26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 1-4 September 2015
Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus
26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 1-4 September 2015
Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus
In modern Web environments hypermedia content is increasingly generated, processed, filtered, adjusted, and personalised. Online social networks further generalise the conventional notion of the hypermedia to imply connections between users via their content and media. Making sense of these complex processes has attracted significant attention in various research disciplines.
The Digital Connectivity track targets developing deeper insights into the mechanisms of information generation and dissemination, characterization of evolutionary processes on online social networks, studies of models and systems that support these processes, and the broader implications of these for organisations and society. The track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the current state of art.
Addressing problems in the Digital Connectivity space necessitates expertise in several domains: Computer and Information Science, Social Sciences, Psychology, and Economics. Hence submissions of inter-disciplinary works are highly encouraged. We also welcome works that explore how Digital Connectivity can be applied in diverse domains, such as Education, Health, Journalism, Government, Environment, and Media.
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua
Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino
Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Federica Cena, Department of Computer Science, University of Torino
David Chin, University of Hawaii
Owen Conlan, Trinity College Dublin
Paul De Bra, TU/e
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, IBM Reseach
Vania Dimitrova, School of Computing, University of Leeds
Peter Dolog, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University
Erik Duval, Departement Computerwetenschappen, K.U.Leuven
David Garcia, ETH Zurich
Cristina Gena, Department of Computer Science, University of Torino
Simon Harper, University of Manchester
Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center
Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University
Michael Kurtz, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Séamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin
Pasquale Lops, University of Bari
Alexander O'Connor, Trinity College, Dublin
Daniel Romero, University of Michigan
Xiaolin Shi, Microsoft Corporation
Carsten Ullrich, DFKI GmbH
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan
Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University - iMinds
The need to make data available on the Web using formats and protocols that make them easier to consume by potential data reusers has been widely recognised and accepted by data owners. This is especially the case with Open Government Data initiatives, although this need has also arisen and dealt with in areas such as Culture, Journalism, Science, etc. Besides the obvious method of placing isolated datasets as files on Web servers, probably with some simple metadata associated to them, several other alternative methods have been proposed for making different types of data available on the Web: Linked Data, CSV on the Web, REST APIs, etc. Once these are available, they can be used inside data value chains to generate more added-value data, data-intensive applications, etc.
This track deals with the methods, techniques and technologies that can be used to make data available on the Web, with a special focus on how heterogeneous data sources can be connected to each other, hence breaking data silos on the Web. We are not only focused on using Linked Data approaches, which sit naturally for this purpose, but also on any other alternative approaches that may allow for such data publishing, description and interlinking. In fact, we welcome submissions that address any of the steps of the data-on-the-Web lifecycle, including the creation, interlinking, entity and relation extraction, semantic annotation, analysis and modeling, dynamics and evolution, and applications of connected data on the Web.
Jean-Paul Calbimonte, EPFL
Irene Celino, CEFRIEL
Fabien Gandon, Inria
Raúl García-Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Tudor Groza, The Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Raf Guns, University of Antwerp
Christophe Guéret, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Aidan Hogan, DCC, Universidad de Chile
Kim Holmberg, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Pavan Kapanipathi, Wright State University
Xiangnan Kong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Vincent Larivière, EBSI-Université de Montréal
Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research
Pablo Mendes, IBM Research Almaden
Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim
Isabella Peters, ZBW-German National Library of Economics
Milan Stankovic, Sépage & STIH, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM
Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
With its wide-spread adoption, the World Wide Web has become a highly detailed yet biased reflection of human social behavior. The web in general and social media in particular have become attractive textual and non-textual data sources that potentially capture aspects of how people think/feel/behave in social situations (social psychology), relate to each other (sociology), govern themselves (political science), handle wealth (socioeconomics), or create culture (anthropology). While these phenomena have received attention from different communities, understanding human social behavior via unobtrusive methods (i.e. methods where the researcher doesn’t intrude into the research context) remains a challenging endeavor and an open problem. Tackling these challenges requires the development of new methods, instruments and techniques as well as an interdisciplinary effort from researchers across disciplines. In this track, we seek submissions contributing to studies of the web from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, we are seeking to attract work on the intersection between computer science on one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other.
