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WWW8 - Eighth International Conference on the World Wide Web
Toronto, May 11-14, 1999
CALL FOR PAPERS
Web Site: http://www8.org
Paper Submission Web Site: http://witanweb.iit.nrc.ca/www8/
Paper submission deadline: November 23, 1998
Author notification: February 1, 1999
Paper final version due: March 1, 1999
Conference: May 11-14, 1999
The WWW8 Conference, sponsored by the International World Wide Web
Conference Committee (IW3C2) and managed by Foretec Seminars, will
consist of refereed technical papers, tutorials, workshops, posters,
a W3C track, and a Developer's Day track. Technical papers present
original reports of substantive new work in areas that can be
theoretical (models, analysis techniques, semantics), empirical
(experiments, case studies), or implementation-oriented (new systems,
tools, methodologies, user interfaces). Papers should properly place
the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the
innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the development
of the WWW. Papers will be refereed by an international Program
Committee.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest:
WWW Performance
- Caching
- Replication
- Fault tolerance
- Performance monitoring
- Benchmarking
- Multimedia delivery
- Networking issues
Browsers and Tools
- Browsers
- Authoring tools
- Web site management tools
- Application development tools
- Programming languages
Hypertext and Hypermedia
- Metadata: XML/XSL, RDF, ...
- Designing documents and sites
- Hyperdocument visualization
- Navigation techniques
- Web models
User Interfaces
- Novel interfaces
- Multimedia interfaces
- Interfaces for hand-held/mobile devices
- Virtual Reality on the Web
- Support for collaborative work
- Accessibility issues
Searching, Querying, and Indexing
- Information retrieval on the web
- Query mechanisms
- Web/database system interactions
Electronic Commerce and Security
- Web transactions
- Charging and payment protocols
- Security
To submit a paper, go to
http://witanweb.iit.nrc.ca/www8/.
Paper format:
Papers should be no longer than 20 pages, with the main body set
in a 12-point font. We will accept papers in HTML (browsable by any of
the commonly used browsers), PostScript, or PDF formats.
A note on accessibility issues: Whenever appropriate, authors are
encouraged to comment on accessibility as it relates to their paper.
Are the technologies, standards or practices you are discussing
accessible to individuals who use alternative display or control
systems (e.g., people who have disabilities)? For more information
see URL: www.w3.org/WAI.
If you wish to be placed on the WWW8 announcements mailing list,
please send an e-mail message to info@www8.org
+Conference Co-Chairs:
Albert Vezza, CNRI
Robert Cailliau, CERN
Murray Maloney, Muzmo Communication Inc.
+Program Committee Chair:
Alberto Mendelzon, U. of Toronto,
mendelzon@db.toronto.edu
+Program Committee Vice-chairs:
User Interfaces
Ron Baecker, Mark Chignell, U. of Toronto
WWW Performance
Fred Douglis, AT&T Labs
Searching, Querying, and Indexing
Oren Etzioni, U. of Washington
Browsers and Tools
Hannes Marais, Compaq SRC
Electronic Commerce and Security
Doug Tygar, UC Berkeley
Hypertext/Hypermedia
Anne-Marie Vercoustre, INRIA
+Tutorials Chair:
Richard Binder, Foretec Seminars
+Workshops Co-Chairs:
Benay Dara-Abrams, Sholink Corporation
Richard Binder, Foretec Seminars
+Developer's Day Program Chair:
Ian Graham, U. of Toronto
+Posters Chair:
Charles Clarke, U. of Toronto
+Panels Co-Chairs:
Michael Bieber, NJIT
Carolyn Watters, Dalhousie Univ.