Web information systems and technologies : 4th International Conference, WEBIST 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, May 4-7, 2008 : revised selected papers / José Cordeiro, Slimane Hammoudi, Joaquim Filipe (ed.)
Invited Papers -- The Tao of SOA -- Architecture-Centric Software Quality Management -- Adaptability in an Agent-Based Virtual Organization -- Towards Implementation -- S-Cube: Enabling the Next Generation of Software Services -- I: Internet Technology -- Web 2.0 OLAP: From Data Cubes to Tag Clouds -- Compressing XML Data Streams with DAG+BSBC -- Shortest Remaining Response Time Scheduling for Improved Web Server Performance -- Combining Grid, SOA and Web Services for Smaller Computing Environments -- Towards Dynamic Service Level Agreement Negotiation:An Approach Based on WS-Agreement -- Performance Monitoring Enterprise Applications with the BlackBird System -- Developing and Utilizing Ontology of Golf Based on the Open Travel Alliance Golf Messages -- II: Web Interfaces and Applications -- Comparing and Merging Versioned Wiki Pages -- Are Wikipedia Resources Useful for Discovering Answers to List Questions within Web Snippets? -- Personalized Web Search Using Correlation Matrix for Query Expansion -- Social Semantic Web at Work: Annotating and Grouping Social Media Content -- State-Transition Diagram for Visual Programming Tool GUEST -- Mashups over the Deep Web -- A Web-Based Version of a Trivial Game to Promote Galician Culture -- Feeling Expression Using Avatars and Its Consistency for Subjective Annotation -- Improving Web Service Discovery with Personalized Goal -- New Quality Metrics for Web Search Results -- III: Society, e-Business and e-Government -- User Acceptance of Internet Banking Service in Malaysia -- Convergence of Internet and TV: The Commercial Viability of P2P Content Delivery -- Website Service Quality in Ireland: An Empirical Study -- Comparison of Social Classification Systems in a Heterogeneous Environment -- IV: e-Learning -- Web-Based 3D and Haptic Interactive Environments for e-Learning, Simulation, and Training -- A Parameterizable Framework for Replicated Experiments in Virtual 3D Environments -- Web-Based Case Studies for Continuous Professional Development via the ViCoCITY Case Study Support Tool -- Transforming a Competency Model to Parameterised Questions in Assessment -- A New Concept Map Model for E-Learning Environments
Summary
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
