Fourth International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 11)

www.ita11.org

Tuesday 6th - Friday 9th September 2011, Glyndwr University, North Wales, UK

The fourth in a hugely successful series of biennial international conferences on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 11), will be held in Wrexham, North East Wales, UK from Tuesday 6th to Friday 9th September 2011.

The conference will draw together researchers and developers from academia and industry across all fields of Internet computing and engineering. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. There will be an award for 'best paper' and selected papers will be included in a book published by Brown Walker Press.

In addition to a full technical programme, including keynote presentations, papers, posters, tutorials and special sessions, the social itinerary will include a visit to the historic English city of Chester and a mediaeval Welsh banquet at Ruthin Castle.

ITA 11 is also supported by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) UK and Republic of Ireland Section, the Chester and North Wales Branch of the British Computer Society (BCS), the Wales North Branch of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), British Telecom iNet (BT iNet) and IT Wales.

Key dates

Submission deadline: Friday 4th February 2011
Notification to authors: Friday 8th April 2011
Camera-ready version due: Friday 6th May 2011
Early registration by: Friday 13th May 2011
Conference dates: Tuesday 6th - Friday 9th September 2011

The scope of the ITA conference series is wide and covers all aspects of Internet activity ranging from technical hardware and software solutions to applications and the wider issues arising from them.

Papers are invited on any of the topics below or related fields and should be submitted, via the submission page of the conference website. (www.ita11.org) Final, camera-ready papers must conform to the author guidelines and must not exceed eight pages in length.

Topics of Interest

• Accessibility and usability
• Agents
• AI/Expert systems
• Collaborative decisions
• Congestion control
• Data-mining
• Distributed systems
• e-Business/e-Commerce
• e-Learning/e-Society
• Ethical, social and legal issues
• Filtering
• HCI
• Integration
• Internet applications
• Internet languages
• Internet technologies
• Multimedia
• Music and audio
• Network algorithms
• Network architectures
• Network management
• Network optimisation
• Network performance
• Protocols and standards
• Routing
• Routing aggregation
• Routing performance
• Scheduling
• Security
• Semantics
• Services
• Storage
• Systems failure
• Traffic
• Ubiquitous computing
• Visualisation
• Web hardware
• Web software
• Wireless networks
• XML

These topics, however, are only intended as an illustrative guide. Please contact the conference chair or programme chair for additional guidance.

ITA 09 hosted the First International Workshop on Web and Semantic Technology (WeST-2009) and the First International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Applications (WMNA’09). Similar workshops are planned for ITA 11.

Conference Location

The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Applied Internet Research (CAIR) (www.cair-uk.org) at Glyndwr University, Wrexham, a member of the University of Wales.

Wrexham is a beautiful Welsh town conveniently situated between the metropolitan centres of Manchester and Liverpool in England and the tranquility of the North Wales countryside and mountains of Snowdonia.

Nearby are the historic city of Chester and the international festival centre of Llangollen. Wrexham is served by two international airports (Manchester and Liverpool) both comfortably less than an hour away by road or train.