14th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2014)

ICWE 2014 

14th International Conference on Web Engineering

"Engineering the Web for users, developers and the crowd"

Toulouse, France | July 1-4 2014 - http://icwe2014.webengineering.org/

(call for research papers, industrial papers and late breaking results)

ICWE 2014 AT A GLANCE
ICWE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines in academia and industry to tackle the emerging challenges in the engineering of Web applications and in the problems of its associated technologies, as well as the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The 14th edition of ICWE is centered around the theme of “Engineering the Web for users, developers and the crowd”, hereby highlighting the importance of all the different people that, somehow, participate in the development process of interactive Web applications and, ultimately, becomes the actors and the main users of the best practices and results of the research performed in the domain of the Web Engineering. ICWE 2014 is innovating with the introduction of six major research tracks: cross-media and mobile applications, HCI and the Web, modelling and engineering web applications, quality aspects of Web applications, social web applications, and Web applications composition and mashups. In addition to the six research tracks, ICWE 2014 also welcomes contributions as demos and posters, student papers to the PhD Symposium, tutorials and workshops, which will be subject of individual calls for papers. The conference will be held at Toulouse, France Toulouse which is the 3rd university city of France and it hosts one of the oldest in Europe (founded in 1229). Further information on the web site http://icwe2014.webengineering.org/.

SUBMISSIONS TO THE RESEARCH TRACKS
This call is concerned by research and industrial contributions in one of the following categories:
* Full research papers: mature, original research contribution ideally accompanied with some type of formal/empirical validation, evidence of use in practice and/or demonstration of scalability (18 pages)
* Industrial papers: description of commercial solutions that are highly innovative, discuss trends in the market and/or challenge the community to find solutions to new problems (18 pages)
* Late breaking results: description of preliminary results and/or ongoing efforts that present new ideas and concepts. (10 pages)
Obs.:  Accepted contributions will be included into the ICWE 2014 Springer LNCS proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract submission: February 14, 2014 (23h59 Hawaii Time)
* Full paper submission: February 18, 2014 (23h59 Hawaii Time)
* Paper notification: March 28, 2014

ICWE 2014 RESEARCH TRACKS (further details at http://icwe2014.webengineering.org/main-tracks/)

* Cross-media and mobile Web applications
The modern Web use is nomadic and across various devices - often simultaneously - and the Web experience should be enjoyable, of high quality and consistent across all devices, regardless of the purpose, place and time of use. Such mobile, cross-device usage forces Web developers to evolve or re-invent their engineering methods and techniques to these new requirements and user demands. Web applications have to be tailored to deal with the constraints imposed by mobile technology such as small screens, low (and sometimes expensive) bandwidth, limited browser capabilities, different usage situations, cross- and multi-device use. Simultaneously, modern mobile devices offer a rich set of sensors, available through current Web browsers, allowing Web pages access to geo-location, NFC, and other sensor data, as well as tracking user identity across devices. Also, he rise of the app as an alternative for Web sites is a concern to be addressed to ensure a future, open Web.

* HCI and the Web
Most Web applications are conceived as interactive systems that aim at communicating with users. Users do not only consume information via the Web, but can also play an active role by contributing content (e.g., Web 2.0), get involved in the development process of Web applications (e.g., agile and user-centered design processes) and even conceive their own components by interacting with specialized tools (e.g., end-user development tools). In this context, there are many user roles involved in the socio-technical environment encompassing the development of Web applications. This track is devoted to the studies on user interface software and technologies that improve the relationship between users and Web applications. We welcome research focused on improving usability, accessibility, and user experience with Web applications, as well as user-centered design approaches that describe how Web technology and innovative design solutions can help users to better accomplish their tasks over the Web.

* Modeling and Engineering Web applications
The Modeling and Engineering Web applications track concerns principles, methods, notations, processes, approaches, and tools for supporting the development and evolution of high-quality Web applications in a more effective and efficient way. Model-driven approaches are of particular interest for addressing complexity, scalability, and maintainability of solutions for the development of Web applications, improving communication among participants of the development teams, and supporting the development of innovative tools and process. Furthermore, empirical and comparative studies of applying Web engineering methods and approaches, especially model-driven ones, are of particular interest.

