internet-conf 2009 - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2009

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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd Call): 21 September 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2009
Rome, Italy, 19 - 22 November 2009
(http://www.internet-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Daniel Schwabe, Professor, Department of Informatics, Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2009 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 arisen. 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 donâ?™t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in other selected Journals.

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

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

Web 2.0
- Collaborative Systems
- Social Networks
- Folksonomies
- Enterprise Wikis and Blogging
- Mashups and Web Programming
- Tagging and User Rating Systems
- Citizen Journalism


Semantic Web and XML
- Semantic Web Architectures
- Semantic Web Middleware
- Semantic Web Services
- Semantic Web Agents
- Ontologies
- Applications of Semantic Web
- Semantic Web Data Management
- Information Retrieval in Semantic Web

Applications and Uses
- e-Learning
- e-Commerce / e-Business
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Procurement
- e-Society
- Digital Libraries
- Web Services/SaaS
- Application Interoperability
- Web-based multimedia technologies

Services, Architectures and Web Development
- Wireless Web
- Mobile Web
- Cloud/Grid Computing
- Web Metrics
- Web Standards
- Internet Architectures
- Network Algorithms
- Network Architectures
- Network Computing
- Network Management
- Network Performance
- Content Delivery Technologies
- Protocols and Standards
- Traffic Models

Research Issues
- Web Science
- Digital Rights Management
- Bioinformatics
- Human Computer Interaction and Usability
- Web Security and Privacy
- Online Trust and Reputation Systems
- Data Mining
- Information Retrieval
- Search Engine Optimization

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (2nd Call): 21 September 2009
- Notification to Authors (2nd Call): 16 October 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd Call): Until 30 October 2009
- Late Registration (2nd Call): After 30 October 2009
- Conference: Rome, Italy, 19 to 22 November 2009

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Rome, Italy.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2009
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat-AT-internet-conf.org
Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Co-Chairs
Bebo White, Stanford University, USA
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Conference Chair
Pedro IsaÃ?as, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events Applied Computing 2009 (http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 19-21 November 2009 and CELDA 2009 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 20-22 November 2009

* Registered participants in the WWW/Internet conference may attend the Applied Computing and CELDA conferencesâ?™ sessions free of charge.