Torino (Italy) to host the 20th ACM Hypertext and
Hypermedia Conference in June 2009
Ciro Cattuto
ISI Foundation
and
Filippo Menczer
Indiana University
and
Giancarlo Ruffo
University of Torino
The city of Torino, Italy, is to host for the first time the ACM Hypertext and Hypermedia
Conference in 2009. Hypertext 2009, sponsored by ACM and SIGWEB, will be held from June
29th to July 1st at the Villa Gualino Convention Centre (www.villagualino.net), on the hills
overlooking Torino. Professionals from academia, industry and the media will present innovative
ideas and tools exploiting the wide range of links increasingly connecting people, information,
communities, and structures. Hypertext 2009 has been scheduled immediately after the next User
Modeling Conference in Trento (Italy), and researchers will have a great opportunity to attend
both events with limited logistic effort.
DOI: 10.1145/1408940.1408942
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1408940.1408942
The ACM Hypertext Conference is the main venue for high quality peer-reviewed research
on linking. The Web, the Semantic Web, the Web 2.0, and Social Networks are all manifestations of the success of the link. The Hypertext Conference provides the forum for all
research concerning links: their semantics, their presentation, the applications, as well as
the knowledge that can be derived from their analysis and their effects on society. Hypertext 2008, held in Pittsburgh, was a real success. The number of submissions and attendees
was up, a successful Student Research Competition took place, and a rejuvenated social
linking track added a lot of new ideas and connections to the traditional core of the conference.
Hypertext 2009 will explore exciting new developments in social linking while continuing
in the tradition of the conference. It will present papers, tutorials, and demos in all areas of
hypertext, hypermedia, and social networks, including but not limited to traditional areas
related to hypertexts and the Web, as well as emerging linking technologies and analytical
frameworks, such as adaptive hypermedia, recommender systems, and complex networks
models. Among the keynote speakers at Hypertext 2009 will be Lada Adamic (University
of Michigan), winner of the 2008 Engelbart Award and noted scholar of social networking.
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Cattuto, Menczer, and Ruffo
Professionals from academia, industry, and the media will present innovative ideas and
tools exploiting the broad range of links increasingly connecting people, information, communities, and structures. Filippo Menczer (Indiana University) will act as program chair
for Hypertext 2009. Research topics will be organized into three tracks:
—Information structure and presentation, chaired by Peter Brusilovsky (University of
Pittsburgh) and Cristina Gena (Univesity of Torino), will solicit papers from the hypertext research areas that have been traditionally represented at the conference.
—Hypertext and community, chaired by Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems, Inc.), will
focus on analyses of social, cultural, and community aspects of hypertext including
blogs and online social networks.
—People, resources and annotations, chaired by Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel)
and Vittorio Loreto (Sapienza University of Rome), will present work in the emerging
areas of social media research such as folksonomies and other Web 2.0-inspired collaboration and recommendation paradigms.
Hypertext 2009 will be co-chaired by Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation) and Giancarlo Ruffo
(University of Torino), and it will be held from June 29th to July 1st, 2009 at the
Villa Gualino Convention Centre (www.villagualino.net), on the beautiful hills overlooking
Torino. Torino, the capital of the Piedmont region, lies at the foot of the Alps, the majestic
mountains that hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics. First the capital of the Kingdom of Italy,
then one of the European centres of baroque, today Torino is a dynamic city known for
its industry (Fiat and Lancia car makers are headquartered there); art and culture (its 40+
museums include the world’s largest Egyptian collection outside of Cairo); sports (home of
Juventus FC); research and education (including the University of Torino, the Polytechnic,
and the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation); and cuisine (“agnolotti”, “bagna
càuda”, world-class wines Barolo and Barbaresco, and solid chocolate, that was born here
in the 18th century).
Hypertext 2009 is sponsored by ACM and SIGWEB, and co-sponsored by Eastgate Systems, Inc. (http://www.eastgate.com/), the TAGora European Project (www.tagora-project.eu),
the Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation (www.isi.it), and the University of
Torino (www.unito.it). For more information, please visit www.sigweb.org/ht09.
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