Important! Preparation Instructions for WWW 2025 Final Submissions: https://www.scomminc.com/pp/acmsig/www2025.htm
We invite contributions to the research tracks of The Web Conference 2025 (formerly known as WWW). The conference will take place in Sydney, Australia, from 28 April to 02 May 2025.
The Web Conference is the premier conference focused on understanding the current state and the evolution of the Web through the lens of computer science, computational social science, economics, policy, and many other disciplines.
Important Dates:
All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Submission Site:
We will use OpenReview to manage the submissions and reviewing. All listed authors must have an up-to-date OpenReview profile, properly attributed with current and past institutional affiliation, homepage, Google Scholar, DBLP, ORCID, LinkedIn, Semantic Scholar (wherever applicable). Here is information on how to create an OpenReview profile. The OpenReview profile will be used to handle conflict of interest and paper matching. Submissions will not be made public on OpenReview during the reviewing period.
Abstracts and papers can be submitted through the OpenReview link: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/TheWebConf/2025/Conference&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)
Scope:
The scope of the conference is the Web and how it has crucially enabled new research and applications. While the Web feeds on and is part of a broader interdisciplinary ecosystem, including technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and many others, it remains a distinct scholarly field, with its own research methods, tools, and challenges. A typical Web Conference paper should have an explicit focus on at least one of the following:
Relevance. Every submission must clearly state how the work is relevant to the Web and to the track in the first page. Submissions that merely use a Web artifact---e.g., a dataset or a Web Application Programmer Interface (API) or a social network---rather than answering a specific Web-related scientific research challenge, are out of scope and will be desk-rejected.
Tracks. Our research interests are organized in the following tracks:
The Web has served as a platform for large-scale online markets such as cloud computing, crowdsourcing, and the sharing economy. This growth highlights the importance of understanding the economics of the Web, and we welcome innovative research in this space. The new wave of AI applications introduce new perspectives with respect to economics, markets, and training data sets. This track is a forum for theoretical, empirical, and applied research related to the modeling, analysis, and design of Web-related economic activities, online markets, and human computation.
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
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We encourage submissions that address a Web-related scientific challenge in graph algorithms, graph mining, and graph learning.
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
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We invite research contributions to the Responsible Web track. Over the past decades, the Web and internet have grown to be an integral part of our lives. Through this track we aim to surface the latest research on what it means to build a responsible web and internet, one that leaves no one behind and is inclusive, equitable, fair, ethical, open, privacy-preserving and trustworthy.
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
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This track welcomes submissions of original, high-quality research related to the search and retrieval of Web content.
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
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This track offers researchers the opportunity to present their work to the broad community of researchers interested in issues of security and privacy relating to the Web.
We invite submissions that address any aspect of web security and privacy, including theoretical foundations, practical implementations, and case studies.
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
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This track is a forum to gather researchers interested in knowledge graphs and other forms of structured data models with machine-interpretable semantics that are being widely adopted for many advanced applications on the Web. In this track, we invite original research submissions related to methods, algorithms, techniques and applications supporting the creation, acquisition, publication and consumption of interlinked structured data corpora – available on the web, the (human-assisted) semantic integration, the enrichment and processing of large, real-world datasets in a Web context.
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
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We welcome submissions in all areas that concern social networks, social media, and the interaction of the Web and society.
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This track solicits research contributions reporting on the construction and performance of novel Web-based mobile and ubiquitous computing systems and architectures. The track welcomes submissions of interest to both academic and industrial research which contribute to the understanding of Web, mobile, and WoT systems, for example via data analysis, experimentation, novel application implementations, deployment experiences and lessons learned, measurement studies, and usability evaluations.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
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In this track, we invite original research submissions addressing all aspects of inclusive user modeling, personalization, and recommendation. We welcome contributions on data analytics, algorithm development, system design, use case reviews, and evaluation within the context of the Web.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
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This track welcomes submissions of original and high-quality research papers related to the extraction of information from the Web and the analysis and mining of Web content.
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
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Deadlines. The submission deadlines are strict and no extensions, regardless of circumstances, will be allowed. Placeholder/dummy abstracts are forbidden.
Authorship. The ACM has an authorship policy stating who can be considered an author in a submission as well as the use of generative AI tools. Every person named as the author of a paper must have contributed substantially to the work described in the paper and/or to the writing of the paper and must take responsibility for the entire content of a paper.
Authorship means accountability for the work. As such, Large Language Models (LLMs) (e.g., ChatGPT) cannot be considered authors. You can use LLMs to rephrase your text, but you are solely responsible for the text in the paper.
Every author of a submission should have an OpenReview account with accurate personal information (i.e., correct first name and last name, and a valid preferred email address). Otherwise, the submission will be desk-rejected.
