We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. --------------- Preliminary Call for Papers ---------------- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB ENGINEERING (ICWE'03) Oviedo, Asturias, Spain July 16-18, 2003 (http://www.icwe2003.org ) *Conference Background and Goals The Third International Conference on Web Engineering will be held in Oviedo, Spain, July 14-18, organized by the Laboratory of Object Oriented Technologies (OOTLab). ICWE '03 is an endorsed conference by IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee), and by "Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo (CYTED)" in the WEST (Web-Oriented Software Technology) Project. This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to the best practices from Software Engineering, Human Computer Interaction and other disciplines which impact upon Web-based application development. The conference's scope covers processes, methodologies, system design, lifecycle and management of large Web-based systems and educational and research issues. *Topics The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics as they are related in a broad sense to Web Engineering: - Agents on the Web - Electronic Commerce - Human Computer Interaction - Languages and Tools - Mobility and the Web - Multimedia Techniques and Telecommunications - Security - Semantic Web - E-Learning on the Web - Web Applications Development - Web Quality and Testing * Format of the Conference * Submissions - Regular Papers Papers must describe original, previously unpublished research, be written and presented in English, not exceeding 10 pages. -Short Papers Short papers should describe novel work that is in progress and has not led to significant results at the time of submission. Students are encouraged to submit graduate-level research in its early stages. Accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings and presented in the poster program at the conference. Short papers should be at most four pages long