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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The 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'14)

The 26th International Conference on 

Advanced Information Systems Engineering 

CAiSE'14 

16-20 June 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece

http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/

*** Information Systems Engineering in Times of Crisis ***

Real-time information systems and overly complex financial products have
been blamed as causes of recent financial crises. The IS Engineering
community is treating such phenomena as challenges, to be addressed through
research and improved practices. In particular, our community has begun to
address the role of information systems in predicting, preventing, and
reacting to crises of many different kinds: data-centric financial and
fiscal dependency analysis of the globalized financial systems, resilience
of critical infrastructures by information management, reaction to natural
disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, etc. Due to the very nature of
crises as unexpected events with broad and vast impact, IS Engineering
challenges traditional wisdom and methodologies, as well as interactions
between research and practice including stakeholders such as crisis victims.

CAiSE '14 will, as always, act as a forum of discussion that brings together
researchers and practitioners in the field of IS Engineering. It will be the
place to share mature research, ground-breaking ideas, and experience
reports in our discipline.

CAiSE welcomes all submissions that fall in the domain of information
systems engineering. This year, the conference extends a special welcome to
papers that address the role of IS engineering in crisis situations. Four
kinds of contributions are accepted:
- Formal and/or technical papers
- Empirical evaluation papers
- Experience papers
- Exploratory papers

The CAiSE topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

----- Methods, techniques and tools for IS engineering • Innovation and
creativity in IS engineering • Enterprise architecture and enterprise
modelling • Requirements engineering • Business process modeling, analysis
and management • Requirements, models, and software reuse • Adaptation,
evolution and flexibility issues • Domain engineering • IS in networked &
virtual organizations • Method engineering • Knowledge, information, and
data quality • Languages and models • Mining, monitoring and predicting •
Variability and configuration • Matching, compliance and alignment issues •
Conceptual design and modelling • Security • Service science

----- Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS •
Service-oriented architecture • Model-driven architecture • Component based
development • Agent architecture • Distributed, mobile, and open
architecture • Innovative database technology • Semantic web • IS and
ubiquitous technologies • Adaptive and context-aware IS

----- Domain specific IS engineering:
• Crisis Management
• eGovernment
• Enterprise applications (ERP, COTS)
• Data warehouses and business intelligence • Workflow systems • Knowledge
management systems • Content management systems

Important dates
• Workshop submission deadline: 18 October 2013
• Paper submission deadline: 29 November 2013
• Tutorial submission deadline: 13 December 2013
• Notification of acceptance: 17 February 2014
• Conference, Workshops & Related Events: 16-20 June 2014

Download the Conference Call for papers for details:
http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/files/CAiSE_2014_CfP_v4.pdf

Organising Committee
Steering Committee
• Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
• John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
Advisory Committee
• Arne Sølvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
• Janis Bubenko Jr, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
General Chairs
• Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
• Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, UK
Program Board Chair
• Eric Dubois, Public Research Center H. Tudor, Luxembourg
Program Chairs
• Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
• Christoph Quix, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Tutorial and Panel Chairs
• Jaelson Castro, University of Pernambuco, Brasil
• Dimitri Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Workshops Chairs
• Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
• Mike Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
• Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Forum Chairs
• Selmin Nurcan, University of Paris 1, France
• Elias Pimenidis, University of East London, UK
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
• Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
• Yannis Vassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Organizing Committee Chairs
• Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Publicity Chairs
• Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
• Eric Yu, University of Totonto, Canada
• Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brasil
• Naoufel Kraiem, Université de Manouba, Tunisia
Web and Social Media Master
• Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University, Greece

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ACIS Keynote - Supporting Professional Communities in the Next Web

I had the pleasure to give a keynote at the PWM Wissenstag Social Enterprise @ I-KNOW 2013 in Graz, Austria on September 4, 2013. Also I demoed the ROLE Sandbox and our new DireWolf Framework for distributing web user interfaces on different devices. Here are the slides.

 

Supporting Professional Communities in the Next Web from Ralf Klamma

If you are interested in the demos. They are available on the web.

• Realtime Interwidget Communication with the ROLE SDK: http://role-sandbox.eu/spaces/iwc
• DireWolf - Distributing Web Interfaces on Multiple Devices: http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms/projects/the-xmpp-experience/direwolf

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ACIS Presentation - DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications

Dejan Kovachev from the ACIS group at RWTH Aachen University gave a presentation on "DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications" at the ICWE 2013 in Aalborg, Denmark. More information and the demo instructions can be found at our DireWolf web page.

DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications from Dejan Kovachev

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ACIS Poster - DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications Poster

DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications Poster from Nicolaescu Petru

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Open PhD position @ Web Engineering Group, TU/e, The Netherlands

Open 4-year PhD position @ Web Engineering Group, TU/e

We offer a 4-year full-time PhD research position in the WiBAF project (Within-Browser Adaptation Framework) situated on the crossroads of the Adaptive Hypermedia, Data Mining and User Modeling areas. The project is funded by the Data Science research center of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
The research will be conducted at the Information Systems Group, Department of Computer Science.

RESEARCH PROJECT AND TASK DESCRIPTION
Personalized information systems will undergo dramatic changes in the near future, caused in part by rising privacy concerns (and
legislation) and in part by the need to distribute the computation involved in generating recommendations and performing adaptation.

In Web-based information systems data mining techniques are applied to model user intent, preferences or current context and thus facilitate data-driven personalization. Such data-driven user modeling has been heavily used already in recommender systems that employ content-based and collaborative filtering, and in search engines with personalized or context-aware ranking of organic search results or ad placement.
In the area of personalization and adaptation of content, interaction and navigation, with applications in e.g. e-learning and e-culture, either hand-crafted adaptation rules or semantically rich databases have been used as the basis for deciding how to perform personalization.

The main objective for the PhD student in WiBAF project is to investigate how to bring these two currently distinct and to a large extent isolated approaches to personalization, i.e. purely hand-crafted and purely data-driven, together to perform within-site or even within-page adaptation based on both the analysis of user behavior and background knowledge of a certain domain.

One of the concrete targets is defining, studying and implementing a complete framework including a generic language for expressing adaptation and for generating client-side code that performs this within-browser adaptation, based on local client-side user model and global adaptation knowledge available at the server-side.

The framework should enable meta-adaptation which continuously adapts (updates) the adaptation process as user behavior changes.
This makes use of research into the topics of explore-exploit trade-off in adaptive information systems like recommenders, context-awareness and recurrent concept drift in data mining.

It is expected that the PhD candidate will be involved in the complete R&D cycles including theory, framework and techniques development; implementation of the software prototypes; and experimentation with real use cases that are facilitated by the industrial collaborator - Digital Innovations Lab of the Web analytics company Adversitement B.V.

PROFILE
We are looking for highly motivated applicants with a Master degree in Computer Science or other related disciplines.
(Candidates expecting to graduate by August 2013 are also eligible to apply.) You are expected to have good knowledge and at least some experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Adaptive hypermedia, personalization and user modeling,
- Data mining/machine learning/pattern recognition,
- Recommender systems and/or (personalized) information retrieval,
- Web technology

Successful candidates are expected to posses
- Good analytical and software development skills,
- Good command of spoken and written English,
- Good communication skills and willingness to collaborate with other researchers and developers having diverse computer science background,
- Experience with writing research papers and technical reports is a plus.

SETTINGS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
This is a fixed term 4-year full-time fully funded PhD research position with a formal evaluation after the first year.

The PhD candidate will be guided by prof. dr. Paul De Bra (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/) and dr. Mykola Pechenizkiy (http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/).

You will also collaborate with other researchers of the Information Systems group working on related projects, e.g. STW CAPA project (http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/projects/capa/), participate in the Dutch national research school
SIKS: School for Information and Knowledge Systems (http://www.siks.nl/) and get an opportunity to go for a visiting research/do an internship at R&D labs abroad.

Digital Innovations Lab of the Dutch company Adversitement B.V. (http://www.adversitement.nl/) is teaming up with TU/e to contribute to the development of the foundations and generic technology for on-site within browser or within page adaptation. adaptation. PhD student is expected to spend one day a week collaborating with their researchers and developers, particularly with dr. David Smits (nl.linkedin.com/pub/david-smits/6/287/768).

The conditions of employment are according to Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. The gross salary is € 2062 during the first year, increasing to € 2638 in the fourth year.

