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From: The journal Engineering Letters

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Web Engineering

Web engineering has provided several important research and practical
results especially during the last decade. However, very few of them
have transferred to real-life projects. Engineers are unable to study
all these results, since it is a time consuming task, difficult to be
accomplished in the strict timeline of a project. As more research
results come up every year, they constitute a very complex information
space that itself need to be engineered, in order to be provided to
developers in a meaningful and comprehensive way. The World Wide Web
and its associated technologies have become a major implementation and
delivery platform for a large variety of applications, ranging from
simple institutional information websites to sophisticated supply-chain
management systems, financial applications, e-government, distance
learning, and entertainment, among others. Such applications, in
addition to their intrinsic functionality, also exhibit the more
complex behavior of distributed applications.

Recently, there have been some advances towards re-framing the
development - both design and implementation - of Web applications as a
disciplined and systematic endeavor. However, the vast majority of
existing applications have been developed in an ad-hoc way, leading to
problems of maintainability, quality and reliability. Web applications
are software artifacts, and as such can benefit by making use of
established practices stemming from several related disciplines such as
Software Engineering, Hypermedia, Information Systems and HCI, enabling
creation, management and reuse of structures of the information space
as well as enhancing the end user experience. In addition, it has its
own characteristics which must be addressed, such as a varied user
population, very short development turnaround times, diverse runtime
environments, accessibility through multiple devices, etc.

Web Engineering addresses these issues and focuses on systematic,
disciplined and quantifiable approaches towards the cost-effective
development and evolution of high-quality, ubiquitously usable
Web-based systems and applications.
The Special Issue of Engineering Letters on Web Engineering covers
processes, methodologies, system design, architectures, lifecycle and
management of large Web-based systems, as well as education and
research issues. In addition, illustrative case studies and best
practices showing successful employment of Web Engineering techniques
and principles are also welcome.
Topics include, but not limited to:

Web application development processes and methodologies
Collaborative Web application development
Design models and methods
Hypertext models and their application on the Web
OO technology and component-based Web engineering
Federated and cross-organizational Web applications
Service-oriented Web application approaches
Web application frameworks and architectures
Peer-to-Peer approaches for Web application architectures
Reuse and integration
Systematic reuse of Web services
Use and integration of meta-data in Web applications
Web design patterns and pattern mining
Managing Web application design, evolution and maintenance
Web personalization
Adaptive Web applications
Web metrics, quality measures and evaluation
Web application usability
Testing automation, methods and tools for Web applications
Web application deployment
Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation
Development teams and Web project management
Legal obligations
Case studies
Submission
Authors must submit an electronic copy (in Word or pdf) of their
complete manuscript directly to the Guest Editor (syrma@cti.gr or
tzimas@cti.gr) with subject "Submission to EL".


Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for concurrent
consideration elsewhere. All submitted papers will be subject to the
standard journal refereeing process and evaluated on originality,
relevance, significance, and readability. There are no page charges for
papers that appear in the special issue. Submission details are
available through http://www.engineeringletters.com
Papers will be reviewed by two independent reviewers. The indicative
list of reviewers include:

Spiros Sirmakessis, Assistant Professor, Computer Technology Institute,
TEI of Messolongi
Giannis Tzimas, Dr., Computer Technology Institute
Athanasios Tsakalidis, Professor, University of Patras, Computer
Technology Institute
Panayiotis Pintelas, Professor Department of Mathematics, University of
Patras
Michalis Xenos, Assistant Professor, Hellenic Open University,
Maria Rigou, Dr., Computer Technology Institute
Important Dates

Submissions due April 10, 2006

Notification of acceptance
 June 19, 2006

Camera ready submission
 August 25, 2006


More Information and Paper Submission

Spiros SIRMAKESSIS
Assistant Professor
Computer Technology Institute
N. Kazantzaki Str., Patras University Campus
265 04 Patras, Greece
Tel: +302610 960 420, Fax: +302610 960322
Email: syrma@cti.gr  Giannis TZIMAS
Computer Technology Institute
N. Kazantzaki Str., Patras University Campus
265 04 Patras, Greece
Tel: +302610 960 420, Fax: +302610 960322
Email: tzimas@cti.gr


Guest Editors


Spiros Sirmakessis, Assistant Professor


Dr Spiros Sirmakessis, is an Assistant Professor in the Technological
Institution of Messolongi and the Manager of the Internet and
Multimedia Technologies Research Unit of the Research Academic Computer
Technology Institute (http://www.cti.gr). He is working in the area of
designing and evaluating web-systems. He is author of three books with
published research work in international journals and conferences.


Giannis Tzimas, PhD

Dr Giannis Tzimas is the technical coordinator of the Internet and
Multimedia Technologies Research Unit in Research Academic Computer
Technology Institute (http://www.cti.gr). He has significant
professional experience in Web applications' design and development and
his research interests include Web Engineering, Web Modeling, Web based
Education and Intranets/Extranets technologies. He has a significant
number of publications in international journals and conferences at
these areas.


Engineering Letters
http://www.engineeringletters.com
http://www.engineeringletters.com/special_issues.html
ISSN: 1816-0948 (online version); 1816-093X (print version)
Subject Category: Computer science and engineering

Published by:
International Association of Engineers
http://www.iaeng.org



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