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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (extended): 25 July 2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2008
Freiburg, Germany, 13 - 15 October 2008
(http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Co-organised by: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Endorsed by: Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Bebo White, Stanford University, USA

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2008 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 donâ??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 (on-line accessible). 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.

* 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
- Co-generation of Content, Understandings and World Views

Semantic Web and XML
- Semantics Web Architectures
- Semantic Web Middleware
- Semantic Web Services
- Semantic Web Agents
- Ontologies
- Applications of Semantic Web
- Social Networks and Semantics Web
- Semantic Web Data Management
- Information Retrieval in Semantic Web

Applications and Uses
- Game Architecture and Development
- e-Learning
- e-Commerce / e-Business
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Procurement
- e-Society
- Digital Libraries
- Internet Applications
- Interoperability with Mobile Applications

Services, Architectures and Web Development
- Internet Architectures
- Network Algorithms
- Network Architectures
- Network Computing
- Network Management
- Network Performance
- Protocols and Standards
- Traffic Models

Research Issues
- Bioinformatics
- Human Computer Interaction
- Security and Protection
- Data Mining and Social Networks
- Information Retrieval
- Information Seeking Behaviours

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (extended) - 25 July 2008
- Notification to Authors - 5 September 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 19 September 2008
- Late Registration - After 19 September 2008
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 13 to 15 October 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2008
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
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located Conference:
This conference is co-located with the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2008) (http://www.celda-conf.org/) - participants of one conference may attend the sessions from the other conference at no extra charges.