Call for Proposals to Host ACM WebSci'12

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=== WebSci'12 ===

Call for Proposals to Host ACM WebSci'12
4th International Conference on Web Science


The ACM SigWeb and its WebSci steering committee are seeking statements
of interest from organizations or consortia interested in hosting WebSci
2012, the 4th Int. Conf. on Web Science, an event that gathers a
multidisciplinary audience consisting of people from the many fields
that comprise Web Science. We expect that the 2012 edition will be held
in spring 2012.    

Organizations wishing to host WebSci 2012 should contact the chair of
the steering committee, Dame Prof. Dr. Wendy Hall (via her
administration anager Susan Davies: sdd@webscience.org) who will work
with the steering committee members to co-ordinate the bidding process
for ISWC 2012.  To assist the Steering Committee in deciding upon the
location for WebSci 2012, we would be very grateful if you could let us
have a brief description of your proposal.

While we do not need full details at this stage, as much information as
you can supply at this early stage will be appreciated. To help you
formulate your proposal, please note the following points:
* Information about previous WebSci  conferences can be obtained from
their corresponding websites: http://websci11.org, http://websci10.org,
http://websci09.org 
* WebSci is a mid-sized conference with a targeted attendance in the
order of 150-300 people 
* WebSci ’12 should be held in spring 2012, however disjoint from
related conferences such as WWW or disciplinary conferences in computing
or social sciences. 
* As an indicative view of the program, you may refer to the tentative
scheme given for WebSci ’11 at http://www.websci11.org/program/. The
meeting is single track comprising keynote talks (two to three), panels,
submitted abstracts and a very active poster session open for a large
number of presenters. 
* The conference should include daily lunches (on-site if possible) and
a conference banquet and/or reception. 
* With respect to financial arrangements, ACM is the conference sponsor
and handles most of the money. ACM may handle the registration (though
this is not a requirement) and the publication of the proceedings. The
local organizers typically will need to advance some money, for local
costs, which are then reimbursed by ACM after the meeting. In
formulating your proposal,  it would be helpful if you could try to
address as many as possible of the 9 points below. It is understood that
some of these matters may be somewhat premature at this stage, and we
certainly do not expect a lengthy, complete proposal. We would like to
get as accurate a “feel” of your proposal as we can.  

1. The name of the host institution and the affiliation, position, and
   co‐ordinates of the contact person as well as a short summary about
   previous experiences of conference and/or workshops organization.  
2. The dates you suggest for WebSci 2012, with alternatives if you
wish.   
3. The proposed location of the conference, and whether this is a hotel,
   a university, a research centre, or other?   
4. Brief information regarding the conference facilities, meeting rooms,
   catering facilities etc. 
5. Whatever details you can give of available local
   accommodation. Hotels? Suitable student accommodation?  
6. Some details of transportation – how can your location be reached and
   will local transportation be needed/provided? 
7. Any special budget conditions (see above remarks regarding ACM's
   handing of finances).  
8. Any other details or information that you feel might be helpful.  
9. Finally, if the need arises, could you in theory as an alternative
   host WebSci 2013?  

Please feel free to communicate with us at any stage if you have any
questions whatsoever regarding WebSci'12. We would be very glad to
elucidate any of these points or to offer any suggestions during the
formulation of your proposal. We would like to receive responses to this
CFP within a four-week time frame and are thus setting  

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

as the deadline. 

Note that keeping costs down is an important part of attracting a broad
audience, especially graduate students, from multiple fields and hence
will be given specific consideration when comparing different
proposals. 

Please send proposals to Susan Davies, sdd@webscience.org. We would also
appreciate an early notification of your intention of responding to this
CFP so that we know roughly how many proposals to expect.  

With best regards, 

Dame Prof. Dr. Wendy Hall 
also on behalf of the WebSci steering committee

Received on Thursday, 10 March 2011 21:53:44 UTC