LA-WEB 2008

LA-Web 2008 is the sixth of a series of refereed conferences aimed at providing a venue in Latin America for researchers and technologists from around the world to present, demonstrate and discuss the latest Web developments. LA-Web 2008 will be held in Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil.

LA-WEB 2008 is endorsed by the IW3C2 International World Wide Web Conference Committee and its proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. This year, LA-WEB will be co-located with WEBMedia 2008.

We invite high quality papers describing original work in all areas of Web research. Papers should properly place the work in the context of the conference's theme, cite related work, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and contributions to the field. Papers must be submitted electronically via the conference's website, and must be formatted using the IEEE-CS guidelines (see below). We encourage authors to submit papers of up to 10 pages long.

Location

Vila Velha is part of the metropolitan Vitória, which is one of Brazil's oldest capitals. A city that has modernized itself without losing sight of its historical background. It unites past and present in the same beautiful scene, from the traditions of fishermen and clay potmakers to the many buildings and monuments in the Historical Center with its churches and secular convents.

The city has beautiful mangroves, parks, squares and gardens. It is one of the most arboreous cities in Espírito Santo. There are 91 square meters of green area for each inhabitant that are distributed between leisure retreats and environmental preservation areas. Ecosystems that shelter hundreds of flora and fauna species, and contribute to the quality of life of the residents as well as enchanting visitors.

Fishes, shrimps and crabs, prepared in clay pots, are the basic ingredients of the Capixaba fish stew and pie, which is the most traditional plate. However the city also offers visitors a chance to navigate through an enormous variety of seasonings and flavors. Dozens of restaurants, which are guaranteed by the townhall's standard Quality Seal, cultivate and reinvent Brazilian and international dishes.

The sun illuminates Vitória and shines across its bay of clear waters, unmasking the calm and cozy beaches that welcome residents and visitors. And when night falls, the city joy is revealed in the charming bars and night clubs where there is always a smile and friendly word for new arrivals. Furthermore, Vitória offers a varied and sophisticated commerce which can attend to the most demanding customers.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: July 6, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 6, 2008 Camera-ready version: Aug 18, 2008

Topics


 * Browsers and user interfaces
 * E-commerce, E-Science, E-government and E-Learning
 * Digital libraries
 * Multimedia and hypermedia
 * Mobility and ubiquitous web access
 * Performance, reliability and scalability
 * Search and data mining
 * Semantic web
 * Web engineering
 * Collaboration and web communities
 * Security, privacy and copyright issues
 * XML and web services
 * Collaborative tagging
 * Blogging
 * Social Networks
 * Web spam characterization, detection and filtering
 * Web visualization
 * Web usability and accessibility
 * Web 2.0 approaches and applications

Conference Chair

Ricardo Baeza-Yates Yahoo! Research, Spain & Chile CWR/DCC, Univ. of Chile

Steering Committee

Virgilio Almeida, UFMG, Brazil Ricardo Baeza-Yates (coordinator) Alfredo Sanchez, Univ. de Las Americas, Mexico Daniel Schwabe, PUC-Rio, Brazil

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Wagner Meira Jr., UFMG, Brazil Luis Antonio Olsina, UNLPam, Argentina

Organizing Committee

Claudine Badue, UFES, Brazil (Chair) Elias Oliveira, UFES, Brazil Alberto Ferreira de Souza, UFES, Brazil Javier Velasco, CWR, Univ. of Chile

Partial Program Committee

Please see web site for details.

Current Sponsors

Yahoo! Research

Supporters

CLEI SCCC SBC (pending) SADIO (pending)

More Information http://www.cwr.cl/la-web2008/ This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP