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Guidelines and Potential Topics for Research Paper

Performance and Scalability

· Future of the web, in terms of scale and architecture

· Architectures and approaches for highly scalable web applications

· Caching

· Comparative evaluation for performance, context, or platform

Web Application Components and Platforms

· Web browsers and possible extensions

· Web servers, application servers, etc

· New trends: languages, techniques, environments, etc.

· Infrastructure

· Improvement in application development tools, e.g., debugging – taxonomy of errors

Security and Privacy of Web Applications

· Web application security issues – nature of problems and vulnerabilities and possible causes

· Web application design for security – solutions for possible problems and potential security models

· Privacy issues (from technical perspective – not just ethical)

· Managing users

Web Standards

· Future standards

· Transforming current pages for compliance

· Accessibility standards and implementations

· Web Protocoles

· Security of web-based application (e.g., OWASP – Open Web Application Security Project)

Mobile and Ubiquitous Devices

· Models for ubiquitous platforms

· Software and hardware components for ubiquitous environment.

· Issues related to mobile-specific environment

Multimedia and Content Management Systems

· Modeling and representation, formats, processing, and display of multimedia content

· Content models and architectures, especially over the web

· Metadata related to the content

· Copyright protection techniques on the web

Web Search Process and strategies

· Web site design for search optimization (for traditional search engines)

· Web site SEO (search engine optimization)

Web Page Classification and Description

· Content based

· URL based

· Hybrid approaches

· Temporal dimension for dynamic and volatile content

Applications and Product Specific Topics

· Issues related to specific application and domains

· Product-specific related research

Internationalization and Localization

· Issues related to the internationalization, localization, or specific language issues

· Character encoding ,Unicode, and product support

· Impact on content harvesting and web mining

New Web-based business models

· Emerging new business models over the web (from technical perspective)

· Technical bottleneck for new business models

Deliverables

Research Paper (MS Word)

o 4~5 pages (double-spaced, 12pt, content-only)

o Minimum of 2 technical references one of them must be a scholarly peerreviewed paper.

o Using standard writing style (APA, MLA, CMS, or other)

o Academic paper format and writing tone

Rubric and Evaluation Criteria for the Paper

Content (75%):

Relevance and Complexity of the problem 10 pts

Definition and description of the problem 10 pts

Analysis of the problem 15 pts

Literature survey and Research 15 pts

Solution and Proposal 15 pts

Completeness 10 pts

Writing/Document (25%):

Proper writing format 10 pts

Clarity of writing, structure, flow 10 pts

Writing mechanics 5 pts

Generic Paper Outline Structure

· Introduction

· Problem Statement & Motivation

· Background

· Literature Survey/Current Approaches & Research

· Analysis

· Proposed Methodology/Approach/Solution

· Conclusions and Summary