WebSci 2016 - ACM Web Science Conference

The 8th International ACM Web Science Conference 2016 will be held from May 22 to May 25, 2016 in Hannover, Germany and is organized by L3S Research Center. The conference series by the Web Science Trust is following events in Athens, Raleigh, Koblenz, Evanston, Paris, Indiana, and Oxford.
The conference brings together researchers from multiple disciplines, like computer science, sociology, economics, information science, or psychology. Web Science is the emergent study of the people and technologies, applications, processes and practices that shape and are shaped by the World Wide Web. Web Science aims to draw together theories, methods and findings from across academic disciplines, and to collaborate with industry, business, government and civil society, to develop our knowledge and understanding of the Web: the largest socio-technical infrastructure in human history.
Organization
General Chairs
Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz University Hannover & L3S Research Center, Germany
Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Program Chairs
Paolo Parigi, Stanford University, USA
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
Local Chairs
Robert Jäschke, Leibniz University Hannover & L3S Research Center, Germany (Local Chair)
Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany (Finances Chair)
Ujwal Gadiraju, L3S Research Center, Germany (Publicity Chair)
Workshop Chairs
Ingmar Weber, QCRI, Qatar
Bogdan State, Facebook & Stanford, USA
Data Challenge Chairs
Avishek Anand, L3S Research Center, Germany
Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive, USA
Tutorial Chair
Claudia Wagner, GESIS, Germany
Local Organization
Angelika van Agen, L3S Research Center, Germany (Local Arrangements)
Miroslav Shaltev, L3S Research Center, Germany (Infrastructure)