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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 29 July 2011  --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2011
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5 - 8 November 2011
(http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava,
Slovakia
Professor Nivio Ziviani, Professor Emeritus at Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brazil
 
* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2011 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 (2nd call): 29 July 2011
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): 9 September 2011
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call): Until 30 September 2011
- Late Registration (2nd call): After 30 September 2011
- Conference: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5 to 8 November 2011

* Conference Location 
The conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

* Secretariat 
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2011 
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal 
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee 

Program Chair
Bebo White, Stanford University, USA

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Flávia Maria Santoro, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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 2011 (http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 6-8 November 2011 and CELDA 2011 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 6-8 November 2011. 

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