AIRWeb: Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web

The international AIRWeb workshop series brought together both researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss advances in the state-of-the-art in Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web. Topics of interest typically included:

  • 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.
The AIRWeb workshops provided a focused venue for both mature and early-stage work in web-based adversarial IR.

A new workshop will be held in 2011: The First Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2011). It will be part of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011) in Hyderabad, India.

Workshops

WebQuality 2011

AIRWeb 2009
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AIRWeb 2008
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AIRWeb 2007
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AIRWeb 2006
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AIRWeb 2005
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Last modified: 11 January 2011, Brian D. Davison