* Quality aspects of Web applications
The development and usage of Web applications in different platforms and devices are continuously increasing. Web applications have become the most predominant form of software delivery today, with users and businesses choosing to rent or use software rather than buy it. The success of such applications depends on their capability to satisfy the customer needs. This has led to increased attention on quality models, processes and methods that facilitate understanding, evaluating, and especially improving the overall quality of products, processes and quality in use.

* Social Web applications
Social aspects are an integral part of todays Web, and the widespread use of the Web to connect, share and tap into collective knowledge provides a wealth of actionable data. The crowd can be deployed in various ways, i.e. the so-called crowdsourcing and human computation applications, and their generated data is valuable for developers, researchers and marketers alike. Successfully tapping into the crowds knowledge, and gathering, analyzing, and visualizing complex, heterogeneous social data, and putting it to good use are major current challenges.

* Web applications composition and mashups
Composition on the Web aims to integrate Web services, Web data sources and Web widgets into other Web services or Web applications. Mashups, and especially mashup tools with their modeling languages and instruments for mashup development, bring significant innovation as they tackle integration across the data, API and user interface layers; they aim at simplicity and ease of use rather than completeness of features and full expressiveness (compared to traditional Web programming languages and tools), but still they allow fairly sophisticated development tasks in a Web browser. Hereby, mashups represent an important and emerging strain of Web applications, with their own set of research challenges and opportunities.
  

ORGANIZATION
General Chair: 
    Marco Winckler, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
    Contact: generalchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Program Chairs:
    Sven Casteleyn,Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
    Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina
    Contact: pcchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Research Track chairs:
    Cross-media and mobile Web applications
    In-young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
    Niels Olof Bouvin, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Contact: mobile.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org
 
    HCI and the Web
    Fabio Paternò,University of Pisa, Italy
    José Antonio Gallud, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
    Contact: hci.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

    Modeling and Engineering Web applications
    Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    Manuel Wimmer, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
    Contact: modeling.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

    Quality aspects of Web applications    Silvia Abrahão,Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
    Filomena Ferrucci, Università di Salerno, Italy
    Contact: quality.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

    Social Web applications  
    Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
    Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Contact: socialweb.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

    Web applications composition and mashups
    Cesare Pautasso (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
    Takehiro Tokuda (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
    Contact: mashup.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Demo and Poster Chairs:
    Michael Nebeling, ETH, Switzerland
    Jordi Cabot, INRIA / École des Mines de Nantes, France
    Contact: demochair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Phd Symposium Chairs:
    Martin Gaedke, Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany
    Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    Contact: phdchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Tutorial Chairs:
    Luis Olsina, Universidad National de la Pampa, Argentina
    Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
    Contact: tutorialchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Workshop Chair:
    Santiago Melia, University of Alicante, Spain
    Contact: workshopchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

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Special Issue - Uncovering Deception in Social Media - SNAM

Uncovering Deception in Social Media

A Special Issue in Springer Journal Social Network Analysis and Mining

Guest Editors: Huan Liu (ASU), Jiawei Han (UIUC), and Hiroshi Motoda

(Osaka University)

Social media is quickly arising as a new, popular form of media. Facebook,
Twitter, and LinkedIn are some examples of an inordinate number of social
media services that are loved and used by people of all walks of life for
various purposes such as sharing news, expressing opinions, documenting
thoughts, launching political campaigns, maintaining and developing
friendships or professional connection. Some key characteristics of social
media include low entry barrier, instant updates (thus, instant
gratification), large numbers of friends, open platform, and anonymity.
The last two properties make people comfortable to become users but also
make social media vulnerable to activities of ill intentions.

