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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 1 September
2008 --

             IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2008
                   Freiburg, Germany, 13 - 15 October 2008
                     (http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Co-organised by: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

 Endorsed by: Institute for the Management of Information Systems
(IMIS)

 Supported by: The Journal of eWorking

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Bebo White, Stanford University, USA

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2008 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge
development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just
technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims
to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues
related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see
below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas
will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference
attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will
be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS
International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in
other selected Journals. The top 10 papers related to the journal
topics will be invited to submit
an extension paper to the Journal of eWorking (*ISSN*: 1872-3284) for
publication.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations,
Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject
to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:

Web 2.0
- Collaborative Systems
- Co-generation of Content, Understandings and World Views

Semantic Web and XML
- Semantics Web Architectures
- Semantic Web Middleware
- Semantic Web Services
- Semantic Web Agents
- Ontologies
- Applications of Semantic Web
- Social Networks and Semantics Web
- Semantic Web Data Management
- Information Retrieval in Semantic Web

Applications and Uses
- Game Architecture and Development
- e-Learning
- e-Commerce / e-Business
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Procurement
- e-Society
- Digital Libraries
- Internet Applications
- Interoperability with Mobile Applications

Services, Architectures and Web Development
- Internet Architectures
- Network Algorithms
- Network Architectures
- Network Computing
- Network Management
- Network Performance
- Protocols and Standards
- Traffic Models

Research Issues
- Bioinformatics
- Human Computer Interaction
- Security and Protection
- Data Mining and Social Networks
- Information Retrieval
- Information Seeking Behaviours

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (2nd call) - 1 September 2008
- Notification to Authors (2nd call) - 16 September 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call) -
Until 23 September 2008
- Late Registration (2nd call) - After 23 September 2008
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 13 to 15 October 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@internet-conf.org
Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located Conference:
This conference is co-located with the IADIS International Conference
on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2008)
(http://www.celda-conf.org/) - participants of one conference may
attend the sessions from the other conference at no extra charges.