LA-WEB 2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress October 25-27, 2006 Universidad de las Americas-Puebla Cholula, Mexico http://ict.udlap.mx/la-web2006

LA-Web 2006 is the fourth of a series of refereed conferences aimed at providing a venue in Latin America for researchers and technologists from around the world to present, demonstrate and discuss the latest Web developments. Previous editions of LA-Web have taken place in Santiago, Chile (2003), São Paulo, Brazil (2004), and Buenos Aires, Argentina (2005). LA-Web 2006 will be held at the beautiful campus of the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, in Central Mexico.

LA-WEB 2006 is endorsed by the IW3C2 International World Wide Web Conference Committee and its proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. We invite high quality papers describing original work in all areas of Web research. Topics include but are not limited to:

* Browsers and user interfaces * E-commerce, E-Science, E-government and E-Learning * Digital libraries * Multimedia and hypermedia * Mobility and ubiquitous web access * Performance, reliability and scalability * Search and data mining * Semantic web * Web engineering * Collaboration and web communities * Security, privacy and copyright issues * XML and web services * Collaborative tagging * Blogging * Web visualization * Web usability

Submissions should report original work in English, should not have been previously published and neither should they be currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers should properly place the work in the context of the conference's theme, cite related work, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and contributions to the field. Papers must be submitted electronically via the conference's website, and must be formatted using the IEEE-CS guidelines. We encourage authors to submit concise papers of up to 8 pages; however, papers up to 10 pages long may be submitted, and two additional pages (for a maximum of 12) may be purchased later. Please visit http://ict.udlap.mx/la-web2006 for further submission details.

Deadlines

Submissions of full papers: May 26, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2006 Camera-ready version of accepted papers: August 11, 2006 LA-Web Conference: October 25-27, 2006

Program committee

Alfredo Sánchez, UDLA-Puebla, Mexico (Program Chair)

Silvia Mara Abrahão, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Virgilio Almeida, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Alvaro Arenas, CCLRC, UK Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile, Chile Coral Calero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Maria da Graça Campos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil João Falcão e Cunha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand Peter Dolog, University of Hannover, Germany Martin Dzbor, Open University, UK Ricardo Falbo, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brasil Jesús Favela, CICESE, Mexico Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK Martin Gaedke, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Chile Geert-Jan Houben, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Mitsuru Ikeda, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Nora Koch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany John Leggett, Texas A&M University, USA David Lowe, University of Technology Sidney, Australia Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luisa Mich, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy Gastón Mousqués, Universidad de la República Oriental, Uruguay San Murugesan, Southern Cross University, Australia Dave Nichols, University of Waikato, New Zealand Peter J. Nürnberg, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Claudia Pons, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Symeon Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Marta Sabou, Open University, UK Monica Scannapieco, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Arno Scharl, Vienna Univ. of Economics & Business Admin.,Austria Daniel Schwabe, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Brazil Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Daniel Vallejo, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Genoveva Vargas-Solar, LSR-IMAG, France Bebo White, Stanford University, USA José Luis Zechinelli, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico Andrea Zisman, City University, London, UK

Venue (http://www.udlap.mx)

With a 73-hectare (about 180-acre) campus, in a valley surrounded by four of the highest volcanoes in Mexico, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla (UDLA) is located in the ancient city of Cholula, seven kilometers from the city of Puebla and 120 kilometers from Mexico City. Puebla and Cholula are known for their rich history, architecture and gastronomy. A wide range of attractions as well as travel, dining and accommodation options are available to visitors. More information on our venue and its surroundings will be available through the conference's website.