International Journal of Web Information Systems: Volume 6 Issue 1

PLEM: a Web 2.0 driven Long Tail aggregator and filter for e‐learning

Mohamed Amine Chatti, Anggraeni, Matthias Jarke, Marcus Specht, Katherine Maillet

The personal learning environment driven approach to learning suggests a shift in emphasis from a teacher‐driven knowledge‐push to a learner‐driven knowledge‐pull learning model…

A formal description framework and a matchmaking technique for web service composition

Rajesh Karunamurthy, Ferhat Khendek, Roch H. Glitho

A web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine‐to‐machine or application‐to‐application interactions over networks. Descriptions enable web services…

Web browser for children using bubble metaphor

Mayu Iwata, Yuki Arase, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio

It has become common for children to browse web pages. However, there is no web browser that takes into account children's characteristics on information acquisition. Therefore…

Convergence of collaborative web approaches and interactive TV program formats

Sabine Bachmayer, Artur Lugmayr, Gabriele Kotsis

TV changes in several disciplines concurrently: from analogue to digital, from scheduled broadcasts to on‐demand TV on the internet, from a lean‐back (passive) to a lean‐forward…

Editorial

Ismail Khalil