Dear Web Engineering Researchers,

I am inviting you to participate in the WEB ENGINEERING TRACK of the 15th Annual IRMA (Information Resources Management Association) International Conference on May 23-26, 2004 in NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, USA. Conference Theme is “Innovations Through Information Technology”.

Full-Length Papers, Research-in-Progress (Abstracts or Summaries) Panels, Workshops, Tutorials or Symposium Proposals are welcome.

Submission Deadline October 3, 2003

All submissions will undergo a blind, peer review by at least two external expert reviewers.

The Web Engineering track will be big, as I am targeting 40 accepted papers in this track. No doubt it will give us a tremendous opportunity to exchange latest research results with our peers and network with them. Please let me know your initial thoughts in contributing to this track.

The central website is at www.irma-international.org

Further details are as follows:

WEB ENGINEERING TRACK

Introduction
Web-based systems now play increasingly important role in many applications. As we have become increasingly reliant on them, there is growing need for higher quality, better performance and continuous availability of these systems. Most Web-based systems are still poorly developed often in an ad hoc manner, and so they perform poorly, do not scale up and are prone to failures. Web engineering addresses these concerns with the establishment and use of sound scientific, engineering and management principles, and disciplined and systematic approaches to the development, deployment and maintenance of web-based systems and applications.

Sub topics
Within the scope defined above following are the main topics for this track.

Web Information Systems Development Methodologies: Web application design and development strategies, methodologies and processes; web authoring and deployment tools; web application development environments; dynamic languages and standards; open software development; web programming languages and tools.

Web Interface Design: Browsers and user interfaces; web interface design; new web metaphors; collaborative computing.

Emerging Web Technologies: Semantic web; intelligent web; metadata format for intelligent applications; searching, querying, indexing and crawling; web information filtering; web services; wireless and mobile technologies for the web; intelligent agents.

Web Security: Authentication; message integrity; encryption and coding, e-cash transfer and Internet open trading protocols.

Web Project Management: Web project planning and management methodologies, approaches for development effort estimation, verification and validation techniques for web applications, case studies.

Web Based eBusiness Applications: Case studies on deploying web based eBusiness applications, adoption strategies for web based applications.

Web Information Systems Management: Web information systems management strategies, disaster recovery procedures, policies and procedures for managing web information systems.

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES AND GUIDELINES: Submissions for the 2004 IRMA International Conference may be submitted in the following categories. (All submissions will undergo a blind, peer review by at least two external expert reviewers.)

FULL LENGTH SUBMISSIONS: Those individuals interested may submit a full length (not to exceed 3000-3500 words with a maximum of 3 figures/tables), original, and previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscript for review and decision. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their entirety or as a 1500-2000 word mini-paper, as recommended by the reviewers. High quality papers will be considered for further review and possible inclusion in the Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of End User Computing, Journal of Database Management, Journal of Global Information Management, Annals of Cases on Information Technology, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research or Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations. In addition, the best paper in terms of quality and suitability to the theme of the conference will be awarded the "Best Paper" Award.

RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS SUBMISSIONS: Those individuals interested may submit research-in-progress proposals (abstracts) or a summary of tentative results of the study to date in 500-1000 words by October 3, 2003. Authors of accepted proposals are asked to forward a 1500-2000 word paper with a maximum of 2 figures/tables by January 9, 2004 for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

PANEL, WORKSHOP, TUTORIAL, AND SYMPOSIUM SUBMISSIONS: Individuals interested in conducting a panel, workshop, symposium or tutorial dealing with technological, managerial, professional, teaching, societal, national or international issues of information technology management are invited to submit a 500-1000 word proposal covering the objectives, issues to be covered, and the names/addresses of any other panel, workshop, tutorial/symposium members. Method of presentation is at the submitter's discretion, however the submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own participants (such as panel members). All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings. (Note: All panel, workshop, and tutorial/symposium members must register and pay for the conference.) Panel presenters should know that during the conference, a projector and screen will be provided by the association for each presentation. Any additional equipment needed for the panel, workshop, tutorial or symposium is at the discretion of the presenter and it will be his or her responsibility to provide the extra equipment.

Please let me know if you require any further information.

Regards,

Vijay Khandelwal
Track ChairScanned by SCIT E-Mail Gateway http://www.cit.uws.edu.au