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The First WWW 2011 Warm Up Workshop
January 7, 2010, Kolkata, India
http://research.ihost.com/www2011/index.html

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Starting with the first one held at CERN in 1994 (http://www94.web.cern.ch/WWW94/), the International World Wide Web (WWW) Conferences constitute a series of conferences, usually taking place in May of every year. It is a global event bringing together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies that are helping define the shape of the Web. Since its inception in 1994, the WWW conference series has become the de-facto international venue for discussions on the evolution of the Web over the coming years.

The location varies year to year, covering Asia, Europe, or North America. The conference provides a healthy mixture of contributions from academia and industry. Apart from the core conference consisting of technical research tracks, other attractions of the event include tutorials, workshops, and a separate Developers' Day. The event usually spreads over 5 days. The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), is responsible for the series, with a different conference organizer every year.

This prestigious conference is scheduled to come to India in 2011 and will be held from 28th March to 1st April in Hyderabad, India. The First WWW 2011 Warm Up Workshop is the first one of a series of technical events leading up to the WWW 2011 Conference. The aim of the series is to bring together researchers, and practitioners from all over India and neighboring regions to increase awareness about the WWW series of conferences and its various tracks. Participants will get an opportunity share their knowledge about Web and related technologies and to prepare together for participation in WWW 2011.

The participants of the first (and subsequent) workshops shall get the benefit of listening to international experts who would deliver technical presentations as well as given talks/tutorial on writing good WWW papers. Participants of the final workshop shall also get an opportunity to present their own work and get the advantage of shepherding their paper by past WWW authors/program committee members for preparation as a potential submission to WWW 2011.


The First Warm Up workshop will be collocated with the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), and will be held on 7th January, 2010, in Kolkata, India.

Submissions: Participation in the first workshop is by invitation only. Interested candidates can submit a 1-2 page write-up mentioning the following:
(1) your brief bio and current affiliation,
(2) your interest and experience in World Wide Web and related technologies,
(3) how do you intend to participate in WWW 2011 and
(4) how would you benefit by attending the workshop.

Applications shall be screened by a Program Committee. Successful candidates shall be invited to attend the workshop. There will only be a token registration fee of Rs. 100/- per participant. However, no travel grants are currently available.

Registration and application submission process shall be made available at http://research.ihost.com/www2011/index.html

Important Dates:

Application Submission Deadline: 30 November 2009
Participant Notification: 15 December 2009
Workshop: 07 January 2010