--- Please re-send to whom may be interested. Sorry for cross-postings ----- *1st. International Congress on WEB STUDIES* March 3 to 5, 2010. Monterrey Tech at Toluca, Mexico CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st international congress on Web Studies aims at providing a venue for researchers and professionals from different backgrounds for discussion, study, practical demonstrations, sharing, and exchange on new developments and theories regarding the World Wide Web. The congress therefore invites contributions from a heterogeneous set of fields and domains such as: Web systems, computational intelligence, human-computer interaction, digital theory, Web sociology, and well as interactive and digital arts. We also encourage contributions from businesses and organizations. TOPICS OF INTEREST • Theoretical and social approaches • Web as new medium • Information and communication • New uses and forms of creation • Languages and systems • Architecture and Cloud Computing • Web inteligent and Semantic Web • Web and Art, Net Art • Visualization, 3D and interactivity IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION • January 10, 2010: Short Paper, Poster, Workshop and Demo Submissions • January 24, 2010: Decisions on Short Paper, Poster and Demo Submissions: • February 7, 2010: Camera Ready Submissions for all Papers • Congress dates: Wednesday, March 3 to Friday, March 5, 2010 Submission types and guidelines for authors can be consulted at: http://webstudies.info/submission.html Accepted papers and posters will be published by Europia Publishing, Paris, and distributed in the CD and book of proceedings KEYNOTE SPEAKERS • Dr. Robert K. Logan, University of Toronto, Canada • Dr. Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria • Dr. Imad Saleh, University of Paris VIII, France VENUE Web Studies 2010 will be held at Monterrey Tech Campus Toluca facilities. The campus is located in the city of Toluca, about 50 min. from Mexico City. Web Studies congress is a non-commercial event. We are glad to announce that we have got funds to offer scholarships, which allow us not to charge any registration fee. Confirming your assistance includes publishing, congress, workshops, CD of proceedings, coffee breaks, and shuttle to/from the official hotel. *Travel expenses and accommodation are not covered by Web Studies*. Our suggested hotel is *Holiday Inn Express & Suites*, which offers special rates starting at 79 USD including: transportation, buffet breakfast, evening cocktail, and unlimited WiFi. CONTACT AND CO-CHAIRMEN Dr. Everardo Reyes-García Monterrey Tech at Toluca, Mexico (+52) 722 2 79 99 90 ext. 2215 everardo.reyes@itesm.mx Dr. Imad Saleh University of Paris VIII, France (+33) 1 49 40 67 58 imad.saleh@univ-paris8.fr