{"id":147,"date":"2023-06-13T15:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wsdm-conference.org\/2024\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2023-09-15T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:02:44","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wsdm-conference.org\/2024\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Call for Papers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"section-85d3321f-995f-4dbf-ae46-92dafc187f42\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-divider section-85d3321f-995f-4dbf-ae46-92dafc187f42 gutentor-element gutentor-section gutentor-divider text-center\"><div class=\"grid-container\"><div class=\"gutentor-divider-box\"><span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 240 40\" preserveAspectRatio=\"none\"><path d=\"M56.2 20c5.3-.1 10.6-.2 16-.3l16-.2c10.6-.1 21.3-.1 31.9-.2 10.6.1 21.3 0 31.9.1l16 .2c5.3.1 10.6.2 16 .3-5.3.1-10.6.2-16 .3l-16 .2c-10.6.1-21.3.1-31.9.1-10.6-.1-21.3 0-31.9-.2l-16-.2c-5.4.1-10.7 0-16-.1z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-gd0eda4\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e1 section-gd0eda4 gutentor-element gutentor-element-advanced-text\"><div class=\"gutentor-text-wrap\"><p class=\"gutentor-text\">WSDM\u202f(pronounced \u201cwisdom\u201d) is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. The 17th ACM International WSDM Conference will take place in M\u00e9rida, Mexico (in-person conference with virtual elements), from March 4 to March 8, 2024.<br>WSDM is a highly selective conference that includes refereed full papers as well as invited talks. WSDM publishes original, high-quality papers related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical yet principled approaches.<br>Original papers emphasizing novel algorithmic approaches are particularly encouraged. Application-oriented papers that make innovative technical contributions to research are welcome. Visionary papers on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged.<br>Authors are explicitly discouraged from submitting papers that do not clearly present their contribution with respect to previous works, that contain only incremental results, and that do not provide significant advances over existing approaches.<br><br><br><br><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">Important dates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div id=\"section-g637c16\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e7 section-g637c16 gutentor-element gutentor-element-list\"><ul class=\"grid-row gutentor-grid-item-wrap list-indicator-icon\"><li class=\"gutentor-list-item grid-lg-12 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-item gutentor-single-item-0\"><span class=\"gutentor-list-item-wrap g-s-list-wrap\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-list-item-icon\"><i class=\"list-item-icon fas fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"gutentor-list-item\"><p class=\"gutentor-single-item-title\"><strong>Papers Due:<\/strong>                  August 10, 2023 <\/p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"gutentor-list-item grid-lg-12 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-item gutentor-single-item-1\"><span class=\"gutentor-list-item-wrap g-s-list-wrap\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-list-item-icon\"><i class=\"list-item-icon fas fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"gutentor-list-item\"><p class=\"gutentor-single-item-title\"><strong>Notifications:<\/strong>  October 19, 2023<\/p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"gutentor-list-item grid-lg-12 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-item gutentor-single-item-2\"><span class=\"gutentor-list-item-wrap g-s-list-wrap\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-list-item-icon\"><i class=\"list-item-icon fas fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"gutentor-list-item\"><p class=\"gutentor-single-item-title\"><strong>Camera Ready<\/strong>: December 7, 2023<\/p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"gutentor-list-item grid-lg-12 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-item gutentor-single-item-3\"><span class=\"gutentor-list-item-wrap g-s-list-wrap\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-list-item-icon\"><i class=\"list-item-icon fas fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"gutentor-list-item\"><p class=\"gutentor-single-item-title\"><strong>Conference: <\/strong>March 4th &#8211; March 8th, 2024<\/p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"gutentor-list-item grid-lg-12 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-item gutentor-single-item-4\"><span class=\"gutentor-list-item-wrap g-s-list-wrap\"><span class=\"gutentor-single-list-item-icon\"><i class=\"list-item-icon fas fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"gutentor-list-item\"><p class=\"gutentor-single-item-title\">All deadlines are 11:59 pm <a href=\"https:\/\/time.is\/Anywhere_on_Earth\">anywhere on earth<\/a><\/p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">List of Topics<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g853cde\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e1 section-g853cde gutentor-element gutentor-element-advanced-text\"><div class=\"gutentor-text-wrap\"><p class=\"gutentor-text\">WSDM proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library. We invite papers in the areas below, with example topics listed for each area.