[Air-L] CFP: ICWSM 2017 (Montreal)

[Alice E. Marwick]

Hi all,

I'm a program co-chair this year at the International Conference on Web &
Social Media. It's an interdisciplinary conference (following more or less
a CS model) that has attracted some great social scientists in the past. In
my experience, the attendees are very open to qualitative approaches and I
encourage you all to apply!

*The 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM
2017)*
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Montreal, Canada: May 15-18, 2017

http://icwsm.org/2017/submitting/call-for-papers/

The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) is a
forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to come together to share
knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about
cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online
social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in
social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social
media. Research presented at ICWSM blends social science and computational
approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social
behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast
and unstructured data.

ICWSM, now in its eleventh year, has become one of the premier venues for
computational social science, and previous years of ICWSM have featured
papers, posters, and demos that draw upon network science, machine
learning, computational linguistics, sociology, communication, and
political science. The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of
submissions have contributed to a fast growth of the conference and a
competitive acceptance rate around 20% for full-length research papers
published in the proceedings by the Association for the Association for the
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). The accepted papers will be
open access and have equal time for a full oral presentation. Full papers
will also have the opportunity to display their paper as a poster at the
venue.

For ICWSM-17, in addition to the usual program of contributed talks,
posters and demos, the main conference will include a selection of keynote
talks from prominent scientists and technologists. Building on successes in
previous years, ICWSM-17 will also hold a day of workshops and tutorials in
addition to the main conference.

*Please see the full call for disciplines, topics, and types of social
media. *http://icwsm.org/2017/submitting/call-for-papers/

*Paper Submission Categories*
Please note that the formatting and submission instructions in the author
kit are for final, accepted papers; ICWSM submissions are anonymous, and
must conform to all detailed instructions for blind review (Detailed
guidelines). In addition, the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial
submission phase and no copyright form is required until a paper is
accepted for publication.

This year there are three submission options; ICWSM is introducing a new
paper format, Dataset Papers, for researchers whose primary contribution is
to provide new data resources and methodological novelty in procuring those
resources.

*1. Full paper format: *Full paper submissions to ICWSM are recommended to
be 8 pages long, and must be at most 10 pages long, including figures and
references. The final camera-ready length (between 8-10 pages) for each
full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program
chairs. All papers must follow AAAI formatting guidelines.

*2. Dataset paper format: *Dataset paper submissions must comprise two
parts: a dataset or group of datasets, and metadata describing the content,
quality, structure, potential uses of the dataset(s), and methods employed
for data collection. Descriptive statistics may be included in the metadata
(more sophisticated analyses should be part of a regular paper submission).
Datasets and metadata must be published as part of ICWSM data sharing
service and the papers will be part of the full proceedings. Dataset paper
submissions must be between 8-10 pages long. All papers must follow AAAI
formatting guidelines.

*3. Poster and demo paper format: *Poster paper submissions to ICWSM must
be 4 pages long, including figures and references. Demo paper submissions
to ICWSM must be 2 pages long, including figures and references. All papers
must follow AAAI formatting guidelines.

Anonymity: Paper submissions to ICWSM must be anonymized.

Social sciences and sociophysics papers with optional publication: We will
be continuing the 'social science and sociophysics' track at ICWSM-17
following its successful debut in 2013. This option is for researchers in
social science and sociophysics who wish to submit full papers without
publication in the conference proceedings. While papers in this track will
not be published, we expect these submissions to describe the same
high-quality and complete work as the main track submissions. Papers
accepted to this track will be full presentations integrated with the
conference, but they will be published only as abstracts in the conference
proceedings.

Ethics: We encourage the authors to obtain ethical approval for experiments
with human subjects from their corresponding institutions' Internal Review
Board (IRB) and demonstrate this information as part of the submission.

Please see the call for papers (
http://icwsm.org/2017/submitting/call-for-papers/) for template and
additional guidelines.

*ICWSM 2017 - Important Dates*
*Workshops - *http://icwsm.org/2017/submitting/workshops/
    Proposals: December 12, 2016

*Papers, Posters, and Demos - *
http://icwsm.org/2017/submitting/call-for-papers/
     Abstract Submission: January 6, 2017 (by 23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
     Full Papers Submission: January 23, 2017 (by 23:59 Hawaii Standard
Time)
     Paper and poster notifications: February 28, 2017
     Camera Ready Version Due: March 10, 2017

*Tutorials - *http://icwsm.org/2017/submitting/tutorials/
     Proposals: January 25, 2017
     Notification: February 15, 2017

*ICWSM 2017, Montreal, Canada*
Tutorials and Workshops: May 15, 2017
Main Conference: May 16-18, 2017

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Alice Marwick, & Winter Mason
ICWSM 2017 Program Co-chairs

Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Sarita Schoenebeck
ICWSM 2017 Tutorials Chairs

Munmun De Choudhury, Brian Keegan, Jürgen Pfeffer
ICWSM 2017 Workshops Chairs

-- 
Alice E. Marwick, PhD
Fellow, Data & Society
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (as of 2017)
amarwick at gmail.com
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