WWW2006 CALL FOR PAPERS The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) invite you to participate in the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd-26th 2006. The first international WWW conference was held in 1994 at CERN where the Web was born. Since then, the conference series has been the prime venue for both academics and industries to present, demonstrate, and discuss the latest ideas and developments about the Web. WWW2006 will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, special interest tracks, plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials and workshops will run before and throughout the conference. A Developers track, devoted to in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for web developers, will run in parallel throughout the conference. The conference will also be running a programme of high-level, non-technical presentations for professionals in media, government, education and commerce to inform and debate the issues relating to the latest Web technology developments. See http://www2006.org/ for regular updates on conference information. WWW2006 is held in association with ACM, BCS, ECS and W3C. REFEREED PAPERS TRACK WWW2006 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the web. Topics include but are not limited to: # E* Applications: E-Communities, E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Science, E-Government and E-Humanities # Browsers and User Interfaces # Data Mining # Hypermedia and Multimedia # Performance, Reliability and Scalability # Pervasive Web and Mobility # Search # Security, Privacy, and Ethics # Semantic Web # Web Engineering # XML and Web Services # Industrial Practice and Experience (Alternate track) # Developing Regions (Alternate track) Detailed descriptions of each of these tracks appear at http://www2006.org/tracks/ Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. 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 field. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. New for WWW2006: We solicit submissions of "position papers" articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. Accepted position papers will be presented at the conference and appear in the proceedings. Both "regular papers" and "position papers" are subject to the same rigorous reviewing process, but the emphasis may differ --- regular papers should present significant reproducible results while position papers may present preliminary work rich in implications for future research. All papers will be peer-reviewed by reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will also be accessible to the general public via http://www2006.org/. Authors of all accepted papers will be required to transfer copyright to the IW3C2. POSTERS Posters provide a forum for late-breaking research, and facilitate feedback in an informal setting. Posters are peer-reviewed. The poster area provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent web-related research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. It gives conference attendees a way to learn about innovative works in progress in a timely and informal manner. Formatting and submission requirements are available at http://www2006.org/posters/. TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to web design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and experienced instructors using prepared content. Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers, designers, leaders, and practitioners to explore current web R&D issues through a more focused and in-depth manner than is possible in a traditional conference session. Participants typically present position statements and hold in-depth discussions with their peers within the workshop setting. For more information and submission details see http://www2006.org/workshops/. PANELS Panels provide an interactive forum that will engage both panelists and the audience in lively discussion of important and often controversial issues. For more information and submission details see http://www2006.org/panels/. IMPORTANT DATES Conference: May 22nd-26th 2006 Submission Deadlines: Paper (regular): November 4, 2005 Paper (alternate track): November 4, 2005 Poster: February 14, 2006 Panel proposal: November 4, 2005 Tutorial/Workshop proposal: October 1, 2005 Acceptance Notification: Paper (regular): January 27, 2006 Paper (alternate track): February 10, 2006 Poster: March 21, 2006 Panel proposal: January 27, 2006 Tutorial/Workshop proposal: November 1 2005 WWW2006 COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Leslie Carr (University of Southampton, UK) Dave De Roure (University of Southampton, UK) Arun Iyengar (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Mike Dahlin (University of Texas, USA) Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK) TRACK VICE CHAIRS AND DEPUTY VICE CHAIRS E* Applications: E-Communities, E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Science, E-Government, and E-Humanities E-Government, E-Humanities Mark Manasse (Microsoft Research, USA) Bertram Ludaescher (UC Davis/SDSC, USA) Wolfgang Nejdl Universitat Hannover, Germany) Browsers and User Interfaces Yoelle Maarek (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel) Krishna Bharat (Google) Data Mining Ramakrishnan Srikant (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay, India) Hypermedia and Multimedia Lloyd Rutledge (CWI, Netherlands) Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research, China) Performance, Reliability and Scalability Misha Rabinovich (AT&T, USA) Jeff Chase (Duke University, USA) Pervasive Web and Mobility Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft, USA) Jason Nieh (Columbia University, USA) Search Junghoo Cho (UCLA, USA) Torsten Suel (Polytechnic University, USA) Security, Privacy, and Ethics Ari Juels (RSA, USA) Angelos Keromytis (Columbia University, USA) Semantic Web Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) Mike Uschold (Boeing) Web Engineering David Lowe (UTS, Australia) Luis Olsina (Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina) XML and Web Services Mark Little (Arjuna, UK) Santosh Shrivastava (University of Newcastle, UK) Industrial Practice and Experience Marc Najork (Microsoft Research, USA) Andy Stanford-Clark (IBM Hursley Laboratory, UK) Developing Regions Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley, USA) Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay, India) TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Robin Chen (AT&T, USA) Ian Horrocks (Manchester, UK) Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) PANELS CO-CHAIRS: Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley, USA) Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo!, USA) DEVELOPER'S TRACK CHAIR Jeremy Carroll (HP Labs, UK) -- Carole Goble Professor of Computer Science University of Manchester UK tel: +44 161 275 6195 http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole