The official publication of the International Organization on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (@WAS)

Description

The era of web technology has enabled information and application sharing through the internet. The large amount of information on the internet, the large number of users, and the complexity of the application and information types have introduced new areas whereby these issues are explored and addressed. Many of the existing information systems techniques and methods for data sharing, modeling, and system implementation are no longer effective and therefore need major adjustment. This has stimulated the emergence of web information systems.
The goal of a web information system is to provide users with a unified view to transparently and efficiently access, relate, and combine data stored in multiple, autonomous, and possibly heterogeneous information sources.
Three dimensions can be identified for web information infrastructure: the user dimension, which is what web information systems are all about, likewise, the content dimension, which is the essence around which web information systems are built and finally the system dimension which determines how web applications and services can be implemented.
IJWIS is seeking to present visionary concepts and stimulating ideas in web information systems at both the theory and application levels.

Objectives

The objectives of the journal are to be a source for Web Information Systems research and development, and to serve as an outlet for facilitating communication and networking among Web Information Systems researchers and professionals across academics, government, industry, researchers, and students.

Content

IJWIS aims to publish and disseminate knowledge on an international basis in the area of web information systems. It is published multiple times a year, with the purpose of providing a forum for state-of-the-art developments and research, as well as current innovative activities in web information systems.

Subject Coverage

While IJWIS covers a broad range of topics, we are soliciting papers that provide a perspective on all aspects of the Web information systems: Web semantics and web dynamics, Web mining and searching, Web databases and web data integration, Web-based commerce and e-business, Web collaboration and distributed computing, Internet computing and networks, Performance of web applications, and Web multimedia services and web-based education.

Topics of particular interest for this issue are, but not limited to, the list below:

• Metadata and ontologies
• Web semantics architectures, applications and standards
• Language and representation issues of web semantics
• Migrating existing information
• Web mining
• Web search and information extraction
• Web structure/linkage mining
• Applications of web mining and searching
• Web databases
• Managing and storing XML data
• Generation of XML data from legacy applications
• Indexing and retrieval of XML data
• Web data integration
• Web schema management
• Web media
• Web design metrics
• Web-based metacomputing
• Communities on the web
• Formal reasoning about web dynamics
• Web-commerce and E-business
• E-Business models and architectures
• Agent technology for E-Commerce
• E-Business application case studies
• Workflow architectures in support of collaboration process
• Establishment and coordination of virtual enterprises
• Emerging interoperability standards
• Internet quality of service
• Internet traffic engineering
• Mobile computing for the Internet
• Performance of web applications
• Web-based education
• Advanced web applications

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