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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>***********************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Springer World Wide Web Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Special Issue Call for Papers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Large-scale Web Applications in Virtualized Environments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Guest Editors:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, <a href="mailto:ernesto.damiani@unimi.it">ernesto.damiani@unimi.it</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>Kokou Yetongnon, Université de Bourgogne, France, <a href="mailto:kokou@u-bourgogne.fr">kokou@u-bourgogne.fr</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>Richard Chbeir, Université de Pau (UPPA), France, <a href="mailto:richard.chbeir@univ-pau.fr">richard.chbeir@univ-pau.fr</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>***********************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION: April 10th, 2014!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>There is a lot of interest today in virtualization, with many vendors offering virtual servers to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>virtual applications and even virtual network devices. A major benefit expected from<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>virtualization is dynamic scalability of Web applications based on traffic or on clients’ demand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Web application scalability is critical to the success of many enterprises currently involved in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>doing business on the Web and in providing information that may vary drastically from one time<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>to another. Maintaining sufficient resources just to meet peak requirements can be costly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Virtualization-based paradigms like cloud computing provide a powerful model that allows to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>simply and securely connect users to information resources on-demand and anywhere. Modern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Web applications are increasingly hosted in a cloud-computing infrastructure, able to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>communicate and interact with external mobile devices. Such applications should dynamically<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>scale in response to changes in the workload to guarantee service level agreements. This trend<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>brought about a number of new modeling, design and implementation issues for Web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>applications, including<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Models to approximate non-functional properties of virtualized, multi-tiered Web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>applications, including performance, security and privacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- "Cloud-aware" techniques for designing and implementing virtualized Web applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Toolkits and framework for cloud-based Web application monitoring and management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Techniques for advanced information and data handling targeted at virtualized storage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Models to represent and link data in virtualized environments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Solving these key issues requires both first-class theoretical research and careful experimental<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>evaluation to show that model predictions are faithful to observed application behavior. Also,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>results need to be validated in the context of hybrid provisioning on multiple, heterogeneous<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>virtualized platforms and cloud stacks. Finally, Web-based information systems rely on models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>and tools for representing, integrating and linking data or resources from heterogeneous sources<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>or platforms. There is a need to investigate the impact of virtualization on these models.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Springer World Wide Web Journal solicits papers presenting original research on Large-scale<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Web applications in Virtualized Environments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The goal of this special issue is to bring together current development, ideas, and practical<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>results of Web application development and deployment, as it is being transformed by<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>virtualization. Manuscripts are solicited to address a wide range of topics in Web information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>management in the cloud era, including - but not limited to - to the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Web application development on virtualized infrastructures and platform<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Web information handling on virtualized storage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Web applications on Cloud infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Web applications and SLA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Data and information quality on virtualized systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Deep Web and the Cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Information integration on heterogeneous cloud systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Knowledge-based systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Virtualized RDF data indexing and storage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Recommender systems on the cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Virtualized Systems security, privacy, and trust<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Using Social Network Analysis on the cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Data management and mining in social Web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Filtering techniques (ranking, collaborative filtering, topic detection and tracking, etc) for social Web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Web advertising and community analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Web-based collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Web service and information management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Virtual communities on the cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Design and analysis of social or collaborative applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Cloud and service computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Cloud and mobile services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>** Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Extended Paper submission: April 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- First round notification: June 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Revised version due: September 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Notification of Acceptance: October 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Final Manuscripts Due: November 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>** Submission Instructions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>consideration by, other journals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of World Wide Web Journal a web-enabled online<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>manuscript submission and review system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>process of their manuscript. Manuscripts should be submitted to: <a href="http://WWWJ.edmgr.com">http://WWWJ.edmgr.com</a> under the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>article type "Large-Scale Web Virtualized Environment." This online system offers easy and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range of submission file formats.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>** Journal Information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Springer World Wide Web Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>ISSN: 1386-145X (print) 1573-1413 (electronic)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.Springer.com/11280">www.Springer.com/11280</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Editors-in-Chief:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Marek Rusinkiewicz, Telcordia Technologies, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>