Deception in social media is an epitome of such activities. Deception is a
distortion with an intention to mislead users, analysts, organizations,
etc. A distortion can be about content, source, identity, age, sex, or
location, among many. Deception is encouraged or made easy by the unique
circumstances of social media. Deception is rampant in social media for a
wide range of reasons, being an innocent white lie or resulting in a dire
consequence where one?s job or life is at stake. Hence, it is important to
research deception in social media. It is necessary to uncover deception
in social media so that we can improve our awareness and confidence in
using social media, design and develop countermeasures to ?separate wheat
from chaff? to minimize negative impact of deception.
This special issue aims to identify issues of deception in social media,
review the state-of-the-art research on deception, offer a convenient
venue for sharing multi-disciplinary research findings, and identifying
pressing issues and future challenges.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
* Forms of deceptions: disinformation, misinformation, honeypot accounts,
wiki-circularity, and impersonation
* Features associated with deceptions: linguistic features, interactive
features, etc.
* Sources of deceptions: adversaries, hoax, privacy related, white lies,
sites of special interests/design
* Handling deceptions: assessment, detection, prediction, and tracking
* Deception theories and practices: how extant social and psychological
theories can be adapted to social media study, new needs of social media
* Data for deception research: benchmarks, and data of good practice
* Performance evaluation: evolving nature of deception, ground truth, and
metrics
* Applications: Health, Cybersecurity, Online Search, Online
Advertisement, Online Communications,
* Related topics: provenance, trust, credibility, spam, gaming, and fraud

For submission, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/snam/ by
selecting Article Type "S.I.: Uncovering Deception in Social Media"

Important Dates: Submissions due on June 15, 2013; Review results due on
September 15, 2013; Manuscripts due on November 15, 2013; Expected
publication date ? early 2014.

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Special Issue on Trusting the Social Web - WWWJ

Special Issue Call for Papers: 

Trusting the Social Web

World Wide Web Journal 

http://WWWJ.edmgr.com

Guest Editors:
Dr. Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia, Email: Surya.Nepal@CSIRO.AU
Dr. Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Email: Cecile.Paris@CSIRO.AU
Prof. Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Email: athman.bouguettaya@rmit.edu.au


Social media has increasingly become mainstream for a variety of purposes
ranging from online journalism (e.g., blogs), online knowledge base (e.g.,
Wikepedia), online marketing (e.g., Twitter), to keep in touch with friends,
family and professional colleagues online (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.).
These technologies have given a birth of social media oriented Web, also
known as Social Web. The popularity of the Social Web is increasing
exponentially. It is reported that 66 percent of online adults are connected
to one or more social media platforms and 50 percent of them say they check
in to their favorite social media site first thing in the morning everyday.
This trend is likely to grow as the number of smartphones shipments is
expected to reach 1 billion by 2015 and the value of social commerce is
expected to reach 30 billion dollars within next five years. Similarly, 13
percent of digital news consumers follow the recommendations from Twitter
and FaceBook. Therefore, the Social Web is here to stay for the next decade
and will revolutionise the way we live right from communicating with our
family and friends to conducting businesses. In a nutshell, the Social Web
provides a unique platform for digitising our behavior which has enormous
potential to change the way we conduct ourselves.

The phenomenon of the Social Web has caught the attention of research
communities in the last decade. Researchers from diverse disciplines ranging
from social and behavior science to computer science have started looking at
the issues and challenges in the Social Web. Within computer science,
researchers from established research areas such as language technologies
and machine learning to emerging research areas such as service and cloud
computing have started looking at computational and development challenges
brought by Social Web. With the continued reports of breach of trust and
hoax news spreading from social media to mainstream news, trusting the
Social Web has become one of the major challenges that need to be addressed.
This special issue focuses on this challenge.

