WEB TECHNOLOGIES
http://www.cs.unibo.it/sacwt09/

a Track of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/

March 8 - 12, 2009 - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

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Call for Papers
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* Aims and scope

With the advent of new powerful and exciting concepts, protocols and
languages, such as Web Services, Semantic Web, Ajax, etc., Web-related
technologies are becoming more and more pervasive and powerful. They
lay the ground to novel kinds of applications and application
frameworks, such as Service Oriented Architectures or Web 2.0
applications, and an increasing number of critical applications make
use of them. At the same time Web applications evolve. They are not
just the easiest path to zero client install software but are becoming
the founding elements of an emerging class of ubiquitous software
systems that foster the evolution of new cooperation paradigms among
people. Novel approaches and techniques, new tools and frameworks are
needed to address the increasing complexity of these applications.

This track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from
industry and academia working on practical and foundational aspects
related to Web technologies and existing technologies that in the Web
framework have found new and unexpected application fields. We seek
original contributions that are mainly focused on (but not necessarily
limited to) the following aspects related to Web-technologies:

* Web services (Service Oriented Architectures,
Web services orchestration, semantic Web services, ...)
* (Process-aware) Cooperation on the Web
(Social Networks and Web 2.0,
Business Process Management and Social Networking)
* (Process-aware) Web Information Systems
* Web engineering
* Semantic-enhanced Web applications
* Web Metrics, Monitoring and Analysis
* (Wireless) Mobile Web
* Performance, scalability and quality of service on the Web
* Web searching
* Markup Languages and XML-related technologies
* Emerging Web technologies

* Proceedings and Post-Proceedings

Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages
and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2009
proceedings and in the Digital Library.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended
version of their work to contribute to a special issue of the Journal
of Web Engineering - http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/jwe/ -
(pending agreement).

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Paper Submission
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will
be considered. This includes three categories of submissions:
1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative
computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business,
government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful
technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will
be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three
referees. The accepted papers in all categories will be published in
the ACM SAC 2009 proceedings.

Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or postscript format via
the eCMS web site at http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2009/
Submissions must adhere to the template available at:
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/downloads09.htm

Please note: neither hardcopy nor fax submissions will be accepted.
Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper
formats such as letter and DIN A4. Please use a Postscript previewer
such as Ghostview to check the portability of Postscript documents.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of
the paper, and self reference should be in the third person. This is to
facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first
page without the author's information.

The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using
the ACM format (guidelines will be given on the SAC website). Accepted
full papers should not exceed 5 pages in a double column format (with
the option, at additional expense of USD 80 per page, to add three more
pages). Accepted poster papers will be published as extended 2-page
abstracts in the symposium proceedings.

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Relevant Dates
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Aug 16, 2008: Submission of papers (*strict deadline*)
Oct 11, 2008: Notification of acceptance/rejection
Oct 25, 2008: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers

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People
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* Track chairs

Davide Rossi - rossi[at]cs.unibo.it, Universit� di Bologna - Italy
Fabio Vitali - fabio[at]cs.unibo.it, Universit� di Bologna - Italy