The 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Los Angeles, California, USA, Feb. 5-9, 2018.

Important Dates
Aug 4, 2017
Papers Abstracts Due
Aug 12, 2017
Papers Due
Sep 15, 2017
WSDM Cup Begins
Oct 23, 2017
Paper Notifications
Dec 17, 2017
WSDM Cup Ends
Feb 4, 2018
Late Registration Due
 Feb 5, 2018
Industry Day, Tutorials
 Feb 6-8, 2018
Main Conference
 Feb 9, 2018
Workshops

Awards

The best paper awards and best SPC/PC awards for WSDM 2018 are available now:

Best Paper Award

Index Compression Using Byte-Aligned ANS Coding and Two-Dimensional Contexts
Alistair Moffat and Matthias Petri

Best Student Paper Award

A Path-constrained Framework for Discriminating Substitutable and Complementary Products in Ecommerce
Zihan Wang, Ziheng Jiang, Zhaochun Ren, Jiliang Tang and Dawei Yin

Best Paper Honorable Mentions

Unsubscription: A Simple Way to Ease Overload in Email
Iftah Gamzu, Liane Lewin-Eytan and Natalia Silberstein
Offline A/B testing for recommender systems
Alexandre Gilotte, Clement Calauzenes, Thomas Nedelec, Alexandre Abraham and Simon Dolle

Test of Time Paper Award

Finding High-Quality Content in Social Media
Eugene Agichtein, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Aristides Gionis and Gilad Mishne

Best Senior Program Committee Award

Ed Chi, Marc Najork, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Paul Bennett, Edo Liberty

Best Program Committee Award

Amir Ingber, Chandan K Reddy, Haggai Roitman, Hui Fang, Iftah Gamzu, Jian-Yun Nie, Julia Kiseleva, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Krishna Gummadi, Laura Dietz, Luca Maria Aiello, Nir Grinberg, Niranjan BalasubramanianOvidiu Dan, Wai Lam, Xiangnan He, Xuanhui Wang, Yue Wang, Zhenhui Li

Best Paper Nominees (Sponsored by Baidu)

The best paper nominees for WSDM 2018 (ordered by presentation time) are:

  • A Path-constrained Framework for Discriminating Substitutable and Complementary Products in Ecommerce
    Zihan Wang, Ziheng Jiang, Zhaochun Ren, Jiliang Tang and Dawei Yin
  • Unsubscription: A Simple Way to Ease Overload in Email
    Iftah Gamzu, Liane Lewin-Eytan and Natalia Silberstein
  • Index Compression Using Byte-Aligned ANS Coding and Two-Dimensional Contexts
    Alistair Moffat and Matthias Petri
  • Offline A/B testing for recommender systems
    Alexandre Gilotte, Clement Calauzenes, Thomas Nedelec, Alexandre Abraham and Simon Dolle

VC & Industry Day

This year WSDM will host a VC and Industry day focused on the interaction of the search and data mining communities with the VC and Industry communities.

WSDM 2018 Overview

WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is one of the the premier conferences on web inspired research involving search and data mining.

This year's program will include keynotes and nvited talks , paper presentations, 8 workshops, 8 tutorials, a doctoral consortium, a VC/Industry Day, and a WSDM Cup competition.
See the Schedule

WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.

Conference Registration

See the Registration Information

Banquet Information

WSDM 2018 banquet will be hosted on two yachts, FantaSea One Yacht and RegentSea Yacht. Please boarding with a banquet ticket.

FantaSea One Yacht

RegentSea Yacht