The Australasian Web Conference (AWC 2013)
January 29 - February 1, 2013, Adelaide, Australia

http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~awc2013


The relentless growth in Internet functionality and broadband access has enabled a new wave of innovations that is transforming the way people and organizations interact, communicate, and collaborate. The inaugural Australasian Web Conference (AWC) focuses on presenting original contributions on research, development, and applications, related to all fields of Web research.

AWC 2013 calls for submissions in all areas of Web research, including but not limited to the following:

* Cloud computing
* Data mining
* Deep Web
* Emerging Web techniques
* Information retrieval
* Interfaces and Accessibility
* Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
* Mobile Web
* Performance and scalability and availability
* Personalisation and recommender systems
* Security and Privacy
* Semantic Web
* Social networks and communities
* Web of Things
* Web search
* Web services and SOC
* XML and semi-structured data management



***PAPER SUBMISSION***

AWC 2013 invites papers presenting original contributions in all fields of Web related research and applications. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work. Paper submission will be electronic through Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=awc2013).

Papers should contain original, unpublished work that is not being considered concurrently for publication elsewhere. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the Australian Computer Society (ACS) - Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) Australian Computer Science Communications series. The preferred format for submissions is Portable Document Format (PDF). Microsoft Word and Latex style files are available at the CRPIT web site.

By submitting to the conference authors accept that they are aware of the Guidelines on Research Practice in Computer Science by the Computer Research and Education Association (CORE) and the policy listed on the CRPIT web site (http://crpit.com/). In particular, authors are encouraged to review the points on authorship. The details on how to prepare the copyright statement at the foot of page 1 can be found from: http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~awc2013/PaperSubmissions/papersubmit.htm.


***IMPORTANT DATES***

Paper Submission: 13th August 2012
Author Notification: 8th October 2012
Final Manuscript Due: 29th October 2012
Registration Due: 5th November 2012
Early Bird Registration Due: 3rd December 2012


***CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION***

General Chairs

Allan Ellis, Southern Cross University, Australia
Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia


Program Co-Chairs
Helen Ashman, University of South Australia
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand

Publicity Chair

Yongrui Qin, University of Adelaide, Australia

Programme Committee

Helen Ashman, University of South Australia, Australia
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon, France
Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia
David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
David Hawking, Funnelback, Australia
Renato Iannella, Semantic Identity, Australia
Xiangfei Jia, University of Otago, New Zealand
Xitong Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Jixue Liu, University of South Australia, Australia
Jiangang Ma, University of Adelaide, Australia
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA
Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
Chaoyi Pang, CSIRO, Australia
Russel Pears, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Australia
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Jian Yu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Arkady Zaslavsky, CSIRO, Australia
Jenny Zhang, RMIT University, Australia
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
Zibin Zheng (Ben), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China


PUBLICATION

The proceedings of the conference will be published through the Australian Computer Society as the Australasian Web Conference 2013 - Australian Computer Science Communications. Each paper will be fully refereed. Complete instructions for authors regarding submission and formatting procedures can be found at the AWC 2013 website. The proceedings are included in the ACM digital library.

AWC is part of the Australasian Computer Science Week. Registration to the Australasian Computer Science Conference enables delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW).