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 2026 on July 1, 2026, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The award will be given to a paper that has been published in The 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 the WWW'2014 conference, held in Seoul, South Korea. A list of the previous award winners is available online.

This year, we will focus on papers that were published in the research track of the conference proceedings in 2016 or before, and which demonstrated a lasting significant scientific, technical, industrial, or social impact over the years.

Important Dates

• Nomination deadline: October 15, 2025
• Conference: June 29 – July 3, 2026

All submission deadlines are end-of-day in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Submission Site

To nominate a paper, please upload it to EasyChair www2026-tracks (select Seoul Test of Time award track) on or before October 15, 2025.

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.

Papers eligible for nomination are those that were published in the research track of The Web Conference series (formerly WWW) proceedings in 2016 or before, and which have demonstrated lasting significant scientific, technical, industrial, or social impact over the years.

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
• Ravi Kumar – Google Research, USA
• Lihong Li – Amazon, USA
• Marc Najork – Google DeepMind, USA (Chair)
• David Pennock – Rutgers University, USA
• Barbara Poblete – Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Fabian M. Suchanek – Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
• Gerhard Weikum – Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
• Ryen White – Microsoft Research, USA
• Yi Zhang – University of California Santa Cruz, USA
• Min Zhang – Tsinghua University, China

Contact

Please contact tot-www2026@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