WWW Review

WWW International Conference on World Wide Web, is usually organized by different countries well established web search / information retrieval / digital libraries research labs such as in USA, China, Canada, Brazil, India, Canada, and France etc. This is usually held in different countries which shows its wide spread all over the world. Here is WWW – World Wide Web Conference Review.

Submission Date / Deadline: The deadline to submit research papers is usually October each year. The decision is conveyed to submitters in 2-3 Months. The conference is usually hold in April every year.

My Feelings: WWW is most famous conference in the field of web search and information retrieval round the world.

1)      Very Well organized and of high level so that its quality can be compared with KDD, ISWC, AAAI, IJCAI and is an A level conference in the field of Web Search and Mining.

2)      Very well managed presentation time and question answering time by the session chairs as well as by the presenters. Discipline, Discipline, Discipline

3)      The conference is usually filled with innovative ideas which meet the needs of emerging changed in the web during recent years. Solutions are usually very clean, clear and of high standards. All the problems are solved in a way that they seem very well handled.

4)      Most of the famous guys presented their papers that are famous in the field of Web mining. Web search, social web and web information retrieval. One can say the presenters are among the top 100 researchers of this field or from the Labs of the top 100 researchers of this field.

5)      Thought provoking and intuitive questions were asked during the presentations which were very helpful for improving work or making the work more applicable in different dimensions.

6)      Useful discussion about Ideas and problems of recent web, famous research labs and experts, collaboration opportunities and research funding agencies related things during tea and meal. Knowledge, Knowledge, Knowledge everywhere.

7)      Authors were from all over the world. Does seem to be world level as if there are usually 100 presenters then there will be about 500-600 or plus researchers attending the conference due to awesome quality of work presented in WWW.

Acceptance Rate: WWW is highly competitive conference in the field of web mining, web search and social network mining. It is usually ranked as A level or Top conference by the scientific communities in this field. Only less than 14-18 % submissions are usually accepted for publication. Mostly the acceptance rate is 17%. It is usually a dream to be accepted by this conference for researchers from all over the world. One must have to produce a giant from a seed to be part of accepted papers in it. It is place of top 100 people/labs of this field in researcher’s point of view from all over the world.

Registration Fee: There is discount registration fee for members of different famous associations. There is special discount for student registration. The registration details for year 2014 are provided below.

Full registration includes tutorials, workshops, keynotes, and the main conference, from Aug 24 to 27.

Full Conference
registration type		 Early
Until March 1		 Late
Before Conference		 On-site
Conference Date Onsite
WWW  Members $750 $900 $1,050
WWW / AAAI/ ACM Members $800 $950 $1,100
Non Members $850 $1,000 $1,150
Student $400 $500 $600

Accommodation: The hotels of very good quality near the conference venue were available usually. The conference is hold in different countries of the world so to become a permanent part of this conference is great to travel around the world. Mostly per night charges are about 100-200 USD which is a bit high. But for Asian countries it is cheaper as compared to other part of the world.

Keynote Speeches: Top people in the field of Web Mining and Web Search are usually keynote speakers.

Paper Publications: The proceedings of WWW are published by ACM. Paper length is usually restricted to 10 pages of ACM Proceedings Template.

Structure: The main conference and several affiliated workshops of related areas.

By ALI DAUD

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