Third Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB'05) Buenos Aires - Argentina - Oct. 31/Nov. 2nd, 2005

May 23, 2005 Deadline for submitting papers
Third Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB'05)
Buenos Aires - Argentina - Oct. 31/Nov. 2nd, 2005
http://www.la-web.org/

[PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS LA-WEB 2005]

LA-WEB'05 is an endorsed regional conference by IW3C2 International
World Wide Web Conference Committee <www.iw3c2.org>. This will be the
Third Latin American venue for international software and web
researchers, technologists, and leaders from academia, industry, and
government. They will gather together to present, demonstrate, and
discuss the latest developments in the Web, and how this can be used
to empower the Latin American Web. The first two editions were held in
Santiago <www.la-web.org/2003/>, Chile (2003) and Ribeirao Preto
<www.icmc.usp.br/laweb/>, Brazil (2004). In 2005 the congress will be
co-located and sharing one day on Web Retrieval with SPIRE (String
Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium). As in past editions,
the proceedings of LA-WEB 2005 will be published by IEEE CS Press.

Topics

LA-WEB 2005 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of
the Web. Developing successful Web sites and applications require
broader perspectives and the incorporation of a number of principles,
models, methods and techniques from diverse disciplines such as
software engineering, information systems, data structuring and retrieval,
computer science,hypertext, graphic design, knowledge management, mobile
and adaptive computing, among others.

Topics include but are not limited to:

Applications (Area 1),
Browsers and User Interfaces (Area 2),
Electronic Commerce (Area 3),
Hypermedia (Area 4),
Mobility and Wireless Access (Area 5),
Multimedia (Area 6),
Performance and Reliability (Area 7),
Search and Data Mining (Area 8),
Security and Privacy (Area 9),
Semantic Web (Area 10), and
Web Engineering (Area 11).

Papers should cover not only technical but also practical solutions
oriented to solve specific Web problems.

Important Dates
May 23, 2005 Deadline for submitting papers
June 30, 2005 Notification of acceptance of papers
July 30, 2005 Papers received in camera ready form
Oct. 31/Nov. 2nd LA-WEB'05 Conference

Submission of Papers
Submissions should present original reports of new work in English.
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. Papers must be submitted electronically in
PDF, and must be formatted using the IEEE-CS Author's styles that are
posted in the LA-WEB site http://ing.unlpam.edu.ar/laweb05/. We
encourage authors to submit concise papers with up to 8 pages; however,
papers with up to 10 pages may be submitted, and an additional 2 pages
(for a maximum of 12) may be purchased later.

Programme Committee
Chair
Luis Olsina, National University of La Pampa (Argentina)

Members
Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto (Canada)
Arno Scharl, UWA Business School, (Australia)
Bebo White, Stanford University (USA)
Claudia Pons, National University of La Plata, (Argentina)
Daniel Schwabe, PUC Río (Brazil)
David Lowe, University of Technology (Australia)
Dieter Fensel, DERI, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, (New Zealand)
Enrico Motta, The Open University (UK)
Ethan Munson, Univesity of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (USA)
Gastón Mousques, ORT University (Uruguay)
Geert-Jan Houben, Technical University Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina)
Horacio Leone, National Technical University, Sta. Fe (Argentina)
Jean Vanderdonckt, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)
João Falcão e Cunha, Porto University (Portugal)
Juliana Freire, University of Utah (USA)
Maria da Graça Pimentel, USP São Carlos (Brazil)
Mario Piattini, Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain)
Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome (Italy)
Mitsuru Ikeda, Osaka University (Japan)
Nora Koch, Munich University (Germany)
Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology (Spain)
Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Ray Welland, University of Glasgow (UK)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Chile University (Chile)
Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo (Brazil)
San Murugesan, Southern Cross University (Australia)
Sandro Morasca, University of Insubria (Italy)
Silvia Abrahão, Valencia University of Technology (Spain)
Stefan Decker, DERI, Galway (Ireland)
Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth (UK)
Symeon Retalis, University of Piraeus (Greece)
Virgilio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Yogesh Deshpande, UWS (Australia)
Wieland Schwinger, SCC Hagenberg (Austria)
[List not complete yet]

Organization
SADIO (Argentine Society on Computer Science and Operational Research)
is in charge of organizing LA-WEB'05 in Buenos Aires, the capital of
Argentina. It is a complex, energetic, and seductive port city, which
stretches south-to-north along the Rio de la Plata. Portenos, as the
multinational people of Buenos Aires are known, possess an elaborate
and
rich cultural identity. They value their European heritage highly
-Italian and German names outnumbered by Spanish, and the lifestyle and
architecture are markedly more European than in any other city in South
America. One of the world's finest opera houses, the Teatro Colon,
flourishes here on the plains alongside the river. Portenos are
intensely involved in the life and culture of their city, and they will
gladly share the secrets of Buenos Aires, from tango lessons to the
best
places to eat the famous Argentinian meat. Buenos Aires is also the
starting point to visit other nice places such as Iguazu falls (on the
Brazilian border), Bariloche and its lakes, or the Patagonia, with its
spectacular geography and wildlife, including the Perito Moreno glacier
or Torres del Paine (in Chile).


Visit LA-WEB site for news:
http://www.la-web.org/
http://www.ing.unlpam.edu.ar/laweb05/
Further comments send to olsinal@ing.unlpam.edu.ar


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Dr. Luis Olsina
GIDIS-Web, Software&Web Engineering R&D Group
Engineering School, UNLPam
Calle 9 esq. 110 - (6360) General Pico
La Pampa - Argentina

E-mail olsinal@ing.unlpam.edu.ar
olsinal@yahoo.com
TE/Fax 54 2302 430497 Ext. 6501