Web Information Systems and Technologies : 4th International Conference, WEBIST 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, May 4-7, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

by Cordeiro, Jose; Hammoudi, Slimane; Filipe, Joaquim

• ISBN13: 9783642013430
• ISBN10: 3642013430
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-30
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Invited Papers
The Tao of SOA	p. 3
Architecture-Centric Software Quality Management	p. 11
Adaptability in an Agent-Based Virtual Organization - Towards Implementation	p. 27
S-Cube: Enabling the Next Generation of Software Services	p. 40
Internet Technology
Web 2.0 OLAP: From Data Cubes to Tag Clouds	p. 51
Compressing XML Data Streams with DAG+BSBC	p. 65
Shortest Remaining Response Time Scheduling for Improved Web Server Performance	p. 80
Combining Grid, SOA and Web Services for Smaller Computing Environments	p. 93
Towards Dynamic Service Level Agreement Negotiation: An Approach Based on WS-Agreement	p. 107
Performance Monitoring Enterprise Applications with the BlackBird System	p. 120
Developing and Utilizing Ontology of Golf Based on the Open Travel Alliance Golf Messages	p. 133
Web Interfaces and Applications
Comparing and Merging Versioned Wiki Pages	p. 159
Are Wikipedia Resources Useful for Discovering Answers to List Questions within Web Snippets?	p. 174
Personalized Web Search Using Correlation Matrix for Query Expansion	p. 186
Social Semantic Web at Work: Annotating and Grouping Social Media Content	p. 199
State-Transition Diagram for Visual Programming Tool GUEST	p. 214
Mashups over the Deep Web	p. 228
A Web-Based Version of a Trivial Game to Promote Galician Culture	p. 242
Feeling Expression Using Avatars and Its Consistency for Subjective Annotation	p. 253
Improving Web Service Discovery with Personalized Goal	p. 266
New Quality Metrics for Web Search Results	p. 278
Society, e-Business and e-Government
User Acceptance of Internet Banking Service in Malaysia	p. 295
Convergence of Internet and TV: The Commercial Viability of P2P Content Delivery	p. 307
Website Service Quality in Ireland: An Empirical Study	p. 321
Comparison of Social Classification Systems in a Heterogeneous Environment	p. 333
e-Learning
Web-Based 3D and Haptic Interactive Environments for e-Learning, Simulation, and Training	p. 349
A Parameterizable Framework for Replicated Experiments in Virtual 3D Environments	p. 361
Web-Based Case Studies for Continuous Professional Development via the ViCoCITY Case Study Support Tool	p. 375
Transforming a Competency Model to Parameterised Questions in Assessment	p. 390
A New Concept Map Model for E-Learning Environments	p. 404
Author Index	p. 419
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