Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017): Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

ISSN 2334-0770 (Online)
ISSN 2162-3449 (Print)
ISBN 978-1-57735-788-9
828 pp., references, index, illus.

The Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-17) was held May 15-18, 2017 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  The conference general chair was Derek Ruths. The conference program cochairs were Winter Mason, Alice Marwick, and Sandra González-Bailón. The conference was sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. 

The social and community driven aspects of our digital lives continue to rapidly increase, resulting in transformative behaviors and, significantly, publishing and distributing huge amounts of fascinating data. The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media provides an intellectual hub and a stimulating and inspiring environment for researchers in the computational social sciences who are interested in exploring social phenomena with algorithmic methods and new kinds of data. ICWSM-17 met in Montréal, Québec, Canada. The conference received a total of 372 full paper submissions including 12 data set papers (a new category for 2017), out of which 50 were accepted, yielding a full paper acceptance rate of 13.4 percent. In addition, 65 submissions were accepted as posters, and 3 submissions were accepted as demos.

The Observational Studies through Social Media Workshop (AAAI Technical Report WS-17-16), beginning on page 734, and the News and Public Opinion Workshop (AAAI Technical Report WS-17-17), beginning on page 738, were included in the proceedings, but are not indexed and did not constitute a formal part of the conference proceedings.