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 C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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Special Session on 
 WEB Based Information Systems
   in
 The 2003 International Conference in Internet Computing (IC'03)
   http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/
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 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  June 23-26, 2003
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 Dear Colleagues:
 
The 2003 International Conference in Internet Computing (IC'03) will be held 
simultaneously with a number of other international conferences (PDPTA'2003, 
CISST'2003, IC-AI'2003, ...) - for a complete list, refer to: 
http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/




 
The last set of conferences (IC'02 and its affiliated events) had research 
contributions from 72 countries (the event held in Las Vegas had over 1,550 
participants from all over the world.) It is hoped that IC'03 will also have a 
strong international flavor.




 
It is anticipated that Internet Computing 2003 (IC'03) will be a major forum 
for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present 
their latest research results, theories, developments and applications.




 SESSION:
 
 Web Based Information Systems
 http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~maolin/ic03/CFP_IC03.htm
 
 CHAIR OF SESSION:
 
 Dr Mao Lin Huang
 Faculty of Information Technology
 University of Technology, Sydney
 City Campus, PO Box 123 Broadway
 NSW 2007 Australia
 Email: maolin@it.uts.edu.au  
 
 description:
 
The pervasive connectivity of the Internet and the powerful architecture of 
the WWW have provided a huge distributed information resource over the 
Internet. The purpose of this session is to identify and explore the technical 
and management issues and solutions for Web based information systems 
that are accessable through the Internet. This special session is to be a 
forum for free exchange of ideas. We focus on analysis and design of Web-
based information systems. The proposed session is aimed to collect papers
that present the state-of-the-art in the development of Web-based information
systems; examining performance, characteristics of various approaches of 
these Web-based information systems among different domains.




You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages to this Special 
Session on Web Intelligence. All accepted papers will be published in the 
conference proceedings.
 
 SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
 
 Prospective authors are invited to submit the draft paper by email to 
 the Session Chair. The due date is provided below.
 
 The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited 
 to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously 
 published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first 
 page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, 
 affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, & Fax 
 number for each author. The first page should also include the name 
 of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) & a maximum 
 of 5 keywords.
 
 EVALUATION PROCESS:
 
 Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, 
 soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the
 topical area. The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one 
 person. 
 
 PUBLICATION:
 
 The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press 
 (ISBN) in hardcopy/book. The proceedings will be available at 
  the conference. Some accepted papers will also be considered for 
 journal publication (soon after the conference). (In addition 
 to the hardcopy, it is also planned to publish the papers on a 
 CD). All conference proceedings published by CSREA Press are 
 considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are 
 designed to provide easy access to the current literature of the 
 sciences (database examples: ISI Thomson Scientific, IEE 
 NSPEC, ...).
 
  ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS:
 
 A number of university faculty members & their staff in 
 cooperation with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference Division, 
 Las Vegas ), will be organizing the conferences. The 
 conferences will be sponsored by World Academy of Sciences & co-
 sponsored by Computer Science Research, Education, & 
 Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal EIN # 58-2171953)
 together with research centers, international associations,
 international research groups, & developers of high-performance
 machines & systems. The complete list of sponsors & co-sponsors
 will be available at a later time.
 (Previous conferences' sponsors included: CSREA, the National
 Supercomputing Center for Energy & the Environment - DOE, The
  Int'l Association for Mathematics & Computers in Simulation, The
 Int'l Technology Institute (ITI), Java High Performance Computing
 research group, World Scientific & Engineering Society, Sundance
 Digital Signal Processing Inc., Computer Vision R&A Tech.,
 Hewlett-Packard Inc., Korea Information Processing Society 
 (KIPS), Society of Japan (SIGMPS/IPSJ), IEEE, a number of 
 publishers of books & journals, ...)
 
 LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:
 
 The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel
 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by
 hotels). The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent
 conference facilities & over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is minutes
 from the Las Vegas airport with 24-hour shuttle service to & from
 the airport. This hotel has many vacation & recreational
 attractions, including: waterfalls, casino, spa, pools &
 kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool
 with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout
 equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game
 rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants,
 shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24
 hours a day & most are suitable for families & children. The
 negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees is very
 reasonable (79USD + tax) per night (no extra charge for double
 occupancy) for the duration of the conference.
 The hotel is within walking distance from most other
 Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
 destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
 shows, ...).
  
 IMPORTANT DATES: 
 
 Feb. 17, 2003 (Monday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due
 March 21, 2003 (Friday): Notification of acceptance
 April 22, 2003 (Tuesday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
 June 23-26, 2003:  All 15 Int'l Conferences
 
 SCOPE OF THE SESSION:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Models of the Information System
· New Frameworks of the Information System   
· Internet and Web-Based Information Systems       
· Multimedia Information Systems and Management
· Object Oriented Web Information Management
· Personalized Information Management
· Use and Management of Metadata
· Web-Based Distributed Information Systems   
· Content Management Systems
· Applications for B2B-Commerce
· Web-Based Information Security
· Web-Based Cooperative Work
· Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
· Visualization of Information and Knowledge
· Web-Based Decision Support
·  Web Regularities and Models
· Other aspects and applications
· Adaptive Web Interfaces
· Multimedia Representations
· Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
· Conceptual Information Extraction
· Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval
· Multimedia Retrieval
· Conversational Systems
· E-mail Filtering and Automatic Handling
· Global Information Foraging
· Information Filtering
· Navigation Guides