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Please note the Call For Papers guidelines for demos has been updated to remove certain ambiguities. It now reads as follows:

Demo papers should be focused on new Web technology, advances in applying Web technology, or innovative use of Web-based techniques. Demo papers must be submitted in camera-ready format and are limited to 4 pages. They should describe the demonstrated system, indicate what is going to be demonstrated, and state the significance of the contribution to the Web technology or applications. Proposals must not be published or under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Authors who intend to submit abstracts by the October 26 deadline, please note, the online submissions process will open on October 18. There is no need to anonymize submissions. The submission link is: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WWW2010

Authors who intend to submit a Panel proposal should follow the guidelines provided below.

Panels Call for Participation

• Proposal submission deadline: December 11, 2009
• Acceptance notification: January 21, 2010
• Camera ready proposals (with confirmed panelists) due: February 11, 2010

Panels should focus on emerging technologies, controversial issues, or unsolved problems in the World Wide Web community. The goal of a panel is debate–therefore, panels should always reflect more than one point of view.

Panels should be provocative and lively and should inspire thoughtful, engaged discussion, at the event itself and beyond. We expect the panelists to actively engage the audience and help them gain a deeper understanding of important and of controversial issues.

All areas of interests to WWW participants are acceptable as a panel topic. Please contact us before the deadline if you have an idea you would like to discuss with us for suitability. Panel proposals will be accepted on the basis of their audience appeal, credentials of panelists, originality, and focus on disputed topics.

Panel Proposal Submission Procedure

Submissions should include:

• Panel title
• Panel organizer(s)/moderator(s)
• Short description of the topic (suitable for inclusion in the program)
• Panel objective, scope, and target audience
• Detailed description of the topic, including suitable references
• List of the debatable points of view
• Panel format (e.g., presentations, Q&A, etc.) including a detailed timeline covering all activities - (the entire panel duration should be 90 minutes)
• The names and affiliations of the panelists, and their credentials in the form of a short bio for each
• A statement for each panelist, indicating whether the panelist’s participation is (a) confirmed or (b) pending in the case s/he has already been contacted and is not yet committed or (c) not yet contacted. At submission time, we expect that at least 50% of the panelists would have been confirmed, in particular senior panelists. Do not list unconfirmed panelists who are unlikely to participate.
• Short paragraph stating the credentials/bios of organizer(s), moderator(s) and each panelist.
• The panel proposal should also indicate whether other similar panels have been formed recently in other conferences or workshops. If so, what is the difference?

Proposals should be no more than 5 pages in length and can be submitted in either HTML or PDF. Please use CMT (Conference Management Service) to upload panel submissions: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WWW2010. Inquiries can be sent to panels at www2010.org – if you have a panel idea you would like to discuss but are unsure about, please contact us.

Panel format

Panels should last 90 minutes and typically include three to five panelists plus a moderator. Be creative about the panel format - use whatever means is necessary to get the panelists points over most clearly and succinctly, such that points of contrast and debate are clear to audience members. A typical format includes:

• moderator introduction
• brief position statements by domain experts (it’s essential that this part does not exceed a total of 30 minutes divided by all panelists)
• discussions (at least 40 minutes divided by all participants)
• closing statements from panelists and moderator

You are welcome to use various forms of media and props to help engage the audience. We also strongly encourage you promote your panel among those people you know will be interested in the topic as part of a more general promotion of the www2010 conference.

Duties of the Panel Moderator(s)

The panel moderator is the most important participant in a panel. The most important part of the moderator’s job occurs well before the conference begins and the panel happens. It is the duty of the moderator to frame the panel, and write and enticing and inviting description of the panel. Be controversial! It is also the panel moderators job to invite panelists, with our help if needed, and to ensure the panelists prepare lively and controversial initial presentation and come prepared to engage in a lively debate as part of the panel. Panel moderators thus must spend a significant amount of grooming and promoting the panel, and “herding cats”, i.e., getting the panelists to adequately prepare pitches and making sure that each panelist will have a distinct non-trivial message or role.

