[Sigcr-l] ACM SAC'2008 - Special Track on Web Technologies - CFP

[Youakim BADR]

                             CALL FOR PAPERS

     The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) 

                   Special Track on Web Technologies

         http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~dbenslim/sac2008-wt.html

                             Fortaleza, Brazil
                             March 16-20, 2008

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Overview 
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The increasing popularity and advances in Web technologies (XML, Web
services, semantic Web, etc.) are enabling the development of new classes of
applications and new trends in the design of Information Systems.
This track focuses on emerging Web technologies, architectures, and
methodologies for building and managing advanced Web information systems.
The Internet and the related technologies have created an interconnected
world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed
collaboratively, communities of users with similar interests can be formed
to achieve efficiency and improve performance, while security threats are
present more than ever before.
The goal of this track is to bring together researchers from academia and
industry who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects
of Web Technologies. It will present an opportunity for researchers to get
together and share recent developments and techniques in order to identify
the critical problems and the most promising research avenues. This track
addresses the challenging Web technologies issues focusing on exploring
novel methods, techniques, and trends to build up and manage information
systems. 

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Topics of Interests 
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We solicit original research and industrial papers in the area of web-based
information technologies with a special interest in the following topics: 
•	Emerging Web Technologies (e.g., Web 2.0 and AJAX) 
•	Wireless Mobile Web 
•	Web Information Systems 
•	Security, Privacy, and Trust of Web Technologies 
•	Quality of Web Services 
•	Web-Centric Systems 
•	Web Services 
•	Software Architectures for Web Services 
•	Business Process Integration 
•	Web Engineering 
•	Service-Oriented Architecture 
•	Industrial Experiences with Web Technologies
•	Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 
•	Web Databases
•	Web Metrics, Monitoring and Analysis
•	Case Studies on Web Services-based Applications and Systems
•	Web-based applications and solutions for e-commerce & B2B 

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Paper Submissions 
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All submissions will be subjected to at least two to three blind reviews to
ensure unbiased review process. 
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2008 proceedings and are
also available online through ACM.s Digital Library. 
Prospective papers should be submitted per track using the provided
automated submission system. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks
is not allowed. For submission guidelines and more information please visit
the SAC 2008 web-site (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/).

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Important Dates
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  * September 8, 2007: paper submission
  * October 16, 2007:  acceptance/rejection notification
  * October 30, 2007:  camera-ready copy

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Track Chairs
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  * Youakim Badr (INSA-Lyon, France)
  * Djamal Benslimane (University of Lyon, France)
  * Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, Dubai, UAE)

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Programme Committee 
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David Bell (Brunel University, UK)
Salima Benbernou (Lyon 1 University, France)  
Alexandre Bergel (University of Potsdam, Germany)  
Brian Blake (Georgetown University, USA)  
Jorge Cardoso (Madeira University, Portugal)  
Beniamino Di Martino (University of Napoli, Italy)  
Flavius Frasincar (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)  
Faiez Gargouri (University of Safx, Tunisia)  
Karl M. Goeschka (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)  
Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)  
Erwin Leonardi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)  
Axel Küpper (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany)  
Saravanan Muthaiyah (George Mason University, USA)  
Ingo Mueller (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)  
Chrsitelle Vangenot (EPFL of Lausanne, Switzerland)  
Athanasios Vasilakos (University of Western Macedonia,Greece)  
Quan Z. Sheng (University of Adelaide, Australia)  
Fabrizio Silvestri (National Research Council, Italy)  
Peter Stanchev (Kettering University, USA)  
Mariemma Yagüe (University of Málaga, Spain)
(TBC)

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General Inquiries
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For further information, please visit
http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~dbenslim/sac2008-wt.html or send emails to
wt at insa-lyon.fr