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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (last call): 31 August
2012 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2012
Madrid, Spain, 18 - 21 October 2012
(http://www.internet-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP of Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2012 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge
development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just
technical anymore but other aspects have aroused.  This conference
aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues
related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see
below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas
will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference
attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will
be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS
International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in
other selected Journals.
The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC,
EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations,
Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject
to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:

Web 2.0
- Collaborative Systems
- Social Networks
- Folksonomies
- Enterprise Wikis and Blogging
- Mashups and Web Programming
- Tagging and User Rating Systems
- Citizen Journalism


Semantic Web and XML
- Semantic Web Architectures
- Semantic Web Middleware
- Semantic Web Services
- Semantic Web Agents
- Ontologies
- Applications of Semantic Web
- Semantic Web Data Management
- Information Retrieval in Semantic Web

Applications and Uses
- e-Learning
- e-Commerce / e-Business
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Procurement
- e-Society
- Digital Libraries
- Web Services/SaaS
- Application Interoperability
- Web-based multimedia technologies

Services, Architectures and Web Development
- Wireless Web
- Mobile Web
- Cloud/Grid Computing
- Web Metrics
- Web Standards
- Internet Architectures
- Network Algorithms
- Network Architectures
- Network Computing
- Network Management
- Network Performance
- Content Delivery Technologies
- Protocols and Standards
- Traffic Models

Research Issues
- Web Science
- Digital Rights Management
- Bioinformatics
- Human Computer Interaction and Usability
- Web Security and Privacy
- Online Trust and Reputation Systems
- Data Mining
- Information Retrieval
- Search Engine Optimization

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (last call): 31 August 2012
- Notification to Authors (last call): 24 September 2012
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call):
Until 1 October 2012
- Late Registration (last call): After 1 October 2012

- Conference: Madrid, Spain, 18 to 21 October 2012

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Madrid, Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2012
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@internet-conf.org
Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Bebo White, Stanford University, USA

Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events Applied Computing 2012 (http://
www.computing-conf.org/) - 19-21 October 2012 and CELDA 2012 (http://
www.celda-conf.org/) - 19-21 October 2012.

* Registered participants in the WWW/Internet conference may attend
the Applied Computing and CELDA conferences’ sessions free of charge.