Call for Papers

Aims and rationale

The World Wide Web is changing. The advent of HTML 5, the increasing importance of AJAX and client-side scripting, the new frontiers of Semantic Web, the explosion of Web-based Social Networks as well as the advent of the Federated Social Web are only some examples of this general trend.

Web applications are progressively evolving into rich and flexible environments where users can easily access documents, publish content, listen to music, watch videos, draw pictures and even play directly via browser. This new class of ubiquitous software systems is gaining momentum and fosters the evolution of new ways for people to interact and cooperate. Novel approaches and techniques, new tools and frameworks are needed to address the increasing complexity of these applications.

The Web Technologies track of ACM SAC aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working on practical and foundational aspects of Web technologies as well as other technologies that in the Web framework have found new and unexpected application fields. We seek original, unpublished contributions that are mainly focused on, but not necessarily limited to, the following aspects of Web technologies:

Collaboration on the Web: Wikis, Social Software, and Web 2.0
Electronic Publishing on the Web
Emerging Web Technologies
Expanding the reach of Social Software: Enterprise 2.0, Social Software, Business Process Management, ...
Federated Social Web software and protocols
Hypertext, hypermedia, markup languages, and XML-related technologies
Performance, Scalability and Quality of Service on the Web
Web Metrics, Monitoring and Analysis
(Process-aware) Web Information Systems
Rich User Experiences and Human Computer Interaction in Web applications
Semantic-enhanced Web applications
Web Browsers and Web Interfaces
Web Accessibility
Mobile Web and Cross-device Content Delivery
Web Searching

Proceedings and Post-Proceedings

Papers accepted for the Web Technologies track will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2012 proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to an international journal.

Paper Submission

Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions:

original and unpublished research;
reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry;
reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains.

Each submitted paper will undergo a blind review process and will be refereed by at least three referees.
Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC 2012 proceedings.

The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using the ACM format (guidelines are given on the SAC 2012 web site).
Accepted full papers should not exceed 6 pages in a double column format (with the option, for an additional per-page fee, to add 2 more pages).

Papers can be submitted online at https://www.softconf.com/c/sac2012/.

Relevant Dates

September 7, 2011: Paper submission deadline (extended)
August 31, 2011: Abstract submission deadline
October 12, 2011: Author notification
November 2, 2011: Camera-ready copies due

People

Track chairs

Davide Rossi, University of Bologna
Angelo Di Iorio, University of Bologna
Stefano Zacchiroli, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7

E-mail contact: sacwt@cs.unibo.it

Program Committee

Aldo Gangemi, ISTC - CNR, Italy
Alessandro Caponi, University of Bologna, Italy
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, France
Antonina Dattolo, University of Udine, Italy
Celso Hirata, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil
Cesar Teixeira, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Cristian Mateos, ISISTAN Research Institute - CONICET, Argentina
Elisa Turrini, University of Bologna, Italy
Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG - CNR, Italy
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy
Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI - CNR, Italy
Flávia Delicato, UFRN, Brazil
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Florian Skopik, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Frederik Hogenboom, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Gioele Barabucci, University of Bologna, Italy
Irena Mlynkova, Charles University, Czech Republic
Laercio Baldochi, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil
Manolis Tzagarakis, University of Patras, Greece
Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Maria da Graça Pimentel, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Marti Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Olga Streibel, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Paulo Pires, Univesidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Philip T. Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada
Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales, Australia
Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna, Italy
Stéphane Sire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Tim A. Majchrzak, University of Münster, Germany
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Vanessa Camilleri, University of Malta, Malta
Vincent Balat, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France