[Air-l] CFP: WWW/Internet 2003

[David dos Santos]

** Apologies for cross posting ** 


-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 14 April 2003 (for all contributions) -- 

              IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2003 
                  5-8 November 2003  -  ALGARVE, PORTUGAL 
                      (http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003) 

* Conference background and goals 
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2003 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees. 

* Format of the Confernce 
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.  The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book. The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet. 

* Types of submissions 
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. 

* Topics related to e-Society are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: 
- Accessibility 
- Adaptive Web Systems 
- Collaboration 
- Computer-Mediated Communication 
- Data Mining 
- Database Planning and Development 
- Digital Libraries and E-Publishing 
- Distributed and Parallel Applications 
- E-Business and E-Commerce 
- E-Government 
- E-Learning 
- Electronic Data Interchange 
- Quality, Evaluation and Assessment 
- Extensible Languages 
- Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet 
- Groupware 
- Human Computer Interaction 
- Hypermedia 
- Information Architectures 
- Information Visualization 
- Intelligent Agents 
- Interfaces 
- Internet Services 
- Languages 
- Metadata 
- Multimedia 
- Performance Issues 
- Personalized Web Sites and Services 
- Portal strategies 
- Protocols and Standards 
- Searching and Browsing 
- Security Issues 
- Semantic Web 
- Storage Issues 
- System Integration 
- Teaching and Learning Strategies 
- Technology Innovation and Competitiveness 
- Technology Management 
- Technology Strategies 
- Tele-Work 
- WWW/Internet Applications 
- WWW/Internet Case studies 
- WWW/Internet Impacts 
- Web Engineering 
- Web Personalization 
- Wireless Applications 
- Ubiquitous Computing 
- Usability 
- User Modelling 
- Virtual Communities 
- Virtual Reality 
- XML 

* Important Dates: 
- Submission Deadline: 14 April 2003 
- Notification to Authors: 13 June 2003 
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 27 June 2003 
- Late Registration: After 27 June 2003 
- Conference: Algarve, 5 to 8 November 2003 

* Conference Location 
The conference will be held in Algarve, Portugal. 

* Secretariat 
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2003 
Rua Tomas Ribeiro, 45 1-Dto 
1050-225 Lisbon, Portugal 
E-mail: secretariat at iadis.org          
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003 

* Scientific Committee 

Conference Chair 
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal 

Program Chair 
Nitya Karmakar, University of Western Sydney, Australia 

Committee Members: * 
Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria 
Andry Rakotonirainy, University of Queensland, Australia 
Anne-Marie Vercoustre, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia 
Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA 
Christof Fetzer, AT&T Research Labs, USA 
Donald Needham, US Naval Academy, USA 
Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand 
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy 
Frank Wang, London Metropolitan University, UK 
Gabriele Kotsis, University of Linz, Austria 
Guido Wirtz, University of Münster, Germany 
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany 
Heidi Ellis, Rensselaer at Hartford, USA 
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA 
James Thong, H.K. University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 
Jan Damsgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 
Jinlin Chen, University Of Pittsburgh, USA 
José Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, UK 
Kai Jakobs, Technical University of Aachen, Germany 
Karin Hogstedt, AT&T Labs - Research, USA 
Karthick Rajamani, IBM Austin Research Lab, USA 
Katy Borner, Indiana University, US 
Klaus Turowski, Uni Augsburg, Germany 
Kristian Hammond, Northwestern University, USA 
Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy 
Luminita Vasiu, Middlesex University, UK 
Maggie McPherson, University of Sheffield, UK 
Mark Gaynor, Harvard University, USA 
Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 
Mathias Bauer, German Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany 
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait 
Melissa Lee Price, Staffordshire University, UK 
Michael Welzl, University of Innsbruck, Austria 
Miguel Ángel Sicilia Urban, Carlos III University, Spain 
Mikko Siponen, University of Oulu, Finland 
Nicola Henze, Institut Für Technische Informatik, Germany 
Pascal Felber, Institut EURECOM, France 
Peter Martini, University of Bonn, Germany 
Petrie Coetzee, Technikon Pretoria, South Africa 
Piet Ribbers, Tilburg University, Netherlands 
Ram Rajamony, IBM Austin Research Lab, USA 
Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden, USA 
Steven A. Demurjian, The University of Connecticut, USA 
Thomas Meuser, University of Applied Sciences Hochschule Niederrhein, Germany 
Tiffany A. Koszalka, Syracuse University, USA 
Tim Weitzel, Frankfurt University, Germany 
Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway 
Umberto Martini, University of Trento, Italy 
Vitorino Ramos, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal 

* list not yet complete