WEBIST 2007 - International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies

3 - 6 March, 2007
Barcelona, Spain


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Co-organized by: and Open University of Catalonia

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Scope \| Conference Areas \| Area 1: Internet Technology \| Area 2: Web Interfaces and Applications\| Area3: Society, e-Business and e-Government\| Area 4: e-learning \| Keynote Speakers \| Proceedings and Book Publication \| Venue \| Secretariat

WEBIST is organized by INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication. SCOPE The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has four main track, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, including Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business and, last but not least, e-Learning. WEBIST focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of Web Information Systems and Technologies for industry and services, in addition to academic applications. Ideas on how to solve business problems, using web based information systems and technologies, will arise from the conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Both technological and social-oriented papers are accepted. All papers must describe original work, not previously published or submitted to another conference. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of WEBIST. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website (http://www.webist.org). CONFERENCE AREAS Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. Internet Technology 2. Web Interfaces and Applications 3. Society, e-Business and e-Government 4. e-Learning AREA 1 - INTERNET TECHNOLOGY - XML and data management - Web Security and Privacy - Intrusion Detection and Response - Authentication and Access Control - Grid Computing - Web Services and Web Engineering - System Integration - Databases and Datawarehouses - Wireless Applications - Distributed and Parallel Applications - Protocols and Standards - Network systems, proxies and servers - Agents AREA 2 - WEB INTERFACES AND APPLICATIONS - Multimedia and User interfaces - Accessibility issues and Technology - User Modeling - Web Personalization - Usability and Ergonomics - Personalized Web Sites and Services - Portal strategies - Searching and Browsing - Ontology and the Semantic Web - Metadata and Metamodeling - Web mining - Digital Libraries - Web Geographical Information Systems AREA 3 - SOCIETY, e-BUSINESS and e-GOVERNMENT - e-Business and e-Commerce - e-Payment - B2B, B2C and C2C - Knowledge Management - Social Networks and Organizational Culture - Social Information Systems - Communities of practice - Communities of interest - Social & Legal Issues - Tele-Work and Collaboration - e-Government AREA 4 - e-LEARNING - e-Learning standards and tools - Web-based Education - Web-based Teaching and Learning Technologies - Designing Learning Activities - Content-based and Context-based Learning - Learning Materials Development - Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Virtual Learning Communities - Case-studies and applications - Competition and Collaboration - Software tools for e-Learning KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Schahram Dustdar, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. VENUE The conference will be held in Barceló Hotel Sants. The Barceló Hotel Sants is a deluxe hotel located in the heart of Barcelona. It stays about 15 minutes from the airport, 4 minutes to Plaza de Catalunya and 500 meters to the Fira de Barcelona. Considering the hotel is exactly above the train station, it allows traveling to anyplace. Most important is the fact that all the noise from the train station is undetected because the hotel is soundproofed. The Barcelo Hotel Sants also offers on site dining and is convenient to many shopping and entertainment venues. SECRETARIAT WEBIST Secretariat Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27-A 2º esq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: +351 265 520 186 e- mail: secretariat@webist.org Web: http://www.webist.org CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Joaquim Filipe, E.S.T. Setúbal, Portugal Julià Minguillón, Open University of Catalonia, Spain PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS José Cordeiro, E.S.T. Setúbal, Portugal Slimane Hammoudi, E.S.E.O., France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jacky Akoka, CNAM & INT, France Abdullah Alghamdi, KSU, Saudi Arabia A. Y. Al-Zoubi, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan Rachid Anane, Coventry University, United Kingdom Margherita Antona, FORTH - ICS, Greece Azita Bahrami, Armstrong Atlantic State University, United States of America Matteo Baldoni, Universita' degli Studi di Torino, Italy Ken Barker, University of Calgary, Canada Cristina Baroglio, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany David Bell, Brunel University, United Kingdom Orlando Belo, University of Minho, Portugal Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, United States of America Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Christos Bouras, University of Patras and RACTI, Greece Amy Bruckman, Georgia Tech, United States of America Jack Brzezinski, DePaul University, United States of America Maria Claudia Buzzi, CNR - IIT, Italy Elena Calude, Massey University, IIMS, New Zealand Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy John Carroll, The Pennsylvania State University, United States Nunzio Casalino, University of L'Aquila, Italy Maiga Chang, National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning, Taiwan Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Evangelos Christou, University of the Aegean, Greece Jae Chung, Airvana, Inc., United States of America Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CNAM & ESSEC, France Michel Crampes, Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Daniel Cunliffe, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom John Philip Cuthell, MirandaNet Academy; Bath Spa University; University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Dafoulas, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Vasilios Darlagiannis, EPFL, Switzerland Alessandro D'Atri, CeRSI - Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy Valeria de Antonellis, University of Brescia, Italy Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, United Kingdom Steven Demurjian, The University of Connecticut, United States of America Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, United States Y. Ding, University of Innsbruck, Austria Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Chyi-Ren Dow, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Barry Eaglestone, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Ali El Kateeb, University of Michigan, United States of America A. El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada Atilla Elci, Eastern Mediterranean Univ., North Cyprus, Turkey Luis Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno, Italy Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Akira Fukuda, Kyushu University, Japan Giovanni Fulantelli, Italian National Research Council - Institute for Educational Technology, Italy Erich Gams, Salzburg Research, Austria Daniel Garcia, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain Franca Garzotto, HOC-Politecnico di Milano, Italy Dragan Gasevic, Simon Fraser University, Canada José A. Gil Salinas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nicolás González-Deleito, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Anna Grabowska, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Begoña Gros, University of Barcelona, Spain Vic Grout, University of Wales, NEWI, United Kingdom Francesco Guerra, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Aaron Gulliver, University of Victoria, Canada Pål Halvorsen, Univ. Oslo, Norway Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece Stylianos Hatzipanagos, King's College London, United Kingdom Dominik Heckmann, DFKI GmbH, Germany Nicola Henze, University of Hannover, Germany Dominic Heutelbeck, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany David Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine, United States of America Wen Shyong Hsieh, Stu Te University, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Brian Hudson, Umeå University, Sweden Tanko Ishaya, The University of Hull, United Kingdom Alexander Ivannikov, State Research Institute for Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Russia Kai Jakobs, Aachen University, Germany Anne James, Coventry University, United Kingdom Narayana Jayaram, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Ivan Jelinek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Jingwen Jin, Intel Corporation/Communications Technology Lab, United States Qun Jin, Waseda Univeristy, Japan Carlos Juiz, University of Balearic Islands, Spain Michail Kalogiannakis, University Paris 5 - Rene Descartes, France Jussi Kangasharju, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Vassilis Kapsalis, Industrial Systems Institute, Greece George Karabatis, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), United States of America Frank Kargl, Ulm University, Germany Roland Kaschek, Massey University, New Zealand Sokratis Katsikas, University of the Aegean, Greece David Kennedy, The University of Hong Kong, China Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mamadou Tadiou Kone, Université Laval, Canada Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel Axel Küpper, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany Daniel Lemire, UQAM, Canada Tayeb Lemlouma, IUT of Lannion, France Weigang Li, University of Brasilia, Brazil Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, United States Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany Hui Liu, Missouri State University, United States of America Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, United States of America Vicente Luque-Centeno, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Anna Maddalena, DISI - University of Genoa, Italy George Magoulas, Birkebeck College, University of London, United Kingdom Johannes Mayer, Ulm University, Germany Carmel McNaught, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Elisabeth Metais, CNAM/CEDRIC, France Alessandro Micarelli, University of "Roma Tre", Italy Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, Techno India (West Bengal University of Technology), India Kia Ng, ICSRiM - University of Leeds, United Kingdom David Nichols, University of Waikato, New Zealand Andreas Ninck, Berne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Dusica Novakovic, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Vladimir Oleshchuk, Agder University College, Norway Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia Jose Onieva, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Vasile Palade, Oxford University, United Kingdom Jun Pang, Oldenburg University, Germany Kalpdrum Passi, Laurentian University, Canada Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy Chang-Shyh Peng, California Lutheran University, United States of America Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Rajesh Pillania, Management Developement Institute, India Carsten Pils, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Bhanu Prasad, Florida A & M University, United States of America Joshua Pun, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mimi Recker, Utah State University, United States of America Frank Reichert, Agder University College, Norway Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Norman Revell, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Yacine Rezgui, University of Salford, United Kingdom Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy Dumitru Roman, DERI Innsbruck / University of Innsbruck, Austria Danguole Rutkauskiene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Wasim Sadiq, SAP Research, Australia Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait Eduardo Sanchez, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh, Massey University, New Zealand Anthony Savidis, ICS-FORTH, Greece Vittorio Scarano, Universita' di Salerno, Italy Alexander Schatten, Vienna University of Technology: Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Austria Alexander Schill, TU Dresden, Germany Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Magy Seif El-Nasr, Penn State University, College of Information Sciences and Technology, United States Jochen Seitz, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, United States of America Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Tarbiat Moalem University, Iran Quan Z. Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, United Kingdom Keng Siau, Universit y of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States of America Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain Marianna Sigala, University of the Aegean, Greece Eva Söderström, University of Skövde, Sweden Miguel Soriano, UPC, Spain J. Michael Spector, FSU-LSI, United States of America Martin Sperka, Slovak University of Technology, FIIT, Slovakia Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom Carlo Strapparava, ITC-IRST, Italy Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada Hussein Suleman, Unviersity of Cape Town, South Africa Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, United States Ramayah T., Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Taro Tezuka, Kyoto University, Japan Dirk Thissen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Ivan Tomek, Acadia University, Canada Bettina Törpel, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Arun-Kumar Tripathi, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Andre Trudel, Acadia University, Canada Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece Klaus Turowski, University of Augsburg, Germany Michail Vaitis, University of the Aegean, Greece Christelle Vangenot, EPFL, Switzerland Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Thessaly, Greece Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela Maurizio Vincini, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Viacheslav Wolfengagen, Institute JurInfoR-MSU, Russia Martin Wolpers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Huahui Wu, Google, United States of America Lu Yan, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Sung-Ming Yen, National Central University, Taiwan Janette Young, Northumbria University, United Kingdom Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada

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