[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** 1st C A L L F O R P A P E R S AWC 2015 The Third Australasian Web Conference 27-30 January 2015, Parramata, Sydney, Australia Conference Website: http://www.uws.edu.au/acsw2015/australasian_computer_science_week_2015/austr... *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: August 26th, 2014 *NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE*: October 8th, 2014 **************************************************************************** Aims and Scope -------------- As we celebrate its 25th anniversary, the World Wide Web continues to play a transformative role in all walks of life. It also provides a platform for exciting and innovative research on a wide range of themes. AWC 2015 aims to bring together researchers and PhD students who work on topics related to the Web in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art, to discuss critical issues and opportunities, and to explore new research directions. Topics of Interest ------------------ AWC 2015 invites submissions dealing with all areas of Web research, including but not limited to the following topics: * Semantic web * Linked Open Data * Crowdsourcing and Human Computation * Web mining * Deep Web * Emerging Web techniques * Information retrieval * Interfaces and Accessibility * Interoperability and heterogeneous systems * Mobile Web * Performance, scalability and availability * Personalisation and recommender systems * Security and Privacy * Social networks and communities * Social Web and analytics * Mashups * Web of Things * Web search * Service Web, Web services, and service-oriented computing * XML and semi-structured data management All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee for inclusion in the AWC 2015 proceedings. Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to AWC 2015, and presentation. AWC is part of the Australasian Computer Science Week. Registration to the Australasian Computer Science Conference enables delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW). The proceedings will be included in the ACM digital library and indexed on Scopus and DBLP. General Chair ------------- * Joseph G. Davis (University of Sydney) Program Chair ------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) Submission Procedure -------------------- We welcome papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web-related research. Its contribution should be clearly explained in both general and technical terms, and authors should make every effort to ensure that its technical content is understandable by a broad audience without taking away from its impact and significance. All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee for inclusion in the AWC 2015 proceedings. Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to AWC 2015, and presentation. Papers should be *no more than 10 pages* in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the Australian Computer Society (ACS) (http://www.acs.org.au/) - Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) (http://crpit.com/) Australian Computer Science Communications series. Submission to AWC 2015 will only be accepted electronically using EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=awc2015). Authors are requested to submit an abstract first, then to upload the full paper using the paper-id assigned by the system. By submitting to the conference authors accept that they are aware of the Guidelines on Research Practice in Computer Science by the Computer Research and Education Association (CORE) (http://www.core.edu.au/) and the policy listed at CRPIT (http://crpit.com/). In particular, authors are encouraged to review the points on authorship. Best Student Paper -------------------- A prize will be awarded to the best student paper as chosen by the programme committee. The student paper award is given on the conditions that: (1) all other non-student co-authors confirm to the program chair(s) that the nominated author has had a substantial participation into the paper; and (2) the student academic supervisor confirms to the program chair that the contribution reflected in the paper is the result of a major component from progress for a research higher degree Publication -------------------- The proceedings will be included in the ACM digital library and indexed on Scopus and DBLP. Please note that it is ACSW conference policy that at least one author of all accepted papers to the conferences and workshops in the series would both register and present at the event concerned. Failure to do so without a reason acceptable to the organisers of the event will result in the paper being retrospectively withdrawn from both the proceedings and all citation sources.