Call for Papers: Hypertext 2010 Conference (Toronto, Canada)

The ACM Hypertext Conference is the main venue for high quality, peer-reviewed, double-blind research on "linking" and interconnectivity. The Web, the Semantic Web, Web 2.0 and Social Networks all demonstrate the value of the link concept.

Important Dates
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Papers and Workshops
Deadline for submissions: January 18, 2010 Notification to authors: March 1, 2010 Posters and Demos:
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2010 Notification to authors: April 15, 2010 Camera-ready copy (all accepted submissions): May 1, 2010 (All deadlines: midnight, Hawaii Standard Time)

Technical Tracks
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Hypertext 2010 will consist of three autonomous tracks, each with its own program committee and reviewing team.

Track 1 - Social Computing, chair: Anabel Quaan-Haase (University of Western Ontario)

Track 2 - Adaptive Hypermedia and Applications, chair: Richard Kopak (University of British Columbia)

Track 3 - Hypertext and Education, co-chairs: Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems, Inc.) and David Millard (University of Southampton)

Types of Submission
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The Conference welcomes the following types of submissions

Papers: Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation, simulation, analysis, or application. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original, not previously published works. Submission categories include:

- regular research papers (max 10 pages) discussing mature work, and
- short papers (max 5 pages) describing preliminary results of on-going work or novel thought-provoking ideas.

Posters and Demos: Technical demonstration of new tools and innovative applications of hypertext are solicited, as well as research at a preliminary stage. Submissions may include:

Posters (max 2 pages) offer researchers a unique opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. Poster submissions are welcomed in areas related to any of the three tracks. Please note, however, that posters describing work at the proposal stage will not be accepted.

Demos (max 1 page) should describe the system and include a list of any required supporting equipment. We assume that most equipment will be supplied by the demonstrator. Poster and demos presentations further provide researchers with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the poster session.

Workshops: Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference, Sunday, June 14th. Paper sessions will begin on Monday June 15. The purpose of the workshops is to provide a more informal setting for the exchange of ideas on a focused topic and suggest directions for future research. As such, they also offer a good opportunity for researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Acceptance of workshop proposals will be based on the organizer's experience and background in the topic, and on the relevance of the subject matter. See the Track descriptions for ideas.

Labels: call for papers, Hypertext 2010

posted by SIGWEB Information Director @ 10/16/2009 10:45:00 AM

Call for Papers: Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Special Issue on: Hypertext and Web Science: Emergent Structures, Communities and Collective Intelligence

Guest editors: David Millard and Weigang Wang

David Millard, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton.
Weigang Wang, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.

Submission deadline: 4 January 2010
Acceptance notification: 19 March 2010
Final manuscripts due: 30 April 2010

Hypertext has always been about people and their relationships with information. The Hypertext Community has over thirty years of experience of exploring hypertext interfaces, infrastructures and usage. Now Web 2.0 technology and practice has greatly promoted this sort of interactive collaboration and social networking, resulting in large scale collaborative knowledge creation and e-democracy activities. Semantic Web technologies and the Linked Data Web could impact even more strongly. Imagine if most personal and organisational data were available on the Web and analysable with the help of software agents, how would people and organisations run their businesses, how would they identify, select, and collaborate with their partners and customers to face shared challenges?

Web Science is a proposed new discipline to study the continuing impact of the Web on people, business and society. Web Science is about understanding how technical innovation changes practice, and how behaviour in the small translates to behaviour in the large.

This special issue is for people who believe that their work is at the intersection of Hypertext and Web Science. We invite papers on a variety of technical topics with a personal, cultural or societal slant.

Papers should describe completed work with well-evidenced conclusions, and interdisciplinary work will be particularly welcomed.

Submissions may take the form of research papers or shorter technical notes and should be submitted electronically at the Journal's Manuscript Central site.

Questions and enquiries concerning this call should be directed to the guest editors. Open topic papers meeting NRHM's scope in general are also welcome.

The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) is published by Taylor & Francis and appears in both print and digital formats.

Labels: hypermedia, NRHM, Special issue, Web science

posted by SIGWEB Information Director @ 10/15/2009 08:52:00 AM

SIGWEB Quarterly Autumn 2009

The Autumn 2009 edition of the SIGWEB Quarterly Newsletter is now available online from the ACM Digital Library.

Table of Contents

1. Hypertext 2009: Hypertext in the Wild!
   Markus Strohmaier
2. Interview with Ian Horrocks
   Claus Atzenbeck
3. "Socially Induced Semantic Networks and Applications" by Benjamin Markines, With Jessica Rubart As Organizer
   Benjamin Markines
4. Hyperincident Connected Components of Tagging Networks - The Douglas Engelbart Best Paper (HT 09)
   Nicolas Neubauer, Klaus Obermayer
5. The Dynamics of Personal Territories on the Web - The Ted Nelson Best Newcomer (HT09)
   Thomas Beauvisage
6. Up and Coming Sigweb Supported Conferences
   Yogesh Deshpande

Labels: Autumn, Newsletter

posted by SIGWEB Information Director @ 9/17/2009 06:49:00 AM