Web Information Systems and Technologies

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Tao of SOA

      • Tony C. Shan

      Pages 3-10

   3. Architecture-Centric Software Quality Management

      • Leszek A. Maciaszek

      Pages 11-26

   4. Adaptability in an Agent-Based Virtual Organization – Towards Implementation

      • G. Fra̧ckowiak, M. Ganzha, M. Paprzycki, M. Szymczak, Y. -S. Han, M. -W. Park

      Pages 27-39

   5. S-Cube: Enabling the Next Generation of Software Services

      • Andreas Metzger, Klaus Pohl

      Pages 40-47

3. Part I: Internet Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Web 2.0 OLAP: From Data Cubes to Tag Clouds

      • Kamel Aouiche, Daniel Lemire, Robert Godin

      Pages 51-64

   3. Compressing XML Data Streams with DAG+BSBC

      • Stefan Böttcher, Rita Hartel, Christian Heinzemann

      Pages 65-79

   4. Shortest Remaining Response Time Scheduling for Improved Web Server Performance

      • Ahmad AlSa’deh, Adnan H. Yahya

      Pages 80-92

   5. Combining Grid, SOA and Web Services for Smaller Computing Environments

      • Arne Koschel, Carsten Kleiner

      Pages 93-106

   6. Towards Dynamic Service Level Agreement Negotiation:An Approach Based on WS-Agreement

      • Antoine Pichot, Oliver Wäldrich, Wolfgang Ziegler, Philipp Wieder

      Pages 107-119

   7. Performance Monitoring Enterprise Applications with the BlackBird System

      • João P. Germano, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Fernando M. Silva

      Pages 120-132

   8. Developing and Utilizing Ontology of Golf Based on the Open Travel Alliance Golf Messages

      • Agnieszka Cieślik, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki

      Pages 133-156

4. Part II: Web Interfaces and Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Comparing and Merging Versioned Wiki Pages

      • Stephan Lukosch, Andrea Leisen

      Pages 159-173

   3. Are Wikipedia Resources Useful for Discovering Answers to List Questions within Web Snippets?

      • Alejandro Figueroa

      Pages 174-185

   4. Personalized Web Search Using Correlation Matrix for Query Expansion

      • Claudio Biancalana, Antonello Lapolla, Alessandro Micarelli

      Pages 186-198

   5. Social Semantic Web at Work: Annotating and Grouping Social Media Content

      • Fabian Abel, Nicola Henze, Daniel Krause

      Pages 199-213

   6. State-Transition Diagram for Visual Programming Tool GUEST

      • Yuka Obu, Kazuhiro Maruo, Tatsuhiro Yonekura, Masaru Kamada, Shusuke Okamoto

      Pages 214-227

This book contains a selection of the best papers from WEBIST 2008 (the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies), held in Funchal, Madeira, in 2008, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and co-sponsored by the Wo- flow Management Coalition (WfMC). The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business - plications of web-based information systems. The series focuses on four main topic areas, covering different aspects of web information systems, including internet te- nology; web interfaces and applications; society, e-business, and e-government; and e-learning. WEBIST 2008 received 238 paper submissions from more than 40 countries on all continents. A double-blind review process was enforced, with the help of more than 200 experts from the international Program Committee, each of them specialized in one of the main conference topic areas. After reviewing, 32 papers were selected to be published and presented as full papers and 64 additional papers, describing work-- progress, as short papers for oral presentation only. Furthermore, 58 papers were p- sented as posters. The full-paper acceptance ratio was 13%, and the total oral paper acceptance ratio was 40%. Therefore, we hope that you find the papers included in this book interesting, and we trust they may represent a helpful reference in the future for all those who need to address any of the research areas mentioned above.

• On-Line Analytical Processing
• SOA
• Simulation
• Social Media
• e-Business
• e-Government
• e-Learning
• information system
• internet
• programming
• search engine marketing (SEM)
• service-oriented architecture
• web interfaces
• web services
• web technologies

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

  José Cordeiro, Joaquim Filipe

• ESEO, Angers cedex 01, France

  Slimane Hammoudi

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