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Second Call for Papers 
(with revised deadlines)

AIRWeb 2006

Second International Workshop on
Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web

Part of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on 
Research and Development on Information Retrieval
10 August 2006 - Seattle, WA

http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/


OVERVIEW

The attraction of hundreds of millions of web searches per day provides 
significant incentive for many content providers to do whatever is
necessary to rank highly in search engine results, while search engine 
providers want to provide the most accurate results.  The conflicting 
goals of search and content providers is adversarial, and the use of 
techniques that push rankings higher than they belong is often called 
search engine spam.  Such methods typically include textual as well as 
link-based techniques, or their combination.

This, the second AIRWeb workshop, builds on last year's successful 
meeting in Chiba, Japan as part of WWW2005.  This year we solicit 
submissions on any aspect of adversarial information retrieval on the 
Web.  Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - search engine spam and optimization,
   - crawling the web without detection,
   - link-bombing (a.k.a. Google-bombing),
   - comment spam, referrer spam,
   - blog spam (splogs), 
   - malicious tagging,
   - reverse engineering of ranking algorithms,
   - advertisement blocking, and
   - web content filtering.

Papers addressing higher-level concerns (e.g., whether 'open' algorithms 
can succeed in an adversarial environment, whether permanent solutions 
are possible, etc.) are also welcome.

Full papers are limited to 8 pages in SIGIR format; works-in-progress 
will be permitted 4.  At least three anonymous reviews will be provided 
per paper, judged on the usual basis of relevance, originality, quality, 
and presentation.  Proceedings of the workshop will be placed online, 
and distributed at the workshop.  A selection of best papers will be 
invited to submit expanded versions to an appropriate journal.


IMPORTANT DATES

   5 May 2006       E-mail intention to submit (optional, but helpful)
  12 May 2006       Deadline for submissions
  12 June 2006      Notification of acceptance
  30 June 2006      Camera-ready copy due
  10 August 2006    Date of workshop


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

  Tim Converse, Yahoo! Search
  Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University
  Marc Najork, Microsoft Research


2006 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
  Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
  Einat Amitay, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
  Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
  Carlos Castillo, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
  Abdur Chowdhury, AOL Search, USA
  Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
  Matt Cutts, Google, USA
  Dennis Fetterly, Microsoft Research, USA
  Zoltan Gyongyi, Stanford University, USA
  Matthew Hurst, BuzzMetrics, USA
  Mark Manasse, Microsoft Research, USA
  Jan Pedersen, Yahoo!, USA
  Bernhard Seefeld, Switzerland
  Erik Selberg, Microsoft Search, USA
  Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research, USA
  Tao Yang, Ask.com/Univ. of California-Santa Barbara, USA


CONTACT ADDRESS: airweb(at)cse.lehigh.edu