DeWeb2024
1st International Workshop
On Decentralizing The Web

This workshop seeks to esplore contributions ranging multiple research fields, such as Network Science, Natural Language Processing, and Computational Social Science, aiming to facilitate the exchange of methodologies and empirical findings to foster a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the Decentralized Web.
The topics of interest of the DeWeb workshop at ICWSM2024 include but are not limited to:

• Structures and dynamics in decentralized platforms
• Graph mining in decentralized platforms
• NLP in decentralized platforms
• Decentralized social interactions
• Decentralized currencies and finance
• Coordinated and cooperative user behaviors within decentralized platforms
• Migratory phenomena towards decentralized platforms
• Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news in decentralized platforms
• Content moderation in decentralized platforms
• Community search, detection, and evolution in decentralized platforms
• Polarization phenomena in decentralized platforms
• Fraudulent activities in decentralized platforms
• Ethical and privacy aspects of decentralized platforms
• Dataset and resources for studying decentralized platforms

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 24, 2024 April 5, 2024
Notifications: April 14, 2024
Camera-Ready Due: May 5, 2024
Workshop Day: June 3, 2024

All deadlines are 11:59 PM AOE (Anywhere On Earth)

Submission Instructions

Submit via the EasyChair portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deweb2024

We welcome both 2-page abstracts, as well as short (4 pages) papers - not counting references and appendices (if applicable). Abstracts are ideal for position papers or discussion papers of previously published work. Short papers must contain original work, and are best suited for technical contributions, demos, datasets, or early-stage research with experimental results.

All submissions should be double-blind and in English, and have to follow the AAAI two-column, camera-ready style. Submitted papers must adhere to the ICWSM guidelines, but authors do not need to compile the ethics checklist required for submissions to the main research track of ICWSM.

The accepted short papers (not the 2-page abstracts) will be published in the ICWSM Workshop Proceedings (https://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/) by the AAAI Press.

The DeWeb2024 workshop is expected to be in person, and we encourage you to attend in person to fully engage with the community. However, we are also planning a virtual option for those who cannot attend in person. More details will be provided soon. Please, contact the organizers for questions related to the submission or participation.

The final goal of the 1st International Workshop on Decentralizing the Web (DeWeb2024) will be the drafting of a white-paper, endorsed by a consortium of workshop participants and authors who choose to participate as experts of the domain, serving as a reference resource to open up new perspectives on the Decentralized Web.

Guidelines and an initial structure for the document will be prepared in advance and shared with participants during the workshop. The participating authors opting in will then be responsible for discussing and delineating the primary opportunities and challenges within the Decentralized Web, while also compiling the most pertinent resources to advance research in this field.

We intend to publish the white paper as a collective effort on platforms like arXiv as an ongoing work to be openly accessible and start serving the community, and submit it for consideration to relevant journals or conferences in the field.