WEB TECHNOLOGIES

34rd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

8–12 April 2019, Limassol, Cyprus

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Call for Papers

Aims and rationale

The World Wide Web is relentlessly evolving. Once a single interconnection of static, physically distributed content passively accessed by human users through personal computers, during the explosion of Web-based social networks the Web evolved into an environment allowing users worldwide to interact and collaborate in the creation of user-generated content within many virtual communities. In this line, Web 2.0 is the umbrella term used to encompass several developments which followed, namely social networking sites and social media sites (e.g., Facebook), blogs, wikis, folksonomies (e.g. Flickr), video sharing sites (e.g., YouTube), Web applications ("apps"), collaborative platforms, and mashup applications. Many technologies such as HTML 5, CSS3, AJAX and client-side scripting helped to bring these ideas into practice.

Moreover, the current Web can be seen as an evolutionary step from the Web 2.0 in that access to content is nowadays ubiquitous, content itself is far more heterogeneous, and "users" come in mixed and different flavors. First, ubiquitous access has been mainly pushed by the inception of mobile computing and mobile devices; in fact reports show that by 2020 the number of mobile device users will be about 70% of the global population. Second, served and published Web content is not only those following traditional interchange formats (text, images, video) but also executable code or Web APIs (e.g. Mashape.com, ProgrammableWeb.com), from which new applications can be built and in turn published back to the Web. The recent notion of "Web of objects", which find its root in Web-accesible IoT applications, promotes the interconnection of hardware elements capable of producing huge amounts of sensor data. Finally, the role of Web application end users and Web developer/designers is somewhat blurry, due to modern Web technologies that greatly simplify the creation/deployment of rich Web sites that might consume Web-accesible services. In addition, the advent of Semantic Web technologies pave the way to the creation of intelligent applications, and thus the tandem human user-browser is no longer the only way to take advantage of Web content.

In this context, novel approaches and techniques, new tools and frameworks are needed to address the increasing complexity of the Web that is coming and the applications therein.

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:

Proceedings and Post-Proceedings

Papers/poster accepted for the Web Technologies track will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2019 proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library, which ensures excellent visibility.

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

The authors of the best papers presented at the track will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a Special Issue of Elsevier's Information Processing and Management - https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-processing-and-management.

LNBIP

Information Processing and Management

ISSN: 0306-4573

Impact factor: 3.444

Scimago rank: Q1 (Computer science applications, information systems)

Student Research Competition (SRC) Program

Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (maximum of 3 pages in ACM camera-ready format, with an optional extra page at the expense of 80 USD) following the instructions published at SAC 2019 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.

All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts (up to 20 students) will have the opportunity to give poster and oral 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 medals, cash awards, and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet. Invited students receive SRC travel support (US$500) and are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (STAP) for additional travel support.

Paper Submission

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

  1. original and unpublished research;
  2. reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry;
  3. 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 and any information that might discourage authors' identity from your paper before submitting it.

Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC 2018 proceedings.

The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using the ACM format (guidelines are given on the SAC 2019 web site).
Accepted full papers should not exceed 8 pages in a double column format (with the option, for an additional expense of 80 USD per page, to add 2 more pages).

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Track chairs

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

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