------------------------1st ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------

                  IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2002
                      November 13-15, 2002 - LISBON, PORTUGAL
                            (http://www.iadis.org/icwi2002)

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2002 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.

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Accessibility
- Adaptive Web Systems
- Collaboration
- Cyber Law
- Data Mining
- Database Planning and Development
- Digital Libraries and E-Publishing
- Digital Textuality
- E-Business and E-Commerce
- E-Learning
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Geographical Information Systems
- Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet
- Groupware
- Human Computer Interaction
- Information Architectures
- Information Visualization
- Intelligent Agents
- Interfaces
- Languages
- Metadata
- Multimedia
- Portal Strategies
- Protocols and Standards
- Quality in WWW/Internet Systems
- Searching and Browsing
- Security Issues
- Storage Issues
- System Integration
- Technology Strategies
- Tele-Work
- WWW/Internet Case Studies
- Web Personalization
- Wireless Applications
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Virtual Communities
- Virtual Reality
- XML

* Format of the Confernce
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the form of a book. The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal of WWW/Internet.

* Submission of Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation or posters in any of the areas listed above.

* Important Dates
Submission Deadline - 15 May 2002
Notification to Authors - 5 July 2002
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 31 July 2002
Late Registration - After 31 July 2002

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal at the IST Congress Center.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2002
Rua Tomas Ribeiro, 45 1-Dto
1050-225 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/icwi2002

* Scientific Committee

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

Committee Members*:
Antonio Camara, FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Brian Mackie, Northern Illinois University, USA
Carmen Pancerella, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Christof Fetzer, AT&T Research Labs, USA
Dahlia Malkhi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Lab, USA
Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Enrico Motta, The Open University, United Kingdom
Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA
Guido Wirtz, University of Münster, Germany
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu, Finland
Jacqueline Bourdeau, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
James Thong, H.K. University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Jochen Schiller, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft, USA
Juan Cueva Lovelle, Oviedi University, Spain
Kai Jakobs, Technical University of Aachen, Germany
Katy Borner, Indiana University, USA
K. van der Meer, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand
Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Lyn Henderson, James Cook University, Australia
Luis Olsina, UNLPam, Argentina
Marco Painho, ISEGI - New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Max Muehlhaeuser, Tech University of Darmstadt, Germany
Michel Crampes, Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France
Nandish Patel, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Nitya Karmakar, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Nuno Guimaraes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Peter Gregor, University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Piet Ribbers, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Pirkko Walden, Abo Akademi, Finland
Subbarayan Venkatesan, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Susana Pajares Tosca, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Tiffany A. Koszalka, Syracuse University, USA

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