<br><br><strong>Web Search<\/strong><br>Algorithms for web-scale search; Adversarial search; Search user interfaces and interaction; Distributed search, metasearch, peer-to-peer search; Local and mobile search; Multimedia web search, cross-lingual search; Query analysis and query processing; Search benchmarking and evaluation; Search user behavior and log analysis; Search with Foundation Models<br><br><strong>Web Mining and Content Analysis<\/strong><br>Crawling and indexing web content; Web recommender systems and algorithms; Clustering, classification, and summarization of web data; Data, entity, event, and relationship extraction; Knowledge acquisition and automatic construction of knowledge bases; Large-scale graph analysis; Semantic search, faceted search, and knowledge graphs; Multimodal data mining; Scalable algorithms for mining web data; Opinion mining and sentiment analysis; Web traffic and log analysis; Web measurements, web evolution, and web models.<br><br><strong>Web of Things, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing<\/strong><br>Geo-location data analysis; Mobility and behavior data mining; Location-based social networks; User activity modeling and exploitation.<br>Privacy, Fairness, Interpretability<br>Fairness and accountability in ranking, recommendations and advertising; Explainability in web systems; Model and algorithm transparency; Interpretable models of individual and social behavior; Web search and data mining under privacy constraints; Fairness and interpretability in applications of web mining for social good.<br><br><strong>Privacy, Fairness, Interpretability<\/strong><br>Fairness and accountability in ranking, recommendations and advertising; Explainability in web systems; Model and algorithm transparency; Interpretable models of individual and social behavior; Web search and data mining under privacy constraints; Fairness and interpretability in applications of web mining for social good.<br><br><strong>Social Networks<\/strong><br>Link prediction and community detection; Social network analysis and graph algorithms; Computational social science; Influence and viral marketing in social networks; Social sensing; Searching social and real-time content; Social network dynamics; Sampling, experiments, and evaluation in social networks; Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks; Social network analysis, theories, models and applications; Social reputation and trust.<br><br><strong>Intelligent Assistants<\/strong><br>Voice search, conversational search, and dialog systems; Personal assistants, dialogue models, and conversational interaction; Task-driven search; Zero-query and implicit search.<br><br><strong>Crowdsourcing and Human Computation<br><\/strong>Collaborative search and question answering; Human-in-the-Loop and Collaborative Human-AI systems.<br>Emerging and Creative Applications<br>Mental health and well-being support systems; Web mining for social good; Systems and algorithms for urban applications such as smart cities\/buildings\/etc; Online education systems; Monitoring and prevention of epidemics.<br><br><strong>Information Integrity<\/strong><br>Systems and algorithms for monitoring and detection of misinformation and fake news; Prevalence and virality of misinformation; Misinformation sources and origins; Source and content credibility; Detecting and combating spamming, trolling, aggression, and toxic online behaviors; Methods for detecting and mitigating low quality and offensive content, bullying and hate speech; Polarization, extremism and radicalization; Echo chambers and filter bubbles.<br><br><strong>Foundation Models<\/strong><br>Use of large-language models and other foundation models for web search and data mining, including but not limited to the following tasks: Indexing and query analysis; Pre-training and self-supervised learning for web-based tasks; Development of new user interfaces and user experiences; Support to information integrity.<br><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">Submission Guidelines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-gbcdd62\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e1 section-gbcdd62 gutentor-element gutentor-element-advanced-text\"><div class=\"gutentor-text-wrap\"><p class=\"gutentor-text\"><strong>Link for Submissions<\/strong><br>Papers can be submitted through CMT: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cmt3.research.microsoft.com\/WSDM2024\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/cmt3.research.microsoft.com\/WSDM2024<\/a><br><br><strong>Originality of Submissions<\/strong><br>Submissions must represent new and original work. Concurrent submissions are not allowed. Papers that have been published in or accepted to any peer-reviewed journal or conference or workshop with published proceedings, or that are currently under review, or that will be submitted to other meetings or publications while under review, may not be submitted to WSDM 2024. However, submissions that are available online (e.g., on a preprint server such as Arxiv) and\/or have been previously presented orally or as posters in non peer-reviewed venues with no formal proceedings, are allowed. Additionally, the ACM has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/plagiarism_policy\">strict policy against plagiarism and self-plagiarism<\/a>. All prior work must be appropriately cited.<br><br><strong>Format of Submissions<\/strong><br>Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF according to the new ACM format published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/proceedings-template\">ACM guidelines<\/a>, selecting the generic \u201csigconf\u201d sample. Submissions should not exceed eight pages including any diagrams or tables, plus up to two additional pages for references and discussion of ethical considerations. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Submissions must be self-contained and in English. After uploading your submission, please verify the copy stored on the CMT site. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines, or do not view or print properly, may be rejected without review.