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                       CALL FOR PAPERS
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    TRACK ON WEB COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS (WeCA)
               
               
               The 9th International Conference on
         SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 13)
                   December 2 - 5, 2013

       In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP French Chapter and
       IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing
       
                  Kyoto Terrsa, Japan

              http://www.sitis-conf.org/

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The focus of the track titled "Web Computing and Applications (WeCA)" is on emerging and
novel concepts, architectures, technologies, and methodologies for information management
related to the Web and cloud computing. In essence, the Web, with its different versions,
has created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks
can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be
formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance, etc. Taking full advantage of these
interconnected environments to meet the ever increasing needs of emerging applications
requires solutions that address new issues and challenges.

The track calls for research papers and reports related, but not limited, to the
following topics:


Data semantics
 Ontologies
 Conceptual Data Modeling
 Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
 Metadata
 Evolution and Change
 Semantic Caching
 Data Warehousing and Semantic
 Semantics in Data Visualization
 Semantic Services for Mobile Users
 Applications of Semantic-Driven Approaches

Web-Centric Systems
 Semantic Web
 Social media and networking
 Web Services and Service Computing
 Hypermedia and Adaptation
 E-Commerce, E-government, and E-Learning
 Web/Data Mining
 Machine Learning
 Crowdsourcing

Big Data
 Foundations and computation
 Infrastructure and plateforms
 Management
 Data preservation and provenance
 Search and Mining
 Computational Modeling and Data Integration
 Link and Graph Mining
 Mobility
 Multimedia and Multi-structured Data
 Applications

Information System Interoperability
 Digital Libraries
 Semantic Interoperability and Semantic Mediators
 Ontologies Based Systems
 Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies

Cloud
 Architectures and platforms   
 Mobile Clouds
 Storage, Data, and Analytics Clouds
 Migration, Management, and Quality
 Composition, Federation, and Integration Resource Virtualization and Composition
 High Performance Cloud Computing
 Programming Models and Paradigms
 Green Computing
 Innovative Applications and Experiences
 Computing Consulting  

Cooperative information and Distributed Systems
 Information Sharing
 Grid/cloud Applications
 Peer To Peer Computing and Applications
 Knowledge and Semantic Grid
 Semantics Of Peer Data Management Systems
 Mobile Information Systems and Computing

Multimedia and application
 Image and Video Databases
 Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval
 Emergent Semantics in Content Retrieval Systems
 Semantics and Meta Data in Multimedia Systems
 Content-Based Indexing, Search, and Retrieval of Retrieval  
 Multimedia Data Modeling and Visualization  
 Tools, Benchmarks, Evaluation Protocols and Standards  

Information security  
 Security Modeling and Access Control Protocol  
 Intrusion Avoidance, Detection, and Response  
 Web Security and Supporting Systems Security  
 Denial of Service: Attacks and Countermeasures
 Intellectual Property Protection  
 Fundamental Services on Network and Distributed Systems
 Security and Privacy for Emerging Technologies
 Trust based systems

Submission and publication The conference will include keynote addresses,
tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS’13 invites submission
of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above.  All
submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for
technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics.
Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published
by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes

Important dates
* Paper Submission: September 8, 2013
* Acceptance/Reject notification: October 6, 2013
* Camera ready: October 13, 2013
* Author registration: October 20, 2013

Track Chairs
Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France
Richard Chbeir, University of Pau, France

General Co-Chairs
Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Setsuo Tsuruta, Denki University, Japan