Final CALL FOR PAPERS (EXTENDED DEADLINE) Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2011) Held at the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011) in Hyderabad, India <http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/webquality2011> IMPORTANT DATES ============================== 7 Feb 2011 Paper submission (extended) 24 Feb 2011 Acceptance notification (extended) 3 Mar 2011 Camera-ready versions due (extended) 28 Mar 2011 Workshop ============================== TOPICS The workshop will provide the research communities working on web spam, abuse, credibility, and reputation topics with a survey of current problems and potential solutions. We solicit the following types of submissions on any aspect of web content quality: * Full papers, describing contributions to the field, and * Short papers, presenting work in progress. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Assessing the credibility of content and people on the web and social media * Measuring quality of web content * Uncovering distorted and biased content * Modeling author identity, trust, and reputation * Role of groups and communities * Multimedia content credibility Fighting spam, abuse, and plagiarism on the Web and social media * Reducing web spam * Reducing abuses of electronic messaging systems * Detecting abuses in internet advertising * Uncovering plagiarism and multiple-identity issues * Promoting cooperative behavior in social networks * Security issues with online communication Other topics are listed on the workshop website. Full papers are limited to 8 pages, while short papers to 4 pages. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM style guide <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> and submitted via <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webquality2011>. KEYNOTE Speaker: Elisa Bertino Short bio: Elisa Bertino is professor of at the Computer at the Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University and Research Director of CERIAS. Her main research interests cover many areas in the fields of information security and database systems. Her research combines both theoretical and practical aspects, addressing as well applications in a number of domains, such as medicine and humanities. She is co-editor in chief of VLDB Journal and she is currently a member of the editorial boards of several international journals, including ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Security&Privacy, Acta Informatica. Title: (to be announced) ORGANIZERS Carlos Castillo (Yahoo! Research) Zoltan Gyongyi (Google Research) Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University) Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE James Caverlee (Texas A&M University) Gordon Cormack (University of Waterloo) Matt Cutts (Google) Brian Davison (Lehigh University) Dennis Fetterly (Microsoft) Andrew Flanagin (University of California, Santa Barbara) Miriam Metzger (University of California, Santa Barbara) Andrew Tomkins (Google) Masashi Toyoda (University of Tokyo) Steve Webb (Georgia Institute of Technology) Min Zhang (Tsinghua University) Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland)