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Call for Papers
Web Engineering Track
Evolved from the long running ACM SAC Web Technologies track
38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2023)
March 27 - March 31, 2023, Tallinn, Estonia
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2023/
https://devel.isistan.unicen.edu.ar/we-sac/
Aims and Rationale
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The World Wide Web is relentlessly evolving. Once a single
interconnection of static, physically distributed content
passively accessed by human users through personal computers,
during the explosion of Web-based social networks, the Web evolved
into an environment allowing users worldwide to interact and
collaborate in the creation of user-generated content within many
virtual communities. In this line, Web 2.0 is the umbrella term
used to encompass several developments which followed, namely
social networking sites and social media sites (e.g., Instagram,
Facebook), (micro)blogs, wikis, folksonomies (e.g., Flickr), video
sharing sites (e.g., YouTube), Web applications ("apps"),
collaborative platforms, and mashup applications. Many
technologies such as HTML 5, CSS3, AJAX, and client-side scripting
helped to bring these ideas into practice.
Moreover, the current Web can be seen as an evolutionary step from
Web 2.0 in that access to content is nowadays ubiquitous, content
itself is far more heterogeneous, and "users" come in mixed and
different flavors. First, ubiquitous access has been mainly pushed
by the inception of mobile computing and mobile devices. Second,
served and published Web content is not only those following
traditional interchange formats (i.e., text, images, audio,
video), but also executable code or Web APIs (e.g.,
ProgrammableWeb.com), from which new applications can be built and
in turn published back to the Web. The notion of "Web of objects",
which finds its root in Web-accessible Internet-of-Things (IoT)
applications, promotes the interconnection of hardware elements
capable of producing huge amounts of sensor data. Last, the role
of Web application end users and Web developers/designers is
somewhat blurry, due to modern Web technologies that greatly
simplify the creation/deployment of rich Web sites that might
consume Web-accessible services. In addition, the advent of the
Semantic Web -often named Web 3.0- paves the way to the creation
of intelligent applications, and thus the tandem human user-Web
browser is no longer the only way to take advantage of Web
content. In this context, novel approaches and techniques, new
tools and frameworks are needed to address the increasing
complexity of the Web and the applications therein.
This track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners
from industry and academia working on both foundational and
practical aspects of Web Engineering, as well as other ideas that
in the Web ecosystem have found new and unexpected application
fields. We seek original, unpublished contributions that are
mainly focused on, but not necessarily limited to, the following
aspects of Web Engineering:
- Web Information Retrieval
- Web Browsers and Web Interfaces
- Web Personalization and Accessibility
- Rich User Experiences and Human Computer Interaction in Web
Applications
- Web Recommender Systems
- Web Sentiment Mining
- Web Mining
- Social Web Analytics
- Web Graph Analytics
- Web Query Languages
- Semantic Web and Semantic-Enhanced Web Applications
- Web Question Answering Systems
- Web Translation
- Web Provenance
- Web for Digital Humanities
- Web Natural Language Processing
- Web Speech and Video Processing
- Modeling, Designing, and Engineering of Web Applications
- Architectures, Architectural Styles, and Middlewares for Web
Applications
- Performance, Scalability and Quality of Service on the Web
- Online and Offline Testing Techniques for Web Applications and
Interfaces
- Web Monitoring and Analysis
- (Process-Aware) Web Information Systems
- Mobile Web, Webapps, and Cross-device Content Delivery
- Web Application Integration: Micro/Rest Services and Data
Description Formats
- Web Technologies in IoT Devices and Cyber-physical Systems
- Virtualization and Containerization for the Web
Proceedings and Post-Proceedings
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Papers/poster accepted for the Web Engineering track will be
published by ACM both in the SAC 2023 proceedings and in the ACM
Digital Library, which ensures excellent visibility.
Paper/poster registration is required, allowing the inclusion of
the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a
proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement
for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library.
No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding
them from the ACM digital library.
Selected Best Papers
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In the previous (pre-pandemic) editions, authors of selected best
papers have been invited to submit an extended version of their
work to an international journal or a conference post-proceedings
volume. For example:
- Best papers of WT@SAC19 in a special issue of Information
Processing and Management by Elsevier (Impact factor: 3.444,
Scimago rank: Q1)
- Best papers of WT@SAC18 in a Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing volume by Springer
For the 2023 edition of the track, we will make our best to
arrange a post-proceeding or a special issue in related journals
as well.
Student Research Competition (SRC) Program
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Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts
(maximum of 4 pages in ACM format) following the instructions
published at SAC 2023 website. Submission of the same abstract to
multiple tracks is not allowed.
All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers
and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which
they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts will have the
opportunity to give poster and oral presentations of their work
and compete for three top-winning places. The SRC committee will
evaluate and select First, Second, and Third place winners. The
winners will receive medals, cash awards, and SIGAPP recognition
certificates. Invited students receive SRC travel support and are
eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program
(STAP) for additional travel support.
Paper Submission
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas
will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions:
- Original and unpublished research;
- Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts,
sciences, engineering, business, government, education and
industry;
- Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem
domains.
Each submitted paper will undergo a (double) blind review process
and will be refereed by at least three referees. To ease blind
review, you shall remove author names and any information that
might divulge authors' identity from your paper before submitting
it.
Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC
2023 proceedings.
The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared
using the ACM format (guidelines are given on the SAC 2023 web
site).
Accepted full papers should not exceed 8 pages in a double column
format (with the option to add more pages at extra charge).
Relevant Dates
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- Oct 1, 2022, 11:59PM (UTC+0.00): Submission of regular papers
and SRC research abstracts
- Nov 19, 2022: Notification of papers and posters and SRC
acceptance/rejection
- Dec 6, 2022: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
- Dec 6, 2022: Authors Registration due
Track Chairs
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- Cristian Mateos, ISISTAN-UNICEN-CONICET University - Tandil,
Argentina
- Tim A. Majchrzak, University of Agder - Kristiansand, Norway
- Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Rotterdam, The
Netherlands
E-mail contact:
cristian.mateos@isistan.unicen.edu.ar
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