The Social Web provides a unique platform for sharing information and
knowledge for individuals as well as businesses.
As the Social Web is inherently open and free, it lacks the central control
or authority that asserts the trustworthiness of the people and content in
it. It is hard to distinguish what is rumor and what is truth. For example,
many statesmen/stateswomen (e.g., Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev,
Margaret Thatcher, etc) and celebrities (e.g, Lady Gaga, Eddie Murphy, etc.)
have witness their own death in the Social Web. This fake death news has
been filtered into the mainstream newspapers and televisions without much
scrutiny and verification due to the high competition of being the first to
report the news. On the flip side, Social Media plays a major role in
reporting political news (such as the Arab Spring) and natural disasters
(such as the Japan Tsunami and the New Zealand earthquakes), and it helps to
consolidate the global efforts towards them. Furthermore, people have
started relying on Social Web from travel to healthcare advice. Therefore,
it is important to address the issue of trust in the Social Web in order to
take full advantage of it for the betterment of human society. In the Social
Web, there are three essential entities that are involved in trust directly:
people, service providers and contents. In this special issue, we are
looking for innovative technologies and solutions from diverse disciplines
that address the issue of trust in the Social Web.

The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited
to:

- Algorithms and protocol of establishing trust in the Social Web
- Propagation of trust/rumor in the Social Web
- Mechanisms of establishing credibility of people in the Social Web
- Provenance of content in the Social Web
- Privacy in the Social Web
- Analysis of trust in existing Social Web platforms
- Case studies

Paper Submission:

Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.

Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of World Wide Web Journal a
web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Our online
system offers authors the ability to track the review process of their
manuscript.
Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://WWWJ.edmgr.com under the article
type "Trusting the Social Web." This online system offers easy and
straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range
of submission file formats.

Important Dates:

- Submission due: December 2012
- Notification of review results: March 2013
- Submission of revised version: May 2013
- Notification of second round: June 2013
- Final manuscript due: July 2013

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The 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012)

-- Call for Papers --

The 13th International Conference on

Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012)

http://www.wise2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/

November 28 - 30, 2012

Paphos, Cyprus

The aim of this thirteenth edition of the conference series on
Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an internation-
al forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practi-
tioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of
Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE
conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan
(2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia
(2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France
(2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), Poznan, Poland (2009), Hong
Kong, China (2010), and Sydney, Australia (2011).

The proceedings of WISE 2012 will be published in 2 separate vol-
umes by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series,
with best papers to be recommended for publication in special is-
sues of international journals (including World Wide Web).

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
Cloud Computing,
Discovering Social Web structures and models,
Deep/Hidden Web,
Event Processing and Event-driven Systems,
Evolution and temporal analysis of the Social Web,
Integration of the Web and Internet-connected Objects / IoT,
Linked Open Data,
Peer-Computing,
Rich Web UI,
Search, extraction, clustering & classification of Social Web,
Semantic Web,
Social web and Applications,
Web Agents and Web Intelligence,
Web-based Applications,
Web-based Business Processes and Web Services,
Web-based Enterprise Systems and Transactions,
Web Data Integration,
Web Data Mashup,
Web Data Models,
Web Information Retrieval,
Web Metrics and Performance,
Web Mining and Web Warehousing,
Web Monitoring and Management,
Web Security and Trust Management,
Web Tools and Languages,
Web Visualisation, and
XML and Semi-structured Data.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Research Paper Abstract Submission: June 15, 2012
Research Paper Submission: June 22, 2012
Demonstration Paper Submission: June 22, 2012
Paper Notification of Acceptance: August 3, 2012
Accepted Paper Camera-ready: August 31, 2012
Workshop Proposal Submission: May 18, 2012
Workshop Proposal Notification: May 25, 2012

HOW TO SUBMIT: Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based
on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. Manuscripts MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines
provided by Springer LNCS format and MUST NOT exceed
14 pages for research papers and 2 pages for demo papers.
Submissions are done through the EasyChair system at:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?time?out=1;conf=wise2012

A special issue of WWWJ is scheduled for extended versions of some
selected papers from the WISE2012 conference.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* General Co-Chairs:
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

* PC Co-Chairs:
Xiaoyang (Sean) Wang, Fudan University, China
Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece

* WISE Challenge Program/Track Co-Chairs:
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China

* Workshop Co-Chairs:
Armin Haller, CSIRO, Australia
Zhisheng Huan, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Demonstration Papers Co-Chairs:
Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Gustavo Rossi, La Plata
National University, Argentina

* Publication Chair:
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University, Australia

* Publicity Co-Chairs:
Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Jing Yang, Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

* Local Arrangement Chair:
Petros Stratis, Easyconferences Ltd.