HOW TO APPLY
Applications including:
- Motivation letter explaining your interest in the proposed research field;
- Curriculum Vitae;
- Copies of diplomas (MSc or equivalent) and other relevant certificates (like MOOC courses);
- A complete list of attended courses and corresponding grades;
- A copy or a link to your master thesis;
- Some evidence of your proficiency in English;
- Names and contact details of two references willing to provide recommendations;

should be submitted electronically at https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/TUE/vacancy/18628/apply/.
Applications without included motivation letter are not likely to be considered. Selected candidates will be invited for an interview on Skype and/or on site.

The deadline for submitting applications is August 25th, 2013. However, the screening process will start by the end of June 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Therefore, it is advisable to apply asap.
Candidates must be available to start working in this position at the earliest possible date, but no later than December 1st, 2013.

For more information about the project please send inquiries to wibaf.tue@gmail.com

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The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013)

WISE13 Call for Papers

The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013)

 October 13-15, 2013, Nanjing, China. 

http://www.wise2013.org

The aim of this fourteenth edition of the conference series on Web
Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for
researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners 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), and Paphos, Cyprus (2012).

The proceedings of WISE'13 will be published in 2 separate volumes by
Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and the best papers
will be recommended for publication in special issues of World Wide Web.


Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

* Big Data;
* 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, Text and media extraction, clustering and classification of the
Social Web;
* Semantic Web;
* Social Networking;
* Web Agents and Web Intelligence;
* Web-based Applications (e.g., Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce,
e-Government, e-Learning, etc.);
* 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.

Publication
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers
will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. All
submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines
provided by Springer LNCS format and MUST NOT exceed 14 pages. A special
issue of WWW Journal is scheduled for extended versions of some selected
papers from the WISE2013 conference.


WISE2013 Keynote Speakers:
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Prof. Wen Gao, Peking University, China; IEEE Fellow; Academician, Chinese
Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Divyakant Agrawal, The University of California at Santa Barbara; ACM
Fellow, IEEE Fellow.



Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair:
Jian Lv, Nanjing University, China

General Co-Chairs:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo!Research Lab, Spain Yanchun Zhang, Victoria
University, Australia Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics,
China

PC Co-Chairs:
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia Yannis Manolopoulos,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs,
USA

Industry Program:

Min Wang, Google Research, USA
Lei Chei, ÊHKUST, Hong Kong, China

Demo Co-Chairs:
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan Rui Zhang, University of
Melbourne, Australia Hong Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WISE Challenge Program Chairs:
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China Yabo Xu, Sun Yat-sen
University, China

Panel Co-Chairs:
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China Junzhou Luo, Southeastern
University, China

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Wojciech Cellary,
Poznan University of Economics, Poland

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Publication Chair:
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University, Australia

Local Arrangement Chair:
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Financial Chair:
Jing He, Victoria University, Australia

Publicity Co-Chairs
Haolan Zhang, NIT, Zhejiang University, China Athena Vakali, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece Wenjie Zhang, University of New South
Wales, Australia

WISE Society Representative:
Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia

Webmasters:
Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China


Important Dates

Research Paper Abstract Submission: 8th May 2013 ÊResearch Paper
Submission: 15th May 2013 ÊDemonstration Paper Submission: 15th June 2013
Paper Notification of Acceptance: 3rd July 2013 ÊAccepted Paper
Camera-ready: 24th July 2013 ÊWorkshop Proposal Submission: 4th April 2013
Workshop Proposal Notification: 25th April 2013

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13th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2013)

ICWE 2013

13th International Conference on Web Engineering

July 8-12, 2013

Aalborg, Denmark

http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/

Early Registration Deadline: 30. April 2013

Register at: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/registration

It is still possible to submit papers to individual workshops and the PhD Symposium

The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) aims to promote

scientific and practical excellence in Web Engineering and to bring

together researchers and practitioners working on all aspects regarding

the engineering of Web-based software systems. The conference aims to

advance the state-of-the-art of technologies, methodologies,

programming languages, algorithms, models, protocols, tools, and

metrics and specifically looks for excellent research contributions,

cutting-edge engineering practices, and empirical insights.

ICWE 2013 will be held on July 8-12, 2013, in Aalborg, Denmark. It's

going to be the 13th edition of the conference, after 12 successful

editions in a row.

Proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS and workshop papers will

appear in post-proceedings published by Springer LNCS as well.

Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended

version of their contribution to a special issue of the international

Journal of Web Engineering, Rinton Press.

