Models of Trust for the Web (MTW'06)

Workshop Motivation and Goal

"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and facts found on the Web."
Dr. Tim Finin, paraphrasing the well known quotation by Benjamin Disraeli on Statistics

As it gets easier to add information to the web via html pages, wikis, blogs, and other documents, it gets tougher to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate or untrustworthy information. A search engine query usually results in several hits that are outdated and/or from unreliable sources and the user is forced to go through the results and pick what she/he considers the most reliable information based on her/his trust requirements. With the introduction of web services, the problem is further exacerbated as users have to come up with a new set of requirements for trusting web services and web services themselves require a more automated way of trusting each other. Apart from inaccurate or outdated information, we also need to anticipate Semantic Web Spam (SWAM) -- where spammers publish false facts and scams to deliberately mislead users. This workshop is interested in all aspects of enabling trust on the web.

This workshop will bring together researchers and experts from different communities (e.g., Information Systems, Database, Semantic Web, Web Services) interested in topics like trust, provenance, privacy, security, reputation and spam, in order to address current challenges of their application to distributed environments like the Web. The workshop will deliver a state-of-the-art overview, successful research advances in the area as well as guidelines for future research.

Topics

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Call for Papers and Paper Submission

As well as full research papers describing completed research, we welcome position papers describing proposed research, as long as they are well-argued, fully-justified and contain some preliminary results. We also seek demonstration papers outlining practical work in this field.

Submissions must conform to the ACM formatting guidelines for WWW2006 (follow the instructions for "Formatting your Paper") and must not exceed 10 pages for full (research) papers and 5 pages for demo, short or position papers, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Papers should be submitted electronically via the MTW EasyChair page

Important dates:
* Submission deadline: February 15, 2006 (midnight GMT + 1)
* Notification for acceptance: March 10, 2006
* Camera ready due: March 31, 2006

A text version for e-mail distribution is available here: cfpMTW06.txt and a pdf flyer for printing is available here: cfpMTW06.pdf

Camera Ready Papers & Registration

Camera ready papers must conform to the ACM formatting guidelines for WWW2006 (follow the instructions for "Formatting your Paper") and must not exceed 12 pages for full (research) papers and 6 pages for demo, short or position papers, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Papers should be submitted electronically via to mtw06@l3s.de

Registration for the workshop is via the WWW2006 website. For accepted papers, at least one author is expected to participate in the workshop. The organizers reserve the right to withdraw from the proceedings a paper whose authors do not attend the workshop. If you have any questions, please contact one of the organizing committee.

Organizing Committee

Programme Committee