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ACM RecSys 2012 Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web

CALL FOR PAPERS

4th Workshop on Recommender Systems & the Social Web

in conjunction with ACM RecSys 2012

Dublin, Ireland, September 9, 2012

http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/homepage/rsweb2012/

Submission Deadline: June 8, 2012

The exponential growth of the Social Web poses both challenges and new
opportunities for recommender systems research. The Social Web has turned
information consumers into active contributors creating massive amounts of
information. Finding relevant and interesting content at the right time and
in the right context is challenging for existing recommender approaches. At
the same time, social systems by their very nature encourage interaction
among users and with a variety of resources, thus generating new sources of
knowledge for recommender systems. Users of social media on the Web often
explicitly provide personal information or implicitly express preferences
through their interactions with other users or with resources (e.g. tagging,
friending, rating, commenting, etc.).

New application areas for recommender systems emerge with the popularity of
the Social Web. Recommenders can not only be used to sort and filter Web 2.0
and social network information, they can also support users in the
information sharing process, e.g., by recommending suitable tags during
folksonomy development. There are also opportunities for novel recommender
applications on the Social Web that directly involve humans in the
recommendation process, for example, users or groups making recommendations
to other users, or online multi-user games leading to recommendations.

These various new sources of knowledge can be leveraged to improve
recommendation techniques and develop new strategies which focus on social
recommendation. This social layer can also be used as evidence on which to
infer relationships and trust levels between users for recommendation
generation.

Recommender systems technologies can assist social systems through
increasing adoption and participation and sustaining membership. Through
targeted and timely intervention which stimulates traffic and interaction,
recommender systems technology can play its role in sustaining the success
of the Social Web.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researcher and practitioners
to explore, discuss, and understand challenges and new opportunities for
recommender systems and the Social Web. Original contributions are solicited
in all aspects of recommendation on the Social Web, including, but not
limited to the following areas:

* Social network and folksonomy development: Recommending friends, tags,
bookmarks, blogs, music, communities etc.
* Leveraging models of user behavior on the Social Web for recommendation
* Recommender systems mash-ups, intelligent user interfaces, rich media
recommender systems
* Collaborative knowledge authoring, collective intelligence
* Topic emergence and evolution on the Social Web and their role in
recommendation process
* Recommender applications involving users or groups directly in the
recommendation process
* Exploiting folksonomies, social network information, user interactions,
and communities in the recommendation process
* The role of context in Social Web recommendation
* Trust and reputation aware social recommendations
* Semantic Web recommender systems, use of ontologies or microformats
* Empirical evaluation of social recommender techniques
* Case studies and novel fielded social recommender applications
* Economy of community-based systems: Using recommenders to encourage users
to contribute and sustain participation
* Social recommender systems in the enterprise
* Recommendation for groups

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IMPORTANT DATES
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* June 8, 2012: Paper/position statement submission due
* June 22, 2012: Notification of workshop submitters
* July 3, 2012: Camera-ready workshop papers due
* September 9, 2012: Workshop held

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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We solicit short and long papers as well as research demos on all aspects of
recommender systems in the Social Web. Papers should be formatted according
to the style guide of RecSys 2012. (Please see:
http://recsys.acm.org/2012/submission.html).

Long papers present original research work and can be of up to 8 pages in
length. Short papers report on work in progress and can have up to 4 pages.
Presenters of demo systems are asked to submit short papers describing their
system.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsweb12.

Paper selection will be based on a peer review process; there will be no
blind review process - author names and affiliations should be included in
the paper.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop.
Information about registration is provided at the RecSys 2012 Web page:
http://recsys.acm.org/2012/.

Accepted papers will be published via ACM Digital Library.

Send question and inquiries to: rsweb2012@ls13.cs.uni-dortmund.de

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Organizers
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- Bamshad Mobasher, School of Computing, DePaul University, USA
- Dietmar Jannach, Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund, Germany
- Werner Geyer, IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany

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