Forgot to mention, I’m on the program committee for AIRWeb — Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web. Should be a great workshop at SIGIR here in my home of Seattle!
Second Call for Papers (with revised deadlines)
AIRWeb 2006
Second International Workshop on
Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web
Part of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development on Information Retrieval
10 August 2006 - Seattle, WA
OVERVIEW
The attraction of hundreds of millions of web searches per day provides significant incentive for many content providers to do whatever is necessary to rank highly in search engine results, while search engine providers want to provide the most accurate results. The conflicting goals of search and content providers is adversarial, and the use of techniques that push rankings higher than they belong is often called search engine spam. Such methods typically include textual as well as link-based techniques, or their combination.
This, the second AIRWeb workshop, builds on last year’s successful meeting in Chiba, Japan as part of WWW2005. This year we solicit submissions on any
aspect of adversarial information retrieval on the Web. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- search engine spam and optimization,
- crawling the web without detection,
- link-bombing (a.k.a. Google-bombing),
- comment spam, referrer spam,
- blog spam (splogs),
- malicious tagging,
- reverse engineering of ranking algorithms,
- advertisement blocking, and
- web content filtering.
Papers addressing higher-level concerns (e.g., whether ‘open’ algorithms can succeed in an adversarial environment, whether permanent solutions are possible, etc.) are also welcome.
Full papers are limited to 8 pages in SIGIR format; works-in-progress will be permitted 4. At least three anonymous reviews will be provided per paper, judged on the usual basis of relevance, originality, quality, and presentation. Proceedings of the workshop will be placed online, and distributed at the workshop. A selection of best papers will be invited to submit expanded versions to an appropriate journal.
IMPORTANT DATES (revised!)
5 May 2006 E-mail intention to submit (optional, but helpful)
12 May 2006 Deadline for submissions
12 June 2006 Notification of acceptance
30 June 2006 Camera-ready copy due
10 August 2006 Date of workshop
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Tim Converse, Yahoo! Search
Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University
Marc Najork, Microsoft Research
2006 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
Einat Amitay, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
Carlos Castillo, Universita di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Abdur Chowdhury, AOL Search, USA
Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Matt Cutts, Google, USA
Dennis Fetterly, Microsoft Research, USA
Zoltan Gyongyi, Stanford University, USA
Matthew Hurst, BuzzMetrics, USA
Mark Manasse, Microsoft Research, USA
Jan Pedersen, Yahoo!, USA
Bernhard Seefeld, Switzerland
Erik Selberg, Microsoft Search, USA
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research, USA
Tao Yang, Ask Jeeves/Univ. of California-Santa Barbara, USA
CONTACT ADDRESS: airweb(at)cse.lehigh.edu