DeCentWeb-20: A Decentralised Web Workshop Co-located with Web Conference 2020 Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-21, 2020 |
Conference website | https://adecentweb.org/a-decentralised-web-workshop-2020/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=decentweb19 |
Submission deadline | January 27, 2020 |
[DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 27th January]
The Web is increasingly becoming a centralised story: we rely on large-scale server-side infrastructures to perform intense reasoning, data mining, and query execution, and we are expected to trust the outputs. This kind of centralisation leads to a number of problems, including lock-in effects, lack of user control of their data, limited incentives for interoperability and openness, and the resulting detrimental effects on privacy and innovation. Therefore, we urgently need research and engineering to decentralise the Web once more, aiming for intelligent clients—instead of intelligent servers. Following the success of our previous workshops (DeSemWeb, LD-DL) at both the Web Conference, ISWC, and ESWC, ADecentWeb 2020 focuses on decentralised and client-side applications, and decentralised trust. Our aim is to put different topics on the Web community’s research agenda, which should lead to new inspiration and initiatives to build future decentralised Web applications which put humans first.
Submission Guidelines
We accept the following contributions:
Research papers: Up to 10 pages
Short papers and vision: For presentation of preliminary results and/or visions addressing current issues, relevant questions and/or future directions. Up to 5 pages
Demonstrations: Description of decentralised systems. Describe how it was built, emphasising the importance of decentralisation and the necessity of Semantic Web or Linked Data.
Submissions in pdf should adhere to the ACM format published in the ACM guidelines (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template), selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. Note however, that contrary to the WebConf Research Papers guidelines we do not operate a double-blind review process (no need to anonymise author list). The formatting is required by WebConf organisers for publication in the companion volume of the Web Conference proceedings.
We also strongly encourage authors to submit and publish their contributions according to the Linked Research principles and the Linked Open Research Cloud initiative. For this authors can use dokieli – a decentralised authoring and annotation tooling. Authors may submit either an URL to their paper (in HTML+RDFa, CSS, JavaScript etc.) with supporting files, or an archived zip file including all the material. However, note that in case of acceptance, the paper will need to be formatted in .pdf according to ACM rules described above if the authors wish to see it published in the proceedings.
List of Topics
We consider two major themes around decentralisation: technical and human.
On the technical side, the topics are:
- Neutral and balanced Web architectures
- Decentralised data management
- Decentralised query processing and indexing
- Multi-agent and collaborative systems on top of Web technologies
- Collective Intelligence, including peer production, collaborative, and edge computation
- Privacy and anonymity versus security and transparency
- “Well behaved” systems: technical aspects of trust, policies, governance, compliance, accountability and transparency
- Consensus algorithms and Blockchains
- Web and Internet of things
On the human side, the topics are:
- Computational Social Science: network effect, post-truth, filter bubbles, echo chambers, nudging
- User experience of decentralisation: control, understanding, explanation
- Developer experience of decentralisation: languages, standards, software development tools
- Human and social aspects of privacy and anonymity, and its relationship with security and transparency
- “Well behaved” systems: human and social aspects of trust, policies, governance, compliance, accountability and transparency
- Economics and business models of decentralised systems
- Decentralisation as a mean for inclusion
Committees
Program Committee
TBA
Organizing committee
- Ruben Verborgh - IDLab - Ghent University
- Allan Third - Open University
- Sabrina Kirrane - WU Vienna
- Luis-Daniel Ibáñez - University of Southampton
Venue
Co-Located with the Web Conference 2020 - Taipei 20-24th April 2020
Contact
For questions and enquiries: l(dot)d(dot)ibanez@southampton.ac.uk