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PhD Symposium: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/phd-proposals

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Workshops: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/workshops

The 4th International Workshop on Quality in Web Engineering (QWE 2013)

organized by Cinzia Cappiello, Adrian Fernandez, and Luis Olsina

The 5th International Workshop on Lightweight Composition on the Web (ComposableWeb 2013)

organized by Sven Casteleyn, Cesare Pautasso, and Geert-Jan Houben

The 9th Model-Driven and Agile Engineering for the Web Workshop (MDWE 2013)

organized by Santiago Melia and Manuel Wimmer

The 2nd Workshop on Data Management in the Social Semantic Web (DMSSW 2013)

organized by Roberto De Virgilio, Andrea Pugliese, and Devis Bianchini

The International Workshop on Cloud and Service Engineering (CSE 2013)

organized by Talal Noor, Lina Yao, and Xiaoqiang Qiao

The International Workshop on Engineering Mobile Web Applications (EMotions)

organized by Marco Winckler and Sven Casteleyn

The International Workshop on Semantic Social Networks (SSN 2013)

organized by Lylia Abrouk and David Gross-Amblard

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Social Program: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/events

Welcome Reception at the Museum of Modern Art

Robber's Banquet in Forest of Rold

Dramatized City Walks

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Keynotes: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/keynotes

Wil van der Aalst: Service Mining: Using Process Mining to Discover,

Check, and Improve Service Behavior

Sean Wang: TBA

Jan Borchers: An Internet of Custom-Made Things: From 3D Printing and

Personal Fabrication to Personal Design of Interactive Devices

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Open Space Session:

Open Space  - Gives ICWE 2013 an opportunity to address complex problems

and/or ideas in a set-up that ensures optimal communication, collaboration,

innovation, and solutions to challenges. It is an interactive process -

participants bring their own relevant subjects to the "agenda" and then

meet in concurrent and overlapping mini-discussions around a theme or an issue.

The cross-pollination of moving from group to group and topic to topic in a

non-linear way allows participants to jump quickly from familiar ways of

thinking into innovation and action.

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Accepted Full Papers: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/accepted-full-papers

Accepted Industry Papers: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/accepted-industry-track-papers

Accepted Short Papers: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/accepted-short-papers

Accepted Demos and Posters: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/accepted-demos-and-posters

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Tutorials: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/acceptedtutorials

Current Challenges in Web Crawling

Denis Shestakov

Enterprise Application Integration - the Cloud Perspective

Joerg Laessig

Human Computation and Games With A Purpose

Alessandro Bozzon, Luca Galli

Responsive Design and Development: Methods, Technologies and Current Issues

Michael Nebeling, Moira C. Norrie

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The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013)

WISE13 Call for Papers

The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013)

October 13-15,  2013, Nanjing, China

http://www.wise2013.org

The aim of this fourteenth edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners 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), and Paphos, Cyprus (2012).

The proceedings of WISE'13 will be published in 2 separate volumes by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and the best papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of World Wide Web.


Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

* Big Data;
* 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, Text and media extraction, clustering and classification of the Social Web;
* Semantic Web;
* Social Networking;
* Web Agents and Web Intelligence;
* Web-based Applications (e.g., Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning, etc.);
* 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.

Publication
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by Springer LNCS format and MUST NOT exceed 14 pages. A special issue of WWW Journal is scheduled for extended versions of some selected papers from the WISE2013 conference.

Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair:
Jian Lv, Nanjing University, China

General Co-Chairs:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo!Research Lab, Spain
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China

PC Co-Chairs:
Xuemin Lin, ÊUniversity of New South Wales, Australia
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA

Industry Program Chairs
Min Wang, HP Labs, China
Lei Chei, ÊHKUST, Hong Kong, China

Demo Co-Chairs:
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia

WISE Challenge Program Chairs:
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Publication Chair:
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University, Australia

Local Arrangement Chair:
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Financial Chair:
Jing He, Victoria University, Australia

Webmasters:
Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

WISE Society Representative:
Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia


Important Dates

Research Paper Abstract Submission: 8th May 2013
Research Paper Submission: 15th May 2013
Demonstration Paper Submission: 15th June 2013
Paper Notification of Acceptance: 3rd July 2013
Accepted Paper Camera-ready: 24th July 2013
Workshop Proposal Submission: 4th April 2013
Workshop Proposal Notification: 25th April 2013

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ACIS presentation - Today's Top "RESTful" Services and Why They Are Not RESTful

Last week my colleague Dominik Renzel gave a presentation on our paper "Today's Top 'RESTful' Services and Why They Are Not RESTful" at the WISE 2012 conference in Phaphos, Cyprus.


