This is the welcome presentation of ICWE 2012, the 12th International Conference on Web Engineering. See also: http://www.modeldrivenstar.org/2012/08/trends-in-web-engineering-at-ICWE-2012.html for take away message from ICWE 2012. ICWE aims at promoting scientific and practical excellence on Web Engineering, and at bringing together researchers and practitioners working in technologies, methodologies, tools, and techniques used to develop and maintain Web-based applications leading to better systems, and thus to enabling and improving the dissemination and use of content and services through the Web. The Twelfth International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2012) has been held on July 23 - 27, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. The conference covered the following topics of interest: Web application engineering Processes and methods for Web application development Conceptual modeling of Web applications Model-driven Web application development Domain-specific languages for Web application development Component-based Web application development Web application architectures and frameworks Rich Internet Applications Mashup development and end user Web programming Patterns for Web application development and pattern mining Web content management and data-intensive Web applications Web usability and accessibility I18N of Web applications and multi-lingual development Testing and evaluation of Web applications Deployment and usage analysis of Web applications Performance modeling, monitoring, and evaluation Empirical Web engineering Web quality and Web metrics Adaptive, contextualized and personalized Web applications Mobile Web applications and device-independent delivery Web service engineering Web service engineering methodologies Web Service-oriented Architectures Semantic Web services Web service-based architectures and applications Quality of service and its metrics for Web applications Inter-organizational Web applications Ubiquity and pervasiveness Linked Data Services Web data engineering Semantic Web engineering Web 2.0 technologies Social Web applications Web mining and information extraction Linked Data Web data linking, fusion Information quality assessment Data repair strategies Dataset dynamics Dataset introspection Linked Data consumption, visualisation and exploration Deep Web Web science and Future Internet applications

1. Program Highlights
Robert Tolksdorf
Marco Brambilla
Takehiro Tokuda

2. The conference at a glance
 Integrated location
 Diverse topics and submissions
 Intertwined program
 Demo
 Posters
 Workshops
 Research tracks
 Alternated morning and afternoon working times 
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3. Some stats: papers
 98 submissions to main track
 20 accepted full papers (≅20%)
 14 accepted short papers (≅15%)
 18 poster and demo submissions
 10 accepted demo and 3 accepted posters
 5 transfers from main track
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4. Some stats: papers by Country
Others
Denmark
Algeria
Tunisia
China
Japan
Greece
Argentina
accepted
Canada
submitted
Switzerland
Brazil
Netherlands
France
Germany
Spain
Italy
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
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5. Some stats: authors by Country
United Kingdom
India
Jordan
Tunisia
Ireland
Denmark
Switzerland
Argentina
China
Japan
Canada
Brazil
Netherlands
Greece
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Others
-5 5 15 25 35 45 4

6. Reviewing effort (main track)
 69 PC members
 77 external reviewers
 340+ reviews
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7. Reviewers by Country
Others
Germany
Spain
Italy
United States
Japan
Australia
United Kingdom
Korea
Belgium
Argentina
Netherlands
France
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
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8. Program highlights
 5 Tutorials
 4 Workshops
 Demo and poster sessions
 PhD workshop
 9 main track sessions
 2 Keynote speeches:
Richard Soley, OMG Felix Naumann, Hasso-Plattner-Inst.
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9. Twitting
 Please tweet!
#icwe2012
Session specific hashtags:
 Keynotes #keynote
 Tutorials #tutorial
 Workshops #...
 Social Networks #socnet
 Tagging #tag
 Personalization #pers
 Modeling #model
 Searching #search
 User Interfaces #ui
 Web Services #ws
 Crawling #crawl
 Linked Data #ld 8

10. Enjoy the conference!