Call for Papers

Special Issue of the Computer Networks journal on

                   "Web Dynamics"

        DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30th APRIL 2005

In order to exploit the potential of the Web as a global repository of
information, we need to understand how its size, topology, and content are
evolving.  This then allows the development of techniques for discovering and
retrieving information that are able to adapt and scale to change and growth
of the Web.

Applications in areas such as e-business, sensor networks, and mobile and
ubiquitous computing need to be able to detect and react quickly to events and
changes in Web-based information.  Traditional approaches using `pull' of
information may not be able to scale to the quantity and frequency of events
and changes being generated, and new `push'-based techniques are being
developed in which information producers automatically notify consumers when
events or changes of interest to them occur.

The Web's users are diverse and can access it from a variety of devices and
interfaces, at different places and times, and for varying purposes.  Thus,
new techniques are being developed for personalising the presentation and
content of Web-based information depending on how it is being accessed and on
the individual user's requirements and preferences.  

Semantic Web and Web Service technologies are being developed and adopted,
with the aim of providing standard ways for Web-based applications to share
and personalise information.

Motivated by these issues, we organised the 3rd Web Dynamics Workshop at
WWW'2004 - see www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/webDyn3/ for its call for papers and online
proceedings.  Following on from that workshop, there will be a special issue
of the Computer Networks journal devoted to the topic of Web Dynamics.

The research themes of interest to this Special Issue are:
* evolution of Web structure and content,
* Web search and navigation in the face of the changing Web,
* handling events and change on the Web, and
* sharing and personalised access to Web-based information.

We are soliciting three kinds of papers:

1. standard research papers, describing an original contribution and advance
   in one of the research themes, together with an evaluation of its merits
   and comparison with related work;

2. critical surveys of the state-of-the art in one of the research themes,
   including an analysis of the current research problems in the area and a
   discussion of where the field is headed in the next 5 years;
   
3. applications papers describing current practice in one of the themes, the
   current state of the art in this area, and future trends from an
   applications perspective.
   
Papers will be refereed according to the normal refereeing procedures for the
Computer Networks journal.  Important dates are:

   Submission:                 30th April 2005
   Notification of acceptance: 30th June  2005
   Camera-ready copies due:    31st July  2005

Manuscripts should be sent by email to both of the guest editors, in either
postscript or PDF form.  Papers should be about 20 pages long, 11pt,
single-spaced.

Guest Editors
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Mark Levene (mark@dcs.bbk.ac.uk)
Alex Poulovassilis (ap@dcs.bbk.ac.uk)