Abstract. Since Fielding’s seminal contribution on the REST architecture style in 2000, the so-called class of RESTful services has taken off to challenge previously existing Web services. Several books have since then emerged, providing a set of valuable guidelines and design principles for the development of truly RESTful services. However, today’s most popular ”RESTful” services adopt only few of these guidelines, resulting in overburdening developers integrating multiple services in mashup applications. In this paper we present an in-depth analysis for the top 20 RESTful services listed on programmableweb.com against 17 RESTful service design criteria found in literature. Results provide evidence that hardly any of the services claiming to be RESTful is truly RESTful, probably due to the lack of rigidness and ease-of-use of currently available decision criteria. To improve the situation, we provide recommendations for various stakeholder groups.

Today's Top "RESTful" Services and Why They Are Not RESTful from Dominik Renzel

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13th International Conference on Web Engineering

ICWE 2013

13th International Conference on Web Engineering

July 8-12, 2013

Aalborg, Denmark

http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/

The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) aims to promote
scientific and practical excellence in Web Engineering and to bring
together researchers and practitioners working on all aspects regarding
the engineering of Web-based software systems. The conference aims to
advance the state-of-the-art of technologies, methodologies,
programming languages, algorithms, models, protocols, tools, and
metrics and specifically looks for excellent research contributions,
cutting-edge engineering practices, and empirical insights.

ICWE 2013 will be held on July 8-12, 2013, in Aalborg, Denmark. It's
going to be the 13th edition of the conference, after 12 successful
editions in a row.

Proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS and workshop papers will
appear in post-proceedings published by Springer LNCS as well.

Selected best papers are cosidered for special issues in recognized journals
(agreement pending).


TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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WEB APPLICATION ENGINEERING
- Conceptual and model-driven development
- Component- and service-based development
- Web programming languages
- Domain-specific development
- Processes and methodologies
- Personalization, adaptivity and context-awareness
- Architectures and platforms
- Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)
- Mobile Web applications
- Social Web applications
- Web mashups and mashup tools
- Localization and internationalization
- Requirements engineering
- Deployment, maintenance and evolution
- Security
- Reuse


WEB API AND SERVICE ENGINEERING
- Web service engineering
- Composite Web APIs and services
- Service-oriented architectures
- Component technologies for the Web
- Semantic Web services
- Deep Web access and navigation
- Mobile APIs and services


WEB DATA ENGINEERING
- Web search
- Web information extraction
- Web content management
- Recommender systems
- Linked data
- Web mining
- Data visualization and exploration


TESTING AND MEASURING
- Performance modeling, monitoring, and evaluation
- Techniques and methodologies
- Metrics and measures
- Quality of application/service
- Web information quality
- Log mining and usage analysis


HCI AND HUMAN FACTORS
- End user development (EUD)
- Accessibility and usability studies
- Design errors and pitfalls
- Empirical requirements elicitation


IMPORTANT DATES
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Research Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2013
Camera-ready versions due: April 30, 2013
Industry Experience Papers: TBA
Posters and Demos: TBA
Workshop proposals: TBA
Tutorial proposals: TBA
PhD Symposium papers: TBA


ORGANIZATION
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* General Chair
 - Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark

* Program Chairs
 - Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
 - Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China

* ICWE Steering Committee Chairman
 - Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands

* Workshop Chairs
 - Michael Sheng, the University of Adelaide, Australia
 - Jesper Kjeldskov, Aalborg University, Denmark

* Tutorial Chairs
 - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Italy
 - Benjamin Satzger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

* Demo and Poster Chairs
 - Marcos Baez, University of Trento, Italy
 - Alessandro Bozzon, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

* Industry Track chairs
 - Erik Wilde, EMC Corporation, USA
 - Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland

* PhD Symposium Chairs
 - Oscar Diaz, University of the Basque Country, Spain
 - TBA