Anonymity. The review process will be double-blind. The submitted document should omit any author names, affiliations, or other identifying information. This may include, but is not restricted to acknowledgments, self-citations, references to prior work by the author(s), and so on. Please use the third-person to identify your own prior work. You may explicitly refer in the paper to organizations that provided datasets, hosted experiments, or deployed solutions and tools.
Formatting Requirements. Submissions must be in English, in double-column format, and must adhere to the ACM template and format (also available in Overleaf). Word users may use the Word Interim Template and the recommended setting for LaTeX is:
\documentclass[sigconf, anonymous, review]{acmart}.
Submissions must be a single PDF file: 8 (eight) pages as main paper, with unlimited pages for references and an optional Appendix (that can contain details on reproducibility, proofs, pseudo-code, etc). The first 8 pages should be self-contained, since reviewers are not required to read past that.
Originality and Concurrent Submissions. Submissions must present original work---this means that papers under review at or published/accepted to any peer-reviewed conference / journal with published proceedings cannot be submitted. Submissions that have been previously presented orally, as posters or abstracts-only, or in non-archival venues with no formal proceedings, including workshops or PhD symposia without proceedings, are allowed. Authors may submit anonymized work that is already available as a preprint (e.g., on arXiv or SSRN) without citing it. The ACM has a strict policy against plagiarism, misrepresentation, and falsification that applies to all publications.
Ethical Use of Data and Informed Consent. Authors are encouraged to include a section on the ethical use of data and/or informed consent of research subjects in their paper, when appropriate. You and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects (posted in 2021). Please ensure all authors are familiar with these policies.
Please consult the regulations of your institution(s) indicating when a review by an Institutional Ethics Review Board (IRB) is needed. If your work has been reviewed by an IRB, please indicate this in the paper, providing approval numbers where appropriate. Failure to comply with the above-mentioned policy on Human Participants and Subjects will lead to a rejection of the paper.
Submissions that do not follow these guidelines or do not view or print properly, will be desk-rejected.
Reviewing. Each paper is submitted to one of the tracks listed above. Papers that do not conform to the conference scope or submission guidelines will be desk-rejected by the track chair (aka Senior Area Chair, SAC). Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews within each track and the process overseen by an Area Chair (AC).
For each submitted paper, authors will be requested to select one of the authors to serve as reviewer. If all authors of a paper decide to reject invitations to serve as reviewers or accept to review but fail to complete their duties as reviewers, the paper will be desk rejected.
Rebuttal. Authors will have the chance to provide a response to the reviews during an author-reviewer discussion period. The ACs and SACs will consider the authors' responses to the points raised by the reviewers to inform acceptance decisions.
Decision. A range of factors including technical merit, originality, potential impact, quality of execution, quality of presentation, related work, reproducibility of results, and ethics, will be used by the ACs and SACs to make a recommendation. The PC Chairs will make the final decisions.
Transparency. By submitting paper(s) to The Web Conference 2025, the authors agree that the reviews, meta-reviews, and discussions will be made public in OpenReview for all accepted papers.
All authors and reviewers must declare conflicts of interest in OpenReview. You must declare a domain conflict (entered in Education & Career History) for employment at the same institution or company, regardless of geography/location, currently or in the last 12 months. You must declare a personal conflict when the following associations exist:
In general, we expect authors, PC, the organizing committee, and other volunteers to adhere to ACM's Conflict of Interest Policy as well as the ACM's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
Publication. All accepted papers will be allowed the same maximum page length in the proceedings (12 pages, of which 8 are content pages), which will be published by ACM and will be accessible via the ACM Digital Library. Accepted papers will require a further revision to meet the requirements of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers can and should include all information to identify authors, and should acknowledge any funding received that directly supported the presented research. In addition, all papers are required to submit a brief pre-recorded video, which will appear on ACM Digital Library, along with the PDF of the papers.
Registration. To be included in the proceedings, every accepted paper must be covered by a distinct conference registration, e.g., two papers require two registrations, even if they have overlapping authors. This registration must be Full Conference (5-day) or Main Conference (3-day) registration, at the standard (non-student) in-person rate, payment of which must be completed by the camera-ready deadline. This registration requirement applies universally, regardless of attendance or presentation mode.
Presentation. Every accepted paper must be presented at the conference. No-show papers may be withdrawn from the proceedings. There will be two forms of presentation:
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Reproducibility. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their code and data publicly available after the review process. We are encouraging the (optional) use of the "Artifacts Available" badge in ACM's Digital Library. If you release any code, dataset, or similar artifact to accompany your paper, and host it in a publicly available, archival repository for research artifacts that provides a Document Object Identifier (DOI), you are welcome to apply for this badge. A special subcommittee will check the artifacts of all accepted papers for availability and relatedness to the paper after the acceptance notification.
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