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The purpose of the International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has five main tracks, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, namely Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business, Web Intelligence and Mobile Information Systems. WEBIST focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of Web Information Systems and Technologies for industry and services, in addition to academic applications. Ideas on how to solve business problems using web-based information systems and technologies, will be discussed at the conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Both technological and social-oriented papers are accepted. All papers must describe original work, not previously published or submitted to another conference. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of WEBIST. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical or scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products or methodologies, or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session, are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
2. MOBILE SYSTEMS
3. WEB INFRASTRUCTURES, ARCHITECTURES AND PLATFORMS
4. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE WEB
5. SEMANTIC WEB
6. WEB INTERFACES
7. SOCIAL NETWORKING 

AREA 1: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY

• Application, Research Project and Internet Technology
• New Trends in Internet Technology
• Technical Infrastructures Suporting Web Applications
• Web Programming
• Web Security and Privacy, Cyber Criminality and Internet, Dark Web
• Web Services and Web Engineering
• Web Tools and Languages
• Big Data and the Web
• Digitalization/ Digitization
• Internet of Things
• Web of Things

AREA 2: MOBILE SYSTEMS

• App Development Methods
• Mobile APIs and Services
• Protocols, Standards, Interoperability and Mobility
• Risk and Security with Mobility
• Sensor Usage and Networks for Mobility
• Social and Mobile Information Systems
• Application of Mobile Information Systems
• Context Awareness
• Human Computer Interaction

AREA 3: WEB INFRASTRUCTURES, ARCHITECTURES AND PLATFORMS

• Application, Research Project and Service Based IS
• Web Service and Adaptability
• B2B, B2C and C2C
• Communities of Interest and Practice
• EA, SOA, Cloud Methodologies for Services and Architecture
• Information Systems and SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Cloud Computing
• Methodologies for Services and Architecture
• New Advances in Service Based Technologies
• Service Based IS Modeling and Methodology
• Services Composition
• Services with Methodological Approaches, Quality, Metrics, BAM
• Society, eBusiness and eGovernment
• Technical Infrastructure for Services
• Architectural Patterns for Services
• Web Based Integration Technologies, Web Services, REST and CRUD Services

AREA 4: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE WEB

• Applications, Research Projects and Web Intelligence
• Computational Intelligence on the Web
• Context, Adaptability and Web Intelligence
• Data Web Mining
• Linked Data, Big Data and Applications in Companies
• Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
• Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
• Natural Language Processing
• Deep Learning
• Web Robotics

AREA 5: SEMANTIC WEB

• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the Web
• Knowledge Graphs and Deep Semantics
• Trust, Privacy, and Security on the Semantic Web
• Semantic Data on the Blockchain
• Semantic Interoperability
• Big Data and Data Mining Methods for the Semantic Web
• New Trends in Ontology Management and the Semantic Web
• Ontology Discovering, Modelling, Retrieving and the Semantic Web
• Question Answering over Linked Data and Ontologies
• Programming the Semantic Web
• Social Aspects of the Semantic Web

AREA 6: WEB INTERFACES

• Automation and Web Interface
• Web Interface and Connected Applications
• Web Interfaces and Applications
• Design of Web Interface
• Usability and Ergonomics
• User Modeling, Web Interface Modelling
• Web Interface and Adaptability According to Context And/Or Profile

AREA 7: SOCIAL NETWORKING

• Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Recommendation Systems
• Social Media Analytics
• Social Web Intelligence
• User-Centric Systems
• WEB 2.0 and Social Networks
• Social Network Services
• Social Computing
• Security, Privacy and Identity on the Web

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Luc Moreau, King's College London, United Kingdom

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity. 

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarismthoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. 

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail. 

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support. 
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). 
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index), Scopus, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic.