WWW2005 CALL FOR PANELS
              
        The Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference
                    May 10-14, 2005,  Chiba, Japan
                  	http://www2005.org
             Panel submission deadline: November 8, 2004
 		

WWW2005 will be held in Chiba, Japan at Nippon Convention Center (or
better known as Makuhari Messe). The technical program will include
refereed paper presentations, special interest tracks, plenary sessions,
panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials and workshops will precede the
main program, and a Developers Day will follow, which will be devoted to
in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for web developers.
The main program includes a PANELS track that runs in parallel with the
paper presentations tracks and the W3C track.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR WWW2005 PANELS:

    Panel proposals deadline:             November 8, 2004
    Acceptance notification:			January 31, 2005
    Conference:                           May 10-14, 2005

Call for Participation:

WWW2005 panels should focus on emerging technologies, controversial
issues, or unsolved problems in the World Wide Web community to
stimulate lively, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative discussions. We
expect the panelists to actively engage the audience and help them
broaden their understanding of the issues. 

Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * E-commerce and E-payments 
    * E-Learning
    * Emerging XML Standards
    * Emerging P2P Technologies and Services
    * Mobile Multimedia Services
    * Mobile Blogs
    * Multi-modal User Interfaces
    * New Search Technologies and Web Mining
    * Next Generation Internet (such as PlanetLab) 
    * Middleware
    * Security and Privacy
    * Semantic Web Technologies
    * Web Engineering
    * Web Services

Panel Proposal Submission Procedure:

Submissions should include:
*	Panel title 
*	Panel objective, scope, and target audience 
*	Extended abstract 
*	Panel format 
*	The names and affiliations of the panelists 
*	Panel length (preferably 90 minutes) 

Please append short bios for the moderator and each panelist, from whom
prior approval to participate should be obtained. The panel proposal
should also indicate whether other similar panels have been formed
recently in other conferences or workshops. If so, what is the
difference? Proposals should be 4-6 pages long and can be submitted in
either HTML or PDF. Please send proposals for WWW2005 Panels to
panels@www2005.org 

Panel Formats:

Panels should last 90 minutes and typically include three to five
panelists plus a moderator. Be creative about the panel format. A
typical format includes:
*	moderator introduction 
*	brief position statements by domain experts (it's essential that
this part does not exceed a total of 30 minutes divided by all
panelists) 
*	discussions (at least 40 minutes divided by all participants) 
*	closing statements from panelists and moderator 

You are also welcome to use various forms of multimedia presentations to
help engage the audience.

WWW2005 Panels Organizers:

Panels Chair: Robin Chen (AT&T Labs), chen@research.att.com 
Deputy Chair: Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester),
horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk 
Deputy Chair: Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong),
king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk 
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