Welcome to The Workshop on Sustainable AI for the Future Web at The Web Conference 2025!
Call for Papers
Web applications such as social media, e-commerce platforms, and search engines generate vast and diverse datasets that fuel AI advancements, enabling models to learn from real-world, dynamic information. Meanwhile, AI models are increasingly deployed within these web applications. Tools like ChatGPT, DALL·E, and sophisticated recommendation systems have seamlessly integrated into web-based services, delivering highly personalized user experiences, optimizing decision-making processes, and greatly enhancing productivity in areas like customer support, content creation, and data analysis. However, as AI and the web become more deeply intertwined, they also introduce significant challenges in building sustainable AI for the web.
This workshop will explore essential topics at the intersection of AI, sustainability, and the web, focusing on creating AI systems that are robust, energy-efficient, and ethically responsible within web applications. As AI models become increasingly integrated into platforms like social media, e-commerce, and search engines, their reliance on vast amounts of web data raises concerns around data quality, fairness, and computational resource demands. Key topics of discussion include, but are not limited to:
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Sustainable AI Model Development: Methods to reduce the carbon footprint and computational demands of training and deploying AI models on the web.
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Data Integrity and Filtering Mechanism: Strategies to handle the proliferation of low-quality and AI-generated content that risks polluting the web and undermining data quality.
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Security, Robustness, and Fairness: Techniques to improve the resilience of AI systems trained on noisy, diverse web data, ensuring they operate securely and equitably across varied user demographics.
Fast Track for WWW-25 Accepted Paper Submission Deadline: January 26, 2025, AoE
Submit Platform: Openreview
We welcome submissions of papers ranging from 4 to 8 pages as main content, with up to 2 additional pages containing references and an optional appendix. All submissions must be in PDF format and formatted according to the new ACM format published in ACM guidelines (e.g., using the ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf) and selecting the “sigconf” sample. Following the WWW’25 conference submission policy, reviews are double-blind, and author names and affiliations should NOT be listed. Submitted works will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity of writing (and should be in English). For papers that primarily rely on empirical evaluations, the experimental settings and results should be clearly presented and repeatable. We encourage authors to make data and code available publicly when possible.
Accepted papers will be posted on this workshop website. Papers accepted by a workshop can be included in the Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2025, subject to meeting the camera-ready timeline. The authors can also choose not to have their accepted papers appear in the WWW’25 proceedings. This allows authors to submit works that are concurrently under review elsewhere or published. Please send us an email in advance if you would like to include the accepted paper in the official proceeding.
Important Dates
| Submission Open | December 5, 2024 |
| Submission Deadline | January 1, 2025 (AoE) |
| WWW-25 Accepted Paper Fast-Track Submission Deadline | January 26, 2025 (AoE) |
| Decision Notification | January 27, 2025 (AoE) |
| Camera-Ready Deadline | Februray 7, 2025 (AoE) |
| Workshop Date | April 28 AM, 2025 (TBD) |
Schedule
| 9:00 | Start |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Invited Talk 1 |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Invited Talk 2 |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Invited Talk 3 |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Morning tea and poster sessions |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Special session of the Environmental Open Data Challenge |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Paper presentation 1 |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Paper presentation 2 |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Paper presentation 3 |
| 12:00 | Closing |
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Organizers
Chang Xu
The University of Sydney
Yunke Wang
The University of Sydney
Jianyuan Guo
The University of Sydney
Daochang Liu
The University of Western Australia
Minjing Dong
City University of Hong Kong
Yasmeen George
Monash University
Johan Barthélemy
NVIDIA
Yan Liu
University of Southern California
Ling Chen
University of Technology Sydney
Contact
Contact the organizers at workshopsai25@gmail.com.