Call for Research Track Papers

We invite contributions to the research tracks of The Web Conference 2027 (formerly known as WWW), which is going to be held in Dublin, Ireland on 10th-14th May, 2027.

The Web Conference is the premier conference focused on understanding the current state and the evolution of the Web through the lens of computer science, computational social science, economics, policy, and many other disciplines.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline18 October 2026
Full Paper Submission Deadline25 October 2026
Results Release21 December 2026
Research & Industry Track Paper Rebuttal Period21-31 December 2026
Notification04 January 2027
Research & Industry Track Paper Final Version Deadline31 January 2027
ACM Web Conference in Dublin10-14 May 2027

All submission deadlines are end-of-day in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Submission Guidelines

We will use OpenReview to manage the submissions and reviewing. All listed authors must have an up-to-date OpenReview profile, properly attributed with current and past institutional affiliation and conflict information.

Abstracts and papers can be submitted through the OpenReview link.

Scope

The scope of the conference is the Web and how it has crucially enabled new research and applications. While the Web feeds on and is part of a broader interdisciplinary ecosystem, including technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and many others, it remains a distinct scholarly field, with its own research methods, tools, and challenges.

A typical Web Conference paper should have an explicit focus on at least one of the following:

  • understanding, evaluating, and improving the Web as a technical infrastructure; including core Web technologies, standards, and platforms
  • understanding, evaluating, and improving the Web as a socio-economic system;
  • understanding better the impact of the Web and Web technologies;
  • democratising access to Web content and technologies, making it more accessible, fair, inclusive, and accountable to a wide range of audiences

Relevance

Every submission must clearly state how the work is relevant to the Web and to the track in the first page. Submissions that merely use a Web artifact e.g. a dataset or a Web Application Programmer Interface (API) or a social network – rather than answering a specific Web-related scientific research challenge, are out of scope and will be desk-rejected.

Tracks

Our research interests are organized in the following tracks:

  • Brave New Ideas for the Future of the Web
  • Web Economics and Digital Society
  • Graph Algorithms and Modeling for the Web
  • Responsible Web
  • Search, Recommendation, and Retrieval-Augmented AI
  • Security and Privacy
  • Semantics and Knowledge
  • Social Networks and Social Media
  • Web Infrastructure and Agentic Systems 
  • User Modeling, Personalization and Agentic Web Users
  • Web Mining, Multimedia and Multilingual Content Analysis
  • Evaluation, Human Computation, and Resources

Deadlines

The submission deadlines are strict and no extensions, regardless of circumstances, will be allowed. Placeholder/dummy abstracts are forbidden.

Authorship

The ACM has an authorship policy stating who can be considered an author in a submission as well as the use of generative AI tools. Every person named as the author of a paper must have contributed substantially to the work described in the paper and/or to the writing of the paper and must take responsibility for the entire content of a paper.

Maximum Authorship

The number of submissions allowed per author is limited to 7 (seven) maximum, cumulatively across the research tracks. If more than 7 papers are submitted with the same person listed as a (co-)author, the additional papers submitted after the first 7 by submission ID, will be desk-rejected after the full paper submission deadline.

Authorship Changes

The full list of authors, including the ordering, must be finalized at the point of submission. There cannot be any addition, removal, or reordering of authors after the abstract submission deadline. The only changes allowed are the correction of spelling mistakes or new affiliations.

Authorship means accountability for the work. As such, Large Language Models (LLMs) (e.g., ChatGPT) cannot be considered authors. You can use LLMs to rephrase your text, but you are solely responsible for the text in the paper.

Anonymity

The review process will be double-blind. The submitted document should omit any author names, affiliations, or other identifying information. This may include, but is not restricted to acknowledgments, self-citations, references to prior work by the author(s), and so on. Please use the third-person to identify your own prior work. You may explicitly refer in the paper to organisations that provided datasets, hosted experiments, or deployed solutions and tools.

Formatting Requirements

Submissions must be in English, in double-column format, and must adhere to the ACM template and format (also available in Overleaf). Word users may use the Word Interim Template and the recommended setting for LaTeX is:

    \documentclass[sigconf, anonymous, review]{acmart}.

Submissions must be a single PDF file: 8 (eight) pages as main paper, with additional pages for references and an optional Appendix (that might contain details on reproducibility, proofs, pseudo-code, etc), up to a maximum of 12 (twelve) pages in total. The first 8 pages should be self-contained, since reviewers are not required to read past that.

Originality and Concurrent Submissions

Submissions must present original work—this means that papers under review at or published/accepted to any peer-reviewed conference / journal with published proceedings cannot be submitted. Submissions that have been previously presented orally, as posters or abstracts-only, or in non-archival venues with no formal proceedings, including workshops or PhD symposia without proceedings, are allowed. Authors may submit anonymized work that is already available as a preprint (e.g., on arXiv or SSRN) without citing it. The ACM has a strict against plagiarism, misrepresentation, and falsification that applies to all publications.

Ethical Use of Data and Informed Consent

Authors are encouraged to include a section on the ethical use of data and/or informed consent of research subjects in their paper, when appropriate. You and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects (posted in 2021). Please ensure all authors are familiar with these policies.

