Co-located with ECIR 2024 in Glasgow on 28 March 2024
The First International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS) aims to promote and discuss ideas and approaches to open up the web search ecosystem so that small research groups and young startups can leverage the web to foster an open and diverse search market. Therefore, the workshop has two calls that support collaborative and open web search engines:
- for scientific contributions, and
- for open source implementation
The first call aims for scientific contributions to building collaborative search engines, including collaborative crawling, collaborative search engine deployment, collaborative search engine evaluation, and collaborative use of the web as a resource for researchers and innovators. The second call aims to gather open-source prototypes and gain practical experience with collaborative, cooperative evaluation of search engines and their components using the TIREx Information Retrieval Evaluation Platform.
Important Dates
- January 24, 2024 (optional): Early Bird Submissions of Software and Papers. You receive early notifications; Accepted contributions get a free WOWS T-Shirt
- February 14, 2024: Deadline Submissions of Software and Papers
- March 13, 2024: Peer review notification
- March 20, 2024: Camera-ready papers submission
- March 28, 2024: Workshop (co-located with ECIR 2024 in Glasgow)
More information at: https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2024/