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World Wide Web
Editors-in-Chief: M. Rusinkiewicz; Y. Zhang

Special Issue on “Engineering Issues for the Web 2.0”
Guest Editors: Qing Li and Gustavo Rossi

Call for Papers

The aims of the so called Web 2.0 are to enhance creativity, information sharing, and collaboration among users,
while providing richer interaction possibilities and letting final users compose their applications, enhance the interface, etc.
Web-based communities, Wikis, Social networks, Mashups, Blogs, Folksonomies are some of the emerging new terms
and concepts in this still not finished transition from the “old” Web in which information retrieval was the most important task;
now, users can generate, share and modify content (both theirs or others’) freely.
While it is being discussed if the Web 2.0 is just a wiser way to use the existing technologies, or a complete re-definition of
the Web as a mass media, new applications requirements and support technologies arise constantly, giving raise to new achievements
both theoretical and practical, and ranging from specialized browsers (such as Flock), software frameworks or domain specific languages
for Ajax or Ruby, interaction patterns for Rich Internet Applications, integration of ontologies into tagging systems, etc.

This special issue aims at discussing the state-of-the-art, open problems, challenges and research directions in the Web 2.0
from an engineering point of view.

Original contributions (previously unpublished and not currently under review) are solicited in areas such as (but not limited to)
the following:

-Modelling and Design Issues in the Web 2.0
-New development processes for the Web 2.0
-Verification, Validation and Testing in the Web 2.0
-Frameworks, Tools and Support Technologies
-Technologies for efficiently enabling final and unskilled users
-Re-Engineering Web Applications to the Web 2.0
-Web Community Discovery and Analysis
-Interface Design Issues for the Web 2.0
-Accessibility aspects in the Web 2.0
-Patterns of interactions, Patterns of usage, etc
-Engineering Issues in the Semantic Web
-User modeling and personalization
-Rich media search in the Web 2.0

Submissions
Submission information, formats and guidelines can be found in our Online Manuscript Submission, Review and Tracking System at:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/wwwj/

Important Dates
Papers due: November 30, 2008
Author notification: February 15, 2009
Revised versions of accepted papers due: April 15, 2009 (all accepted papers expected to undergo a minor set of revisions)
Final materials for publication due: May, 2009
Special issue published: 2009