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          C A L L  F O R  W O R K S H O P S  P R O P O S A L S  F O R

  the 10th @WAS International Conference on Information Integration and
           Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2008)

                      24-26 November, 2008
                         Linz, Austria

     http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/workshops.html
                  email: iiwas2008@iiwas.org

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iiWAS2008 workshops aims to provide an opportunity for researchers, students and professionals 
to discuss and exchange ideas and information on the issues and challenges brought on by Internet technology 
for the intelligent integration of information and web-based application and services with like-minded researchers
and practitioners. Workshops must be devoted to a theme related to the iiWAS series of conferences. 
Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:

  - Information Systems Integration
  - Web Engineering and Web Applications
  - Innovative Business and Marketing Models
  - Technologies for Information Integration
  - Data and Knowledge Management
  - Value Added Web Applications and Services
  - Intelligent Data and Information Retrieval
  - Multimedia Data and Information Management
  - E-Commerce Frameworks & Applications
  - Mobile Internet Access

Workshops should have a minimum of 15 registered participants and have a duration of one day (maximum two). 

Workshops proceedings will be edited by workshops chairs and published by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) 
in books@ocg.at series. @WAS will also help workshop organizers finding high quality scientific journals 
interested in publishing extended versions of selected papers.

Workshop chairs will have to establish a workshop site (or elaborate the html 
materials for our site), manage the whole submission, review and notification 
processs, dissemination of the workshop, elaboration of the final program and 
edition of the workshop proceedings (the workshop chairs will be editors of the 
proceedings).

Workshop Proposals should be sent to iiwas2008@iiwas.org and include:

  - The name of the workshop
  - The goals for the workshop
  - The names and addresses of the workshop chairs
  - The names of potential program committee members
  - A possible call for papers (including dates)
  - The expected number of attendees and planned length of the workshop
  - A description of plans for publicity and places for dissemination (i.e. mailing lists)
  - Other possible sponsors for the workshop besides @WAS
  - A description of past versions of the workshop if this belongs to a series 
    (including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, attendance, 
    sites, registration fees and summary budget information).

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IMPORTANT DATES: 
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April 1, 2008  : Tutorial proposals due
May 1, 2008    : Notification of acceptance


For further information, please contact 

Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt
University Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen
Pervasive Computing und User Interface Engineering
Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Schuetzenbahn 70
45117 Essen, Germany 
Telephone: +49 201/ 183-4170 
Email: Albrecht.Schmidt@icb.uni-due.de