Third Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB'05) Buenos Aires - Argentina - Oct. 31/Nov. 2nd, 2005 http://www.la-web.org/

[PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS LA-WEB 2005]

LA-WEB'05 is an endorsed regional conference by IW3C2 International World Wide Web Conference Committee <www.iw3c2.org>. This will be the Third Latin American venue for international software and web researchers, technologists, and leaders from academia, industry, and government. They will gather together to present, demonstrate, and discuss the latest developments in the Web, and how this can be used to empower the Latin American Web. The first two editions were held in Santiago <www.la-web.org/2003/>, Chile (2003) and Ribeirao Preto <www.icmc.usp.br/laweb/>, Brazil (2004). In 2005 the congress will be co-located and sharing one day on Web Retrieval with SPIRE (String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium). As in past editions, the proceedings of LA-WEB 2005 will be published by IEEE CS Press.

Topics

LA-WEB 2005 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Topics include but are not limited to:

Applications (Area 1), Browsers and User Interfaces (Area 2), Electronic Commerce (Area 3), Hypermedia (Area 4), Mobility and Wireless Access (Area 5), Multimedia (Area 6), Performance and Reliability (Area 7), Search and Data Mining (Area 8), Security and Privacy (Area 9), Semantic Web (Area 10), and Web Engineering (Area 11).

Papers should cover not only technical but also practical solutions oriented to solve specific Web problems.

Important Dates May 18, 2005 Deadline for paper abstracts May 23, 2005 Deadline for submitting papers June 30, 2005 Notification of acceptance of papers July 30, 2005 Papers received in camera ready form Oct. 31/Nov. 2nd LA-WEB'05 Conference

Submission of Papers Submissions should present original reports of new work in English. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF, and must be formatted using the IEEE-CS Author's styles that are posted in the LA-WEB site http://ing.unlpam.edu.ar/laweb05/. We encourage authors to submit concise papers with up to 8 pages; however, papers with up to 10 pages may be submitted.

Programme Committee Chair Luis Olsina, National University of La Pampa (Argentina)

Members Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto (Canada) Alfredo Sanchez, University of the Américas (Mexico) Andrea Zisman, City University (UK) Arno Scharl, UWA Business School (Australia) Athena Vakali, Aristotle University (Greece) Bebo White, Stanford University (USA) Cesar Collazos, Cauca University (Colombia) Claudia Pons, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Claudio Gutierrez, Chile University (Chile) Daniel Schwabe, PUC Río (Brazil) David Lowe, University of Technology (Australia) Dieter Fensel, DERI, University of Innsbruck (Austria) Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland (New Zealand) Enrico Motta, The Open University (UK) Ethan Munson, Univesity of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (USA) Gastón Mousques, ORT University (Uruguay) Geert-Jan Houben, Technical University Eindhoven (The Netherlands) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Horacio Leone, National Technical University, Sta. Fe (Argentina) Jean Vanderdonckt, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) Jesus Favela, CICESE Research Center (Mexico) João Falcão e Cunha, Porto University (Portugal) Juliana Freire, University of Utah (USA) Luisa Mich, Trento University (Italy) Maria da Graça Pimentel, USP São Carlos (Brazil) Mario Piattini, Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain) Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Mitsuru Ikeda, Osaka University (Japan) Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome (Italy) Nora Koch, Munich University (Germany) Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology (Spain) Peter Dolog, L3S Research Center (Germany) Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Ray Welland, University of Glasgow (UK) Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Chile University (Chile) Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo (Brazil) San Murugesan, Southern Cross University (Australia) Sandro Morasca, University of Insubria (Italy) Silvia Abrahão, Valencia University of Technology (Spain) Stefan Decker, DERI, Galway (Ireland) Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth (UK) Symeon Retalis, University of Piraeus (Greece) Virgilio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) Yogesh Deshpande, UWS (Australia) Wieland Schwinger, SCC Hagenberg (Austria)

Organization SADIO (Argentine Society on Computer Science and Operational Research) is in charge of organizing LA-WEB'05 in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. It is a complex, energetic, and seductive port city, which stretches south-to-north along the Rio de la Plata. Portenos, as the multinational people of Buenos Aires are known, possess an elaborate and rich cultural identity. They value their European heritage highly -Italian and German names outnumbered by Spanish, and the lifestyle and architecture are markedly more European than in any other city in South America. One of the world's finest opera houses, the Teatro Colon, flourishes here on the plains alongside the river. Portenos are intensely involved in the life and culture of their city, and they will gladly share the secrets of Buenos Aires, from tango lessons to the best places to eat the famous Argentinian meat. Buenos Aires is also the starting point to visit other nice places such as Iguazu falls (on the Brazilian border), Bariloche and its lakes, or the Patagonia, with its spectacular geography and wildlife, including the Perito Moreno glacier or Torres del Paine (in Chile).

Visit LA-WEB site for news: http://www.la-web.org/ http://www.ing.unlpam.edu.ar/laweb05/ Further comments send to olsinal@ing.unlpam.edu.ar