* Local Arangements Chair
 - Hanne Christiansen, Visit Aalborg, Denmark

* Web Chair
 - Martin Leginus, Aalborg University, Denmark

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WWW 2013 - Call for Workshops

WWW 2013 Call for Workshops

WWW 2013 will feature a number of co-located workshops that are intended to provide
a forum for researchers and practitioners in Web technologies to discuss and
exchange positions on current and emergent Web topics. Workshop attendants will
exchange ideas and experiences, establish common ground in research areas or
practical problems, and hopefully identify new opportunities for collaboration and
new directions for future activity. Preference will be given to timely topics that
will favor highly interactive discussions. WWW 2013 will offer logistic support for
the workshops, where registration, catering, room allocation and audio/visual will
be arranged by the conference organizers. The supported workshops will take place on
the 13th and 14th of May 2013, before the main conference, at the conference venue.

A workshop proposal must include :
       • A concise title.
       • The names and affiliations of the organizers; a typical workshop should count no
more than three co-chairs affiliated with different organizations.
       • Proposed duration of the workshop (half or full day.)
       • Preference for a date; but, the proposal must not be conditioned on the workshop
date, since it is likely that some workshops will not get their preferred date
       • A statement of the workshop's objective/goals
       • A statement detailing: Why is the workshop topic important? Why is the workshop
timely? How is it relevant to WWW?
       • A two-paragraph description of the workshop topic and themes.
       • If the workshop was conducted before, where and when was it conducted? (Please
give details on number of attendees, number of submissions, and acceptance ratio.
       • A description of the workshop format – how many papers do you hope to present,
how many invited speakers, type of activities (e.g., short paper presentation,
invited talks, demos, posters, etc.), and an approximate timeline (breaks should be
synchronized with scheduled breaks if possible.)
       • A description of how workshop submissions will be evaluated, and a tentative PC
list (with indication of whether PC members have already been contacted and/or have
expressed interest.)
       • An indication on whether the workshop registration will be open to all interested
registered parties or limited.
       • A short bio of the workshop organizers, including a description of their
qualifications relative to the topic area, and past experience in
organizing/facilitating workshops or research meetings.

Submission:
Workshop proposals should be no more than five pages in length (10pt with reasonable
margins) and must be in PDF written in English.
Workshop proposals should be submitted through EasyChair at :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2013ws
Inquiries can be sent to: workshops@www2013.org

Important dates:
Workshop submission deadline: Nov 28th, 2012
Acceptance notification:      Dec 21st, 2012
Workshops dates:              May 13th and/or 14th, 2013

In your proposal, be aware that workshop proceedings will normally be published
through the ACM Digital Library, leading to the following tight production
deadlines:
Suggested workshop paper deadlines:      Feb 25th, 2013
Suggested workshop paper notifications:  March 13th, 2013
Workshop paper final copy hard deadline: April 3rd

Workshop chairs:
       • Leslie Carr (University of Southampton, UK)
       • Alberto Laender (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

To contact the workshop chairs, please email workshops@www2013.org

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22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) - Preliminary Call for Papers

Preliminary Call for Papers

22nd International World Wide Web Conference

WWW 2013 - May 13-17 - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

http://www2013.org/

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW
2013 will have 12 tracks (or themes) for refereed paper presentations and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting new breakthrough work. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2013 will have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speakers, tutorials, panels, a developers’ track, and a poster and demo session.

The CfP will be updated with more detailed info about individual tracks, their topics and program committee members. The conference web site will be updated regularly and monthly newsletters will keep you current with the latest information.

Important Dates

Main conference paper abstract registration:
Monday, November 19th, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Main conference full paper submission:
Monday, November 26th, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Paper notifications: Friday, February 8th, 2013

Organization

General chairs: Virgilio Almeida (UFMG), Hartmut Glaser (NIC.br), Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Program chairs: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Labs), Sue Moon (KAIST)

Tracks and Chairs

Behavioral analysis and personalization
Eugene Agichtein (Emory U), Yoelle Mareek (Yahoo! Labs)

Bridging structured and unstructured data Kevin Chang (UIUC), Peter Mika (Yahoo! Labs)

Content analysis
Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), (TBA)

Internet monetization and incentives
Vanja Josifovski (Google), David Pennock (MSR NYC)

Search systems and applications
Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Mumbai), Wei-Ying Ma (MSR Asia)

Security, privacy, trust, and abuse
Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS), (TBA)

Semantic web
Steffen Staab (U of Koblenz), (TBA)

Social networks and graph analysis
Sharad Goel (MSR NYC), Wolfgang Nejdl (U of Hannover), Ben Zhao (UCSB)

Software infrastructure and their performance, scalability, and availability Torsten Suel (PI), (TBA)

User interfaces, human factors, and smart devices James Landay (UW), Nuria Oliver (Telefonica R&D)

Web engineering
Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien), Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft),

Web mining
Tanya Berger-Wolf (UIC), Bing Liu (UIC), Kyuseok Shim (SNU)

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12th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2012) - Call for Workshop Papers

Call for Workshop Papers - ICWE 2012

12th International Conference on Web Engineering

July 23 - 27, 2012, Berlin

http://icwe2012.webengineering.org

Workshops at the 12th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2012) offer an opportunity for highly interactive sessions, which include in-depth, topical presentations and discussions of emerging research challenges. All submitted papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format. All accepted papers will be made available at the respective workshops and will be printed as Springer LNCS post-proceedings after the workshops. Each published paper requires at least one full registration to the workshop.

The workshops at ICWE 2012 are as follows:

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1st International Workshop on Crowdsourced Web Engineering (CroWE'12)
http://crowe.ethz.ch

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Crowdsourcing techniques have been proposed to address different aspects of web engineering ranging from the generation of content to the design and adaptation of web sites. At the same time, many Web 2.0 platforms have been designed around crowdsourcing models that enable the functionality to be extended through community-developed applications or plugins. Here, potential security issues have gained particular attention among researchers. Recently, a number of researchers have also begun to look at the use of crowdsourcing to support the evaluation of not only web sites and their interfaces but also various tools that form part of the design and development process. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers who have applied crowdsourcing in a diversity of ways in order that they may learn from the experience of others and to stimulate discussion with a view to fostering new research ideas.

Papers may be related to any aspect of crowdsourced engineering. The following list gives an indication of possible topics:
-) crowdsourcing models and architectures
-) methods for crowdsourced web engineering
-) crowdsourced design
-) crowdsourcing for web site augmentation and adaptation
-) novel forms of crowdsourcing content
-) crowdsourcing linked data
-) crowdsourcing web search
-) use of crowdsourcing in evaluation
-) end-user development approaches for the web
-) applications of the crowdsourced paradigm in web engineering
-) quality aspects of crowdsourcing
-) security issues in crowdsourced systems
-) usability issues in crowdsourced systems

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, norrie@inf.ethz.ch
Beat Signer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, bsigner@vub.ac.be
Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany, thalheim@is.informatik.uni-kiel.de

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3rd Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management - Linking Social and Semantic Web (SPIM'12)
2012.spim-workshop.org

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The Third Semantic Personalized Information Management (SPIM 2012) workshop aims at investigating new challenges and requirements for web based information systems that arise with the advent of the Social and Semantic Web. The scope ranges from new solutions how to manage the huge amount of information (user generated content, semantic web sources, etc.) in the back-end to new systems and algorithms to take advantage of the information to improve improve the quality of search results and thus better satisfy the users? information need. Of special interest are practical approaches and ideas that aggregate social data from different applications or combine data from social platforms like Facebook with Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (http://linkeddata.org/) sources to enhance the performance of WIS. While there is already research done in the area, no standards or commonly agreed techniques are available. This workshop can prepare the ground for a standardized techniques allowing data and knowledge exchange between IR systems.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Ernesto William De Luca, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany, deluca@fh-potsdam.de
Aldo Gangemi, Italian National Research Council, Italy, aldo.gangemi@cnr.it
Michael Hausenblas, National University of Ireland, Galway, michael.hausenblas@deri.org

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4th International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web (ComposableWeb'12)
https://sites.google.com/site/composableweb2012/

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
ComposableWeb aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with different research interests and belonging to communities like Web Engineering, Service Engineering, Business Process Management, Databases, Semantic Web, Software Composition, and Software Engineering and to advance the state of the art in the areas of web mashups, lightweight composition, and service-oriented computing. The workshop particularly aims to stimulate the discussion of key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications, engineering practices, and novel trends.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy, daniel@disi.unitn.it
Sven Casteleyn, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, Sven.Casteleyn@upv.es
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, g.j.p.m.houben@tudelft.nl

