Connectionists: [CFP EXTENDED DEADLINES] The ACM Web Conference 2022 - PhD Symposium - Web Developer and W3C Track

[Coralie Gregoire]

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[CFP EXTENDED DEADLINES] The ACM Web Conference 2022 - PhD Symposium - Web Developer and W3C Track

*Important dates*
- NEW EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 10, 2022
- Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2022
- Camera-ready version: March 10, 2022

We invite contributions to the PhD Symposium and Web Developer and W3C track to be held at The Web Conference 2022 (formerly known as WWW). The conference will take place online, hosted by Lyon, France, on April 25-29, 2022.

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Call for PhD Symposium Papers

*Important dates*
- NEW EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 10, 2022
- Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2022
- Camera-ready version: March 10, 2022
- PhD Symposium: April 26, 2022 (to be confirmed)
All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

*PhD Symposium chairs: (www2022-phd-symposium at easychair.org)*
- Hala Skaf-Molli (University of Nantes, France)
- Elena Demidova (University of Bonn, Germany)


The PhD Symposium of The Web Conference 2022 welcomes submissions from PhD students on their ongoing research related to the main conference topics. These topics include: Semantics and Knowledge, Web Search, Web Systems and Infrastructure, Web Mining and Content Analysis, Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets, User Modeling and Personalization, Web and Society, Web of Things, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing,  Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms, Security, Privacy, Trust and Social Web (see also the Research Tracks). We are particularly interested in submissions aimed to enhance our understanding of the Web, provide intuitive access to Web information and knowledge, strengthen the positive impact of the Web on society, take advantage of the Web of Things and enhance security, privacy protection, and trust.

The goal of the PhD Symposium is to provide a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods, and results. The symposium aims to provide students guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to the World Wide Web. Finally, the symposium aims to enable PhD students to interact with other participants of The Web Conference and potential collaborators by stimulating the exchange of ideas and experiences.

*Eligibility*
The PhD Symposium is open to all PhD students. PhD students at the beginning stages of their doctoral work are particularly welcome when they have a well-defined problem statement and ideas about the solutions they would like to discuss. PhD students in a more advanced stage of their work are also welcome to share and discuss their research results and experiences.

*Submission Guidelines*
Submissions should be written based on the following structure, which focuses on the key methodological components required for a sound research synthesis:
- Abstract: A self-sustained short description of the paper.
- Introduction/Motivation: Provide a general introduction to the topic and indicate its importance/impact on Web research and real-world applications.
- Problem: Describe the core problem of the PhD thesis.
- State of the art: Briefly describe the most relevant related work.
- Proposed approach: Briefly present the approach taken and motivate how this is novel regarding existing works.
- Methodology: Sketch the methodology that is (or will be) adopted and, in particular, the approach to be taken for evaluating the results of the work.
- Results: Describe the current status of the work and the most significant results that have been obtained so far.
- Conclusions and future work: Conclude and specify the major items of future work.

Submissions should be written in English and must be no longer than five (5) pages in length (according to the ACM format acmart.cls, using the “sigconf” option). Submissions must be in PDF and must be made through the EasyChair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2022 (select the PhD Symposium track).

Submissions must be single-author and be on the topic of the doctoral work. The supervisor’s name must be clearly marked (« supervised by … ») on the paper, under the author’s name. Submissions that do not comply with the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review.

Selected papers will be published in the Companion Proceedings of The Web Conference 2022 and made available through the ACM Digital Library.

*Review Process*
All submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Program Committee of the PhD Symposium, who are experienced researchers in the relevant areas. Students of accepted submissions will have the opportunity to discuss their submissions in more detail and receive additional feedback from mentors.  

You can reach the PhD symposium chairs at www2022-phd-symposium at easychair.org

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Call for WebConf 2022 Developer and W3C Track

*Important dates*
- NEW EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 10, 2022
- Notification to authors: March 3rd, 2022
- Camera ready: March 10th, 2022
All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

*Web Developer and W3C Track Chairs (www2022-web-dev-w3c at easychair.org)*
 - Dominique Hazael-Massieux (W3C)
 - Tom Steiner (Google LLC)

The Web Conference 2022 Developer and W3C Track is part of The Web Conference 2022 in Lyon, France. Participation in the developers track will require registration of at least one author for the conference.

The Web Conference 2022 Developer and W3C Track presents an opportunity to share the latest developments across the technical community, both in terms of technologies and in terms of tooling. We will be running as a regular track with live (preferred) or pre-recorded (as an alternative format) presentations during the conference, showcasing community expertise and progress. The event will take place according to the CET time zone (Paris time). We will do our best to accommodate speakers in as convenient as possible time slots for their local time zones.

While we are open to any contributions that are relevant for the Web space, here are a few areas that we are particularly interested in:
 - Tools and methodologies to measure and reduce the environmental impact of the Web. 
 - New usage patterns enabled by Progressive Web Apps and new browser APIs.
 - Work-arounds, data-based quantification and identification of Web compatibility issues.
 - Web tooling and developer experience, in particular towards reducing the complexity for newcomers: How can we get closer to the magic of hitting "view source" as a way to get people started?
 - Tools and frameworks that enable the convergence of real-time communication and streaming media.
 - Decentralized architectures for the Web, such as those emerging from projects and movements such as Solid, or "Web3".
 - Peer to peer architectures and protocols.
 - Identity management (DID, WebAuthN, Federated Credential Management).

*Submission guidelines*
Submissions can take several form and authors can choose one or multiple submission entry among the following choices:
 - Papers: papers are limited to 6 pages, including references. Submissions are NOT anonymous. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. In particular, the format cannot be modified with the objective of squeezing in more material. Papers will be published in the ACM The Web Conference Companion Proceedings archived by the ACM Digital Library, as open access, if the authors wish so.
 - Links to code repositories on GitHub (with sufficient description and documentation).
 - Links to recorded demos (as a complement to the above, ideally following established best practices as proposed by the W3C). 
 - Any other resource reachable on the Web.
Submissions will be handled via Easychair, at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2022, selecting the Web Developer and W3C track.

*Formatting the submissions*
Submissions must adhere to the ACM template and format published in the ACM guidelines at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please remember to add Concepts and Keywords and use the template in traditional double-column format to prepare your submissions. For example, Word users may use the Word Interim template, and LaTeX users may use the sample-sigconf template. For Overleaf users, you may want to use https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machinery-acm-sig-proceedings-template/bmvfhcdnxfty.
Submissions for review must be in PDF format. They must be self-contained and written in English. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines, or do not view or print properly, will be rejected without review.

*Ethical use of data and informed consent*
As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. When appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a section on the ethical use of data and/or informed consent in their paper.
Note that submitting your research for approval by the author(s)’ institutional ethics review body (IRB) may not always be sufficient. Even if such research has been signed off by your IRB, the programme committee might raise additional concerns about the ethical implications of the work and include these concerns in its review.

*Publication policy*
Accepted papers will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance.

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