Please consult the regulations of your institution(s) indicating when a review by an Institutional Ethics Review Board (IRB) is needed. If your work has been reviewed by an IRB, please indicate this in the paper, providing approval reference numbers where appropriate. Failure to comply with the above-mentioned policy on Human Participants and Subjects will lead to a rejection of the paper.

Submissions that do not follow these guidelines or do not view or print properly, will be desk-rejected.

Reviewing Process

Reviewing

Each paper is submitted to one of the tracks listed above. Papers that do not conform to the conference scope or submission guidelines will be desk-rejected by the track chairs.  Due to the expected volume of submissions, the organisers will ask authors to join our review committee. It is expected that authors will review papers allocated in a timely and fair manner. Any author who ignores or does not complete their reviews on time will face consequences, up to and including, desk rejection.

Rebuttal

Authors will have the chance to provide a response to the reviews during a rebuttal period. After the end of the rebuttal period, reviewers, together with senior PC members and track chairs, will consider the authors’ responses to inform acceptance decisions. There will be no interactive rebuttal between authors and reviewers.

Decision

A range of factors including originality, technical merit, potential impact, quality of execution, quality of presentation, related work, reproducibility of results, and ethics, will be used by the ACs and SACs to make a recommendation. The PC Chairs will make the final decisions.

Conflict of Interest (COI) Policy

All authors and reviewers must declare conflicts of interest in EasyChair. You must declare a domain conflict for employment at the same institution or company, regardless of geography/location, currently or in the last 12 months. You must declare a personal conflict when the following associations exist:

  • candidate for employment at the same institution or company
  • co-author on book/paper or co-PI on a funded grant/research proposal in the last 24 months
  • active collaborator
  • family relationship or close personal relationship
  • graduate advisee/advisor relationship, regardless of time elapsed since graduation
  • deep personal animosity

In general, we expect authors, PC, the organizing committee, and other volunteers to adhere to ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy as well as the ACM’s Code of Ethics and Profession

Publication and Presentation Policies

Publication

All accepted papers will be allowed the same maximum page length in the proceedings (12 pages, of which 8 are content pages), which will be published by ACM and will be accessible via the ACM Digital Library. Accepted papers will require a further revision to meet the requirements of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers can and should include all information to identify authors, and should acknowledge any funding received that directly supported the presented research.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you and your co-authors acknowledge that you are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper and other potential penalties.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID so you can complete the publishing process for an accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

Registration

To be included in the proceedings, every accepted paper must be covered by a distinct conference registration, e.g., two papers require two registrations, even if they have overlapping authors. This registration must be Full Conference (5-day) or Main Conference (3-day) registration, at the standard (non-student) in-person rate, payment of which must be completed by the camera-ready deadline. This registration requirement applies universally, regardless of attendance or presentation mode.

Presentation

Every accepted paper should be presented at the conference. There will be two forms of presentation:

  • Oral Presentation
    Among the accepted papers, a subset will be selected for oral presentation. Generally we expect oral presentations to be in-person, but may allow a few online presentations by authors with significant travel difficulties.
  • Poster Presentation
    All papers will be asked to produce a poster on-site. An e-copy will appear on Whova.

Reproducibility

Authors are strongly encouraged to make their code and data publicly available after the review process. We are encouraging the (optional) use of the “Artifacts Available” badge in ACM’s Digital Library. If you release any code, dataset, or similar artifact to accompany your paper, and host it in a publicly available, archival repository for research artifacts that provides a Document Object Identifier (DOI), you are welcome to apply for this badge. A special subcommittee will check the artifacts of all accepted papers for availability and relatedness to the paper after the acceptance notification.

ACM Open Access

The ACM Open program is designed to help institutions actively support Open Access publishing. ACM is proud to share that ~3,000 institutions worldwide are already participating , covering approximately 76% of all ACM conference papers. To be included in ACM Open, the corresponding author must be affiliated with a participating institution. A list of all ACM Open participating institutions can be found here. For APC-eligible articles, including research papers, short papers, and survey papers, where none of the authors are currently affiliated with a participating institution, an APC will be required.

To support authors and institutions that are still adapting to ACM’s Open Access publishing model, the ACM Council has approved subsidised APC rates for 2027. Authors whose institutions are not yet participating in ACM Open will pay a discounted rate of $500 (ACM/SIG Members) or $750 (Non-Members). We encourage authors to help bring their institutions into ACM Open during 2027, as ACM’s temporary APC subsidy is scheduled to end after this year.

Please note that ACM is not lowering APC pricing. Rather, ACM is providing a one-year subsidy for 2027 that reduces APC pricing for authors whose institutions are not yet participating in ACM Open. 2027 will be the final year of this subsidy and in the future APC pricing will be based on the actual cost of publishing and hosting articles in the ACM Digital Library. It is possible that APC prices will go up or down in the future.

ACM supports a fully Open Access future. OA papers get 2–3x more downloads and 70% more citations. Please encourage your authors to support this effort by paying APCs and by urging their institutions to join ACM Open.