Issue 21: September 1999
Ninth International World Wide Web Conference
The Web: The Next Generation
The Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9) will be held on May 15-19, 2000 in Amsterdam, the capital of The Netherlands. Leaders from industry, academia, and government will present the latest developments in Web technology, and discuss the issues and challenges facing the Web community as it moves into the 21st Century.
The conference will consist of refereed paper sessions, poster sessions, panel sessions, a W3C track, and two specialized tracks: The Web and Industry and The Web and Society. It will also feature presentations by keynote and invited speakers. The conference will be preceded by a day of tutorials and workshops, and will conclude with a developers' day.
The Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) is hosting WWW9 and playing a key role in organizing the technical program. The International World Wide Web Conferences are events of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), and are managed by Foretec Seminars, Inc.
Tutorials and Workshops
A program of tutorials and workshops will cover topics of current relevance to Web design, services, operation, and use. Subjects will include, for example, XML, SVG, Web security, E-commerce, metadata, mobile use of the Web, and internationalization. These half- and full-day sessions will feature internationally recognized authorities.
Developers' Day
This daylong program will be devoted to the interests of Web developers, and will provide in-depth discussions of topics at the forefront of Web technologies.
Exhibition
The exhibition will be held in a large, modern, hall adjacent to the meeting rooms. Exhibitors will display the latest offerings of Web-related hardware, software, and services. When appropriate, vendors will be presented with an interoperability challenge.
About Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, is an historic city that is noted for its beauty and its cultural attractions. In addition to its architectural treasures, picturesque canals, tulip gardens, and diamond factories, the Venice of the North offers a cosmopolitan environment with a wide variety of restaurants, theatres, and museums.
Paper Submission Schedule
Paper submission deadline: November 22, 1999
Author notification: February 1, 2000
Final paper due: March 1, 2000
Technical papers will be refereed by an International Program Committee, and the Proceedings published by Elsevier Science B.V. Submitted papers should present original reports of substantive new work in areas that can be theoretical (models, analyses, techniques, semantics), empirical (experiments, case studies), or implementation-oriented (new systems, tools, methodologies, user interfaces). Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the development of the World Wide Web. Best Paper and Best Presentation awards will be presented at the conference.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest:
- HYPERTEXT AND HYPERMEDIA
- USER INTERFACES AND INTERACTIONS
- PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
- MARKUP LANGUAGES AND STYLE SHEETS
- SCRIPTING LANGUAGES AND TECHNIQUES
- BEYOND JAVA
- AGENT TECHNOLOGIES
- LINKING ARCHITECTURES
- WEB NAVIGATION STRATEGIES
- SEARCH AND INDEXING TECHNIQUES
- INFORMATION MINING
- DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
- METADATA FOR THE WEB
- ADDING CONTEXT, ANNOTATION, AND CONTENT PROFILING
- MULTIMEDIA AND STREAMING MEDIA ON THE WEB
- SITE MANAGEMENT
- AUTHORING SYSTEMS
- ACCESS DEVICES
- MOBILE ACCESS
- COMPUTER GRAPHICS
- COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS
- ADAPTIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS
- BROWSER, PROXY, AND WEB SERVER
- TECHNOLOGIES
- BEYOND HTTP
- SUPPORTING HIGH-BANDWIDTH BACKBONES
- WEB CHARACTERIZATION
- ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
- SECURITY AND PRIVACY
- WEB APPLICATIONS, PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE
- DISASTER RECOVERY
Details of the paper submission process can be found on the WWW9 Web Site at www9.org .
