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           Special Issue of the International Journal of 
              Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET)

           INTERNET AND DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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The aim of this special issue of the IJWET Journal is to present 
the research that is being carried out at universities and in 
industry to solve the problems related to the construction of 
innovative business applications. The stress is put on real-world 
industrial experiences and projects, as well as innovative 
technologies and infrastructures for building e-commerce and 
e-business solutions. This issue of IJWET aims also at developing 
a framework for better understanding the application of research 
achievements in modern information systems comprising Web 
technologies, database and data warehouse technologies, data 
integration, data analysis, and decision support.

TOPICS
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
1. Web technologies and services: advanced multiparty interaction 
   models, e-commerce, standards;
2. Wireless communication and data exchange;
3. Electronic contracts: Service Level Agreements, requirements 
   elicitation, automated and semi-automated negotiation, monitoring;
4. Data and application integration: federated systems, mediated 
   systems,    data warehouses, accessing legacy systems via Web;
5. Management of evolution in information systems: temporal and 
   multiversion databases, temporal and multiversion data warehouses, 
   adaptive user interfaces;
6. New platforms for developing Web, distributed and wireless 
   systems: Microsoft .NET, Sun One, IBM Web Sphere, Oracle 
   Internet Application Server;
7. Industrial and research IT projects: reports from finished and 
   ongoing projects in the field of Web and database technologies.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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High quality submissions presenting new achievements in the above 
mentioned areas are welcome. Every submission, in a Word, PS, or PDF
format, should clearly present problems, solutions, and its 
contribution. Papers should not exceed 15 standard document A4 
pages (Times New Roman 10 pts., double interline) and should be 

e-mailed to: Robert.Wrembel@cs.put.poznan.pl

IMPORTANT DATES
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Notification of interest - abstract submission: May 15, 2003
Full paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2003
Results of the reviewing process: June 30, 2003
Final camera-ready paper due: July 25, 2003

REVIEWING
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In order to ensure a high quality of accepted submissions the following 
rules will be used: 
1. papers are blindly reviewed by 2 or 3 experts in the field of 
   submission's domain;
2. the reviewers' recommendations determine whether a paper will be: 
   (1) accepted, (2) accepted subject to change, (3) accepted subject to 
   resubmission with significant changes, or (4) rejected;
3. for papers which require changes, the same reviewers will be assigned 
   to ensure that the quality of the revised paper is acceptable.

PUBLISHING
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Accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the International 
Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, by Inderscience Publishers 
(http://www.inderscience.com/).