<br>PDF files submitted to WSDM 2024 must be anonymized: the submitted document should not include the author information and should not include citations or discussion of related work that would make the authorship apparent. Explicitly revealing the manuscript authorship will result in rejection without review. Note, however, that it is acceptable to explicitly refer in the manuscript to companies or organizations that provided datasets, hosted experiments, or deployed solutions. To this end, instead of stating, for instance, that an experiment \u201cwas conducted on the logs of a major search engine\u201d, the authors should refer to the search engine by name. The reviewers will be informed that it does not necessarily imply that the authors are currently affiliated with the mentioned organization. To support the identification of reviewers with conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified at submission time. To support faster dissemination of scientific results, we allow submissions that had earlier versions or code posted on preprint servers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/\">Arxiv.org<\/a> or GitHub (with the understanding that these materials cannot be anonymous). In such cases, authors should exercise extra care and should not explicitly associate their submission with such publicly posted materials.<br><br><strong>Supplementary Material<\/strong><br>Authors may submit supplementary material (up to 100MB compressed\u00a0in .zip format) containing\u00a0full theoretical\u00a0proofs and derivations,\u00a0\u00a0detailed descriptions of experimental setup, hyperparameter configurations, test datasets, or pointers to external repositories with datasets or source code, but should only do so if strict author anonymity can be maintained.\u00a0Looking at supplementary material is at the discretion of the reviewers, in other words, the paper should be self-contained as much as possible.\u00a0 <em>In CMT, the option to add supplementary material will appear <strong>only after the main paper has been submitted<\/strong>. <\/em><br><br><strong>Reproducibility<\/strong><br>The resources and methods used within a manuscript should be described as completely as possible, in other words, the submitted 8+2 pages paper should be as self-contained as possible. Authors may submit supplementary material (up to 100MB compressed) containing detailed descriptions of experimental setup, hyperparameter configurations, test datasets or pointers to external repositories with datasets or code, but should only do so if strict author anonymity can be maintained. The additional content may or may not be considered when evaluating the manuscript, at the discretion of the reviewers. Wherever appropriate, the authors are encouraged to use publicly available test collections and state-of-the-art baselines, and are encouraged to share the experimental results, data, and code with the research community.<br><br><strong>Authorship<\/strong><br>Submitted manuscripts should adhere to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/new-acm-policy-on-authorship\">ACM authorship policy<\/a>. In particular, (i) each author must be the creator or originator of an idea in the work; (ii) each author must make substantial contribution to the work; and (iii) each author must be accountable for the work that was done and its presentation in a publication.<br>If one submits numerous manuscripts to the same conference, it is less likely that one has materially contributed to all such submissions. To this end, we limit the number of submissions per author to 10 maximum. If more than 10 manuscripts are submitted with the same person listed as an author, the additional manuscripts submitted after the initial 10, will be rejected without review.<br>Only in exceptional cases will the PC Chairs grant permission for modifications to be made to the author list of a paper once it has been submitted and accepted.<br><br><strong>Review Process<\/strong><br>Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least three PC members and a senior PC member. The acceptance decisions will take into account manuscript novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical or theoretical impact, and presentation. WSDM 2024 will use a combination of single-blind reviewing and double-blind reviewing. The manuscripts will be double-blind to regular PC members, but the metadata (including authorship) of the manuscripts will be available to SPC to check for undisclosed conflicts of interest and to help assure the integrity of the review process. <br><br><strong>ACM Instructions for Authors<\/strong><br><br>By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\">ACM Publications Policies<\/a>, including ACM&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects\">Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects<\/a>. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.<br>Please ensure that you and your co-authors <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/register\">obtain an ORCID ID<\/a>, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a <a href=\"https:\/\/authors.acm.org\/author-resources\/orcid-faqs\">commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors<\/a>. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.<br><br><strong>Ethical Considerations\u00a0<\/strong><br>Submitted manuscripts should include a section on the ethical implications of the proposed research. This section will not be counted in the eight-page limit, and it should appear in the two additional pages together with the references. In this section, authors are asked to reflect and discuss the potential negative societal impact of their work, as they consider appropriate. Examples of negative societal impact include fairness considerations, privacy considerations, security considerations, safety considerations, misuse of the technology by malicious actors, as well as possible harms that could arise even when the technology is being used as intended and functioning correctly. If there are negative societal impacts, authors should discuss appropriate mitigation strategies.