WWW9 Conference Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Ivan Herman, CWI, The Netherlands
Albert Vezza, CNRI, USA
Program Committee Chair
Dick Bulterman, Oratrix, The Netherlands
Program Committee Vice Chairs
Practice and Experience
Ann Bassetti, Boeing, USA
Content and Coding
Stephan Fischer, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany
Hypermedia
Lynda Hardman, CWI, The Netherlands
Performance
Arun Iyengar, IBM Research, USA
Browsers and Tools
Hannes Marais, Compaq, USA
Applications and UI
Max Muhlauser, University of Linz, Austria
Languages and Standards
Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
EC and Security
Mary Ellen Zurko, Iris Associates, USA
Posters Chair
Frans Heeman, Elsevier Science, The Netherlands
Tutorials Co-Chairs
Richard Binder, Foretec Seminars, USA
Dieter Fellner, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Workshops Co-Chairs
David Duce, RAL, UK
Richard Binder, Foretec Seminars, USA
Developers' Day Co-Chairs
Murray Maloney, Muzmo Communications, Canada
Sean Mc Grath, Digitome, Ireland
Panels Chair
Hakon Lie, Opera Software, Norway
Keynote Speakers Chair
Robert Cailliau, CERN, Switzerland
Awards Chair
Simon Phipps, IBM UK Laboratories, UK
The Web and Society Chair
Daniel Weitzner, W3C at MIT LCS, USA
The Web and Industry Chair
Michael Dreisch, Intercai Nederlands, The Netherlands
New Members
The total number of members has risen to 355. The new Members since August are:
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Academia Sinica: a Taiwan based company.
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CertCo: aims to build trust infrastructures for banks, corporations and
other trust entities to support high-value, secure electronic commerce.
The company combines its experience in cryptography, risk management,
law, regulation and technology to deliver secure and cost-effective electronic
business solutions. These business solutions, which include the distribution of
risk, enable trust entities to open doors to electronic business and to offer
profitable services to other organizations.
Their CertValidator is an OCSP responder and repository that stores the status of
digital certificates and allows certificate issuers or other supporting entities
the ability to make real time certificate status information available to trading
partners engaged in E-business.
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Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK):With the coming digital broadcasting
era, NHK is constructing an archives center that will collectively preserve and
control the image software that was produced in the past. Approximately, 480
thousand videotapes full of programs and news material are stored in the NHK
building, including many with precious historical material. Every year,
another 38 thousand tapes are being increased and the limited storage space
is becoming a big problem.
As the world moves toward digitization, NHK plans to launch a new digital service
via BS (broadcasting satellite) on December 1st, 2000.
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Nimble.com: Seattle-based company with the mission to lead the industry
with the most advanced technology for efficient query processing of
distributed XML data.
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PrivacyBank.com: based in Berkeley, PrivacyBank.com develops
technology to regulate the interchange of personal data and protect privacy.
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ShortCycles:
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SoftCom:makes Internet video an immersive, interactive viewing
experience complete with e-commerce capability and web-linked transaction processing.
SoftCom is currently partnering with leading entertainment and information content
providers to create cutting-edge, interactive video on a multitude of platform at
any bandwidth. SoftCom's JavaTM-based, patent-pending, technology
enables video-on-demand, pay-per-view and other video commerce applications that offer
media and content providers the ability to take full advantage of interactive and
traditional advertising and marketing opportunities.
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Xevo Corporation: Xevo, located in the Boston high-tech area, was
founded in 1997 under the name Turning Point Technologies by a group of individuals
dedicated to providing technology solutions to enable the ASP (Application Service
Provider) industry.
XevoWorks is the only Internet computing software platform that offers the
ASP industry a comprehensive solution for effectively delivering applications as
services. XevoWorks includes a complete set of software and services that solve both:
- The ASP's internal challenges and complexities of hosting multiple, heterogeneous
applications on shared infrastructure; and
- The industry challenges of managing the complex set of relationships among ASPs,
application providers and other cooperative partners inherent in the ASP business
model.
Xevo has attracted a team with significant startup experience and individual
track records of successful product delivery and managing high growth companies.
The technical team brings diverse technology and software engineering experience
from leading technology companies including Gradient, Shiva, Viewlogic, Riverton,
and Microcom.