WEBCONF

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to The Web Conference 2018, which corresponds to the 27th International World Wide Web (WWW2018) Conference. For more than two decades, WWW has been the premier venue for researchers, practitioners and students to come together and discuss the latest research and developments related to the Web.

The technical program of this year edition to the conference consists of 11 tracks for refereed research papers, as well as a refereed poster track, an industry track, a demonstration track, and several other co-located tracks and special events. As in previous years, updates and changes were made to ensure that track topics correctly reflect the key research areas of interest to the WWW community.

The research tracks attracted submissions from all 67 countries all over the world. Submissions were rigorously reviewed, with each paper receiving at least three reviews and a meta-review, with many papers receiving four or more reviews, totaling to 4651 reviews. During the discussion phase, PC members, senior PC members and track chairs discussed the reviews in detail. For consistency across tracks, final decisions on papers were made at the face-to-face PC meeting of all track chairs and the PC chairs. Of the 1155 paper submitted to the research tracks, 170 were accepted, leading to the acceptance rate of just below 15%. Additionally, 21 papers were selected for the Industry track, chaired by Freddy Lecue (Accenture) and Natasha Noy (Google).