<br><br><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>Acceptance<\/strong><br>In case of acceptance, at least one of the authors for the paper must have an in-person registration for the conference (even when presenting virtually).<\/mark><br><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">Best Papers from WSDM 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g5844ff\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e1 section-g5844ff gutentor-element gutentor-element-advanced-text\"><div class=\"gutentor-text-wrap\"><p class=\"gutentor-text\">The 10 best papers considered by The WSDM 2024 Best Paper Award Committee will be considered to be published in TIST (ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems). The guest editors consist of the best paper award committee chair and the 3 PC chairs.<br><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">Conflict of Interest (COI) Policy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g93c87c\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e1 section-g93c87c gutentor-element gutentor-element-advanced-text\"><div class=\"gutentor-text-wrap\"><p class=\"gutentor-text\">All authors and reviewers must declare conflicts of interest in CMT.<br>You must declare a reviewer\/author as a conflict of interest when the following associations exist:<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>employment at the same institution or company, regardless of geography\/location, currently or in the last 12 months<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>candidate for employment at the same institution or company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>received an honorarium, stipend, or grant from the institution or company within the last 12 months (except where of a modest nature, such as reimbursement of seminar expenses, honorarium for examination of a thesis, and so on).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>co-author on book or paper in the last 24 months<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>co-principal investigator on a funded grant or research proposal in the last 24 months<br>actively working on any project together<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>family relationship or close personal relationship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>graduate advisee\/advisor relationship, regardless of time elapsed since graduation<br>deep personal animosity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-ga27c73\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e1 section-ga27c73 gutentor-element gutentor-element-advanced-text\"><div class=\"gutentor-text-wrap\"><p class=\"gutentor-text\">In general, we expect authors, PC, the organizing committee, and other volunteers to adhere to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/special-interest-groups\/volunteer-resources\/acm-conflict-of-interest-policy\">ACM\u2019s Conflict of Interest Policy<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/about-acm\/acm-code-of-ethics-and-professional-conduct\">ACM\u2019s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">Violations of Originality, Dual Submission or Conflicts of Interest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g49efd8\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e1 section-g49efd8 gutentor-element gutentor-element-advanced-text\"><div class=\"gutentor-text-wrap\"><p class=\"gutentor-text\">Submitted manuscripts that do not meet the length, formatting or originality requirements, or are dually submitted to two venues (including manuscripts with significant overlap), are subject to desk rejection without review. At the discretion of the PC Chairs and the Steering Committee, egregious violations (including plagiarism) may lead to additional penalties such as a temporary or permanent ban from the venue and sponsoring SIGs venues. Likewise, failure of an author to disclose all COIs, or cases of a referee providing a review on a paper for which they have an undisclosed COI, may lead to similar penalties. You are encouraged to contact the PC Chairs if you have questions as to the originality conditions, dual submission, or conflict of interest policy.<br><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">Interested in becoming part of the PC committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcome requests to become part of the PC committee. However, in order to minimize the communication to our PC chairs please make sure to only reach out to them if you satisfy the following criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">You have had at least 5 years of experience as a researcher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">You have served as a reviewer for major ML\/KD\/AI conferences (NeurIPS, WWW, EC, ICLR&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g8e5573\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e1 section-g8e5573 gutentor-element gutentor-element-advanced-text\"><div class=\"gutentor-text-wrap\"><p class=\"gutentor-text\">If you do satisfy this criteria, please reach out to <a href=\"mailto:wsdm-2024-pc-chairs@googlegroups.com\">wsdm-2024-pc-chairs[at]googlegroups.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Papers Important dates List of Topics Submission Guidelines Best Papers from WSDM 2024 Conflict of Interest (COI) Policy Violations of Originality, Dual Submission or Conflicts of Interest Interested in becoming part of the PC committee We welcome requests to become part of the PC committee. 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