Sixteenth International
World Wide Web Conference
May 8-12, 2007
Banff, Alberta, Canada
http://www2007.org
In
cooperation
with
The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) cordially invites you to participate in the 16th
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007,
http://www2007.org
) to be held on May 8-12, 2007 in Banff,
Canada. The first WWW conference was held in 1994 at CERN, where the Web was born. Since then, the
conference series has become the premier venue for academics and industry to present, demonstrate, and discuss
the latest ideas about the Web. The technical program for the five-day conference will include refereed paper
presentations, plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions, as well as tutorials, workshops, and special sessions
for Web developers, historians, and visionaries.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadlines:
Refereed papers:
Posters:
Tutorial proposals:
Workshop proposals:
November 20, 2006 (HARD deadline; no extensions will granted)
February 12, 2007 (estimated)
November 27, 2006
October 20, 2006
Acceptance Notification: Refereed Papers: January 29, 2007 (tentative)
Conference dates: Tuesday-Saturday, May 8-12, 2007
REFEREED PAPERS
WWW2007 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Papers should not have been
published or be in submission at another conference or journal. Topics include but are not limited to:
* Browsers and User Interfaces
* Data Mining
* E-Applications
* Industrial Practice and Experience
* Performance and Scalability
* Pervasive Web and Mobility
* Search
* Security, Privacy, Reliability, and Ethics
* Semantic Web
* Technology for Developing Regions
* Web Engineering
* Web Services
* XML and Web Data
Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work and can be up to 10 pages in length. 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. In addition to
regular papers, we also solicit submissions of position papers articulating high-level architectural visions, describing
challenging future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. General queries regarding WWW2007
submissions can be sent to
www2007questions@iw3c2.org
.
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three 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 the conference Web site. Authors will be required to sign a
copyright transfer form. Detailed formatting and submission requirements are available at
http://www2007.org/
.
Authors of top-ranked papers will be invited to submit enhanced versions of their papers for publication in a special
issue of the ACM Transactions on the Web.
The WWW2007 program will also include Posters, Tutorial and Workshops, Panels, a W3C track and a
Developers track.
Program Chairs: Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research (USA)
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts (USA)