WWW 2006 CFP

[Mark Little <mark.little@arjuna.com>]

WWW2006 CALL FOR PAPERS

The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) invite
you to participate in the Fifteenth International World Wide Web
Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd-26th 2006.

The first international WWW conference was held in 1994 at CERN where
the Web was born. Since then, the conference series has been the
prime venue for both academics and industries to present, demonstrate,
and discuss the latest ideas and developments about the Web.

WWW2006 will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Edinburgh
International Conference Centre. The technical program will include
refereed paper presentations, special interest tracks, plenary
sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials and workshops will
run before and throughout the conference. A Developers track, devoted
to in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for web
developers, will run in parallel throughout the conference.

The conference will also be running a programme of high-level,
non-technical presentations for professionals in media, government,
education and commerce to inform and debate the issues relating to the
latest Web technology developments.

See http://www2006.org/ for regular updates on conference information.
WWW2006 is held in association with ACM, BCS, ECS and W3C.


REFEREED PAPERS TRACK

WWW2006 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the
web. Topics include but are not limited to:

# E* Applications: E-Communities, E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Science,
                   E-Government and E-Humanities
# Browsers and User Interfaces
# Data Mining
# Hypermedia and Multimedia
# Performance, Reliability and Scalability
# Pervasive Web and Mobility
# Search
# Security, Privacy, and Ethics
# Semantic Web
# Web Engineering
# XML and Web Services
# Industrial Practice and Experience (Alternate track)
# Developing Regions (Alternate track)

Detailed descriptions of each of these tracks appear at http://www2006.org/tracks/

Submissions should present original reports of substantive new
work. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite
related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work
and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper which,
at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been
published or accepted for publication in a journal or another
conference.

New for WWW2006: We solicit submissions of "position papers"
articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging
future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. Accepted
position papers will be presented at the conference and appear in the
proceedings. Both "regular papers" and "position papers" are subject
to the same rigorous reviewing process, but the emphasis may differ
--- regular papers should present significant reproducible results
while position papers may present preliminary work rich in
implications for future research.

All papers will be peer-reviewed by reviewers from an International
Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference
proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM), and will also be accessible to the general public via
http://www2006.org/. Authors of all accepted papers will be required
to transfer copyright to the IW3C2.


POSTERS

Posters provide a forum for late-breaking research, and facilitate
feedback in an informal setting. Posters are peer-reviewed. The poster
area provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to
present and demonstrate their recent web-related research, and to
obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. It gives
conference attendees a way to learn about innovative works in progress
in a timely and informal manner. Formatting and submission
requirements are available at http://www2006.org/posters/.

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to web
design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These
half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized
experts and experienced instructors using prepared content.

Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers, designers, leaders,
and practitioners to explore current web R&D issues through a more
focused and in-depth manner than is possible in a traditional
conference session. Participants typically present position statements
and hold in-depth discussions with their peers within the workshop
setting. For more information and submission details see
http://www2006.org/workshops/.

PANELS

Panels provide an interactive forum that will engage both panelists
and the audience in lively discussion of important and often
controversial issues. For more information and submission details see
http://www2006.org/panels/.


IMPORTANT DATES

Conference: May 22nd-26th 2006

Submission Deadlines:
 Paper (regular): November 4, 2005
 Paper (alternate track): November 4, 2005
 Poster: February 14, 2006
 Panel proposal: November 4, 2005
 Tutorial/Workshop proposal: October 1, 2005

Acceptance Notification:
 Paper (regular): January 27, 2006
 Paper (alternate track): February 10, 2006
 Poster: March 21, 2006
 Panel proposal: January 27, 2006
 Tutorial/Workshop proposal: November 1 2005


WWW2006 COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
 Leslie Carr (University of Southampton, UK)
 Dave De Roure (University of Southampton, UK)
 Arun Iyengar (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
 Mike Dahlin (University of Texas, USA)
 Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK)

TRACK VICE CHAIRS AND DEPUTY VICE CHAIRS
E* Applications: E-Communities, E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Science,
                 E-Government, and E-Humanities

  E-Government, E-Humanities
  Mark Manasse    (Microsoft Research, USA)
  Bertram Ludaescher (UC Davis/SDSC, USA)
  Wolfgang Nejdl Universitat Hannover, Germany)

Browsers and User Interfaces
  Yoelle Maarek (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel)
  Krishna Bharat (Google)

Data Mining
  Ramakrishnan Srikant  (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
  Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay, India)

Hypermedia and Multimedia
  Lloyd Rutledge (CWI, Netherlands)
  Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research, China)

Performance, Reliability and Scalability
  Misha Rabinovich (AT&T, USA)
  Jeff Chase (Duke University, USA)

Pervasive Web and Mobility
  Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft, USA)
  Jason Nieh (Columbia University, USA)

Search
  Junghoo Cho (UCLA, USA)
  Torsten Suel (Polytechnic University, USA)

Security, Privacy, and Ethics
  Ari Juels (RSA, USA)
  Angelos Keromytis (Columbia University, USA)

Semantic Web
  Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)
  Mike Uschold (Boeing)

Web Engineering
  David Lowe (UTS, Australia)
  Luis Olsina (Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina)

XML and Web Services
  Mark Little (Arjuna, UK)
  Santosh Shrivastava (University of Newcastle, UK)

Industrial Practice and Experience
  Marc Najork (Microsoft Research, USA)
  Andy Stanford-Clark (IBM Hursley Laboratory, UK)

Developing Regions
 Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley, USA)
 Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay, India)

TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
  Robin Chen (AT&T, USA)
  Ian Horrocks (Manchester, UK)
  Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

PANELS CO-CHAIRS:
  Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley, USA)
  Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo!, USA)

DEVELOPER'S TRACK CHAIR
  Jeremy Carroll (HP Labs, UK)

-- 
Mark Little
Chief Architect
Arjuna Technologies Ltd
www.arjuna.com