The moderator must take an active role during the panel to stimulate debate, ensure that the panelists stay on time and on track and to encourage audience participation.

A panel should not be a stage for panelists to give a series of unrelated lectures. The details of how the panel is run in terms of audience involvement is up to the panel moderator and the panelists, but we recommend that you strongly encourage and inspire active audience participation. We will give preference to panels that plan to actively engage the audience - Be creative! Be provocative! Use physical props, SMS and microblogging services. If you need help setting these up, we will do what we can to help you.

Panels Co-Chairs

• Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Research (USA)
• Elizabeth Churchill, Yahoo! Research (USA)

Authors, please note the following procedural changes for WWW2010 submissions, as outlined in the CFP:

Review Process

This year, papers will not be partitioned into tracks at the time of submission. The program committee is not partitioned into tracks either. Instead, we have areas, and, within areas, more specific topics. Papers will be assigned to reviewers based on topics indicated by the authors at submission time. Authors may select topics from multiple areas as well as topics that cross area boundaries. A submission may belong to one or perhaps a few of the following areas and associated topics (see the list of topics for a more detailed description).

Application and Experience (A+E) Papers

Research papers can be marked by the authors as describing innovative (academic or commercial) implementations of Web systems, novel applications of Web technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to practical situations. The emphasis is innovative and visionary approaches to  systems architecture, and non-obvious lessons learned in the process.

Demonstrations

We invite submissions of short papers describing an implemented and thoroughly tested system that will be demonstrated during the demo sessions and possibly reception hours at the conference. The systems must pursue one or more innovative ideas in data analysis, algorithms, system architecture, user interaction, etc. In addition, some A+E submissions may be accepted as demos.

Posters

There is no separate poster submission at this time. Some research paper submissions with late-breaking, tentative or controversial results will be accepted for a shorter final version, with the facility for authors to present a poster at one or more poster sessions and receptions at the conference.

The WWW2010 program committee has updated the Call For Papers with more details for authors planning to submit Workshop proposals. Please review the CFP for specific instructions.

Authors please note: see the formatting guidelines to download the latest files for formatting paper submissions. The earlier files incorrectly listed WWW2009 instead of the new information for WWW2010. Please except our apologies for any inconvenience it may have caused.

Authors please note: there will be no separate poster submissions for WWW2010. To ensure uniformity in the review process, all research submissions to WWW2010 will use a standard 10-page format. A subset will be selected for poster papers and presentations. Poster papers will need to be shrunk from 10 to 4 pages if the authors agree to publish their work as a poster.

The Program Committee chairs have updated the CFP to provide a more detailed explanation of the paper review process:

WWW 2010 submissions will be not processed in disjoint tracks as in earlier years. Instead, to better accommodate the highly interdisciplinary nature of Web research, the review process has been redesigned to recognize that many papers cannot be neatly partitioned into exclusive tracks with disjoint sets of committee members. A number of fine-grained topics have been defined, with a coarser set of areas containing topics. Areas may have some overlap in terms of topics. Each submitted paper needs to be marked with at least one and up to four topics. Furthermore, WWW 2010 has a unified pool of PC members. Each PC member will indicate the set of topics of expertise. The program and area chairs will use these inputs to assign papers to reviewers.

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee, and one or two area chairs may write brief summaries or recommendations depending on the difficulty of the decision. The areas are not partitioned; in principle, a paper may be reviewed by any suitable reviewer in the committee. Submissions will be evaluated on creativity of the proposed problem, originality of the solution, technical depth, impact to the community, and quality of presentation.

Note to authors: the Program Committee has updated the CFP with the addition of a new topic area: Web Services and Service-Oriented Computing Models. This area will include papers on methodologies and tools for analyzing, designing,  composing, publishing and discovering Web services. Please see the List of Topics for details.

The Organizing Committee of the Nineteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010) welcomes the participation of researchers from around the world to submit original and pioneering research related to the Web for presentation and discussion next April in Raleigh, North Carolina.