauville, Normandy, France

http://iswag-symposium.org/

We invite you to submit a paper to the Second International Symposium
on Web Algorithms (iSWAG 2016).

iSWAG is a 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 9-10, 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 and search modeling
Personalized search and ranking
Search quality evaluation
Search result ranking
Searching social and real-time content
Sponsored search and computational advertising
Sentiment analysis in social networks and blogs
Social networks
Recommender systems
Collaborative search
Crowd computing
Efficient analysis 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

REGULAR PAPERS

Papers due: December 13, 2015
Paper notifications: February 8, 2016

SHORT PAPERS

Papers due: December 13, 2015
Paper notifications: February 8, 2016

POSTER PAPERS

Posters papers are reviewed “on-the-fly”, the number of slots is
limited. No poster submission will be considered after April 17, 2016.
All deadlines are 11:59pm, anywhere in the world (Alofi time).

Scientific Committee (to be completed)

This committee is in charge of helping the program committee for
papers that are in-between acceptance and rejection. Its role is also
to help avoiding conflicts of interest with respect to reviewing
tasks.

Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, Académie des sciences
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
Julita Vassileva, Saskatchawan University

Program Committee (to be completed)

This committee is in charge of assessing submitted papers and of
selecting the ones that will be presented during the contributed talks
sessions or during the poster sessions.

Mehdi Badr, Qwant
Anne Boyer, Université de Lorraine
Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Martine de Cock, Ghent University
Antoine Doucet, University of La Rochelle
Robert Erra, EPITA
Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica
Thomas Largillier, University of Normandy
Kyumin Lee, Utah State University
Daniel Lemire, UQAM
Nelly Litvak, University of Twente
Tanguy Moal, Cogniteev
Samuel Nowakowski, Université de Lorraine
Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca
Sylvain Peyronnet, ix-labs
Gaetan Richard, University of Normandy
François Rioult, University of Normandy
Romain Rivière, Twenga
Azim Roussanaly, Université de Lorraine
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Ecole Polytechnique
Suzan Verberne, Radboud University Nijmegen



Organizing committee

Lucie Cazenave, ix-labs
Thomas Largillier, University of Normandy – General chair
Guillaume Peyronnet, Nalrem medias
Sylvain Peyronnet, ix-labs – General chair
Gaëtan Richard, University of Normandy