CFP Hypertext 2009

Hypertext 2009

The Twenty-First ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

http://www.ht2009.org/

June 29th - July 1st, 2009, Torino, Italy


SCOPE
The ACM Hypertext Conference is the main venue for high quality
peer-reviewed research on "linking." The Web, the Semantic Web, the Web 2.0,
and Social Networks are all manifestations of the success of the link. The
Hypertext Conference provides the forum for all research concerning links:
their semantics, their presentation, the applications, as well as the
knowledge that can be derived from their analysis and their effects on
society.

Hypertext 2008, held in Pittsburgh, was a real success. The number of
submissions and attendees was up, a successful Student Research Competition
took place, and a rejuvenated social linking track added new ideas and
connections to the traditional core of the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
* Technical tracks paper submission deadline: February 2nd, 2009
* Notification to authors: March 16th, 2009
* Camera-ready (final papers to ACM): April 6th, 2009

LOCATION AND DATES
Hypertext 2009 will be held from June 29th to July 1st at the Villa Gualino
Convention Center, on the hills overlooking Torino. The capital of the
Piedmont region, Torino lies at the foot of the
Alps, the majestic mountains that hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics. First the
capital of the Kingdom of Italy, then one of the European centers of
baroque, today Torino is a dynamic city known for its industry, art and
culture, sports, research and education, and cuisine.

The timing of Hypertext 2009 provides an excellent opportunity to visit
Italy in conjunction with the International Conference on User Modeling,
Adaptation, and Personalization in Trento (UMAP 2009 - http://umap09.fbk.eu/),
and the International Workshop and Conference on Network Science in Venice
(NetSci 2009 - http://www.netsci09.net/).

PROGRAM
Hypertext 2009 will feature two stellar keynote speakers: Lada Adamic
(University of Michigan) is a noted scholar of social networking and the
winner of the 2008 Engelbart Award; Ricardo Baeza-Yates is Vice-President of
Yahoo! Research for Europe and Latin America, leading the labs in Spain,
Chile, and Israel. In the conference technical program, professionals from
academia, industry, and the media will present innovative ideas and tools
exploiting the broad range of links increasingly connecting people,
information, communities, and structures. Research topics will be organized
into three tracks:

track 1. Information Structure and Presentation (Chairs: Peter Brusilovsky
and Cristina Gena)

track 2. People, Resources, and Annotations (Chairs: Andreas Hotho and
Vittorio Loreto)

track 3. Hypertext and Community (Chairs: Mark Bernstein and Antonio Pizzo)


TRACK 3: HYPERTEXT AND COMMUNITY
Chairs:
* Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc. (UK)
* Antonio Pizzo, University of Torino (Italy)

The Hypertext and Community track will explore, examine, and reflect upon
social cyberculture in electronic media, ranging from literary fiction and
creative scholarship to blog and microblog networks, social sites, games,
auctions, and markets. Topics will include:

* Hypertext literature
* Theory and practice of expression in wikis, weblogs, and social spaces
* Personal journals, weblogs, and social media
* Net art, literary hypertext, interactive fiction, and games
* Behavioral patterns of social linking

For additional information on the track and the Program Committee,

please visit http://www.ht2009.org/track3.php

SUBMISSIONS
Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation, simulation,
analysis, or application. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting
original, not previously published works. Submission categories may include
regular research papers (max 10 pages) discussing mature work, and short
papers (max 5 pages) describing preliminary results of on-going work or
novel thought-provoking ideas.

All submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG
proceedings template
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted
via EasyChair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht2009). Accepted papers will
appear in the Hypertext 2009 Conference Proceedings and also be available
through the ACM Digital Library.

DEMOS AND INDUSTRIAL SESSION
Technical demonstration of new tools and innovative applications of
hypertext are solicited. One-page demo descriptions, including a list of any
required supporting equipment, should be sent to by e-mail to Giancarlo
Ruffo, Demo Chair (ruffo@di.unito.it).

Important Demos Dates:
* March 30th, 2009: Submission of proposals
* April 15th, 2009: Notification to proposers
* June 29th, 2009: Demos day

ORGANIZATION
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation, Torino) and Giancarlo Ruffo
(University of
Torino)

PROGRAM CHAIR: Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)

WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS: Santo Fortunato (ISI Foundation, Torino) and Rossano
Schifanella
(University of Torino)

TREASURER: Roberto Palermo (ISI Foundation, Torino)
*sociopatterns blurb*

The attendees of Hypertext 2009 will also have a chance to experiment with
applications mixing real-world data and on-line data. We will deploy active
RFID tags in the badges of volunteers and we will run a data collection
platform that provides the real-time relations of physical proximity between
the attendees. The data collection and visualization systems will be
provided by the SocioPatterns project (http://www.sociopatterns.org), and
will expose API methods that allow developers to mash up real-world links
between the attendees with other types of linking information from the Web.