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!

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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

http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/

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

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