Venue:
Lisbon, Portugal

Event date:
20 – 22 May, 2015


Regular Papers
Paper Submission: December 16, 2014
Authors Notification: March 11, 2015
Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015

Position Papers
Paper Submission: February 3, 2015
Authors Notification: March 12, 2015
Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015

Scope:
The purpose of the 11th 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 five main tracks, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, including Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business, Web Intelligence and Mobile Information Systems.
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. WEB INTELLIGENCE
5. MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

AREA 1: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY

• Authentication and Access Control
• Databases and Datawarehouses
• Distributed and Parallel Applications
• Protocols and Standards
• System Integration
• Web Programming
• Web Security and Privacy
• Web Services and Web Engineering
• XML and data management

AREA 2: WEB INTERFACES AND APPLICATIONS

• Accessibility issues and Technology
• Big Data for Internet-based services
• Metadata and Metamodeling
• Multimedia and User interfaces
• Ontology and the Semantic Web
• Personalized Web Sites and Services
• Portal strategies
• RESTful Web services
• Searching and Browsing
• Usability and Ergonomics
• User Modeling
• Web Geographical Information Systems

AREA 3: SOCIETY, E-BUSINESS AND E-GOVERNMENT

• B2B, B2C and C2C
• Communities of interest
• Communities of practice
• e-Business and e-Commerce
• e-Government
• e-Payment
• Knowledge Management
• Social and Legal Issues
• Social Media Analytics
• Social Networks and Organizational Culture
• Web 2.0 and Social Networking Controls

AREA 4: WEB INTELLIGENCE

• Collective Intelligence
• Computational Intelligence on the Web
• Data Mining
• Learning User Profiles
• Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
• Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
• Privacy and Confidentiality
• Recommendation Systems
• Text mining
• User-Centric Systems
• Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
• Web of Things

AREA 5: MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• Context Aware Media Tagging
• Context Awareness
• Context Detection
• Mobile APIs and services
• mobile cloud
• mobile commerce
• Mobile learning
• Mobile Media Sharing Systems
• Mobile Navigation and Assistance
• Mobile Social Network Interaction
• Social Network Awareness

Keynotes Speakers
WEBIST 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

WEBIST Conference Co-Chairs
Valérie Monfort, LAMIH Valenciennes UMR CNRS 8201, France
Karl-Heinz Krempels, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Program Co-Chairs
Tim A. Majchrzak, University of Münster, Germany
Ziga Turk, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia / Reflection Group, Slovenia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
http://www.webist.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

WEBIST Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
e-mail: webist.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.webist.org/