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8th International Workshop on Model-Driven and Agile Engineering for the Web (MDWE'12)
http://mdwe2012.pst.ifi.lmu.de

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
What will be the future of Web development? Web Engineering is a specific domain in which systematic development is needed and therefore approaches such as model-driven and agile development can be successfully applied. Existing model-based Web engineering approaches already provide methods and tools for the design and development of most kinds of Web applications. They address different concerns using separate models (navigation, presentation, workflows, etc.) and come with model compilers that produce most of the application?s Web pages and logic based on these models. In practice, however, most of these Web Engineering proposals do not fully exploit all the potential benefits of Model-driven Engineering (MDE), such as complete platform independence, metamodeling, and model transformations.

The MDE paradigm offers advantages such as technology independent models and (partially) automatic generation of applications, but also well-known problems as maintenance of the models. Thus, there are defenders of MDE and also defenders of alternative paradigms such as agile development processes. We want to raise a lively and constructive discussion on pro and cons, and how in practice we can benefit from both a MDE and an agile development process. Find some responses at the workshop!

Following the Internet trends, we want to focus the workshop on two main topics and how MDE and/or an agile process could help in the development, evolution and maintainability of social Web and social enterprise apps as well as multi-device, mobile and rich Web applications (RIAs).

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Nora Koch, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, kochn@pst.ifi.lmu.de
Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, mbrambil@elet.polimi.it
Santiago Meliá, University of Alicante, Spain, santi@dlsi.ua.es

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3rd Workshop on The Web and Requirements Engineering (WeRE'12)
http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/were12/

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The International Workshop on the Web and Requirements Engineering (WeRE) intends to be an international event for exchanging ideas on both using Web technologies as a platform in the requirements engineering field, and applying requirements engineering in the development and use of Web applications. Papers focused on new domains and new experiences with the connection between requirements engineering and the Web are also highly encouraged. The workshop will be a forum for researchers, designers, and users who are related to the combination of these two main topics.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
María José Escalona, University of Seville, Spain, mjescalona@us.es
Irene Garrigós, University of Alicante, Spain, igarrigos@dlsi.ua.es
Nora Koch, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, kochn@pst.ifi.lmu.de
Jose-Norberto Mazón, University of Alicante, Spain, jnmazon@dlsi.ua.es

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3rd International Workshop on Quality in Web Engineering (QWE'12)
http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/qwe12

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The main objective of the workshop is allowing participants to discuss and get to know the most innovative and advanced experiences for guaranteeing the quality of Web applications and content, and the role that Web Engineering methods can play in this task. This includes, among other aspects, focusing on the way in which Web Engineering methods can be further empowered by taking into account quality principles and by integrating sound quality assessment techniques that have proven their effectiveness (review guidelines, usability models, usability evaluation methods, usability checkers, accessibility verifiers, information quality tools, logging tools, automatic metric capture tools, statistical tools, etc.). The workshop will particularly try to encourage the discussion on new emergent issues related to current trends in the creation of modern Web applications, commonly referred to as Web 2.0 applications.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, cappiell@elet.polimi.it
Adrian Fernandez, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, afernandez@dsic.upv.es
Luis Olsina, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina, olsinal@ing.unlpam.edu.ar / olsinal@yahoo.com

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1st International Workshop on User Interface Description Languages in Web Engineering (UIDL-WE'12)

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The UIDL-WE workshop is aimed at investigating open research/development issues in the area of user interfaces of web applications based on a User Interface Description Language (UIDL). First, fundamental aspects need to be addressed in order to rigorously pave the way for a sound UIDL: models, meta-models, languages, and notations. Second, applied aspects of a UIDL should also be discussed in order to properly operationalize the UIDL:
(meta-)model editors, computer-aided software engineering, software support, rendering engines and code generators, but also requirements for industrial uptake, including case studies in real-world conditions and the investigation of factors that may determine acceptance by developers. Third, in order to ensure the quality of web applications for the end-users, some evaluation needs to be conducted in order to assess the quality of the application that can be derived by the UIDL, especially from the viewpoint of visual quality, usability, and efficiency.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
David Faure, Thales Research & Technology, France, david.faure@thalesgroup.com
Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, piero.fraternali@elet.polimi.it
Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, jean.vanderdonckt@uclouvain.be

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