CALL FOR PAPERS
INFORMATIK 2010 Workshop on “Web Science”
co-located with GI-Jahrestagung 2010 (http://www.informatik2010.de/)
Web science is often referred to as the “science of decentralized information systems”. While novel technologies such as semantic web, web services, and cloud computing are germane to the broad proliferation of Web technologies, we also need to understand phenomena of the Web in the small as well as in the large, in order to retain its usefulness and benefit to people. This is in the center of attention of Web science and includes besides the mentioned technological approaches, research related to online communities, information diffusion on the Web, Web governance, global network structures beyond the individual communities on the Web, growth analysis, incentive and monetization systems.
Because the web itself is socially embedded a particular focus of this first GI workshop on Web Science are social computing applications, such as Wikipedia, Facebook, or del.icio.us, which are analysed with regard to the complex interdependencies between constraints imposed by the technical system as well as with regard to their use in social actions and interactions under varying social contexts. Understanding dynamics and evolution of these systems, as they depend on inherent social and informational structures, is of particular interest, because it is the dynamics of such communities that determines their final success or failure. In order to analyze social computing applications, interplay between aspects of computer science, for example computational network analysis, visualization techniques, graph theoretic models, semantic web technologies, and machine learning techniques, with social science and psychology is required.
In this interdisciplinary workshop we are aiming to bridge the gap between paradigms and encourage interdisciplinary collaborations as well as advance and deepen our understanding of web science. Joint efforts are needed to take advantage of the state-of-the-art research from multiple disciplines, such as computer science, information systems, sociology, and psychology. Moreover, this workshop provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to exchange preliminary results, new concepts and methodologies in this area.
