Regular Papers
Paper Submission: December 07, 2015
Authors Notification: January 28, 2015
Camera Ready and Registration: February 12, 2016

Position Papers
Paper Submission: January 5, 2015
Authors Notification: February 5, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration: February 19, 2016

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: November 9, 2015

Doctoral Consortium
Paper Submission: February 16, 2016
Authors Notification: February 24, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration: March 4, 2016

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: November 18, 2015

Tutorials, Demos and Panel Proposals
Proposal: December 14, 2015

Scope:
The purpose of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has five main tracks, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, including Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business, Web Intelligence and Mobile Information Systems.
WEBIST 2016 will be held in conjunction with CSEDU 2016, SMARTGREENS 2016, CLOSER 2016, VEHITS 2016 and IoTBD 2016.

CONFERENCE AREAS:
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
2. SERVICE BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
3. WEB INTERFACES
4. WEB INTELLIGENCE
5. MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

AREA 1: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
• Distributed and Parallel Applications
• Protocols and Standards
• System Integration
• Web Programming
• Web Security and Privacy
• Web Services and Web Engineering
• XML and Data Management
• Big Data Technologies and Applications
• Searching and Browsing
• Metrics and Performance
• Web Tools and Languages
• New Trends in Internet Technology
• Application, Research project and Internet Technology

AREA 2: SERVICE BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• B2B, B2C and C2C
• Business Knowledge Management
• Ethical and Legal Issues
• Social Media Analytics
• Social Networks and Organizational Culture
• Web 2.0 and Social Networking Controls
• Human Factors and Social Issues
• Web-based Business Processes
• Communities of Interest and Practice
• Society, e-Business and e-Government
• EA,SOA, services in TOGAF, interoperability
• Services with Methodological Approaches, Quality, Metrics, BAM
• Change management, Performance Improvement, Architecture Migration to SOA via Cloud Computing
• Risk management and Service based IS
• Web based Integration Technologies, Web Services, REST and CRUD services
• Information Systems and SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Cloud Computing
• Adaptability and dynamic reconfiguration including Web based technologies
• New Advances in Service based Technologies
• Application, Research project and Service Based IS

AREA 3: WEB INTERFACES
• Multimedia and User Interfaces
• Personalized Web Sites and Services
• Design of Web Interface
• Web Interface and Adaptability according to context and/or profile
• Web Interface and risk management
• Web interface and formal languages
• Usability and Ergonomics
• User Modeling, Web Interface Modelling
• Web Interface Requirements and Projects
• Web Interface and Indicators, KPI
• Web Interface, Web Intelligence, Big data
• New trends in Web Interfaces
• Web Interfaces and Applications

AREA 4: WEB INTELLIGENCE
• Collective Intelligence
• Computational Intelligence on the Web
• Ontology Discovering, Modelling, Retrieving and the Semantic Web
• New trends in Ontology management and the Semantic Web
• Context, Adaptability and Web Intelligence
• Social Web Intelligence
• Semantic Web and BPM
• Data Web Mining
• Linked Data, Big Data
• Cloud with Web Intelligence and Big data
• Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Privacy, Confidentiality and Trust for Web Intelligence
• Recommendation Systems
• User-Centric Systems
• Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
• Web Intelligence and Agent Based Systems
• New trends in Web Intelligence
• Applications, Research Projects and Web Intelligence

AREA 5: MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• App Development Methods
• Context Awareness
• Mobile APIs and Services
• Mobile Commerce
• Mobile Learning
• Mobile Navigation and Assistance
• Mobile Social Network Interaction
• Interoperability
• Mobile Web
• Human Computer Interaction
• Social and Mobile Information Systems
• New trends in Mobile Information Systems
• Application of Mobile Information Systems

KEYNOTE LECTURES
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Jérôme Euzenat, Jerome.Euzenat@inria.fr, France
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, United States
Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Valérie Monfort, LAMIH Valenciennes UMR CNRS 8201, France
Karl-Heinz Krempels, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

PROGRAM CHAIR
Tim A. Majchrzak, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
http://www.webist.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

WEBIST Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
e-mail: webist.secretariat@insticc.org