We invite contributions to the research tracks of The Web Conference 2025 (formerly known as WWW). The conference will take place in Sydney, Australia, from 28 April to 02 May 2025.

The Web Conference is the premier conference focused on understanding the current state and the evolution of the Web through the lens of computer science, computational social science, economics, policy, and many other disciplines.


Important Dates:

Abstract: October 7, 2024
Full paper: October 14, 2024
Author and reviewer discussion: December 1-14, 2024
Notification: January 20, 2025
Camera-ready: February 2, 2025

All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.


Submission Site:

We will use OpenReview to manage the submissions and reviewing. All listed authors must have an up-to-date OpenReview profile, properly attributed with current and past institutional affiliation, homepage, Google Scholar, DBLP, ORCID, LinkedIn, Semantic Scholar (wherever applicable). Here is information on how to create an OpenReview profile. The OpenReview profile will be used to handle conflict of interest and paper matching. Submissions will not be made public on OpenReview during the reviewing period.


Abstracts and papers can be submitted through the OpenReview link: TBD


Scope:

The scope of the conference is the Web and how it has crucially enabled new research and applications. While the Web feeds on and is part of a broader interdisciplinary ecosystem, including technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and many others, it remains a distinct scholarly field, with its own research methods, tools, and challenges. A typical Web Conference paper should have an explicit focus on at least one of the following:

understanding, evaluating, and improving the Web as a technical infrastructure; including core Web technologies, standards, and platforms
understanding, evaluating, and improving the Web as a socio-economic system;
understanding better the impact of the Web and Web technologies;
democratizing access to Web content and technologies, making it more accessible, fair, inclusive, and accountable to a wide range of audiences

Relevance. Every submission must clearly state how the work is relevant to the Web and to the track in the first page. Submissions that merely use a Web artifact---e.g., a dataset or a Web Application Programmer Interface (API) or a social network---rather than answering a specific Web-related scientific research challenge, are out of scope and will be desk-rejected.