[Asis-l] Call For Submissions – AUSWEB 06: The Twelfth Australasian World Wide Web Conference, July 1-5, 2006 - Australis Noosa Lakes Resort – Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

[Dr Amanda Spink]

International Call For Submissions – AUSWEB 06: The Twelfth Australasian World Wide Web Conference, July 1-5, 2006 - Australis Noosa Lakes Resort – Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

AusWeb is the primary forum for the Australian educational sector, industry, government and cultural institutions to discuss the rapidly evolving technologies and usage of the Web. AusWeb provides an informal and supportive environment, with the programme being designed to facilitate open discussion and debate. NOTE: the AusWeb series of conferences does not require exclusive assignment of copyright by authors.
 
AUSWEB 06 Keynote Speaker: 
Professor Amanda Spink, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology
Presentation: Web Search and Web Search Engine Overlap – What’s the Deal?

Possible Topics
For AusWeb06, we are interested in receiving submissions that deal with any of the following topics:
Learning objects and tools
Assessment and Evaluation 
Learning Management and Learning Content Management Systems 
Educational design 
Usability and Accessibility 
Internationalization in online education
Lifelong and Workplace Learning 
Information Literacy 
Learner support and Learner Relationship Management 
Copyright and IP issues
Rights Management 
Educational Multimedia
eCommerce/eBusiness strategies and issues 
Online marketing strategies and issues 
Commercial Website design effectiveness 
Measuring online customer experiences 
Interactivity in eBusiness effectiveness 
Integrated marketing communication and the Web 
Online marketing research 
Brands and the Web 
Business logistics and the Web 
Alliance strategies and the Web 
Direct response marketing and the Web 
Online media metrics 
Customer relationship management and the Web 
eCommerce/eBusiness inter-country comparisons 
New products/services/experiences and the Web 
International marketing 
Privacy and legal compliance issues 
The impact of the Web on society and privacy
Intellectual property, copyright, patents, brand names 
Electronic publishing and the Open Access movement 
Cooperative versus proprietary models on the Web 
Access to information 
Libraries and the Web
Museums and cultural institutions in a Web context
eGovernment and archive issues 
Search engines and portals 
Web languages, standards, formats and protocols 
Agent technologies 
Web-based collaboration 
Web systems, components and architectures 
Information retrieval, navigation and searching 
Web hypertext and hypermedia construction 
Web system design and evaluation 
Multimedia and Synchronisation 
XML and applications of XML 
The semantic Web, metadata, RDF, etc. 
Web performance
Sociology/cultural studies of the Web
Web as agent of transformation

Initial Submission
Make your initial submission in any of the following formats HTML (preferred) or Text or RTF or Word. You do not have to comply with any particular stylesheet at the submission phase. If accepted, you will need to supply the final version of your submission as an HTML formatted document using the AusWeb stylesheet which will be made available from the AusWeb06 server. 

Refereed Full Papers
Refereed full papers (3,500 to 5,000 words) are designed to allow the presentation of completed research projects, reports of innovative uses of web technologies in universities, industry, government and cultural institutions such as libraries,  archives, publishers and museums, and case histories. 

The AusWeb conference series is designed so that refereed full papers are eligible for inclusion in an institution's DEST statistics. This is ensured by the following practices: The conference is nationally significant, and the promotional material, the speakers and attendees and the program reflect this. Papers are independently peer reviewed on the basis of the full paper (rather than just on an abstract) and there will be clear evidence that this is the case, ranging from statements in the promotional material to referees comments. The full paper will be published, not an abstract or digest. The proceedings will be available more widely than just to conference delegates on request to the conference office
 
Refereeing of papers will be done by members of an expert Review Panel (including international scholars) to DEST refereed conference paper standards using a two-stage double-blind review process. We will try to make this process as quick as possible so that you have as much time as possible to produce the final version of your paper (if accepted). Because the refereeing is double-blind, please ensure that author(s) name(s) or other identifying information, including obvious self-citations, do not appear on your submission to ensure anonymity. 
 
Refereed Full Papers are to be submitted initially to the Programme Chair, Andrew Treloar. Email: andrew.treloar at its.monash.edu.au, who will then redirect them to specialist track chairs as required. Submissions not accepted as Refereed Full Papers may be accepted as Edited Short Papers (see below).
 
Refereed Full Paper Key Dates
Initial submission of full paper for consideration:  7th March
Full paper decisions: 7th April
Final, formatted papers submitted to the AusWeb server: 12th May 
Papers published on the Web: 2nd June

Edited Short Papers
Short edited papers (250 to 1000 words) are primarily designed to complement presented posters, but can be submitted on their own. They are designed to allow for the presentation of new ideas or works in progress. The papers are not refereed but are edited if needed. The papers are published in the conference proceedings. Presentation of the short papers takes place concurrently with the Poster session. Edited Short papers are to be submitted directly to the Programme Chair, Andrew Treloar. Email: andrew.treloar at its.monash.edu.au. Acceptance decisions will be made by a small Short Paper subcommittee.
 Short Paper Key Dates
Submission of proposals: 14th April
Decisions: 21st April
Final, formatted papers submitted to the AusWeb server: 12th May
Papers published on the Web: 2nd June

Posters
We are also calling for submissions to a more traditional Posters stream. The Posters are designed to showcase the most innovative developments on the Web from Australia and around the Web. Posters are typically in a large display format and are designed to allow the presentation of research in progress, demonstrate pre-release software or get feedback from attendees on new ideas. The details of the poster presentations (around 500 words) will be published on the Web, in the printed proceedings and on CD-ROM. We also encourage poster authors to write up their ideas as edited short papers. Poster proposals are to be submitted directly to the Programme Chair, Andrew Treloar. Email: andrew.treloar at its.monash.edu.au. Acceptance decisions will be made by a small Poster subcommittee.

Best Poster and Best Paper Awards
It is an AusWeb tradition to acknowledge the best paper at each conference with the Paul Thistlewaite Award. This award consists of a certificate plus a complimentary registration at the following years conference. The latter is made possible by our long time sponsor Explain XML Specialists (http://www.explain.com.au/) and is presented by their CEO Steve Ball. We also offer a Best Poster Award which consists of a certificate and complimentary registration for a tutorial or workshop at the following years conference. 

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Amanda Spink
Professor of Information Technology
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus
2 George St, GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au
Tel: 61-7-3864-9583 Fax: 61-7-3864-2703
Email: ah.spink at qut.edu.au
Homepage: http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/