CFP: AEWSE'06

CALL FOR PAPERS

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First International Workshop on
Adaptation and Evolution in Web Systems Engineering (AEWSE'06) ==============================================================

Held in conjunction with ICWE 2006, July 11-14, 2006, Palo Alto, California http://wise.vub.ac.be/aewse/


WORKSHOP RATIONALE
Current Web applications are evolutionary in their nature: in several scenarios, such class of systems require (frequent) changes of content, functionality, semantics, structure, navigation, presentation or implementation. On one hand such needs demand for the development of adaptive Web systems, able to support more effective and efficient interactions in all those situations where the contents and services offered by the Web application strongly depend on the current environmental situation, users' (dis)abilities, and/or the actual purpose of the application. On the other hand, the structure, navigation and presentation of Web applications, the content and its semantics are typically highly volatile, and must evolve for several reasons, for example to support changes to the design of the application (e.g. to correct design flaws, or to support new requirements), to adapt to new technologies, to maintain consistency with (changing) external sources (e.g. a referenced ontology, externally linked pages), to address updates/changes (by the user) of content, structure, navigation, presentation (e.g. relevant with the rise of blogs, wiki's, etc.).

WORKSHOP GOALS
Although highly relevant due to the intrinsic evolutionary nature of Web applications, the problem of dealing with adaptation and evolution of Web applications (both during design, implementation and deployment) is highly
under-estimated; so far few works dealt with it in Web Engineering research. AEWSE therefore aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners with different research interests and belonging to communities like Web Engineering, Adaptive Hypermedia, User Modeling, Active Databases, Semantic Web, Ontology Evolution, Database Evolution, Temporal Data Bases, Software Engineering and Mobile Computing. The ultimate goal is to facilitate the discussion of key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications, and trends in these research areas, for identifying methodologies and technologies to support adaptive access to and/or evolution in (the design of) Web applications.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
Areas of particular interest for the Workshop include (but are not limited
to):
- Context-aware Web systems
- Reactive Web systems
- Personalization of Web systems
- Ubiquitous and mobile systems
- Multimodal adaptive Web systems
- Multi-device applications
- Semantic Web technologies for adaptivity
- Adaptive Web services
- Languages for adaptivity specification
- Requirements analysis for adaptive Web systems
- Conceptual and data models for adaptive Web systems
- Model-based methods for adaptive Web systems design
- Aspect-oriented methods for adaptive Web systems design
- Model-based testing of adaptive Web systems or Testing of adaptive
  Web systems
- Evaluation of adaptive Web systems
- Technologies enabling adaptivity
- Web Application Evolution
- Ontology Evolution w.r.t. Web Engineering
- Adaptation and Personalization
- Consistency and Evolution
- Temporal Web content
- Content Management Systems & Web application design
- Web Site Design Methods & Evolution
- Ontology based Web Application Design & Ontology Evolution
- Adaptable User Interfaces
- Changes/evolution & trust/security (e.g. wikipedia)
- Website Version Management (WIKI, .)
- Web 2.0 w.r.t. Change / Evolution
- Case studies and industrial experiences, related to these themes

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit research and position papers not exceeding 8 pages using the ACM style guidelines. Papers must be submitted as PDF files by email to aewse2006@wise.vub.ac.be, no later than April 15th 2006. Submitted papers may not overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors will be notified of acceptance no later than May 13th 2006.

PUBLICATION
For a paper to be published, at least one of its authors needs to be registered for the main conference. Accepted papers will be published on the Workshop Web site ahead of the workshop. After the workshop, accepted papers will be published in a post-proceedings volume (with ISBN).

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission                 15 April 2006
Author notification              13 May   2006
Camera-ready paper submission    16 June 2006
Workshop date                    11 July 2006

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Sven Casteleyn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Florian Daniel (Politecnico di Milano)
Geert-Jan Houben (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano)
Peter Plessers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Olga De Troyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- David Lowe (University of Technology, Sydney)
- Jaime Gomez (University of Alicante)
- Peter Dolog (University of Hannover)
- Moira Norrie (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
- Nora Koch (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munchen)
- Gustavo Rossi (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
- Wieland Schwinger (Johannes Kepler University Linz)