A brief survey of computational approaches in social computing
IJCNN'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international joint conference on Neural Networks
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WSDM was announced at WWW 2007 in Banff in May 2007 and thereafter on several electronic bulletin boards. Abstracts were sought by 30th July and full paper submissions by the 6th August. Despite the rather short notice and tight deadlines, we received 151 submissions from around the world. With the help of the steering committee we decided on novel reviewing system and a two-tier technical program committee was formed There were 52 regular program committee members. Each paper was first reviewed by at least three regular PC members. After this phase was completed, we retained about 60 papers with the highest scores for a second round of evaluation by a senior program committee with 11 members. Each retained paper was reviewed by two senior PC members, who strove to ensure that all regular PC members had a consistent view of the contributions of the paper (although their opinions could, of course, differ quantitatively) and had written clear, well-justified and useful reviews for the authors. In many cases, the senior PCs effectively made accept/reject decisions. The final decision was made by the PC chairs who took into account all the scores and comments, novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical application, impact, and presentation. Notifications of acceptance of 24 full papers were sent out on 20th October Overall, we are pleased with the quality and mix of the papers we accepted. Most are solidly practical papers with extensive experimental evaluation while a few are of a more theoretical nature, but we believe all of them have the potential to significantly influence the practice of Web search and mining in coming years. The acceptance ratio of 24/151 = 16 percent is consistent with the leading ACM and IEEE conferences in similar or related areas. For the first ever WSDM conference, we decided to have only a single track of full-length papers and not have short papers, poster papers, or demos, although this might change over time