Call for Contributions
Dear Experts, Supporters and
Friends of Open Internet Search
We are pleased to call for your contributions to the 4th international Open Search Symposium #ossym2022. The hybrid conference will take place online and at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, from 10 to 12 October 2022.
Formats and submission of contributions
We are calling for your active participation with scientific papers, sharing of practical experiences or by introducing concepts and positions. Full papers and abstracts presented at the #ossym2022 will be published open access in online proceedings (including DOIs and ISBN) following the event.
Please submit an extended abstract (1 page) or a full paper (4-6 pages) for any contribution and oral presentation you are planning at the symposium.
All abstracts and papers have to be submitted at https://indico.cern.ch/e/OSSYM-2022 using the templates specified there.
Submission of abstracts/full papers is now open until June 6, 2022.
We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you in October!
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Michael Granitzer, University Passau, Germany
Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Christine Plote, Open Search Foundation, Germany
Stefan Voigt, Open Search Foundation, Germany
Andreas Wagner, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Important Dates
Call for Contributions – Submission of abstracts/presentations
… open now until June 6, 2022
Information about contribution acceptance
August 1, 2022
Registration for #ossym2022
… opens June 15, 2022, closes September 30, 2022 (or if max. number of participants is exceeded)
International Open Search Symposium #ossym2022
October 10-12, 2022
Online publication of proceedings
Winter 2022/2023
Topics of #ossym2022 include interdisciplinary aspects of Open Search:
technical, ethical, legal, economic, awareness, education
- Future open search paradigms and concepts
- Challenges for an open, diverse and high qualitative future information access
- Search quality
- Ethical challenges and search ethics
- Eductional aspects and search literacy
- Content curation and censorship
- Beyond SEO: Vertical search, search interfaces
- Beyond tracking: Search engine advertising (SEA) and business models in an open search world
- Innovative search and web-index applications like research data retrieval, search for crisis management, search as as service, etc.
- Alternative search interfaces and UX
- Alternative search engines and services
- Green computing and sustainability – opportunities of open search infrastructures
- Social challenges
- Legal aspects of open search
- Economic aspects and dimension of open search
- Cooperative, distributed and efficient crawling and storage technologies
- Distributed and sustainable web search infrastructures
- Web Science, Web mining, content retrieval and Web analysis
- Performance in web search, open source technology in web search, accessible search
- Security and trust in open and distributed search ecosystems
- Machine learning for search and retrieval
- Georeferencing of web content and geospatial search/analysis
- Utilizing web-data in data-centric AI’s
Programme Committee
(Confirmed committee members. The list is constantly updated.)
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Tilo Balke L3S Research Center, Braunschweig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Alexander Decker Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany
Prof. Dr. Kai Erenli University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. Arjen P. de Vries Radboud University, Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and GESIS, Germany
Msc. Maria Dimou CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Christian Geminn University Kassel, Germany
Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer University Passau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christian Guetl Graz University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Dr. Andreas Henrich University Bamberg, Germany
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nils Jensen Ostfalia University of Applied Science, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mohammed Kaicer Faculty of Sciences Kenitra, Morocco
Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker University Bremen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and LMU, Munich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski University of Applied Science, Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Jelena Mitrovic University of Passau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl L3S Research Center / Univ. Hannover, Germany
Prof. Dr. Engelbert Niehaus University Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
Dr. Alexander Nussbaumer Graz University of Technology, Austria
Dr. Philipp Mayer-Schlegel GESIS, Germany
Prof. Dr. Monica Palmirani Università di Bologna, Italy
Prof. Dr. Martin Potthast Leipzig University, Germany
Prof Tobias Schreck Graz University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Dr. Christin Seifert University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gianmaria Silvello University of Padova, Italy
Dr. Tim Smith CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Benno Stein Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Olivia Tambou Paris Dauphine University, France
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Francesca Tomasi Università di Bologna, Italy
Eng. Marco Verile European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
Dr. Stefan Voigt Open Search Foundation, Germany
Dr. Andreas Wagner CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
