CDCGM WISE 2014 - The 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering

WISE is a peer-reviewed International conferences series which has so far established a solid community which aims at high quality research work and it offers the ground for advancing and progressing efforts in Web information systems addressed topics and audiences. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), Poznan, Poland (2009), Hong Kong, China (2010), Sydney, Australia (2011), Paphos, Cyprus (2012) and Nanjing, China (2013). The aim of this 15th edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications.
Objectives
WISE 2014 welcomes all submissions that fall in the domain of Web information systems engineering and topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
Web Information Retrieval
Web Data Models
Web search and information extraction
Web Mining and Web Warehousing
Web engineering, metrics and performance
Deep/Hidden Web
Web-based Business Processes and Web Services
Web-based Enterprise Systems
Web Security and Trust Management
Web Tools and Languages
Visualisation for the Web and Rich Web U
Web-based Applications (e.g., e-Commerce, e-Government, e-earning, etc.)
Social Web models, analysis and mining
Social Networks Computing
Social web and Applications
Web big data techniques and mining
Integration of Web and Internet-connected Objects (IoT)
Semantic Web
Web Agents and Web Intelligence
Linked Open Data
Web Data Integration and Mashups
Mobile Web
Web privacy management
Cloud Computing
Future Internet Architectures and Protocols
Important Dates
7 April 2014: Workshop submission deadline
5 May 2014: Paper submission deadline
19 May 2014: Tutorial submission deadline
30 June 2014: Notification of acceptance
12-14 October 2014: Conference, Workshops & Related Events
Submission Conditions
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. The type of paper (technical/empirical evaluation/experience/exploratory paper) should be indicated in the submission.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WISE 2014 Conference Management system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wise20...
Publication
Accepted papers will be presented at WISE’14 and published in the conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors elected best papers from the conference will be invited to submit an expanded version for publication in the WWW Journal, Springer.
The papers in all the categories should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international program committee.
Organization
WISE 2014 is organized by the Dept. of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. (http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/) and it will be hosted at the MET Hotel (http://www.themethotel.gr), located very close to the historic center of Thessaloniki, 17 km from “Macedonia” airport.
WISE 2014 Conference Chairs
General Chairs
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
Program Committee Chairs
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA
Athena Vakali, Aristotle University, Greece
Industry Program Chairs (tentative)
Shengbo Guo, Samsung Information Systems America, USA
Nikos Laoutaris, Telefonica Research, Spain
Leonidas Kontothanasis, Google Research, USA
Demo Co-Chairs
Srdjan Krco, Ericsson/ Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia
Joao Fernandes, Alexandra Institute, Denmark
Tutorial and Panel Co-Chairs
Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Evimaria Terzi, Boston University, USA
WISE Challenge Program Chairs
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China
Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
Grigorios Tsoumakas, Aristotle University, Greece
Workshops Co-Chairs
Barbara Catania, University of Genoa, Italy
Armin Haller, CSIRO, Australia
Publication Chair
Xue Li, University of Queensland, Australia
Local Organizing Committee Chairs
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University, Greece
Eleftherios Angelis, Aristotle University, Greece
Publicity Co-Chairs
Fang Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Roger Whitaker, Cardiff University, UK
George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
WISE Society Representative
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
Web and Social Media Master
Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University, Greece