Harith Alani, KMi, The Open University
Jisun An, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Indiana University
Puschmann Cornelius, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Mathieu D'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University
Fabian Flöck, GESIS Cologne
David Garcia, ETH Zurich
Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo
Denis Helic, KTI, TU-Graz
Laura Hollink, VU University Amsterdam
Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg
Antoine Isaac, Europeana & VU University Amsterdam
Robert Jäschke, L3S Research Center
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Nicolas Kourtellis, Yahoo Labs
Q. Vera Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Suzy Moat, University of Warwick
Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin
Daan Odijk, University of Amsterdam
Jürgen Pfeffer, Carnegie Mellon University
Daniele Quercia, Yahoo Labs
Rossano Schifanella, University of Turin
Mützel Sophie, University of Lucerne
Wouter Van Atteveldt, Vrije Universiteit, afdeling Communicatiewetenschap
Taha Yasseri, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Innovative ideas and preliminary results on any of the topics of the conference are welcome; they will be peer-reviewed by the program committee together with the regular and short research papers. If accepted, you will have an opportunity to present your ideas and results as a poster and on a fun "madness" session during the poster reception. System prototypes and novel software from academia and industry are also welcome to this session. You will have a space to demonstrate your system to conference attendees next to your poster. This is a single-track overview of all accepted posters and demos. Authors can advertise their work and invite people to come to their poster or demo.
The Hypertext 2015 Doctoral Consortium aims to provide qualified Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present their on-going research to the hypertext community. The Doctoral Consortium will be an integral part of the Hypertext 2015 program, and will provide a constructive atmosphere and a forum for Ph.D. students to receive useful feedback from the leading experts, to exchange ideas, compare approaches and meet fellow researchers in the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to scholars field who will provide constructive comments about their work.
Submissions should be related to the conference topics (see ACM Hypertext 2015: Conference Tracks) and describe Ph.D. research that is at a stage where feedback from the broader hypertext community might be of value. Thus, we expect students to be close to presenting their thesis proposal, or to have presented the proposal with at least a year of work remaining before completion of their thesis.
Submissions should include an extended abstract (up to four pages in the ACM SIG Proceedings format specified by ACM Hypertext 2015, including figures and references), which covers the following aspects:
A revised version of this extended abstract will be included in the Hypertext 2015 Companion Proceedings by ACM.
Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Alessandro Bozzon, TU-Delft, Netherlands
Robin Burke, De Paul, USA
Vania Dimitrova, Leeds University, UK
Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Jill Freyne, CSIRO, Australia
Eduardo Graells, Telefonica, Chile
Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany
Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA
Bart Knijnenburg, University of California Irvine, USA
Ralf Krestel, HPI, Germany
Yu-ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Alan Said, Recorded Future, Sweden
Markus Schedl, JKU, Austria
Claudia Wagner, GESIS, Germany
Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK
Dirk Ahlers, NTNU
Pete Burnap, Cardiff University
Ilknur Celik, METU NCC
Giuliana Dettori, ITD
Ethan Munson, UW-Milwaukee
Sole Pera, Boise State University
13 March 2015: Workshops and Tutorials proposals deadline
23 March 2015: Workshops and Tutorials notifications
3 April 2015 10 April 2015: Main paper submission deadline
29 May 2015: Main paper notifications
12 June 2015 19 June 2015: Extended proceedings deadline
19 June 2015 8 July 2015: Camera ready deadline
30 June 2015: LBR deadline
10 July 2015: Extended proceedings and LBR notifications
22 July 2015: Extended proceedings and LBR camera ready deadline
1-4 September: Hypertext 2015 conference
