Web information systems and technologies : 4th International Conference, WEBIST 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, May 4-7, 2008 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in May 2008. The 32 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 238 submissions, resulting in an acceptance rate of 13.5%. The papers are grouped in four parts on internet technology; Web interfaces and applications; society, e-Business, and e-Government; and e-Learning. In addition, four invited papers complete this volume. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Tao of SOA....Pages 3-10 Architecture-Centric Software Quality Management....Pages 11-26 Adaptability in an Agent-Based Virtual Organization – Towards Implementation....Pages 27-39 S-Cube: Enabling the Next Generation of Software Services....Pages 40-47 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Web 2.0 OLAP: From Data Cubes to Tag Clouds....Pages 51-64 Compressing XML Data Streams with DAG+BSBC....Pages 65-79 Shortest Remaining Response Time Scheduling for Improved Web Server Performance....Pages 80-92 Combining Grid, SOA and Web Services for Smaller Computing Environments....Pages 93-106 Towards Dynamic Service Level Agreement Negotiation:An Approach Based on WS-Agreement....Pages 107-119 Performance Monitoring Enterprise Applications with the BlackBird System....Pages 120-132 Developing and Utilizing Ontology of Golf Based on the Open Travel Alliance Golf Messages....Pages 133-156 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Comparing and Merging Versioned Wiki Pages....Pages 159-173 Are Wikipedia Resources Useful for Discovering Answers to List Questions within Web Snippets?....Pages 174-185 Personalized Web Search Using Correlation Matrix for Query Expansion....Pages 186-198 Social Semantic Web at Work: Annotating and Grouping Social Media Content....Pages 199-213 State-Transition Diagram for Visual Programming Tool GUEST....Pages 214-227 Mashups over the Deep Web....Pages 228-241 A Web-Based Version of a Trivial Game to Promote Galician Culture....Pages 242-252 Feeling Expression Using Avatars and Its Consistency for Subjective Annotation....Pages 253-265 Improving Web Service Discovery with Personalized Goal....Pages 266-277 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 New Quality Metrics for Web Search Results....Pages 278-292 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 User Acceptance of Internet Banking Service in Malaysia....Pages 295-306 Convergence of Internet and TV: The Commercial Viability of P2P Content Delivery....Pages 307-320 Website Service Quality in Ireland: An Empirical Study....Pages 321-332 Comparison of Social Classification Systems in a Heterogeneous Environment....Pages 333-346 Front Matter....Pages 347-347 Web-Based 3D and Haptic Interactive Environments for e-Learning, Simulation, and Training....Pages 349-360 A Parameterizable Framework for Replicated Experiments in Virtual 3D Environments....Pages 361-374 Web-Based Case Studies for Continuous Professional Development via the ViCoCITY Case Study Support Tool....Pages 375-389 Transforming a Competency Model to Parameterised Questions in Assessment....Pages 390-403 A New Concept Map Model for E-Learning Environments....Pages 404-417 Back Matter....Pages - 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. This book contains the thoroughly refereed and revised best papers from the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2012, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2012, and organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in collaboration with ACM SIGMIS. The 23 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. The papers were selected from those with the best reviews also taking into account the quality of their presentation at the conference. The papers are grouped into parts on Internet Technology; Web Interfaces and Applications; Society, e-Business, and e-Government; Web Intelligence; and Mobile Information Systems. Constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in May 2008. This book presents 32 papers.