Dear Gustaf Neumann,

Let me kindly inform you that the 7th Int'l Conf. on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2011 - http://www.webist.org), to be held in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands (6 - 9 May, 2011) is now welcoming the submission of position papers. The submission deadline is scheduled for next January 4th.

A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper". BLFA

The conference program will include a number of Keynote Lectures delivered by distinguished world-class researchers, namely:

- Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, U.S.A. 
- Tony Shan, IBM, U.S.A.
- Donald Ferguson, CA Technologies, U.S.A.
- Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands 
- Barry Smyth, CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies / University College Dublin, Ireland
- Eric van Heck, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands 


WEBIST is characterized by relatively strict selection criteria. Last year, the acceptance rate of oral presentations (including full and short papers) was 36% which denotes a level of quality that we intend to maintain or reinforce in the next edition of this conference.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and CD-ROM support.

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).


Please check further details at the WEBIST 2011 conference website (http://www.webist.org). There you will find detailed information about the conference structure and its main topic areas. This conference is co-located with CSEDU 2011 (3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - http://www.csedu.org/) and CLOSER 2011 (1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - http://closer.scitevents.org/). Registration to WEBIST will enable free attendance to any sessions of all co-located events.

Should you have any question please feel free to contact me.


Kind regards,
Jose Marques
WEBIST Secretariat

Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +44 203 014 8817
Email: webist.secretariat@insticc.org




WEBIST Website: http://www.webist.org/


IMPORTANT DATES:
  Position Paper Submission: January 4, 2011
  Authors Notification (position papers): January 26, 2011
  Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: February 8, 2011



In Cooperation with WfMC and ACM SIGMIS
Sponsored by INSTICC


Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI.
Best papers published by Springer-Verlag in a LNBIP Series book.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress (Science and Technology Publications) Digital Library.



TOPIC AREAS:

AREA 1: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY 

  - XML and data management
  - Web Security and Privacy
  - Intrusion Detection and Response
  - Authentication and Access Control
  - Web Services and Web Engineering
  - System Integration
  - Databases and Datawarehouses
  - Wireless Applications
  - Distributed and Parallel Applications
  - Protocols and Standards
  - Network systems, proxies and servers
  - Agents

AREA 2: WEB INTERFACES AND APPLICATIONS 

  - Multimedia and User interfaces
  - Accessibility issues and Technology
  - User Modeling
  - Web Personalization
  - Usability and Ergonomics
  - Personalized Web Sites and Services
  - Portal strategies
  - Searching and Browsing
  - Ontology and the Semantic Web
  - Metadata and Metamodeling
  - Digital Libraries
  - Web Geographical Information Systems

AREA 3: SOCIETY, e-BUSINESS and e-GOVERNMENT 

  - e-Business and e-Commerce
  - e-Payment
  - B2B, B2C and C2C
  - Knowledge Management
  - Social Networks and Organizational Culture
  - Social Information Systems
  - Communities of practice
  - Communities of interest
  - Social & Legal Issues
  - Tele-Work and Collaboration
  - e-Government

AREA 4: WEB INTELLIGENCE 

  - Web Content Mining
  - e-Mail Classification
  - Web Site Classification
  - Learning User Profiles
  - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
  - Web Farming and Warehousing
  - Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
  - Web Site Navigation Support Systems
  - Grid Intelligence
  - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation

AREA 5: WEB SECURITY 

  - Client Side Security
  - Server Side Security
  - Privacy and Confidentiality
  - Authentication and Authorization
  - Cryptography
  - Vulnerability Assessment
  - Worms, Virus and other Malware
  - Cross-Site Scripting
  - Security for Mashups
  - Web 2.0 and Social Networking Controls
  - Security in the Cloud
  - Internet Forensics
  - Hardware vs. Software Protection
  - Case-studies on Web Security
  - Education and Certification on Web Security



CONFERENCE CHAIR
Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR: 
Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 
The list is available at http://www.webist.org/program_committee.asp

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