The Future of Web Applications: Strategies and Design

Submission Deadline: 1 February 2011    
Publication: September/October 2011

The landscape of Web applications is poised for significant change, driven by Internet-enabled smartphones, gadgets and consumer electronics, the promise of cloud computing, and advances such as Web 3.0 and 3D Web. In the coming years, billions of devices will be connected to the Internet and they’ll access and share information through the Web. New kinds of Web apps are on the horizon that will be more ubiquitous and smarter than current applications and will be accessible anytime, anywhere, and from any device. This will require us to address the related technical, developmental, operational, organizational, and societal challenges.

The September/October 2011 issue of IT Professional will focus on the emerging Web apps landscape. We solicit papers for this issue covering a range of topics, including

• Emergent Web apps
• Mobile Web apps and their development
• Location-based mobile Web apps
• Interoperability of (mobile) Web apps
• Web app development processes and methods
• Web app architectures and frameworks
• Design for Web app evolution and model-based Web app design
• Novel Web interfaces
• Device-independent Web apps
• Adaptive, context-aware, personalized Web apps
• Web systems, architectures, and middleware
• Meeting the needs of widening demographics of Web users
• Security, privacy and censorship concerns and remedies
• Organizational and societal impact of the new wave of Web apps

We welcome research summaries, articles on novel Web apps, best practices, Web strategies and policies, case studies on applications, experience reports, and essays that identify research issues and challenges.

Feature articles should be no longer than 4,200 words with no more than 20 references Illustrations are welcome. Tables and figures count as 300 words each.

For author guidelines, including sample articles, see http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/acitpro.

Submit your article at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itpro-cs.

Questions?

For further information, contact the Guest Editors:

• San Murugesan, BRITE Professional Services & University of Western Sydney, Australia
• Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
• Linda Wilbanks, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
• Reza Djavanshir, John Hopkins University