-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP WEBIST 2012 - Int'l Conf. on Web Information Systems and Technologies Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:18:23 -0500 From: WEBIST Secretariat postmaster13@303media.net Reply-To: webist.secretariat@insticc.org webist.secretariat@insticc.org To: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

CALL FOR PAPERS

8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies WEBIST website: http://www.webist.org/

April 18 - 21, 2012 Porto, Portugal

In cooperation with ACM-SIGMIS Sponsored by INSTICC INSTICC is Member of WfMC and OMG Partner& Supporter: PenTest Magazine

IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: November 24, 2011 Authors Notification (regular papers): January 27, 2012 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 16, 2012

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Dear Gustaf Neumann,

The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2012) steering committee cordially invites you to submit a paper to the WEBIST-2012 Conference, to be held in Porto, Portugal. The deadline for paper submission is November 24th, 2011.

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. BLFA A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a LNBIP Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index). Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.webist.org/BestPaperAward.aspx). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers: Dave Cliff (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) and Fernando Sousa (IBM, Portugal). More names will be announced soon at the WEBIST 2012 conference website (http://www.webist.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx).

Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

Please check further details at the WEBIST 2012 conference web site (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 2012 (4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - http://www.csedu.org/), CLOSER 2012 (2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - http://closer.scitevents.org/) and SMARTGREENS 2012 (1st International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - http://www.smartgreens.org). Registration to WEBIST will enable free attendance to any sessions of CSEDU, CLOSER and SMARTGREENS 2012 as a non-speaker.

Should you have any question or suggestions please don't hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards, Joao Teixeira

WEBIST Secretariat Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 184 Fax: +44 203 300 8817 Email: webist.secretariat@insticc.org

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

PROGRAM CHAIR: Karl-Heinz Krempels, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

TOPIC AREAS:

AREA 1: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY

- Web Services and Web Engineering - Web Programming - XML and data management - Web Security and Privacy - Authentication and Access Control - System Integration - Databases and Datawarehouses - Distributed and Parallel Applications - Protocols and Standards

AREA 2: WEB INTERFACES AND APPLICATIONS

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

AREA 3: SOCIETY, E-BUSINESS AND E-GOVERNMENT

- e-Business and e-Commerce - Knowledge Management - Web 2.0 and Social Networking Controls - Social Networks and Organizational Culture - Communities of practice - Communities of interest - Social and Legal Issues - e-Government - B2B, B2C and C2C - e-Payment

AREA 4: WEB INTELLIGENCE

- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Data Mining - Learning User Profiles - Web Site Classification - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation - Computational Intelligence on the Web - Web Site Navigation Support Systems - User-Centric Systems - Privacy and Confidentiality

AREA 5: MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

- Mobile Navigation and Assistance - Context Aware Media Tagging - Context Awareness - Context Detection - Indoor Navigation and Assistance - Mobile Social Network Interaction - Mobile Social Network Streaming - Social Network Awareness - Mobile Media Sharing Systems - Mobile Instant Messaging

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