Citation
Taniar, D. (2012), "Editorial", International Journal of Web Information Systems, Vol. 8 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijwis.2012.36208baa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Editorial
Article Type: Editorial From: International Journal of Web Information Systems, Volume 8, Issue 2
We have set our goals that each issue should have a survey paper, and in this issue, we are privilege to have a survey paper on security visualization by Dang and Dang from Vietnam National University. They started by explaining the benefits and challenges of security visualization. They then presented two categories of security visualization: one on the client side, and the other on the server side. They concluded with an insight into web applications of security visualization.
The regular paper section contains four regular papers. The first regular paper, by Pandurino et al. (Italy), introduces the concept of rich internet applications (RIA), which feature distributed capabilities, local refresh (instead of page refresh), and interface widget extensions. The authors propose an extension to the interactive dialog model (IDM) and call it Rich-IDM. A case study is also presented.
The second regular paper, by Barraza-Urbina and Ramos from Colombia, describes yet another acronym called UWIRS (Ubiquitous Web Information Retrieval Solution), which is an agent-based web information retrieval. The paper also introduces Vizier, which is a multi-agent vizier recommendation framework.
The third regular paper, by Ohsawa et al. (Japan), focuses on RDF. In particular, they focus on reasoning and querying large-scale RDF data. They thoroughly explain RDF packages, as well as present their implemented system. As RDF data is growing, this work will have a large impact, because reasoning and querying will be part of an important aspect of information and knowledge retrieval from large-scale data repositories.
The final regular paper in this issue, by Sakr et al. (Australia), also focuses on RDF. But in this paper, it focuses on RDF data management and storage. The paper first examines relational storage techniques for RDF data, and then proposes and adaptive method.
I would like to thank the authors who contributed the papers in this issue, external reviewers who tirelessly reviewed and provided constructive comments to the authors, and our assistant editor, Dr Pardede, who manages the entire reviewing process.
David TaniarCo-editor in Chief