[Event at CIG] Call for Papers: Web Technologies Track - The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

[Cristian Mateos]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Call for Papers
Web Technologies Track
The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
SAC 2022

April 25-29, 2022
Brno, Czech Republic

http://grid.isistan.exa.unicen.edu.ar:18221/
http://www.sigapp.org/conferences/sac/sac2022/

Sponsored by ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP)

The SRC Program is sponsored by Microsoft Research

For the past thirty six years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has
been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer
engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the
world. SAC 2022 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied
Computing (SIGAPP).

* Aims and rationale *

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., Facebook), 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, 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 recent 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. Finally, 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 Semantic Web
technologies pave 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. These technologies help the migration to Web 3.0.
In this context, novel approaches and techniques, new tools and frameworks
are needed to address the increasing complexity of the Web that is coming
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 technologies, as well as other technologies 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 technologies:

- Hypertext, Hypermedia, Markup Languages, and XML-Related Technologies
- Federated Social Web Software and Protocols
- Performance, Scalability and Quality of Service on the Web
- (Process-Aware) Web Information Systems
- Web Searching
- Web Metrics, Monitoring and Analysis
- Web Browsers and Web Interfaces
- Web Personalization and Accessibility
- Web Mining
- Rich User Experiences and Human Computer Interaction in Web Applications
- Semantic-Enhanced Web Applications
- Mobile Web, Webapps, and Cross-device Content Delivery
- Web Application Integration: Micro/Rest Services and Data Interchange/API
Description Formats
- Web Technologies in IoT Devices and Cyber-physical Systems
- Virtualization and Containerization for the Web
- Modeling, Design, and Engineering of Web Applications
- Architectures, Architectural Styles, and Middlewares for Web Applications
- Online and Offline testing Techniques for Web Applications and Interfaces

* Proceedings and Post-Proceedings *

Papers/poster accepted for the Web Technologies track will be published by
ACM both in the SAC 2022 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.

* Student Research Competition (SRC) Program *

Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (maximum of 4
pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published at
SAC 2022 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 *

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 discourage authors'
identity from your paper before submitting it.

Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC 2022
proceedings.
The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using the
ACM format (guidelines are given on the SAC 2022 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 *

- Oct 15, 2021, 11:59PM (UTC+0.00): Submission of regular papers and SRC
research abstracts
- Dec 10, 2021: Notification of papers and posters and SRC
acceptance/rejection
- Dec 21, 2021: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
- Dec 21, 2021: Authors Registration due

* Track chairs *

- 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 at isistan.unicen.edu.ar

-- 
Prof. Dr. Cristian Mateos Diaz
Investigador Independiente de CONICET
ISISTAN Research Institute - CONICET - UNICEN
Campus Universitario - Paraje Arroyo Seco - Tandil (7000)
Buenos Aires - Argentina
Tel: +54 249 4385650 interno 2303
Web: http://www.exa.unicen.edu.ar/~cmateos