IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2003 5 to 8 November 2003, Algarve, Portugal CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 14 April 2003 Website: http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003 * Conference background and goals The IADIS WWW/Internet 2003 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/ Internet studies. The Internet has undergone massive development in recent years, and research increasingly focuses not only on technical issues, but also on other aspects. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below), but innovative contributions that don't fit into these areas will also be considered. * Format of the Conference The conference will be comprised of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference 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 International Journal on WWW/Internet. * Types of submissions Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. * Topics related to e-Society are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - Accessibility - Adaptive Web Systems - Collaboration - Computer-Mediated Communication - Data Mining - Database Planning and Development - Digital Libraries and E-Publishing - Distributed and Parallel Applications - E-Business and E-Commerce - E-Government - E-Learning - Electronic Data Interchange - Quality, Evaluation and Assessment - Extensible Languages - Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet - Groupware - Human Computer Interaction - Hypermedia - Information Architectures - Information Visualization - Intelligent Agents - Interfaces - Internet Services - Languages - Metadata - Multimedia - Performance Issues - Personalized Web Sites and Services - Portal strategies - Protocols and Standards - Searching and Browsing - Security Issues - Semantic Web - Storage Issues - System Integration - Teaching and Learning Strategies - Technology Innovation and Competitiveness - Technology Management - Technology Strategies - Tele-Work - WWW/Internet Applications - WWW/Internet Case studies - WWW/Internet Impacts - Web Engineering - Web Personalization - Wireless Applications - Ubiquitous Computing - Usability - User Modelling - Virtual Communities - Virtual Reality - XML * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: 14 April 2003 - Notification to Authors: 13 June 2003 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 27 June 2003 - Late Registration: After 27 June 2003 - Conference: Algarve, 5 to 8 November 2003 * Conference Location The conference will be held in Algarve, Portugal. * Secretariat IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2003 Rua Tomas Ribeiro, 45 1-Dto 1050-225 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secretariat@iadis.org Web site: http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003 * Scientific Committee Conference Chair Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Program Chair Nitya Karmakar, University of Western Sydney, Australia Committee Members: * Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria Andry Rakotonirainy, University of Queensland, Australia Anne-Marie Vercoustre, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Christof Fetzer, AT&T Research Labs, USA Donald Needham, US Naval Academy, USA Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy Frank Wang, London Metropolitan University, UK Gabriele Kotsis, University of Linz, Austria Guido Wirtz, University of Münster, Germany Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany Heidi Ellis, Rensselaer at Hartford, USA Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA James Thong, H.K. University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Jan Damsgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Jinlin Chen, University Of Pittsburgh, USA José Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, UK Kai Jakobs, Technical University of Aachen, Germany Karin Hogstedt, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Karthick Rajamani, IBM Austin Research Lab, USA Katy Borner, Indiana University, US Klaus Turowski, Uni Augsburg, Germany Kristian Hammond, Northwestern University, USA Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy Luminita Vasiu, Middlesex University, UK Maggie McPherson, University of Sheffield, UK Mark Gaynor, Harvard University, USA Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Mathias Bauer, German Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait Melissa Lee Price, Staffordshire University, UK Michael Welzl, University of Innsbruck, Austria Miguel Ángel Sicilia Urban, Carlos III University, Spain Mikko Siponen, University of Oulu, Finland Nicola Henze, Institut Für Technische Informatik, Germany Pascal Felber, Institut EURECOM, France Peter Martini, University of Bonn, Germany Petrie Coetzee, Technikon Pretoria, South Africa Piet Ribbers, Tilburg University, Netherlands Ram Rajamony, IBM Austin Research Lab, USA Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden, USA Steven A. Demurjian, The University of Connecticut, USA Thomas Meuser, University of Applied Sciences Hochschule Niederrhein, Germany Tiffany A. Koszalka, Syracuse University, USA Tim Weitzel, Frankfurt University, Germany Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway Umberto Martini, University of Trento, Italy Vitorino Ramos, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal * list not yet complete E-mail enquiries: secretariat@iadis.org Website: http://www.iadis.org/icwi2003