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  	 The 9th IEEE International Symposium on
	      Web Site Evolution (WSE 2007)
	    October 5-6, 2007; Paris, France

             www.WebSiteEvolution.org/2007

                  Co-located with the 
            23rd IEEE International Conference 
                 on Software Maintenance
                        (ICSM 2007)
	   
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Since its inception in 1999, the Web Site Evolution (WSE) series of events has provided a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work on subjects related to the disciplined evolution of large-scale Web sites. Following the previous editions, WSE 2007 aims to attract researchers from different research communities, ranging from software maintenance and evolution to Web engineering and semantic Web. WSE 2007 will provide researchers and practitioners with an exciting environment to discuss results and exchange experiences. 

WSE 2007 will be held in Paris, France on October 5 and 6 2007 and will be co-located with the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2007). The technical program of WSE 2007 will include invited talks, paper presentations, panels and working sessions.

KEYNOTE
An outstanding keynote speech will be given by Luciano Baresi from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

SPECIAL ISSUE
Authors of best Papers of WSE 2007 will be invited to submit an extended, revised version of their papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Web Engineering (JWE) edited by Rinton Press.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following aspects of Web based application design, development, maintenance and evolution: 
- Costs and benefits estimation
- Documentation
- Design and implementation
- Empirical studies
- Migrating toward semantic Web
- Migrating towards Web 2.0
- Models, methodologies, and architectures
- Security
- Testing and quality evaluation
- Tools, environments, and technologies

SUBMISSION PROCESS
The symposium foresees the submission of research papers or experience report, not exceeding 4000 words (8 pages using 10-point font type), including figures and references. Full paper submissions must be received by Friday, June 15, 2007, and must be in Adobe Acrobat PDF. Papers must be submitted online via the CyberChair system at: http://cyber.rcost.unisannio.it/~wse2007papers. 

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submissions:
June 6, 2007
Paper Submissions:
June 15, 2007
Author Notification:
July 15, 2007


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
Thomas Dean
Queen's University, Canada

Program Chairs
Shihong  Huang
Florida Atlantic University,USA

Massimiliano Di Penta
RCOST - Univ. of Sannio, Italy

Finance Chair
Damiano Distante
RCOST  - Univ. of Sannio, Italy

Web Chair
Ben Kam
Queen's University, Canada

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