Call for Nominations for the Seoul Test of Time Award

We invite the Web Conference community to submit nominations for the Seoul Test of Time Award, which will be presented at the ACM Web Conference 2027 on May 10-14, 2027 in Dublin, Ireland. The award will be given to a paper that has been published in the ACM Web Conference series, formerly known as WWW.

Inaugurated in 2015, the Seoul Test of Time Award is made possible by the generous contributions of the organizers of 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, held in Seoul, South Korea. A list of the previous award winners is available online.

Eligibility and Conflict of Interest

If you intend to nominate a paper, you should have no conflict of interest with any of the authors of the paper, using the ACM definition of CoI.

Papers eligible for nomination are those that were published in the research track of The Web Conference series (formerly WWW) proceedings in 2017 or before, and which have demonstrated lasting significant scientific, technical, industrial, or social impact over the years.

Submission Site

To nominate a paper, please upload it to EasyChair on or before October 14, 2026 (as usual, the deadline is end-of-day anywhere-on-earth).

Submission Guidelines

When completing the submission form on EasyChair, please follow these guidelines:

Address for Correspondence

The nominator should enter their own details in that field.

Author Information

The nominator should enter their own details in that field.

Title and Abstract

The nominator should enter the title of the nominated paper in the Title field and use the abstract field for their supporting case. The case should include:

  • Evidence of significant scientific, technical, industrial, and social impact
  • Citation counts from DBLP or Google Scholar (supported by a link)
  • Indication of whether the nominator would like their identity to remain confidential

Keywords

The nominator should select at least three keywords (one per line) characterizing the submission.

No COI Declaration

The nominator must check the checkbox to confirm the absence of a Conflict of Interest with all authors of the nominated paper.

Paper Upload

Upload the PDF of the nominated paper as it appeared in the conference proceedings.

Selection Committee

  • Andrei Broder (Google Research, USA)
  • Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
  • Joseph Konstan (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Lihong Li (Meta, USA)
  • Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Marc Najork (Google DeepMind, USA) (chair)
  • Jian Tang (MILA-Quebec AI Institute and HEC Montreal, Canada)
  • Ryen White (Microsoft, USA)
  • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
  • Min Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

Contact

Please contact www2027seoultot@acm.org if you have any questions.

Thank you for your interest in The ACM Web Conference!

Marc Najork on behalf of the Selection Committee