Call for papers
We invite submissions relevant to the theme of the workshop, including, but not limited to:
- Studies on substantive questions that go beyond the online world
- Observational studies that leverage offline data
- Experiments that include offline data
- Methodologies for combining insights from diverse datasets
- Benchmarking online studies through offline data
- Generalizability of online studies to the offline world
Examples of offline data that may be combined with online data include but are not limited to:
- Human mobility/Migration
- Neighborhood characteristics data
- Health records
- Census data
- Educational data
- Poverty/unemployment data
- International trade
- Financial data
- Consumer indices
- Consumer behavior data
- Elections data
Important Dates
- Paper due date: Apr 22, 2018
- Author notification date: May 15, 2018
- Workshop date: June 25, 2018
Best Paper Award
There will be an award for the best paper among all contributed submissions, as judged by the workshop’s program committee. Authors of the best paper will receive a $300 cash prize.
Thanks to Microsoft for supporting the workshop and making this award possible!
Submission Guidelines
Format
We encourage submissions of extended abstracts and position papers that describe work-in-progress or accepted papers at top conferences/journals. All authors are required to use the AAAI Author Kit to format their papers. The author kit is available at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit18.zip. Submissions should be 2-4 pages. Accepted papers will be presented in the format of either posters or talks. The accepted papers will not be archived.
Submission Link
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair.
Participation
This workshop features group activity in addition to invited talks and paper/poster presentations. We encourage interested participants to send us a paragraph by June 1, 2018 to indicate their expertise and research interests, such as “qualitative”, “quantitative”, “education”, and “information diffusion”, and questions for a fishbowl-style discussion. All questions about submissions should be emailed to beyondonlinedata18@gmail.com.