Web Information Systems and Technologies

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Speakers

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   2. Cloud Computing in Education: The Intersection of Challenges and Opportunities

      • Ivan I. Ivanov

      Pages 3-16

   3. Making Mainstream Web Search Engines More Collaborative

      • Barry Smyth

      Pages 17-31

   4. Challenges for Software Agents Supporting Decision-Makers in Trading Flowers Worldwide

      • Eric van Heck, Wolfgang Ketter

      Pages 32-39

3. Part I: Internet Technology

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   2. Web Service Matchmaking by Subgraph Matching

      • Hamida Seba, Sofiane Lagraa, Hamamache Kheddouci

      Pages 43-56

   3. Distributed XML Processing over Various Topologies: Characterizing XML Document Processing Efficiency

      • Yoshiyuki Uratani, Hiroshi Koide, Dirceu Cavendish, Yuji Oie

      Pages 57-71

   4. Cofocus: REST Framework for Collaborative Endpoint Network in Mobile Environment

      • Li Li, Wu Chou

      Pages 72-87

   5. Modeling and Managing Communities of Web Service Registries

      • Olfa Bouchaala, Mohamed Sellami, Walid Gaaloul, Samir Tata, Mohamed Jmaiel

      Pages 88-102

   6. Towards a Guaranteed (X)HTML Compliant Dynamic Web Application

      • Paul G. Talaga, Steve J. Chapin

      Pages 103-115

   7. Reducing Data Transfer by Combining XML-Compression and XML-Caching

      • Stefan Böttcher, Lars Fernhomberg, Rita Hartel

      Pages 116-130

4. Part II: Web Interfaces and Applications

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   2. Systematically Evaluating Usability in Web-Based Electronic Government: An Empirical Study

      • Zhao Huang, Laurence Brooks

      Pages 133-148

   3. OP2A: How to Improve the Quality of the Web Portal of Open Source Software Products

      • Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca, Davide Taibi, Davide Tosi

      Pages 149-162

   4. User-Friendly Interaction in an On-line System Based on Semantic Technologies

      • Anna Goy, Diego Magro

      Pages 163-176

   5. Vizgr: Linking Data in Visualizations

      • Daniel Hienert, Benjamin Zapilko, Philipp Schaer, Brigitte Mathiak

      Pages 177-191

   6. A Multi-factor Tag-Based Personalized Search

      • Frederico Durao, Ricardo Lage, Peter Dolog, Nilay Coskun

      Pages 192-206

   7. Is Moodle Accessible for Visually Impaired People?

      • Rocío Calvo, Ana Iglesias, Lourdes Moreno

      Pages 207-220

5. Back Matter

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This book contains the thoroughly refereed and revised best papers from the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2011, held in Nordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, in May 2011, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in collaboration with ACM SIGMIS and co-sponsored by the Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC). The 12 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 156 submissions. The papers are grouped into tow parts on "Internet Technology" and "Web Interfaces and Applications". In addition, the three invited presentations are also included.

• RESTful services
• SOA service-oriented architecture
• Web applications
• Web search
• Web services
• Web technologies
• cloud computing

• Department of Systems and Informatics, Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (IPS), Setúbal, Portugal

  Joaquim Filipe, José Cordeiro

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