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 explosion of Web-based Social Networks as well as the advent of the Federated Social Web, the new frontiers of Semantic 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 play directly via browser. This 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.

This track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working on both 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 We seek original, unpublished contributions that are mainly focused on, but not necessarily limited to, the following aspects of Web technologies: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, 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
Web Engineering
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 2014 proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library.

Paper registration for the conference is required and allows the paper to be printed in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers will result in excluding the papers from the ACM/IEEE digital library.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to an international journal.

Student Research Competition (SRC) Program

Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (minimum of 2-page and maximum of 4-page) following the instructions published at SAC 2014 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by expert reviewers and practitioners.

Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give poster presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. The SRC committee will evaluate and select First-, Second-, and Third- place winners. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet.

Authors of selected abstracts are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award program for support.

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 (double) blind review process and will be refereed by at least three referees. To ease blind review, you shall remove author names from your paper before submitting it.
Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC 2014 proceedings.

The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using the ACM format (guidelines are given on the SAC 2014 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).

Regular papers can be submitted online at https://www.softconf.com/d/sac2014/.

Papers for the Student Research Competition can be submitted online at https://www.softconf.com/d/sac-src2014.

Relevant Dates

October 1, 2013: Paper submission deadline *** Extended ***
September 13, 2013: Paper submission deadline
November 15, 2013: Author notification
December 6, 2013: Camera-ready copies due
December 13, 2013: Authors registration 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

Alessandro Caponi, PoiStory, Italy
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, France
Andrea Nuzzolese, University of Bologna, Italy
Angelo Di Iorio, University of Bologna, Italy (co-chair)
Antonina Dattolo, University of Udine, Italy
Celso Hirata, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil
Cesar Teixeira, a Universidade Federal de São Car, Brazil
Chin-Laung Lei, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Chin-Wan Chung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Cristian Mateos, ISISTAN Research Institute, CONICET, Argentina
Davide Rossi, University of Bologna, Italy (co-chair)
Elisa Turrini, University of Bologna, Italy
Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG - CNR, Italy
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Florian Skopik, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Flávia Delicato, UFRN, Brazil
Frederik Hogenboom, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Gioele Barabucci, University of Bologna, Italy
Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Hwan-Gue Cho, Pusan National University, South Korea
In-Young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Irena Holubova (Mlynkova), Charles University, Czech Republic
Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
John C. S. Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jong Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea
Laercio Baldochi, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil
Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marco Crasso, IBM Research, Argentina
Maria da Graça Pimentel, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Marti Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Manolis Tzagarakis, University of Patras, Greece
Olga Streibel, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Paulo Pires, Univesidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, South Korea
Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales, Australia
Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna, Italy
Stefano Zacchiroli, Université Paris Diderot, France (co-chair)
Stéphane Sire, Oppidoc, France
Tatsuo Nakajima, Department of Computer Science, Waseda University, Okubo Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Tim A. Majchrzak, University of Münster, Germany
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Vincent Balat, Université Paris Diderot, France
Yefeng Liu, Department of Computer Science, Waseda Universityu, Tokyo, Japan
Yuh-Jzer Joung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan