IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2012

Madrid, Spain, 18 - 21 October 2012

(http://www.internet-conf.org/)



* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):

Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP of Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong



* Conference background and goals

The IADIS WWW/Internet 2012 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 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.

The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.



* 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

-EnterpriseWikis 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 (1stcall extension): 29 June 2012

- Notification to Authors (1stcall extension): 30 July 2012

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1stcall extension): Until 5 September 2012

- Late Registration (1stcall extension): After 5 September 2012

- Conference: Madrid, Spain, 18 to 21 October 2012



* Conference Location

The conference will be held in Madrid, Spain.



* Secretariat

IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2012

Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3

1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: secretariat@internet-conf.org

Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/



* Program Committee



Program Chair

Bebo White, Stanford University, USA



Conference Chair

Pedro Isaías, 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 2012 (http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 19-21 October 2012 and CELDA 2012 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 19-21 October 2012.


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