CFP: WE@SAC 2023 - Extended Paper Submission Deadline 15 October 2022

Call for Papers
Web Engineering Track
Evolved from the long running ACM SAC Web Technologies track
38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2023)
March 27 - March 31, 2023, Tallinn, Estonia

https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2023/
https://devel.isistan.unicen.edu.ar/we-sac/

Aims and Rationale
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The World Wide Web is relentlessly evolving. Once a single 
interconnection of static, physically distributed content passively 
accessed by human users through personal computers, during the explosion 
of Web-based social networks, the Web evolved into an environment 
allowing users worldwide to interact and collaborate in the creation of 
user-generated content within many virtual communities. In this line, 
Web 2.0 is the umbrella term used to encompass several developments 
which followed, namely social networking sites and social media sites 
(e.g., Instagram, Facebook), (micro)blogs, wikis, folksonomies (e.g., 
Flickr), video sharing sites (e.g., YouTube), Web applications ("apps"), 
collaborative platforms, and mashup applications. Many technologies such 
as HTML 5, CSS3, AJAX, and client-side scripting helped to bring these 
ideas into practice.

Moreover, the current Web can be seen as an evolutionary step from Web 
2.0 in that access to content is nowadays ubiquitous, content itself is 
far more heterogeneous, and "users" come in mixed and different flavors. 
First, ubiquitous access has been mainly pushed by the inception of 
mobile computing and mobile devices. Second, served and published Web 
content is not only those following traditional interchange formats 
(i.e., text, images, audio, video), but also executable code or Web APIs 
(e.g., ProgrammableWeb.com), from which new applications can be built 
and in turn published back to the Web. The notion of "Web of objects", 
which finds its root in Web-accessible Internet-of-Things (IoT) 
applications, promotes the interconnection of hardware elements capable 
of producing huge amounts of sensor data. Last, the role of Web 
application end users and Web developers/designers is somewhat blurry, 
due to modern Web technologies that greatly simplify the 
creation/deployment of rich Web sites that might consume Web-accessible 
services. In addition, the advent of the Semantic Web -often named Web 
3.0- paves the way to the creation of intelligent applications, and thus 
the tandem human user-Web browser is no longer the only way to take 
advantage of Web content. In this context, novel approaches and 
techniques, new tools and frameworks are needed to address the 
increasing complexity of the Web and the applications therein.

This track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from 
industry and academia working on both foundational and practical aspects 
of Web Engineering, as well as other ideas that in the Web ecosystem 
have found new and unexpected application fields. We seek original, 
unpublished contributions that are mainly focused on, but not 
necessarily limited to, the following aspects of Web Engineering:

- Web Information Retrieval
- Web Browsers and Web Interfaces
- Web Personalization and Accessibility
- Rich User Experiences and Human Computer Interaction in Web Applications
- Web Recommender Systems
- Web Sentiment Mining
- Web Mining
- Social Web Analytics
- Web Graph Analytics
- Web Query Languages
- Semantic Web and Semantic-Enhanced Web Applications
- Web Question Answering Systems
- Web Translation
- Web Provenance
- Web for Digital Humanities
- Web Natural Language Processing
- Web Speech and Video Processing
- Modeling, Designing, and Engineering of Web Applications
- Architectures, Architectural Styles, and Middlewares for Web Applications
- Performance, Scalability and Quality of Service on the Web
- Online and Offline Testing Techniques for Web Applications and Interfaces
- Web Monitoring and Analysis
- (Process-Aware) Web Information Systems
- Mobile Web, Webapps, and Cross-device Content Delivery
- Web Application Integration: Micro/Rest Services and Data Description 
Formats
- Web Technologies in IoT Devices and Cyber-physical Systems
- Virtualization and Containerization for the Web

Proceedings and Post-Proceedings
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Papers/poster accepted for the Web Engineering track will be published 
by ACM both in the SAC 2023 proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library, 
which ensures excellent visibility.

Paper/poster registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the 
paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy 
attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the 
paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of 
registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM 
digital library.

Selected Best Papers
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In the previous (pre-pandemic) editions, authors of selected best papers 
have been invited to submit an extended version of their work to an 
international journal or a conference post-proceedings volume. For example:

- Best papers of WT@SAC19 in a special issue of Information Processing 
and Management by Elsevier (Impact factor: 3.444, Scimago rank: Q1)
- Best papers of WT@SAC18 in a Lecture Notes in Business Information 
Processing volume by Springer

For the 2023 edition of the track, we will make our best to arrange a 
post-proceeding or a special issue in related journals as well.

Student Research Competition (SRC) Program
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Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (maximum of 4 
pages in ACM format) following the instructions published at SAC 2023 
website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.

All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and 
practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are 
submitted. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to 
give poster and oral presentations of their work and compete for three 
top-winning places. The SRC committee will evaluate and select First, 
Second, and Third place winners. The winners will receive medals, cash 
awards, and SIGAPP recognition certificates. Invited students receive 
SRC travel support and are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student 
Travel Award Program (STAP) for additional travel support.

Paper Submission
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be 
considered. This includes three categories of submissions:

- Original and unpublished research;
- Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, 
engineering, business, government, education and industry;
- Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains.

Each submitted paper will undergo a (double) blind review process and 
will be refereed by at least three referees. To ease blind review, you 
shall remove author names and any information that might divulge 
authors' identity from your paper before submitting it.

Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC 2023 
proceedings.

The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using 
the ACM format (guidelines are given on the SAC 2023 web site).
Accepted full papers should not exceed 8 pages in a double column format 
(with the option to add more pages at extra charge).

Relevant Dates
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- Oct 15, 2022, 11:59PM (UTC+0.00): Submission of regular papers and SRC 
research abstracts
- Nov 19, 2022: Notification of papers and posters and SRC 
acceptance/rejection
- Dec 6, 2022: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
- Dec 6, 2022: Authors Registration due

Track Chairs
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- Cristian Mateos, ISISTAN-UNICEN-CONICET University - Tandil, Argentina
- Tim A. Majchrzak, University of Agder - Kristiansand, Norway
- Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Rotterdam, The 
Netherlands

E-mail contact: cristian.mateos@isistan.unicen.edu.ar

Received on Thursday, 29 September 2022 16:12:48 UTC