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                        WWW2004 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
           The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference
                    May 17-22, 2004  New York City, NY USA
                            http://www2004.org/
              Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2003

The WWW2004 conference will be held in Manhattan at the Sheraton Hotel.
The
technical program will include refereed paper presentations, alternate
track
presentations, plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials
and
workshops will precede the main program, and a Developers Day, devoted
to
in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for Web developers,
will
follow.

IMPORTANT DATES

       Tutorial/workshop proposals deadline: October 15, 2003
       Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2003
       Panel proposals deadline: November 14, 2003
       Poster submission starts: January 15, 2004
       Poster submission deadline: February 7, 2004
       Author notification (papers): January 31, 2004
       Developers Day deadline: February 14, 2004
       Final papers due: February 28, 2004
       Author notification (posters): March 14, 2004
       Industrial Practice track deadline: March 15, 2004
       Conference:May 17-22, 2004

REFEREED PAPERS TRACK

WWW2004 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the
Web.
Papers should not have been published or be in submission at another
conference
or journal. Topics include but are not limited to:
   Applications
   Browsers and User Interfaces
   Data Mining
   Electronic Commerce (potential papers should be submitted to the EC'04
   Conference, which is co-located with WWW2004)
   Mobility and Wireless Access
   Performance and Reliability
   Search
   Security and Privacy
   Semantic Web
   Web Engineering

Submissions should present original reports of substantive new
work. 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 will be peer-reviewed by at
least 3 reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted
papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will also be accessible
to the general public via http://www2004.org/. Authors are not
required to transfer copyright. Papers must be submitted
electronically in PDF format, and must be formatted using the ACM
proceedings format. Detailed formatting requirements will be available
on http://www2004.org/. The official language of the conference is
English. Inquiries can be sent to [log in to unmask]

ALTERNATE TRACKS

Alternate tracks include a combination of peer-reviewed papers and
invited
presentations. Topics include:
   Education
   Web of Communities
   Web Services
   Industrial Practice
   Panels
   W3C Track (latest news and views from the World Wide Web Consortium)
Invited
   papers only

Inquiries can be sent to [log in to unmask]

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Marc Najork, Microsoft Research
Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

POSTERS

Posters provide a forum for late-breaking research, and facilitate
feedback in an informal setting. Posters are peer-reviewed. Formatting
and publication details will be available on http://www2004.org/.

The poster area provides an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent Web-related
research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal
setting. It gives conference attendees a way to learn about innovative
works in progress in a timely and informal manner.

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to Web
design,
development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These half and
full-day
sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and
experienced
instructors using prepared content.

Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers, designers, leaders,
and
practitioners to explore current Web R&D issues through a more focused
and
in-depth manner than is possible in a traditional conference session.
Participants typically present position statements and hold in-depth
discussions with their peers within the workshop setting.

DEVELOPERS DAY

Developers Day (D-Day) will be devoted to the interests of Web
developers, and
will offer in-depth discussions of technologies and tools at the
forefront of
the Web. This day-long program will consist of several parallel streams
focused
on specific content areas. D-Day sessions are designed to be timely and
state-of-the-art.

REFEREED TRACK AREA CHAIRS

Applications:
Vice Chair: Corin Anderson, Google, USA
Deputy Vice Chair: Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, USA

Browsers and UI:
Vice Chair: Andreas Paepcke, Stanford University, USA
Deputy Vice Chair: Bay-Wei Chang, Google, USA

Data Mining:
Vice Chair: Krishna Bharat, Google, USA
Deputy Vice Chair: Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden, USA

Electronic Commerce:
WWW2004 Liason to EC2004 Conference: David Pennock, Overture Services,
USA
WWW2004 Liason to EC2004 Conference: Mark Manasse, Microsoft Research,
USA

Mobility and Wireless Access:
Vice Chair: Yoelle Maarek, IBM Haifa, Israel
Deputy Vice Chair: Jason Nieh, Columbia University, USA

Performance and Reliability:
Vice Chair: Mike Dahlin, University of Texas Austin, USA
Deputy Vice Chair: Steve Gribble, University of Washington, USA

Search:
Vice Chair: Prabhakar Raghavan, Verity, USA
Deputy Vice Chair: Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA

Security and Privacy:
Vice Chair: Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Research, USA
Deputy Vice Chair: Patrick McDaniel, AT&T Research, USA

Semantic Web:
Vice Chair: Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs, USA
Deputy Vice Chair: Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Web Engineering:
Vice Chair: Daniel Schwabe, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de
Janeiro,
Brazil
Deputy Vice Chair: Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

ALTERNATE TRACK CHAIRS

Education:
Co-Chair: Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Co-Chair: Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany

Web of Communities:
Co-Chair: David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
Co-Chair: Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University, Australia

Industrial Practice:
Chair: Raymie Stata, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Deputy Chair: William Cook, University of Texas Austin, USA

Web Services:
Chair: Francisco (Paco) Curbera, IBM Research, USA
Deputy Chair: Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands

W3C:
Chair: Marie-Claire Forgue, W3C, France

Panels:
Chair: Lloyd Rutledge, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Deputy Chair: Mary Ellen Zurko, IBM, USA

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS

Arun Iyengar, IBM Research, USA
Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA

POSTER CO-CHAIRS

Chair: Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Deputy Chair: Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA

DEVELOPERS DAY CO-CHAIRS:

TBD

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Stuart Feldman, IBM
Michael Uretsky, New York University

IW3C2 Liason to WWW2004

Vincent Shen, W3C

IW3C2 LIAISON TO THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Arun Iyengar, IBM Research, USA

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2)

New York University Center For Advanced Technology

IBM

ACM

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

IFIP Working Group 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

General questions about WWW2004 may be sent to [log in to unmask]