Editorial

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Khalil, I. (2010), "Editorial", International Journal of Web Information Systems, Vol. 6 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijwis.2010.36206aaa.001

Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: International Journal of Web Information Systems, Volume 6, Issue 1

This is the first issue of Volume 6 of the International Journal of Web Information Systems. It commences the sixth year of this journal which has proved to be a premium journal publishing original research papers, state of the art reviews, technical notes, case studies, innovative projects, and books reviews on topics leveraging all aspects of web information systems: from underlying technologies to applications, and from theory to practice.

The first paper in this issue, “PLEM: a Web 2.0 driven Long Tail aggregator and filter for e-learning”, by Mohamed Amine Chatti, Anggraeni, Matthias Jarke, Marcus Specht and Katherine Maillet, addresses the importance of self-organized learning within increasingly complex and fast changing learning environments by presenting the theoretical, design, and implementation details of PLEM, a Web 2.0 driven service for personal learning management, which acts as a long tail aggregator and filter for learning with the aim to harness the collective intelligence and leverage social filtering methods to rank and recommend learning entities.

The second paper, “A formal description framework and a matchmaking technique for web service composition”, by Rajesh Karunamurthy, Ferhat Khendek, and Roch H. Glitho, proposes a formal description framework and a formal matchmaking technique that allows describing and discovering web services by considering their characteristics. The description framework combines two existing languages for functional, semantic, and behavioral description, along with a simple and new language for non-functional description. The framework formalizes and integrates the languages in a common semantic domain in order to match and manipulate the different aspects together and formally. The contribution of this paper lies in the new description framework and the new matchmaking technique.

The third paper, “Web browser for children using bubble metaphor”, by Mayu Iwata, Yuki Arase, Takahiro Hara, and Shojiro Nishio, proposes a children-oriented web browser, which aims to keep children’s interest on pages and help them understand the contents of the pages. This web browser uses a bubble metaphor, which converts general pages into a children-friendly presentation. The browser is displayed in an undersea scene and presents contents of a web page in bubbles of different sizes, speeds and colors. Furthermore, it presents the details of the content in a picture book style in a way that children can easily understand.

The final paper in this issue, “Convergence of collaborative web approaches and interactive TV program formats”, by Sabine Bachmayer, Artur Lugmayr, and Gabriele Kotsis, demonstrates the adaptation of design and realization of TV program formats to the changes that are caused by the collaborative and interactive characteristic of the web. In addition, the paper demonstrates how to support the design of interactions, dynamic narrations and content types as well as the role of the internet within these processes and this application area.

Ismail KhalilCo-Editor-in-Chief