[AISWorld] ICWE 2014-Last Call for papers

[Gustavo Rossi]

(Apologies for cross posting)

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)

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 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)
Accepted contributions will be included into the ICWE 2014 Springer  
LNCS proceedings.

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 at webengineering.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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