From: WEBIST Secretariat To: aomicini@deis.unibo.it Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:12:46 -0500 Subject: CFP WEBIST 2012 - Int'l Conf. on Web Information Systems and Technologies CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST 2012 Website: http://www.webist.org April 18 - 21, 2012 Porto, Portugal Sponsored by INSTICC INSTICC is Member of WfMC and OMG Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index) Dear Andrea Omicini, The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2012) steering committee cordially invites you to submit a paper to the WEBIST-2012 Conference, to be held in Porto, Portugal. The deadline for paper submission is November 24th, 2011. The WEBIST program will include a number of Keynote Lectures to be delivered by distinguished world-class researchers. Please see below. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and CD-ROM support. Additionally, a selection of the best papers of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag. DKVD All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.webist.org/BestPaperAward.aspx). Please check further details at the WEBIST 2012 conference web site (http://www.webist.org). There you will find detailed information about the conference structure and its main topic areas. This conference is co-located with CSEDU 2012 (4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - http://www.csedu.org/) and CLOSER 2012 (2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - http://closer.scitevents.org/). Registration to WEBIST will enable free attendance to any sessions of CSEDU and CLOSER 2012 as a non-speaker. Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose a workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please send a proposal to the WEBIST secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea. Should you have any question or suggestions please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Joao Teixeira WEBIST Secretariat Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 184 Fax: +44 203 300 8817 Email: webist.secretariat@insticc.org WEBIST Website: http://www.webist.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: November 24, 2011 Authors Notification (regular papers): January 27, 2012 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 16, 2012 Conference date: 18-21 April, 2012 Location: Porto, Portugal TOPIC AREAS: AREA 1: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY - Web Services and Web Engineering - Web Programming - XML and data management - Web Security and Privacy - Authentication and Access Control - System Integration - Databases and Datawarehouses - Distributed and Parallel Applications - Protocols and Standards AREA 2: WEB INTERFACES AND APPLICATIONS - Searching and Browsing - Web Geographical Information Systems - Ontology and the Semantic Web - Metadata and Metamodeling - User Modeling - Personalized Web Sites and Services - Multimedia and User interfaces - Accessibility issues and Technology - Usability and Ergonomics - Portal strategies AREA 3: SOCIETY, E-BUSINESS AND E-GOVERNMENT - e-Business and e-Commerce - Knowledge Management - Web 2.0 and Social Networking Controls - Social Networks and Organizational Culture - Communities of practice - Communities of interest - Social and Legal Issues - e-Government - B2B, B2C and C2C - e-Payment AREA 4: WEB INTELLIGENCE - Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Data Mining - Learning User Profiles - Web Site Classification - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation - Computational Intelligence on the Web - Web Site Navigation Support Systems - User-Centric Systems - Privacy and Confidentiality AREA 5: MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Mobile Navigation and Assistance - Context Aware Media Tagging - Context Awareness - Context Detection - Indoor Navigation and Assistance - Mobile Social Network Interaction - Mobile Social Network Streaming - Social Network Awareness - Mobile Media Sharing Systems - Mobile Instant Messaging KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dave Cliff, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (not yet complete) CONFERENCE CHAIR: Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR: Karl-Heinz Krempels, RWTH Aachen University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Please check the program committee members list at http://www.webist.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx ----------------------------------------------------------------- To SUBSCRIBE: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/reg.Asp?a=47SD99PMFPGDD9J9979K7KG&b=MNLBP8PNJMLXKZUKX ----------------------------------------------------------------- To FORWARD: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/fwd.asp?a=47SD99PMFPGDD9J9979K7KG&b=MNLBP8PNJMLXKZUKX&t=66662 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/us.asp?a=47SD99PMFPGDD9J9979K7KG&b=MNLBP8PNJMLXKZUKX ---------------------------------------------------