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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